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So not every GOG game has a Mac version, just some of them? Is the plan to convert them all eventually? I was very disappointed to find out that I won't be playing Quest for Glory on my new Mac. 
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The Kins posted:In the meantime, just download the Windows installer, then shove the contents into Boxer: It'll automagically use the GOG config files so it'll work right. Thanks! I tried this yesterday and it worked great. If I want to try to get something like Fallout 2 or Torment to work on a Mac, I'd have to use Winebottler? Hah, as I was typing this I look on GOG and they've started to add Interplay games. And even though I bought Fallout on the PC I can still install the Mac version. I love this company. Anyhoo - Winebottler, yeah or nay?
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Oct 26, 2012 14:51
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Starhawk64 posted:Dammit Gog, I like classic games but I also like having money. Yeah, this. Does anyone know if the WC games have all the speech packs and other crazy add-ons they did? Also SMAC doesn't include Alien Crossfire  (I'm buying it anyway.)
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Nov 2, 2012 15:58
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Al! posted:Leaving the governors on in SMAC seems to be a pretty bad idea, right? I did and it just pumped out a bunch of scout units I didn't need. If you're not micromanaging your cities in a Sid Meier game every turn then you're playing it wrong.  (Governors / automanage tends to be very dumb, you're much better off taking a quick sweep through your settlements each turn to make sure everything's going well.)
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Nov 4, 2012 21:08
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Multiplayer DEFCON on an office LAN is awesome. It's terrible with the few remaining sperglords who play it over the Internet.
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Nov 21, 2012 20:04
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Brocktoon posted:From what people have said about it, I assume it's not worth paying $5 for QfG5 if I already have 1-4? It's insanely hard to get 5 to run on a Windows machine without glitches and crashes. I'd recommend buying GOG's version just for the compatibility alone, since they've solved all of those problems and made it so you can actually finish the game without throwing your computer out a window in frustration. Also
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Dec 17, 2012 19:35
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JebanyPedal posted:I am not lying, or exaggerating, when I say Eador: Genesis is easily the best game that has been uploaded to this site yet. Good gently caress. Is this part of a bundle today? It looks like a more modern version of Master of Magic, which is to say "this is probably how I'll be pissing away my Christmas Vacation."
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Dec 19, 2012 19:27
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Saoshyant posted:It's not. Don't let that stop you, though. No Mac version, which means I can't play it on the road. Need to figure out how to get that dual-boot working on my new Air.
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Dec 19, 2012 19:44
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TheIllestVillain posted:The Belated Halloween bundle is really tempting, I'm not sure how accessible the games are though since they're almost as old as i am. I was a senior in high school when Phantasmagoria came out.  They're from the era when adventure games were trying to be interactive movies, and Sierra took that very literally with their FMV games. They're OK, but certainly relics of their times more than most of the early 1990s graphic adventures are. GK1 is great. The others... well, I'd suggest going with other Sierra games first, like .Although Phantasmagoria 1+2 are a real headtrip to see how they were pushing the limits of gaming back then. There are some really vicious FMV murder scenes in the first one.
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Dec 20, 2012 01:11
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I wish GOG gave some kind of referral/linkback bonus to people who post about their games on social sites. I have at least 2 Facebook friends who bought the Sierra bundles yesterday because I keep harping on about their sales.
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Dec 20, 2012 18:09
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Is there a recommended way to get a Windows GOG game to run on Mac? I know the DOS emulated ones will run under Boxxer, but I'm specifically thinking of Alpha Centauri. Is this getting into Parallels territory? I've got a Win7 CD from my old machine that I'm not using, but I have an Air and I'm working at Newbie levels of Mac-knowledge.
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Dec 28, 2012 17:29
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macnbc posted:Is it worth picking up? Or is this one of those that has aged badly and is only for nostalgic value? So.. it's a gigantic YMMV. I played Phantasmagoria in high school and really enjoyed it, being a horror movie fan and all, but the games have aged badly and the puzzles are awful compared to (some) other Sierra games. The FMV adventures were from a time when 3D rendering was still really crude and it seemed like the best way to achieve a "realistic" look was to use production-heavy and space-heavy FMV. Unfortunately that means that the costs to make these games were astronomically high for the time, and Sierra nearly (or did) took a wash on them. If they have nostalgic value for you, you always wanted to try them, or you just want to see how games might have gone in a parallel universe where FMV won out over 3D rendering somehow, give them a try. If you're a a horror fan or really want to play the first game featuring a bisexual main character (P2), they're not bad for that either. If not, you can probably skip them. Hakkesshu posted:If you want a good FMV adventure game, play Gabriel Knight 2 or the Tex Murphy games instead of this shitpile. This is totally true. Any of the Tex Murphy games would be better than Phantastmagorias.
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Dec 30, 2012 17:30
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Lucinice posted:Gabriel Knight 1,2 and 3 worth getting? Absolutely, sorta (see my post above), and good story.
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Dec 30, 2012 21:01
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Cirofren posted:Thief with a splash of magic is my favourite way to play these games. You can do all of the thief and mage specific quests of which there are a few in each game. Although fighter is good if you plan to go paladin in 3. This. It unlocks the most options for you play-wise and you get to see the majority of the game(s) this way. However, I absolutely have to recommend a Fighter-Paladin playthrough (you can get Paladin at the end of 2 and it's a fantastic sense of accomplishment if you do), especially because Paladin has a bunch of extra storyline in 4 that the other classes don't have that make the game feel more complete.
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Jan 2, 2013 07:09
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I could dig a GOG release of Crimson Skies... The first reply is a request for one of the two EA Sherlock Holmes adventure games. Man, I'd forgotten those, but Serrated Scalpel was one of the best non-Sierra, non-Lucas adventure games ever made, and if they brought those to GOG I'd buy them first day. Ditto for Innocent Until Caught. Hope you're listening GOG!!!
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Jan 4, 2013 00:26
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The Kins posted:New release is Leisure Suit Larry: Greatest Hits (And Misses) for This is the first Sierra pack I've seen that comes with Mac versions too (instead of the need to run them in boxxer.) Hopefully they're going to retrofit the others. Quest for Glory 5 on Mac would be very, very, very, very, very awesome.
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Jan 17, 2013 19:11
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. It has LSL 1-6 (except 4 - alas, the floppies are still missing), the VGA remake of 1, and Softporn Adventure.
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Sackmo posted:I really liked their cute early attempts at child protection by asking a bunch of questions only "grownups" would know the answer to. Here's a list of them from 3. Hell, I remember asking my parents in the 80s about the Beatles to beat LSL1's similar questions. "Mom, who wasn't a Beatle: John, Paul, Ringo, or Mick?" "Mick... why do you want to know?" "Oh, no reason..." At least I could name all of the Beatles and the Stones by the time I was 10. e:  quote:Two famous sex researchers were
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Jan 21, 2013 17:44
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Alpha Centauri, awesome. I couldn't get it to work right with Wineskin. Guess I'm not getting any work done today (unless my drones can do it.)
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Jan 24, 2013 17:52
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The Kins posted:New release is The Bards Tale 1, 2, 3 and The Funny Xbox One for ten gold pieces. That's not a bad deal, and I wouldn't normally undercut GOG, but if you just want the original 3 games they're cheaper on iOS and play REALLY well on an iPad, and you can import characters from game to game now. That being said, any time you buy Bard's Tale is a good time. I wonder if it would be possible to get Wasteland on GOG?
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Jan 29, 2013 18:09
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Hidden Asbestos posted:I'm not really sure it has held up to the passage of time as well as some of the other GoGs - but that's another matter. You just shut up of course it has.  Actually that's fantastic news and I'd missed that tweet. Glad they'll finally be able to re-release it.
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Jan 29, 2013 21:30
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MMAgCh posted:Don't forget that you could only actually level up at one particular place in the city as well (the Review Board). I want to say that doing so cost gold to boot, but I don't remember for certain and Google isn't proving helpful when it comes to confirming or denying this. It doesn't cost gold to level up, but it does cost gold to buy your casters higher-level spells. As others mentioned you will die a LOT in the beginning. You also spend a lot of time rolling for good stats, since it uses a 3d6 rule to generate your 3-18 stat blocks. If you don't want to gently caress with spending a half-hour rolling a new party each time you wipe, there's a lovely, cheatsy way to get some money early on: create several parties of throwaway characters, add them to your party with one good character you want to keep, pool their starting gold, then delete them. If you can get through the catacombs, you'll generally be powerful enough to survive, but it's still a really hard game and one bad encounter can wipe even the best-equipped party.
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Jan 29, 2013 23:51
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Burning Nerd Core posted:Dear thread: there's probably a simple answer to this, but in Sid Meier's timeless Alpha Centauri sometimes you start with a colony pod, and I seem to recall that a similar thing happened in Civ I (or a free tech?) and it doesn't seem related to difficulty or Options. Do I just start new games until I get what seems to me a colossal and earth shaking advantage or Be A Chill Dude and Deal. And how do I get the mindworm romance. Some factions automatically start with colony pods. I don't recall which ones. Getting a good start isn't usually as important as how quickly you can explore in the early game and nab as many Unity pods as you possibly can. Mindworm romance comes later, through a combination of tech and the things you build. Some factions are more predisposed to it than others. \/\/\/ Huh, OK, I could have sworn it was faction-based. Either way, seek thee out as many Unity pods as possible, avoid tromping through thick fungus to set off more mindworms, and get 3 colonies as fast as possible, making sure one of them has a really high mineral count so you can use it to produce Secret Projects faster than your opponents. Peas and Rice fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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Goddamn it, for a brief moment my heart lept that there might be a version of Loom coming. And then maybe a kickstarter for the next planned 2 games in the series. Someday.
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Feb 5, 2013 18:20
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Eulisker posted:You can get loom on steam if you want to. I own it but did not play it yet so I don't know which version it is but I guess it's the VGA version. gently caress, awesome. I should probably get over my irrational Steam aversion then.
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Feb 5, 2013 18:44
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Alchenar posted:The only person who sells me on a gog.com game is ten year old me. I'm making this my GOG profile description.
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Feb 7, 2013 19:17
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Alchenar posted:10 year old me is surprisingly willing to say 'eh, there's a reason I didn't spend my pocket money on that game'. I was in college when Daikatana came out so thankfully ten-year-old me is only interested in old graphic adventures. 
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Feb 7, 2013 20:00
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gradenko_2000 posted:As someone who's never played any of the *Shocks, but is well aware of their pedigree and legend, would it be worth just going through them unmodded and blind? Blind yes. Unmodded.. well, the texture mods probably wouldn't go amiss.
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Feb 13, 2013 15:09
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If you play it in a dark room at 3am with the sound cranked up (as it's intended to be played) that won't be a problem
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Feb 13, 2013 15:15
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Male Man posted:Unless you're deaf. Ouch. Wow, sorry.
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Feb 13, 2013 16:06
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So anyone else going to go with something like "hey honey, how would you like to spend Valentine's Day watching me play a scary as gently caress game" tomorrow?
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Feb 13, 2013 22:46
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I bought it checked out and downloaded about a half hour ago with no problems.
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Feb 14, 2013 19:15
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voltron lion force posted:I literally can not wait to get home and get this poo poo installed. I'm at work, listening to YouTube videos of SHODAN audio logs. Also since it's Valentine's day and all here's a SHODAN/GLADOS Valentine kind of. (SFW)
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Feb 14, 2013 22:21
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I would take a talkie re-release of the Star Trek 25th Anniversary adventure game. I would also take the entire back library from Lucasarts.
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Feb 20, 2013 19:41
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Basic Chunnel posted:Would System Shock 2 play nice on a netbook, do you think? It's not great for much (Deus Ex is playable at lowest settings) but for whatever reason things like Quake 2 run smooth as butter. It works stunningly well (in 720p) on my almost 4-year-old HTPC, which I cannot imagine would be much worse in the hardware department than a recent netbook. And that's with XBMC, Xpadder, and some other background poo poo running. In related news, System Shock 2 on a 50" TV with a controller loving owns, especially hearing SHODAN's voice through an amplified sound system.
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Feb 22, 2013 00:22
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Basically that, but with a 360 controller. Xpadder is awesome. Right stick is the mouse and the sensitivity is all the way up, so it's pretty fast. I'm not going to play all the way through this way (I still have a keyboard-mouse connected to the HTPC) but I did it as a proof of concept and it does work.
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Feb 22, 2013 00:38
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Deakul posted:PC gamer born and raised so that all seems very alien to me, whatever floats your boat though. Same here (PC gamer - not really a heavy console gamer until the 360 came along.) But I've gotten very used to the "comfy couch, glass of whisky, big TV, and 360 controller" gaming lifestyle rather than hunched over my desk. The first thing I did after setting up XBMC on my HTPC was to install all my old Sierra games and configure Xpadder to play the ones that use the point and click (not typing) interface. So yeah, I'm that guy. That guy who plays Gabriel Knight and on a 50" monitor that also happens to be my TV.e: I also got DEFCON working great with the controller on the big TV which is fantastic because my nostalgia-brain makes me think I'm in WarGames. Peas and Rice fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Feb 22, 2013 |
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Feb 22, 2013 01:26
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Bloodly posted:Kinda adding to this. Tie Fighter supported Mouse+Keyboard. X-Wing vs Tie Fighter did NOT; it required a flightstick to play for unknown reasons. This was weird and frustrating. Still is.  I didn't have a joystick when I tried to play X-Wing, and ended up buying one for that game and using it throughout TIE Fighter and the rest of the games (plus a keyboard for all the various commands you needed for shields and weapons and poo poo.) X-Wing was godawful with a mouse because you had to drag it across your pad, pick it up, then drag it again to keep turning your ship. Unless they fixed that somehow a mouse is the worst way to play the X-Wing franchise.
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Feb 22, 2013 18:04
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Sackmo posted:After playing X3 I never really understood why more space sims don't use a similar solution to mouse control. Basically you just move the cursor around a center point on the screen, and that simulates the axes of a joystick. This would have made the X-Wing series far more tolerable with a mouse, and would have helped a lot with sales, too, since people wouldn't be compelled to buy a joystick for a single game. The aforementioned Star Trek 25th Anniversary did that with ship combat, and it worked OK (even if ship combat was still awful in that game.) I figured that would have been the fix to implement in TIE fighter, but I distinctly remember trying to use and mouse and having to drag-drop-drap ad infinitum before I bought my joystick.
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teethgrinder posted:The Collector's editions would have been outstanding if they had kept the original music, at least as an option. I could only take so much of the orchestral score on an endless loop. I must have never played the Collector's editions - I had the DOS versions on floppy and never bothered to upgrade. Losing the music is criminal. One of the coolest parts of X-Wing was that the music dynamically adapts to what's happening on screen. TIE Fighters launch? Cue the imperial march. Flying through space not doing anything? Calm music. Woah, dogfight starting? Action music kicks off. And it was all seamless, or nearly so, for a DOS game in 1992 on a Soundblaster card could be. Which is all to say that we need this poo poo on GOG right the hell now.
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Fillerbunny posted:X-Wing Alliance was a good throwback to the original X-Wing, but it was no X-Wing. It had the best multiplayer support but the campaign was kind of "meh."
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