For nostalgic people: in its current Weekly Sale, GOG is featuring a couple of games with Linux support from the late 80's and 90's. Before someone points it out, yes, they're only a minority in a group of 20 games, but since it isn't a cumulative sale (in the sense that you won't be getting a bigger discount if you buy more games) it's worth to mention it for nostalgic players. The games are the following:
- Space Rogue Classic (1989) (Space combat simulator)
- Knights of the Sky (1989) (Historical simulation)
- I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream (1995) (Point-and-click horror adventure)
- D: The Game (1996) (Horror puzzle adventure)
- Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (1996) (Tactical FPP)
- The Original Strife: Veteran Edition (1996)* (FPS/RPG)
* Actually, the original game was released on 1996. This one here is an enhanced version released by Night Dive Studios on December 12th, 2014.
If you're interested in one of them, here you have the...
In my personal case, I will be buying Strife: Veteran Edition and Terra Nova, since I already have I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and D: The Game.
It's nice to have some of these old games available on Linux, and I hope the people at GOG keep releasing more ports for other titles of that decade soon. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
- Space Rogue Classic (1989) (Space combat simulator)
- Knights of the Sky (1989) (Historical simulation)
- I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream (1995) (Point-and-click horror adventure)
- D: The Game (1996) (Horror puzzle adventure)
- Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (1996) (Tactical FPP)
- The Original Strife: Veteran Edition (1996)* (FPS/RPG)
* Actually, the original game was released on 1996. This one here is an enhanced version released by Night Dive Studios on December 12th, 2014.
If you're interested in one of them, here you have the...
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Link: GOG Weekly Sale2017-02-13 17:00:00
In my personal case, I will be buying Strife: Veteran Edition and Terra Nova, since I already have I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and D: The Game.
It's nice to have some of these old games available on Linux, and I hope the people at GOG keep releasing more ports for other titles of that decade soon. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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The original Strife game is bloody brilliant! it took the early id Software engine and added baseic rpg elements to it. theres still a lot of shooting and running but the depth of story really adds to it.
if you do pick it up then take the time to explore, the story only takes you though about 70% of the total game world, there is so much stuff off the beaten path! - well worth the money!
if you do pick it up then take the time to explore, the story only takes you though about 70% of the total game world, there is so much stuff off the beaten path! - well worth the money!
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Quoting: HexDSLThe original Strife game is bloody brilliant! it took the early id Software engine and added baseic rpg elements to it. theres still a lot of shooting and running but the depth of story really adds to it.
if you do pick it up then take the time to explore, the story only takes you though about 70% of the total game world, there is so much stuff off the beaten path! - well worth the money!
Just wanted to check with you - The Original Strife : Veteran Edition - updated with high-res textures in 2014 - Is that a Native Linux port? Or is it a Wine Wrapper or Dosbox release?
Also, are you playing the GOG or Steam version of this, yourself? (Thanks)
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Wow! they released "D" as DRM free game on GOG, it's incredible! I wish they do the same thing with "Enemy Zero" and "D-2" (specially "Enemy Zero" :D )
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Last edited by Delayline on 11 February 2017 at 4:02 pm UTC
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Quoting: g000hJust wanted to check with you - The Original Strife : Veteran Edition - updated with high-res textures in 2014 - Is that a Native Linux port? Or is it a Wine Wrapper or Dosbox release?
Also, are you playing the GOG or Steam version of this, yourself? (Thanks)
I bought it some time ago. It's native (SDL 1.2). Only played a bit so far, but it rund fine.
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Quoting: g000hJust wanted to check with you - The Original Strife : Veteran Edition - updated with high-res textures in 2014 - Is that a Native Linux port? Or is it a Wine Wrapper or Dosbox release?
The Veteran Edition is based on reversed engineered source ports such as Chocolate Strife using the Doom engine code, as the Strife developers lost the original code to their game.
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Luke_Nukem Feb 8, 2017
And to think I still have the boxed version of Terra Nova. Slow game, but fun.
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Quoting: GuestQuoting: PitIt's native (SDL 1.2).Oh, thanks. Removing from my wishlist…
Edit: As someone is bound to ask, that’s because SDL 1.2 blocks alt-tab.
Indeed, that won't work with that game. But there's too many nice games around using SDL 1.2 I wouldn't want to dump because of this....
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FWIW, I can whole-heartedly recommend "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream". It works with ScummVM, too (however, I'm not sure if GOG bundles it with DOSBox or ScummVM).
The game itself is really dark, but I for one love it. It's a horror game not as much as it contains jump scares or is gory as hell (but there is some gore), but from the psychological aspect. It is a bit difficult, though: you can easily get a non-optimal ending if you don't make sure the various characters are really "happy" with what they do.
The game itself is really dark, but I for one love it. It's a horror game not as much as it contains jump scares or is gory as hell (but there is some gore), but from the psychological aspect. It is a bit difficult, though: you can easily get a non-optimal ending if you don't make sure the various characters are really "happy" with what they do.
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Well, I just won Strife: Veteran Edition over the course of a single day.
Now my head feels funny.
Last edited by Hamish on 9 February 2017 at 5:59 am UTC
Now my head feels funny.
Last edited by Hamish on 9 February 2017 at 5:59 am UTC
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