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macnbc posted:We should actually have a couple more left in the pipe. I think GOG said their deal was for around 30 games, and this latest wave brings the count to 24. I thought Full Throttle was impossible to bring to modern CPUs because of the driving parts...
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Darth Ballz posted:I thought Full Throttle was impossible to bring to modern CPUs because of the driving parts... Works just fine through ScummVM. By-and-large, old 3D PC games are a lot easier to get working on a modern PC than emulating a console game, because desktop PC architecture's largely unchanged since its inception.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Works just fine through ScummVM. By-and-large, old 3D PC games are a lot easier to get working on a modern PC than emulating a console game, because desktop PC architecture's largely unchanged since its inception. Last I checked (but it was quite a few years ago) Full Throttle had issues and glitches even with ScummVM in the driving/fight parts.In fact, of all the Lucasrts games I have tried with ScummVM back then (including LOOM EGA, The DIG, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones 3 and 4), full throttle was the more glitchy by far.
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AbstractNapper posted:Last I checked (but it was quite a few years ago) Full Throttle had issues and glitches even with ScummVM in the driving/fight parts.In fact, of all the Lucasrts games I have tried with ScummVM back then (including LOOM EGA, The DIG, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones 3 and 4), full throttle was the more glitchy by far. Works just fine now, far as I can tell  . ScummVM actually patches and updates their stuff, you know.
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AbstractNapper posted:Last I checked (but it was quite a few years ago) Full Throttle had issues and glitches even with ScummVM in the driving/fight parts.In fact, of all the Lucasrts games I have tried with ScummVM back then (including LOOM EGA, The DIG, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones 3 and 4), full throttle was the more glitchy by far. I beat The Dig and Full Throttle on a PSP running SCUMM back in 2006-2007 so either the bugs were patched or triggering them is uncommon. I had the most trouble with the awful destruction derby puzzle and part of that may have been hardware related.
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I saw someone get stuck in the derby portion, or at least temporarily stuck. Because of how lovely the controls are they had gotten the stalled car stuck riiiiight in the corner by the ramp and it wouldn't move, so they had to wait for the car to start up again and do it all over again. As I have said before I just want a version of the game where the iMuse works correctly, the music either cuts out in key points in ScummVM or it speeds up and ends up de-syncing. Not a huge deal but much like the iMuse in TIE-Fighter it is one of the things that really adds to the game experience. And dammit we really need Afterlife
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BiggerJ posted:Re: Full Throttle, the news posts says there'll be more Lucasarts releases in the near and far future. It's not like Disney has said "That's it, that's all you're getting, everything else wil be sat on until the heat-death of the universe, THE MOUSE HATH SPOKEN IA IA MICKEY FTHAGN." We'll get it when we get it. It's just hardest to wait when you know you're almost there.
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Kurtofan posted:Never heard of Zac MacKraken before, why is it overlooked? It never caught on and became a franchise like many of the Lucasarts IP. I think it was overshadowed by MM too. I really liked it, though, it's very hard, and as discussed you can kill yourself and have to start over. Growing up, we had some Lucasarts bundle that had all the old SCUMM games in it, and this was the only one we couldn't beat. I think we even had a walkthrough for it, but for some reason even with that, we couldn't beat it. We also couldn't beat MM because we could never find that stupid brick in the dungeon to push and escape.
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Is that Sierra Conquests of the Longbow available online anywhere? Anywhere that isn't a  site, I mean.
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BadAstronaut posted:Is that Sierra Conquests of the Longbow available online anywhere? Anywhere that isn't a Forum rules say abandonware is okay and Abandonia immediately takes down their links when the games become commercially available. al-azad fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Mar 21, 2015 |
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Mar 20, 2015 16:36
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OK thanks - I found that with google but thought it was against the rules. Strange that that game has never reappeared on GOG or the like after all these years. I never finished it way back in the day.
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Both Conquests games are up for grabs on the site of their writer/designer. http://www.christymarx.com/writing/camelot.htm http://www.christymarx.com/writing/robin.htm He's currently employed as... "Principal Game Designer of Narrative Design for Zynga games from Dec. 2010 to present"
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It's been years and years since I saw Outlaws on the shelves when it came out. I thought it looked great but I never got it. And now I can say it's is just as fantastic as I imagined it 
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al-azad posted:Here. Forum rules say abandonware is okay and Abandonia immediately takes down their links when the games become commercially available.
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Longhouse posted:It's been years and years since I saw Outlaws on the shelves when it came out. I thought it looked great but I never got it. And now I can say it's is just as fantastic as I imagined it Outlaws still has the most satisfying starting pistol of any 2.5 FPS. Reload to shuffle in two bullets, alt-fire to fan them all over the place 
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al-azad posted:Forum rules say abandonware is okay quote:Warez, Emulation, and Grey Areas:
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SelenicMartian's links to Christy Marx's pages for the games seem pretty ok though, albeit I am not sure if he has actually the IP rights to provide links for the games or if the versions that he provides are actually playable.
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SelenicMartian posted:He's currently employed as... SHE is the creator of Jem and the Holograms you nooblet.  Edit: It looks like the GOG version of Loom is the CD version, not the FM Towns version. So if that's a dealbreaker, hold out until they put the FM Towns version up. Peas and Rice fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Mar 21, 2015 |
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oh oops, he is a she (never was a he).  Yeah, I'm holding out on LOOM. I have the EGA version on floppies and the audio drama cassette. I just wouldn't mind getting my hands on the FM Towns version and I don't like the CD version much (other than the cut stuff, those added animations for the hand gestures are just garbage. What were they thinking?). On the thread about the LOOM release over at GOG, there seems to be some hope that at least they will bundle the german EGA version with the Talkie, and maybe the English one will be next.
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The FM Towns version is awesome except it's missing one really key scene: the visual when Bobbin takes off his hood. I wish they'd bash together that scene with the rest of the FM Towns game and say "here you go guys, have at it." For the 10 of us who actually give a poo poo. A few years ago before GOG came on the scene I was going to do a complete LP of the FM Towns version. I never did finish, but I slapped the audio drama on YouTube if anyone's interested.
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Does the FM Towns missing the scene because it has no in-game option to set the difficulty setting (like the original had before starting a new game - the bonus scene was available only if you were playing in the Expert mode)? Because, there is a switch that you can set tp run the FM Towns in the expert difficulty (via ScummVM).
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AbstractNapper posted:Does the FM Towns missing the scene because it has no in-game option to set the difficulty setting (like the original had before starting a new game - the bonus scene was available only if you were playing in the Expert mode)? Well gently caress. That was the problem before, and I was under the impression the assets were never created. I'll let you know when I replay it.
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Is there a way to sort games on your shelf by OS availability? I just switched back to Linux on my netbook and checking one by one is kinda annoying.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Is there a way to sort games on your shelf by OS availability? I just switched back to Linux on my netbook and checking one by one is kinda annoying. No, but there's this: http://www.gog.com/mix/great_gog_games_that_works_on_linux
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Alongside the release of Pillars of Eternity today, there was a huge update to the Galaxy library. I have nearly 200 more games available than I did yesterday, mostly those that were "debundled" like Avernum games, Geneforge, Might & Magic and so on. I am really happy with Galaxy so far, I just wish that they would allow Minimisation to Tray like Steam.
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Is the only way to get Galaxy installed still through Alien vs. Predator?
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doctorfrog posted:Is the only way to get Galaxy installed still through Alien vs. Predator? don't think so. i don't own alien vs. predator on gog,and i got into the galaxy alpha test. some of the galaxy application links should still work, but you'd have to dig through the gog forums to find them.
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JustJeff88 posted:Alongside the release of Pillars of Eternity today, there was a huge update to the Galaxy library. I have nearly 200 more games available than I did yesterday, mostly those that were "debundled" like Avernum games, Geneforge, Might & Magic and so on. It doesn't have King's Quest 1 through 6 yet. Hopefully they're not finished yet and it wasn't an oversight.
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Please gimme podracer I don't care if they don't have power-ups, I just want watto singing galaxy bounce in the junkyard
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doctorfrog posted:Is the only way to get Galaxy installed still through Alien vs. Predator?
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Also Galaxy has all their Incredible Machine games except Contraptions (but still has Even More Contraptions for some reason).
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BiggerJ posted:It doesn't have King's Quest 1 through 6 yet. Hopefully they're not finished yet and it wasn't an oversight. About 5% of my personal library is still not showing up on Galaxy, so I am sure that KQ is coming. I can't imagine that they are not intending to post their whole library and post new releases as they come out, but Rome wasn't built in a day and all that. Edit; Actually, I just noticed that King's Quest 1-3 and 4-6 were never "debundled" - I didn't realise to what you were making reference until now. They indeed aren't up on Galaxy yet, which is fine, but I just noticed that they are still in packs of 1-3 and 4-6 on my shelves at GOG.com. Space Quest and Police Quest, similar games in size, scope and title, are "unpacked" and individually downloaded now, but not King's Quest apart from 7 and 8. I wonder if this was an oversight, or deliberate? JustJeff88 fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Mar 27, 2015 |
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GOG.com just gave me a copy of STALKER for free by typing in my boxed CD-key. Those guys! http://www.gog.com/news/breclaim_your_gamesb_drmfree
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They've also launched a big week-long sale on games by our strange eastern cousins to celebrate the launch of their Russian-language site.
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Hidden Asbestos posted:GOG.com just gave me a copy of STALKER for free by typing in my boxed CD-key. Those guys! That's an impressive initiative, and I applaud them for the attempt even if it goes nowhere.
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Sea Dogs is on GOG now. Apparently that's pretty fun.
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I used to play the hell out of Sea Dogs when it came out. Hopefully they'll eventually release some of the later sequels, I don't think they all came out in the US.
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Sea Dogs 2 was released as a Pirates of the Caribbean tie in game which was pretty fun with mods because it was buggy as poo poo and needed to be fixed as mods if I remember right.
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I don't know anything about Sea Dogs and I am not generally too big on maritime games, but I was happy to see Men of War. I hope that that means that the rest of the series is on the way. Still disappointed about the other Indiana Jones adventure game, though.
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Mr. Fortitude posted:Sea Dogs 2 was released as a Pirates of the Caribbean tie in game which was pretty fun with mods because it was buggy as poo poo and needed to be fixed as mods if I remember right. Yeah I played that one a ton too, but there were more sequels made that I never played. Fake edit: I just checked and the Russian only one I was thinking of was a fan-made sequel. Still don't think either of the Age of Pirates games ever got a digital release though.
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