"Good Old Games"

Inactiviste · 2011-01-26T08:17:21.000Z

I played Sanitarium a few weeks ago, and it holds up pretty well. It’s sort of easy because the the inventory is rather small, and gets resetted at each chapter. The atmosphere is pretty creepy, like in the village with the kids at the beginning…

divedivedive · 2011-01-26T08:34:34.000Z

The Bird Flu, I would normally toss in a vote for the Gabriel Knight games here because they’re fantastic for setting, character and plot. Unfortunately what they are not very good at is playing fair – some of the puzzles are just stupid hard and not very logical. You may recognize the cat hair mustache puzzle from the third Gabriel Knight game, which is otherwise pretty good. So I guess if you’re looking to dip your feet back into adventures, that may not be the place to start, but it is worth working up to.

Vesper · 2011-01-26T08:36:02.000Z

The Bird Flu:

So I ask the QT3 adventure game fans, which one should I install tonight given the fact I haven’t played one of these things in almost 15 years?

The Longest Journey (also available on Steam). Great story and not too difficult on puzzles for easing back into the genre.

ScottyA · 2011-01-26T09:41:55.000Z

Thanks for the recommendations guys. I think I’m going to go ahead and dive into Gabriel knight, or try to. After reading the description the story sounds the most interesting of the bunch plus Tim Curry and Mark Hamill!

If that doesn’t work out I’ll check out The Longest Journey because that looks pretty damn neat as well and I had no idea it even existed.

BrianRubin · 2011-01-26T10:54:15.000Z

OMG! Dark Reign! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED that game. I still own the disk of both Dark Reign and its expansion, but I’ll get this in a heartbeat. I also hope they get Dark Reign 2, which was awesome as well.

Quitch · 2011-01-26T13:02:38.000Z

Poor Dark Reign, it came out and like five seconds later Total Annihilation came out and did almost everything Dark Reign brought to the party, but better.

Papageno · 2011-01-31T12:03:13.000Z

So, any plans for Blade of Darkness to make it to GOG?

JDSIDD · 2011-01-31T12:08:45.000Z

Papageno:

So, any plans for Blade of Darkness to make it to GOG?

Oh hell. On one hand I have too many games right now. On the the other hand BoD was awesome and my copy was a bitch to get running on Xp so a Windows 7 version would be great.

Warning · 2011-01-31T15:01:25.000Z

Quitch:

Poor Dark Reign, it came out and like five seconds later Total Annihilation came out and did almost everything Dark Reign brought to the party, but better.

Did TA have a unit that said “Here kitty-kitty!” when you selected him? I think not!

Catshade · 2011-02-01T03:10:16.000Z

New release: Return to Zork

thrasymedes · 2011-02-01T05:38:28.000Z

IMHO, RtZ sucks. Ugly graphics, slow interface, no fun.

antifood · 2011-02-01T05:48:53.000Z

I seem to remember having a good time with it.

LionelThompson · 2011-02-01T06:54:40.000Z

Catshade:

New release: Return to Zork

Want some rye?

(Spoiler note to all future players - one of the first things you come across in this game is a Bonding Plant. DIG IT OUT, do not cut it! You will not realize it for many MANY hours, but if you cut it, the game is immediately unwinnable)

Nightgaunt · 2011-02-01T06:57:01.000Z

LionelThompson:

Want some rye?

'Course ya do!

Tyjenks · 2011-02-01T10:03:00.000Z

Where o’ where is Zeus?

Matt_Perkins · 2011-02-01T14:06:08.000Z

Back in the day, we were testing our products on the couple of Macs we had. A CD accelerator. Turns out, something we did caused Zork to hang right at that point where he asks, “Want some rye!”. It took a long time for the programmers to figure that one out. I think I heard that line a few thousands times. I shall never forget it.

Sharpe · 2011-02-01T14:16:21.000Z

Tyjenks:

Where o’ where is Zeus?

I gave up on GoG and just bought it off ebay - got Zeus Gold for $15 US and no additional shipping. It has both Zeus and Poseidon and I’ve been playing a ton of it using the scenario editor. It runs without trouble on Windows 7. It’s too bad GoG can’t get this one; they probably wouldn’t have to mod much to make it 100% Windows happy and I think there is definitely a market.

Tyjenks · 2011-02-01T14:23:40.000Z

Originally Posted by Tyjenks
Where o’ where is Zeus?

Sharpe:

I gave up on GoG and just bought it off ebay - got Zeus Gold for $15 US and no additional shipping. It has both Zeus and Poseidon and I’ve been playing a ton of it using the scenario editor. It runs without trouble on Windows 7. It’s too bad GoG can’t get this one; they probably wouldn’t have to mod much to make it 100% Windows happy and I think there is definitely a market.

Oh I didn’t mean the game, I meant the the actual god.

I have toyed with the idea of getting it from one of the Amazon certified sellers. There always seems to be a couple that Amazon vouches for that have old games like this for reasonable prices. $11.89 for example. I think that one is plus shipping, though.

mrcjhicks · 2011-02-01T17:03:53.000Z

LionelThompson:

Want some rye?

(Spoiler note to all future players - one of the first things you come across in this game is a Bonding Plant. DIG IT OUT, do not cut it! You will not realize it for many MANY hours, but if you cut it, the game is immediately unwinnable)

Finding that out was exactly the point when I stopped playing the game. Way worse than the magnet/keycard thing in Planet/Station-fall.

flyinj · 2011-02-01T17:11:13.000Z

LionelThompson:

Want some rye?

(Spoiler note to all future players - one of the first things you come across in this game is a Bonding Plant. DIG IT OUT, do not cut it! You will not realize it for many MANY hours, but if you cut it, the game is immediately unwinnable)

Wow, really? You have to start the whole game over at that point?

Is there any indication that you aren’t supposed to cut the bonding plant when first given the option?

That is some god-awful design right there.