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I'm so torn about grabbing the M&M pack. On one hand I've always wanted to get into the series. On the other hand I'm almost sure I don't have the proper amount of patience to put up with it, even with clue books and maps downloadable from GoG.
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The new Gem of the Week is Simon the Sorcerer. It's a gem alright. I like 2 better (and anything upward is just horrible), but this isn't a bad game in any way.
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Cemetry Gator posted:There's another program for Mac Gaming, CrossOver. I only tried the demo (it costs money and I'm trying to save with a bunch of big things coming up), but it worked decently for Descent. True, forgot that. CrossOver is definitely worth a try because it supports 3d acceleration and all that hardware poo poo, which (IIRC) Parallels does not. I don't think I could get it to work but I'm on an old first-generation Macbook that's gotten a little twitchy over the years.
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Sep 7, 2009 23:00
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I know everyone has a hardon for Hamachi, but it's never worked for me. GameRanger, though, is free, supports 500+ games, and works pretty much no matter what right after install. Don't what the gently caress a VPN/TCP netserver routing number is or how to forward your IPX ports through an offshore Brazilian SMTP? Get Gameranger. I've been doing HOMM3, Lords of the Realm 2, and Dungeon Keeper 2 non stop lately with it.
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 Just wanted to remind you guys that the BOGO Interplay sale ENDS TODAY @ 12:59P.M., so get them while it lasts!!I went ahead and grabbed a few more because I'm an idiot and can't resist a great sale even though I know I'm not going to have time to play them. I also got: FreeSpace + Expansion Stonekeep Shogo Shattered Steel Earthworm Jim 1 +2 Earthworm Jim 3D Charles Martel fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Sep 8, 2009 |
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Sep 8, 2009 06:55
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Did they add some games? I don't remember Die by the Sword being on the sale list earlier. edit: how did I miss the "Show all games" button?
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Sep 8, 2009 15:13
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Rirse fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Sep 8, 2009 |
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Sep 8, 2009 19:53
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MY FANTASYS.zip posted:Could someone do me a favor and gift me Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, Giant Citizens Kabuto, and Sacrifice. I ran into a snag and won't have the money for this sale in time. I can repay you through Paypal on Thursday. E-mail me at rirse@msn.com if you are able to do this. Email sent. edit: There doesn't seem to be a way to gift multiple games. Weedle fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Sep 8, 2009 |
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Sep 8, 2009 19:57
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BOOM! DOCTA WATSON posted:Email sent. Thanks Rock Tumbler, I was able to get the games in time. Now go update GTA IV. Rirse fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Sep 8, 2009 |
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Sep 8, 2009 20:07
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Grawl posted:The new Gem of the Week is Simon the Sorcerer. It's a gem alright. I like 2 better (and anything upward is just horrible), but this isn't a bad game in any way. Only bummer with it is that unlike almost every other adventure game out there, you can do mistakes that makes you permanently stuck and unable to progress (without dying or anything obvious telling you that you're not going anywhere).
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Sep 9, 2009 08:12
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AG3 posted:Only bummer with it is that unlike almost every other adventure game out there, you can do mistakes that makes you permanently stuck and unable to progress (without dying or anything obvious telling you that you're not going anywhere). Man, that poo poo was the order of the day back in the 1980s.
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Sep 9, 2009 09:46
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AG3 posted:Only bummer with it is that unlike almost every other adventure game out there, you can do mistakes that makes you permanently stuck and unable to progress (without dying or anything obvious telling you that you're not going anywhere). This isn't true, at least not for Simon the Sorcerer.
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Sep 9, 2009 10:10
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MW posted:This isn't true, at least not for Simon the Sorcerer. I managed to get stuck once, back in the day. If it was possible to recover from it at all, I couldn't find out how. Restarting the game and not doing that silly thing over again worked though. Or well, so I think. But considering just how many years ago it was, I'm not going to say with 100% certainty that I'm remembering it completely right. I can't even remember what it was. I vaguely remember a patrolling... orc? Troll? Something like that. And trying to use something on him that I shouldn't, making me lose that item, and having no way of getting it back. But like I said, it's been a godawful number of years since then, so I'm not going to claim I'm remembering it completely correctly (or that it was indeed impossible to recover from, but it did seem like it back then). As much as I hate to admit it... thank god for Gamefaqs/the internet.
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Sep 9, 2009 13:18
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AG3 posted:Only bummer with it is that unlike almost every other adventure game out there, you can do mistakes that makes you permanently stuck and unable to progress (without dying or anything obvious telling you that you're not going anywhere). Sierra was pretty famous for this, but Infocom and most of the other developers did this as well. Really the company that set the standard that this never happens is Lucasarts.
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Sep 9, 2009 15:24
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I guess with Sierra it was more of a business model, since the consequences of a wrong decision could take hours and hours to show up, leaving people dependent on the hotlines that cost a fortune to call regularly.
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Sep 9, 2009 16:06
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Sacrifice looks really good for a older game, but are there any updated icons for the spells. They look really blurry on the max resolution. Can't find any sites for Sacrifice since typing that name alone in Google just gets the subject matter of sacrifices.
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Sep 10, 2009 05:38
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New games: Port Royale, incoming + incoming forces & Expendable.
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MW posted:This isn't true, at least not for Simon the Sorcerer. It is also NOT true for Simon 2.
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Sep 10, 2009 15:13
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Hah, I remember getting a demo disc for Expendable with the family's first Dell.
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Sep 10, 2009 15:51
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ah I remember incoming. I downloaded the demo ages ago but it never ran right. I think it did some sort of demo thing until you clicked something to go to the menu or whatever but it always crashed whenever I did so. It looked so cool and I think would've looked awesome on my Voodoo 3 at the time  .
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Sep 10, 2009 15:57
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Port Royale is currently cheaper on Steam (2 Euros for me, I guess $2 for you Americans). e: Steam has Port Royale 2. Grawl fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Sep 10, 2009 |
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Sep 10, 2009 16:35
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I'm tempted now to get a joystick to enjoy Freespace 1&2 as they were meant to be enjoyed. I'll probably end up spending more on the joystick. I've set up my XBox 360 gamepad for now, but it probably isn't going to cut it after I'm done with the tutorials. Any recommendations?
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Sep 10, 2009 16:42
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The mouse controls in Freespace are actually pretty excellent. I wouldn't say you're missing anything if you aren't using a joystick.
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Spatial posted:The mouse controls in Freespace are actually pretty excellent. I wouldn't say you're missing anything if you aren't using a joystick. yeah I beat FS2 with slightly modified controls and it was a blast. I originally thought you had to use the arrow keys on the numpad (which my laptop didn't have) but the mouse was just right. Had to use inverted mouse though (even though I'm non inverted for fps games... weird).
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Sep 10, 2009 19:14
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Incoming was the poo poo. It was like one of those Beachhead 2000 games but not lovely.
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Clouseau posted:Sierra was pretty famous for this, but Infocom and most of the other developers did this as well. Really the company that set the standard that this never happens is Lucasarts. I will maintain until my dying day that I got stuck without possibility of recovery in Curse of Monkey Island. It was probably 2/3 of the way into the game, you have to repair a lighthouse or something. I captured lightning bugs in a glass jar and put the top back on. They died because I hadn't punched holes in the lid. I could not re-open the jar, punching holes in the lid at that point had no effect, it was impossible to go on.
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I tried using the mouse to control freespace 2 but I couldn't turn fast enough to complete even the tutorial missions. What am I missing? Do you guys just have the sensitivity cranked all the way up?
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Lamacq posted:I tried using the mouse to control freespace 2 but I couldn't turn fast enough to complete even the tutorial missions. What am I missing? Do you guys just have the sensitivity cranked all the way up? Well did you try turning up the sensitivity? I would have done that instead of running to the forums.
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Sep 10, 2009 20:00
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GoldenNugget posted:Had to use inverted mouse though (even though I'm non inverted for fps games... weird). Lamacq posted:I tried using the mouse to control freespace 2 but I couldn't turn fast enough to complete even the tutorial missions. What am I missing? Do you guys just have the sensitivity cranked all the way up?
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I really loved Incoming back then when it came bundeled with my 8mb Vodoo 2 card. I always wanted to check out Expendable after that, but never got around to. Now that I bought it off GOG it crashes as soon as the level finished loading. Does anyone have the same problem with a regular 07/08 MacBook (with the Intel Graphics card) and WinXP running under Boot Camp?
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Sep 10, 2009 21:49
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I`m pretty sure the mouse flying is where i learned to use inverted mouse for first person shooters. Did nothing but inverted mouse flying in tie fighter way back before mouselook was used in shooters and when it finally happened it was just natural to `fly` the gun.
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I forgot how old MDK2 was and its still decent looking. 2000 was some freakish year of adequate 3d graphics and then it all went to poo poo or something until like 2005. Maybe I'm just remembering wrong. Incoming was awesome. I only got off the first map once or twice and then died on the first mission of the second map but I didn't care because it was so awesome anyways.
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regulargonzalez posted:I will maintain until my dying day that I got stuck without possibility of recovery in Curse of Monkey Island. Wow. I've never heard of that occurring. I remember that game they went out of their way to make sure that anything like that wouldn't happen. I guess you found a bug. Sierra added all the death screens both due to lazy game design (Roberta Williams) but also to lengthen the game. See also: adding mazes to a game to make it longer. Space Quest 5 was especially guilty of it, its my favorite Space Quest for a large part of the game, and then since it is over so quickly you go through a lengthy multi-level maze at the end of the game.
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Clouseau posted:Sierra added all the death screens both due to lazy game design This had an unexpectedly loving awesome impact in King's Quest VI, though, when you arrive in the land of the dead, where you've been seeing that goddamn game over screen so often, except this time you're alive! (And you immediately proceed to make a bunch of tough-guy skeleton guards launch into crazy dance by hammering out a tune on a bone xylophone.) God I loved that game. The rest of the series can pretty much go suck a dick though, yeah.
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Ah piss, Redneck Rampage runs like poo poo on my PC.
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MonkeyforaHead posted:This had an unexpectedly loving awesome impact in King's Quest VI, though, when you arrive in the land of the dead, where you've been seeing that goddamn game over screen so often, except this time you're alive! (And you immediately proceed to make a bunch of tough-guy skeleton guards launch into crazy dance by hammering out a tune on a bone xylophone.) Ohhh god the memories. The actual meeting with the king of the dead scared the poo poo out of younger-me. To this day, I still wonder what he did to get shackled to the throne. That was such an amazing character design.
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Androc posted:Ohhh god the memories. The actual meeting with the king of the dead scared the poo poo out of younger-me. To this day, I still wonder what he did to get shackled to the throne. That was such an amazing character design. http://kingsquest.wikia.com/wiki/Samhain for answer (unless you meant very very specifically)  Great game, and now that the Dosbox KQ collection is out on Steam, I'm hoping it'll pop up on GOG. I got the KQ collection through retail a few years ago, and tried it on my system before giving it as a gift. If memory serves, they don't include the KQ6 HD pack or whatever it was (the module or version that gave higher-res dialogue portraits) and there certainly isn't any desktop and soundtrack sort of bonus stuff like GOG would offer. sweart gliwere fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Sep 11, 2009 |
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New weekend promo Postal 1 &2 for $11.98 until Monday.
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A long time ago I made the mistake of saying Heroes of Might and Magic 5 was good. While it is an okay game, a lot of people brought up Kings Bounty and more importantly Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Now Kings Bounty is okay too, and my opinion of that will never change, especially since I've been playing HoMM 3. I can see why some people are so passionate about this game. I remember growing up and seeing ads in magazines for this game and I thought it looked so cheesy and lame but I wish I had played it back then. HoMM 3 is incredible and is still playable today, more so than a lot of games. If you haven't played HoMM 3 yet, you're doing yourself a disservice. It's deep, engaging, addicting and pretty much everything that is good about a game. It definitely has become one of my "Three games i'd have stuck with me on a deserted island" So just two questions. Which faction do you think is the best? (Fortress) and are the Might and Magic games just as good, memorable and replayable? Thanks!
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