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Kibayasu posted:It's funny, I've never really been a huge fan those kinds of city management (I guess?) games but for some reason I can remember so much about Startopia incredibly clearly. I attribute this to the dreamy voice they got to be the tutorial giver. The assistant's voice reminds me of the narrator/actual book in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which makes the whole game a little more amazing  .
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The Kins posted:Free game! Stargunner was Apogee's final game before becoming 3D Realms. It's hard as balls. Where's the poster who's been keeping a list of remaining Apogee games?
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Mierenneuker posted:I can't recommend the actual Hitman 1 (Codename 47) to anyone, even though I'm a fan of the series. I actually really liked the first mission, the one with the huge Chinese restaurant and the hotel. Sometimes the simplest of missions are the best.
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WASDF posted:Two days ago now? Oh, that's right. But wasn't there talk of competitions and promos leading up to a big reveal/release in, like, five weeks? Did I imagine this?
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The assistant's voice reminds me of the narrator/actual book in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which makes the whole game a little more amazing 
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That new indie Viking platformer looks like a lot of fun, but I want to see if it will come out on PSN/Vita before I put money on it.
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Zero Star posted:That's because it was the same guy What.  And I thought I couldn't love that game any more than I already do. I was actually referring to the 80's TV series rather than the audiobooks (I looked it up to see for myself just now), but that's still an amazing surprise for me.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:What. He meant the movie. Also the audiobooks are read by the author, Douglas Adams. The person you guys are talking about is Stephen Fry.
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream needs to be made into an indie movie, badly.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:He meant the movie. Also the audiobooks are read by the author, Douglas Adams. The person you guys are talking about is Stephen Fry. That's a slight blunder on my part, I meant radio series. The voice of VAL was William Franklyn, who apparently voiced The Book for seasons 3-5 of the radio series of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 
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BiggerJ posted:Where's the poster who's been keeping a list of remaining Apogee games? Sup. So, let's see...we still need:
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How likely is it that Kyrandia 2 and 3 will be released in a timely manner, or at all? Space Quest 1+2+3 took ages to be released and cost ten bucks (and wasn't included in the price adjectments following the expansion of pricing options). And Journeyman Project 1/Pegasus Prime will probably never be rereleased. Oh, and thanks, Charles Martel. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Sep 16, 2013 |
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I have been playing Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation lately since I had never played it before, and I like it a lot! It still keeps the clunky stuff from the previous games, but they made quite a bit of changes to allow the game to do some of the stuff that it does. It is a drat shame that they followed it up with Angel of Darkness though. That game was a piece of poo poo. I am usually pretty lenient with the games I play, but I couldn't even control Lara in that game, and this is coming from someone who loves all the classic Tomb Raiders.
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teethgrinder posted:I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream needs to be made into an indie movie, badly. No, because Harlan Ellison. Not because OF Harlan Ellison. Just because Harlan Ellison.
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blackguy32 posted:I have been playing Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation lately since I had never played it before, and I like it a lot! It still keeps the clunky stuff from the previous games, but they made quite a bit of changes to allow the game to do some of the stuff that it does. Technically Chronicles followed The Last Revelation as it's a literal sequel. I like to pretend Lara Croft (don't read this if you have't beaten TLR) actually died in TLR and Angel of Darkness is her purgatory.
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Is the Tomb Raider 1/2/3 worth picking up? I haven't played these games since they came out, but I remember them being fun at the time. I also know they've aged terribly in the graphics department.
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liquid courage posted:Is the Tomb Raider 1/2/3 worth picking up? I haven't played these games since they came out, but I remember them being fun at the time. I also know they've aged terribly in the graphics department. No, get Tomb Raider Anniversary instead, then Legend/Underworld/reboot, and forget the rest of the series existed.
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Hakkesshu posted:No, get Tomb Raider Anniversary instead, then Legend/Underworld/reboot, and forget the rest of the series existed. Yeah, I've replayed 1, 2, and 3 recently and I can say that they haven't aged well in the slightest. After playing games like Uncharted and the new Tomb Raiders, they're really antiquated.
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BiggerJ posted:And Journeyman Project 1/Pegasus Prime will probably never be rereleased. It will be coming. Either to GOG or elsewhere. (Though probably GOG.) I talk (well, Facebook chat) with one of the ex-Presto guys on occasion. The Windows port of the game via ScummVM is complete, in that it runs as it did when released for Mac OS originally. They're still plugging away at it though because they want to incorporate the features that were in the unreleased PS1 version of the game, and that never made it into the Mac release. So even if they give up on that, the worst-case scenario is that it'll be released as it was.
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liquid courage posted:Is the Tomb Raider 1/2/3 worth picking up? I haven't played these games since they came out, but I remember them being fun at the time. I also know they've aged terribly in the graphics department. They have aged terribly in the gameplay department as well, but I will disagree with everyone else and say that it is worth it to have the originals. I find Anniversary to be a poor substitute of the original but if you liked them when they came out, you might still like them now. Plus you can get all 3 of them for pretty cheap.
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I'll argue that Tomb Raider 1-3 have aged fine in the gameplay department in the same way as Prince of Persia or Another World. There's a very deliberate way to the game's controls and once you understand the grid based movement, Lara's jump height, and the safe distances you can jump/land you'll fly through the original games with no trouble. At one time I was speed running through the levels by exploiting platforms you weren't supposed to grab or slide on but could. I miss those golden days of level design, everything nowadays is too scripted.
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I admit, I caved and bought Magna Cum Laude for $2 to round out my LSL collection. I will never play it. 
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al-azad posted:I'll argue that Tomb Raider 1-3 have aged fine in the gameplay department in the same way as Prince of Persia or Another World. There's a very deliberate way to the game's controls and once you understand the grid based movement, Lara's jump height, and the safe distances you can jump/land you'll fly through the original games with no trouble. At one time I was speed running through the levels by exploiting platforms you weren't supposed to grab or slide on but could. I miss those golden days of level design, everything nowadays is too scripted.
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al-azad posted:I'll argue that Tomb Raider 1-3 have aged fine in the gameplay department in the same way as Prince of Persia or Another World. There's a very deliberate way to the game's controls and once you understand the grid based movement, Lara's jump height, and the safe distances you can jump/land you'll fly through the original games with no trouble. At one time I was speed running through the levels by exploiting platforms you weren't supposed to grab or slide on but could. I miss those golden days of level design, everything nowadays is too scripted. That being said, 1 and 2 are pretty awesome games in their own right with some badass environments to explore. I really liked the sunken ship and pretty much all of the original. But Tomb Raider 3 is for masochists. I mean holy poo poo, the game starts you off going down a hill where if you don't do anything, you will be impaled. Several feet from that is a rolling boulder that can instantly kill you and quicksand. That game did not gently caress around. Also, I cannot recommend The Last Revelation enough. It is a really solid game.
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The first three Tomb Raiders are some of the finest butler torture simulators I've ever played
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Peas and Rice posted:I admit, I caved and bought Magna Cum Laude for $2 to round out my LSL collection. I seriously thought about this but just couldn't do it for that game. They gave me a deep discount on getting both Guilty Gears and I was willing to play along, but this is too far.
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Peas and Rice posted:I admit, I caved and bought Magna Cum Laude for $2 to round out my LSL collection. It's honestly not completely terrible. The dialogue is pretty funny sometimes. Box Office Bust is the really terrible one.
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Picked up Anachronox. I am really liking it! The sense of humor is great. The combat really drags though.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:It's honestly not completely terrible. The dialogue is pretty funny sometimes. Box Office Bust is the really terrible one. I didn't even know that game existed until just now. I'd pay $2 for it I guess. I'd really like LSL Reloaded to come down in price. It seems more like a  game.
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rocket_man38 posted:Picked up Anachronox. I am really liking it! The sense of humor is great. The combat really drags though. Play it on the easiest difficulty, there's no reason not to.
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rocket_man38 posted:Picked up Anachronox. I am really liking it! The sense of humor is great. The combat really drags though. There is a key you can press - I think it might be '\' - that basically puts the game in fast-forward for as long as you hold it.. it's a god-send for not having to sit through the fight animations each time.
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Peas and Rice posted:I admit, I caved and bought Magna Cum Laude for $2 to round out my LSL collection. Your noble confession has inspired me - I agree on all counts and confess to the same crimes. I regret nothing. 
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Hakkesshu posted:No, get Tomb Raider Anniversary instead, then Legend/Underworld/reboot, and forget the rest of the series existed.
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Peas and Rice posted:I didn't even know that game existed until just now. I'd pay $2 for it I guess. I kind of want to get Reloaded, but I'm a bit turned off by the "step back" in gameplay mechanics from LSL7. I feel like they could have done a remake of LSL1 without having to be so faithful to some of the more archaic and annoying things about it, so yeah, I also will wait for a sale price. Which probably means I'm hurting my chances at future Larry games. 
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Jamesman posted:Which probably means I'm hurting my chances at future Larry games. This is a paradox that drives players crazy. Paying for something not only encourages the good things baout it, it also encourages the bad things about it.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Is Reloaded the one where they replaced like half the NPCs with Kickstarter backers? Yes it is - I picked it up on... Steam? Humble Bundle? some time back. It's not a bad game, and I did enjoy it. I hadn't played the original in well on 20 years and so my memories may be a little rose-tinted and you could see very clearly how Kickstarter names had been put in wherever possible, but it was still good, and certainly streets ahead of Magna Cum Laude. Edit: I, like, commas Masked Pumpkin fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Sep 17, 2013 |
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macnbc posted:It will be coming. Either to GOG or elsewhere. (Though probably GOG.) So it's definitely nothing to do with rights issues? Would the people working on it accept donations? Because if so, I have some money it'd like to throw at them. Also, if it comes out somewhere other than GOG, could you please tell us?
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BiggerJ posted:How likely is it that Kyrandia 2 and 3 will be released in a timely manner, or at all? Space Quest 1+2+3 took ages to be released and cost ten bucks (and wasn't included in the price adjectments following the expansion of pricing options). And Journeyman Project 1/Pegasus Prime will probably never be rereleased. Based on previous games, probably. Unless they let you buy them as the same package they never release multiple games in a series the same week. See Baldur's Gate, Magic Carpet, Thief.
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Some trendy game developer types need to play Startopia and be inspired by the Biodeck section. It's a beautiful terraforming and agriculture game and always completely ignore the rest of my space station to cater to it. If it were adapted to a stand-alone game I would never play anything else.
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