Minsc
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Deathcraze said:
This information might be relevant then, if the .gog file is just a .bin cd-image renamed, you should be able to extract the CD-Audio tracks w/ quite a few programs.
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This information might be relevant then, if the .gog file is just a .bin cd-image renamed, you should be able to extract the CD-Audio tracks w/ quite a few programs.
Thanks a lot for your helpMinsc said:Also, you can play it windowed w/ D3DWindower (that's what I was going to suggest later if you were still having trouble). Some people find the look of it fullscreen to be a bit too pixelated. Glad you got it working though! Don't be afraid to use a FAQ if need be, some puzzles are just awful
Togglesworlh
Banned
Well, I never said there shouldn't be sales. They're great for any number of reasons. I just think it's rather silly to be upset about the way these sales work.plc268 said:
Though when someone says "I really want this game!" and then refuses to buy it for months, sometimes years straight because it hasn't gone on sale for two dollars... This happens all the time in the Steam thread. It's stupid. Sometimes people are stupid. ):
Haha, all right.
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The GOG thread is where I first heard about Little Big Adventure, but no one ever actually explained what it was. Now that it's out, I looked into it a bit. Seems pretty interesting. IS IT REALLY AS GOOD AS YOU ALL WOULD SAY?
PuppetSlave
Member
Holy shit, Twinsen is on GOG and it works on windows 7. My old cd discs are corrupted by age even. So bought
Any chance the sequel will show up? Is the rights owner the same for both games I mean.
Any chance the sequel will show up? Is the rights owner the same for both games I mean.
scarybore
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Minsc said:
Nice find, I can confirm that LBA.GOG is the bin and LBA.DAT is the cue so if you know how to mount discs then you can easily rip the music.
Update: Music appears to be off by a few seconds at the end of each track (such as track 3 starting at the end of track 2 with an audio glitch). Might be due to the disc they used, but this doesn't happen with my UK disc.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
LBA?
Holy shit! Loved that game as a kid. I'm buying it this instant and you motherfuckers better release the sequel too!
Holy shit! Loved that game as a kid. I'm buying it this instant and you motherfuckers better release the sequel too!
Joseph Merrick
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yeah, the chances are about 100% little big adventure 2 will show up as wellPuppetSlave said:
)hey, what are you waiting for--bold little big adventure in the op already!!!!!! and since you obviously haven't played it, omg play it. it's easily the best game released on gog this year. it should be doublebolded and have aMinsc said:
nincompoop
Banned
LBA has like the most fucked up save/checkpoint system ever. (Not sure if I should spoiler this since it's like half an hour into the game at most.)
After escaping from the prison, I was exploring a bit and I found a secret entrance back into the prison in a room guarded by one of the DUmbo thingies, and it killed me... which dropped me back into the prison cell and forced me to do the entire prison escape again! Then later, I found my way back to my house and some guards broke in looking for me. My girlfriend told me to hide, but I couldn't find a good hiding spot, so I tried loading my game as one guard approached me and the other one was telling my girlfriend she was under arrest for harboring a fugitive or something (since if I didn't, then I assume I would have to escape from prison AGAIN)... anyway, when I loaded the game I was still in my house, but the door was sealed off and my girlfriend was gone. So apparently loading the game got me past that part but caused me to miss an important scene or something.
Joseph Merrick
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you didn't really miss anything. that is what happens after they look for you. they seal the door to the house. you can hide in the bedroom with discreet mode and you won't be found, if I remember correctly. alsonincompoop said:
there is another way out of the house
will start playing through the game again later. :O~
nincompoop
Banned
Yeah I found the way out, I also foundJoseph Merrick said:
a secret cave in my house behind a stack of barrels WTF. I couldn't figure out what to do in the cave though, there's a sign you can walk up to which the game zooms in on but it's written in some weird language, and the rest of the cave is sealed off.
Joseph Merrick
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) awesome game
Minsc
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GOG has a survey going on for the next two weeks, you get a chance to win a free game (though it's only 20 people at random), but more interestingly, you perhaps get to have a small input on shaping the service a little more.
Questions aren't really that open or great, but they do humor the idea of selling newer games DRM free like The Witcher 2 and ask what improvements could be made to the site.
Questions aren't really that open or great, but they do humor the idea of selling newer games DRM free like The Witcher 2 and ask what improvements could be made to the site.
Alpha-Bromega
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Suairyu said:
no big issue to me, last game i bought from them was Alpha Centauri. GOG is one of the best things to happen to gaming, truly.
just did the survey, i'm really glad for gog. i know they will actually shape their service and react to this survey, it's not just a PR thing
I know I'd love to see Bloodlines on there, though that's not really newSuairyu said:
I don't know, I think it's nice to have a service dedicated to getting us old games which may be out of print or require fixes to run. Newer games don't have these problems, with them being on Steam and made for modern operating systems. Then again, it'd be nice to have a place to get DRM free modern games as well.Alpha-Bromega
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peakish said:I know I'd love to see Bloodlines on there, though that's not really new
not just that, but with the extras that gog always offers.
Togglesworlh said:
The first one is good and well worth playing, but the second is the masterpiece, and is every bit as good today as it was then. The Zelda parallels are generally accurate, though with more whimsy, story and character.
Puzzle heavy isometric "dungeons" (which in reality are all manner of settings - from space ports to hotels to mail rooms to a bee hive battle royale) with an explorable 3d overworld, functionality based items/weapons are acquired as you go enabling you to interact with or reach new parts of the world or progress the story in some way, etc etc.
Both games are fantastic either way. Get them, play them, love them.
Joseph Merrick
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oh nice. done the survey. would definitely love it if gog started releasing a lot of newer games as well. I don't care really, as long as they don't stop releasing old games or include drm )
)Did the survey. I wouldn't mind if they released newer/1 year old PC titles at a cut cost and actively and aggressively lowered the price toward the level of older/decade old titles already on the service. Not sure how practical and profitable that would be, but it would give Steam and it's sales a run for the money and work basically like retail, sort-of.
Togglesworlh
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mclem said:
Sounds awesome. As soon as I have more time, I'll definitely grab the game(s).JoeMartin said:
PuppetSlave
Member
Togglesworlh said:
Just one word of warning. Do you like tank controls? You control Twinsen like he is a little toy car. It can be tough learning how to do it elegantly and while learning you will curse him and his little "getting hit by stuff" animations.
Gully State
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Newer games that are a year old tend to drop into the $25-$30 price range. I'd love to see GoG start offering them DRM free. I know I would much prefer them over Steam if they did that.
Togglesworlh
Banned
Oh no I hate tank controls. D:PuppetSlave said:
Buuut if it's as good as people say I will probably give it a shot anyway.
Out of the blue left-field release: Darklands
I don't remember *much* about this, other than that it had a spectacularly detailed lighting engine (for the era), but I gather it's a fairly well-respected - if obscure - RPG.
Edit: Wait, no, it's not the one with the lighting engine - at least, from looking at the screenshots, but I'm sure there was one that fit that bill - and also, I *think*, had 'dark' in the title. A sequel?
I don't remember *much* about this, other than that it had a spectacularly detailed lighting engine (for the era), but I gather it's a fairly well-respected - if obscure - RPG.
Edit: Wait, no, it's not the one with the lighting engine - at least, from looking at the screenshots, but I'm sure there was one that fit that bill - and also, I *think*, had 'dark' in the title. A sequel?
archnemesis
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Wow, that's great! That was my most anticipated release besides Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight and the Quest for Glory series.
Alpha-Bromega
Member
archnemesis said:
dude!!!!!!!! was i not JUST asking about this game? and it comes out on GOG? HOLY CRAP! bought
Joseph Merrick
Member
darklands! :O
best gog week ever
edit: woah. never seen shadowlands before. looks awesome. shadoworlds as well. :drool holy shit
best gog week ever
shadowlands?mclem said:
edit: woah. never seen shadowlands before. looks awesome. shadoworlds as well. :drool holy shit
Versipellis
Member
Darklands! Oh joy!
- Low fantasy setting
- Free Roaming
- Lots of cities and hamlets
- Real Time with Pause combat (one of the first games to use it, IIRC)
- Reputation system
- Witches, White Knights, Robber Barons and more
- Saints to pray for miracles, alchemy for concocting potions (like Greek Fire)
- Side quests with multiple paths
- odd jobs to rise a meager salary for staying at the Inn (while getting more experienced)
- Characters do age: greenhorns are stronger but reckless, elders are weaker but wiser
Great game.
- Low fantasy setting
- Free Roaming
- Lots of cities and hamlets
- Real Time with Pause combat (one of the first games to use it, IIRC)
- Reputation system
- Witches, White Knights, Robber Barons and more
- Saints to pray for miracles, alchemy for concocting potions (like Greek Fire)
- Side quests with multiple paths
- odd jobs to rise a meager salary for staying at the Inn (while getting more experienced)
- Characters do age: greenhorns are stronger but reckless, elders are weaker but wiser
Great game.
Versipellis
Member
This is what you could find inside Darklands' box:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpugZ0SlCYs
It was a nice packaging. Not Ultima level, but still good enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpugZ0SlCYs
It was a nice packaging. Not Ultima level, but still good enough.
Joseph Merrick
Member
seems like a standard box
nice video
nice video
faceless007
Member
Woh they added Pod? I loved that game. I wonder what voodoo they did to make it runnable because my original copy was just unplayable on anything past Win98.
This is a little OT, but since I bought it from GOG, is it normal for PS: Torment to run kind of choppy? I've updated it with the resolution/hud mods and so on, but the frame rate often drops as low as 12fps. It's not that big of a deal, but if it can be bettered I'd like to know.
Danne-Danger
Member
Does it have a button for OpenGL 3D Acceleration or an option for anything with "3D" in the name? If so, set it to off. That's usually a killer for modern systems running the Infinity Engine.Snuggler said:
DiscoJer
Member
mclem said:
It might be obscure now, but at the time, Microprose was pretty much the top PC (or computer, rather) gaming company around. Maybe a toss up between them and Origin.
But Darklands was one of their biggest projects to date. Unfortunately, ambitious to the point of it being released extremely buggy. At the time, patches for games were mostly unheard of, and I think it had something like 7 of them.
It was so bad, the head of Microprose not only sent out patch disks to registered buyrs, but a letter apologizing for the quality of the game.
That said, a hell of a game. If it had been released a few years later, bug free and tying in with that Da Vinci code crap (it's got Templars in it), it might have been huge.
Joseph Merrick
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maybe read walkthrough until you get out of prison. but there is no point reading a walkthrough for the game proper. you just have to learn the controls, and what you can do. exploring and discovering stuff is kind of the point of the gameMzo said:
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Minsc
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Hey, look, a sale with no tiered savings! And a good one at that, RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 for 50% off ($5 vs $10)!
If you run it in D3DWindower it should be a perfect 60fps.
Snuggler said:
If you run it in D3DWindower it should be a perfect 60fps.
So what do you know, today I learnt that 'Added Attractions' expansion for RCT was called 'Corkscrew Folleys' outside of the UK. Way to lose the amazing alliteration, rest of the world!
edit - how was Rollercoaster Tycoon 2? More of the same, just slightly better? Out of it and the original, would it be the one to get?
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