Which of these is worth playing?
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Warrior
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written Saturday, February 5 2005 10:48
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Which of the older games is worth playing and or buying? Posts: 125 | Registered: Friday, February 13 2004 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Saturday, February 5 2005 17:35
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The nice thing with Spidweb is that you can download the demos ! In the older games, I found Lost Souls really nice, if you like playing chess or Go. Galactic Core is really good too. Ocean Bound is fun, but not one of the best... I haven't play Homeland cause the graphics gives me headache. :) But, download the demos, it's fast and free, you know ! Nothing to lose. -------------------- "Il est interdit de se battre sur le Champ du Massacre; dit-il avant de marquer une pause, le temps de reflechir a la logique de ses propos." Discworld, The Colour of Magic Posts: 178 | Registered: Monday, June 7 2004 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Saturday, February 5 2005 17:53
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Ew. Subterra is pretty popular. Lost Souls is fairly good. Everything else is supposed to be pretty bad. Galactic Core in particular is reputed to be the cause of at least 2.6% of the world's evils today. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Saturday, February 5 2005 18:38
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By the way, "older games" isn't really accurate. "Games not made by Jeff Vogel" is. All of them were released years after Exile 1. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Sunday, February 6 2005 09:34
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SubTerra is fun if you have a PC (or Virtual PC) and like challenging puzzles and challenging tests of your reflexes. Lost Souls is worth downloading. It's an interesting concept, and while I wouldn't pay to register it, the demo is nice. Ocean Bound isn't bad. It's just not fun. Galactic Core is Spiderweb's poster child of an awful game. There's no single element I can point to and call horrendous, but the overall effect is rather painful. Homeland would be the poster child of an awful game if more people played it. It's slow, frustrating, and irritating by turns. —Alorael, who will thus recommend Lost Souls for the Mac user and SubTerra for those with PCs. If you download the others, you have been warned. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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BANNED
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written Wednesday, February 9 2005 21:45
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quote:I was about to comment that Lost Souls and Chess are absolutely nothing like Go, but then I remembered that you're from China. PS- I'm thinking of a manga... :P -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Wednesday, February 9 2005 22:05
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Well, mmh, I'm a frog-eater in China... :) But, I found Lost Soul like go cause you increase your strengh with the territory you get. And sorry, and I don't get the "I'm thinking of a manga" joke... In fact, I don't get half of the spidweb's board jokes... :) -------------------- "Il est interdit de se battre sur le Champ du Massacre; dit-il avant de marquer une pause, le temps de reflechir a la logique de ses propos." Discworld, The Colour of Magic Posts: 178 | Registered: Monday, June 7 2004 07:00 |
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Lack of Vision
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written Wednesday, February 16 2005 11:33
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*CAN'T RESIST RIPPING ON GALACTIC CORE* Why, for all that exists in this world, does "Galactic Core" exist? I honestly wonder - did ANYONE register a copy of it? The only thing I can imagine that is worse than Galactic Core, would be playing an Play-by-Email game of Galactic Core with someone else. The mind instinctively recoils in horror at the thoughts of spending DAYS playing Galactic Core. I'd rather be locked in a cage with a rabid wolverine than every try Galactic Core again. I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way. [ Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:34: Message edited by: Zorro ] -------------------- Pan Lever: Seventeen apple roving mirror moiety. Of turned quorum jaggedly the. Blue? Posts: 186 | Registered: Thursday, February 27 2003 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, February 16 2005 13:20
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Icshi registered, I believe. He's the only documented case, and there is no solid evidence backing up his claims of having actually played the game. —Alorael, who believes Icshi only because it's a lie so preposterous that no one would dare say it unless it were true, and nobody in their right mind would ever want to lie about such a shameful thing. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Bob's Big Date
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written Wednesday, February 16 2005 14:43
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Pelican, pelican -- your beak holds more than your belly can. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Wednesday, February 16 2005 18:48
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Beuh, Galactic Core was so bad ? I haven't register it, but I remember good time playing it. No ? ...Apparently, no... Why is it so baddly considered in the community ? -------------------- "Il est interdit de se battre sur le Champ du Massacre; dit-il avant de marquer une pause, le temps de reflechir a la logique de ses propos." Discworld, The Colour of Magic Posts: 178 | Registered: Monday, June 7 2004 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Thursday, February 17 2005 18:55
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The newer they are, the more fun they are, but you have to like strategy games. Posts: 7 | Registered: Thursday, February 17 2005 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Sunday, February 20 2005 02:45
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Reeading this makes me happy I have a PC and will never play those Mac-only games. (one of the few reasons that I'm happy I have a PC) Homeland: I really detested this game, don't remember why unfortunately. Just have a residual image that it was boring, clunky, awkward and plain drab. Which is probably far worse a description than it actually deserves. So. SubTerra is fun. I'm not much of a puzzle game person, but I download the demo what seems to be once a year and play for a while. Never actually register but each time I'm almost willing to do it. Anyway, what kind of a game is Galactic Core like? Are we talking Reach For the Stars, Spaceward Ho!, Master of Orion type? -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Sunday, February 20 2005 11:52
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The only one of those I'm familiar with is Master of Orion. GC is kind of like that only godawful. It's much closer to Starbound II (another Mac-only game), but still inferior. —Alorael, who definitely thinks that GC could be thought of as a Master of Orion wannabe with all the good parts excised and all the bad parts magnified to an absurd degree. If it were any less fun, it would be banned by the 8th Amendment (That's no cruel and unusual punishment). Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Sunday, February 20 2005 20:50
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Gee. Is it bad that I actually liked Galactic Core? -------------------- Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. 'Spiderweb Software' anagrammmed: 'Word-bereft A**wipe' Posts: 702 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Sunday, February 20 2005 22:04
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No, but you're in a minority of two. —Alorael, who finds GC to be one of those games that's more fun to hate than play. It doesn't have any horrible featuers (it's not slow, it doesn't erase your hard drive...), but it also doesn't really have any redeeming features. Thus, the only think to do is mock it horribly. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Tuesday, February 22 2005 12:00
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Cloak and Dagger Productions, hampering Drakey's efforts at a clean board day by day. (I figured this spam wasn't worth it's own topic. Maybe a few spamful posts by mulitple people here will constitute or equal a topic.) -------------------- "Oh, North Wind, why frighten others? In Nature's family all are brothers. Puff and blow and wheeze and hiss; You can't frighten Shingebiss. Bring your frost and ice and snow; I'm still free to come and go. You can never frighten me, One who never fears is FREE!" -Shingebiss, the mighty duck Posts: 830 | Registered: Tuesday, August 20 2002 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Wednesday, February 23 2005 05:26
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I played Homeland for about 15 minutes once, and then deleted it again. I don't remember much about it, because my conscious mind appears to have repressed the memory of it. What I do remember is skipping around a dark countryside for hours on end with a faithful dog yapping at my heels, flattening snakes with a club and taking their skins. But that might have been just the nightmare I had yesterday. Anyway, I never played GC, not having a mac, but I think it would be accurate to say that Homeland is the Galactic Core for PC users. [ Wednesday, February 23, 2005 05:27: Message edited by: Aran, The Eternally Late ] -------------------- I may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. I must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. I must protect my own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Posts: 21 | Registered: Tuesday, February 17 2004 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Wednesday, February 23 2005 07:14
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Just the way the characters walk in that game is enough to make you want to vomit. -------------------- My Myspace, with some of my audial and visual art The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, February 23 2005 07:19
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In the spirit of the old GC forum: Well, in one of its less ghastly spirits, anyway: Shouldn't the title be 'His Postliness' or 'Her Postliness', not 'Your Postliness'? One may address such august beings as 'Your Postliness', but surely they should be referred to in the third person? Edit: Ah, just now it changed. But, if it ever comes back? [ Wednesday, February 23, 2005 07:20: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, February 23 2005 13:39
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Your Postliness is still where it belongs, and it has to be "Your" to stay gender neutral. Three cheers for political correctness! —Alorael, who would rather play GC than Homeland. GC is just spectacularly not good. Homeland is very bad. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, February 23 2005 15:34
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Drakey could always give you a custom title of "His Postliness"... :P No! Don't shoot! :eek: -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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That would be most ironic. —Alorael, who just says no to cop-out titles. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Thursday, February 24 2005 09:25
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My only aspiration is to the status of Interloper. That is my dream. Someday, when I am retired and have enough time to accumulate my own millions of excellent postings, some moderator somewhere will bestow on me that ultimate title, which sounds so cool and means so little and thus represents itself so perfectly. Yes, when my Nobel medal is gathering dust in a sock drawer, 'Interloper' will appear one morning under my moniker and bring tears to my baggy old eyes. Till then, I will remain an intermittent lurker who counts himself lucky to have risen to citizenship in this exalted company of slacker aristocracy. Ladies and gentlemen; thrones, dominations; and all those gender-neutral second persons: I salute you. [Exit, tripping over his scabbard] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Thursday, February 24 2005 16:27
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Homeland is insane. I'm so used to graphics like Avernum or Nethergate, when I first downloaded Homeland, it scared me. Subterra and Lost Souls are pretty good. Ocean Bound is okay, if you are good at strategy games. -------------------- And everybody say....Yatta! Posts: 1287 | Registered: Thursday, August 14 2003 07:00 |
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