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Lucasarts games coming to GOG.com, out now [6 to start, 14+ more games to follow]
- Thread starter Sir_Crocodile
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I remember trying to steal the Imperial shuttle mission without the cheat codes once, I had to do something stupid like lure the bomber squadron to the far edge of the map and then book it to the shuttle at full speed and back out before they could get back into the perimeter. It probably took like 25 minutes, but it felt like hours, haha.
You'd probably need a keyboard even if the game could recognize every axis and button on a 360 pad (which is definitely not a sure thing with a game this old). It's a space sim, after all.
It's worth the trouble.
The first really difficult mission i remember was the second Rebel training mission, i never could destroy the convoy without either cheating, or skipping the mission and then playing with with better ship with extra equipment to exploit the extra power (so that i can have both speed and recharge).
The second really difficult mission was a scout mission with the A-Wing, you had to identify enemy ships and kill every single probe droid while dodging 100 TIEs and capital lasers...
Can't recall the shuttle mission at all, other than "No problem".
Hellshingu
Member
Is this real life?
Dead zone was HUUUUUGE on my 360 Gamepad when I played the CE in DosBox. Could never fix that. Not sure if it was my pad or just a trait of the pad.
Minsc
Gold Member
People will find a way... there will be functional 360/PS4 configurations in a few months I'd bet once it's available for everyone to get digitally/legally/easily... it won't be the same, but people will want to use what is at hand. Still, once all the dust settles, and there's confirmation things work properly with which joysticks they do, I may think about it. But you should be able to get a somewhat decent experience with a controller, the shoulder buttons are analog and could be the third axis, and you have the keyboard for the less immediate functions that the ~20 or so button bindings on the gamepad can't handle.
This is huge, the X-Wings games!!!!
I have the originals, but they are no longer install able on newer Windows computers. They are the best Star Wars games.
Space combat simulator. You grab a flight stick, plug it into your PC, and fly an X-Wing exactly as a real pilot does.
I have the originals, but they are no longer install able on newer Windows computers. They are the best Star Wars games.
Space combat simulator. You grab a flight stick, plug it into your PC, and fly an X-Wing exactly as a real pilot does.
MrChowderClams
Member
TIE FIGTHER RIGHT INTO MY VEINS!!!!
Played that shit on floppies back when I was a lamb. What an awesome game.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
No Easy Mode for me, I'm sure Curse's no worse than something like King's Quest IV.
Shame to hear about the barriers that might hold back Outcast and Academy (Raven under Activision + IDtech 3), but that won't bar Dark Forces and Jedi Knight at least.
Minsc
Gold Member
Playing through the story to TIE Fighter is more fun than any of the newer Star Wars movies... but I don't suppose that's saying too much. They just nailed everything in those games, the atmosphere, the difficulty, the feel of interaction between levels, the reward for pulling off incredible stuff, the dynamically mixed star wars score while you are flying missions that blasts the battle songs at the exact right moments, but does so like it's being played just for you, and not some pre-recorded score.
The hierarchy of command is done very well, you feel like a scrub starting out, then rise upwards in the ranks and get to interact with some VIPs after earning medals/promotions and all sorts of other surprises that take place.
They're space combat games, but very few games have matched the feel of them, they do go in to a bit of sim territory with all the details, and strategy is needed for the levels, you can't just solo them and blast everything to pieces (though in a TIE Defender you come pretty close), you need to use your teammates and protect the bombers/etc.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Galactic Battlegrounds would be a great alternative to Age of Empires, assuming it and the expansion come out prior to GOG making a deal with Microsoft. If they can revive the Factor 5 games somehow, I'd cream.
Loom's going to happen. But the FM Towns port? Not as likely, though it's be the superior choice.
Zod the Bear
Member
TIE FIGHTER IS BACK
THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY IN THE HISTORY OF DAYS
THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY IN THE HISTORY OF DAYS
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
Man, I'm going to be wishlisting so many Lucasarts games and waiting for them to be on sale so I can buy them up all at once.
It's been available on Steam for a while now but I realize some people would rather have the GOG version.
It's been available on Steam for a while now but I realize some people would rather have the GOG version.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Oh boy...OH BOY! Sam and Max? OH BOY! X-wing and tie fighter...lawd..
I for see that Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle will come also i know it i know it...sooo good
Day of the Tentacle was almost done in a remastered form before Disney shut down Lucasarts and canned everything.
bigwinnerx
Member
My avatar is thrilled!
Now it will come for sure.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Awesome! It's finally happening.
TheSaddestSort
Member
Tie Fighter day 1. One of the games of my youth right there.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Day of the tentacle already looks amazing though
The only thing I would be interested in is a high res version of Peter Chen & Larry Ahern's existing work, but to be honest the game looks great as-is
Gentleman Jack
Member
I'm skeptical. They would have had to have preserved all the work from a foreign office that got shut down and put a new team on it to finish/test it instead of just reusing whatever porting pipeline they found that worked for Sam & Max and apply that to the original data files for Day of the Tentacle. I'm trusting Disney to follow the path of least resistance here.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
It may not be that much of a 180, the acquisition was only a year and a half ago and disney and lucasarts are both massive companies.
It may have taken this long just for Disney to assess what assets they have from Lucas, what they can legally sell, etc(I'm guessing Sam & Max almost certainly required Steve Purcell's assent for example).
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Assuming they still have the development files and can retrieve the devs from any other projects already in the works.
EDIT: Beaten like a can of Grog.
Barajas_201
Member
YES!!! Knights of the old republic DRM-free! my life is almost complete! WHERE IS KOTOR 2?!!!
EDIT: We also need Battlefront 1 and 2 on GOG!
shrapnelmagnet
Member
I really hope so. I like the other ones, but I really want to play Alliance and see if it holds up. I do remember a particular BS mission that neither I nor my friend who was actually quite good at the game ever beat, though.
Mostly just want that scenario builder thing where specify / spawn in a ton a ships and battle.
bigwinnerx
Member
I tried (unsuccessfully) to get TIE Fighter going on my current very modern PC. This'll be fantastic.