Spotless Mind
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Yeah, i think i'm gonna do this as well. I've got enough of a STEAM backlog as is.HK-47 said:
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Official LucasArts on Steam thread of point-and-click and womp rats
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Joseph Merrick
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ah beautiful. I was afraid they hadn't included PIXELS option when I looked at the fuck ugly screenshots on steam. good timesTraced-Velocity said:
Beer Monkey
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Media guys who have been able to play Monkey Island SE, I have a question.
Is the music and audio all generated on the fly? The original MIDI tracks (MT32!) are awesome because they are all controlled dynamically by iMuse, resulting in seamless editing, precision timing and no looping gaps. They are however, missing sound effects. The Adlib mode sounds worse but adds a few sound effects. The CD digital audio version adds better sound effects and additional environmental sounds (the ocean!) but doesn't have the precise timing of iMuse-generated music and has nasty gaps when looping. The end result is there is no definitive way to configure music in the original Monkey Island, there is always a compromise no matter how you set it up.
Does the SE address this? In either reskin mode or classic mode, or both?
Is the music and audio all generated on the fly? The original MIDI tracks (MT32!) are awesome because they are all controlled dynamically by iMuse, resulting in seamless editing, precision timing and no looping gaps. They are however, missing sound effects. The Adlib mode sounds worse but adds a few sound effects. The CD digital audio version adds better sound effects and additional environmental sounds (the ocean!) but doesn't have the precise timing of iMuse-generated music and has nasty gaps when looping. The end result is there is no definitive way to configure music in the original Monkey Island, there is always a compromise no matter how you set it up.
Does the SE address this? In either reskin mode or classic mode, or both?
beermonkey@tehbias said:
I haven't played the new game, but the original Monkey Island was created before iMuse and was actually mostly silent in the original floppy version. The CD version added more music and environmental sounds through Redbook audio, but neither used the iMuse system. They'd probably have the technology to have the CD-quality audio with smoother transitions now, but I don't know what they're doing with it.
Beer Monkey
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Owozifa said:
Well, it may not have been iMuse, but just having the seamless looping and instant music cues made the chip music feel much tighter than the CD version.
Anticitizen One
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Just started playing Fate of Atlantis for the first time and it is already infinetly times better than Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls.
How do you save in this game??
How do you save in this game??
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Deleted member 30609
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I'm yet to play The Last Crusade, but Fate of Atlantis seems to be commonly recognised as the must-play, the classic. I've played Fate, and I can't recommend it enough. Buy it. Play it. Love it.Surfheart said:
So to answer your question, it doesn't matter which order you play them in. I'll let someone else answer the other part of the question.
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Deleted member 30609
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is The Dig worth playing? I've heard nothing but bad things.
PuppetSlave
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Rez said:
We need names if we are going to be able to break kneecaps. In short, yes it is worth playing. It's not one of the ultimate classics perhaps but it is a damn fine adventure game. Very cinematic game.
Will be picking up both Indy's, Loom and The Dig, and maybe Battlefront 2 if a decent amount of people start playing it.
That's right, Last Crusade never had a talkie version, nonetheless the game is a classic (often overlooked by people for Fate of Atlantis) and should be played by any adventure fan.
Eaten By A Grue said:
That's right, Last Crusade never had a talkie version, nonetheless the game is a classic (often overlooked by people for Fate of Atlantis) and should be played by any adventure fan.
McBradders
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Picked up Indy and the Dig, £3 a pop for these is a fucking steal... I now just need the time to play them 
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thanks for the responses. I'll be sure to pick it up when my bandwidth cap resets for the month (I'm at about 24gb out of 25gb at the moment, and I still have ten days left in the cycle, eck).
Anyway to run the Indy games upscaled similarly to dosbox? Windowed mode is too small and fullscreen is quite soft. I like with dosbox how you can say have a 640x480 (2x 320x240) window. The games look quite decent at this size without filtering of course.
Anyone know what the Never switch resolutions is meant to do?
Edit: Thanks Rez.
Edit2: Anyone else not getting icons for the Indy games in the Steam games list?
Anyone know what the Never switch resolutions is meant to do?
Edit: Thanks Rez.
Edit2: Anyone else not getting icons for the Indy games in the Steam games list?
fallengorn
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Restart Steam. That should fix it.Surfheart said:
The Lamonster
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I just want Full Throttle!!!! PLEASEEEEE
And Rebel Assault 2 would be nice as well
And Rebel Assault 2 would be nice as well
eXistor
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Just got the Dig, one of the few Lucasarts adventures I haven't played yet. I might pick up Loom as well, I have it already, but the disc is quite scratched. I must admit Loom never clicked with me, so maybe I'll appreciate it more now that I'm older.
/edit: Just started up the Dig. Is there any way to turn off that horrible pixel filter? I don't seem to be able to find the option.
/edit: Just started up the Dig. Is there any way to turn off that horrible pixel filter? I don't seem to be able to find the option.
devildog820
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Whoever owns the Sierra rights will be seeing how the LucasArts stuff does. If it does well, they will put the effort in.
Just finished The Dig, my memory didn't failed me and i remembered how to finish the game. Excellent game and very cinematic.
I hope my memory serves me as well with the rest of the LucasArts games.
I'm also on the boat that thinks that Monkey Island 3 is a fine adventure game, but isn't a true Monkey Island. The first two games had a very unique style and sense of humor that the third one was unable to replicate.
I hope my memory serves me as well with the rest of the LucasArts games.
Chris Remo said:
I'm also on the boat that thinks that Monkey Island 3 is a fine adventure game, but isn't a true Monkey Island. The first two games had a very unique style and sense of humor that the third one was unable to replicate.
devildog820
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bounchfx said:
Nah, but they've been milking those things for a while now. If the opportunity comes up, they will likely take it.
TimeKillr said:You do know that "Sierra" re-released huge collections of their old games at retail a few years back?
They all ran through DosBox too
To sum up the huge-ass wall of text that I posted to NeoGAF when I bought all of those in a fit of nostalgia-fueled Amazon shopping, "this was the least we could do" may as well have been stamped on every box. They're seriously underwhelming, in some cases the DOSBox profiles were misconfigured, an entire game was left out of the LSL box, and the manuals, while PDFs were fine, were black and white and copies of the previous collections' manuals, not the real, original documentation that came with the games when they were first released.
LucasArts fans win the nostalgia wars, Vivendi's done nothing with the remains of Sierra's adventure back-catalog except occasionally knock over the headstone.
Since we're talking about other "classic" adventure games, I'd like to mention Gobliiins 4 has recently been released - check out the official webpage here http://www.snowball.ru/g4-eng/
Yes one of the original creators of Goblins, Pierre Gilhodes, has been working on it.
By the way, you get the first three games for free included in the CD.
Wow. I mean. Really. Gobliins? You know? Amazingly awesome stuff! I loved Coktel Vision.
(This deserves it's own thread but there are little to no goblins fans here so whatever)
Yes one of the original creators of Goblins, Pierre Gilhodes, has been working on it.
By the way, you get the first three games for free included in the CD.
Wow. I mean. Really. Gobliins? You know? Amazingly awesome stuff! I loved Coktel Vision.
(This deserves it's own thread but there are little to no goblins fans here so whatever)
tahrikmili
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Goddamnit I have all these games in DVD format.. Are the graphics updated to something better than what ScummVM can do?
