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dud root posted:Sounds like an unfinished or abandoned quest during production Well, Wizardry 6 came out in 1990 and Wizardry 7 came out in 1992, but Wizardry 8 didn't release until 2001. Not to mention that D.W. Bradley was the lead on 6 and 7, but then left SirTech. Wizardry 8 was done by Brenda Romero, so maybe there really wasn't any major carryover of design plans or ideas between 7 and 8. I have Wizardry 6-8 on GOG, but I've never found the initiative to sit down and play them. I want to take a party through all three games, but I bounced off W6 pretty hard when I first tried it. Part of it I think is how poorly they've aged (excluding W8, which still seems pretty accessible), part of it is difficulty, and part of it is that they just seem like really dry dungeon crawlers.
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BiggerJ posted:New rescues from the corporate abyss: Night Dive rereleased Titanic: Adventure Out of Time (Dust: A Tale of the Wired West was by the same devs and publisher - to the Wishlist!), and retro cartridge manufacturers who've moved into digital game publishing, Piko Interactive, bought 60 titles from Atari last October and have started their rereleases with Legend Entertainment's Death Gate - a licensed title based on a book, even! Time to vote on every single one of their adventure games on the Wishlist. This is from a while back, but GOG has now released another Legend Entertainment title, Eric the Unready. Death Gate was apparently de-listed after a couple of weeks though, according to the news thread about the current release.
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Max Wilco posted:Well, Wizardry 6 came out in 1990 and Wizardry 7 came out in 1992, but Wizardry 8 didn't release until 2001. Not to mention that D.W. Bradley was the lead on 6 and 7, but then left SirTech. Wizardry 8 was done by Brenda Romero, so maybe there really wasn't any major carryover of design plans or ideas between 7 and 8. All I remember about Wizardry 8 was someone making fun of the lead developer. He was quoted saying something like "There's no originality in games these days." - Lead Dev, Wizardry 8. That said I want to play W8. Are there any mods or optional patches I should get?
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Apr 13, 2018 06:33
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Get the one that makes fights faster (cycling through 20 walking plants making individual attacks) if its not already bundled. Probably don't get the mega mod that imports monsters from Morrowind as it doesn't make much sense if you haven't played before or followed the earlier games' continuity (at least it didn't when I tried it in like 2010).
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Apr 13, 2018 11:05
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According to a promo email, GOG has wishlists now.  Supposedly they'll be "granting thousands of wishes" for active members on Monday, so there's probably no harm in wish-listing a few things just in case.
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Apr 14, 2018 09:20
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Huh, GOG had this feature for ages 
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Apr 14, 2018 09:48
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Oh? I could have swore it wasn't there last time I wanted it. Weird. Shows how smart I am, then. 
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Apr 14, 2018 09:53
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Yeah, they had a wish-list before. I kept forgetting to remove Raptor: Call of the Shadows from mine (even though I had it on Steam) and they kept sending me mail whenever it went on sale. Thank you, laziness. I am guessing they renamed it or just want to draw more attention to it?
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Probably the latter, I think it was "like" or something on the old website but has been called wishlist since then IIRC.The Kins posted:Oh? I could have swore it wasn't there last time I wanted it. Oh I was merely confused they sent out a promo mail about it, not trying to question your intelligence 
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Apr 14, 2018 10:12
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The Kins posted:Oh? I could have swore it wasn't there last time I wanted it. Checked my emails. This feature has existed (and was promoted by GOG) since the Fourth of June, 2009 
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Apr 14, 2018 10:46
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I wonder what's happening on monday which relates to the wishlists. I assume that maybe they're putting a bunch of the most wishlisted games on sale or something neat like that.
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Apr 14, 2018 11:31
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The Kins referenced a promo mail earlier, they also tweeted about : https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/984814887766577153
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Cool, but this actually means I need to cull my wishlist until then. Don't want anything I'm not sure I really want. The wishlist has been around a long time but I haven't seen the feature to share it with a link before, so that's good. Also, SOMA is 75% off right now.
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:Cool, but this actually means I need to cull my wishlist until then. Don't want anything I'm not sure I really want. Oh yes I should probably do that too 
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Apr 14, 2018 14:38
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I have 417 games on my wishlist, what's wrong with me. Actually, it's an easy way to see a "what's on sale that I'm actually interested in" list. Perimeter's a buck.
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Apr 14, 2018 20:27
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Where are my free games, Gog?!
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you get a free discount. they make you buy stuff and like it, it's insidious.
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no free games for me.
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Apr 17, 2018 20:16
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Most of the games on my wishlist didn't go on sale 
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Is there a licensing reason GoG has never gotten any of the non-city sim titles (SimAnt, Sim Copter, SimLife, or the holy grail of SimTower and/or SimGolf)? I would pay full goddamn retail for a copy of SimGolf that would reliably work on a modern OS.
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ilmucche posted:Most of the games on my wishlist didn't go on sale  Ugly In The Morning posted:Is there a licensing reason GoG has never gotten any of the non-city sim titles (SimAnt, Sim Copter, SimLife, or the holy grail of SimTower and/or SimGolf)? I would pay full goddamn retail for a copy of SimGolf that would reliably work on a modern OS.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Is there a licensing reason GoG has never gotten any of the non-city sim titles (SimAnt, Sim Copter, SimLife, or the holy grail of SimTower and/or SimGolf)? I would pay full goddamn retail for a copy of SimGolf that would reliably work on a modern OS.
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Apr 17, 2018 21:39
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Maxis' SimGolf, or Sid Meier's SimGolf?
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doctorfrog posted:Maxis' SimGolf, or Sid Meier's SimGolf? Sid Meier’s, naturally. I spent way, way too much time playing it. For some reason didn’t realize Firaxis was involved.
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EA has mostly been pretty good at rereleasing all the old PC games they own, American McGee's Alice aside, but as Kins said there are probably third-parties involved that make certain re-releases harder; for a major example the Westwood Blade Runner game.
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ilmucche posted:Most of the games on my wishlist didn't go on sale Same, I think I already have most of what other people want I guess. The news blurb says The Witcher 3, Planescape Torment and Baldur's Gate II were the top three of everyone's wishlists.
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I really wish the old blizzard games (diablo 1, Warcraft 1 and 2) and the Mechwarrior games would get released on GOG.
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chaosapiant posted:I really wish the old blizzard games (diablo 1, Warcraft 1 and 2) and the Mechwarrior games would get released on GOG. why cant you wish for something more realistic like world peace
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chaosapiant posted:I really wish the old blizzard games (diablo 1, Warcraft 1 and 2) and the Mechwarrior games would get released on GOG.
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Apr 17, 2018 23:08
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Give me Episode 1 Pod Racer, too.
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The Kins posted:Blizzard did a port of Warcraft 1 to modern machines, but refuse to release it because "in today's world, by today's standards, it's just not that fun any more". Gonna be honest, in today's world, by today's standards, Blizzard games are just not that fun any more. Starcraft 2 especially.
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chaosapiant posted:I really wish the old blizzard games (diablo 1, Warcraft 1 and 2) and the Mechwarrior games would get released on GOG. Anything older than Mechwarrior 3 is never ever seeing the light of day again and nothing can change that. Not unless Harmony Gold just suddenly burns to the ground along with everyone inside it.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Anything older than Mechwarrior 3 is never ever seeing the light of day again and nothing can change that. Not unless Harmony Gold just suddenly burns to the ground along with everyone inside it. honestly, there's basically no way in hell any of the Harmony Gold stuff actually holds up in a court of law if someone tries to fight it. basically nothing about that case fits with how IP law is supposed to work. e: I just looked it up, they got bitch-slapped when they tried to go after Hasbro for using G1 Jetfire in a Transformers set and Tatsunoko is currently in the process of trying to drag the license back out of their hands. it seems like the current date at which HG will no longer own the Macross IP is March 14, 2021, and they'll stop owning the trademarks on Dec. 26 2022, if they aren't able to renew anything (which Tatsunoko is actively trying to stop them from being able to). e2: there's also apparently 42 images that HG doesn't own at all because they're owned by Big West and not Tatsunoko or Studio Nue, which may cover some of the Unseen anyways. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Apr 18, 2018 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Anything older than Mechwarrior 3 is never ever seeing the light of day again and nothing can change that. Not unless Harmony Gold just suddenly burns to the ground along with everyone inside it. And isn't MW3 a nightmare of licensing since it was handled by multiple studios? Or am I misremembering something?
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Anything older than Mechwarrior 3 is never ever seeing the light of day again and nothing can change that. Not unless Harmony Gold just suddenly burns to the ground along with everyone inside it. they are currently in court right now with HBS over use of The Unseen in the new Battletech game. However the scuttlebutt seems to be that HG is gonna get bitchslapped because they are claiming that the Atlas is a variant or some bullshit. Isn't it true that HG would've been dealt with years ago if FASA hadn't settled out of court and set a precedent for how HG would go about suing from there on?
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how the hell do I play goldbox games I get into a battle and just get stomped on, am I supposed to be dying and resting every fight
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:how the hell do I play goldbox games 1st level AD&D combat is incredibly fatal. Everyone is extremely squishy and it's pretty hard to hit anyone since you can't find any magic weapons with bonuses to hit for quite a while. Also remember to buy equipment, I've forgotten that you don't start with equipment a couple of times in Pool of Radiance & Gateway to the Savage Frontier. What specific problems are you having? Don't be afraid of resting and your first move in a new area should be securing somewhere safe to rest up.
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I think the magic bullet to lv1 fights is the same one as in Baldur's Gate, by which I mean the Sleep spell
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Aces High posted:they are currently in court right now with HBS over use of The Unseen in the new Battletech game. However the scuttlebutt seems to be that HG is gonna get bitchslapped because they are claiming that the Atlas is a variant or some bullshit. If someone doesn't know being dismissed that way means it's almost impossible to refile.
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