1922

Yep, I picked up Settlers II a couple months ago and have played it quite a bit. Heritage is the Settlers series pretty much in name only. It is a bastardized version with a bunch of now traditional RTS implemented and done so poorly at that.

1923

The Creatures series is now up GoG, my memory of the series is fuzzy at best, I think I picked up the first one way back in elementary school but never really played it. How did the series turn out and are any of them worth it to pick up now?

1924

Wow. I’d never been able to play them, but I’d always been fascinated by the idea as a kid.

I’m sure it’s nothing as interesting as I’d imagined in the past, but being able to so easily satisfy the long, minor curiosity is just the sort of thing that makes me love GoG.

1925

From what I remember it appeared during the twilight hours of Adventure gaming’s run. And I mean the twilight hours. For years coverage of adventure games had been dwindling (and the bemoaners were losing passion about that). And it wasn’t from a big name studio anyway.

Reviews were a somewhat mixed bag touching on issues triggercut mentioned. But the game had a pretty passionate, if small, following.

1926

New promo.
Tempted to get everything not called Stonekeep.

1927

I love GOG, but Descent 3 bored me to tears. It’s one of two or three games out of the last hundred that I didn’t bother to finish because the level design was so bad.

1928

They’ve got Myst and Riven now. How do those hold up today?

1929

Myst was a great game, and one I’m able to say proudly I finished without a single hint.

1930

They hold up well. The rendered environments in Myst won’t be as mind-blowingly impressive as they were when the game came out, of course, but it’s still a very good game.

1931

Yeah, GoG has released Myst: Masterpiece Edition today, with other Cyan titles to follow in the future. Here is what wikipedia says about the Masterpiece Edition:

Myst: Masterpiece Edition was an updated version of the original Myst, released in May 2000. It featured several improvements over the original game, with the images re-rendered in 24-bit truecolor instead of the original Myst’s 8-bit color. The score was re-mastered and sound effects were enhanced, and some cinematics were redone.

1932

Myst killed LucasArts / Sierra style 3rd person point and click adventures.
For that it should burn in hell for eternity!

On the other hand it pushed people into buying CD-ROM drives (along with Rebel Assault by LucasArts) so it did something good at least.

1933

Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord is out today for $9.99

1934

Holy cats. Bet that made folks who paid $5 for the “Vista Patch” happy.

1935

Sorry, Vista patch?

1936

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe BF released a patch to allow the game to run in Vista. The patch cost $5.

1937

Thrilled that they got this, even as someone who bought the $5 patch. Hope the rest of the Combat Mission WW2 titles make the cut as well.

1938

SFI had the license to the game for a while now. It was sold from their website and I think even via Steam for some time. Our cooperation with SFI however has been terminated, and I guess they’re exercising their sell-off period right now. No problem about getting it there but don’t come to us for support

Why I didn’t buy CMSF. OK, that, and the game sucks.

1939

They’ve always had a weird grey area publishing setup. But they really need to take a lesson from Troika and get someone else to run their business for them while they design games.

1940

Could say the same thing about a few other evil grognard developers. Yes, Storm Eagle Studios, I’m definitely looking at you.

1941

I got an email from Storm Eagle Studios last week that implied that if I didn’t buy Jutland and all of the expansions, it would be my fault when no more naval wargames are made. I kind of wanted to forward them my receipt for WC-NAW.