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if gog has Death Rally, I will snap buy that so fast

EDIT: OMG THEY PORTED THE FULL GAME FOR FREE TO WINDOWS XP SP3 AND NEWER LOLOLLOLOLOL I AM PLAYING DEATH RALLY UNTIL 5AM OGOGGOOGOGOG

A former roommate of mine used to play that game almost every day for at least two years. If you had to commit to playing only one game for the rest of your life (and no online play allowed), HOMM3 with the random map generator wouldn't be a bad choice.

after finding this thread, subsequently thinking of death rally and then discovering it had been released for free elsewhere, i have come back and read the entire thread.

will most likely buy HOMM3 (i loved 2, but would like to try 3 since people are saying it improved on 2) and will 100% be buying myst/riven at the very least from that series. tried forever and ever to get a copy of myst and riven to work on XP, was never successful.

gog and this thread

so are the games that you purchase just stored on your gog account? and you download them through the website? or is it more like a client that you download which you log into that has your account and purchases, like steam is to valve?

How has no one mentioned Capitalism yet? Just discovered this game for the first time. Pretty awesome.

You download them through the website.

Yup, once they are downloaded you never need to go back to GOG again. There's no DRM and nothing phones home or runs in the background to let GOG or the original publishers know what you're doing or if you're playing. And you can put a game on as many computers as you want to.

on the front page there's a countdown timer with 4 days and change, saying "expect the unexcelled." can't click on it to figure out more

anyone know what that's all about?

Fingers crossed for moo2

CNET with an exclusive a few hours before the countdown actually finishes:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-...html?tag=mncol

GOG is going to have Activision games, with Arcanum and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (originally Sierra, now owned by Activision) as the first two. Gabriel Knight definitely gets my approval, and I'll bump the point-and-click adventure thread at some point. It's probably now the best currently/legally available classic adventure game around, superseding GOG's own Sanitarium.

hello again Arcanum.

good bye again all free time.

Wow they did a ton of cool games. Very nice.

HOMM3 still going strong. Playing a large map can sometimes take an evening but sometimes take many days, depending on the lay-out of the place. It may not be a good strategy in multiplayer, but focusing on leveling one hero and giving him enough soldiers to kill off the enemy's main hero once or twice (they flee a lot) seems to establish a solid advantage even if you're coming from way behind.

I'm on large maps now because the "hard" difficulty is too easy on smaller ones. Eventually I'll probably go up to a tougher level, and start working on smaller maps again to train up. But right now I haven't even gone through all the races yet. Doing dungeon now, and while they start weak, the evil eyes are very strong not too much later and help make up for it. Went from elves to necros to humans to dungeons, and I may like dungeon the best.

Nice thing about large maps is that you often get a chance to build up many castle types and try out their creatures. This one is taking so long I got multiple artifacts that are full spell books, so I can try out a ton of spells I have never seen before.

Haha, my style of play in HOMM (or Disciples) is pretty much always to have one mega-hero with basically all of my troops and shuttle him around all over the map to fight battles where needed. I know this is a massive leak against any kind of thinking opponent but I don't think I've ever played multiplayer. It also slows maps wayyyy down sometimes when I'm being attacked on multiple fronts and I obv can't have him in two places at once, so I have to waste four turns moving him all the way back across my territory to take care of this new invading hero.

Yup, that's what I do too. My second goal after getting the first guy all the free experience chests on the map, and buying him enough troops to fight beginning mobs, is to get him troops to fight mobs a little farther away. Since hand to hand troops tend to get worn away quicker, I usually do that by getting an upgraded archer group ASAP. Then the rest goes into money for quite a while. And long before I max out my upgrades or get all my creature generators, I'm trying to build up money in new castles to sustain the whole enterprise. Somewhere along the line I reach a tipping point where losing troops isn't a huge setback because I can afford to replace most of them. That's right around when I'm seriously challenged by the computer's best hero(s). But by then I can usually afford to replace my troops, and they can't come back quite as strongly as I can. Then it's a game of pushing small advantages here and there, and building up a secondary hero or a third or fourth hero with plenty of troops so I can run far from home for prolonged periods of doing nasty damage to the enemy.

Very fun stuff. There seems to be just the right blend of tension and mellowness. Still a great game after all these years. At least the first 3, which I've played. Can't say anything about the rest.

Continuing their release of the old Sierra catalogue, Space Quest 4-6 as a package and Phantasmagoria released today. I actually haven't played any of the Space Quest games except the first one, so I might have to give those a shot.

I might skip that to be honest. SQ4-5 are unforgivingly hard I believe, although I only ever beat them with walkthroughs in hand and never tried it straight up. SQ3 is the best for sure if you haven't played that one.

Phantasmagoria might be interesting for historical value (plus you can fap to pixelated side boob and a rape scene). I don't feel the urge to replay it, but will definitely buy 2 if they get it.

Not on GOG itself, but in Impulse, they've got Total Annihilation + Core Contingency for 10 bucks, fixed up to run on modern Windows. Definitely a Great Old Game. My all-time favorite.

Some of the greatness of this game was in the replayer, which let you watch your games later, or watch others for fun or instruction. That was as fun as any movie you'd see in the theater IMO and a tremendous instructional tool. I miss it mightily in any game that does not have it. But I think that was a third-party add-on. I wonder if it works with this version.

I remember some list where TotalAnnihilation took the #1 RTS spot. The comments were split evenly between people saying that StarCraft should have taken the #1 spot and people saying that TA was so innovative and that even though graphically and balance-wise it was inferior to SC, it still deserved the #1 spot.

Psychonauts might be worth picking up. I played it on a friend's PC a while ago and it was pretty fun. I remember the world being very colorful and immersing. Isn't it on Steam as well? $10 isn't a bad price for something to just screw around with.

Thanks, I've been curious about this game for a long time.

I remember some flame wars about this back in the day. Mainly because of one awesome Usenet post where somebody pulled the following quote from near the end of Starcraft's Protoss campaign as a pro-TA argument:

Balance wise it was arguably inferior to SC, but SC was very far behind graphics wise. TA was the first RTS to move from sprites to 3D models, and even though SC came out after TA, it went backwards to sprites. That was especially weird because developers were unbelievably competitive about graphics back then. SC was a solid step back. Also SC was rules-based battle rather using physics-based calculations and natural trajectories for missiles and projectiles. That was another big step back solidly into a much inferior past for SC.

i picked up Psychonauts on a Steam sale some time ago and just started playing it, it's quite good. I'd recommend a decent gamepad though (I'm using a Dualshock1 through an adapter)

Yahtzee has a very positive review of it. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide.../2-Psychonauts

I thought Psychonauts was a tad overrated, however a couple of levels were really, really fantastic.

GOG picked up Gabriel Knight 2 and Phantasmagoria 2 which were both among my top tier of desired old games. As I've said before, I think that many of the mid-90s FMV games are so awesome and hilarious to play for historical value - and in the case of these two games at least, they're still very accessible.

I have a 360 wired controller that I use for games sometimes. I played Fallout 3 with that instead of the mouse.

Does anyone know if the PS3 controllers work with PC's through USB, or is it just a charging cable?