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 Posted: Wed, 3rd Oct 2012 22:54 Post subject: The Classic Games We Can't Play |
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| Quote: | In many ways, we’re in a golden age for classic gaming. With digital downloads and emulations of many of the best games out there, it’s entirely possible to recommend to someone that they play, say, Ultima VII, and with downloading and at the cost of a few dollars, they can be playing it within 15 minutes (also with much less hassle to load up than it’s ever been to play that famously picky-at-release game).
Yet this can lead toward a very skewed vision of game history. Every game that’s not on GOG, Steam, GamersGate, or another download service is significantly less accessible than a game that is. If, for example, one is making an argument about strong female protagonists in video games, it’s easy to cite The Longest Journey’s April Ryan and Beyond Good & Evil’s Jade, since both games are easily available online. On the other hand, Cate Archer from 2000’s No One Lives Forever is slowly fading away, thanks to that game’s lack of online presence. |
GamerRanx
Man, I kind of forgot all about No One Lives Forever. I actually liked them better than the 007 games on N64 by Rare |
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| Posted: Wed, 3rd Oct 2012 22:57 Post subject: |
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Can't one just read about those game? Or watch a YT vid? How are they fading?
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| Posted: Wed, 3rd Oct 2012 23:02 Post subject: |
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what a coincidence, just today I downloaded both nolf games to play soon. 
it takes 1 hour max of googling to get 99% of old games working on windows 7. I am personally extremely satisfied with the ease and availability of PC gaming history online.
i have a digital collection of awesome games from 1994-2012 few clicks away 
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| Posted: Wed, 3rd Oct 2012 23:07 Post subject: |
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Who the frag can forget Cate?!!!! No, really!!!!
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| Posted: Wed, 3rd Oct 2012 23:35 Post subject: |
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the fight in the house inside of a tornado was epic. Loved the swords
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murgo
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Badrien
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Oct 2012 00:47 Post subject: |
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Loved nolf 1, 2 no so much.
"You want to buy monkey?"
RTX ON
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Neon
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Oct 2012 00:49 Post subject: |
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NOLF <3
Another fantastic example for those people who say "there are no women in games!!!111"
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ixigia
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Oct 2012 01:27 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Every game that’s not on GOG, Steam, GamersGate, or another download service is significantly less accessible than a game that is. |
Pfft, anything is fully accessible and ready to play  (if you know what I mean  ) |
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Oct 2012 02:17 Post subject: |
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NOLF and Start Trek: Elite Force were two of the best FPS I have ever played.
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Oct 2012 06:46 Post subject: |
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xcom
all the ways to play it are unstable hacks
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Frant
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Oct 2012 06:49 Post subject: |
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| shole wrote: | xcom
all the ways to play it are unstable hacks |
They're stable if you play them from Steam but then you're playing through DosBox. I tried so many times to get the UFO/X-COM Extender stuff and mods to work but gave up since it just gave me a black screen.
But they do work OOTB if you have the Steam versions.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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