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SiN Gold is now available on GOG
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reptilescorpio
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ЯAW;98944634 said:
Same here! Loved that demo.
Finally got the game years later and it was incredibly buggy.
The problem is that SiN is really Ritual's only game -- everything else it released was either an expansion to another company's game or a licensed title.
I remember an ex-Ritual employee posted on Shacknews that Mumbo Jumbo did not bother releasing the patch he made to add Wages of Sin support to the steam version of Sin after they took over Ritual.
They were even working on an Expanison for Quake 4 before they were shuttered.
Weren't Heavy Metal FAKK 2 and Elite Force 2 from Ritual? Or am I remembering wrong?
DeFiBkIlLeR
Banned
Wow, not a good time to be releasing a FPS....considering what else was released at the same time.
4GB? How luxurious! I was running a 875 MB HDD at that time.
stump sock
Member
ЯAW;98944634 said:
oh man, that demo was so excellent. I bought the game based on that and... yeah. but that demo!
if gog fixed some of the bugginess then I'm so down.
Yeah, Shogo - Mobile Armor Division was a tough competition. I loved that game! But SiN was also great, one of my favourite FPS during that time. Loved almost everything about it and the add-on was even better imo. Had some spectacular leveldesign.
Ah, figures, haha. Here's hoping Mumbo has a change of heart in light of this GOG release.
I still need to get around to playing that. I do enjoy Raven's stuff.
FAKK 2 is a sequel to the film while Elite Force 2 is a Star Trek game, the licences pertaining to which would have expired long ago.
andrerobot
Member
It's a shame nobody bought Emergence 
I was looking forward to the second episode.
I was looking forward to the second episode.
EdwardTivrusky
Member
It's a shame nobody bought Emergence
I was looking forward to the second episode.
Hey, i bought it and was looking forward to it continuing but nope
Glad to see SiN on GOG i'll pick it up in a few weeks once i've cleared the games i'm playing now.
It's a shame nobody bought Emergence
I was looking forward to the second episode.
I agree, but even if Ritual were in a less precarious position and didn't need to sell to MumboJumbo, there's no way all nine would have seen the light of day; instead, we probably would have got three and then a fully-fledged sequel...
...which just makes me all the more sad.
fushi
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I bought this game based on the boxart and some "early" reviews.
I was 12.
Only much later did I learn that if I had bought the other cover with Blade on it:
I'd have gotten the fixed version which didn't take two eons to load. #mistakesofyouth
I am disappointed that GOG doesn't have the soundtrack, though. I remember it being pretty darn good.
I was 12.
Only much later did I learn that if I had bought the other cover with Blade on it:
I'd have gotten the fixed version which didn't take two eons to load. #mistakesofyouth
I am disappointed that GOG doesn't have the soundtrack, though. I remember it being pretty darn good.
That screenshot has a very specific purpose. It shows that GOG sell the uncensored version:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_sin_gold/post80
The content edits in detail (NSFW!):
http://www.nextdimension.org/sinsteam/
Fascinating! Now I get it. Thanks!
Nope, got overshadowed by Half-Life and quickly forgotten.
fizzelopeguss
Banned
This game was one of the first demo's i played on my new voodoo card...it blew my fucking tits off.
The Second demo was half-life.
The Second demo was half-life.
I just want to buy the Heavy Metal game they made again. I don't think it is available anywhere. It is probably a long shot though.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
I'm a third of the way through, having just beaten the silo mission. It's got rough patches—why tell me to sneak around when it's so much easier to shoot people?!—but it compensates with some of the best gunplay, sense of place and non-linear interaction yet seen in an FPS at the time (all quite challenging). Half-Life came out soon after, but both games accomplish different goals with equal verve, be they sci-fi isolation or comic-book faux-cyberpunk action with a lot of Romero/Carmack meta-comedy. And there's something to be said for the amount of interaction with security terminals and everyday objects in this game...it's like the most eccentric developers behind Doom WADs and Duke Nukem got together to build an odd opus.
Barney Miller is now on my TV backlog thanks to SiN. How did that ever happen...
Barney Miller is now on my TV backlog thanks to SiN. How did that ever happen...
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
That seems to be a trend with FPSes overshadowed by Half-Life at the time. Even Daikatana seems to have a really good set of multiplayer maps, regardless of how well it plays.
Unknown Soldier
Banned
I remember how buggy this game was at release.
It didn't help that it was broken as shit at release...and before the internet trivialized patching.
I thought Emergence was super underrated.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Including the original game with it on Steam was a pretty cool move, and the difficulty adaptation system seems very rare for FPSes even now.
I still await the day that Levelord reveals to us that mumbojumbo has decided to revive Ritual and make a follow up to Episode 1 and he's on board.
It was goofy and a bit DN3D in nature, but it's really good at keeping its tongue in its cheek, with quality shooting.