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al-azad posted:I meant published but I didn't know 3D Realms had the rights to sell the game as GT is owned by Atari. Looks like they have their entire catalog on there but there were two add-ons for the game and I wouldn't mind seeing GoG release it together. e: They're more like endorsed mods anyway Threep fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Apr 22, 2010 |
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graventy posted:EVERYTHING had a time-based cooldown! You know what I meant; abilities regen at the end of combat/the day, not every X rounds. :P graventy posted:I'll agree with you, though, WoW is a poor comparison. It just felt a ton more videogame-y than 3/3.5 did. We played it for a while, until every boss became an annoying HP sponge, and it became less about having fun and more about using the same two/three abilities over and over until they died. Which I suppose, is a probably GM problem not a system problem. The videogaminess is neither bad nor good in itself but is a side-effect of the million and a half good changes that 4E made, so I'm not going to complain. HP sponges are a bit less of a problem since MM2 - that was bad design in MM1, by WotC's own admission. As for using the same two/three abilities over and over again, aside from combat length making it more repetitive than it really is, I take it you were stuck in the 3.5 mentality of "if the rules don't say I can do it then I can't" (don't take it as an insult; almost everyone I know who tried 4E after playing 3.5 to the exclusion of all other systems was super confused by the narrativist elements 4E adopted)? Much like 3.5 and every edition of D&D ever, if combat just gets reduced to rolling dice, it sucks. You're meant to be using your skills and such to use the environment in interesting ways. Also: for the first time in 10+ years of publishing D&D material, WotC have admitted that they're not always 100% right when it comes to balance and are releasing frequent errata to the 4E books based largely on feedback from the CO people. If you get a chance to try 4E again with a DM who knows how to run 4E well, do so. You might be pleasantly surprised. (And that's probably enough of an aside on roleplaying games. Sorry guys, I got a bit carried away.)
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Apr 22, 2010 19:03
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You know what GoG needs? Terminal Velocity
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Apr 22, 2010 19:05
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Rise of the Triad had the best gibs ever. BOOM!
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Apr 22, 2010 19:07
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Yes they do.
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Apr 22, 2010 19:21
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I played the poo poo out of the demo/shareware version when I was young. Managed to get to some spinning robot-thing with moving arms inside a tunnel that I never managed to destroy. Wonder how I would fare today.
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Apr 22, 2010 19:27
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Hell yeah, good one. In a similarish vein, I wouldn't mind seeing Hardwar The future is greedy, motherfuckers.
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Apr 22, 2010 19:30
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GreenNight posted:Rise of the Triad had the best gibs ever. BOOM!
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Apr 22, 2010 19:32
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Didn't someone have have an LP going of Terminal Velocity a while back? It's not really game to be watched but still.
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Apr 22, 2010 19:33
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GreenNight posted:Rise of the Triad had the best gibs ever. BOOM! Rise had a lot of good features that never seemed to go into other games. I loved the begging enemies, the fake begging enemies that would shoot you and the hand of god was awesome.
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Apr 22, 2010 19:39
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tentaclesex posted:In a similarish vein, I wouldn't mind seeing Hardwar Me too. For some reason it seemed to have the most 'alive' game world of any freelancing game I've played.
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Apr 22, 2010 19:42
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I want this almost as badly as I want Planescape Torment. Someday please. 
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I haven't downloaded it yet, but I remember putting HOURS into Blood's multiplayer. The tower level still stands as an all-time great DM level. However. What was their thing with butts? I recall like 70% of all voice overs during DM were about anal something or another. I recall being very perturbed by this.....
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Here's what the official 3D Realms page says about Terminal Velocity. As you read it, you can practically hear the wailing electric guitars in the background and a dude with spiked hair yelling it at you and saying AWW YEAH after every other sentence.3D Realms posted:
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Apr 22, 2010 20:31
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tentaclesex posted:Hell yeah, good one. That used to be available from Home of the Underdogs... 
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I was going to buy the Master of Orion pack, and was looking around to see anything else worth buying, when all of a sudden... "Holy poo poo Settlers 2 is in here!?" My favourite game for the longest time growing up. I love this service. 
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Apr 22, 2010 20:58
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Beat the first episode of Blood. This game is such a fun use of the BUILD engine. Wish there were some other things to kill besides cultists, zombies, and gargoyles though...
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Migrating all of the mods to the installation of One Unit Whole Blood from gog.com is kind of a bitch since I need to rewrite all the DosBox config files, but it will be worth it. The way I'm structuring it is by having the shortcuts to all the mods in the main folder, which also contains /OST, /Documents, /DOSBOX, /Extras (my mod install files, maps and random poo poo I've picked up during the years), /Games (which contains a pure install of Blood, one "grouped" install for non-new-art mods, one "grouped" install for the russian "TheIT" mods and as many installs as there are "special unique snowflake" mods), /InstallationGOG and /Network. It's a pretty sweet setup.
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AxeManiac posted:It is rough, because you have to use medpacks. You have to get hurt, it kind of goes against everything games do these days where you feel invincible all the time. You can't just plod through it hoping you will regen your health. Redneck Rampage seems impossible to me because of this! RR was one of the hardest Build games out there with the Witchaven games barely edging it out with even more massive odds of dying on normal or easy. Not that there were a lot of Build games, but pretty much all of them were punishingly difficult really.
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Serious Michael posted:Also: Is Rise of the Triad any good? It's OK, it takes the 2D square tile-maps to the limit of what they're capable of, but that's not a lot even compared to Doom. It was intended to be another game like Wolfenstein 3D, but iD and Apogee split apart and it was turned into RotT. There are some great powerups, though. The graphics have aged really terribly.
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tentaclesex posted:Hell yeah, good one. gently caress yes, it needs Hardwar. I voted for it on the GoG wishlist. The studio is of course long gone, but it was published by Interplay which has a few titles on GoG already. Not sure if that means that the same people have the rights anymore, but you never know.
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Zenith Nadir posted:Welp, Blood's out, you guys know what to do. Yes I do. Got home a few hours ago from vacation and bought it without a second thought. I'll fix that Painkiller code too. That was from a while back, but I didn't think to see if it expired. Oh well, it's worth the extra dollar.
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Anyone got the music working with Blood? All my tinkering has been to no avail. EDIT: Got it, just moved all the .ogg files in the game directory to another place, the MIDI music is now playing. Oh how I love this game's MIDI. Dog Fat Man Chaser fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Apr 22, 2010 |
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^^^ The CD music worked for me right out of the box, although that box included throwing myself into the setup to map WASD controls. You did remember to look in the setup file, yes? If not you might want to screw around with the sound setup > choose music card. If you did, well, I am sorry I cannot helpCharles Martel posted:Yes I do. Got home a few hours ago from vacation and bought it without a second thought. I'll fix that Painkiller code too. That was from a while back, but I didn't think to see if it expired. Oh well, it's worth the extra dollar. Yeah, I bought it anyway, because, well, what's a dollar worth these days... edit: oh yeah, I bought Outcast too. I've been cheerfully giving myself tension headaches trying to get it to stretch out to the entire screen but no dice so far, although I did manage to get it running on a resolution visible to the naked eye. I guess I can live with the letterbox but I'd be happy to trade 1999-quality sharpness for screen-filling pixelation. It may be time to stop trying. It's good to know when to quit sometimes. Oh well sharts fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Apr 22, 2010 |
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:It's OK, it takes the 2D square tile-maps to the limit of what they're capable of, but that's not a lot even compared to Doom. It was intended to be another game like Wolfenstein 3D, but iD and Apogee split apart and it was turned into RotT. ROTT's soundtrack is pretty awesome to. "Goin' Down the Fast Way" is pretty much one of my favourite game music tracks.
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Jesus Christ, Outcast has such a long intro. I nodded off a few times missing things like gamesave I mean Gaamsaav. Good thing there's a lexicon in here. I'll also need to change this control setup if that's possible because I'm spoiled on WASD.
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I remember that I played Fury3 first, then found TV and thought it was a blatant ripoff of the game. I'd like to see Fury3 show up here, but I'm sure getting Microsoft on board will be impossible! Andrigaar posted:RR was one of the hardest Build games out there with the Witchaven games barely edging it out with even more massive odds of dying on normal or easy. Not that there were a lot of Build games, but pretty much all of them were punishingly difficult really. Heh, I remember NAM being pretty difficult. Tried to simulate the real difficulties of the Vietnam war or some nonsense...not a very good game...I also think it came out way after Build was past its prime.
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Original_Z posted:I remember that I played Fury3 first, then found TV and thought it was a blatant ripoff of the game. I'd like to see Fury3 show up here, but I'm sure getting Microsoft on board will be impossible! If you scroll all the way down the developers page it turns out they did Terminal Velocity, Fury3, and another game called Hellbender. We need all three of these games on gog right now.
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I remember playing HellBender! I'm not a fan of flying games much, but that game was fun and I remember at the time being amazed at the graphics.
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Something I wouldn't mind seeing on GOG is Inferno. I seem to remember it featuring fairly seamless transitions from space flight to planetary and even underwater "flight", as well as allowing you to fly through the interior of certain buildings/bases to blow further poo poo up. I never could make much sense of the game itself back then, but the scale seemed kind of impressive at the time.
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Septerra Core is working now I put a new QTS file in the directory, but it skips the videos. I tried doing what the GOG forums said (disable DirectDraw Acceleration in Quicktime), but it did not work.
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al-azad posted:Jesus Christ, Outcast has such a long intro. I nodded off a few times missing things like gamesave I mean Gaamsaav. Good thing there's a lexicon in here. I'll also need to change this control setup if that's possible because I'm spoiled on WASD. The start up window has a configuration editor. Click the joystick icon and scroll through all the functions with the up and down arrow keys. It isn't super, but it's better than most of the PC ports of console games give you these days!
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Yeah the opening of Outcast was so loving long and BORING. I didn't wanna skip it because I might miss something, but gently caress. When I saw "Bruno Bwhatever Presents" I got kinda excited. He's the Alone in the Dark guy, right?
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I am thinking of getting Gothic 2 Gold, but I've heard the Night of the Raven expansion ramps up the difficulty on an already tough game. I vaguely remember hearing about some mod or tweak or something make the game a little less brutal. Anyone know what I am talking about?
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Essobie posted:The start up window has a configuration editor. Click the joystick icon and scroll through all the functions with the up and down arrow keys. It isn't super, but it's better than most of the PC ports of console games give you these days! Outcast was a console game?
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AxeManiac posted:Outcast was a console game? I think he's just comparing it to some of the common poo poo we have to deal with on PCs these days with crappy console ports being the norm.
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Wow, like 3 hours just flew by playing moo2 on my laptop resting in bed. I've never played it before, it spooked me a bit, but I got the hang of it and it's mighty fun.
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"I have seen you, Ulukai. Come, speak to me." 
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MMAgCh posted:Something I wouldn't mind seeing on GOG is Inferno. I seem to remember it featuring fairly seamless transitions from space flight to planetary and even underwater "flight", as well as allowing you to fly through the interior of certain buildings/bases to blow further poo poo up. I never could make much sense of the game itself back then, but the scale seemed kind of impressive at the time. I've never played Inferno, but it's got a pretty rad soundtrack by Alien Sex Fiend. I've always wanted to play it since I heard that, would love if GOG get it. HellBender was awesome, too.
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Commissar Canuck posted:I am thinking of getting Gothic 2 Gold, but I've heard the Night of the Raven expansion ramps up the difficulty on an already tough game. I vaguely remember hearing about some mod or tweak or something make the game a little less brutal. Anyone know what I am talking about? You mean this? I bought Gothic 2 when it was on offer a couple weeks ago and was killed by the first goblin I encountered, searched for and installed that program and it's been plain sailing since (though I have died several times, but that's life). It's a slider that changes the amount of experience you get and a bunch of other stuff. You can change it to whatever's right for you; I put everything somewhere between the "Easy" and "NotR Default" slider positions. You should definitely get it if you like fantasy RPG's, what I've played of it (only the first hour or so, but I killed some bandits, worked on a farm and pissed off a pirate before I got to the town) is really immersive. The combat kind of blows even with the patch though, near as I can tell there's no auto-aim so you might end up stabbing an ally during a battle by accident.
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