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Decrepus posted:I'm trying to play Star Wolves but I must be missing something. I only have my mothership and two fighters at this point but my fighters are loving worthless. They wobble around and trail the enemy impotently when I give them attack orders and my mothership probably contributes more than 75% of the damage. Even fighting the smallest weakest badguys I end up having to turn on 4x speed and watch a shameful display. Welcome to playing games from Russia, where the concept is fantastic but the implementation lacking.
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I'm refusing to get my hopes up about EA so I'm thinking Star Control or Master of Orion
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Apr 12, 2011 15:09
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Apr 12, 2011 15:10
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Oh, well that shows what I know
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Apr 12, 2011 15:11
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And you can get an updated version of Star Control 2 from here, if you weren't already aware: http://sc2.sf.net
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Apr 12, 2011 15:14
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teethgrinder posted:And you can get an updated version of Star Control 2 from here, if you weren't already aware: http://sc2.sf.net Yeah I know that, I'm just trying really really hard not to get my hopes up for EA
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Apr 12, 2011 15:17
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I figure Ascendancy is a possibility. I wouldn't mind that again though the iOS version is pretty dandy. I haven't played the port enough to see if the AI is actually challenging now though. (Not my iPad.)
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Apr 12, 2011 15:20
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Is there a possibility that it's Homeworld and the big publisher is actually THQ?
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Apr 12, 2011 15:27
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I have a vain hope that one day GoG will get Imperium Galactica 2. I loved that game. I will never forgive myself for not storing those discs properly in their covers until they got scratched into uselessness.  Then again, I heard it doesn't work properly with Windows XP, so getting it to work on Windows 7 would probably take a GoG touch anyway. AG3 fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Apr 12, 2011 |
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Apr 12, 2011 15:43
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JayBulworth posted:Is there a possibility that it's Homeworld and the big publisher is actually THQ? I read that as "Homefront" and immediately thought "No, why would... oh."
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Devil Wears Wings posted:Wilder speculation: The X-Wing/TIE Fighter series. This is my guess. Lucasarts qualifies as a big publisher, and they've been willing to release older stuff on steam.
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Apr 12, 2011 16:25
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Amethyst posted:This is my guess. Lucasarts qualifies as a big publisher, and they've been willing to release older stuff on steam. Not just re-release, they went to the trouble of completely re-making Monkey Island's 1 and 2 for re-release. That shows a level of interest in their back-catalogue that's beyond the ordinary.
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Apr 12, 2011 16:34
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That's not a very fair teaser! How many games have stars in them? For me, the answer to the question would have been Tie Fighter. Only ever played the demo, and my POS PC just kind of stopped running most games not to long after that, then my joystick broke. By the time I had enough money to get a sound card, it was deep into the Windows 95 era, when configuring just about any DOS game was a nightmarish roulette. I'd happily see an entire American feedlot populated by Pixar-generated puppies carpet bombed to play me some Tie Fighter. e: my actual guess for the game to be released would be Starflight.
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Apr 12, 2011 17:47
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I really doubt they'll release Tie-Fighter or X-Wing. That series actually required a joystick, in the "will not start without one" sense. That sadly doesn't fly nowadays, and they'll do a re-release I'd expect it to be retooled to atleast have mouse controls. (they don't have to be good ones obviously)
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Apr 12, 2011 18:11
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Really wishful thinking here but if it's one of the Frontier Elite games, I will poo poo a brick in excitement. Who even owns the rights to those now?
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Apr 12, 2011 18:15
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Faerie Fortune posted:Really wishful thinking here but if it's one of the Frontier Elite games, I will poo poo a brick in excitement. Who even owns the rights to those now? Some of Gametek's assets got bought out by Take-Two when they went under, so they might have it.
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DatonKallandor posted:I really doubt they'll release Tie-Fighter or X-Wing. That series actually required a joystick, in the "will not start without one" sense. That sadly doesn't fly nowadays, and they'll do a re-release I'd expect it to be retooled to atleast have mouse controls. (they don't have to be good ones obviously) Why not retool them for a gamepad? Dual-analog controls would be a workable joystick substitute.
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Apr 12, 2011 19:09
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My guess is it'll be The Movies, that game from the Fable guy. The teaser image kind of looks like a blurred version of the box art.
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DatonKallandor posted:I really doubt they'll release Tie-Fighter or X-Wing. That series actually required a joystick, in the "will not start without one" sense. That sadly doesn't fly nowadays, and they'll do a re-release I'd expect it to be retooled to atleast have mouse controls. (they don't have to be good ones obviously) edit: You could probably use xpadder or something to emulate it with the mouse anyway.
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Methodis posted:My guess is it'll be The Movies, that game from the Fable guy. The teaser image kind of looks like a blurred version of the box art. Now that would be a disappointment
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Apr 12, 2011 19:21
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All I see is a blur of red and blue that doesn't look at all like The Movies. I really wouldn't object to having that game because I enjoyed the demo and there are still people making machinima for it.
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Apr 12, 2011 19:29
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:Now that would be a disappointment
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Apr 12, 2011 19:30
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And while it's a fun game, I really doubt it made many people dream of anything.
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Apr 12, 2011 20:29
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metallicaeg posted:And while it's a fun game, I really doubt it made many people dream of anything. If taken literally, no. Metaphorically "stars" means celebrities and Hollywood is often called "Land of [Broken] Dreams."
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Apr 12, 2011 20:38
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The front page has changed to "What game made you ride with the outlaws?" in a very Western-style font.
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Flashduck posted:The front page has changed to "What game made you ride with the outlaws?" in a very Western-style font. Lucasarts is looking more and more likely now.
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Apr 12, 2011 21:24
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Surely it can't literally be Outlaws? I can't think of any other old western games apart from maybe Desperados but they already have Atari.
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Chin Strap posted:Lucasarts is looking more and more likely now. Yeah, they're hinting so much at this point that people will get dissapointed if doesn't turn out to be LA.
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Apr 12, 2011 21:37
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Well, there's always a chance that it's Desperados.
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Hidden Asbestos posted:Surely it can't literally be Outlaws? I'm thinking the same thing. EA's back catalog would be better, but all of the old LucasArts classics would be the next best thing. Still too early to tell though. Can't wait for Thursday.
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Apr 12, 2011 21:48
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Not very subtle hints. Rad publisher though so I'm not complaining. Any guesses on what the next unsubtle hint will be? What game had a MONKEY in it? What game made you fight some evil FORCES? Which game featured a crazy MANSION?
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Mq posted:Not very subtle hints. Rad publisher though so I'm not complaining. What do you call the thing where you weave thread? What is twice as much as half throttle?
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I have to say, if it is Lucasarts I'll be disappointed. Great publisher with a fantastic back-catalogue, but most of it is perfectly playable on ScummVM already. The Jedi Knight series is good I guess, and it'll be nice if they got X-Wing etc but the core appeal of LA (for me) are their adventure games
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http://lparchive.org/Outlaws/ Definitely LA.
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All I care about is Grim Fandango working on modern setup and mother loving Armed and Dangerous which comes from the makers of Giants. I'm still skeptical about LucasArts. Discounting Star Wars, Loom is probably the only game I could even remotely stretch the first clue to.
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al-azad posted:All I care about is Grim Fandango working on modern setup and mother loving Armed and Dangerous which comes from the makers of Giants. Oh gently caress oh gently caress I didn't even think of Grim Fandango. Oh man if they get that working I'll be like a pig in poo poo
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:I have to say, if it is Lucasarts I'll be disappointed. Great publisher with a fantastic back-catalogue, but most of it is perfectly playable on ScummVM already. The Jedi Knight series is good I guess, and it'll be nice if they got X-Wing etc but the core appeal of LA (for me) are their adventure games Many of their adventure games are already on Steam. I'm only interested in their space sims.
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al-azad posted:All I care about is Grim Fandango working on modern setup and mother loving Armed and Dangerous which comes from the makers of Giants. I dunno about the rest of you, but The Dig did a lot more to make me think of alien life than any Star Wars game ever did.
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GrandpaPants posted:I dunno about the rest of you, but The Dig did a lot more to make me think of alien life than any Star Wars game ever did. It's academic really, but given that they explicitly name Outlaws in the 2nd clue, I have to believe that the mention of "Stars" was an explicit reference to Star Wars
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:Oh gently caress oh gently caress I didn't even think of Grim Fandango. Oh man if they get that working I'll be like a pig in poo poo
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