Originally Posted by RaptorRed I cant believe only Joe has mentioned Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy the whole control system and mental element makes it superbly atmospheric and the central duality of playing opposing characters at the same time is very original, plus the story is great. And the Dig Ive been trying to find a copy of that for years. Another game I realy like is Fragile Allegiance a strategy game based on asteroid mining with inter species diplomacy, trade and war thrown in for good measure.
I got a copy of The Dig when a friend of mine was clearing out his room almost a decade ago. You can sometimes track it down as abandonware or as part of a lucasarts compilation pack on eBay.
Very understated packaging and advertising. I can imagine it being your kind of humour. The cut scenes lag a bit with the 360, but it's more then playable
Hehe.. I've got a few of those games. Neverhood, Outcast (Killed my computer when I got it..), Planescape (Really didnt know that it was unknown), Beyond Good & Evil, Vampire and Psyconauts :)
It's a moot point reminiscing about older games when newer video cards won't support them. It's like a book club discssing out-of-print books that no one can get.
I have a 8800 GTX and a can't play 'Crimson Skies' on it (I bought it from EBay, last week). Searching Nvidia forums for a resolution, I found a slew of older games, like AVP, that Nvidia newer cards don't support.
I'd love to play something like Grim Fandango again, but I seriously doubt that my highspeed JAXA pc machine could play a game older than a couple of years ago.
I can play Grim Fandango fine on my work PC, which has an 8800 and vista etc in it. You do get occasional hiccups and, if I recall, the cutscenes are all jittery - but put text and speech on and it'll be fine for the most part. Especially if its your second play through.
Originally Posted by CardJoe I can play Grim Fandango fine on my work PC, which has an 8800 and vista etc in it. You do get occasional hiccups and, if I recall, the cutscenes are all jittery - but put text and speech on and it'll be fine for the most part. Especially if its your second play through.
I just picked a classic game at random, I didn't know whether Grim Fandango worked or not! Since I am frustrated with Crimson Skies, and read about other Nvidia problems, I thought that most older games were suffering similar problems as well.
I guess I anticipated, and you should never anticipate, because you make an 'ant' out of 'tis' and 'pate'!
I just bought Psychonauts off of ebay, hopefully that will work.
Originally Posted by RaptorRed I cant believe only Joe has mentioned Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy the whole control system and mental element makes it superbly atmospheric and the central duality of playing opposing characters at the same time is very original, plus the story is great. And the Dig Ive been trying to find a copy of that for years. Another game I realy like is Fragile Allegiance a strategy game based on asteroid mining with inter species diplomacy, trade and war thrown in for good measure.
Indigo Prophecy was short, the sneaking sequence flash back was terrible, it lost itself in the ending, the sex scene was terrible....and the controls were shenmue styled simon says. You could barely watch the heavy action sequences because of that control scheme. First game on the PC I had to play with a controller.
Fahrenheit was awesome, though I agree it had problems. The sneaking bits were a tad irritating, but not really a huge problem and there was only one or two of them which were quite short at that. The heavy action sequences were fantastic though and I loved how the shenmue controls were used - not something I'd like to see in all games, but something I felt was handled well nonetheless. They really gave the game a sense of drama for me.
I agree that the plot kind of lost it half way thorugh, but it's important to keep track of the dates mentioned in the cutscenes to see the timescale the game is set over. You also have to bear in mind Fahrenheit was originally supposed to be episodic, but the publisher forced them to put the game out as a single release like that, condensing the story and ruining the schedule. Things which should have been explained more were therefore skipped over.
The sex scene didn't really bother me. It was there to add depth to the characters, not titillate players.
Always wanted to get Farenheit, never got round to it. There's a lot of games like that for me.
I just got Borrow Hill thru the post today - trying to branch out into old adventure games, because new adventure games suck.
I'm attempting to get the uber-rare Realms of the Haunting, but the *cough*torrent*cough* only has one seed and no peers >:(
So, in three to five years, I'll be able to play that one. By which time steam will have bought every game company on earth, and it'll be available in their catalogue.
I may have to Amazon Marketplace it from some guy in denmark instead...
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I got a copy of The Dig when a friend of mine was clearing out his room almost a decade ago. You can sometimes track it down as abandonware or as part of a lucasarts compilation pack on eBay.
Oh yeah you can do something like -a0 in the shortcut IIRC, I'll try that.
Just found it among the crap by brother left when he moved so I'm stealing it :D
Dunno what kind of success it had, or how it plays now, all I can remember is I loved it when it first came out, even if I was **** at it.
EDIT: Woops sorry about that.
Woot fixed the core affinity, runs fine now apart from the occasional frame rate drop when there's lots of traffic.
I have a 8800 GTX and a can't play 'Crimson Skies' on it (I bought it from EBay, last week). Searching Nvidia forums for a resolution, I found a slew of older games, like AVP, that Nvidia newer cards don't support.
I'd love to play something like Grim Fandango again, but I seriously doubt that my highspeed JAXA pc machine could play a game older than a couple of years ago.
I just picked a classic game at random, I didn't know whether Grim Fandango worked or not! Since I am frustrated with Crimson Skies, and read about other Nvidia problems, I thought that most older games were suffering similar problems as well.
I guess I anticipated, and you should never anticipate, because you make an 'ant' out of 'tis' and 'pate'!
I just bought Psychonauts off of ebay, hopefully that will work.
Indigo Prophecy was short, the sneaking sequence flash back was terrible, it lost itself in the ending, the sex scene was terrible....and the controls were shenmue styled simon says. You could barely watch the heavy action sequences because of that control scheme. First game on the PC I had to play with a controller.
Besides all that great game! hahaha...
I agree that the plot kind of lost it half way thorugh, but it's important to keep track of the dates mentioned in the cutscenes to see the timescale the game is set over. You also have to bear in mind Fahrenheit was originally supposed to be episodic, but the publisher forced them to put the game out as a single release like that, condensing the story and ruining the schedule. Things which should have been explained more were therefore skipped over.
The sex scene didn't really bother me. It was there to add depth to the characters, not titillate players.
I just got Borrow Hill thru the post today - trying to branch out into old adventure games, because new adventure games suck.
I'm attempting to get the uber-rare Realms of the Haunting, but the *cough*torrent*cough* only has one seed and no peers >:(
So, in three to five years, I'll be able to play that one. By which time steam will have bought every game company on earth, and it'll be available in their catalogue.
I may have to Amazon Marketplace it from some guy in denmark instead...