Joseph Merrick
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jsf probably (I hope)
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GOG News and Updates 2012
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jsf probably (I hope)
Xander51
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Oh dude. If it's Anachronox I will buy it in a heartbeat. I never had the chance to play it and I regret it to this day.
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
System Shock and System Shock 2 would sell huge on GOG. Probably eclipsing their current sales figures, to be honest.
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
I'm just about to start Baldur's Gate II. I've never played a D&D game. Anything I should know beforehand? I feel like the game will be overwhelming.
I've got the cd somewhere, so this will give me cause to re-install.
It was a lot of fun, with quite a few well-flushed out characters.
PumpkinPie
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I completed BG1 and I found BG2 overwhelming. I'd say just take your time and save often with multiple save files. Your characters can be 'exploded' in battle and you lose them forever (except story-related characters).
New clue: misplaced in time, but definitely not noxious.
Joseph Merrick
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the damage system can be confusing if like me you have never played actual d&d. but all you really need to know is that it simulates dice being rolled for combat/damage dealing. so for example 1d6 means you're rolling one 6-sided die to figure out damage, so 1-6 is the hitpoints range. additionally you'll get the +1 modifiers or what you call it, and that is just added on to the total after the roll. 2d4 would be two 4-sided dice rolled, damage range of 2-8 (1-4 per die).
I think.. really that's all you need to know about. jump in. oh yeah, save a lot (a lot).
Templar Wizard
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Sly Boots... today?
Joseph Merrick
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TODAY BIATCH
Templar Wizard
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pay or book!
Joseph Merrick
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have played cryostasis tw?
Templar Wizard
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played the first hour. I cant remember why I stopped, perhaps the latest Tunnel of Shooting came out :hippo
Joseph Merrick
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yeah, it is somewhat slow in the beginning.
edit: and then the guys with keyholes in their heads and keys for fingers appear. :drool
edit: and then the guys with keyholes in their heads and keys for fingers appear. :drool
And that's before we get into the truly supernatural.
Joseph Merrick
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Oh, look. The page for that other game is up now
Some crappy JRPG ripoff
(Minsc, I assume you have your big bold pen at the ready?)
Some crappy JRPG ripoff
(Minsc, I assume you have your big bold pen at the ready?)
archnemesis
Member
50+ hours? That's not a good way to sell me on a game.
It's an RPG built in the Quake 2 engine.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Its funny and its good.
MrCunningham
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The lead designer was the creator of Commander Keen. The game was patterned after many square RPG's from the mid to late 90's (three party system like Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana, battle system like Final Fantasy 7). It has a good sense of humor and doesn't take itself too seriously. Has a lengthy quest.
yeah the character models are chunky and don't look very good, but that was a problem of the Quake 2 engine. Even back when this game was released it looked a little dated. But there's still a good game here.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
I thought it looked pretty amazing back then considering it used the Q2 engine. Run really smooth on my old PC too, and with some great environments in terms of complex interesting design and aesthetics and natural environments that at the time didn't seem to be very blocky at all (but probably are now). But I think the combat system which I didn't mind too much at the time could be a deal breaker these days sadly. Oh well, bought. Edit: shitty shitty extras. Oh well.
PumpkinPie
Banned
It's finally here!
Sounds cool. Hope it isn't really 50 hours long though, would've preferred 15-25.
yes, I noticed this too. UI is great too.
MrCunningham
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I was mainly commenting on the character models. Compared to other games like UT99 and even Shenmue on the Dreamcast (which was released the same year), the character models looked pretty blocky to me. But the environments on the other hand looked pretty damn good. To be honest I only ever played the demo and never owned the full game. A friend of mine owned a copy though, and I remember watching him play through the first section. It looked good to me, but I never did look into buying it.
But I caved in and purchased it right now.
SteveWinwood
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Yeah the site is expertly designed, really amazing UX design.
malingenie
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I played it a long time ago, but definitely don't think it is a 50 hour game. If it is, it felt like much shorter which is a sign of a good game!
If you check out some old reviews of the game, they all mention it being right around 40-60 hours.
If you use a guide/the internet it will probably be shorter, but from what I remember it took me a decent amount of playing 2hrs a day to finish it up.
Of All Trades
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A ~50 hour game that ends on a cliffhanger.
So I never got anything off GOG before though I always thought the idea was really cool. Was super stoked to hear that they have Ultima 7 Complete. The one thing that bothers me about playing old games on new monitors though is that they look crazy jank in high res. What are some good ways to mitigate this? Any good filters or maybe just playing in a teeny window? Any other suggestions to improve the experience of playing old games like U7 on modern hardware? Thanks!
Joseph Merrick
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it uses dosbox where you can set the scaling yourself (in the .conf file). normal2x and normal3x are ok for old pixels games
They are gross. To me.
Just b/c they make the games feel very different than I remember them. I scanlined the hell out of MAME back when I used to play that for example.I played through the entirety of Elder Scrolls: Arena using one, I *think* it was hq3x.
A little bit obviously filtery, but acceptable enough.
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