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Weedle posted:Betrayal at Krondor was released as freeware some years ago, and can be downloaded from Abandonia and run in DOSBox: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/208/Betrayal+at+Krondor.html  Thanks a bunch!
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Good Old Games is right up there with STEAM as one of my most beloved gaming services. Being able to replay all the games I owned as a kid and some of those I've wanted to play for my entire life is an incredible experience. Sacrifice, Interstate '76, Messiah and Duke Nukem 3d, all for the price of a night on the tiles? It's almost stupid. I love the fact there's additional goodies like wallpapers and that. I'm using the Sacrifice wallpaper as my desktop  Sure some games might take a bit of tweaking to work (Interstate '76 in particular has a few bugbears) but the community and forums are generally really helpful in getting things to work, and it's great to see people who love and remember the games alongside you. Now they just need the entire Carmageddon series, Die By The Sword, Little Big Adventure and Outcast up on there. It's inevitable. VV  How did I miss that? I love you.
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Mar 2, 2010 15:52
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Songbearer posted:Now they just need the entire Carmageddon series, Die By The Sword, Little Big Adventure and Outcast up on there. It's inevitable. http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/die_by_the_sword_expansion ?
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Mar 2, 2010 15:57
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raezr posted:If you haven't played Phantasmagoria 2, just save yourself the frustration and $6 and watch this let's play http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/phantasmagoria/ Was just going to post this. Spoony and his game reviews are amazing.
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Mar 2, 2010 16:24
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Songbearer posted:Now they just need the entire Carmageddon series, Die By The Sword, Little Big Adventure and Outcast up on there. It's inevitable. Oh man, I'd love to have a version of Outcast that works without any monkeying around. That game was amazing. VOXELS!
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Mar 2, 2010 16:37
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al-azad posted:The version Sierra did release for free was only the floppy but the cd version has nothing major except better quality music and a making-of video. Even the better quality cd-audio music really isn't these days with the advancements in MIDI synthesis. Hell, in Dosbox on my Mac, I set the music to play through the roland MT-32 emulator. It gets passed through CoreAudio, which uses the same midi patches as Garageband. It's wonderful! 
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xarph posted:Even the better quality cd-audio music really isn't these days with the advancements in MIDI synthesis. Hell, in Dosbox on my Mac, I set the music to play through the roland MT-32 emulator. It gets passed through CoreAudio, which uses the same midi patches as Garageband. It's wonderful! Yeah, that's on a Mac. If there's a good way to use decent samples in Windows without getting a Creative Labs card or something, I'm not aware of it.
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I'm very interested in the Red Baron one as I had Red Baron II, which was a buggy piece of dookie but they gave me a free upgrade to Red Baron 3D when it came out which ROCKED. The only thing - my old Logitech Wingman stick was great for that game as it just had the trigger, thumb button, and a sliding switch I used for a throttle. The stick is the old school 15-pin plug type that would plug into my sound card. I have a much newer computer these days - can someone recommend me a 15-pin to USB converter which works well in this type of situation? I don't really want to buy another stick if I can avoid it as I liked the way the old one works with the simple controls of the game.
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WescottF1 posted:I'm very interested in the Red Baron one as I had Red Baron II, which was a buggy piece of dookie but they gave me a free upgrade to Red Baron 3D when it came out which ROCKED. A cursory Google search turns this up, although I can't vouch for how well it works.
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WescottF1 posted:I'm very interested in the Red Baron one as I had Red Baron II, which was a buggy piece of dookie but they gave me a free upgrade to Red Baron 3D when it came out which ROCKED. Red Baron is one of the best games Ive ever played, and is wayy better than Red Baron 2. Ive played the poo poo out of it when I was a kid, it was one of the first games I owned. It was so hard it took me weeks just to get the plane of the ground, every mission was exciting, scarty, dangerous. Fighting zepellins was a blast. Even the box and the manual were awesome: a huge manual filled with histgorical facts about WWI air combat and great pictures.
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Elias_Maluco posted:Red Baron is one of the best games Ive ever played, and is wayy better than Red Baron 2. Ive played the poo poo out of it when I was a kid, it was one of the first games I owned. Holy poo poo! I just looked at the manual, which I never bothered doing after buying the game, and it's loving amazing! I never bothered to look at it before as I figured that there wouldn't be much in it and I used to play the game like gently caress as a kid and thus knew almost everything anyhow. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, and props to gog.com! Now to get my reading on  Edit: Also, Red Baron 1 is amazing. One of my most favourite games as well. Double Edit:  God drat. If only Dynamix were still around. 
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Mar 3, 2010 04:48
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raezr posted:If you haven't played Phantasmagoria 2, just save yourself the frustration and $6 and watch this let's play http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/phantasmagoria/page/2/
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Return to Krondor is up for $5.99! It's an early 3D game and it looks it, but it should be worth a look if you're a fan of Raymond Feist and/or Betrayal.
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Mar 4, 2010 16:15
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What's so bad about Call to Power 2 then? I played it loads when it came out. I also feel bad about not buying I76 now it's actually out.
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frowning posted:What's so bad about Call to Power 2 then? I played it loads when it came out. I also feel bad about not buying I76 now it's actually out. I only played Call to Power 1 so maybe they fixed it but the main issue with that one was the tons of special, non combat units it had. Some of them were interesting and balanced, but a few were outrageously exploited by the AI and extremely annoying rather than challenging. The lawyer was the most reviled, it could stop the production of any city indefinitely and could only be killed by another lawyer without starting a war. Near the middle-to-late game, there would routinely be dozens of them roaming your empire. Also for some reason fascism was the best form of government for most of the game and gave you access to one of the most powerful and cheapest combat unit. It did have some good ideas though. Space and sea colonies were mostly a gimmick since by the time you could get them the game was usually all but decided, but combat had a feature I thought was neat where it took into account the range of a unit : if you had swordsmen, archers and catapults in a stack, they would fight all together but arranged in three lines and if the enemy only had contact units, the catapults would get a free shot, then the archers, and only then would the close range units step in.
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I know it's not GoG, but they're certainly good games at a great price: AI War & Zenith Remnant + Gratuitous Space Battles & The Tribe + Solium Infernum all together for $49.99 this weekend only! Get the pack here.
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CaudaVenenus posted:I only played Call to Power 1 so maybe they fixed it but the main issue with that one was the tons of special, non combat units it had. Some of them were interesting and balanced, but a few were outrageously exploited by the AI and extremely annoying rather than challenging. The lawyer was the most reviled, it could stop the production of any city indefinitely and could only be killed by another lawyer without starting a war. Near the middle-to-late game, there would routinely be dozens of them roaming your empire. Is that the version with the spy that could cause untold havoc? I loved that game. I made a massive sea empire.
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FLX posted:I know it's not GoG, but they're certainly good games at a great price: This seems more appropriate to be in the Steam thread.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:This seems more appropriate to be in the Steam thread. Actually we could probably do with an indie games megathread these days.
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Ansob. posted:Actually we could probably do with an indie games megathread these days. Agreed.
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Ansob. posted:Actually we could probably do with an indie games megathread these days. i would bookmark that poo poo so fast
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It'd degenerate into art game yelling in minutes
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Agreed. Weedle posted:i would bookmark that poo poo so fast So theoretically speaking if someone were to make an indie games megathread which games should be featured in the OP? Sorry for temporarily hijacking the thread, but I figure I might as well lay the groundwork for keeping random indie games out of the GOG thread. 
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Ansob. posted:So theoretically speaking if someone were to make an indie games megathread which games should be featured in the OP? Some indie games that I enjoyed: Flotilla (small-scale, simultaneous turn-based space battles) AI War: Fleet Command (large scale, RTS space battles) Gratitous Space Battles (gratitous space battles) Solium Infernum (Diplomacy set in Hell) Windosill (artsy point and click puzzle/adventure) UnReal World (survival rogue-like) Gridrunner Revolutions (similar to Geometry Wars) Space giraffe (a seizure-inducing shooter like Tempest) And maybe Defcon, Darwinia and Uplink Das MicroKorg fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Mar 4, 2010 |
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Mar 4, 2010 19:41
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Braid and Flower are the first things that come to mind for me, though Flower's a PS3 exclusive.
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Aquaria, Defense Grid and World of Goo are other big ones. Also that TD with the great story I can never remember the name of.
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Altitude, Defense Grid, Nation Red, Trine, Mr. Robot, Darwinia... There's a fuckton of good ones.
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Ansob. posted:So theoretically speaking if someone were to make an indie games megathread which games should be featured in the OP? Off the top of my head: Machinarium Aaaaa! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity AI War: Fleet Command Aquaria Armageddon Empires Audiosurf Ben There, Dan That! Braid Darwinia DEFCON: Everybody Dies Defense Grid: The Awakening Gratuitous Space Battles Immortal Defense Mount & Blade Mr. Robot Solium Infernum Time Gentlemen, Please! Trials 2: Second Edition Torchlight Uplink VVVVVV World of Goo
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I went to the page, and the first game that came to my mind wasn't there Dang you Dr Drago's Madcap Chase! When will you be mine?! ...still, Heroes of Might and Magic 2 is looking mighty fine...
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Dr Drago's Madcap Chase was fun, but the combination of the loan card and the zero-debt card broke the game pretty bad.
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kissekatt posted:Dr Drago's Madcap Chase was fun, but the combination of the loan card and the zero-debt card broke the game pretty bad. I guess if you were playing with other people you had to make a commitment to just selling those cards at the first chance you get. I honestly don't recall them being that bad tho.. but it HAS been over a decade. Right now I'm hovering over buying Arcanum or Psychonauts. Both are great and underrated, and I never got a chance to properly finish the latter. Edit: C... Constructor? Is that you, old buddy 'ol pal? 
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Guys dont forget Osmos
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I guess I'll get working on an OP for that indie gaming megathread tomorrow, then. Ta.
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evilmiera posted:I honestly don't recall them being that bad tho.. but it HAS been over a decade.
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Ansob. posted:I guess I'll get working on an OP for that indie gaming megathread tomorrow, then. There should be some guidelines to keep it from veering into freeware territory or game-made-by-small-company-but-owned-and-published-by-big-company-like-Shadow-Complex-or-Flower-are. I'd say A) the game has to be self published and available through the developer and/or offered through a distribution system like steam/psn/xbl/wiiware, and B) the game had to have been on sale at one point or another.
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Ansob. posted:I guess I'll get working on an OP for that indie gaming megathread tomorrow, then. Please link to that topic in here so I can mark it, thanks.
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No mention of Spelunky, tsk tsk. Spelunky dominated 2009 for me as innovative and fun game of the year. Anything that takes the best bits of roguelikes and shoehorns them into something this accessible, but still punishingly difficult earns my respect. It's free on the PC, and a for-pay XBLA version is in the works.
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Charles Barkley Shut up and Jam: Gaiden!
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Weekend promo: 25% off Uru and Real Myst.
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Another missed indie game: Crayon Physics Deluxe.
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