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Lucasarts games coming to GOG.com, out now [6 to start, 14+ more games to follow]
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Dragoon En Regalia
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Rebellion and Empire at War would sell well together, but the latter's going to need sneaky talk on GOG's part.
Yeah, forget LucasArts. This is the biggest news. This'll keep me busy reading for weeks!
You can use a mouse. Its not exactly fun, but its there.
The Logitech Extreme 3D Pro stick is solid and relatively cheap. Perfect for games like this.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
arglebargle
Member
this is pretty exciting news. i have been wanting to play day of the tentacle for a while now, but there is no easy and legitimate way to do it (that i know of) so i havent. if that comes to gog, its a guaranteed purchase. as it stands ill probably pick up sam and max tomorrow.
beneath a steel sky is not SCUMM i dont think. its certainly not lucasarts. revolution, who also made the broken sword games, made beneath a steel sky. i love lucasarts, but i have long thought revolution is underrated since broken sword and beneath a steel sky are so good.
beneath a steel sky is not SCUMM i dont think. its certainly not lucasarts. revolution, who also made the broken sword games, made beneath a steel sky. i love lucasarts, but i have long thought revolution is underrated since broken sword and beneath a steel sky are so good.
LucasArts never had any issues with DD (and sold plenty of games on Steam) but Disney never had anything on Steam (or any other DD service as far as I know) until a few weeks ago.
Gambit 1138
Banned
Too bad none of those Star Wars games are canon anymore
I thought it was only games taking place after episode 6? I'm not sure when these take place.
Zod the Bear
Member
X-Wing takes place before and up to A New Hope, with expansions leading up to Hoth, IIRC.
TIE Fighter starts around the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back, with the last mission of the last expansion taking place concurrently/immediately prior to the battle of Endor.
X-Wing: Alliance runs alongside TIE Fighter and Shadows of the Empire, ending at Endor with the Death Star run, with the main character manning the turret of the Millennium Falcon.
TreasureHunterG
Banned
TIE Fighter and X-Wing I'll get it.
Gambit 1138
Banned
Nah they basically wiped out everything pre-Disney except the films. Everything released from this point wether its games, novels, comics, etc. is all part of the canon. They supposedly now have a story group in place that scrutinizes all projects to make sure everything makes sense and fits. The first canon game is probably the one Amy Henning is working on with the Dead Space team since Battlefront doesn't really have a story.
Redemption mission, anyone?
Gambit 1138
Banned
Are gog versions compatible with modern flight sticks? Are there any good flight sticks on the market?
TreasureHunterG
Banned
X-Wing/TIE Fighter series shouldn't have been non-canon. Same goes for Rogue Squadron Trilogy, Shadows of the Empire and Force Unleashed (first only, forget second). They fill the gap between episodes III, IV, V and VI perfectly and had direct connection between the main story and characters. Disney/Lucasfilms dropped the ball here.
Games like TIE Fighter and X-Wing will be wrapped in DosBox, which does support joysticks. I don't know the extent of modern flight stick compatibility with DosBox and how well it fares across different models/types, though, since older games may not support as many axes/buttons.
Gambit 1138
Banned
Force Unleashed was a horrible game with a disastrous storyline that fucked up the canon big time. That series was one of the reasons I was pro-reboot (along with the later novels and a ton of Prequel era related media)
BloodMoney
Banned
Tie Fighter, Oculus support?
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Seeing Thrawn in the TIE Fighter intro is still fascinating. I need to read the books someday.
Gambit 1138
Banned
This Rebel stronghold has no hope of escape. Commence the attack!
On the whole it's not so bad, but it does have some crazy ass difficulty spikes scattered throughout.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Heh. I was just at a Goodwill and saw a giant TUB full of like-new Logitech Wingman Extreme joysticks. Like, 3 bucks each. And I was like "heh. I remember having one of those solely so I could play X-Wing Alliance. Good times, good times."
Now I'm pissed I didn't just pick one up.
Now I'm pissed I didn't just pick one up.
ThatZedWord
Neo Member
Holy. Shit.
I just saw this thread for the first time. TIE Fighter is my favorite game of all time. The game is a perfect masterpiece; from the minute to minute gameplay, the story arch, the mission briefings, the music, voice work, and sounds, the whole thing is perfect. Ive attempted to get it up and running various times on my modern builds, but there's always been some glitch or bug that sours the entire experience. I'm hoping to god the GOG.com treatment has done it justice, because I am beyond excited right now.
I just saw this thread for the first time. TIE Fighter is my favorite game of all time. The game is a perfect masterpiece; from the minute to minute gameplay, the story arch, the mission briefings, the music, voice work, and sounds, the whole thing is perfect. Ive attempted to get it up and running various times on my modern builds, but there's always been some glitch or bug that sours the entire experience. I'm hoping to god the GOG.com treatment has done it justice, because I am beyond excited right now.
TreasureHunterG
Banned
LOL, how Force Unleashed fucked up the canon? It actually serves as a bridge between episodes III and IV as it explain the fate of many of the Order 66 survivors that Episode III left wide open and it was known, prior to Force Unleashed, that the Rebel Alliance was founded by Mon Mothma, Senator Organa and Garm Bel Iblis and the story didn't revisioned anything previously stabilized.
A Black Falcon
Member
This is fantastic news, but it'll be interesting to see if it's the Win9x remakes of X-Wing and TIE Fighter, or the DOS CD versions. The Windows versions have better graphics, but don't have as dynamic a soundtrack. I like both, really.
Either way, seeing a re-release of TIE Fighter, one of the greatest games ever made, if certainly fantastic! TIE Fighter CD is near-perfect, one of those few games that gets absolutely everything right. (And yes, you want a joystick. A gamepad would be unpleasant to play this game with, and mouse... the less said, the better. There's a reason that the Windows 9x remakes of X-Wing and TIE Fighter require a joystick, the mouse mode the DOS version has is atrocious!)
Either way, seeing a re-release of TIE Fighter, one of the greatest games ever made, if certainly fantastic! TIE Fighter CD is near-perfect, one of those few games that gets absolutely everything right. (And yes, you want a joystick. A gamepad would be unpleasant to play this game with, and mouse... the less said, the better. There's a reason that the Windows 9x remakes of X-Wing and TIE Fighter require a joystick, the mouse mode the DOS version has is atrocious!)
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Everything about this is exactly right. TIE Fighter is one of my favourite games of all time; every observation about the game here is great; trying to get it running on modern computers HAS been a total pain for a long time, and I am beyond excited right now!
MAtgS
Member
I never treated video games as canon to begin with. Too damn many versions of Hoth to make them all work.
andrerobot
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SAM.EXE
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Origami Superman
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I really hope TIE has gamepad support. I remember playing it with a mouse. Was not ideal.
Sir_Crocodile
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Enemies was never released solus as far as I know, so GOG probably don't regard it as an expansion pack per se, but part of the collectors cd rom. Hopefully the year was a typo
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
The gaming gods have blessed us!
AntiFacebook
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So it is a fact now?It really is Lucas Arts?
That's great, while their best game(Loom) is already on steam, there are still a few gems like Day of the tentacle and Tie fighter that aren't.
That's great, while their best game(Loom) is already on steam, there are still a few gems like Day of the tentacle and Tie fighter that aren't.
Nikodemos
Member
GOG single-handedly bringing joysticks back into relevance.
Man, I remember whacking my Genius sidestick (shitty build quality, good comfort, ergonomically placed buttons) out of alignment and having to use the two X/Y sliders to get it back within limits. My SB16 gameport saw so much use.
Man, I remember whacking my Genius sidestick (shitty build quality, good comfort, ergonomically placed buttons) out of alignment and having to use the two X/Y sliders to get it back within limits. My SB16 gameport saw so much use.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Yup.
The version of loom on steam is the absolute worst version though.
AntiFacebook
Member
Why? I didn't play it yet, but what are its issues?
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Steam has the talkie version, and to fit in the audio, they cut large amounts of dialogue & removed alternate puzzle solutions. They also removed close up portraits because the lip sync didn't match up with the truncated audio, and I think they removed one of the ending scenes you got from clearing the game on expert and only had music during cutscenes, but it's been a while since I played that version.
FM Towns version would be best I think. No audio, but it had most of the nicer graphics and all of the cut content.
They ported the original.