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Alright, I've been trying like the Dickens to get Under a Killing Moon working, but it refuses to see that the files that are the discs are there. It keeps defaulting to my actual CD drive as opposed to the folder where the game is, and even if I go into the config files and edit it, it keeps overwriting the file to the drive. Any help? I already had Dosbox installed, but I haven't messed with it in a while, could it be some setting from that that the GoG DosBox is seeing and getting confused?
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So, the Topware catalog is on sale this week, for a grand total of 20% off, which just makes everything cost $4.79. Any comments on which games to pick up? I think consensus was good on Earth 2150. Can anyone comment on Knights and Merchants? Is it mostly economic, or focused on battles?
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Jul 7, 2009 12:39
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thedaian posted:So, the Topware catalog is on sale this week, for a grand total of 20% off, which just makes everything cost $4.79. Any comments on which games to pick up? I think consensus was good on Earth 2150. Can anyone comment on Knights and Merchants? Is it mostly economic, or focused on battles?
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Jul 7, 2009 15:51
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Any thoughts on Septerra Core?
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Jul 7, 2009 15:57
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Grawl posted:Any thoughts on Septerra Core? It bored me to tears, but someone who has greater love for JRPGs might like it.
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Jul 7, 2009 17:06
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Why the hell do they never bring down the price of Jagged Alliance 2, just its expansion packs? Curse you Topware.
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Jul 7, 2009 17:40
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Bonobos posted:Looked through the thread and couldn't find an answer. It's the UK version of Fallout, so you will have to track down the "fix children" patch over at nma-fallout. Very important for Fallout 2.
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Jul 7, 2009 23:59
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Evil Genius ($9.99) and Ground Control + Expansion ($5.99) have been added. Empire Earth: Gold Edition and Lords Of Magic: Special Edition are coming soon. May have to grab Evil Genius.
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Jul 9, 2009 14:33
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OP updated, and now I'm kinda glad I held off on buying Evil Genius on Steam.
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Jul 9, 2009 15:35
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Grawl posted:Any thoughts on Septerra Core? It was acceptable back in the 90s, but it's mind numbingly soul crushing now.
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Jul 9, 2009 15:37
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Sporadic posted:Ground Control + Expansion ($5.99) I seem to remember Ground Control being released for free a few years back. Does anyone have any experience with the expansion to be able to say if it's worth it?
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Jul 9, 2009 23:17
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Sporadic posted:May have to grab Evil Genius. Definitely. Now if they can get stable versions of Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2, life would be pretty sweet.
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Jul 9, 2009 23:19
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Woebin posted:I never owned the full game, but I used to play the demo all the time when it was new, so I'd definitely recommend it. It's more economic in nature, although I think the battle part of it is pretty well done too (as far as I remember, at least). The economy part is a lot like the Settlers games. Posting to say I played the poo poo out of the demo, too. It was goddamn fun to figure things out (grapes make wine!) when I was a wee lad. Also wondering if it's worth it for the full game?
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Jul 9, 2009 23:29
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Empire Earth is coming soon for the 5.99, worth it?
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Jul 11, 2009 00:40
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Serious Michael posted:Empire Earth is coming soon for the 5.99, worth it? Yes. Kinda old but tons of fun. I'm buying it when it comes out just to have it on GoG. Like Rise of Nations, though not quite as good.
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Jul 11, 2009 04:50
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When playing a DosBox game that had 640x480 resolution, what are the best settings to use to ensure the best graphical quality? I was playing UAKM but changed it from fullscreen to window because the game was just too pixelated due to the size and resolution of my monitor. Windowed looks pretty good actually, but the size is kind of small. I'm going to play around with the various settings in the DosBox config file and see if I can get it better, but I was wondering if those who have had experience with DosBox could give me some tips. edit: this seems to work pretty well fullscreen=false windowresolution=1024x728 I think running it fullscreen on a widescreen monitor screws with the visual quality, since the game was originally fullscreen. edit: Playing around with it some more I got some good results with this fullscreen=true fullresolution=1920x1200 scaler=hq3x This gives me full screen in 4:3, with the scaler helping to clean up some of the pixelation. Probably could be improved though theblackw0lf fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Jul 11, 2009 |
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Jul 11, 2009 06:41
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Rascyc posted:
Like hell it was. Septerra core was painful when I played it the week it came out.
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Jul 11, 2009 08:36
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Gomi posted:It bored me to tears, but someone who has greater love for JRPGs might like it. I like JRPGs and I thought it was dreadful.
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Jul 11, 2009 09:12
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Yeah, Septerra Core was pretty "meh" even back then. I think I got as far as meeting a girl mechanic with artificial legs or something... no idea how far into the game that is, but I lost interest soon after that.
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Jul 11, 2009 15:48
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Wow, I used to have Septerra Core and played a little bit of it back in the day and didn't think it was that bad, but you'd swear it'll pop out of your monitor and skin your dog alive by the way everyone is talking about it.
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Jul 11, 2009 21:47
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You didn't get to the really awful part of the game. 15 minute long random battles get very common.
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Jul 11, 2009 22:00
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For a person who's playing through Spellforce 2 right now, is Spellforce Platinum worth the $10 they're asking for it?
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Jul 13, 2009 09:09
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sexual rickshaw posted:For a person who's playing through Spellforce 2 right now, is Spellforce Platinum worth the $10 they're asking for it? I'm not playing number 2 but Spellforce Plat is a pretty awesome game. It seamlessly mixes RTS and RPG.
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Jul 13, 2009 15:18
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I was thinking of picking up either Patrician 3 or Port Royale 2 from GOG for playing on an aging laptop but I can't decide which to get. Any opinions or better suggestions out there?
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Jul 13, 2009 15:48
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Careful, Port Royale 2 is on Steam as well for just 4 bucks. I discovered GOG today and decided it's pretty much the best netbook gaming site there is and bought Stronghold to start my collection. My next purchase will be Empire Earth when they release it, I never got around to playing that when it originally came out 
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Jul 13, 2009 16:41
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Merrill Grinch posted:I was thinking of picking up either Patrician 3 or Port Royale 2 from GOG for playing on an aging laptop but I can't decide which to get. Any opinions or better suggestions out there? I own both and have played both extensively. They play somewhat similarly although there are important differences. However, owning both is a lot of genre overlap. I personally prefer Port Royale 2 over Patrician III. First, the core of both games is ship based trading. They have roughly the same number of commodities you can trade, though I think PR2 has a little bit more. Both games scale up well as you become a mega-trader, but PR2 has a much better auto-trading system where you can set your fleets to specific runs. In the ship-based trading category PR2 has a very large advantage which is many more towns than P3. You can establish some pretty awesome and complex trading networks like wheel and spoke etc. People often claim that P3 is more complex than PR2 but I fail to see why. The only thing that P3 has that PR2 doesn't is off-continent trading routes. Most importantly, PR2 has more to do once you get your trading system set up. If you want to become belligerent, PR2 has MANY more ships that you can buy or steal and then field either as an agent for war, or privateering for profit. I'm pretty sure P3 only has 4 ship types and only one of those is fit for battle. You will be hit by pirates a lot and you have limited means to fight back. In PR2 if one of your lines is getting hit by pirates you can escort them with some pretty fearsome warships, or hell just sail into the pirate hideout and take your revenge. Finally, PR2's setting is just cooler. Unless you are a hardcore historian in love with the Hanseatic League you will probably find the ideas of multi-nation wars and pirate plundering on the high seas of the Caribbean more romantic.
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Jul 13, 2009 17:16
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Its been a long time since I played those games, but can you only 1 ship at a time during the fleet battles?
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Jul 13, 2009 19:19
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And for those of you interested in those types of games, East India Company comes out in a couple weeks and it looks fantastic.
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Jul 13, 2009 19:34
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^^^^ Wow that does indeed look fantastic. Too bad no computer I currently own will likely run it. Yet another excuse for an upgrade. Rabhadh posted:Its been a long time since I played those games, but can you only 1 ship at a time during the fleet battles? Ah, yes. You can only have one ship at a time in fleet battles, but you can rotate the ships out for the next one whenever you want. It's a weird system that I never liked a whole lot, but even then it's ten times better than P3 which has a very wooden (no pun intended) ship combat interface.
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Jul 13, 2009 19:38
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The Nations: Gold Edition is now on GOG for $5.99 and if you buy it with Alien Nations, you'll save 50% off Alien Nations' price so that's two games for $8.98.
Athletic Footjob fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Jul 14, 2009 |
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Jul 14, 2009 12:12
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Can't stop drooling over this service. I'm just glad I haven't unsheathed my VISA just yet. Will have to make a thorough inventory of their games first. Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:And for those of you interested in those types of games, East India Company comes out in a couple weeks and it looks fantastic. Not even remotely connected to what this thread is about, but shucks... what do I know, eh? 
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Jul 14, 2009 12:54
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tastychicken posted:Not even remotely connected to what this thread is about, but shucks... what do I know, eh? He just recommended a similar game, it happens all the time in the Steam thread. Whats the big deal?
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Jul 14, 2009 13:23
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Ground Control + Expansions is up at GOG for just $6. A steal, if you ask me. e: didn't realise this is fairly old news (5 days), sorry. Grawl fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Jul 14, 2009 |
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Jul 14, 2009 20:00
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Grawl posted:Ground Control + Expansions is up at GOG for just $6. A steal, if you ask me. Still worth mentioning for a great game. I haven't bought them just because my backlog is enormous.
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Jul 14, 2009 20:11
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The Machine posted:Posting to say I played the poo poo out of the demo, too. It was goddamn fun to figure things out (grapes make wine!) when I was a wee lad. Blodskur posted:The Nations: Gold Edition is now on GOG for $5.99 and if you buy it with Alien Nations, you'll save 50% off Alien Nations' price so that's two games for $8.98.
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Jul 14, 2009 21:01
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What is Empire Earth like compared to say, an Age of Empires or a Rise of Nations? Similar interface?
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Jul 14, 2009 22:05
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Serious Michael posted:What is Empire Earth like compared to say, an Age of Empires or a Rise of Nations? Similar interface? I always saw Empire Earth as a very well-made Age Of Empires clone.
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Jul 14, 2009 22:49
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It's basically a well-made Age of Empires clone with the "Age" scope of Civilization. So like AoE, but going from stone age to the future. If that sounds appealing to you it's worth getting, definitely.
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Jul 15, 2009 00:30
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Age of Empires is one of my favorite series of games ever, I love Rise of Nations, but I couldn't get into Empire Earth for some reason. YMMV. Maybe I'll have to try the first one again.
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Jul 15, 2009 04:20
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Goddamn I suck at strategy games. Even playing on easy, Evil Genius is wearing me down. If I send more henchmen out to get money I end up with too much heat and too many agents poking around my base, and then the henchmen get offed in the field while I'm busy tending to the agents. If I don't send them, I sit around stabbing the occasional investigator but I'm stone broke.
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