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GOG News and Updates 2011
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MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
What EA games can we realistically expect to be added this Thursday?
Minsc
Gold Member
MrOogieBoogie said:
Something good if this line of conversation is correct! Way too many possibilities I'd be happy with to bother listing, I'll just wait and see. There's a pretty good collection of the potential EA releases in that thread if you're curious.
Im_Special
Member
Dungeon Keeper 2
Ultima VII: Complete
Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire
Those are what I'm hoping for, god that would be awesome.
Ultima VII: Complete
Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire
Those are what I'm hoping for, god that would be awesome.
BMX Bandit
Member
Dungeon Keeper 2? oh god yes
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Dungeon Keeper 2! So awesome.
Good man.
Minsc said:
Good man.
Minsc said:Great games, I hope Wing Commander 1+2 holds up well, not so worried about Dungeon Keeper 2.
Edit: also:
Would love to see Theme Hospital and Crusader: No Regret in there! Maybe it'll be the red one at the end if the colors mean anything.
Nox would be awesome but don't know if it really counts as classic. Other then that I would love to see Populous, Magic Carpet, Powermonger, King's Bounty and The Immortal on GOG.
Fade to Black would also be rather cool since I never played it back in the day. Or some of those Sherlock Holmes games, never got into them when I was younger but my friend was crazy about them.
Versipellis
Member
WC2 without the expansions is a crippled game. And WC1's expansions are often cited in following games (Crusade being the most referred to).
Are we positive they are not included?
On the gameplay side, I think the games are still quite playable, even though the best controller would be an old style joystick. A joypad is still good enough (since their arcade style controls) and I managed to play them even with a mouse (not the best thing in the world, please mind).
The partially non-linear story is enjoyable and it's a pity nobody followed the path opened by Chris Roberts.
Graphically the games show their age, but with a good filter they shouldn't be that bad.
Are we positive they are not included?
On the gameplay side, I think the games are still quite playable, even though the best controller would be an old style joystick. A joypad is still good enough (since their arcade style controls) and I managed to play them even with a mouse (not the best thing in the world, please mind).
The partially non-linear story is enjoyable and it's a pity nobody followed the path opened by Chris Roberts.
Graphically the games show their age, but with a good filter they shouldn't be that bad.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Given that Magic Carpet and both Dungeon Keeper games are now up, and EA just announced a F2P Theme Park remake, and they're about to announce a new Syndicate game, I think it's pretty likely that the GOG EA deal includes at least a few other Bullfrog games.
Theme Hospital is definitely technically possible since the original release was DOS and the Windows release was DirectX.
Not sure they have enough slots in the whole deal to do the entire major Bullfrog catalogue (TP, TH, Syndicate, Syndicate Wars, Magic Carpet 2, at least a few Populous titles, Theme Park World/Sim Theme Park) but it'd be nice.
Also Wikipedia tells me that Bullfrog made a JPN/EU exclusive PS1/Windows game called Theme Aquarium :O That's pretty amazing, I'd love to check that out. Edit: Bought on eBay. It doesn't seem to run on Windows XP let alone 7 so I guess I'll setup a Windows 95 virtual PC or something
Theme Hospital is definitely technically possible since the original release was DOS and the Windows release was DirectX.
Not sure they have enough slots in the whole deal to do the entire major Bullfrog catalogue (TP, TH, Syndicate, Syndicate Wars, Magic Carpet 2, at least a few Populous titles, Theme Park World/Sim Theme Park) but it'd be nice.
Also Wikipedia tells me that Bullfrog made a JPN/EU exclusive PS1/Windows game called Theme Aquarium :O That's pretty amazing, I'd love to check that out. Edit: Bought on eBay. It doesn't seem to run on Windows XP let alone 7 so I guess I'll setup a Windows 95 virtual PC or something
Versipellis
Member
Lafazar said:
Tee hee...
A pity, though.
pineapple juice
Neo Member
despite being a huge alpha centauri nut i never played the expansion so would love for it to show up on gog just to finally experience it. in the meantime, time to get dk2!Im_Special said:
Minsc
Gold Member
Lafazar said:
Definitely bad news, and it seems they removed the reference to the expansions in the game page's description, so I'm not optimistic we'll see them.
Would it be correct to believe the games are not worth playing without the expansions? I'll probably unbold them from the OP.
Stumpokapow said:
I'll take just about every building sim they want to release, I have really been enjoying them lately, especially a quirky sounding one, like an Aquarium sim.
As far as doing the entire major Bullfrog catalogue, they will still have slots left over after these fill up, they got 25+ releases when they signed EA, so far 6 came out with the initial batch, and 8 are slated in this batch, leaving 11+ for future releases.
Versipellis
Member
Minsc said:
Oh no, they are still worth it.
WC1 is self-contained and the expansions just add some continuity tidbits that will be used in the following games. If you are a fan, you would feel the need to play them, but they are not mandatory.
WC2 main game boasts a lengthy campaign with a lot of different missions and a nice story. The problem here is that there are some loose ends that are covered in the two expansions. That's why I call it "crippled" without Secret Ops 1 and 2. But it's still enjoyable as it is.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Minsc said:
I'll let you know how it turns out. The game only set me back $6.50 from a UK seller. Should have it in a week or two. Need to dig up a W98/W95 CD to install it as a virtual machine, though hahaha
Conciliator
Banned
Gosh darn it, they were supposed to release DK2 BEFORE the Q3/Q4 gaming cornucopia.
Hari Seldon
Member
Wing Commander 1 and 2!!!!! FUCK YES!!!!!!!!
Yep. Even though I REALLY want to bite, no sale without the expansions. This EA deal is so frustrating.Versipellis said:
Why in the hell would this be a problem? The games are already selling for $6, why not just bump anything with expansions up to $10 and call it a day? They can't really be interested in selling 71 year old expansions separately, can they?
I figured we'd hear more about this before the second wave of EA games was released. Guess not.
Hari Seldon
Member
Honestly I played WC1 and WC2 so long ago that I don't even remember that it had expansions.
Versipellis
Member
Prodigal said:
The fourth one (or the second blurred one) has a color scheme pretty similar to Ultima IV cover:
The game was liberated by EA when they launched the Ultima Forever Site, thus I think it's plausible.
Versipellis
Member
Oh, I'm referring to this image:Prodigal said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=30392667&postcount=2414
Im_Special
Member
My god some of these day 1 reviews are terrible
5/5 Cool!
Posted on 2011-08-25 07:04:43 by beaker1977:
I never played these games originally but have heard great things about them. - looking forward to downloading them. Now I wonder if System Shock/System Shock 2 and Bioforge will ever see the light of day again?
THAT IS NOT A REVIEW!
5/5 Cool!
Posted on 2011-08-25 07:04:43 by beaker1977:
I never played these games originally but have heard great things about them. - looking forward to downloading them. Now I wonder if System Shock/System Shock 2 and Bioforge will ever see the light of day again?
THAT IS NOT A REVIEW!
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
coopolon said:
Seriously, every game on that site is the greatest classic of all time. What the fuck, GOG community? Get your shit together.
So there is a chance for Wing Commander 3 then? It's the only WC game i played and i would buy it only for nostalgia. Although i bet the very pixelated cutscenes and character sprites inside the ships will probably hurt.(They already did hurt back in the 90s, i cant imagine right now!)
So with the new releases, i remembered that i bought the original Dungeon Keeper on GOG on release and never played... and now i decided to try it.
Looks like is the dosbox version (there was a windows version that should be better), and i have tried to change some things in the graphic configuration tool, but the game looks like total crap
Maybe its my fault and i am doing something wrong, but well, its very disappointing.
But then i tried this:
http://keeper.lubie.org/html/dk_keeperfx_dwnld.php
And i have to say i am pretty happy with the difference
DOS
KeeperFX
PS: Its also a good way of playing the game on netbooks, where dosbox is too heavy.
Looks like is the dosbox version (there was a windows version that should be better), and i have tried to change some things in the graphic configuration tool, but the game looks like total crap
Maybe its my fault and i am doing something wrong, but well, its very disappointing.
But then i tried this:
http://keeper.lubie.org/html/dk_keeperfx_dwnld.php
And i have to say i am pretty happy with the difference
DOS
KeeperFX
PS: Its also a good way of playing the game on netbooks, where dosbox is too heavy.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Did they fix the Vista/W7 HW acceleration bug in DK2? The graphics have aged pretty well with that feature on.
Sportbilly
Member
Several of the reviews seem to indicate it's still broken on W7.
Sportbilly
Member
Just out of interest, did you have an nVidia card? I seem to vaguely remember that being cited as a problem.
DK2 works almost from scratch on wine/linux. I just had to add a key in the regedit because of the "cursor stays in the middle" bug.
Works great! I was waiting eagerly for this game and after 2 hours of play the game is still awesome and not only because it was tinted by nostalgia glasses.
Works great! I was waiting eagerly for this game and after 2 hours of play the game is still awesome and not only because it was tinted by nostalgia glasses.