Last Express on GOG
Truly an overlooked adventure classic. Released in 1997, The Last Express is a beautiful and mechanically brilliant adventure game with a truly engaging story and living world. A truly innovative game that has yet to be topped in the key areas in which it excels.
The game had a truly "living" world, played in real-time with characters that moved about their own business with their own plans and actions that move independent of the player. A storyline that truly changes based on your actions, with a wide variety of possible endings. And it's a great one too, a murder mystery on the Orient Express circa 1941.
And stylistically pretty, to boot.
Seriously, if you haven't played this game, you're missing out.
The game had a truly "living" world, played in real-time with characters that moved about their own business with their own plans and actions that move independent of the player. A storyline that truly changes based on your actions, with a wide variety of possible endings. And it's a great one too, a murder mystery on the Orient Express circa 1941.
And stylistically pretty, to boot.
Seriously, if you haven't played this game, you're missing out.
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Gog > Steam. You get not only a DRM free copy of the game, but tons and tons of extras, and they actually put in the effort to make sure the game runs on modern operating systems.
It's the same price in US dollars, though.
Suppose that could always change.. :P
This shit's what i'm all about!
If you buy it on Steam, you will suffer.
DOS games do not work from Steam. The publisher/developer is only in control if
a) they can be bothered
b) they still exist.
Look at the Doom releases. They simply don't work without configuring them yourself. This is because id couldn't be bothered. id know full well that good source ports exist for Doom. You could say that they didn't want to choose one because they didn't know what the majority of people would want, but they addressed that with the Quake releases by giving the option of source port. The WAD file is also binary identical to the original Doom WAD and is unprotected so id should expect users to install their own source ports if they dislike the stock ones. (btw, skulltag)
Smoking Car Productions no longer exist so do you think the game will be worth getting on Steam? It won't.
You're only hurting yourself if you wait for the Steam release. Get it on GOG to ensure that it will work. Remember that the Steam client is only a list of games so just add it as a non-steam game. If you really hate that, remove the "Status" column to hide the fact that it's a shortcut.
Remember that when you sign up to GOG.com, you automatically get some of the free games placed on your shelf. You're a fan of Telltale (presumably), so you should be able to appreciate the fantastic Beneath a Steel Sky, which comes in an easy-to-install package.
So buy it on GOG. Or you'll have no fun.
I don't know about Last Express yet, but... That statement is wrong... Well, okay, it's not wrong (all GoG games do work, kinda), BUT. I've already mentioned the graphic glitches in BG&E. I neglected to mention pretty frequent crashes in Constructor: Street Wars (i.e. Mob Rule), Messiah, Advent Rising, King's Quest 8 (from those GoG games that I have and that I remember that DO crash... there may be more, who knows?). So, no, I still don't agree that GoG equals 'absolutely no worries'. I don't say that it sucks, cause GoG is great, BUT... some of it's aspects are overhyped, and this hype is part of the reason that, in my opinion, doesn't make them check ALL of their games properly.
For the record, Tea has some sort of position at GOG so he is sort of biased if you couldn't guess.
I don't work for GOG and I'm no longer associated with the TF2 server, which was also not affiliated with GOG.
I went on that server one Friday night. There was talk of "bears", a lot of talk about "bears".
In fact it was all bloody "bears" all bloody night!
We were talking about the opening level of Thief beforehand. One guy was drunk. Bears becomes a buzzword.
Ahhhhh!
I don't agree.
GOG has always been great about making sure their releases run well. In most cases I've seen where someone has graphics glitches or the like, it's usually a case of just playing around with GOG's configuration utility to find the setting that works on that system.
Of course there always is the occasional game that is a legitimate problem, but GOG's always seemed good about making that right. Take the situation with Motoracer 2 or Motocross 2 or whatever it was. They were able to confirm there were serious issues so they pulled the game until they fixed it.
Not only that, but they left it as a purchase for those who'd bought it so they would be able to redownload the fixed version and also issued a gift credits as an apology for any inconveniences/not having the game available.
That kind of customer service coupled with the extras they throw in (as well as making alternate versions CD/DVD/floppy available to all purchasers/past purchasers as they come available) is the reason I buy the vast majority of old games from them.
Great game.
Every line of the script is perfect! Every character is interesting!
Also think it's a great whodunnit with a great twist at the end.
The only complaint I have that we never got the sequel it foreshadowed. =(
There was indeed.
In fact, I kinda want to say the retail release actually was a Win/Mac product, but don't hold me to it.
I think it was.
Ooh, I found the behind-the-scenes video. The rotoscoping part starts around 6:15 - it's rather good stuff.
I've never done a ship trip. I imagine this ranging from beeing boring to quite interesting, depending on whom you travell with, the more specific situation like a cargo ship/route vs. cruise line and who gets killed (if it's only inside your head, the murder, the suspects, the case, who has something to hide, evaluating what they say on such a basis, ...) on board.