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Title: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Yegolev on January 03, 2007, 03:25:42 PM Just sayin'. You can now investigate Uru and lie to your friends that you really subscribed for Sam + Max and Deus Ex.
Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: schild on September 06, 2007, 01:46:49 PM (http://www.f13.net/images/necropost.gif)
Why hello thar. One of my favorite indie games ever just got added to Gametap like 5 minutes ago. Startopia. ROCK. Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Nonentity on September 06, 2007, 02:35:53 PM Startopia... why is that ringing a bell?
Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Morat20 on September 06, 2007, 02:36:43 PM Startopia... why is that ringing a bell? Space station sim-city like thing. I have it at home -- never did get a chance to play it for more than 20 minutes.Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Kail on September 06, 2007, 05:44:28 PM I believe the company that made it was founded by ex-Bullfrog members. It's kind of like Dungeon Keeper, or Evil Genius, one of those "build a sickbay to attract more aliens" kind of games. I thought it was pretty cool. Combat sucked, but the rest of it was pretty fun stuff. Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Trippy on September 06, 2007, 06:47:29 PM Hmm...I loved Theme Hospital (didn't like Theme Park as much). May try to find a copy of this.
Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Yegolev on September 07, 2007, 04:10:22 PM Or play it on GameTap? Why get out of your chair?
Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Trippy on September 07, 2007, 07:25:32 PM For $9.99 a month when I can buy it for like $7 on Amazon?
Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Yegolev on September 07, 2007, 07:31:48 PM /shrug
This is clearly well within the realm of personal preference. Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Trippy on September 07, 2007, 07:36:21 PM If I was playing other games on GameTap on a regular basis I would do it. But since this would be the only game and I tend to play games on and off, it would end up costing me $50 or more just to play that game.
Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Yegolev on September 07, 2007, 07:59:39 PM I assumed so; if you look at the base economics you will note a relatively large surcharge on a per-game basis. Me, I have several things on GameTap that interest me (whether I play them or not), such as Sam & Max, Planescape, maybe even X-COM, and of course the JumpStart games which are easily worth $10 a month to avoid the terrible disc-read performance you encounter from the CD version... this is with any children's edutainment, from my experience, so I'm not singling out that series. I will agree that it isn't the most economical way to enjoy these games, but I am willing to pay the surcharge for convenience due to the high value of my time.
Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Morat20 on September 11, 2007, 02:19:09 PM I assumed so; if you look at the base economics you will note a relatively large surcharge on a per-game basis. Me, I have several things on GameTap that interest me (whether I play them or not), such as Sam & Max, Planescape, maybe even X-COM, and of course the JumpStart games which are easily worth $10 a month to avoid the terrible disc-read performance you encounter from the CD version... this is with any children's edutainment, from my experience, so I'm not singling out that series. I will agree that it isn't the most economical way to enjoy these games, but I am willing to pay the surcharge for convenience due to the high value of my time. If Gametap's version of X-Com works on modern PC's, I'd probably pay just to get access to that.Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Yegolev on September 12, 2007, 07:18:20 AM Of course it does. Works fine on my XP SP2 install. They even have manuals in PDF form for most retro games. I have not found anything that failed to work properly. Even Space Quest runs fine, and at normal speed, too.
Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Morat20 on September 13, 2007, 12:56:29 PM Of course it does. Works fine on my XP SP2 install. They even have manuals in PDF form for most retro games. I have not found anything that failed to work properly. Even Space Quest runs fine, and at normal speed, too. By "works fine" I mean "plays at a normal speed". I have XCom, and I hate using CPU-throttlers to play it. Still...Space Quest makes my ears perk up. Too bad they don't have Star Flight and Star Flight 2. Title: Re: GameTap adds Deus Ex Post by: Yegolev on September 14, 2007, 01:01:06 PM I don't recall the exact speed of gameplay, but it's not at all like when you run something raw in DOSBox. Space Quest, I do recall that works at just the right speed, or perhaps agonizingly slow depending on how you look at it. Avatars back then were slooooooow.
If you want, I can do some actual research, like play the X-COM for a little bit. |