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moot the hopple posted:Is that the one where you later play as Captain Panaka and have to escort Queen Amadala as she tries to heedlessly take on ALL THE DROIDEKAS on Naboo by herself? I think I remembered trying to murder all the jawas in Tatooine, and then giving up and never playing it again.
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Where's the Desktop Adventures, GOG?!
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Apr 29, 2015 05:46
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Al! posted:Where's the Desktop Adventures, GOG?!
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Apr 29, 2015 05:47
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Casimir Radon posted:The action-adventure game is better I think I vaguely remember that? It had a quasi top-down camera and it starts in the donut ship? It was okay, I remember it getting pretty awkward in some places.
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Apr 29, 2015 05:49
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Casimir Radon posted:There's a concept that they unfortunately hosed up. If they'd just made the movement and combat more along the lines of a Zelda game they'd be fondly remembered. To me it belongs in a category of mid 90s games that were neither fondly remembered nor particularly good but nevertheless I'd love to see on GOG.
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Apr 29, 2015 05:52
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Kibayasu posted:I think I vaguely remember that? It had a quasi top-down camera and it starts in the donut ship? It was okay, I remember it getting pretty awkward in some places. Al! posted:To me it belongs in a category of mid 90s games that were neither fondly remembered nor particularly good but nevertheless I'd love to see on GOG.
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Apr 29, 2015 06:01
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Yoda Stories was the poo poo and I loved it. The CD also came with a bunch of mouse cursors and icons. My dad got mad at me because I changed the family computer to have faces of like Chewbacca all over the desktop and made the mouse pointer into a lightsaber.
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Apr 29, 2015 06:04
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Man I remember really liking Rebel Assault 2, but there's no way those games aren't total garbage today, right?
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Apr 29, 2015 06:15
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Hakkesshu posted:Man I remember really liking Rebel Assault 2, but there's no way those games aren't total garbage today, right? I tried to play Rebel Alliance relatively recently. They are terrible Star Wars themed Sewer Shark clones and that's why I wish they were available for purchase.
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Apr 29, 2015 06:17
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Can you use a mouse to play them or does it have to be a joystick? I remember playing the Rebel Assault 1 with a joystick but I was garbage at it. Stupid Beggar's Canyon level.
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Apr 29, 2015 07:01
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Rebel Assault II lets you play with a mouse, but then I also made it a point to skip every single "Put so much as one scratch on that coat of paint and we'll blow your ship up" flying mission. I dunno how TIE pilots do it.
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Apr 29, 2015 07:14
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Mortuus posted:Can you use a mouse to play them or does it have to be a joystick? I remember playing the Rebel Assault 1 with a joystick but I was garbage at it. Stupid Beggar's Canyon level. Found this Q&A from 14 years ago regarding the Episode 1 game. You can see the beginning of the Lucasarts management stupidity that would eventually sink the company. Apparently Big Ape was supposed to make a similar game for the Original Trilogy time period starting in 1997 but then Lucasarts decided they needed to absolutely run themselves into the ground with Episode 1 tie-ins and the rest is history. The Mos Espa guards were going to be Gamorreans but then Lucasfilm said no with no explanation given, so you get the weird alien guards that appeared in the game. The hosed up perspective that everyone hates was put in place because Lucasarts thought it would be easier for players than the camera from Jedi Knight which is what Big Ape originally wanted to do.
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Apr 29, 2015 07:58
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Handsome Ralph posted:New Star Wars releases, Rebel Assualt I and II, the remainder of the JK/Dark Forces games, and updates/release of the Collector's CD editions of Tie Fighter and X-Wing. holy poo poo this is the best news 
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Apr 29, 2015 08:18
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Bad Seafood posted:Rebel Assault II lets you play with a mouse, but then I also made it a point to skip every single "Put so much as one scratch on that coat of paint and we'll blow your ship up" flying mission. At some point in the past I had played Rebel Assault 1 and 2 enough to beat every mission with only a few scratches, on the SegaCD and Playstation using a controller. I can't remember if the Beggar's Canyon mission was in the first or the second but that was the one mission I couldn't beat regularly. I played those things far too much.
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Kibayasu posted:At some point in the past I had played Rebel Assault 1 and 2 enough to beat every mission with only a few scratches, on the SegaCD and Playstation using a controller. I can't remember if the Beggar's Canyon mission was in the first or the second but that was the one mission I couldn't beat regularly. I played those things far too much. Beggar's Canyon (if we're talking about flying in the T-16) was the FIRST level in Rebel Assault, then if you passed it and the weird shooting portion, THEN you moved to asteroid field cockpit A-Wing and then navigating the horrific crystal field and still in an A-Wing  Rebel Assault 1 was loving BRUTAL to start, once you got to the 4th mission where you're in an X-Wing and blowing up a VSD you were pretty much set for the rest of the game, it is loving cake after those 3 missions of 9th circle of hell flying. And then they made you go through that again in Rebel Assault 2 with the 3rd mission being "carefully fly this Corellian Freighter through narrow passageways that include tight rear end turns" I don't know why I played those games as much as I did growing up, probably because it still required less thinking and planning than TIE-Fighter (that and TIE-Fighter would only load 1/5 times  )
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Casimir Radon posted:but then Lucasfilm said no with no explanation given 
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Apr 29, 2015 12:07
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Of the Blaster bundle, which games would you say are worth getting? I remember rogue squadron but I don't think time has been kind to its gameplay. I'll probably grab Rebellion simply because of nostalgia though. Wasted too many hours on that as a kid. I don't have a joystick if that impacts the flight sims.
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Apr 29, 2015 12:29
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Rogue Squadron is still good if you liked it when it came out, actually. Just about the worst thing is that there's an annoying camera bug with breaking/accelerating in the GOG version which I don't think they've fixed yet. You also want to use a gamepad with it rather than a joystick. TIE Fighter is better than X-Wing and the one I'd grab out of the two. X-Wing Alliance is decent and has some nice community support. Galactic Battlegrounds is a reskinned Age of Empires 2 if that floats your boat. If you're only grabbing one, TIE Fighter or XWA are probably your best bet.
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Apr 29, 2015 12:44
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Of course, the discount rate gets axed if you uncheck a game at the promo screen, and buying one you might as well ignore the sale.
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Apr 29, 2015 12:56
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SelenicMartian posted:Of course, the discount rate gets axed if you uncheck a game at the promo screen, and buying one you might as well ignore the sale. It's still a 40-50% discount depending on specifics. That's not nothing
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Apr 29, 2015 13:00
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double nine posted:It's still a 40-50% discount depending on specifics. That's not nothing No, it's 10% if you're not buying the whole pack.
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Apr 29, 2015 13:21
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SelenicMartian posted:Of course, the discount rate gets axed if you uncheck a game at the promo screen, and buying one you might as well ignore the sale. That's what annoys me, because I own a few of the games in the Saber Bundle (Outcast, Academy, and KOTOR II), and I feel a little silly buying a game I already own just because I can get other games at a reduced price. Not that it's ever stopped me before... Really, the only game I want is X-Wing Alliance. I'm thinking about buying Dark Forces 2, but I've heard it doesn't run too well (though that might've been in reference to the Steam version.) The other two I considered were Battlefront 2 and Empire at War. Are either of those two worth picking up? I know that there's a new Battlefront game being made. I honestly don't know much about the series aside from what I read recently in this article. As for Empire at War, I'm not that good at RTS games, but I've been told that it's pretty easy compared to most other RTS games.
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X-Wing Alliance fuckin rules, don't let the people that say TIE Fighter is the best influence you to not buy XWA. It's wicked fun imo. Empire at War is pretty cool too for all the neat space battles You will definitely need a joystick or controller for XWA tho. I would personally use a joystick, I've tried both and found that a lot easier.
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Apr 29, 2015 14:51
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XWA is why I'm excited about Galaxy and possible multiplayer. 
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Apr 29, 2015 14:53
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Peas and Rice posted:XWA is why I'm excited about Galaxy and possible multiplayer. Is that what that poo poo is? I keep seeing it mentioned here but had no idea wtf it actually was. That'd be pretty goddamn cool if they got that up and running for stuff like XWA
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Fetus Tree posted:Is that what that poo poo is? I keep seeing it mentioned here but had no idea wtf it actually was. That'd be pretty goddamn cool if they got that up and running for stuff like XWA It's like a combination of Steam and a client that allows you to play classic games multiplayer. If they come out with 64-person XWA multi I will go on disability to play that poo poo for months. 
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Apr 29, 2015 17:25
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Peas and Rice posted:If they come out with 64-person XWA multi I will go on disability to play that poo poo for months. that would be so loving cool and also a poo poo show
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Apr 29, 2015 17:33
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Fetus Tree posted:that would be so loving cool A 32-player kamikaze squad repeatedly crashing ships into a (player-controlled) SSD? Exactly my kind of shitshow.
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Hidden away without a front page announcement is a new Wadjet Eye adventure game coming on the 20th - Technobabylon. Apparently if you preorder you get a free upgrade to the Deluxe Edition.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Hidden away without a front page announcement is a new Wadjet Eye adventure game coming on the 20th - Technobabylon. Apparently if you preorder you get a free upgrade to the Deluxe Edition. Is it still going to be running in 360*240 or whatever ridiculous pre-Internet resolution AGS outputs in?
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The Kins posted:Fun bit of trivia from a recent Retro Gamer interview: Apparently Lucasarts themselves had to deal with seemingly random unexplained denials from the licensing department, despite, you know, being part of Lucasfilm. Apparently the Jedi Knight expansion pack's dev team figured out the clever trick of proposing something crazy that will never get through alongside your real idea, in order to make it more palatable in comparison.
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Apr 29, 2015 18:22
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Max Wilco posted:That's what annoys me, because I own a few of the games in the Saber Bundle (Outcast, Academy, and KOTOR II), and I feel a little silly buying a game I already own just because I can get other games at a reduced price. e: Oh, you probably mean you own them on other platforms. Nevermind.
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Cross-posting from the X-wing/TIE Fighter thread... I'm trying to log into GOG and don't even see an option for it, am I doing something wrong?  It only does this in Firefox (updated to the latest version), if I load the page in Internet Explorer 11 it works just fine. 
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Apr 29, 2015 18:34
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Feedbacker posted:GOG bundles don't work that way. You can buy the rest of the games at the same discount, minus the price of what you already own. Unless he means he already owns them on another platform (e.g. Steam). For example, I own KOTOR on both Steam and GOG and OG Xbox and iOS and the original PC release.... Edit: didn't catch your edit before posting.
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Xenomrph posted:I'm trying to log into GOG and don't even see an option for it, am I doing something wrong? I'm on Firefox and it's fine. Force reload of every script on that page with CTRL + F5. If that doesn't work, try disable extensions that manipulate pages like Adblock or script blockers.
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Casimir Radon posted:What exactly did they propose or didn't it say? Sith zombies was pretty far out there.
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The Kins posted:One of the "real" ideas was Sith Zombies, yes. They couldn't remember what they proposed to get that through, other than that it must have been pretty crazy. A morally grey jedi
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Mortimer posted:A morally grey jedi Have you been introduced to character sensation of the 00's, Anakim Skywalker?
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Saoshyant posted:Have you been introduced to character sensation of the 00's, Anakim Skywalker? I was more referencing Kotor2 and the five hundred retcons to its story because it was filled with grey jedis and asked if the Force was more disadvantage than benefit
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I am cross-posting this from the X-Wing/Tie Fighter thread: It looks like all of GOG's library is on the client now, but a few games are still showing "Not supported". I am sure that that is just temporary, but all of the versions of X-Wing and Tie Fighter on the client do not have their accompanying box art and they do not work. They are not marked "Not Supported" and they do install, but they will not run following that. I am not going to report this is a bug as I am sure that it is a work-in-progress and will be swiftly functional, I am just letting people know.
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