[Martinus]

Originally posted by Venom


mmh... I remember him saying that, but I don't remember being stuck there.
altho there's one HUGE pb about that game: at the very begining, there's a tiny bullet shell to find on the first crime set ( the place where they sell animals ). it's damn hard to see, and if you miss it, well, you can't finish the game, you'll be stuck at one point or another.
that was quite stupid, even more since you can't go back to the place and pick it up later...

[color=66ff00]I didn't find it and I still managed to finish the game with all endings (had to read a walkthrough to get one ending though).
Runciters animals
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[karajorma]

Originally posted by 01010


Could never get past the halfway boss on the second stage of Xenon 2. That game was one of the only games that no one I knew could ever complete. I could never get Zeewolf 2 to work but I loved Zeewolf. But if there's one game that proves that gameplay is all that matters it has to be Speedball 2. If I'd have put as many hours into my education as I did into this game I'd be a millionaire by now

I got the final boss and nearly defeated him once. I probably would have done it if I hadn't bought the Bitmap Shades! They were useful in Speedball 2 so I assumed they would be good here too.
As for speedball 2. I still play that now whenever I have friends over. It really can't be beaten as an after pub game

[01010]

Originally posted by karajorma


I got the final boss and nearly defeated him once. I probably would have done it if I hadn't bought the Bitmap Shades! They were useful in Speedball 2 so I assumed they would be good here too.
As for speedball 2. I still play that now whenever I have friends over. It really can't be beaten as an after pub game

They should get the original Speedball 2 team together and make a remake, not like the crappy 3d playstation one, but using high res sprites and not touching any of the gameplay dynamics whatsoever. That is the closest thing to a perfect game I have ever came across, brilliant fun single or multiplayer.

[Stryke 9]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Remember Phantasmagoria?

God, you just HAD to go and remind me, didn't you?

At least it was someone else's waste of money. Bad enough that that thing took up my hard disk space. I mean, fine, make an entirely linear horror game where all there is to do is hunt pixels, and you have to find every one or the game plumb just doesn't progress, but at least make a monster that's better than a malevolent fart cloud and a steroidal worm.

[01010]

Originally posted by Stryke 9


God, you just HAD to go and remind me, didn't you?

At least it was someone else's waste of money. Bad enough that that thing took up my hard disk space. I mean, fine, make an entirely linear horror game where all there is to do is hunt pixels, and you have to find every one or the game plumb just doesn't progress, but at least make a monster that's better than a malevolent fart cloud and a steroidal worm.

I'm suprised you even bothered to play. Though I wouldn't mind a quick blast to see what was so bad about it. Wouldn't mind a go at "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties" either.

[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
All adventures tend to have something like that.

Sam and Max Hit The Road. It was one of those click-everywhere-till-you-find-something games. If you didn't reach into the mousehole in your flat at the beginning of the game, you didn't have money to buy a crucial thing right near the end... real pain in the butt. Hilarious game, though.

[Stryke 9]

I bother(ed) to play quite a lot of things I really shouldn't (have), and I was a dumb kid who could pretty much be wowed by anything better than 8-bits then, anyway. This was pretty much back in the days when Blood was a snazzy new special-effects theatre and the most coherent plot was StarCraft's, mind.

Basically, it was one of those "experimental" games where they try something that sounds like it could be fun and find that it isn't at all. In this case, the game was meant to be kinda half-movie, half-game. It was linear to the point where concepts like "free will" and "playing the game at all differently from how it was intended" were best regarded as jokes- if you were at the point where you'd gotten into the Town and bought the (forget what), you then had the ability to get the Magic T-Bone, and you'd better damn well get the Magic T-Bone, or you'd end up going back and forth between the same four frames over and over again until you damn well got it. And it went on and ON. You couldn't even die until the very end.

[CP5670]

ah, yeah, I know that ( the bug, never played the game ). it was on the retail version too ( very smart, heh? ). here was something to do to fix it, you should make a search on google or something.

After about half an hour of searching I finally found a solution. It seems that pressing the scroll lock key right before that part to disable background transitions prevents the crashes, so I can now finally play this game. It's looking very interesting so far and is quite funny too; some classic adventure game goodness...

[Nico]

and the heroes name rocks

[Dark_4ce]

DAMMIT!!!!

I can't get the voices to work on my LAPTOP for Beneath a Steel Sky!!! I have the talkie version. I Install it ok on my lap, it has win 98, so no prob playing in dos if need be. But the only thing it plays is the damn music, no sound fx, no nothing. Not even the intro works. ****....

[Corhellion]

Duke Nukem 3D
Shadow Warrior (Lo Wang: "Holy clap! Just like Duke Nukem! ha Ha!" :/Lo Wang)

StarTrek Command 1 (I wonder if you can mod it..."Freespace Command" anyone? )

Starcraft/BroodWar

Some n64 and SNES games *hugs his emulator*

Diablo 1

Heavy Gear1

Shogo: M.A.D. (I squish you, puny marine!)

X-Wing Alliance

FS1 and FS2

Descent 1 (I actually bought it this year...couldn't live without it)

uh...that's it I think...

Cor

[Nico]

first descent keeps being installed/deleted/installed/deleted from my HD

[TrashMan]

FS2*
X-Wing Alliance*
Outcast*                        *-------------- Ahhh.... one of the best
Worms
Warhammer:Chaos Gate and Dark Omen
Baldur's Gate 1&2*
Jagged Alliance 2*
Lords of the Realm 2*
Sam & Max
Mortal Kombat 2
NBA Live 2000
X-Com      --------- (sequel coming out soon! - UFO: Aftermath)
Fallout 1&2
Master of Orion
- allmost all of my old Amiga games ..... sigh...

[CP5670]

I can't get the voices to work on my LAPTOP for Beneath a Steel Sky!!! I have the talkie version. I Install it ok on my lap, it has win 98, so no prob playing in dos if need be. But the only thing it plays is the damn music, no sound fx, no nothing. Not even the intro works. ****....

the game has voices? I do not get any voices either but I was not expecting them anyway.

[Stealth]

anyone remember "Fatal Distractions"?!  I'll pay a LOT of money for that CD-ROM if anyone has it or knows of someone who does... i LOVED that pack.  had like 87 games on it, mostly shareware, but a few freeware.  included games like:

Pickle Wars
Doom
Descent (?)
Xargon
Jill of the Jungle
Cosmic Cosmo
Captain Comic
Wolfenstein 3D (?)
God of Thunder
Prince of Persia (?)
Commander Keen (lots of them, i think three of the four games... all demos though)

and tons of strategy, puzzle, and side-scroller games

man i loved it

[CP5670]

oh, Prince of Persia; that is another one I played a lot around 1990 along with its sequel.

By the way, has anyone tried running the user-made 3dfx patches for either Descent or Descent 2? They make the games look exponentially better than they used to and very, very impressive for 95/96 games.

[Turnsky]

i-war was another old fav of mine.... you can get 'openglide' in order to play it a high res.... i think

[Admiral LSD]

Originally posted by Dark_4ce
DAMMIT!!!!

I can't get the voices to work on my LAPTOP for Beneath a Steel Sky!!! I have the talkie version. I Install it ok on my lap, it has win 98, so no prob playing in dos if need be. But the only thing it plays is the damn music, no sound fx, no nothing. Not even the intro works. ****....

You running it in "real" DOS or under Win98? BASS is apparently quite picky about running in anything other than real DOS. If you can wait a bit, ScummVM may provide a solution. It's a Virtual Machine for the SCUMM engine (hence the name) used in, among other things, LucasArts adventure games. BASS support is in the works, preliminary support is already in CVS but as yet, only the intro works. A lot of the code required to get more than that is apparently in there but it just hasn't been tied together yet.

[Sandwich]

Centurio(n?)!!