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Which Classic Computer Games should I play?
Bluddy:
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--- Quote from: keith.lamothe on June 25, 2012, 06:40:27 PM ---Dungeon Keeper (I also liked the second one) is unmatched in its particular style of fun.
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I can't get an emulator to actually RUN that game properly. I seriously wish someone would buy the IP and just rebuild Dungeon Keeper on a modern box. Don't get fancy, none of the randomly annoying stuff they put into II, just good clean Hero Smashing fun.
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I have a year-old gold edition of Dungeon Keeper 2 and it runs like a dream... for about 20 minutes, then it crashes. I managed to play about three and a half hours, saving every ten minutes and restarting whenever it crashed, before even my saintly patience wore immensely thin.
I'm still waiting for someone to release a new version just so it will run on a machine built in the last ten years.
If you've got StarCraft II then a chap named Bibendus is currently developing "Hive Keeper": http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/hive-keeper/. The single player beta is actually pretty damn good!
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It's crazy how much Dungeon Keeper 2 clicked with me. I think you'll have better luck running it on OSX or Linux using Wine nowadays -- people on GOG constantly complain about it. I actually think a lot of older games run better with Wine.
I really want a fully working open source remake of DK2. Looks like somebody starting writing it and abandoned it a while ago. (OpenDungeonKeeper) I'd love to have keeper AI that actually challenges you.
keith.lamothe:
--- Quote from: Wanderer on June 25, 2012, 07:17:16 PM ---King's Quest wasn't bad either, if you could deal with the fact that you died because you sneezed.
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Sneezed? You must have been playing on easy or something; if I was lucky I got as far as "inhale" before something very fatal befell me.
darkchair:
Yeah, it's looking like Planechase for now, art like this is what I live for. :P
Forget to mention Myst and Riven, and of particular interest, should I play Real Myst over Myst?
Cyborg:
--- Quote from: darkchair on June 26, 2012, 03:43:23 PM ---Yeah, it's looking like Planechase for now, art like this is what I live for. :P
Forget to mention Myst and Riven, and of particular interest, should I play Real Myst over Myst?
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Myst. The three-dimensional walking around thing just makes it harder.
zespri:
--- Quote from: Bluddy on June 26, 2012, 07:53:45 AM ---It's crazy how much Dungeon Keeper 2 clicked with me. I think you'll have better luck running it on OSX or Linux using Wine nowadays -- people on GOG constantly complain about it. I actually think a lot of older games run better with Wine.
I really want a fully working open source remake of DK2. Looks like somebody starting writing it and abandoned it a while ago. (OpenDungeonKeeper) I'd love to have keeper AI that actually challenges you.
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Yes, the game is great hands down. For Win installation people reported to run it successfully in VirtualBox with Windows 98 installed there, so this could be another avenue.
And of course a proper remake of it would be great. Evil Genius was not all bad, but Dungeons did not seem to take off.
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