Bunch of old games...

catbarf on 2/10/2008 at 00:33

Shadowcat: I seem to recall reading that the game was multiplayer-oriented, will I be missing most of the game?

Heretic: Would that file in question have anything to do with a certain attempt to appease the ESRB?

heretic on 2/10/2008 at 02:35

That would be the one, yes.

There are also various mods and patches that change blood back to red and optimize maps and graphics for modern hardware. I have them all in zip-format if you or anyone else is interested but can't find them elsewhere.

Shadowcat on 2/10/2008 at 10:40

Quote Posted by catbarf

Shadowcat: I seem to recall reading that the game was multiplayer-oriented, will I be missing most of the game?

I've never played multiplayer Giants.

I'm told that it's great fun, mind, but multiplayer has nothing whatsoever to do with this being one of my all-time favourite games :)

twisty on 2/10/2008 at 11:32

Quote Posted by heretic

Not to mention it (Giants) still looks gorgeous.

Just remember to delete that pesky arpfix.gzp file.

On that note, make sure that you set the character models to the highest settings.

Another +1 for Giants. One of all time favourite games and one that gets better and better throughout the entire game.

NamelessPlayer on 2/10/2008 at 15:56

Damn it, I'd love to walk into a store and walk out with games like those. Unfortunately, I don't know of a local store anywhere in the States that stocks old PC games like that; if I want to get such games, it's usually off to eBay and the high prices that come with it.

In particular, I want Albion out of that set. Maybe Betrayal at Krondor as well so that I can experience it first-hand and find out why everyone's raving about it. I'd also be interested in Giants and Sacrifice, but they're on GOG.com (and I already bought the former from that site; I'm considering the latter).

Also, seeing those old LucasArts adventures makes me wonder-have they ever released a huge compilation full of SCUMM goodness? There's too many point-and-clicks I haven't played yet-in addition to most of the SCUMM games, there's Grim Fandango and possibly a few others to look into.

Matthew on 2/10/2008 at 16:15

They released a 'LucasArts Classic Adventures' collection and then later on several 'LucasArts Archive' big-box sets, of which I have two, but that was years ago. No complete collection to my knowledge though.

Minion21g on 3/10/2008 at 15:10

Quote Posted by NamelessPlayer

In particular, I want Albion out of that set.

I still have my copy of the game lying around somewhere but I think I tossed my box :(

Jashin on 3/10/2008 at 16:01

Sam & Max and Day of Tentacle, all you need to get now is Full Throttle and then you can give 'em to me :p

NamelessPlayer on 3/10/2008 at 18:18

Quote Posted by Minion21g

I still have my copy of the game lying around somewhere but I think I tossed my box :(

I might still be interested if you have the printed manual.

theBlackman on 4/10/2008 at 08:56

I've got some nearly 100 games going back to W3.1 (and a computer to run them). I even have a few that run in Basic. :)

My best deal was about 4 years ago when I bought thirty (30) brand new copies of Thief Gold.

I passed these on to EIDOS and other taffers all over the world.

I still have a couple for backup, but they were OOP at the time and the community was searching madly. If I had kept them I could retire, but I passed them on for my cost, plus postage.

And I'm not one bit unhappy about that.