The main thing that turns me off about Dark Forces is its lack of a proper in-level saving system.

Dark Forces II was one of the games I grew up with, but it sadly does not even work in WINE. Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy had their source code released a few years ago, which means that they run fine on Linux although as far as I am concerned they are far weaker than their predecessors in terms of ideas at the very least.

Still, it just might be worth giving the original another try at some point.

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Quoting: GuestWhat is "the Chzo Mythos"? I don’t understand the introductory paragraph.

It is the official name for the series encompassing 5 Days A Stranger, 7 Days A Skeptic, Tribly's Notes, and 6 Days A Sacrifice. I also package Trilby: The Art of Theft alongside them as it serves as a sort of prequel to the series.

Quoting: Segata SanshiroWhich of these do you recommend most to start with?

It is best to play them in order starting with 5 Days A Stranger if you want the the plot to move forward correctly, although 1213 and Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment are of course unrelated to this.

If you also feel like playing around with Dosbox at some point the three Rob Blanc games and The Trials of Odysseus Kent are also well worth getting into, especially if you are primarily interested in Yahtzee's work as a comedian. AGFW is also set in the Rob Blanc universe.

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Seeing as they already sell DRM free copies of this on both GOG.com and Humble Store for Windows, I can see myself having fun with this one assuming things pan out properly. :)

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And here I am still thinking of my recently acquired Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 as a massive monster, but then of course my demands are much smaller than yours... ;)

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?pid=1270 [External Link]

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Quoting: GuestHow is the fact they do porting work irrelevant? You can rip someone off in any exchange of wealth.

Because, as I explained, they do not own any of the game data themselves. They just have the legal right to port and resell it. I seriously doubt they could make such a unilateral decision.

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Quoting: GuestIdeally after the development is paid for, the artists would make the game free or at the very least take donations to the point at which they could be taken care of throughout the development of their next project, but no more than that. Otherwise, "profit" is immoral as it means you're ripping someone off.

Which is pretty much irrelevant to this topic, as Aspyr only owns the Linux and Mac ports, not the initial games themselves.

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Quoting: Blue's News, November 28, 1998I've received a couple of warnings from readers who've had the unfortunate experience of uninstalling Half-Life, or the Sierra utilities that install with Half-Life, only to find the uninstall deleted the entire directory structure where they installed the game. The results of such a deletion could range from the annoying (the uninstallation of the Half-Life OEM or other Sierra games if you installed in the default directory), to the really problematic (if you install games in a dedicated games directory) to the truly catastrophic (if you install the game in your program files directory), so until this is fixed (or it turns out these scary anecdotes are proven incorrect), I would suggest exercising extreme caution when removing Half-Life.

http://www.bluesnews.com/archives/nov98-4.html [External Link]

Nothing ever changes... :whistle:

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Quoting: ShmerlLooks like they are in talks with GOG about releasing their titles there as well

If this does happen I will very likely join the cause of making them profitable.

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When you put money into a Kickstarter campaign you are investing in an idea, not securing yourself a finished product. Like all investments these can go sour, and it really is shocking how many of the people who get involved in these schemes do not seem to understand this.

Even Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw falls under the misapprehension that crowdfunding somehow allows a game to be successful before it is even out, even though under that same logic every single AAA title from EA or Activision can be said to have been a massive success just as soon as the publisher's initial cheques start rolling in.

Perhaps it is partly the fault of websites like Kickstarter for not elaborating on this enough, but it really is not that difficult a concept to understand.

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Yes, all jokes aside, I choose that answer as I have never seen the need for a gamepad. I really do not see what is all that sad about that.

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