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Broken Sword 1 and 2 are utterly fantastic games. If I didn't have them on Steam already, I'd be snatching these up like a fiend.
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Elmo Oxygen posted:Broken Sword 1 and 2 are utterly fantastic games. If I didn't have them on Steam already, I'd be snatching these up like a fiend. I did just that. And Red Baron because it looked cool. Anyone played that, by the way?
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Dec 9, 2010 22:24
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I remember playing the demo to death for the original Broken Sword on the Playstation. For nostalgia sake and to find out what actually happens I'm going to pick it up. I only vaguely remember a woman, a police officer, a clown and sewers.
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Dec 9, 2010 22:49
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Mr Right posted:I remember playing the demo to death for the original Broken Sword on the Playstation. For nostalgia sake and to find out what actually happens I'm going to pick it up. I only vaguely remember a woman, a police officer, a clown and sewers. Sure it was Broken Sword? That description could be be ninety percent of adventure games 
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Dec 9, 2010 23:03
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fffffffff I just bought the Directors Cut on Steam last week
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Dec 9, 2010 23:16
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One thing to note about the Director's Cut: Nico's extra scenes are the definition of "tacked on". Also the difference in the audio sampling between the old parts of the game and the new parts of the game is tremendous so it can be a little jarring. Still, the game is a classic.
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Dec 9, 2010 23:16
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Saoshyant posted:I did just that. And Red Baron because it looked cool. Anyone played that, by the way? Hasn't Red Baron been freeware since 1997? I grabbed it then, along with Betrayal at Krondor, and played the poo poo out of it. Great game, even if I was completely awful at it.
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Dec 9, 2010 23:25
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:fffffffff I just bought the Directors Cut on Steam last week So buy it again to show your support for DRM-free gaming. 
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Dec 9, 2010 23:34
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Coolio posted:Sure it was Broken Sword? That description could be be ninety percent of adventure games He left out the angry ditch digger, that's why it didn't make sense. TomWaitsForNoMan posted:fffffffff I just bought the Directors Cut on Steam last week I haven't yet, but I have 2 and 3 via Steam so I'm just waiting for that to go on sale so they can all huddle together unplayed. Yea I know it's $5 reduced from $10 at release, but now I have to wait for the Steam X-Mas sale because it's December.
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Dec 9, 2010 23:35
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:fffffffff I just bought the Directors Cut on Steam last week I did the same thing because it didn't seem like it was ever going to hit gog. Whoops.
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Dec 10, 2010 00:09
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It's worth noting that a remastered version of Broken Sword 2 was just announced for iOS and PC - it's out on PC in Early 2011.
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Dec 10, 2010 00:45
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ChrisAsmadi posted:It's worth noting that a remastered version of Broken Sword 2 was just announced for iOS and PC - it's out on PC in Early 2011. Will have to triple dip for that, I guess.
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Dec 10, 2010 01:17
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Been waiting for Red Baron to come down in price. I wanted Baron 3D so bad when it came out, but had neither the money, nor the computer that would support it. I never played it, but I really liked the career mode for the original Red Baron, back when it was freeware, but could never abide the DOS-era graphics. Not sure I can abide them now. Doesn't matter, I'm $2.50 poorer and 2 games richer :iamafag: doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Dec 10, 2010 |
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Dec 10, 2010 02:01
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Anyone bought the Red Baron pack and got it to play on Windows 7? I was just about to buy it when I noticed it doesn't list as Windows 7 compatible. However, I-War 2 didn't either, but that works just fine. They're totally different games from different eras however, so I doubt that means anything? Anyone know? Its a classic of my childhood and I'd love to play it again. 
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Anyone bought the Red Baron pack and got it to play on Windows 7? I was just about to buy it when I noticed it doesn't list as Windows 7 compatible. However, I-War 2 didn't either, but that works just fine. Red Baron 1 is Dosbox, so that should be ok. Red Baron 3D runs fine on my Win 7 64 machine, but I have to run it in a window (add -w to the shortcut).
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Awesome. I'm not too familiar with old games on new machines so I wasn't really sure. Thanks for the answer. 
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Dec 10, 2010 02:08
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In the Broken Sword demo I played, I was a ginger man inside a café at the start. In this Broken Sword, I'm a woman in a mansion. Am I thinking of the same game and I'll eventually be a man in a café?
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Dec 10, 2010 16:07
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Mr Right posted:Am I thinking of the same game and I'll eventually be a man in a café? Yes, just keep playing.
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Dec 10, 2010 16:11
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Mr Right posted:In the Broken Sword demo I played, I was a ginger man inside a café at the start. In this Broken Sword, I'm a woman in a mansion. Am I thinking of the same game and I'll eventually be a man in a café? The bits with the woman were added for this version which is part of why it's billed as the Director's Cut.
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Dec 10, 2010 17:56
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Anybody else in Asia get horrible download speeds from GOG? I absolutely max out at 110KB/s and it averages around 40. Steam averages 1.5 MB/s and peaks around 2MB/s
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Dec 11, 2010 08:35
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Ara posted:Anybody else in Asia get horrible download speeds from GOG? I absolutely max out at 110KB/s and it averages around 40. Steam averages 1.5 MB/s and peaks around 2MB/s When I lived in Hong Kong, I got better download speeds on GOG than I do after moving back. Maybe it's your particular country?
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Dec 11, 2010 16:02
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Does i-war 1 have time compression controls? I'm terrible at this game.
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Dec 13, 2010 14:02
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Amethyst posted:Does i-war 1 have time compression controls? I'm terrible at this game. Not by default. You have to enable the cheats. Type DARKGOAT on the mission select screen. You should see the word 'outcome' appear in the mission boxes, showing that the cheat mode is on. Press SHIFT+A to cycle time acceleration, or SHIFT+S to skip the mission script to the next event. There are other cheat keys, but I don't want to spoil the game too much for you. You can find them easily on the net.
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Ravenger posted:Not by default. You have to enable the cheats.
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Dec 13, 2010 21:27
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I wonder what the biggest news ever will be tomorrow. Must be something quite good because that holiday event was pretty boring on deals. They were mostly publicity stuff to bring lots of people writing in the forums to try and participate. Just do a big gently caress off sale! That will get this thread back in the game!
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Dec 14, 2010 05:20
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Hemish posted:I wonder what the biggest news ever will be tomorrow. Must be something quite good because that holiday event was pretty boring on deals. They were mostly publicity stuff to bring lots of people writing in the forums to try and participate. To be fair, I didn't have an account there before. Then I went to the site to see if they had Anachronox, saw the Broken Sword promo, and signed up and bought it.
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Dec 14, 2010 05:44
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Thanks to thread I found one of my favorite childhood games Freedom Force vs. the 3rd Reich. I could not remember the name of it to save my life. I also can't believe it was made by System/Bio shock's Irrational Games. Makes sense though, I remember the game being an awesome love letter to golden age comics and ridiculous over-the-top voice acting.
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Dec 14, 2010 05:45
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Yeah that was one of the first really decent superhero games and even looking past the superhero stuff, was a pretty nice tactical RPG too. I wish they would pick that series up again; as you said the studio that made it is pretty big so it would be awesome to see a modern sequel.
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Dec 14, 2010 05:53
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It's fun to think of looking glass/ irrational as a "big" studio now, I remember when they were running silent after SS2 and bioshock was thought of more or less like duke nukem forever.
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Dec 14, 2010 05:59
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Totally agreed. I love the Freedom Force games. They perfectly captured the spirit of the comics they were trying to emulate. I played the hell out of it, and even pre-ordered the sequel even tho I think it had Starforce at the time. Got em both on Steam now due to a stupid sale, but I'd have bought them on gog in a sec if they were there first. Cannot recommend enough. Fun RPG games, fun stories, awesome heroes, and you can even make custom heroes, what more can you ask for? Edit: VVV the first one isn't required to enjoy the second one, but the first one is a drat good game in its own right and well, it's just more of the same greatness the 2nd one had, just in a different 'comic book era' and such. Either one you get you'll have fun with, tho I hope gog gets the first one at some point too to... complete the collection so to speak VVV Bats fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Dec 14, 2010 |
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Dec 14, 2010 05:59
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Oddly enough, GOG only has the second one. It's not that the first one is required to enjoy the second, but it's a bit strange that they would have one and not the other.
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I never really got into the Freedom Force games...I know a lot of people who did, and I wanted to like them, but something about the gameplay never really clicked with me. I was expecting something a bit more turn-based, really. andrew smash posted:It's fun to think of looking glass/ irrational as a "big" studio now, I remember when they were running silent after SS2 and bioshock was thought of more or less like duke nukem forever.  Looking Glass hasn't existed for a decade, and the people there are scattered so widely I don't think you could say that Irrational (or any other single company) is really "LGS 2.0".
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ToxicFrog posted:I never really got into the Freedom Force games...I know a lot of people who did, and I wanted to like them, but something about the gameplay never really clicked with me. I was expecting something a bit more turn-based, really. Just press space, it's not exactly turn based but you can pause and issue commands and your heroes will follow those commands after you unpause. It's still realtime otherwise, but at least there's that. I sorta suck at turn based so this sorta worked well for me. Spacebar is awesome when you are getting screwed and are panicing.
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Dec 14, 2010 06:08
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Turn-based tactical games are sadly kind of a dead genre by now. If you like that sort of game, you really can't do much better than JA2 or the X-com series (when is GoG going to get the X-com games anyway? They would be such a perfect fit for the site).
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Dec 14, 2010 06:12
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Holy crap this game was so far ahead of its time its ridiculous. THIS is how Dragon Age should've felt imo.
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Please tell me that "this game" is Freedom Force.
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Dec 14, 2010 09:06
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http://www.gog.com/en/page/xmas10 Holiday sales are go!
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Footboy posted:Having a problem with Descent 3. The menus are distorted and it makes configuring my joystick basically impossible. You have to switch your graphics options o that the game uses OpenGL instead of glide. The game was made to take advantage of OpenGL.
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The MSJ posted:http://www.gog.com/en/page/xmas10 AAaaa! Baldur's Gate and PS:T on sale!
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