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Too late, RDR finally arrived. (reply)

CyberKN — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 17:16:28 +0000

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Worth playing! (reply)

slycrel — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 02:30:16 +0000

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Skip It! (reply)

Morpheus — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 10:35:38 +0000

Unless you don’t care about gamerscore...this game is a pain. I literally just completed it less than a month ago and it was pure hell. XD

Oldest game in your backlog (reply)

Morpheus — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 06:34:37 +0000

If you're talking about games you've bought but haven't started...

Well, I always wanted to play Shining Force 2, but I didn't play the original until the Dreamcast Smash Pack. And I didn't get the sequel until Sonic's UGC, so....2008?

Ultima V (reply)

narcogen — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 22:49:28 +0000

Bought it while I was in the Peace Corps, in 1988 (I was home to visit, it had just come out, I was afraid that if I waited until I returned to the US for good I wouldn't be able to find it). Found the disks a few years ago when we moved to Seattle - still in plastic. No longer had any way to read them.

They, along with a couple of tons of other stuff, went to Goodwill just before the move. :(

https://www.gog.com/game/ultima_456

4 by itself is free, in case you hadn't played that one also... or perhaps didn't finish it...

https://www.gog.com/game/ultima_4

THEN PLAY KOTOR 2!! (reply)

cheapLEY — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 22:29:02 +0000

I need to finish that game. I loved KOTOR, but missed the sequel. I was playing it through Gamepass before Forsaken came out. The beginning of that game is boring. I made it off the space station and to the first planet trying to find the Ebon Hawk, and it was still boring. I want to finish it, and I plan to, eventually. I hope it picks up pretty quickly though.

THEN PLAY KOTOR 2!! (reply)

stabbim — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 22:08:11 +0000

100% yes. She raises some very serious questions about the nature of The Force that I still think back to every time I experience a new Star Wars story. Her words will haunt you forever.

Oldest game in your backlog (reply)

Kermit — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 21:59:43 +0000

Partial victor:

Myst

In April, I Kickstarted Cyan's effort to release the entire Myst collection for modern machinery for Myst's 25th Anniversary - it was funded at the end of May. They needed about a quarter million to make it happen - they raised almost 3 million.

I've got all 7 games now, sitting on my Mac, downloaded from Steam. ;) I haven't found the time (yet) to go back and play them. (I didn't play them all when they came out - I think I only played 3 of 'em.)

Remember: Marty and Mike did the music for Riven!

And Marty found out about Bungie because at CYAN they were all playing Marathon 2!

Nice! If I knew that I'd forgotten it.

Here was my experience playing Riven: a friend who worked in Research Triangle Park gave me this humongous CRT monitor their company was getting rid of. It could barely fit it into the back of my hatchback. When I say it was huge, the screen might have been 20" but the back end jutted out several feet. It was very heavy. I'm sure it cost $1,000 new. I was excited to get it. I got a neighbor to help me get it into the house and basically put it on the living room floor. I couldn't move it again for months. I was so desperate to use it that I moved my computer to it, and that's how I played Riven, lying on the floor, propped on my elbows, getting a crick in my neck. Enjoyed the game regardless.

Deux Ex: Invisible War (reply)

INSANEdrive — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 21:36:51 +0000

I must have played the demo of this game... a thousand times. Not as much as I did for the Splinter Cell demo... but, man. This game was my introduction to not only the cyberpunk concept, but the first action role-playing game as well. It was highly panned, seeing as it was the successor to Deux Ex. I imagine it hasn't aged well.

Plus I found the intro to be really pretty too.

THEN PLAY KOTOR 2!! (reply)

INSANEdrive — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 21:23:50 +0000

Kreia is one of the best written characters of any medium. If you disagree with me, you're wrong.

Oldest game in your backlog (reply)

Cody Miller — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:47:28 +0000

Partial victor:

Myst

In April, I Kickstarted Cyan's effort to release the entire Myst collection for modern machinery for Myst's 25th Anniversary - it was funded at the end of May. They needed about a quarter million to make it happen - they raised almost 3 million.

I've got all 7 games now, sitting on my Mac, downloaded from Steam. ;) I haven't found the time (yet) to go back and play them. (I didn't play them all when they came out - I think I only played 3 of 'em.)

Remember: Marty and Mike did the music for Riven!

And Marty found out about Bungie because at CYAN they were all playing Marathon 2!

Ultima V (reply)

Claude Errera — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:47:21 +0000

Bought it while I was in the Peace Corps, in 1988 (I was home to visit, it had just come out, I was afraid that if I waited until I returned to the US for good I wouldn't be able to find it). Found the disks a few years ago when we moved to Seattle - still in plastic. No longer had any way to read them.

They, along with a couple of tons of other stuff, went to Goodwill just before the move. :(

Did you mean: Tim Schafer (reply)

Harmanimus — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:40:19 +0000

Basically PaCA exists in any modern form due to the LucasArts ones. So if you like modern ones you will likely enjoy those.

Oh, right! (reply)

stabbim — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:37:06 +0000

I do remember hearing about that re-release thing, I think I may have even re-shared it on some social media. Totally forgot until now, though.

Did you mean: Tim Schafer (reply)

stabbim — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:31:27 +0000

Yes, but having never actually played anything from the LucasArts era, I didn't have any way of knowing whether they were actually similar.

Going OT on Double Fine... (reply)

DiscipleN2k — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:25:25 +0000

Pretty much everything by DF is good too.

I still think if Double Fine had made a Kinect Party type game for Xbox One, the Kinect might have survived. Kinect Party for the 360 worked FAR better than any Kinect game for the Xbox One using what was supposed to be way less accurate tracking.

-Disciple

PoP: Sands of Time (reply)

CyberKN — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:24:05 +0000

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The Bungie Mac Action Sack (reply)

DiscipleN2k — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:18:49 +0000

I bought it forever ago, then bought a cheap Apple computer from Ebay, then a VGA-to-whatever Macs used back then adapter, and finally a copy of the latest compatible OS* because the computer had been wiped. I eventually got everything set up, installed the Action Sack, and was ready to rock some classic Bungie goodness, but whatever game I tried to play, the entire computer would crash any time I tried to save. So I gave up. I still have the disks (but not the sack, sadly) and the Mac stashed in my garage somewhere, but I haven't messed with either in years. I've still never played any of the games included in the Mac Action Sack with the exception of whichever Marathon game made it to Xbox years ago, but made half of the people who played it (myself included) motion sick.

Second place might be Full Throttle. I swear I've purchased it at some point, but it's not in my Steam library and I don't remember having a disk for it, Maybe I've just wanted to buy it for a while and have never gotten around to it.

-Disciple

*Mildly amusing story: The OS disks were also purchased on ebay and they took nearly a month to arrive via "media mail." About three weeks into waiting, I checked the sender's address, and they were within walking distance of my house.

Oldest game in your backlog (reply)

Claude Errera — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:14:23 +0000

Partial victor:

Myst

In April, I Kickstarted Cyan's effort to release the entire Myst collection for modern machinery for Myst's 25th Anniversary - it was funded at the end of May. They needed about a quarter million to make it happen - they raised almost 3 million.

I've got all 7 games now, sitting on my Mac, downloaded from Steam. ;) I haven't found the time (yet) to go back and play them. (I didn't play them all when they came out - I think I only played 3 of 'em.)

Remember: Marty and Mike did the music for Riven!

Oldest game in your backlog (reply)

Cody Miller — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:12:12 +0000

The Dig

I downloaded this from GoG a couple of years ago on a whim. I have no idea what it is but heard something about it being good. It's apparently from 1995.

If you like Lucas Arts point and click adventure games (like Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Monkey Island, etc) then you'll enjoy this one.

If you like those games, Flight of the Amazon Queen was released as freeware and is pretty dang good.