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doctorfrog posted:Hey, that's not the only bug by a long shot. I took on a rescue side quest just yesterday that for some reason, when completed, it re-set the behavior of everyone in Arx, the guards, Lunshire, etc. all refer to me as though they've met me for the first time. The guards would then attack me if I entered the royal area, making further progress useless. They're the akbaa stones. There are five of them scattered across the entire game. There's no marker, pointer, or location. The xbox version is relatively bug free but it removes the backpack for some reason.
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quote:We're proud to announce yet another publisher that will dust off its back-catalogue games for a new generation of gamers. Microïds, the famed producer, will bring MegaRace 1+2, Haegemonia: Legion of Iron with the Solon Heritage expansion and Obscure to the site. Abrial da Costa, VP Marketing and Sales Microïds, said: “Good Old Games is a perfect and natural partner for the digital distribution of our classic titles. We are thrilled to add our premium catalogue to the GOG.com community”. The first title – a bundle of MegaRace 1 and 2 – is available now for $5.99. Microïds but no Syberia 
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OP updated. And I was about to say...no mention of the new publisher yet in here? I have a soft spot for Megarace since it was one of the very first PC games I ever played, and Megarace 2 was interesting too. I'd say they're definitely worth the $3 each if you're into silly, lighthearted games. Megarace 3 (MR3 or whatever the gently caress it's called) is a piece of poo poo, though. "It's time to select your MEGARACE MACHINE, Enforcer! Look at thooose beauties...go ahead! Help yoursellllf..." Edit: vvvvvv You and me both buddy, right down to the 1X CD-ROM! 
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Sporadic posted:We're proud to announce yet another publisher that will dust off its back-catalogue games for a new generation of gamers. Microïds, the famed producer, will bring MegaRace 1+2, Haegemonia: Legion of Iron with the Solon Heritage expansion and Obscure to the site. Abrial da Costa, VP Marketing and Sales Microïds, said: “Good Old Games is a perfect and natural partner for the digital distribution of our classic titles. We are thrilled to add our premium catalogue to the GOG.com community”. The first title – a bundle of MegaRace 1 and 2 – is available now for $5.99. I never got to play Megarace 2, but the original game was one of the few CD-ROMs I got when I installed my first 1x-speed computer CD drive. Well, I'm off to purchase that set immediately. I'll never forget you Lance Boyle!
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Megarace was that futuristic car racing game framed as a game show, right? Oh man, I spent days playing that. I never even knew there were sequels!
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Drox posted:Megarace was that futuristic car racing game framed as a game show, right? Oh man, I spent days playing that. I never even knew there were sequels! Yep.
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May 1, 2009 01:27
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It would be 6 kinds of awesome if they got Theme Hospital on there.
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Woo! Megarace! I used to have that game back in the old Win95 days. I may have to pick it up since I never got around to actually beating it.
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Sporadic posted:Microïds but no Syberia I didn't even know Microids made any other games beyond Syberia and the other Benoit Sokal games. Where are my Benoit Sokal games 
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May 1, 2009 02:06
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Holy poo poo! Megarace. I also played the poo poo out of that game. As I recall, it's basically just one of those games where the video plays over your car moving back and forth, but it was great. The frame story of the game was pretty awesome.
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While looking at reviews for Arx Fatalis, I found this gem: Think I'm gonna buy it, reviews seem generally favourable.
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ymgve posted:While looking at reviews for Arx Fatalis, I found this gem: Haha, yeah, that review talks about all the cool things about the genre as being bad things and it's pretty clear he's about as well suited to review that game as I am to review Madden NFL 2009. "Well, the graphics are pretty good, but all this god damned running around over and over after a ball, it just moves back and forth, I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of this. Compared to Mechwarrior 4, there's no mech combat and I don't understand why."
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Haegemonia is an awesome RTS game. It's a shame the story is childish garbage because the setting and graphics are incredible.
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GrandpaPants posted:Where are my Benoit Sokal games
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I've played a bit of Arx Fatalis now, about to enter the 4th dungeon level, but is the magic system supposed to suck so extremely? Only a fraction of the gestures I do are recognized, and it's a pain in the rear end to recreate the quickspells every time you use them. I also seem to use my sword more than my spells for the most part. Do any of you have hints for making the magic user experience more tolerable, does spells get better and more useful later in the game, or should I just reroll as a warrior type instead? Apart from that, the game is very good. I am very impressed with how much they have managed to pack in just the three levels I've seen so far, and it really feels like an Ultima Underworld game where someone took all the game text and just did a word-replace on 'Avatar'.
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May 2, 2009 18:27
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I always found better to make a hybrid character in Arx, warrior/mage, thief/mage, that sort of thing, but never full blown mage. there are some very usefull spells, like the one that lights everything purple to you can see where you're going without having to light a torch
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May 2, 2009 19:11
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Random wish time: Startopia. I'm reading up on it(Based on multiple say-sos of 'This is great!', including this place), and armed with knowledge, I'm hoping they can get it on there. Do you think there's any hope?
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I was just thinking about Startopia. Not sure who holds the rights, though. It'd be a perfect game for this, having been under appreciated when it first came out, but being patched a bit to allow for custom maps and more options, and for $10 it's a great choice. I got the CD version a while back from Amazon, and it's such a fun game in the vein of Dungeon Keeper and Theme Hospital.
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May 2, 2009 20:00
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Can you give away or sell your GoG account/games or is it like Steam? I got 2 games, Giants and Toca3, that I don't play anymore. BTW Giants is awesome
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lil sartre posted:Can you give away or sell your GoG account/games or is it like Steam? I got 2 games, Giants and Toca3, that I don't play anymore. BTW Giants is awesome No. It's unlikely that any digital distribution platform will ever allow this.
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ymgve posted:I've played a bit of Arx Fatalis now, about to enter the 4th dungeon level, but is the magic system supposed to suck so extremely? Only a fraction of the gestures I do are recognized, and it's a pain in the rear end to recreate the quickspells every time you use them. I also seem to use my sword more than my spells for the most part. Do any of you have hints for making the magic user experience more tolerable, does spells get better and more useful later in the game, or should I just reroll as a warrior type instead? Magic get powerful really quickly (especially as soon as you nab the fireball and this speed boosting spell) but like all RPG's it's an exponential growth. I recommend a hybrid mage/warrior. Keep your strength high enough to wear light armor and wield a sword and basic shield and by the time you finish the goblin caves quest you'll have enough runes to give you defensive and offensive spells that are pretty damaging. I couldn't imagine completing the game without magic. There's a lot of areas with tough enemies (like liches) that are immune to most normal damage. The magic in the game is also really cool to cast like slow dowing time, levitation, and this spontaneous combustion spell. I also liked casting that light fire spell for no other reason than it's cool to make fires spring up on random torches. EDIT: I forgot, you want to eventually have strength around 15 by the end of the game (please do a google search before quoting me on this). You pick up something called ylside armor which is the best stuff in the game, it's relatively light, and gives you a massive stat boost.
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lil sartre posted:Can you give away or sell your GoG account/games or is it like Steam? I got 2 games, Giants and Toca3, that I don't play anymore. BTW Giants is awesome Well, technically there is no DRM on the GoG games, so... But you shouldn't give them away because it's not nice and selling them would be illegal.
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Or you could just click on the game in your list then click 'gift to a friend'.
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Davoren posted:Or you could just click on the game in your list then click 'gift to a friend'. If you want to buy the game for somebody else, which isn't what he was asking.
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Drox posted:Well, technically there is no DRM on the GoG games, so... Oh ok then. I thought that if I don't play them anymore maybe somebody else would enjoy them
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thedaian posted:I was just thinking about Startopia. Not sure who holds the rights, though. It'd be a perfect game for this, having been under appreciated when it first came out, but being patched a bit to allow for custom maps and more options, and for $10 it's a great choice. Funny, I just thought of this game and reinstalled it and the teensy handful of mods for it (http://www.strategyplanet.com/startopia/). What aweseome fun. I remember just perching on the shoulders of a visiting alien and following him from room to room, so I could tailor my The site http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/rtsc_startopia.htm also contains an interesting and thorough excavation of Startopia's workings from a manager's viewpoint. This game deserved an expansion pack so much it's mildly painful. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 07:28 on May 3, 2009 |
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I really liked Rise of the Triad when I was like 12 years old. I think a lot of it had to do with the gibs and the weird sense of humor. Is it worth getting again, or should I just let my fond memories be my last dealings with it? It's on sale still, I think.
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hogswallower posted:I really liked Rise of the Triad when I was like 12 years old. I think a lot of it had to do with the gibs and the weird sense of humor. Is it worth getting again, or should I just let my fond memories be my last dealings with it? It's on sale still, I think. It was one of my favorite shooters back in the mid-90's and it's every bit of fun today as it was then...well, except for the violence being a bit tame by today's standards. There's even awesome Windows ports that work great and make the game look even better , such as WinRott and GLRott, found here! For $4.49 or even the full $5.99, I highly recommend it. gently caress, I still have my CD-ROM I paid $45 for when it was a new release and I still think it was worth it.
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Charles Martel posted:It was one of my favorite shooters back in the mid-90's and it's every bit of fun today as it was then...well, except for the violence being a bit tame by today's standards. It wasn't going to really take that much convince me and you talked me into it. Thanks for the link for the port, as it was not a very pretty looking game without that. It's pretty cool though and I'm glad I got it. Plus that was my first time using GOG, so I'm glad to help those guys out. Also the game has a pretty fun soundtrack. hogswallower fucked around with this message at 16:53 on May 3, 2009 |
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I just bought Fallout and Fallout 2, I can't wait to get into them, and to think I only got them plus all the extra content for 12 bucks total! Fallout 3 is probably my favorite game of all time, and I've never played the first two, I hope they're enjoyable to me 
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ymgve posted:While looking at reviews for Arx Fatalis, I found this gem: MOO3 really? It's amazingly bad.
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So I finally figured out how to fix the drat rainbow effect on Fallout 1 & 2. To do it, I installed these two mods: SFall and the High Resolution Patch 2.0a. After installing these you simply set it to 16 bit in the options and/or Directx9 mode and the rainbow is gone and won't ever come back! Huzzah!
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deltawing posted:I just bought Fallout and Fallout 2, I can't wait to get into them, and to think I only got them plus all the extra content for 12 bucks total! They're both kind of slow to get started, and have a pretty tough difficulty curve early on, but they're fun games. Just save really often because it's easy to run into a random party of 20 raiders and get totally owned the second you fast travel to a new spot.
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Plavski posted:So I finally figured out how to fix the drat rainbow effect on Fallout 1 & 2. To do it, I installed these two mods: Can you explain this for a newbie to the old Fallout games, please? Should I do this? Vidmaster posted:They're both kind of slow to get started, and have a pretty tough difficulty curve early on, but they're fun games. Just save really often because it's easy to run into a random party of 20 raiders and get totally owned the second you fast travel to a new spot. Good to know, thanks
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deltawing posted:I just bought Fallout and Fallout 2, I can't wait to get into them, and to think I only got them plus all the extra content for 12 bucks total!
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The reccomendations for Startopia really can't be repeated often enough. Don't even wait for it to turn up on GoG - I managed to pick up a second-hand copy for about £5 last year. It's still a great game to this day, and it still looks really good even now. The mixture of smooth animations, fun character designs and a really smooth camera/interface all come together nicely. I honestly think that this could be sold brand new today, albeit at a budget price. And if you throw the Unofficial (it's by one of the original developers, but he did it on his own time) patch at it, it gets even better, as it adds a not-unimpressive shadowing engine, which was too much for most PCs of the time, but is no effort for modern machines. It even supports widescreen (well, the polygon aspect ratio is off, but the 2d elements remain correct) and multi-monitor (!!!) setups. That game had features years before their time. Edit: It just occured to me just how far ahead of its time it was - it's eight years old now. Impressive. Dominic White fucked around with this message at 00:00 on May 5, 2009 |
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Chessmaster9000 is now up. Eh, I guess the Chessmaster series is pretty legendary, sounds like this one has a lot of content and can help you be good at the game, although playing against an AI never is as good as a human opponent...
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Original_Z posted:Chessmaster9000 is now up. Eh, I guess the Chessmaster series is pretty legendary, sounds like this one has a lot of content and can help you be good at the game, although playing against an AI never is as good as a human opponent...
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Charlie Mopps posted:This game will kick your rear end for a long time. its better than most humans. Isn't this game where you can pop up a console window and watch the AI's thinking process churn away. A friend of mine had this (or that) game and it was breathtaking to watch decisions whirr away at an alarming rate.
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synertia posted:I got some of the stickers. If you live in Hong Kong, look out for DRM free software advertisements! Living here I really appreciate GOG. Steam has buttfucked me too many times as I wanted to preorder Empire: Total War because in the US you could get the entire series for a discounted price. Not here. I didn't even know DLC for Fallout 3 had already been released here. So GOG is a godsend and I will spread the word high and low. I live in Hong Kong and I never had issues with Steam. Can you clarify?
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