glassviking
Neo Member
Hey guys, if I were to buy one of the Age of Wonders games, which one would be the one to buy?
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hardcastlemccormick
Banned
Shadow Magic.
Shadow Magic is the best one by far.
PumpkinPie
Banned
Why, have you heard that it's supposed to be coming?
In the buildup to the Eidos announcement, one of the pixellated backdrops looked a heck of a lot like the Anachronox logo.
Wasn't one of the text clues about a detective as well? Agent 47 and JC Denton aren't detectives.
glassviking
Neo Member
Joseph Merrick
Member
much better priced than on dotemu and steam. cossacks 2 and american conquest will be coming along some time as well then. dotemu got all of them in one package almost at same price, and a lot more expensive separately.
Hhhnnnnnggggghhhh!!
An unusual weeklong sale: Buy 1, get 1 free for all D&D games.
I'm not sure if it's good or bad when I go to a promo page... and everything is grey.
SteveWinwood
Member
I should use this to get Icewind dale and icewind dale 2...
Oooo and Temple of Elemental Evil for free too? Terrible name by the way.
IblisGinjo
Member
Nice, I was looking at the D&D anthology on Amazon which has all the D&D for $20. I may get BG2 and Planescape with Temple of Elemental Evil for free.
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
I bought Baldur's Gate 1 and Neverwinter Nights, got Temple for Elemental Evil for free. 3 games for $10!
I'm pretty sure I have every Troika game now.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure I now officially have more games made by Black Isle/Bioware alone that I never need to buy another.
I'm pretty sure I have every Troika game now.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure I now officially have more games made by Black Isle/Bioware alone that I never need to buy another.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
I already have everything in that package.
Sucks
Sucks
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
I'd go with BG1/BG2 or if you just want to get one, go with BG2. BG2 and Planescape or the best of the bunch. BG2 is really long though, so if you wanted a shorter experience, go with Icewind Dale which is pretty good.
Planescape is incredible.
As for which D&D games are worth getting:
Baldur's Gate 1/2
Planescape Torment
Icewind Dale 1/2
Temple of Elemental Evil
You can skip NWN, Demon Stone & Dragonshard.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Baldur's Gate 2 is generally the safest answer.
I've also been really enjoying Icewind Dale, mainly because it's just dungeons with a thimble's worth of story to follow.
BassForever
Member
Picked up Baldur's Gate 1-2, Planetscape Torment, and NWN.
Edit: I got Icewind Dale 1-2 as well
Edit: I got Icewind Dale 1-2 as well
Oh well, still no Anachronox nor 11th hour. But we all know they will come soon.
yes, it is confirmed in the comments of the Gog Release for this game.
Well, it's not *strictly speaking* a confirmation, but it's definitely a knowing wink.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
American Conquest has really weird mouse acceleration / lag issues for me. I tried playing it for about an hour on various settings and I never quite got it running in a way where the speed and responsiveness felt quite right. The UI was also pretty poor so the whole thing felt like it wasn't working properly. I would recommend against the game for this reason.
I'm not a huge RTS fan so my point of comparison here would be AoE1/2/Empire Earth as games from around the same period of time.
(Everything I say above relates to the Steam version)
GOG is usually quite pessimistic on the W7 compatibility. Most Gog games (I think Gorky 17 is a hard one) play well on Windows 7.
Most old games do not install well on Windows 7, because of 16 bits installers, but GOG take care of that and then it works ok.
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
I don't think that's the word you were looking for.
But you're right. I don't think I've had trouble running any GOG titles on W7.
Joseph Merrick
Member
yeah, for me every single game on gog has worked fine. only problem I've had at all with gog games is some of the dosbox games have had weird mouse acceleration. and I've forgotten how to deal with this between each time I've run into it. hehe
I don't think that's the word you were looking for.
could be
I had recently quite a few sucess running my old library on Windows 7. Internet is quite good with that.
This weekend, I made a Digital only Windows 7 copy of my old NeverHood disc. Dos games and early Windows games are quite easy to install. I fear that some windows games have problems because of weird hidden bugs that are not reacting the same for different versions of Windows.
I would like to know what games are not possible to run on Windows 7 now. Is there a list somewhere ?
Joseph Merrick
Member
We seem to be having a bit of a run of releases turning up completely out of the blue.
Apache Longbow
As is usual with flight sims, I'm drawing a complete blank. All I can really say is that I think I've heard of this one.
(Random aside: I wonder if Overlord and its ilk might happen sometime. They were rather fun)
Also note that today's the last day for the D&D promotion, and tomorrow's the last day for the "Buy one get one 10% off" promo for Feb. And no, those don't stack.
Apache Longbow
As is usual with flight sims, I'm drawing a complete blank. All I can really say is that I think I've heard of this one.
(Random aside: I wonder if Overlord and its ilk might happen sometime. They were rather fun)
Also note that today's the last day for the D&D promotion, and tomorrow's the last day for the "Buy one get one 10% off" promo for Feb. And no, those don't stack.
Joseph Merrick
Member
oh yeah was thinking about overlord the other day. I barely played the first one, and have never played the second. wouldn't mind having those on gog at all. it's probably codemasters with those, and not triumph? edit: oh yeah, has to be all the spin-offs are by different other studios
toddhunter
Member
God I loved that game when I was younger. Never really understood how to play it, but had a lot of fun trying.
Also looking at those screens made me think of this game:
Best flight sim *ever*
Not actually the Overlord I was thinking about! I'm thinking of the WW2 flight sim from Rowan Studios. There was also a WW1 one (Dawn Patrol) and a fantasy universe one (Air Power). They had *great* campaign modes (If I remember right, you were assigned a target per mission, but you could pretty much attack anything in the area and and damage you deal would persist between sorties)
RPS on Air Power: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/08/09/mount-c-cairpower/
Joseph Merrick
Member
oh haha, ok. I wasn't joking when I said I've been thinking about those games lately. :-D
edit: never played these. air power looks glorious.
/jaw drops
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