Does it mean that the player is supposed to fall in love with an in-game character? That's probably happened more times than avid players of Tomb Raider or Dead or Alive might want to admit.
Uh... that's sexual attraction, not love.
Characters I *could* fall in love with, if they existed, and which actually made me feel *something* while playing the game, would be:
- Annah from Planescape: Torment
- Fall-from-Grace from Planescape: Torment
- Kana from Kana: Little Sister (spoiler: she isn't your biological sister, stop calling me a pervert!:) )
- Viconia from Baldur's Gate 2
- and, almost but not quite there... Bastila from KOTOR.
Not "love". Just "if they existed in real life, I'd sure like to meet them."
Indeed, Puzzle Pirates is excellent. Loving it so far.
My only problem with it is that there's a LOT of lag for me. Now, I live in Portugal (that's west of Spain:)), but I can play every other MMORPG (played lots, like Asheron's Call, Earth & Beyond, Ultima Online, Everquest, DAOC) with virtually no lag at all.
In PP, walking through town (without using the map) is a chore.
You can play several versions on emulators. I recommend the Amiga version, with excellent Bach music, and great graphics. I've also heard that the Genesis version is very good, but I've never played it.
The Civ 3 manual is one of the most disappointing I've seen: big, but almost everything is about the game interface. Nothing about history, or about the civs. No designer notes.
I blame Infogrames / Atari for that. Gettysburg and Alpha Centauri (published by EA, instead) had much better manuals (although nothing comes close to the the old Microprose ones).
Maybe the speed could be settable. In the preview, they talk about the possibility of having an entire career in 2 hours... but what if we want a game to last weeks? They should have that option...
I understand what you're saying, but I *thought* this was supposed to be a sequel, or at least a modern version, with new features. Instead, it's looking like the original version with a 3D engine... and dancing to woo governors' daughters.
Consider this: if this remake is just a techical update, then what's Sid Meier doing? (yes, I know he's not just a designer, he also codes, but bear with me) Do better graphics need a designer like Sid? As far as I know, he wasn't even involved in Pirates Gold.
I *prefer* to believe that this is an incomplete preview, and that the game will have many new things to try out, not mentioned in the article.
As I said, I'll pre-order the game, so they've already got me.:) But, like I also said, if Pirates was Arena, I wanted a Daggerfall, not an Arena Gold Plus...
I remember that a couple of them actually looked good on the Amiga and PC CGA versions. Pirates Gold was kind of a disappointment in this regard, though.
So, basically... you didn't read any of its reviews, or you'd know it was a Bioware RPG, like Neverwinter Nights, instead of a third-person shooter...:)
Tell me Planescape Torment, Fallout or Baldur's Gate 2 aren't great RPGs.
Or do you think they HAVE to be dungeon crawls? Is Pool of Radiance (the original) a better RPG than Baldur's Gate 2? If you think so, end of conversation...
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Does it mean that the player is supposed to fall in love with an in-game character? That's probably happened more times than avid players of Tomb Raider or Dead or Alive might want to admit.
Uh... that's sexual attraction, not love.
Characters I *could* fall in love with, if they existed, and which actually made me feel *something* while playing the game, would be:
- Annah from Planescape: Torment :) )
- Fall-from-Grace from Planescape: Torment
- Kana from Kana: Little Sister (spoiler: she isn't your biological sister, stop calling me a pervert!
- Viconia from Baldur's Gate 2
- and, almost but not quite there... Bastila from KOTOR.
Not "love". Just "if they existed in real life, I'd sure like to meet them."
Indeed... and now, the Planescape:Torment guys are doing the sequel. Promising...
... how the Gamespy article doesn't mention Puzzle Pirates at all. :(
Indeed, Puzzle Pirates is excellent. Loving it so far.
:)), but I can play every other MMORPG (played lots, like Asheron's Call, Earth & Beyond, Ultima Online, Everquest, DAOC) with virtually no lag at all.
My only problem with it is that there's a LOT of lag for me. Now, I live in Portugal (that's west of Spain
In PP, walking through town (without using the map) is a chore.
Oh well... maybe it'll get better in the future.
And it runs on Linux, too!
Warcraft 1 was an almost perfect copy of Dune 2. A copy isn't a "revolution".
They only made a really fun RTS with Warcraft 2, and Starcraft is brilliant.
Yes, it is usually something like that. Yet some people do that for weeks...
Worse than work, and you pay for it instead of getting paid. People are weird...
has there ever been a game that's criticised by so many people, most of whom continue to play it?
Uh... Everquest? :)
Gettysburg and Simgolf are mostly his games.
Civ 2, Alpha Centauri and Civ 3 aren't.
Loved Gettysburg... didn't play Simgolf yet.
Oh, and none of the screenshots has a governor's daughter. :(
You can play several versions on emulators. I recommend the Amiga version, with excellent Bach music, and great graphics. I've also heard that the Genesis version is very good, but I've never played it.
Doubt it. :(
The Civ 3 manual is one of the most disappointing I've seen: big, but almost everything is about the game interface. Nothing about history, or about the civs. No designer notes.
I blame Infogrames / Atari for that. Gettysburg and Alpha Centauri (published by EA, instead) had much better manuals (although nothing comes close to the the old Microprose ones).
Maybe the speed could be settable. In the preview, they talk about the possibility of having an entire career in 2 hours... but what if we want a game to last weeks? They should have that option...
I understand what you're saying, but I *thought* this was supposed to be a sequel, or at least a modern version, with new features. Instead, it's looking like the original version with a 3D engine... and dancing to woo governors' daughters.
:) But, like I also said, if Pirates was Arena, I wanted a Daggerfall, not an Arena Gold Plus...
Consider this: if this remake is just a techical update, then what's Sid Meier doing? (yes, I know he's not just a designer, he also codes, but bear with me) Do better graphics need a designer like Sid? As far as I know, he wasn't even involved in Pirates Gold.
I *prefer* to believe that this is an incomplete preview, and that the game will have many new things to try out, not mentioned in the article.
As I said, I'll pre-order the game, so they've already got me.
Thanks! But the URL is wrong. To everyone else, please remove the "1" at the end of "screenshots".
I remember that a couple of them actually looked good on the Amiga and PC CGA versions. Pirates Gold was kind of a disappointment in this regard, though.
Actually, PG was exactly like the original, only with better graphics and sound. Oh, and accelarated time.
... who thinks that this will be 99% like the first one, only with better graphics and such?
:)
For every feature discussed in the article, I was like "yes, just like the original".
Yes, I loved it, but, after 17 years, I wanted more than a graphics update - I wanted something like a Daggerfal to an Arena. Not "Pirates Gold Plus".
Ah, but it'll have *dancing*. Nice.
Oh well, I'll buy it anyway, but they could have done *so* much more...
Actually, ghosts don't come out of boxes, but from piles of bones. God I am a geek... :)
In the Japanese version, the boxer was M. Bison (a parody of Mike Tyson, obviously), the spanish ninja was Balrog, and the evil overlord was Vega.
In the rest of the world, because of the Tyson reference, they chose to switch the names around.
There are still some really lame arcade games being released (with nicer graphics perhaps), but still with the very simplistic gameplay.
Pfah. Youngsters. No sense of what makes a game fun.
I've had more fun with this one than with... oh, just about any FPS. And I like FPSes.
So, basically... you didn't read any of its reviews, or you'd know it was a Bioware RPG, like Neverwinter Nights, instead of a third-person shooter... :)
Tell me Planescape Torment, Fallout or Baldur's Gate 2 aren't great RPGs.
Or do you think they HAVE to be dungeon crawls? Is Pool of Radiance (the original) a better RPG than Baldur's Gate 2? If you think so, end of conversation...
As Criswell would say in Plan 9 from Outer Space: "Can you prove that it didn't happen?" :)
I wish I could mod you up...
:)
BTW, I use FreeBSD for www.dehumanizer.com