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Shmorky posted:that's what made it so great. I love awkward graphics. During development they ran into problems with video compression which only made the tiny grainy video even more mutilated and higher in file size so the game had to be split into seven discs. Whoa whoa whoa -- SEVEN discs?? What the gently caress, Sierra 
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Neurion posted:Whoa whoa whoa -- SEVEN discs?? What the gently caress, Sierra You'd be hard-pressed to find an FMV adventure game in the 90s that wasn't under 5 discs. I think there was a game that went as high as 9.
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Fancy Hat! posted:You'd be hard-pressed to find an FMV adventure game in the 90s that wasn't under 5 discs. I think there was a game that went as high as 9. Most were 4-6 though. The highest CD count for a PC game I know of is still FFXI at 10 or UT2004 (Editor choice edition) also at 10.
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Mar 13, 2014 21:31
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I do recall UT2K4 running a good five CDs... I also recall it having a DVD release, and being one of the very first PC games I bought a DVD version of - although not the first game I'd seen a DVD version of, since my family had bought things like the DVD version of Starship Titanic (which was, what, 3 CDs otherwise?). I also recall thinking that the fact these came on DVDs meant that they were designed for DVD players - like, on TVs and everything. A bit naive, but to be fair, there are DVD games of that ilk - usually ports of laserdisc arcade games like Dragon's Lair, but still. I'd cleared up that misconception by the time I bought UT2K4, at least. But now I'm getting off-topic. 10 discs for the Editor's Choice Edition? They seriously added that much to the game? Surprised they didn't just cut their losses and go DVD-only, like I swear most PC games were doing by that point. Honestly, it's almost a shame digital distribution is catching on as much as it is; seeing manufacturers try to push out PC games as many gigabytes large as they are these days onto multiple DVDs, just as publishers pushed out these FMV games on multiple CDs, would be kind of hilarious.
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Mar 13, 2014 22:17
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Fancy Hat! posted:You'd be hard-pressed to find an FMV adventure game in the 90s that wasn't under 5 discs. I think there was a game that went as high as 9. Just another notch on the "Why FMV games were bad" scoreboard.
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Shadow Hog posted:I do recall UT2K4 running a good five CDs... I also recall it having a DVD release, and being one of the very first PC games I bought a DVD version of - although not the first game I'd seen a DVD version of, since my family had bought things like the DVD version of Starship Titanic (which was, what, 3 CDs otherwise?). Starship Titanic and The Space Bar were both three CDs - The Space Bar even included both PC and Mac discs in the same box, so they didn't have to make separate packages for each version. Myst was only one CD, but I guess the videos in Riven were a lot bigger, since it took five CDs. Phantasmagoria 2 and Gabriel Knight 2 were each only five CDs as well, and both felt to me like they had more in them than the original Phantasmagoria did with its seven. I think the biggest problem was just the shared game assets that had to be copied to every disc, no matter how many of them there were. Too big a game and no number of CDs would be able to contain it.
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Mar 13, 2014 23:45
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Fancy Hat! posted:You'd be hard-pressed to find an FMV adventure game in the 90s that wasn't under 5 discs. I think there was a game that went as high as 9. It wasn't only FMV's For example the original Baldur's Gate came on 8 CDs. Now days, that fits easily on a DVD with a little left over.
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Axe-man posted:It wasn't only FMV's For example the original Baldur's Gate came on 8 CDs. Now days, that fits easily on a DVD with a little left over.
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new vid up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veDwm_sNDLs
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I don't mind if a linear game comes on multiple discs, but if it's non-linear and you're constantly swapping discs each time you enter a new area then it's just awful (see: Armed & Delirious)
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Shmorky posted:I don't mind if a linear game comes on multiple discs, but if it's non-linear and you're constantly swapping discs each time you enter a new area then it's just awful (see: Armed & Delirious) The Space Bar came with (incomplete, from my Win 98 virtual machine experience) instructions for copying the contents of the disc that had the assets for the hub area to the hard drive, so you never had to swap to that disc and only occasionally needed to swap between discs 1 and 3. I'm sure it was possible with other games, and I know my experiments with just copying all three discs of The Space Bar worked perfectly. But who has a hard drive capable of holding the data from three whole CDs?
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Mar 14, 2014 00:24
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hahaha this is a pro-click
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Nidoking posted:The Space Bar came with (incomplete, from my Win 98 virtual machine experience) instructions for copying the contents of the disc that had the assets for the hub area to the hard drive, so you never had to swap to that disc and only occasionally needed to swap between discs 1 and 3. I'm sure it was possible with other games, and I know my experiments with just copying all three discs of The Space Bar worked perfectly. But who has a hard drive capable of holding the data from three whole CDs? Baldur's Gate came with a "HUGE install" that would allow you to not swap disks too. Of course 3 years later after it was released it quickly became very easy to do. Such is the march of technology! Fallout had the same system. I feel old now, but I remember a time when having your CD in the disk drive was considered the standard and to think otherwise was madness, now I have a stack in front of me about 8 DvDs/Cds being the only games I own that require that. (most of them rather old!)
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Mar 14, 2014 00:31
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Only a madman would waste hundreds of megabytes on copying CD quality audio, sir.
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Mar 14, 2014 00:43
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Axe-man posted:Baldur's Gate came with a "HUGE install" that would allow you to not swap disks too. Of course 3 years later after it was released it quickly became very easy to do. Such is the march of technology! Fallout had the same system. I feel old now, but I remember a time when having your CD in the disk drive was considered the standard and to think otherwise was madness, now I have a stack in front of me about 8 DvDs/Cds being the only games I own that require that. (most of them rather old!) Diablo II also has the ability to install basically everything. The big one being the movies, so you wouldn't have to switch disks after a chapter.
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Mar 14, 2014 01:41
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Axe-man posted:It wasn't only FMV's For example the original Baldur's Gate came on 8 CDs. Now days, that fits easily on a DVD with a little left over. The original Baldur's Gate was five CD's, six including the expansion.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:The original Baldur's Gate was five CD's, six including the expansion. You are right my bad I thought it came with that many. My memory failing me.
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Mar 14, 2014 01:51
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Well, that house was better designed than the one in Phantasmagoria as least.
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 Lowtax, give me the power to kill people over the internet. Titty Warlord fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Mar 14, 2014 |
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Mar 14, 2014 02:04
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So Lowtax this latest video reminded me of a question I've been meaning to ask. How is that you're able to find time for your family between playing the worst games to have ever be conceived and being a mad internet dictator?
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Mar 14, 2014 02:12
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David D. Davidson posted:So Lowtax this latest video reminded me of a question I've been meaning to ask. It helps that he doesn't actually spend all that much time being a mad internet dictator. 'Cause why would you want to be?
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Mr. Noseybonk posted:It helps that he doesn't actually spend all that much time being a mad internet dictator. 'Cause why would you want to be? Yeah, that's what moderators are for! Anyway, this latest video was nothing short of adorable. A Slender musical seems like a great idea, in theory.
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That was pretty good- I would like to know the target audience for gettin' spook'd by this game, though. (Hint: it's morons) I like how slenderman just sorta stood there when you saw him. "Yeah, yeah I don't wanna be here either. Let's get this over with. BooooOooooo"
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Mar 14, 2014 02:50
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she knows who dr steve brule is, you've done an admirable job as a parent lowtax. Also I like how you guys didn't even notice slenderman in his first two appearances.
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Mar 14, 2014 03:23
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Slenderman was in the background at least three times during the intro and nobody noticed and/or cared. The most scary part of the game is when you realize that that 15 minute slog was just the intro.
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Geemer posted:Slenderman was in the background at least three times during the intro and nobody noticed and/or cared. The most scary part of the game is when you realize that that 15 minute slog was just the intro. By the 15 minute mark Pewdiepie would be screaming like a child. Meanwhile an actual child is bored out of her mind and is counting how many seconds have elapsed.
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Shmorky posted:I don't mind if a linear game comes on multiple discs, but if it's non-linear and you're constantly swapping discs each time you enter a new area then it's just awful (see: Armed & Delirious) Yes! Even back in the day, no one liked Riven's disc swapping. edit: watched the update and now I wish I was as happy as slenderman PRL412 fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Mar 14, 2014 |
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Mr. Noseybonk posted:Well, that house was better designed than the one in Phantasmagoria as least. Yeah it is. Shame the game is a better designed 'collect 8 Things'. Just once I'd like to see a shoot me up game where you fight slenderman. Also, not to be weird, but 'age 8' is a weird middle name.
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Mar 14, 2014 03:42
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Neurion posted:By the 15 second mark Pewdiepie would be screaming like a child. ftfy
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AE-35 Unit posted:ftfy Pewdiepie would scream while uploading the video. He'd scream before he even starts playing. His life is of unending terror.
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Mar 14, 2014 04:18
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I wish I had a life of unending terror and a bank account stuffed with millions in YouTube cash.
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Mar 14, 2014 04:21
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That was adorable  Now stop ruining your kids lives with lovely games.
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Mar 14, 2014 04:39
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An actual eight-year-old child is a better and funnier LP commentator than most adults.
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Pakled posted:An actual eight-year-old child is a better and funnier LP commentator than most adults. Yeah but her birthsign is "lowtax-born" so she's already on an exalted plane of existence. Plus if you've watched any of the flash tub lauren cartoons you'd know she's funny as heck. I like how not even a child finds entertainment out of this garbage, when I was 8 I was pretty easily amused. not exposing your children to Dr. Steve Brule is child abuse mbt fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Mar 14, 2014 |
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Mar 14, 2014 05:59
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Kanthulhu posted:That was adorable
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Mar 14, 2014 11:46
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Mortimer posted:not exposing your children to Dr. Steve Brule is child abuse
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Lowtax posted:she specifically asked to do a lets play slenderman game with me. Obviously you've raised her correctly, on a diet of "so bad, it's good" movies.
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I'd imagine a video of her and Shmorky would just be them giggling back and forth.
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I like how even your daughter finds the game boring.
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I like how 8-year old girl ridicules all those people who made this stupid fad popular.
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