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macnbc posted:Eh? Got a source on the abomination bit? It was developed by Cyan, just like the original game. It was in a sidebar in an article on Myst I read in Retro Gamer. I think I still have the issue. The brothers didn't say "abomination" but they were notably hostile to the project. e: found it. Issue #59. "I only saw realMyst after it was released. As a remake, it was a lapse of reason and directionless; overt merchandising of the original Myst. It definitely wasn't how we originally envisioned Myst, as was promoted." -Robyn Miller Robyn also went on to say the Myst books were the biggest mistake he ever made while working at Cyan despite the success amongst fans. al-azad fucked around with this message at 20:48 on May 2, 2011 |
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al-azad posted:It was in a sidebar in an article on Myst I read in Retro Gamer. I think I still have the issue. The brothers didn't say "abomination" but they were notably hostile to the project. Gotcha. Didn't Robyn Miller leave the company after Riven? I got the impression he just didn't like what Cyan was doing overall.
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May 2, 2011 20:57
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realMyst is a fine game but I can't imagine what it must feel like as an artist to have your work remade without your input and then promoted as "the version of Myst that Cyan and the world-famous Miller brothers always wanted to make..."
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May 2, 2011 21:13
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al-azad posted:realMyst is a fine game but I can't imagine what it must feel like as an artist to have your work remade without your input and then promoted as "the version of Myst that Cyan and the world-famous Miller brothers always wanted to make..." If memory serves it wasn't that far from the original one was it? The only major difference was that the graphics were a lot nicer and you could now walk around! Great game 
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Holy poo poo, I just played Painkiller: Battle out of Hell and the 1st level is better than the best segments of vanilla edition. The enemies consist of demonic children wielding knives; when you shoot them you explode a chunk of their torso and they jump around like spiders to reach you. There are little girls who set themselves on fire and try to hug you and children in burlap sacks that make baby cooing sounds before exploding in a kamikaze attack. The level ends with this nigh-invincible fat mother fucker in leather bondage with a butcher knife who magically appears behind you whenever you to turn around to see how far away he is. gently caress that dude. All this is going on while babies cry and children scream in the background. For a 2004 game this is pretty intense. The original title is super goofy but I just don't feel like continuing tonight.
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If you like that, you're in for several treats... and several disappointments. BOOH has some real consistency issues from level to level. The amusement park level could have been balls-out awesome, but it settles for much less than it should, going literally on rails for half of it. Still, one of my favorite levels for mashing two handfuls of childhood nightmares into my face.
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May 3, 2011 08:15
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Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone is now on GOG for $9.99.
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May 3, 2011 12:07
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They need some sort of quality control for lovely D&D games published by Atari.
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May 3, 2011 12:10
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The final three clues were 'fear your past', 'feel like a hero' and 'make monsters fear you' (the last referrring to The Witcher). One of the first two refers to Demon Stone, and the other is the only remaining unknown.
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May 3, 2011 12:18
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Demon stone wasn't terrible, it's just nothing like baldur's gate. Way more similar to the console BG: dark alliance series.
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andrew smash posted:Demon stone wasn't terrible, it's just nothing like baldur's gate. Way more similar to the console BG: dark alliance series. How similar is Demon Stone to the LOTR console hack & slashers? I remember having fun co-oping Return of the King with a friend, issues with that particular game aside. Ninja edit: Dark Alliance was alright, too.
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May 3, 2011 13:55
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Can someone give a run down of the free games for getting The Witcher 2? I already have Divine Divinty but couldn't get into it. Same with Gothic.
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andrew smash posted:Demon stone wasn't terrible, it's just nothing like baldur's gate. Way more similar to the console BG: dark alliance series. It's more of an arcadey brawler than anything, I'd say - a PS2-era Golden Axe, if you will. Pretty fun from what I played of the PS2 version back in the day, but nothing to write home about. Edit: It misses one huge opportunity - no co-op. You play as all three characters at once and cycle through them as you need them.
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Dominic White posted:It's more of an arcadey brawler than anything, I'd say - a PS2-era Golden Axe, if you will. Pretty fun from what I played of the PS2 version back in the day, but nothing to write home about. Was actually gearing up to play this with a buddy based on the comparison to Dark Allegiance (Not a great game, but a fun few hours), but I guess I'll save my  for another day.
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Demon Stone! I remember this game. I played the hell out of it when it came out. The story was penned by R.A. Salvatore, who you may recall from Drizzt fame. He does a ton of Forgotten Realms stuff and well, is entertaining enough as popcorn reading. I enjoyed this game. Co-op would have added certainly, and it's not the deepest game, but it was fun for sure. I'm probably going to pick it up again when it goes on sale.
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iastudent posted:How similar is Demon Stone to the LOTR console hack & slashers? I remember having fun co-oping Return of the King with a friend, issues with that particular game aside. It's better than the LotR hack and slashers because you have more fine tuning over your characters, the combat mechanics are tighter, the scripted sequences are far more interesting, there's some actual design to the levels like traps and hazards, and it makes better use of the D&D license than the LotR games made of the movies. With that said, being singleplayer is its biggest sin and totally baffling. Good but not $10 good. I bought the thing for $4.99 on the PS2 in '07. BiggerJ posted:The final three clues were 'fear your past', 'feel like a hero' and 'make monsters fear you' (the last referrring to The Witcher). One of the first two refers to Demon Stone, and the other is the only remaining unknown. I'm still hoping for either Wheel of Time or Imperium Galactica which both feature protagonists with questionable pasts.
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Went ahead and grabbed Dark Fall 2 and both Aquanox games. Goodbye, JoWood.  quote:I'm still hoping for either Wheel of Time or Imperium Galactica which both feature protagonists with questionable pasts. I'd be all over either of those. IG2 I never get anywhere in but it's just so drat impressive, and Wheel of Time was surprisingly fun. Especially in multiplayer, considering the huge array of abilities - you never had any idea what your opponents would whip out.
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Bought all of the JoWood games. It was cheaper that way than just getting the couple I wanted I just installed Freespace 2 with all the bells and whistles but I think I remember someone in this thread being awesome and making a great Xbox 360 controller set-up for it. I can't seem to find it  If anyone backed that up, I could really use it right about now.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Bought all of the JoWood games. It was cheaper that way than just getting the couple I wanted Are you thinking about Dominic White's Independence War 2 one? Dominic White posted:Okay, for those of us who aren't having horrible technical problems (seems to be that ATI folks are fine, NVidia is having trouble) with I-War 2, here's my finished 360 controller config file. Drop it in your I-War 2\Configs directory and select it in the in-game controls menu.
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Blodskur posted:Are you thinking about Dominic White's Independence War 2 one? No, the other one was a picture highlighting which button would do what. I'm pretty sure it was this thread... Thanks anyway, keeping that one for when I install IW2 
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al-azad posted:It's better than the LotR hack and slashers because you have more fine tuning over your characters, the combat mechanics are tighter, the scripted sequences are far more interesting, there's some actual design to the levels like traps and hazards, and it makes better use of the D&D license than the LotR games made of the movies. How are its controls on PC, does anyone know? Will I be able to get my 360 controller to work with it?
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Dissapointed Owl posted:No, the other one was a picture highlighting which button would do what. I'm pretty sure it was this thread... Perhaps someone made a graphical map for my config? Either way, I'd like to see it - I tried doing one, but it came out looking horrible, so I just went with plain text. The game feels like it was meant to be played with a dual-analogue controller. The only thing I couldn't get working right was analogue throttle, which is apparently hardcoded to not really work with the 360 triggers, but it's no big deal - you'll want to be moving in bursts of heavy thrust, not idling at 70% impulse.
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iastudent posted:Ninja edit: Dark Alliance was alright, too. It lacked the depth but the improved graphics and casual ease of the game meant it was quite a straightforward and light RPG. I enjoyed Dark Alliance, I know a lot more people didn't though...
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Bought all of the JoWood games. It was cheaper that way than just getting the couple I wanted I tweaked FS2 to work with my 360 controller and might have mentioned it in this thread. Honestly though I don't have any idea how to export the config. It's not hard, it only took me about twenty minutes but make sure you have a pen and a sheet of notebook paper to write down all of the functions you have to leave on the keyboard because it is completely impossible to put all of the poo poo you need to do on a gamepad.
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Bought the Guild, Spellforce and Divine Divinity here. Playing The Guild; give me a few years, I'll turn London into a crime-ridden hellhole.
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andrew smash posted:I tweaked FS2 to work with my 360 controller and might have mentioned it in this thread. Honestly though I don't have any idea how to export the config. It's not hard, it only took me about twenty minutes but make sure you have a pen and a sheet of notebook paper to write down all of the functions you have to leave on the keyboard because it is completely impossible to put all of the poo poo you need to do on a gamepad. I figured. I'll just make something of it. Dominic White posted:Perhaps someone made a graphical map for my config? Downloaded IW2 to test your set-up. Thank you so much, it's perfect
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Syberia is 60% off for today only. I've already got this one. Too bad the second one isn't on sale as well.
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Momonari kun posted:Syberia is 60% off for today only. Thanks, grabbing this. I really like the game and here's a price I'm willing to pay to own it on GOG.
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Demon Stone is an ok game, its linear, single player and you get to play as Drizzt for a few minutes. 5-6 hours and no replay value. It's pretty much just for the Forgotten Realms crowd. Not worth the though, that's a little high.
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Momonari kun posted:Syberia is 60% off for today only. Would someone who really enjoyed The Longest Journey (but hated the way Dreamfall ended halfway through the story with no sequel in sight) like the Syberia games?
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ToxicFrog posted:Would someone who really enjoyed The Longest Journey (but hated the way Dreamfall ended halfway through the story with no sequel in sight) like the Syberia games? Absolutely, and 4 bucks is a great price. Syberia is TLJ's closest relative.
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I just made a post about this on GOG, but can someone tell me how to run an inn in The Guild? Selling beer at the market is okay but I can do the same thing with any other crafting profession. My understanding is that I need to keep beer in stock overnight, but I've only managed to get that to do anything once and the results weren't very impressive.
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ToxicFrog posted:Would someone who really enjoyed The Longest Journey (but hated the way Dreamfall ended halfway through the story with no sequel in sight) like the Syberia games? Syberia isn't as "epic" as The Longest Journey and the protagonist sorta becomes a non-character in the second game (from what I remember), but gameplay-wise they are very similar. I think Syberia may even have better puzzles too, as I don't really remember a bad puzzle on the level of the inflatable duck, but it's been a while. The soundtrack kicks rear end, too.
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Momonari kun posted:Syberia is 60% off for today only. Thanks! Syberia is one of those games I've really wanted to buy from Gog. Registered this weekend to preorder Witcher 2, and this unusually good sale pops up. Perfect timing.
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Momonari kun posted:Syberia is 60% off for today only. I am such a sucker for this stuff. I bought Syberia, and it's not like I don't have at least 10 adventures to play before it.
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Site upgrade is complete, and they're releasing another free game later today: Dragonsphere by Microprose.
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I can't tell if I've even heard of Dragonsphere before or not, but after looking up a few old, praising reviews, I'm really excited that I get to play it soon. GOG's doing a cool thing again. edit: Oh and by the way, the game's now released: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/dragonsphere Zat fucked around with this message at 10:30 on May 5, 2011 |
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Trials in the plane of the spirits? Now I see where Dragon Age got that from, then.
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Another game I wasn't expecting. I didn't know Atari had anything to do with MicroProse although I think GT Interactive bought them out.
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