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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Scorpius on March 13, 2002, 08:01:58 pm
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Hey, my first OT!
This is a classic game called Earthsiege. It shared the mechwarrior genre and unfortunately died out. Since it's almost 10 years old its too hard to install with the knowledge that I have. Can anyone get this game to run properly? Please give it a shot. All those who read this and if your connection permits. (Its almost 11mb)
Ohh and this is not a warez (I know I must have spelled that wrong) It has become freeware to the best of my knowledge.
Here's the link:
The link doesn't want to work so if you're interested in aquiring a new game and helping a fellow fourmite go to this site
http://www.theunderdogs.org/
Search for Earthsiege and follow the links till you can download it.
thanks
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I actually have this game; I remember buying it retail several years ago. That version, at least, works for me. What is the problem with your copy?
Some of the CD tracks are very good though; too bad they couldn't put those in as well. ;)
BTW they have some other games there that are definitely worth playing; I haven't seen the whole list, but get any of the following games if you can find them there. (these are the older games on my hard drive)
- Beneath a Steel Sky - sci-fi adventure game; couldn't get this to work completely, but it looked very promising
- Chex Quest 1/2/3 - the first one was actually included in a box of Chex cereal some time ago, with the other two available from a website; a Doom modification but with Chex stuff everywhere, cool game
- Doom 1/2 - no introduction needed here; some of the monsters look simply hilarious in this (particularly that pig guy :D), lots of fun to play on ultra-violence
- Descent 1/2 - similar to Doom but in 3D; I spent hundreds of hours with these games back in the mid-1990s ;)
- Duke Nukem II - older side scoller in 8-bit color, but I have spent many hours with this and it can be addictive ;)
- Fatal Racing - a nice racing game; the physics are messed up but it's fun ;)
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - great older adventure game with a plot set in the late 1930s
- Monkey Island 1/2 - hilarious adventure games, some of the jokes in this actually made me fall off my chair when I first saw them :D
- Mission Critical - another sci-fi adventure game; this has an awesome plot and is one of my favorite all time games, very highly recommended
- Missionforce: Cyberstorm - futuristic turn based strategy game; set in the same storyline universe as the Earthsiege/Starsiege games and a solid game overall
- Raptor - a very neat shoot-em-up game; if anyone has played Demonstar, this is the (much better) predecessor to that, quite addictive
- Skyroads original/xmas - a neat little game where you attempt to jump through various obstacle courses in a ship; once again, this is addictive
- Scorched Earth - a lot like Worms; lots of options and cool weapon effects
- The Dig - another sci-fi adventure; some tricky puzzles, but the animations and audio are very good and the game is quite atmospheric
They also have some newer free games there. I have two of them installed - Outbound and Pac3D - and would also recommend them, particularly the first one.
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Earthsiege the sequel or prequel to Terranova, no?
If its the game I'm thinking of, its related to System Shock2 (some of the tech is made by Trioptimum, and SHODAN/Citadel Station get mentioned. In Shock2, they make a reference to Terranova and the rebels there, I think).
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Actually this game is in the precursor to Starsiege and the very distant predecessor to Tribes/Tribes 2.
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I stand corrected. I'm thinking entirely of Terra Nova (squad based combat before there was squad based combat games!). Looking Glass was always good about producing games long before there was a genre for them. :D Ultima Underworld, anyone?
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Originally posted by CP5670
- Beneath a Steel Sky - sci-fi adventure game; couldn't get this to work completely, but it looked very promising
- Chex Quest 1/2/3 - the first one was actually included in a box of Chex cereal some time ago, with the other two available from a website; a Doom modification but with Chex stuff everywhere, cool game
- Doom 1/2 - no introduction needed here; some of the monsters look simply hilarious in this (particularly that pig guy :D), lots of fun to play on ultra-violence
- Descent 1/2 - similar to Doom but in 3D; I spent hundreds of hours with these games back in the mid-1990s ;)
- Duke Nukem II - older side scoller in 8-bit color, but I have spent many hours with this and it can be addictive ;)
- Fatal Racing - a nice racing game; the physics are messed up but it's fun ;)
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - great older adventure game with a plot set in the late 1930s
- Monkey Island 1/2 - hilarious adventure games, some of the jokes in this actually made me fall off my chair when I first saw them :D
- Mission Critical - another sci-fi adventure game; this has an awesome plot and is one of my favorite all time games, very highly recommended
- Missionforce: Cyberstorm - futuristic turn based strategy game; set in the same storyline universe as the Earthsiege/Starsiege games and a solid game overall
- Raptor - a very neat shoot-em-up game; if anyone has played Demonstar, this is the (much better) predecessor to that, quite addictive
- Skyroads original/xmas - a neat little game where you attempt to jump through various obstacle courses in a ship; once again, this is addictive
- Scorched Earth - a lot like Worms; lots of options and cool weapon effects
- The Dig - another sci-fi adventure; some tricky puzzles, but the animations and audio are very good and the game is quite atmospheric
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You are my HERO, dude. I have and love 90% of the games you just listed there. Beautiful selection. :):yes:
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OMG!!! Scorpius!!! You don't know how much i searched for that game!!!! When the thing came out, I drooled on the pics and on the description of the mech animations!!!
And I find it here, at HLP!!! you're the man!
edit: damn, didn't pay attention, i've been banned because of flashget that fractionned the file in 5 part and broke the d/l limit of the website :(
note to self: next time, right click and choose "save as" :rolleyes:
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Mike: hey, i have Terranova (strike force centaury I think was the subtitle). I remember it looked damn impressive when it came out (that was the trademark of looking glass then, anyway, anyone remember the first Flight Unlimited?). I got TN as a CD cover game, it was too damn hard for me :(
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Originally posted by venom2506
Mike: hey, i have Terranova (strike force centaury I think was the subtitle). I remember it looked damn impressive when it came out (that was the trademark of looking glass then, anyway, anyone remember the first Flight Unlimited?). I got TN as a CD cover game, it was too damn hard for me :(
It was 'Strike Force Centauri', actually. It was evidently very difficult to a lot of people. I gather it shared several interface elements with System Shock 1. It put a lot of people off.
On the other hand, it also had fairly realistic physics. Projectile paths arced properly, so terrain really made a difference. All in all, tough stuff. Like Ultima Underworld, System Shock 1, and System Shock 2, it was at least a year or two ahead of its time.
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Originally posted by CP5670
- Beneath a Steel Sky - sci-fi adventure game; couldn't get this to work completely, but it looked very promising
[/b]OMG, I used to love this game! Being fairly linear it holds zero replay value but if I can ever get it working again I'll play through it again.
- Descent 1/2 - similar to Doom but in 3D; I spent hundreds of hours with these games back in the mid-1990s ;)
[/b]I wish I could find a way to stop my mouse crapping out in these games, then I'd play them a lot more...
- Raptor - a very neat shoot-em-up game; if anyone has played Demonstar, this is the (much better) predecessor to that, quite addictive
[/b]Love this, doesn't run too flash on my box though. I'll have to do something about that...
- Skyroads original/xmas - a neat little game where you attempt to jump through various obstacle courses in a ship; once again, this is addictive
[/b]This game has one of the best music tracks I've ever heard. Some of the stuff, even though its only 8-bit Adlib sound, is just amazing. I just wish I could hear it and be able to play the game at the same time.
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The problem with my copy is it just gives you the files and you cant do anything with them. It comes with no install. I wish it was a self extracting .exe but thats not going to happen, if anyone can install this game successfully please tell me what you did because I am at a loss.
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Originally posted by CP5670
- Beneath a Steel Sky - sci-fi adventure game; couldn't get this to work completely, but it looked very promising
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I brought that game for £3 ages ago,
i loved it :) great story .......... i really should replay and complete it again :)
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Hey, great to see some similar minds here. ;) I am actually playing through many of these games again; currently I am going through Doom and Doom 2 on ultra violence; these games are really funny. :D Some of the rooms are so filled up with monsters that they end up hitting each other, after which they get mad at each other and ignore me. :D (it is especially funny to see that pig dude try to eat up stuff)
BTW, were any of you able to get Beneath a Steel Sky to work correctly? It works fine for me until I get to a certain point in the game. (the walkway area right after the furnace room near the beginning) When I walk off the screen, it just exits with an error. :( I would really like to play through to the end of the game, as it looks very interesting.
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Oh no!
CP, you made me crack Scorched Earth back out. I'm never going to get any work done, now. Not at least for a few years... :D
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so has anyone tried to solve the problem with installing Earthsiege?
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well, I d/led it, they're arj files, you just need to unpack them, and in it there's all you need :)
damn DOS only prog, tho :( haven't tried it yet
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ARJ... wow, that's a blast from the past. I remember the days when this new file format, "ZIP" was emerging... "It'll never catch on," they said...
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well, ZIP was out for a long time when I got to the net, so dunno what "they" were saying lol, anyway, ARJ is something I still use quite often.
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.arj files are opened by WinRAR, which is what people use to create and unpack .rar files, which are the standard for anyone who's outgrown WinZip, so they're not quite THAT outdated.;)
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Earthsiege works fine for me, with full sound and everything; what is the problem?
Do they also have Earthsiege 2 there? That was a pretty good game; the missions were repetitive but the game had good graphics for its time and combat was fun. ;)
CP, you made me crack Scorched Earth back out. I'm never going to get any work done, now. Not at least for a few years... :D
Hey, you are not alone there. ;) I spend quite a bit of time these days playing the old favorites and am currently going through Doom and Doom 2; once I finish those, I will probably play either Mission Critical or the Chex Quest games. Some of these games might be old and technologically primitive, but they are just as fun and addictive as the latest releases IMHO. ;):D
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It's something I suspected might happen a while ago. Apart from getting more realistic in visuals and sound, gameplay would get to a point where nothing was innovative anymore - and the originals would still be the best. :)
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Okay the problem is I dont know how to install it. Can you tell me how you did it? I don't know where to begin. What did you do?
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There is something on the CD called setup.exe, which copies the files onto your hard drive and configures the sound driver. I just opened the game exe after that and it worked fine.
It's something I suspected might happen a while ago. Apart from getting more realistic in visuals and sound, gameplay would get to a point where nothing was innovative anymore - and the originals would still be the best. :)
You are probably right about that; all the good ideas have been taken and done to the death by now, and everyone likes the innovative originals that started it all. ;)
One problem is that there are very few adventure games these days, which I like quite a bit (especially sci-fi ones), so I tend to stick to the old ones on that front.
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Originally posted by Setekh
It's something I suspected might happen a while ago. Apart from getting more realistic in visuals and sound, gameplay would get to a point where nothing was innovative anymore - and the originals would still be the best. :)
The problem here is that as a collective whole, gamers, particularly PC gamers, don't want innovation in gameplay, they want innovation in two areas: Graphics and Multiplayer and this is exactly what the publishers are providing. Any company who tries to fly in the face of this trend usually always gets met with bad reviews and poor sales.
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Originally posted by Admiral LSD
The problem here is that as a collective whole, gamers, particularly PC gamers, don't want innovation in gameplay, they want innovation in two areas: Graphics and Multiplayer and this is exactly what the publishers are providing. Any company who tries to fly in the face of this trend usually always gets met with bad reviews and poor sales.
I suppose so. Maybe I'm a nostalgic idiot, but I guess I'm one of the collective few who value innovative gameplay. Maybe because I can't afford the hardware needed for better graphics and don't have the connection (quite possibly won't for many years to come) to enjoy multiplayer.
But I must agree with you... whoever tries to fly in the face of mainstream trends does tend to shrivel up and die in very, very dry winds. :(