Damn you! It's on my hard drive already, but I've been caught up in a bunch of other games for the better part of a year. Now I have to set them all aside and start a new character... (I'd finish my current playthrough, but I think my Malkavian is unsalvageable at this point.)
I also bought Half-Life on Steam. Maybe when I get around to playing it, it'll run better than the ancient pirated copy my uncle gave me (out of nowhere, I might add) a decade ago.
But what I'm hoping is that Black Mesa will come out before I get the urge to play Half-Life again.
Anyway, I've been considering buying this. Would you recommend it? Does it meet the same standard as games like Diablo II?
Diablo II is by no means a proper cRPG in the sense that Planescape: Torment is. that is not to be a slight against Diablo, it's just that these guys are two entirely different beasts. You chose the Infinity Engine game FARTHEST from Diablo, and I can actually prove it.
In a 2001 interview with Gamustra, Feargus Urquhart, Black Isle's division director for Planescape, said: "the differences between the Baldur's Gate series, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment. All of the products use the same engine, but all of them are seen as very distinctly different products. The way we think about them is along a line from adventure to hack-and-slash. Torment is almost an adventure game, Icewind Dale is almost a true hack-and-slash like Diablo, and Baldur's Gate is somewhere right in the middle."
Planescape: Torment is one of my favorite games of all time. It has one of the best written stories in video games, and that is by NO means giving it anywhere NEAR enough praise. By today's standards the controls can feel kind of clunky, so a perusal of the manual is probably necessary, but there is a meat and value here that ages extremely gracefully. This is a true RPG, a game where your actions and your choices affect everything around you, a game where the story has the depth and intelligence of a well-written novel and then some. A game where your character and their stats are actually weighty and important.
I really think people should play it. It is really up the alley of adventure game players especially, I think.
There's nothing on the market quite like Planescape. You *could* play it like a Baldur's Gate, or to some extent, a Diablo, but the real heft is in the conversations and exploration. 99% of the battles in the game are entirely optional.
Certainly can't hurt to give it a try. All I can say is, there's a reason people got all psycho-happy when GOG released it.
Planescape: Torment is one of my favorite games of all time. It has one of the best written stories in video games, and that is by NO means giving it anywhere NEAR enough praise. By today's standards the controls can feel kind of clunky, so a perusal of the manual is probably necessary, but there is a meat and value here that ages extremely gracefully. This is a true RPG, a game where your actions and your choices affect everything around you, a game where the story has the depth and intelligence of a well-written novel and then some. A game where your character and their stats are actually weighty and important.
I really think people should play it. It is really up the alley of adventure game players especially, I think.
So what you are saying is that I should finally get it?
I think GOG has it now after their relaunch...
I'm putting it on the list, if it's a dissapointment i'm coming back for every single one of you
Look, people keep forgetting that the greatest game ever is Morrowind and for this I am certainly a misanthropist. Anyway, glad I could get under your skin! Remember: you don't so much get skilled at System Shock 2 as you sort of catch System Shock 2 in a good mood and it lets you feel like you're winning.
Left 4 Dead 2. The new DLC rekindled my addiction, and my friends finally got copies of the game, so I don't have to torture myself with the public servers anymore.
Left 4 Dead 2. The new DLC rekindled my addiction, and my friends finally got copies of the game, so I don't have to torture myself with the public servers anymore.
Still haven't cleared The Sacrifice myself but i'm lurving it. Apparently it's harder on the original for some reason
Really? That's surprising. I wasn't going to bother playing the L4D1 version, but now I'm curious.
This be my source. I haven't tried it in L4D2 yet but it was ruthless when I played it last night. SHODANFeelsmen can confirm. Like 6 Boomers spawned in a row before just before we were ready to start the indoors generator. Then we started it and we got another one on top of our horde of common and tank. The director was feeling ruthless at that point
Sounds like L4D2's Director may have met up with L4D1's Director and explained the joys of spamming specials.
Tangent: I don't know why, but I always imagine the Director as the Announcer in TF2. I'm all but fully convinced that this is what the Announcer does when she's not... y'know... announcing.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (PC)
CSI: Crime City - Beta (Facebook)
Lemmings (PSP)
Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron (PSP)
LEGO Indiana Jones: The original trilogy (PSP)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Wii)
Started M+L: Superstar Saga, but the game keeps crashing on the second (training) battle on my emulator, so...
Also started Spyro: A new beginning, GBA version and was dissapointed by the graphics, ets, co I'll likely just play the PS2/Xbox version since it has better graphics and VA
This be my source. I haven't tried it in L4D2 yet but it was ruthless when I played it last night. SHODANFeelsmen can confirm. Like 6 Boomers spawned in a row before just before we were ready to start the indoors generator. Then we started it and we got another one on top of our horde of common and tank. The director was feeling ruthless at that point
I took a break from Sonic Heroes and played Puzzle Agent start to finish yesterday. I really enjoyed it. Makes me think I should look into Professor Layton (as if I need to add more games to my wishlist).
Crackdown 2 (360) & Jolly Rover (PC). Glad to finally have some games on the go that aren't sport based. Seems that's all I've been playing in the last month or so - NHL, F1 and Fifa. And that's not even including the always on the go Football Manager.
Just played the demo for that, enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It's been a long time since I played a Castlevania game, might make it a purchase.
Just finished The Force Unleashed for PC. It would appear that Jedi Knight II was omitted from the "research for inspiration" list for the developers of that prequel-ish gameplay travesty.
It was never intended for PC release so the controls were based on console controllers from the ground up. It was only ported to PC months later after they relented from so many requesting it. If you were to have played it on a console I think your experience with it would have been much different.
And I have to say, dealing with the survivor AI in Dead Rising is one of the most frustrating things I've experienced in a video game in quite some time.
Are you playing it in Vista? Also, is it the non-GoG version?
I just can't get it to run on this machine, no matter what compatibility tricks I try.
I am playing on Windows 7, and Blood 2 is working just fine and that is the gog installer. I have to run it on the lowest solution but I can survive that. It is set to run on Windows xp service pack 2, and run as administrator.
When I try to install Blood 1, it says I need 32 bit or 64? bit, and I know I have the higher one, so there is something wrong with the installer, so I have to send a message about that to gog.
I am playing on Windows 7, and Blood 2 is working just fine and that is the gog installer. I have to run it on the lowest solution but I can survive that. It is set to run on Windows xp service pack 2, and run as administrator.
When I try to install Blood 1, it says I need 32 bit or 64? bit, and I know I have the higher one, so there is something wrong with the installer, so I have to send a message about that to gog.
The problem is that a 64 bit version of Windows cannot run 16 bit programs which is what Blood is (most DOS games are, as well as some early Windows programs). Had that same problem with Blade Runner (released same year as Blood) which I solved by finding a program on the internet that someone created to solve this problem (basically they made a new installer).
The problem is that a 64 bit version of Windows cannot run 16 bit programs which is what Blood is (most DOS games are, as well as some early Windows programs). Had that same problem with Blade Runner (released same year as Blood) which I solved by finding a program on the internet that someone created to solve this problem (basically they made a new installer).
Strange, thinking that you buy it from gog that says its windows xp/vista compatible needs programmes to run an installer.
But then again I am playing it on windows 7, but not sure that really has anything to do with it though.
I am playing on Windows 7, and Blood 2 is working just fine and that is the gog installer. I have to run it on the lowest solution but I can survive that. It is set to run on Windows xp service pack 2, and run as administrator.
Ah, okay. I'll just get it from GoG, then. (I have the GoG version of Shogo, and it runs like a dream, so Blood 2 should be fine)
Not sure why I want to play it again in the first place. It's one of my least favorite sequels to games I love.
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Damn you! It's on my hard drive already, but I've been caught up in a bunch of other games for the better part of a year. Now I have to set them all aside and start a new character...
Damn, you JedEx! Damn you! Um, let me see....
SystemShock2
I just clicked this topic to read it randomly and...you son of a bitch.
>looks for my copy
Half-Life
I TROLL U!
Also, I totally bought it on Steam. Half-Life, that is. TIME TO PLAY!
Now, who's going to go revisit Wasteland?
But what I'm hoping is that Black Mesa will come out before I get the urge to play Half-Life again.
Planescape: Torment
Fix'd
Anyway, I've been considering buying this. Would you recommend it? Does it meet the same standard as games like Diablo II?
In a 2001 interview with Gamustra, Feargus Urquhart, Black Isle's division director for Planescape, said: "the differences between the Baldur's Gate series, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment. All of the products use the same engine, but all of them are seen as very distinctly different products. The way we think about them is along a line from adventure to hack-and-slash. Torment is almost an adventure game, Icewind Dale is almost a true hack-and-slash like Diablo, and Baldur's Gate is somewhere right in the middle."
Planescape: Torment is one of my favorite games of all time. It has one of the best written stories in video games, and that is by NO means giving it anywhere NEAR enough praise. By today's standards the controls can feel kind of clunky, so a perusal of the manual is probably necessary, but there is a meat and value here that ages extremely gracefully. This is a true RPG, a game where your actions and your choices affect everything around you, a game where the story has the depth and intelligence of a well-written novel and then some. A game where your character and their stats are actually weighty and important.
I really think people should play it. It is really up the alley of adventure game players especially, I think.
There's nothing on the market quite like Planescape. You *could* play it like a Baldur's Gate, or to some extent, a Diablo, but the real heft is in the conversations and exploration. 99% of the battles in the game are entirely optional.
Certainly can't hurt to give it a try. All I can say is, there's a reason people got all psycho-happy when GOG released it.
So what you are saying is that I should finally get it?
I think GOG has it now after their relaunch...
I was too poor to afford a computer back in those days, but i'm missing out on a classic. You may have gotten under my skin Andrew Pants
I'm putting it on the list, if it's a dissapointment i'm coming back for every single one of you
Look, people keep forgetting that the greatest game ever is Morrowind and for this I am certainly a misanthropist. Anyway, glad I could get under your skin! Remember: you don't so much get skilled at System Shock 2 as you sort of catch System Shock 2 in a good mood and it lets you feel like you're winning.
Still haven't cleared The Sacrifice myself but i'm lurving it. Apparently it's harder on the original for some reason
This be my source. I haven't tried it in L4D2 yet but it was ruthless when I played it last night. SHODANFeelsmen can confirm. Like 6 Boomers spawned in a row before just before we were ready to start the indoors generator. Then we started it and we got another one on top of our horde of common and tank. The director was feeling ruthless at that point
Tangent: I don't know why, but I always imagine the Director as the Announcer in TF2. I'm all but fully convinced that this is what the Announcer does when she's not... y'know... announcing.
CSI: Crime City - Beta (Facebook)
Lemmings (PSP)
Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron (PSP)
LEGO Indiana Jones: The original trilogy (PSP)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Wii)
Also started Spyro: A new beginning, GBA version and was dissapointed by the graphics, ets, co I'll likely just play the PS2/Xbox version since it has better graphics and VA
Thats because we need "Him" To clear it.
No! We can do it, I pinky promise!
Just played the demo for that, enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It's been a long time since I played a Castlevania game, might make it a purchase.
It was never intended for PC release so the controls were based on console controllers from the ground up. It was only ported to PC months later after they relented from so many requesting it. If you were to have played it on a console I think your experience with it would have been much different.
DeathSpank: ToV
Dead Rising
And I have to say, dealing with the survivor AI in Dead Rising is one of the most frustrating things I've experienced in a video game in quite some time.
I also tried to play Two Worlds, really tough and reminds me a lot about Oblivion.
Also playing Blood 2 - The Chosen, as the installer for Blood 1 is not working for some reason.
Are you playing it in Vista? Also, is it the non-GoG version?
I just can't get it to run on this machine, no matter what compatibility tricks I try.
I am playing on Windows 7, and Blood 2 is working just fine and that is the gog installer. I have to run it on the lowest solution but I can survive that. It is set to run on Windows xp service pack 2, and run as administrator.
When I try to install Blood 1, it says I need 32 bit or 64? bit, and I know I have the higher one, so there is something wrong with the installer, so I have to send a message about that to gog.
The acronym is a lot more comfortable to type, isn't it?
The problem is that a 64 bit version of Windows cannot run 16 bit programs which is what Blood is (most DOS games are, as well as some early Windows programs). Had that same problem with Blade Runner (released same year as Blood) which I solved by finding a program on the internet that someone created to solve this problem (basically they made a new installer).
Strange, thinking that you buy it from gog that says its windows xp/vista compatible needs programmes to run an installer.
But then again I am playing it on windows 7, but not sure that really has anything to do with it though.
Seems a little odd to me.
Ah, okay. I'll just get it from GoG, then. (I have the GoG version of Shogo, and it runs like a dream, so Blood 2 should be fine)
Not sure why I want to play it again in the first place.