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Well..... His games have quite an amount of bad writing but his recent game "Poacher" is not quite as crap as the others. At least 2 plot holes and 1 of them comes from the fact that its a gameplay-story inconsistency (you know, the kind of thing that he himself says that he dislikes about most games he reviews)DoPo said:
I forgot that some older games become free after no one gives a fuck about them anymore and when the creators are mostly dead. So may as well just flat out tell you games that are almost free.
Lets hit the music!
- One Must Fall 2097 -
A Robot Fighting Game made in 1994. A game ahead of his time and the reason for why people claim the PC as the one true master race (Well, actually the 5 games i will list here + "IJI" are more than enough reason anyway). Let me quote a review that does a better job describing this gem.
"Instead of simply having stock characters with fixed stats and moves, you can choose a combination of pilots (for different stats) and robots (for different move sets). In addition to this, "Tournament Mode" allows you to build your own pilot and upgrade your robot further allowing customization. There are also a few secret moves and upgrades that can be obtained. The only fighting game that offers more gameplay-related character customization options is possibly the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi series (which is not that bad but a bit eh).
Aside from character customization, the game also offers tons of gameplay settings that can be tweaked (most involving secret menus), including enabling "Hyper Mode" which adds new features that almost completely changes the gameplay balance. The only fighting came that might compare is the Super Smash Bros. series (and I should add One Must Fall, like SSB, also features stage gimmicks which can damage fighters, but the stages are much much smaller... well relative to the fighters anyway)"
- Tyrian -
Published in 1995 by Epic Megagames (when it was still good), Tyrian is an addictive Vertical Scrolling Shooter.
You are Trent Hawkins, a terraformation pilot currently assigned to the planet Tyrian, the only planet in the entire sector that contains samples of Gravitium, a material that causes huge chunks of its landmass to float in the air. While on the job, Trent's best friend, Buce Quesillac, a Hazudra, was shot in the back by a hoverdrone belonging to Microsol, the company in charge of the terraformation efforts on Tyrian. With his dying breath, Buce informs Trent that Microsol intends to use the Gravitium to take control of the sector, and that he's next on their hit list. With that, Trent begins a long, dangerous fight for his survival.
For a game of the genre, Tyrian actually has a surprising amount of story to it, primarily in the form of datacubes that can be collected from certain enemies and read between levels when you get the opportunity to upgrade your ship in the game's Story Mode. Tyrian also includes arcade mode for both one and two players on the same computer or over a local network.
With great graphics for its time, addictive gameplay, and catchy music (Well duh, it has the same composer as Unreal, Jazz Jackrabbit and Deus Ex. Also know as Alex FUCKING Branson) along with a wide variety of levels, weapons, enemies, and hidden secrets, Tyrian is a game with a lot of replay value. It is considered by many to be one of the best scrolling shooters ever made.
- Evolva -
Evolva is a third-person action game, released in 2000. The player leads a team of 4 "Genohunters" exploring a planet; each of the Genohunters can develop new abilities by incorporating and altering the DNA they've absorbed from the creatures they have killed. The Genohunters will change their physical appearance (change colors, develop spikes or horns) based on the DNA they've used to mutate themselves
The only time in the WORLD of gaming where killing things to make you strong to actually make sense instead of just being a human killing until you suddenly have the power to Gate of Babilon your way up without a reasonable explanation.
The assimilation theme is more or less a RPG element that allows DNA to act as experience and you can use that to evolve your hunters with new abilities. HOWEVER, the issue is that new samples of DNA normally require for something else in your arsenal to be lowered in level to balance it out, the skill that you lose/gets lowered is random but this could be solved if you keep absorving DNA without spending it, thus obtaining a mayor adventaje without drawbacks...........that would be nice if it wasnt that the game is Nintendo Hard as fuck. The Parasites apparently are simblings with the Zerg or something because the Zerg Rush your ass more quickly than you can say "You cheating whore!!"
But that is the thing of a RPG, isnt it? Choices. You need that skill to progress over that barrier but i may loose something else if i dont plan ahead.
The plot kinda sucks because it just a scientist that just HAPPENS to be there for this parasitic lifeform to land on a planet that he was studying, then he send the Hunters to keep the natives alive and assimilate the enemy to ensure that the genohunters have the skill to reach the nucleous of the invasion and destroy it.
- Dungeon Keeper -
Oh Peter Molineux. You used to be sane....and talented....but mostly insane enough to combine First Person Shooter + Real Time Strategy into one game.
Old and truly excellent pair of management games by Bullfrog Entertainment which put the player in the role of a fantasy Evil Overlord responsible for constructing a dungeon, recruiting an army of monsters and seeing off RPG style hero invasions.
Dungeon Keeper put RTS in a surprisingly small-scale setting ? the player runs a dungeon full of monsters, treasure and other goodies, and must defend it from incoming heroic adventurers. It was also one of the first games to include a "first person" mode, in which the Keeper could "possess" one of his creatures.
A third installment was planned but never produced. The series has quite a few Spiritual Successors in Evil Genius, Overlord, Star Topia, Dungeons, and (arguably) Dwarf Fortress and Badman. There is also a board game called Dungeon Lords that is a non-video game Spiritual Successor.There is also an MMORPG is being produced, to be released exclusively in China, Tawain, Hong Kong, and Macau. Western fans of the original games have responded to the news with a quick cycle through elation, confusion, anger, despair, and finally apathy. At this point very little is known about Dungeon Keeper Online, with some concept art being the only thing seen of it. Although a video showing what's apparently some gameplay has also been released here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss3uV274moE&feature=related
The first game in the series has been made available for purchase at GOG.com as of June 2, 2011.
- Sacrifice -
Made by SHINY Entertainment (the people who gave us Earthworm Jim, Messiah and MDK)
Sacrifice is a unique breed of RTS games for PC, whereas instead of the isometric view from the above, it takes a 3rd person view behind the player avatar. Thus making it a fantasy third person RPG, RTS game.
This game is about battling wizards, each players gathers souls to summon creatures, and then duke it out with other wizards, also supplemented with various spells. Their goal, based on the name, is to find an enemy altar, desecrate it by performing a sacrificial ritual on that altar, and then kill the enemy wizard one last time to banish him.
The story of the game is about a wizard named Eldred (or whatever the player chooses to name him), assisted with his familiar Zyzyx, who meets a wise man named Mithras in the aftermath of a great war that has all but destroyed the world. Through a series of flashbacks narrated by Eldred, we learn the story of how he served the five Gods in the game: Persephone, James, Stratos, Pyro or Charnel, and how the intervention of his arch-nemesis, Omnicidal Maniac Marduk, led to the world's present state.
Did i mention that Mithras is voiced by Tony "THE MAN" Jay? and that Stratos is voiced by Tim "Sweet Transvestite" Curry?
Well ladies and mengelemen, this is my offering to the world
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/dungeon_keeperDoPo said:
Actually it seems that it isnt as free as i expected and cost 6$ (actually i dont know what determines for something to suddendly become free, i do know that Tyrian at least is free) However, i see the reviews mention that the GOG version has compatibility issues
If you really want something for free then you can download a compilacion of campaigns that allows you to play not only the campaing of the original game AND the expansion "Deeper Dungeons" but also many fan made campaigns.
http://keeper.lubie.org/html/dk_keeperfx.php
I mean, the strongest justification for emulation is playing games you wouldn't otherwise have access to, right? Hell, I wouldn't even reccomend emulating most of the great PS1 stuff on PSN, but that still leaves the fan translation of the definitive best version of Tales of Phantasia, Star Ocean: The Second Story (I believe), Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions, Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, Valkyrie Profile and that's just getting started on ONE GENRE. On just the Playstation. No one can even imagine how much people are missing out on because of how limited our "retro" games market is. Emulate, and emulate often.LilithSlave said:This post is so strangely wonderful.Austin Howe said:ZSNES and ePSXe.
This example is sadly as bad as any of ridiculous sexualization of women in fighting games, but Vanguard Princess is a pretty fun, free fighting game for the PC.
There's also Cho Ren Sha [http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~yosshin/my_works/download.html], a very solid PC Doujin Shoot em' Up you ought to play.
Of course, if you haven't already played the infamous Yume Nikki, you have to go play it right now.
actually, just Arena and DaggerfallDoPo said:
both Battlespire and Redguard are still paid
must be noted, though, that only the floppy versions of Arena and Daggerfall were made free, the CD versions that tend to include voice acting, better music, cutscenes and stuff are still paid
I think they're worth it, the boxes for them are really awesome and full of cool things
Why not just buy it? it worth the price and DK1 its the strongest and more atmospheric of the two, and the combat in DK1 its much better than DK2 just because its flows much better and for once you can actually feel the fear of being killed, unlike DK2 where you can solo almost anything with an Imp if you had the patience of doing hit and runs or just plain moving in circles because the hit detection in DK2 works on the principle of just "highlight enemy and attack for 100% acurrate hit" In DK1 its more stat based (sort of like RPG) and if you are going melee on something you better had good reflex of high dexterity or else you will not hit for shit.DoPo said:
Ah yes, I'll buy it, just not now. I'm a bit tight for money at this moment.DioWallachia said:
But once that situation is resolved, I'll go through my GOG wishlist. I have 15 items there, some of them just caught my eye and I have to investigate them further, others are just waiting for funding. DK is one of them.
...i'll just leave it here :
http://www.tsl-game.com/index.php
http://agdinteractive.com/games/games.html
http://www.infamous-adventures.com/home/index.php?page=games
http://crystalshard.net/index.php?p=5#
http://www.grundislavgames.com/benjordan/
I hope someone still likes old-school point and click adventure games. :]
http://www.tsl-game.com/index.php
http://agdinteractive.com/games/games.html
http://www.infamous-adventures.com/home/index.php?page=games
http://crystalshard.net/index.php?p=5#
http://www.grundislavgames.com/benjordan/
I hope someone still likes old-school point and click adventure games. :]
I believe [b/]Blood Omen legacy of Kain [/b] is free now, that is definitely worth a play through also [b/]moonstone[/b] is free but I bet its still buggy as hell
If you're a mecha fan, or more specifically a GUNDAM fan, it's well worth your while to check out Bootfighter Windom XP. [http://mirrormoon.org/projects/windom] (that's the fan translation project with download link, they have permission from the original creator and everything). Gameplay is sort of like Federation vs. ZAFT and Gundam vs. Gundam/Gundam Extreme Versus. There's an updated version with new stages and mechs that requires payment if you're so inclined.
Also, all the mechs are named after an OS (if you can't tell from the title).
Also, all the mechs are named after an OS (if you can't tell from the title).
Correction, you hold down the right arrow key, and you FEEL.Mr Pantomime said:
Shame escapists, 2 pages and no SCP?
Well I guess its not really that well known.
Let me introduce you to SCP-Containment Breach
Currently in alpha but creepy as hell. There is no victory goal as of yet so the main goal for now is to die after exploring things. It seems that the facility is randomly generated.
The game starts when a system malfunction makes SCP-173 escape while you were cleaning its room.
http://scpcb.wordpress.com/
For those who aren't familiar to SCP, basically its a collection of creepy pasta written like a confidential file would be. The best way to start reading it would be to read the original [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-173]
Well I guess its not really that well known.
Let me introduce you to SCP-Containment Breach
Currently in alpha but creepy as hell. There is no victory goal as of yet so the main goal for now is to die after exploring things. It seems that the facility is randomly generated.
The game starts when a system malfunction makes SCP-173 escape while you were cleaning its room.
http://scpcb.wordpress.com/
For those who aren't familiar to SCP, basically its a collection of creepy pasta written like a confidential file would be. The best way to start reading it would be to read the original [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-173]