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Tim Burns Effect posted:Monkey Island 4 was as good as the rest of them up until Monkey Kombat imo, sure the story was dumb but most of the jokes were still pretty solid The swamp was preeeeetty fuckin' bad.
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The swamp is one of the better puzzles. I'm replaying it for the first time in years and it's worse than I remember. I don't think any of the characters introduced in this game are at all likable. Edit: Now if you want a lovely puzzle try the lava boat. I've failed the loving thing 10 times so far today. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Jun 26, 2018 |
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Twobirds posted:It's kinda corny, but the developer of Cultist Simulator was getting bugged to implement cloud saves on Steam, and noted it's on the agenda but usually isn't easy to just add features. This lead me to Judas Iscariot's Twitter, which lead me to this hilarious thread by the Paradigm dev. Never read the refund notes as a point and click dev. https://twitter.com/ParadigmGame/status/999981119033327616
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gently caress these lovely rear end reCaptchas god drat
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Myst 3 and Myst 4 have made their digital distribution debut, and the rest of the series is on sale with a heavy discount.
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The Kins posted:Myst 3 and Myst 4 have made their digital distribution debut, and the rest of the series is on sale with a heavy discount. For those that like adventure games but haven't played these I think they're pretty good. Myst 4 is my guilty pleasure favorite of the Myst series. It's basically the height of the prerendered graphics era. It's got an amazing soundtrack. The puzzles actually do a decent job of integrating into their environment. Also they actually manage to give the characters more personality and motivation than the rest of the series ever did.
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So what do the Ultima games play like? Are they closer to The Witcher or Final Fantasy?
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punk rebel ecks posted:So what do the Ultima games play like? Are they closer to The Witcher or Final Fantasy? Neither really, but they're top down and and turn based, if I had to pick one of those two they're definitely closer to Final Fantasy.
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punk rebel ecks posted:So what do the Ultima games play like? Are they closer to The Witcher or Final Fantasy? Slam your dick in a drawer for 1-4. Slam your dick in a padded drawer for 5 & 6. 7 is easy. 8 sucks. Let's not talk about 9. Start with 4 or 6 imo.
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The game's continuity really begins with U4, since U1 to U3 were much more primitive in terms of plot. Play U6 with Nuvie, play U7 with Exult. U7 is split into two parts. After you finish The Black Gate and before you start The Serpent Isle, you should play Ultima Underworld II. For the Serpent Isle, since it was kinda rushed to meet deadlines, you should seek out the Serpent Isle Fixes mod for Exult.
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ultima 1-3 are the sort of really rough, amateur-like games where they're absolutely trivial if you know what to do but you can be flailing around uselessly for hours upon hours if you don't and the world isn't quite interesting enough until 4 for that to be fun.
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Cat Mattress posted:The game's continuity really begins with U4, since U1 to U3 were much more primitive in terms of plot. U4 has one of my absolute favourite plots for an RPG, but 7 is probably what most people think of, when they think Ultima. U7 also has an incredibly engrossing story, and so, so many enjoyable characters and locales to visit.
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What makes Ultima IX bad? I notice that it has really good graphics for 1999. Perhaps only surpassed by Shenmue.
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U5 and 6 supremacy
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punk rebel ecks posted:What makes Ultima IX bad? I notice that it has really good graphics for 1999. Perhaps only surpassed by Shenmue.
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It also has the reveal that you doomed the world to destruction by trying to become a better person back in Ultima IV.
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There's nothing in Ultima IX that isn't done much better in other games. The small amount of value it has back in the day was simply a large somewhat free form 3d world.
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SelenicMartian posted:It's rushed, buggy, poorly balanced, badly written, linear in unexpected ways, and is a disaster resulting from years of development hell. "What's a paladin?" The saddest thing about Ultima IX is that the original version of it didn't look that bad (at least from the few screenshots of it that exist), and the original plot sounded a lot better (if a little weird and silly in some cases).
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You know, I've always wondered about why didn't they just re-use the Ultima Online engine for IX (and kept the original idea for the story) instead of constantly trying to get ahead of the technological curve at a time when 3D was still very rough.
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I could be confusing Ultima IX with Might & Magic 9, since both were horrible final chapters* of respected and treasured RPG series, but I'm fairly sure that there is a huge fan patch out there that fixes the game up to be a solid and playable, if lacklustre, game. It's worth mentioning for anyone who was put off by all the bugs and jankiness of the game instead of the fact that the devs essentially pissed all over something that they loved. *I am aware of Might and Magic X, but that came much, much later and was something of a surprise.
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wielder posted:You know, I've always wondered about why didn't they just re-use the Ultima Online engine for IX (and kept the original idea for the story) instead of constantly trying to get ahead of the technological curve at a time when 3D was still very rough. I mean that's kinda mid-to-late 90s game development in a nutshell. Trying to do things just because the tech exists rather than it being a good idea or good fit for your game
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JustJeff88 posted:I could be confusing Ultima IX with Might & Magic 9, since both were horrible final chapters* of respected and treasured RPG series, but I'm fairly sure that there is a huge fan patch out there that fixes the game up to be a solid and playable, if lacklustre, game. It's worth mentioning for anyone who was put off by all the bugs and jankiness of the game instead of the fact that the devs essentially pissed all over something that they loved. MM9 uses lithtek for fucksake. Blood 2, Shogo, NOLF, and Might and Magic. What the hell. Much easier to mod i'm sure. Babylon Astronaut fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jul 1, 2018 |
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Anyone able to get wing commander or the x wing games to run with a modern joystick? Is it worth giving a shot?
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They worked just fine out of the box with my CH stick. Didn't even have to mess around with any software.
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Am I the only person here who likes Might and Magic 9? I'm not going to say it's a great game, but I liked the dungeons for the most part. The soundtrack was also decent. I replayed it a couple of years ago and had a good time with it even if it does kind of fall apart at the end.
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FruitPunchSamurai posted:Am I the only person here who likes Might and Magic 9? I'm not going to say it's a great game, but I liked the dungeons for the most part. The soundtrack was also decent. I replayed it a couple of years ago and had a good time with it even if it does kind of fall apart at the end. Most people who dislike 9 haven't played it. Welcome to the internet I guess.
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Might and Magic 9 is fine enough when it's modded; it's not a great game and it's not close to 6 or 7 but when patched it's roughly the equivalent of 8. The big problem with M&M9 is that they were really ambitious but the publisher was on its knees and desperately needed a win so it was released in an unfinished state. Wizards & Warriors was of course better but we're never getting a re-release of that. Testekill fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Jul 2, 2018 |
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Testekill posted:Wizards & Warriors was of course better but we're never getting a re-release of that. Why's that? I know D.W. Bradley worked on that game leaving Sir-Tech (unless I'm mixing that up with another game.)
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Testekill posted:Might and Magic 9 is fine enough when it's modded; it's not a great game and it's not close to 6 or 7 but when patched it's roughly the equivalent of 8. The big problem with M&M9 is that they were really ambitious but the publisher was on its knees and desperately needed a win so it was released in an unfinished state. I take a little bit of an issue with that. I think that eight is a pretty good game that inevitably gets compared to its predecessor, 7, which is generally the most beloved of the latter M&M games. I maintain that putting it up against 9, which had serious issues, is kind of taking the piss. You're entitled to your opinion, and I admit that my saying that 8 is my personal favourite puts me in the minority, but I think that this is some pretty serious hyperbole. Just to clarify, I know that you said patched 9, but I stand by my statement. Testekill posted:Wizards & Warriors was of course better but we're never getting a re-release of that. A very good game and you are, sadly, probably right about ever seeing it for sale again, but I will say that I will put nothing past GOG since they brought back System Shock 2. If they could get that back, they can do anything. I will also say that I was able to find a version of the game that runs on Windows 7 x64 with minimal grief, if anyone cares to try. I refuse to apologise for  when it concerns a game that the creators don't care enough to sell or refuse to sort out the ownership of, viz No One Lives Forever.Edit: Thought that there was a :nolf: Smiley; sadly not.
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GOG is awesome; but where the gently caress is Mechwarrior 1-4? I hope 5 is good and supports VR.
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chaosapiant posted:GOG is awesome; but where the gently caress is Mechwarrior 1-4? I hope 5 is good and supports VR. Probably beside Crimson Skies in Microsoft’s vault.
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JustJeff88 posted:A very good game and you are, sadly, probably right about ever seeing it for sale again, but I will say that I will put nothing past GOG since they brought back System Shock 2. If they could get that back, they can do anything. I will also say that I was able to find a version of the game that runs on Windows 7 x64 with minimal grief, if anyone cares to try. I refuse to apologise for If it's possible, can you post a link, or at least point me in the direction of where I might find the download at? I might not check out right now, but I'd like to know where I could grab it in the future, along with instructions on how to get it running on Win7 x64. chaosapiant posted:GOG is awesome; but where the gently caress is Mechwarrior 1-4? I hope 5 is good and supports VR. I think Harmony Gold has the death grip on the Mechwarrior games.
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Kibayasu posted:Probably beside Crimson Skies in Microsoft’s vault. I forgot all about Crimson Skies! Never played it but remember reading the pc gamer review and thinking it looked dope.
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Max Wilco posted:If it's possible, can you post a link, or at least point me in the direction of where I might find the download at? I might not check out right now, but I'd like to know where I could grab it in the future, along with instructions on how to get it running on Win7 x64. Mechwarrior 4's doesn't have any Unseen designs so that's actually possible (and the licensing's somewhat sane/traceable iirc), but anything older has Unseen designs and insane licensing in general. Especially 1 and 2.
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For the record, I -ed Crimson Skies for my modern hardware several years after my original disc was destroyed. If I recall right, it ran on Win7 without any real jiggering or cajoling.
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So which M&M games you would recommend?
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RadicalR posted:So which M&M games you would recommend? 3, 4, 5, or 6. 3 is a good straightforward rpg. 4 and 5 go together to make one big game and use the same engine as 3. 6 is the first M&M to use a real time 3d-ish engine. It's clunky as hell though. I loved it back in the day.
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chaosapiant posted:GOG is awesome; but where the gently caress is Mechwarrior 1-4? I hope 5 is good and supports VR. Basically never going to happen because of legal hell. To quote myself from a previous discussion on this: Tempest_56 posted:Yup. To go into things:
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I'd suggest that needs a slight alteration, Tempest, just because Mechwarrior 2 is also rife with Unseen.
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Isn’t it entirely possible Harmony Gold does not, in fact, have the rights but no one has felt it was worth the time and money to hash that out? I would Goddamn love it if they got Heavy Gear 1 and 2 on there. The first is a MW2 ripoff with some more customization and an infinite campaign mode as well as a story mode with cheesy as gently caress FMV. 2 is more of an FPS that nails the way Gears aren’t mechs, they’re more like powered armor. You’re a lot more nimble and there’s cool zero-g missions and poo poo.
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