Nixxter
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I’m with you Brian on Painkiller, easily in my top 5 FPS of all time, so you’re not alone. Pure fun.
I don’t think Serious Sam and its ilk are in the same class as the original Painkiller.
Hey, I think it’s all this chap Tom Chick’s fault, if I remember correctly, he liked it, and I’ve yet to pick up a game Tom recommended that bit me in the rump so I bought it. It’ll probably happen some day, as you kindly said, to each their own.
I liked it so much, I replayed it when I bought it on GOG, and I rarely if every replay a game (too much of a backlog for one thing).
I think I will pick up those Spellforce games, I was on the fence about it, but they seem a non-traditional combination of RPG/RTS and many times things that are a little off the beaten path work well for me. PS - as to Nobody’s Home suggestion to check out the Securom issue, my understanding is that’s one of the benefits of GOG, they strip off all that copy protection stuff out, but feel free to correct me folks if I am mistaken about that.
Spellforce is a lot of fun, and you get a TON of content for the price. The second game is even better.
That’s one of my favorite ZP reviews. :)
Nixxter
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That was awesome BobJustBob, keep it up you right bastard and I might want to play it a third time!
Arbit
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Doom didn’t have great map design. Don’t you remember all those innumerable key/blue armor/soulsphere pickups that triggered ambushes, usually via walls opening up all around you or gratuitous teleports? Monster closets, my friend. The game was nothing but monster closets.
But what it did do well was pitch tons of enemies at you that were entertaining to fight. PK does this (and does it very well) in addition to offering some really nice atmospheric levels, creative weapons, and a physics engine. And stupid headbanging rock music during combat, which I also loved but may not be for everyone.
I don’t think Serious Sam holds up because of egregious monster closeting, in particular teleporting in tons of kleers for picking up a minor health item, and because a lot of the enemies were just not that fun to fight e.g. those fucking kleers. But it threw a truly remarkable-for-the-time number of enemies at you.
Painkiller had some fantastic levels. My favorites were the opera, the psych ward, the haunted house, and most of all the army base.
Just talking about Painkiller makes me want to buy it again. Even though I already have it on Steam.
Yeah. I never got the DVD version to run in Vista, but for this price I picked it up again.
Surprise release today: Baldur’s Gate 2 Complete!
Razgon
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The Haunted house with the things crawling around in it was horrible. And I mean that in the best possible way - Man it was spooky, and as was the Psych ward…all in all, brilliantly done levels, although the end-of-level bosses were a teeny bit overdone :-D
I am totally baffled that this is not getting shout outs everywhere. Maybe too early. Weird. Still, now they can stop releasing new stuff. Not many other GoG´s left. Maybe the Ultimas?
Personally I feel it was a mistake to offer them all so quickly and in such a short timeframe. They will sell now and how will you lure people back to your site? The BI games are the most well known of the whole catalogue I wager.
Until they unlock EA’s and Lucasarts’ vaults, they are no where near done.
Yeah. I assume you’re including the Origin Systems and Bullfrog Productions catalogs under the EA banner, 'cos I’d love to get me some Crusader and Syndicate…
Exactly. The amount of classic IP EA owns just through acquisition is staggering.
Razgon
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Neverwinter Nights 2 - All the Origin games, Bullfrog and so on… Dungeon Keeper? Man, there’s a TON of good old games out there I want :-)
Will THQ let GOG near their stuff? A lot of old Relic games and what-not would certainly make me a happy man as well.
You’re kidding right? Did you forget the classic EA catalog? Or Origin? Or LucasArts? or Microprose? Or Interactive Magic? Or Talonsoft? Or SSI? Or…I could go on…
Not many other GoG’s my ASS, boyo…
Razgon
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SSI? Who owns that brand today ? I still have the “Gold collection” in my drawer somewhere, awesome stuff - but I’m unsure how much of a sale they would generate.
Everyone already covered it. there are more than dozens of great old games left. I thought I might make a list of every game I would buy from GoG off the top of my head (yes, some of them wouldn’t qualify as “good”. Anyone who quibbles over that is fucking stupid, though, and is totally missing the point of the service). Except I have work to do, and I don’t have the two hours it would take to write everything down from Wizardry to Crusader: No Regret (and beyond).
