I played it recently and did my usual with adventure games, where I play it myself until I get tired of it halfway through and start using a walkthrough. I only had one crash, which was during a sequence where the screen moves and a room you were in does a fade effect to the exterior walls when you exit. It was possible to get them to execute one after the other instead of in parallel, and that prevented a crash.
The game is good but some of the animation is more terrifying than the scares.
Vesper
1903
Been wanting to replay this one for a long time. I’m definitely picking it up.
Quitch
1904
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
I’ve had a copy for years and never, ever, managed to get it to run.
Such an awesome game. The writing, the settings, the characters…even the puzzles were mostly intuitive and iirc there was only one red herring item in the entire game (a literal ruby fish), so you could be confident that anything you picked up had a use. And it ran surprisingly well on my under-spec Pentium-100 that I had back in the day. I did have to get help for the final puzzle, annoyingly. (Not just a walkthrough but someone with quicker hands.) Well worth it anyway.
I don’t think it played nice with modern Windows until now, though.
Yeah, my CD copy was really hard to run. I was very frustrated and never got past the first main room in the game because it kept crashing frequently. It’ll be nice to get a stable copy and finally be able to play through the game.
Ditto. I’m definitely picking this up.
I loved Sanitarium. I remember playing the demo years back and enjoying it a lot, but was unable to get a copy of the full game. Then years later I saw it available for download on Home of the Underdogs and was able to play the full version. Hurrah.
Rock, paper, shotgun just discussed the release of Sanitarium and I have to say… This sounds pretty fucking awesome. How is it I’ve never heard a single thing about this game?!? GoG, you are my hero! I’m going to pick it up asap.
~mink~
edit Boom! Just bought it. God bless the interwebtubesnet.
Sanitarium is one of the very few adventures I played through. I never really got into point and click and solving obscure puzzles. But Sanitarium was just different. Love to see it again, especially as I now can buy it in English. The German voice acting wasn’t that good.
Nawid_A
1911
Any comments on the new weekend promo? Evil Genius looks interesting for $7 but for another $3 I can get the Revolution game also. Hmm.
ZekeDMS
1912
Evil Genius was a lot of fun, if heavy on the micromanagement. $7 is great for it.
For the love of your sanity, don’t get Republic: The Revolution. It might hold the top spot on my “most disappointing games ever” list.
Nawid_A
1914
The GOG user scores aren’t too high for Republic either. I’ll likely never play it with my now massive backlog so it’s not worth the $3. But Evil Genius for $7? Hmmm.
Evil Genius was a cool idea, with a great, imaginative theme and a lot of really nice touches… but the design was, imho, really badly put together. It doesn’t feel like a strategy game to me, nor does it feel like it’s very much fun; instead it feels a bit like the Sims, constantly chasing around after the next thing you have to do RIGHT NOW on a list of things that is constantly being generated for you by the system. So rather than dealing with the consequences of your own decisions or what have you, you’re just dealing with a deluge of stuff that is inherent to the design. Depends on what $7 means to you, but it might be worth it just to see all the nice stuff in there, but my guess is that not many people are actually going to get a lot of long-term gaming pleasure out of it.
My highschool friend had paid 90$ CDN back in the day for a brand new copy of Sanitarium with the taxes.
If you like good soundtracks, Republic is worth $3 even if you only download the music you get as an extra. I thought the music was worth buying it when it was first added.
Sanitarium is terrific for the first two or three game environments…and then the whole premise just sort of drifts off. The voice acting is pretty horrible as well. As an avid adventure gamer who was all about Sanitarium when it came out, I’d have to call it one of the most disappointing endings to a game I’ve ever played.
I compare it to Fight Club: brilliant premise and setup…and then no idea how to actually resolve the plot and deliver on the promise of the story the first act sets up so well.
Nawid_A
1919
The Settlers games are on sale. Opinions?
Don’t buy Heritage of Kings.
Feh, bought 'em both. Loved Settlers 2, never played Heritage of Kings, but I wanted its soundtrack. ^_~
