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if you haven't played arcanum, you can do so for almost a dollar https://www.gog.com/game/arcanum_of_steamworks_and_magick_obscura
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Mortimer posted:if you haven't played arcanum, you can do so for almost a dollar Don't forget to install Krupp's All-In-One patch to make tech useful: http://www.terra-arcanum.com/downloads/arcanum/doa/krupp_aio_arcanumhackv1.zip (I'm amazed Terra Arcanum is still up and running.)
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May 11, 2016 15:27
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Mortimer posted:if you haven't played arcanum, you can do so for almost a dollar I keep wanting to give Arcanum another shot whenever it gets brought up. Is there a specific character build that makes things easier? I've been told that characters that specialize in magic have an easier time. Does that still apply after you've used the patch (I wasn't aware of the patch when I first tried playing it about five years ago.) Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 23:21 on May 11, 2016 |
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May 11, 2016 23:19
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Max Wilco posted:I keep wanting to give Arcanum another shot whenever it gets brought up. Is there a specific character build that makes things easier? I've been told that characters that specialize in magic have an easier time. Does that still apply after you've used the patch (I wasn't aware of the patch when I first tried playing it about five years ago.) Yes magic is the best if you know how to play infinity engine games or games similar to Arcanum. If you don't, melee is the best. Melee makes you an undying god, magic makes you a swiss army knife with a gun attached
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May 11, 2016 23:39
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Max Wilco posted:I keep wanting to give Arcanum another shot whenever it gets brought up. Is there a specific character build that makes things easier? I've been told that characters that specialize in magic have an easier time. Does that still apply after you've used the patch (I wasn't aware of the patch when I first tried playing it about five years ago.) The All In One patch nerfs the blatantly broken magic spells and buffs tech to the point where it's mostly viable, but magic still gets to do a lot of what tech does without requiring crafting components, so it's probably easier to a total newbie. If you go tech, be prepared to spend a lot of time going through bins.
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May 11, 2016 23:51
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Mortimer posted:Yes magic is the best if you know how to play infinity engine games or games similar to Arcanum. If you don't, melee is the best. Melee makes you an undying god, magic makes you a swiss army knife with a gun attached The easily missable dog NPC companion makes you a melee god and mother of pooch is it powerful.
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Magic is pretty straightforward: take Harm, click on stuff really fast. After that you can branch out kind of however, but I always liked being able to summon level 30 orcs (I think? Ogres, maybe) at level 5 or 10 or whenever you can get that spell. Disintegrate, also good. Not that melee is bad or anything, I just always thought it was a huge pain going through the mines and breaking all my weapons on rock dudes (or punching them and healing constantly). Regardless, the best skills are the thief ones, because then you can burgle all the stores and deck yourself out in sweet equipment and have loads of money early on.
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May 12, 2016 03:29
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If you go melee or technology path in Arcanum, get the half-ogre & dog NPCs. They are both meat shields & blenders of death in regards to enemies. Anything killed by a party member gives experience to everyone. The kill log section in Arcanum is pretty weird, for half the game the most Good enemy I killed was a pig.
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May 12, 2016 05:43
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You killed babe...
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dtkozl posted:You killed babe... Who was more powerful than a tattered bowman, apparantly.
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Do all game installers have integrity check?
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if anyone DID download arcanum remember to get the unofficial patch, the hi res music and townmaps, and the wide screen patch also heads up these additional fixes are mandatory http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Arcanum:_Of_Steamworks_%26_Magick_Obscura find the shortcut in the folder ("Launch Arcanum...etc") and after the quote add " -no3d -doublebuffer -scrolldist:0 -scrollfps:70 make sure there's a space after the quote and before the first dash or it won't let you there's a video with more stuff you can do (replacing your ddraw.dll) here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XYi5ZBVrV0
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May 12, 2016 15:12
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Latest sale puts me at 1003 owned GOGs. I've played maybe a dozen. Help.
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Commander Keenan posted:Latest sale puts me at 1003 owned GOGs. I've played maybe a dozen. Help. Switch to buying movies !
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Commander Keenan posted:Latest sale puts me at 1003 owned GOGs. I've played maybe a dozen. Help. If it makes you feel any better, I'm at 1115. It certainly doesn't make me feel any better, but if it helps you then by all means go bananas.
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May 13, 2016 23:16
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Commander Keenan posted:Latest sale puts me at 1003 owned GOGs. I've played maybe a dozen. Help. To stop your library from growing, you could buy me games instead.
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May 13, 2016 23:19
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Commander Keenan posted:Latest sale puts me at 1003 owned GOGs. I've played maybe a dozen. Help. You need help and stop buying now. Give me your password and account name, I promise I'll take care of it.
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I've been playing Afterlife This game would be a dailymail article if it were published today. It's really fascinating and pretty fun if you like city building games. anyway thats my review cya buy arcanum or maybe not because it isn't on sale but it's still worth it cya
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May 14, 2016 01:46
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Mortimer posted:I've been playing Afterlife i have afterlife and it's neat but i can't figure out how to turn a profit
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May 14, 2016 02:09
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I remember a couple years back we all seemed to have too many games and just started buying games for each other in some sort of Christmas-induced buying orgy.
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President Ark posted:i have afterlife and it's neat but i can't figure out how to turn a profit The game is heavily dependent on the manual, which GOG doesn't have because Das Mikkenmaus didn't provide it. Thank god for piracy!
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I had the manual back in the day, it still was a bitch to turn a profit. I ended up building banks to pay off loans at other banks. It worked, but I'm pretty sure that was not the intended way to run things. It also doesn't help that the game gives you a way to make things more efficient instantly, but that it costs a ton of money to actually use it.
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May 14, 2016 08:36
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Afterlife is easy if you build hell and nothing but hell and make the entire planet believe they're all going to hell.
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I recall you could also induce maximum lust on earth at the very beginning and it would result in people breeding like rabbits and also allowing for basically only building lust punishments.
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Hidden Asbestos posted:Switch to buying movies ! I may have already... JustJeff88 posted:If it makes you feel any better, I'm at 1115. It certainly doesn't make me feel any better, but if it helps you then by all means go bananas. It makes me feel like I need to catch up! elf help book posted:To stop your library from growing, you could buy me games instead. double nine posted:You need help and stop buying now. Give me your password and account name, I promise I'll take care of it. Here are gift games I have, what do you guys want? I do not know if the codes are still valid. Age of Wonders Ultima 7 King of Dragon Pass Leisure Suit Larry 1-6 Wing Commander 4 Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon Witcher 1 (x4) System Shock 2 (x2) Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition (x3) One pack: Descent: Freespace Battle Pack Die by the Sword Giants: Citizen Kabuto Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business Shattered Steel Screamer VR Soccer '96
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Commander Keenan posted:I may have already... I've always wanted to play Under A Killing Moon. I'm also interested in Descent Freespace!
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I didn't think you'd call my bluff. I actually have all of those besides Wing Commander. Those are some great games there.
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One thing I'm curious about- Why do some of these games have Mac ports on Steam but not GOG and vice versa? X-Wing and Tie Fighter, for example, have Mac versions on Gog but not Steam, but on Steam I actually just saw La Mulana has a Mac version that GOG doesn't have. I do have Bootcamp but I don't actually switch that often (since it's a pain as I usually have several documents and browser tabs open because I am not very organized.) It's weird, though. You figure once the owners had a port made they wouldn't limit it to one service. Or is it a tech thing?
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The Mac version of La Mulana just came out on Steam 2 days ago so maybe it's coming to GOG soon.
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May 14, 2016 20:07
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I mean if that King of Dragon Pass is just going to waste...... I wouldn't mind it.
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It probably has to do with licenses. I don't know if GOG has to do any QA or packaging, so depending on what their contact is and when they get specific files for new OS's. Also, they might wait to add new versions when they can do a batch since that could lead to increase sales from the advertising.
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I'm still curious as to why Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is on GOG but Last Crusade isn't, despite both being on Steam for years. I assume that it has something to do with one having the same title as a tie-in film or some such nonsense, but that's just theorycrafting.
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JustJeff88 posted:I'm still curious as to why Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is on GOG but Last Crusade isn't, despite both being on Steam for years. I assume that it has something to do with one having the same title as a tie-in film or some such nonsense, but that's just theorycrafting. It still bothers me that for as long as they've had the Sierra/Activision rights, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist has not yet popped up.
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JustJeff88 posted:I'm still curious as to why Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is on GOG but Last Crusade isn't, despite both being on Steam for years. I assume that it has something to do with one having the same title as a tie-in film or some such nonsense, but that's just theorycrafting. I think I remember Last Crusade having some sort of DRM in its early scenes. I think it was "check the manual and answer that" while having a dialogue with some antagonist. The manual also contained codes and solutions to some important mid- and late game puzzles... Maybe not being on GOG had something to do with it? Although many Sierra games do that as well (eg KQ3 , PQ series) and they are on GOG. Btw, I always found it a nice touch that on Steam you can download and read the manual for a game even if you haven't bought it. Case in point, you can download the Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade manual from the game's store page. Why isn't GOG doing that? 
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Max Wilco posted:It still bothers me that for as long as they've had the Sierra/Activision rights, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist has not yet popped up. Ditto the Conquests games.
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Max Wilco posted:It still bothers me that for as long as they've had the Sierra/Activision rights, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist has not yet popped up. For me it's the Dynamix backcatalog and some of the earlier EA flightsims (Chuck Yeager)
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Commander Keenan posted:Here are gift games I have, what do you guys want? I do not know if the codes are still valid. He actually did it! Thanks Keenan!
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Is there a way to see what you've voted on the community wishlist in one place?
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Why doesn't GOG have Episode 1 Racer yet? I downloaded a copy of the PC version and it runs really smooth and with no framerate problems when you use a special installer.
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maybe the same reason we don't have Full Throttle. Actually for some reason I keep thinking that we don't have Full Throttle yet because they're fixing stuff, every time I have played it through an emulator a lot of the music cues don't work. Sad really because Full Throttle is one of those games that just isn't the same without its soundtrack
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