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Yaos: Feb 22, 2003; She is a cat of significant gravy.

I want TIE Fighter, updated for 2011 with the awesome music intact without needing a disc in the CD drive so you can hear it. When it sell one million copies that will make Lucasarts create an open world Star Wars space game.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2011 03:50

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 13:52

Yaos: Feb 22, 2003; She is a cat of significant gravy.

GoldenNugget posted:

Is IW1 worth getting? I have IW2 and played a tiny bit of it.

Yes, the game owns, I have the original CDs and I played it with a joystick. No idea how it plays now as I've not played it since I originally got it all those years ago. There's some pretty neat things in Independence War, too bad nobody will ever make another IW game, since it's a space game. I can't wait until a popular company makes a fun space game so we get 500 clones of it.

Lloyd Van Buren posted:

Never used GOG before but I got a bunch of games off the sale. Some of them have additional stuff listed such as Alone in the Dark has 2&3 listed as additional content. Are those a separate purchase or included in the price with AITD 1? If they are included, are they needed to be downloaded separately or is it all one big package?

When I bought Star Control 1+2 they came in one installer and it put two shortcuts on my desktop. While nice, stop cluttering up my desktop GOG. :argh:

Yaos fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Oct 15, 2011

# ¿ Oct 15, 2011 04:58

Yaos: Feb 22, 2003; She is a cat of significant gravy.

AbstractNapper posted:

So they are actually doing the huge countdown thing too, huh?
It better be Lucastarts/Disney then.

It is, they have some countdown graphics that are in the style of Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and Monkey Island.
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/spoiler_alert_so_i_dug_into_the_countdown_thingy/page1

# ¿ Oct 24, 2014 17:18

Yaos: Feb 22, 2003; She is a cat of significant gravy.

Veib posted:

I've... I've only ever played X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter and the expansion Balance of Power. The original ones were way before before I started playing PC games and I just never got around to getting them later on.

Might as well try out how they hold up without the absolutely massive nostalgia bonuses everyone else has. I still have my Sidewinder Precision Pro!

For me, in order of quality it's TIE Fighter->X-Wing Alliance->X-Wing->X-wing Vs. TIE Fighter. I remember playing X-Wing Alliance in multiplayer and somebody said X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter was better. I thought it was terrible.

Worst mission I remember was the pre-trench run of the Death Star in X-Wing. You were supposed to blow up hangers and certain towers, while the hangers were easy to destroy there were tons of towers and no way to target them. I remember just flying around in circles blowing up towers not knowing if I was doing something wrong or not. I had to cheat to get past this mission.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2014 00:22

Yaos: Feb 22, 2003; She is a cat of significant gravy.

You know what's weird to me? X-Wing and TIE Fighter both came out before Doom. Doom released in December ~~1994~~ 1993, X-Wing February 1993, TIE Fighter July 1994. These things were full 3D too.

Edit: drat, Doom released December 1993. My memory is shot, thanks Disney. X-Wing came out almost a year before though.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2014 00:29

Yaos: Feb 22, 2003; She is a cat of significant gravy.

It was pointed out in the GOG thread that TIE Fighter of all things is now trending on Facebook. Anybody know if this somehow matches up with all the private data they steal or are a ton of people talking about TIE Fighter now?

# ¿ Oct 28, 2014 01:04

Yaos: Feb 22, 2003; She is a cat of significant gravy.

On my computer all I had to do was make a boot disk for the game. Want to play TIE Fighter? Time to reboot! Somehow I got it to where I did not need to use the boot disk, but the game would not have enough memory if I ran anything else first so it was kind of pointless.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2014 06:41

Yaos: Feb 22, 2003; She is a cat of significant gravy.

Raised by Hamsters posted:

Anyone else encounter / know how to fix this?

missions themselves are fine but all of the briefing/lobby stuff is psychedelic.

I remember back in the day games doing this, back then it happened when the color bit depth is not supported by the game. No clue how you can fix it though or if it's the same cause.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2014 07:59

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 13:52

Yaos: Feb 22, 2003; She is a cat of significant gravy.

Everything I'm reading says the 360 controller works with Rogue Squadron 3D, but it's not detected for me. Mouse control is unplayable and it appears the game pretends it's an analog stick.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2015 19:25

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