Dresden on 7/7/2009 at 12:45
Quote Posted by Chimpy Chompy
Well count me in as excited. I missed The Dig the first time around so am keen to give it a try, even tho i hear it's sub-par by Lucasarts standards.
And, yeah, I'd love a legit copy of Loom. It's a wonderful experience, even if too short and easy.
The Dig is really good actually. It just feels more like a movie instead of a LucasArts game. Probably because Steven Spielberg and Orson Scott Card had a hand in it.
Thirith on 7/7/2009 at 12:54
My impression at the time was that people thought The Dig wasn't as good as the other LucasArts adventures. However, compared to most adventures these days it still has the LucasArts storytelling and elegance of design.
N'Al on 7/7/2009 at 13:14
Well, the puzzles are - for obvious reasons - more environmental in nature, as opposed to interaction with other people. Plus, the game is much more serious in tone than LA's other, mostly comic adventures. I guess that's why people were slightly dissappointed in the game on its release.
You're right though, in retrospect I guess most people who played it realised it's just as well designed as LA's other adventure games.
Minion21g on 7/7/2009 at 17:05
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Nothing's stopping you from taking the necessary game files of supported games and running them separately through ScummVM. Ya know, just like using Doom IWADs and Quake PAK files with source ports. Ditto for older DOS games available on Steam that use DOSbox.
Come on, this is obvious shit that should go without having to be said.
Heh, how about that. I didn't know they did that. Thanks for pointing it out. Least I don't need to dig through gcf files now.
EvaUnit02 on 7/7/2009 at 17:10
Quote Posted by Minion21g
Least I don't need to dig through gcf files now.
~85% of 3rd party games (pretty much every non-Valve/non-Source engine game) sold on Steam are stored unextracted in the steam\steamapps\common\ folder, with zero game files stored inside GCFs.
gunsmoke on 7/7/2009 at 17:54
According to RPS, they are fully optimized to work natively in XP/Vista
Renault on 7/7/2009 at 21:14
Quote Posted by Angel Dust
Exactly. If LucasArts eventually get their whole back catalogue of adventure games up on Steam it will be a great thing as a lot of those games can be quite hard to find legally. Hopefully the prices are good.
I'm hoping we see Jedi Knight Academy and Outcast at a reasonable price, for some reason those games are exorbitantly pricey on both Amazon and Ebay.
Scots Taffer on 7/7/2009 at 23:37
Never ever played The Dig or Atlantis so that's exciting.
EvaUnit02 on 8/7/2009 at 03:09
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
According to RPS, they are fully optimized to work natively in XP/Vista
I've seen that quote mentioned
nowhere else but RPS. There's not a peep about it in the (
http://www.lucasarts.com/company/release/news20090706.html) official press release.
Omega on 8/7/2009 at 06:01
So will they be using ScummVM? Most of those games don't work well on XP and Vista.
