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Sadly no System Shock or Syndicate.

But Alpha Centauri will be in the second batch, yay!  :awesome_for_real:

If you just can't wait, AC+AC has been pretty cheap on eBay ($5-15ish) for a long time now, ever since it got reissued in some bargain combo pack in the UK.

I actually own the Planetary Pack already. I just love the ease of GoG more than handling my old discs when I want to play a game. I'm a lazy old bum basically.  :awesome_for_real:

Also, hoping for the rest of the Ultimas, I lost my discs some time ago.

WC: Privateer, and also my favourite CRPG of all time, UW2 (plus the first episode). Seems a no brainer  :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

Time to re-post this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXasCjUTNpE

IV is freeware.  Don't hold out hope for the rest.

Two new releases:

- Crusader: No Remorse ($5.99)

- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ($5.99 ; no expansion pack, for now)

Alpha Centuri is the one everyone talks about as being a top 10 of all time and such, right? I had it on my wishlist, I think.

Alpha Centauri is good.

Ah, man, I remember Privateer. Wow. That takes me back....

Privateer is the god of PC games.  It tantalizes you by making you think there's a universe of intelligent, thinking humans scrapping their way through the galaxy.

Then you grow up and learn that you're on an overpopulated planet full of morons.

That might have just been my childhood in a nutshell.  Alas.

Crusader is worth a look. Definitely the only shit that came out good out of Origin after ultima 8 debacle.
Privateer...huh...I finish the game in Orion, using the ramming tactic on all talons. Fun times. Max shield, guns blazing, full burners' in yer face! They never survive a direct collission.

Confeds blockade? Ram a Paradigm class cruiser and gain 3000 kps as you spun past the blockade...bye bye!

Privateer needs a remake. I wonder how many people play EVE because of Privateer? :)

Well concidering that


is pretty much the EVE experience, i'd say quite a few.  :grin:

I have to say I've never played privateer. It was the one WC game I missed. Might pick it up this time round and see whats what.

It had a remake, its called freelancer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer_%28video_game%29).

If any MMO studio can remake privateer or freelancer game, i'm in. I DON'T play ever because of Privateer.

More than good. Alpha Centauri is the best Civ style game ever made.

True story.

Last good Brian Reynolds game.

I would've said best Civ until I played FFH2.

Yes but you're not rational about FFH2.  :heart:

Even truer story.  :awesome_for_real:

For me, it was Frontier: Elite II that turned me on to EVE. I had to try 3 times before I got hooked (the game is terrible, the people make it worth it etc), though.

I have not bought Elemental! And I might even wait for reviews before buying Fallen Enchantress...

I almost believe you  :oh_i_see:

Soo, if I've played Freelancer but never played Privateer is it still worth going back and trying it out?

I find they are very different games.  Freelancer was too constrained by levels.

They are different games, but quite the same in some core areas. The art in privateer was also top notch. For 5$? Its worth it.

Last title of the first batch: Magic Carpet ($5.99)


http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/magic_carpet

Crusader was actually pretty good. So the only thing missing now would be Strike Commander.

Never again has anybody made a game that was that great a mix of accessible game and simulation with the hint of an open world than Privateer and Strike Commander.

Crusader is very slick for its time. I got kicks off the death animation. It's basically a tighter, arcade style of Syndicate...with dashes of FMV to spice up the story and interaction. Hell, there's even gear and tools buying plus multiple solutions.

Can't get the key? Blow the door up with Det-packs. Or hack it.

I played this game a ton:

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/knights_and_merchants_the_peasants_rebellion

Privateer - played it all the way to the end, couldn't make a dent in the final ship the times I tried, save file corrupted, never finished it.

Crusader - liked it a lot (particularly the destructable environments) but don't think I ever played it through to the end. Didn't really play the sequel as much as the original.

Magic Carpet - played that a lot and enjoyed the magic flight sim. Never finished it.

I don't think I'd get these games just to complete them, but ... nah. It's never the same the second time.

There will be more WC and Ultima on GoG in future updates. "Mr. Longino also confirms that GOG is actively pursuing the rights to release games from the Syndicate and System Shock franchises."

http://www.wcnews.com/news/4272

I own (and still have) the original boxes and related contents of the first three Wing Commander (plus the awesome "movie reel" special edition of WC 3) but I would immediately purchase a digital version of the Kilrathi Saga so that everything works smoothly through dosbox in one package  :heart:

Oh, and beside EA, I just can't wait to put my hands on the complete SSI's "Gold Box" collection (please include the Buck Rogers too!), whenever GoG will manage to get the permission to release them  :awesome_for_real:

I wouldn't mind seeing all the SSI games that I played in high school again - War in the South Pacific, Overrun!, Warship, Mech Brigade, Medieval Lords, the first two Wargame Construction Sets, the Great Naval Battles and Imperialism series...

(Steel Panthers, thankfully, is still available in two different versions - one from Matrix Games, and one from Shrapnel Games.)

I've still got that Ultima Collection disk of 1-8 from years ago. I just the other day finally learned how to easily pwn U5 and get as much loot as I want right at the start with no effort. Once you have a magic axe and 30+ invisibility rings, combat is just a formality. I might get seriously into 6 if I can overcome the shitty interface.

U6 is the one game I can forgive just about any flaw in.  In fact, I'm currently working through it right now, with a screenshot folder in case I decide to Radicalthon it.  Were you intending to do the same?

Ignore the mouse most of the time.  The world screen is tiny, nothing you can do about it.  Anything you loot off of a random hostile NPC not on this (http://gigi.nullneuron.net/ultima/u6/u6prices.php) list is probably not vendorable, and therefore probably not worth picking up.  Always store shit you intend to keep in (closed, if possible) containers.  Don't buy weapons or armour unless it's either magic, or a halberd.  You can dual-wield, I recommend a pair of swords.

If I ever did anything with U6, it would be Nythrax falling down a well in Faerun and somehow landing in Britannia, where everyone keeps calling him Avatar for reasons he doesn't understand. He'd promptly murder Dupre/Shamino/Iolo and instead recruit those two lesbian pirates from Buc's Den and that one gypsy guy, then go about breaking and shitting all over the game. I'd probably end it with him killing Lord British, casting Armageddon, and falling into another portal having destroyed Britannia.

So by all means, if you feel like writing up a legit playthrough then go right ahead.

I actually beat U6, but only on SNES. They had to cut some things to make it work on a relatively underpowered console, but on the whole it was a pretty faithful and worthy port. Not like the disasters the ports of 5 & 7 were.

As far as U6 combat goes, I'm wondering if a guy built for nothing but strength, dual-wielding morning stars, might not be optimal. I think swords and halberds use dex to hit and str for damage, while morning stars being bludgeons use str for both hit and damage. Morning stars are, like swords, rated 15 damage while a halberd is rated 30, so it balances out.

My personal wish is for the old Dynamix games to make a legit reappearance. GOG has the two Red Baron games but I'd love to have Stellar 7 and Nova 9, the Aces series and a couple of the Front Page Sports games, especially Baseball 94 and 96.

Dynamix, hell yeah.  Would definitely buy some Earthsiege/Starsiege/Tribes action.  Hell, all of the old mech games are hard to find it seems: Mechwarrior, Heavy Gear, all missing from every digital service I have.

There's a lot of old adventure games that are hard to get nowadays, too.  They've got most of Sierra's old library (Space Quest  :heart:), but lack what is probably my favorite series of all time: Quest for Glory, as well as stuff like Leisure Suit Larry.  Or some of Lucasarts old stuff, like Full Throttle or Day of the Tentacle.  When they started releasing stuff on Steam I was thinking I'd grab it there, but they just released the one set of games and stopped.

More on topic, though, GoG is running an Interplay sale in case anyone's interested.  Fallout (1,2 and Tactics), Freespace (1 and 2) and Giants: Citizen Kabuto are all like $3.00/ea.

Ton of Interplay games 50% off until July 4th.

http://www.gog.com/en/promo/interplay (http://www.gog.com/en/promo/interplay)

1. They're still alive.
2. The one seems to be bi-curious. :drill:
3. I've been tanking my karma hardcore.
4. It's in my spellbook.

As for combat, I normally spamhack the Avatar's stats to 30 after chargen because a) it's possible with character transfer to start with maxxed stats anyways and b) because I'm not going to grind motherfucking mongbats just to get the stats to fucking hit something.

This (http://www.ultimaaiera.com/wp-content/files/u6-utilities/Ultima_6_Design_Document.pdf) seems to indicate that stats only determine hit chance, and that damage is a random number between 1 and the weapon's damage value.  Although the one Ultima wiki (http://codex.ultimaaiera.com/wiki/Weapon_Values#Ultima_VI:_The_False_Prophet) claims that some items use both STR and DEX to roll... something.  Who fucking knows.  Dual mace would also work if you want to go cheap, but halberds are clearly superior to dual wield anything against targets with armour.

Missionforce: Cyberstorm would be mighty nice to play again. I have the CD case but not the CD.  :uhrr: