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Tarumar




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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 04:43    Post subject: Need name of old game
Hey all. I am looking for the name of an old game. Well, fairly old. I remember playing it on the 486. I can recall it as a 3rd action adventure game. Not sure if it was 1st or 3rd person. You ride in (I think) on a horse, and you have a small deserted town on your left. I think at some point I went into a barn, and got ambushed.

Know it ain't much, but I hope some of you can recall the name of it!
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Reg67




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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 09:50    Post subject:
Maybe it was a dream? Shocked
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tRanSwarP




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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 09:55    Post subject: Re: Need name of old game
Tarumar wrote:
Hey all. I am looking for the name of an old game. Well, fairly old. I remember playing it on the 486. I can recall it as a 3rd action adventure game. Not sure if it was 1st or 3rd person. You ride in (I think) on a horse, and you have a small deserted town on your left. I think at some point I went into a barn, and got ambushed.

Know it ain't much, but I hope some of you can recall the name of it!

No Horse, but maybe it was called Ecstatica

http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/reviews/44/

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Reg67




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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 09:56    Post subject:
Damn I remember ecstatica.. that goes back a bit Laughing
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anti-flag




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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 10:00    Post subject:
lmao, someone actually managed to remember the game with that description
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poullou




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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 10:38    Post subject:
Woot I can count the pixels on that photo Very Happy

Play moon patrol, its match better! Or ski, or Larry, or....bah @ memories

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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 10:45    Post subject:
Man Ecstatica was AWSOME! Very Happy

Great game, great memories.
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tRanSwarP




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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 10:54    Post subject:
anti-flag wrote:
lmao, someone actually managed to remember the game with that description


I think i wasted my youth Wink

Leishar wrote:
Man Ecstatica was AWSOME! Very Happy

Great game, great memories.


And it was worth it Laughing
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s_hole




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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 11:44    Post subject:
law of the west? outlaws? Smile
law of the west would make great remake material for wii btw
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Tarumar




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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 16:28    Post subject:
I knew one of you guys would recall! Thanks. Btw, I think it was Ecstatica 2 actually:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/ecstatica2/review.html

"n the game, your quest begins with the hero and his girlfriend Ecstatica, both sporting their brand-new SVGA tunics, astride a horse bound for their hometown. A spirit comes to visit them, informing them that their erstwhile ruler has tampered with some ancient arcane texts, and faster than could forget the word "Nicto," the whole town and surrounding lands have been overrun by evil spawns. The couple ends up running into of few of said demons at the foot of the town. Ecstatica is swept away, and our hero is tossed into a ditch."

Thanks again!
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KillaK




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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 16:56    Post subject:
Damn, that takes me back. I remember first reading about Ecstatica in Edge magazine, way way before it came out.... looking at the bubble graphics and thinking about how real it looks, and how my PC would never run it.

BTW, did everyone play the Twinsen games? I think the US version had a different name (journey something or other, or something journey)
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Ankh




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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 16:59    Post subject:
Little Big Adventure rocked and Ecstatica was fucking great Smile

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UserFriendly7
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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 17:06    Post subject:
anti-flag wrote:
lmao, someone actually managed to remember the game with that description
lol... so true Laughing

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nerrd




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PostPosted: Tue, 7th Nov 2006 19:16    Post subject:
Hmmm. I missed this Ecstatica game, will have to try to find it somewhere. But I did play and own at some time Little Big Adventure: Twinsens Oddysey, or something like that. Cool game for its time. I remember being impressed with the fluid character animation.
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KillaK




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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 00:16    Post subject:
Twinsens Odyssee was the sequel. But definitely a great game.
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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 01:49    Post subject:
Little Big Adventure rocked! Played it for 2 weeks straight.

dust.
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Nailbiter
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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 02:07    Post subject:
both LBA and ecstatica rocked...rocked hard. if i had to choose though, i would go for LBA. first time i tried it and tried to escape form the prison...it was just something i had never played before.

only bad part in that game would be some frustrating platform jumping.

ecstatica also had some frustrating elements in it.
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Radamez




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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 02:12    Post subject:
Oh yeh, Ecstatica was great. My main memory of it is hiding in the closet from the werewolf Very Happy Such an innovative game for its time. Was also an LBA fan - I still have both of them kicking around on a disc somewhere.
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Ankh




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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 06:52    Post subject:
...and not to forget the adventure game which Radamez use as his avatar Smile Day Of The Tentacle...I wouldnt mind a remake of that one Smile

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pikachupi




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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 08:00    Post subject:
KillaK wrote:
Damn, that takes me back. I remember first reading about Ecstatica in Edge magazine, way way before it came out.... looking at the bubble graphics and thinking about how real it looks, and how my PC would never run it.

BTW, did everyone play the Twinsen games? I think the US version had a different name (journey something or other, or something journey)


Very Happy
same with me mate:) i got original copy..maybe i still have it or maybe i donate it few years go, but the game was great...too hard but great:)
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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 09:23    Post subject:
Anthirs wrote:
...and not to forget the adventure game which Radamez use as his avatar Smile Day Of The Tentacle...I wouldnt mind a remake of that one Smile


try scummvm, It makes you able to play it with filters that makes the game look a bit more smooth.

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Ankh




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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 09:34    Post subject:
CraweN wrote:
try scummvm, It makes you able to play it with filters that makes the game look a bit more smooth.


Yeah I know - but I'd like to see a full remake Smile I played it not soo long ago but had trouble with the sound.

shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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funame




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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 10:12    Post subject:
oh wow....ecstatica was great. IIRC it was pretty much "next-gen" after alone in the dark Very Happy
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whoKnows
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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 10:32    Post subject:
Zak McKracken was the best ever, end of discussion Razz
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EwarWoo1




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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 10:35    Post subject:
Damn, LBA fetches back memories Smile
I had it on PSX but doubt there was much difference. Still blew me away Smile
Can't even put my finger on what about it was that did it, but it was an absolute obsession for a long time.
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Ankh




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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 10:47    Post subject:
whoKnows wrote:
Zak McKracken was the best ever, end of discussion Razz


and Manic Mansion Smile

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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 11:28    Post subject:
heh ecstatica 2 was the one of the first games I "bought" for my pc old ass p1 233mhz haha! god I miss those days playing games like Syndicate wars

/me wipes tear from eye.

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Sil3nt




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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 12:03    Post subject:
yea old games... *sniff* oh the goood ol times, talking about that, i just finished going through sam n max, indy jones(the good one), full throttle, day of the tentacles, the dig etc. bunch of SO sweet games.
those games are quite difficult(some puzzles are still hard Very Happy), by todays standard look pretty bad but again gameplay/story=Awesome and i still think they are better than most games today...

"oh woe is us, where havet our quality of gaming gone"... down the pooper i say!
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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 12:11    Post subject:
Back to the days they had a focus on the gameplay Smile
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ady5




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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 14:10    Post subject:
LBA2 was the first game who i wanted to finnish and did finnish. Those crisp SVGA graphics, the choesivness of the universe, so many locations to explore, so much to do in every screen...just unbelievable. I remember the puzzles on the Moon, the cart racing, and even the platform jumping didn't bother me(or maybe it was one place, the train tracks layout in the cavern...i think i spent like 10h figuring that puzzle out). Too bad it didn't had a sequel, but i hear it's in the remake now, to run on winxp
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