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This is the best GoG to be released to this date!
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I'm looking to get Two Worlds when I finally pick out a new laptop, and it looks like Two Worlds off GOG isn't compatible with Windows 7 (which my laptop will most likely be). I also know a good chunk of their games don't work on 7 yet, is there a timeframe for changing that? Or is there some sort of "XP/Vista Compatibility" mode in 7? I admit I know almost nothing about it...
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Aug 17, 2010 16:11
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C-Euro posted:I'm looking to get Two Worlds when I finally pick out a new laptop, and it looks like Two Worlds off GOG isn't compatible with Windows 7 (which my laptop will most likely be). I also know a good chunk of their games don't work on 7 yet, is there a timeframe for changing that? Or is there some sort of "XP/Vista Compatibility" mode in 7? I admit I know almost nothing about it... I haven't had any problem with any of the GOG games I've played on my W7 computer (Two Worlds isn't one of them, though), but if there's a problem there is an XP compatibility mode.
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Aug 17, 2010 16:15
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I actually bought Two Worlds off GoG about a month ago, and it ran fine on Windows 7 64-bit. I thought the game was complete garbage, but it ran perfectly. In most cases the game works fine in 7 if it's Vista-compatible, GoG is just hesitant to say it's officially compatible unless they are certain, as some of these old games have issues that don't crop up until hours into them.
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Aug 17, 2010 16:34
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Another Windows 7 64bit GOG.com two-worlds user who had absolutely no problems, including far less crashes than my current re-run of Dragon Age still has.
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Aug 17, 2010 16:49
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Total Annihilation? Shoot, why did I buy Earth 2150? Which, by the way, has all the polish of an open source Linux game.
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Aug 17, 2010 18:22
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Blodskur posted:Total Annihilation: Commander Pack (Contains Total Annihilation, The Core Contingency and Battle Tactics) is now on GOG for $5.99. Hell. Yes. First Raptor and now this. Per NBA Jam rules: They're heating up and they could be on fire next week!
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Aug 17, 2010 22:34
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doctorfrog posted:Total Annihilation? Shoot, why did I buy Earth 2150? Which, by the way, has all the polish of an open source Linux game. I don't know what you're talking about - 2150 is awesome.
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Aug 17, 2010 23:07
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gently caress.. I was all happy to see the idea of DRM free games from my youth, until I looked and didn't find either Crusader game or Carmageddon 2. Still, I will keep an eye out on the page. I like the idea of "buy it and play it, no hoop jumping needed".
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Aug 18, 2010 06:06
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:gently caress.. I was all happy to see the idea of DRM free games from my youth, until I looked and didn't find either Crusader game or Carmageddon 2. Good luck, we have all been waiting for those. But considering the magic they have been pulling.... we might see Carmageddon. I doubt we ever see any EA owned stuff. Hey, who does own Carmageddon? SCI? Are they around? I know like Jowood or some silly company like that did that horrible Carmageddon TRD 2000 whatever copy it was called
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Aug 18, 2010 06:55
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This place loving rocks I have I would estimate 30 games from this place. I cant help it! They are just so cheap! The place has great games to go put on netbooks and stuff
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Aug 18, 2010 10:51
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Blodskur posted:Total Annihilation: Commander Pack (Contains Total Annihilation, The Core Contingency and Battle Tactics) is now on GOG for $5.99.
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Aug 18, 2010 13:48
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AxeManiac posted:Good luck, we have all been waiting for those. But considering the magic they have been pulling.... we might see Carmageddon. I doubt we ever see any EA owned stuff. Hey, who does own Carmageddon? SCI? Are they around? I know like Jowood or some silly company like that did that horrible Carmageddon TRD 2000 whatever copy it was called God what a disappointing sequel that was. 
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Aug 18, 2010 16:43
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Woebin posted:I don't know if anyone will play this when Spring can be played instead, but it's worth the price for the soundtrack alone. It's fantastic. I might just play TA because I missed out on it so long ago. So far, it seems to hold up pretty well. As for Spring RTS, can you recommend a game with relatively straightforward and simple co-op against the AI? I might want to rope some friends in for some casual play. The 1944 mod looks pretty cool.
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Aug 18, 2010 17:08
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doctorfrog posted:I might just play TA because I missed out on it so long ago. So far, it seems to hold up pretty well.  .
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Aug 18, 2010 19:46
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Farquar posted:God what a disappointing sequel that was. I remember I was at E3 the year that was coming out, the PR dude was embarrassed of it, like, "Oh, well the company is trying to shy away from this, we just made it" and kept trying to show me their family friendly games instead. TDR replaced all humans with zombies, green blood, make you a good guy trying to save the world or something. It was a mess.
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Aug 18, 2010 20:02
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It had pretty impressive physics for its day, though.
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Aug 18, 2010 20:20
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Was that in like the Euro/Germany version of TDR 2000? I don't recall there being zombies, I specifically remembered the wholesale slaughter of humans in my game. I played TDR 2000 a lot. Carmageddon is my favourite series. The biggest problem I had with TDR2000 was the stupid 'mission' levels in between races, since the engine just wasn't built for that, and they were drat buggy, I could never pass the one where you are supposed to steal a bomb from a vehicle and then like get it to another spot. I honestly just want them to remake Carmageddon 1 and be done with it. I didn't care for 2 as much, it just was way way more sluggish and the destruction model was crappier and such, it was like they went full 3d but it was crappy 3d at the time.
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Aug 18, 2010 21:08
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Every iteration of Carmageddon (1, 2, TDR 2000) could be found in at least 2 versions of differing violence level depending on region. They all had a red-blooded human variant (which I think you could always get back with a patch), and another version with robots or zombies.
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Aug 18, 2010 21:16
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New promo:quote:Until Thursday, August 26 at 11:59 p.m. EDT you can grab 4 great games from JoWooD - Gothic 2 Gold, Spellforce Platinum, Painkiller and The Guild Gold 40% cheaper, while the Realms of Arkania games are all 25% off.
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Aug 19, 2010 08:53
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Woebin posted:I don't know if anyone will play this when Spring can be played instead, but it's worth the price for the soundtrack alone. It's fantastic. I thought Spring was multiplayer only, was I wrong?
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Aug 19, 2010 09:09
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Dudley posted:I thought Spring was multiplayer only, was I wrong? There are some AI opponents you can play with, but there's no campaign or anything like that.
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Aug 19, 2010 09:19
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Dudley posted:I thought Spring was multiplayer only, was I wrong? I don't seem to know what I'm talking about this point, so just ignore everything I've said except that the soundtrack is fantastic. That point remains valid, at least.
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Aug 19, 2010 15:45
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I tried hard to justify buying TA, but I literally happened to dig up the original CDs by accident last night while going through my closet looking for something. Gothic 2 on sale... that was an awesome game.
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Aug 19, 2010 16:16
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Kashwashwa posted:I tried hard to justify buying TA, but I literally happened to dig up the original CDs by accident last night while going through my closet looking for something. I already have Gothic 2 and the Realms of Arkania games (and I put Gothic 2 and Realms of Arkania 2 on my list of best RPGs of all times). Considering getting Painkiller and those other two. Any info about "Spellforce" and "The Guild"? Both seems interesting, but never heard of then,.
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Aug 19, 2010 16:24
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The Guild is an amazing genre-breaking game. In it you play an aspiring nobleman in the 1400s. Here is an abbreviated list of what you can do in the game:
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Aug 19, 2010 16:35
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SpellForce is an interesting RTS with heavy RPG elements. Wasn't my cup of tea because I hate RTSes, but it was pretty successful critically. The Guild is an economic management game and is apparently one of the best in that (fairly limited) genre, and way better than The Guild 2 which was on sale on Steam a few weeks ago.
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Aug 19, 2010 16:36
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Elias_Maluco posted:Any info about "Spellforce" and "The Guild"? Both seems interesting, but never heard of then,. The Guild is kind of a renaissance dynasty simulator. You play as a business owner (smith, inkeeper, priest, etc) and pretty much just attempt to make yourself as powerful as possible. There are city council elections and underhanded deeds to screw over other people. Also, when you die at the ripe old age of 40 you take on the role of one of your kids (so you need to marry and have kids early of you're hosed). I thought it was pretty sweet. I just picked up the sequel on Steam and I'm not sure which one I like better yet.
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Aug 19, 2010 16:36
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ImpactVector posted:Spellforce is kind of a neat RTS/RPG hybrid where you have a main character and a party of other dudes that you equip with weapons and level up but the RTS portion of the game is pretty shallow. Oh, well, I guess Im buying. I hope one day I even get to play then.
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Aug 19, 2010 16:49
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Gothic II is one I've looked at once or twice- worth it?
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Aug 19, 2010 17:03
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C-Euro posted:Gothic II is one I've looked at once or twice- worth it? Yes. The controls take some getting used to, but are now second nature.
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Aug 19, 2010 17:06
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C-Euro posted:Gothic II is one I've looked at once or twice- worth it? Easily the best on the Gothic series, an awesome game. Think Oblivion, but with actual content and challenge.
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Aug 19, 2010 17:09
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GreenNight posted:Yes. The controls take some getting used to, but are now second nature. When I tried to play the original Gothic, I got killed almost immediately and had no idea what I was doing. Is Gothic II any better? How you do a thing, that's all explained in the manual, right?
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Aug 19, 2010 17:36
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Overwined posted:The Guild is an amazing genre-breaking game. In it you play an aspiring nobleman in the 1400s. Here is an abbreviated list of what you can do in the game: A good friend was hooked on this game for a while and basically told me the same thing, but I'm wondering how hard it is to get into the game? It sounds like one of those over-complicated PC games with 300-page manuals or something and I was just never into those. I like the "easy to learn, difficult to master" games.
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Aug 19, 2010 19:10
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Charles Martel posted:A good friend was hooked on this game for a while and basically told me the same thing, but I'm wondering how hard it is to get into the game? It sounds like one of those over-complicated PC games with 300-page manuals or something and I was just never into those. I like the "easy to learn, difficult to master" games.  Avoid some of the more abstract ones like rogue and town guard if you want simple -- stick to professions that make something. Edit: Oh, and I forgot the best part of being a priest: You get to denounce people you don't like in your sermons.  Who wouldn't love that? The only real issue is that building spaces for churches are pretty limited, so you're not going to be able to own lots of production buildings. Pretty sure there was a way to "multiclass" over time though.
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Aug 19, 2010 19:19
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Searching for a gameplay vid of the Guild on YouTube is an exercise in frustration.
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Aug 19, 2010 19:22
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Agreed posted:When I tried to play the original Gothic, I got killed almost immediately and had no idea what I was doing. Uh, in that respect it's pretty much the same. It's slightly better than 1 but Gothic 2 still has a steep difficulty curve. For what it's worth though Gothic 2 is quite possibly one of the best PC RPGs ever released.
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Aug 19, 2010 19:26
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Agreed posted:When I tried to play the original Gothic, I got killed almost immediately and had no idea what I was doing. It's still as difficult as I. Basically if you're getting killed you don't know how to use the fighting controls (it's not very intuitive but becomes very useful once you learn them), are attacking npcs you shouldn't be fighting, or are going into very very high level areas you shouldn't be going into (aka orc territory). It's neat if you have the patience since you can kill orcs at low levels; it's just very tedious but you get a ton of xp.
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Aug 19, 2010 19:58
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Charles Martel posted:A good friend was hooked on this game for a while and basically told me the same thing, but I'm wondering how hard it is to get into the game? It sounds like one of those over-complicated PC games with 300-page manuals or something and I was just never into those. I like the "easy to learn, difficult to master" games. This is a "easy to learn, difficult to master" game. Each of the game mechanics is pretty obvious. The main obscurity lies in the fact that you have no idea about everything you are able to do. There are really a billion paths to take. However, running your basic market supply and demand businesses (blacksmith, perfumery, alchemist, joiner, and tailor) are all very straight forward and play pretty much the same. Each of those buildings has a unique perk, but other than that they run the same. So, you can get a good income coming from that then you can explore on your own all the good poo poo you can do without worrying about going bankrupt. Also, basic business functions can be handed over to the AI to take your mind off them. I once read a guide for the game that stressed you not even dabble in politics until your third generation and I'd say that's a pretty good rule of thumb. I admit that the controls and options can be obscure sometimes but the functionality is straight forward. Also, holding down the RMB on just about anything gives you a good deal of useful information. You can "multi-class" very easily. After some time you reach Level 6 in each of the mastercrafts. At that point you can spend more AP to switch mastercraft occupation. You retain all the knowledge from past mastercrafts as well--as do your heirs. So, after some time you could become a grand master in everything. FYI, you do this by getting to Level 6, then clicking on your name. A menu appears (this menu can have many options and can scroll up and down FYI) and you just need to choose "Your occupations" to switch. Overwined fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Aug 19, 2010 |
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The Spellforce games are pretty cool conceptually but far too shallow to pull it off. You're in more danger of falling asleep mid-mission than of losing at any point, and they spend way too much time on poorly written story. If you have some massive surplus of spare time you need to dispose of you could do worse, but you're not missing out on anything by skipping them.
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