Maybe I was lucky, but I had the same issue where I no longer had access to my old e-mail account and they sorted it out for me within a few hours (after a few e-mails back and forth).
It probably helped that I was able to provide them with a screenshot of the game in my Steam library as well as a list of all the games linked to my Rockstar account with dates of purchase. To find the dates of purchase on Steam I went to “account details” and “view purchase history”.
Thanks - from what I can gather the support member is a roulette spin with each message - hopefully I can use your tips and increase my chances of success
Emulators for any game console from before the 3D era. NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis would all be good candidates. You’ll have a ton of good games you can play any time.
On the m/m side, the visual novel Coming Out on Top is a remarkably well-written, if saccharine, dating game about a college guy figuring things out. I don’t usually like VNs but this one was worth playing. It’s has a lot of gay sex in it, that is literally the entire point so, you know, be aware of that.
Nice. I don’t typically go for M/M unless femboys are involved, but it’s what my wife likes, and that’s one of the ones I linked her when she asked me to research a few games for her to try.
Femboys can be hot too, though often authors seem to mix up femboys with trans women and that ends up being frustrating when I try a CHOYA game marked as m/m and it doesn’t have any actual m/m in it.
We sure did. Not only was hard to find the intended route to advance the game, it also got too long in consequence, to the point I lost all interest in the story and lore. With some luck, maybe our experiences could have been similar.
Can I ask what part you remember being lost at? Im not trying to retroactively guide you through the game, just trying to come to grips with where the game lost you
Well, several parts, actually, but I definitely don’t remember all of them. I just let go after defeating the Fire Giant when I realized there was still too much of the game to play to finish it. I was already burnt out and not enjoying my time. Other parts that got me bored were the infinite amount of optional bosses, so many of them being harder than actual bosses. I remember that getting to Radhan was a maze, too. Also the Giant Snake boss that requires a specific magical weapon that doesn’t show anything special against other enemies to be defeated, I mean, I guess someone had beaten it without that weapon, but it becomes stupidly hard even for Souls games. One thing that was a constant set back was that comment in the Round table about an albinuaric woman knowing some secret path to advance. Overall, I really couldn’t keep track of the secondary quests.
Now that I think about it, it probably had to do with the fact that I don’t play games online. So, there is a lot of feedback and help from other players that wasn’t coming to me, I guess.
Elden Ring has a lot of focus on bouncing around the map and sort of finding stuff.
There’s hints if you’re looking for a specific challenge, but overall you just sort of wander until you say “ooh cool” followed by “ow that was really tough” and eventually getting through it laughing and saying “you all said a tarnished couldn’t possibly do this, now who’s laughing!”.
But hey, if you’re not feeling it, don’t feel bad about it. You kinda need to be in the right mood for it, and I’ve not been able to find the energy for a replay because the ‘oooh shiny’ from exploration is gone.
Dark Souls has a similar exploration piece, but much more defined pathways, and I find it more replayable. ER is just so much.
I had this exact issue with the first two Dark Souls games. I explored, but did not find the “intended path forward” that would give me a gradual difficulty curve.
This is why I think a better game formula is: Give players some kind of overt objective marker or in-world guidance for their primary destination, but also point out they’re going to start having a very hard time if they never explore for themselves.
Classics still had lag. DK Country 3’s final boss was so laggy it’d affect the boss music.
Not quite super classic you mentioned but a chunk of the speed run tech around Super Mario 64 is how to optimize the camera to avoid lagging on certain effects (the sunshine to the wing cap, the top tower in whomps fortress, the sub in dire dire docks).
I say that less as a knock on the game and more that there were technical compromises made back in the day as well. Nostalgia sometime last hits and people assume everything ran blazing fast.
The Nintendo64 did run blazingly fast. Comparatively, even modern consoles are a step down in terms of power compared to Nintendo64 hardware for its time.
Had the draw distance been lowered in Ocarina of Time, its performance would have been at minimum a steady 30fps, as Ocarina of Time runs in a more optimized Mario 64 engine. Which, naturally, is less optimized than what Kaze has done to Mario 64’s engine, but Kaze also has like 20 years worth of more coding and computer knowledge learned, making comparison pretty unfair.
Framerate is also not the only metric in determining if a game’s performance is bad. Ocarina of Time runs at 20fps (unless you are in PAL region, then it runs at 17fps because of PAL standards, oof), but it never misses a frame. It is extremely consistent at 20fps. The frametime is perfect even on original hardware. The same cannot be said about most modern AAA games, even Nintendo games. Modern games might mostly run at 60 or 30 fps, but they very often dip below that and even more often have hitching and stuttering due to inconsistent frametime. Even though the fps may be high, the playability of the game is worse than Ocarina of Time.
congratulations on starting your journey with adult games!
i’ve found my way to it via visual novels. my initial thought were like they’re almost the same as any “teenage-romance book” but with more interaction so what could go wrong, right?
totally agree with you that there’s a lot of stigma going on around sexuality that makes people miss out on good games.
I had a Playdate for a while. I thought it would fill a gap when playing in sunlight (as a retro collector / curator).
But it just didn’t hold up software wise for me. Everything is more or less minigames. It does have system selling minigames - but that wasn’t enough for me.
The tomatoes growing in that apartment is great level design. I had the same reaction of "how could these plants survive without people?" and then you get jumped and it's like "oh, should have known." The apartment also has a door you can't open that's opened after you get jumped which explains where the people came from. I remember appreciating the details (after struggling to not die).
It’s my chill out game. I have heard people talk about Stardew Valley, but I can’t seem to find the physical cartridge, and I’m ideologically opposed to completely digital licensing.
I love Stardew! Definitely my favorite chillout game, but I think it’s a little bit less chill than Animal Crossing because it feels like there’s never enough time to do everything in an in-game day.
I only ever played the PC version of Stardew. This might not be totally accurate, but I understand it started on PC.
No idea how available they are but I know they exist. I also know many releases on Switch were made in limited numbers and thus are really expensive on the secondhand market.
GOG also has it DRM-free if you decide to go the PC route.
Back when I was playing it, I believe it’d work just fine without the steamapi DLL if purchased through Steam.
Plus, the modding scene is big enough that these days you can pretty much compile the PC version of the game from source, assuming you can find a suitably cleaned up decompiled version of it. (Do pay for a license if you go this route, it’s definitely worth the price.)
No idea about the Switch port. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s harder to find though due to the Switch being more locked down in general.
Yeah, it’s generally up to the publishers if they want to use DRM on Steam or not.
Still GOG lets you download offline installers. Then you can archive them however you please. It’s probably worth something for someone not keen on borrowing digital licenses. Only real thing you’re giving up is Steam achievements.
My experience with it on Switch is great. Couldn’t tell it apart from PC honestly and it is well suited for handheld play. Guess it all comes down to availability of cartridges. One thing with the cartridge though is that when Nintendo kills off the patch servers and you decide to play again, it will most likely be whatever version is on the cartridge (still better than no game!). Normally this doesn’t bother me one bit, but this game has gotten a lot of updates adding a significant amount of content. An archived installer from a version you actually played will probably feel more worthwhile to revisit in 15 years or whatever.
Bieganie. Albo jakakolwiek aktywność fizyczna. Miałem o tyle problem z kawą, że mi zaczęła rozwalać żołądek. I dowolnym innym źródłem kofeiny też, bo raczej pijałem yerba mate niż kawę, i mate w zasadzie działała jeszcze mocniej na rewolucje żołądkowe.
Nie ukrywam też, że od kilku miesięcy, albo w zasadzie półtora roku się po prostu spasłem - dostałem samochód służbowy i wiadomo, wszędzie samochodem, praca przy biurku 3/2 hybryda, więc samego chodzenia nie było wiele. Powiedziałem dość.
Wstaję o 6 i zanim zacznę myśleć, że mi się nie chce, że może jutro, że w sumie to trochę źle się czuje, a może będzie padać, a może za zimno, to padam na ziemię, 30 pompek, zakładam buty na nogi i wychodzę z domu. Czyli wychodzę jakoś 6:10.
Przebiegnięcie 2-3km w spokojnym-średnim tempie nie zajmuje więcej niż 20 minut. Brak czasu nie może być tu wymówką.
I nie potrzebuję żadnej kofeiny. Jak wracam, zimny prysznic żeby szybko się ochłodzić i jestem żywszy niż jakbym i pięć litrów kawy wypił.
Z każdym treningiem jest podobnie - nie chce się, zaczynam kombinować i szukać wymówek i mój sprawdzony sposób na to przestać myśleć, przełączyć się na tryb absolutnego bezmyślenia i automatycznie spakować sobie torbę na siłkę i tam jechać. Po treningu nagle się okazuje, że czujesz się jak młody bóg, gdzie 2 godziny wcześniej było stękanie że dzisiaj to chyba nie ma siły.
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