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Posted August 23, 2011
Dungeon Keeper, Crusader: No Remorse and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, we took some time off from EA releases, but promised to bring back more great titles from this publisher in late summer. The time has come to say farewell to the summer and take you all gamers back to the Old School with the release of more EA classic games. Be sure to check back this Thursday to see for yourself what the next batch of classic games from Electronic Arts will be!
Posted August 25, 2011
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Sirgod: I am holding out against hope, that we get some old school Bards tale or Dragon Wars type games. Even Wasteland would be out of this world.
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DeadlyRamon: Wasteland was the spiritual predecessor of Fallout. I believe that many of the same developers worked on both.
Indeed it was. I played that game for months on end, on my old C-64. Even have the old hint book on one of the book cases here somewhere.
Posted August 25, 2011
Does the sound work ok with WC 1+2 released here? Someone mentioned something about PC Speaker and that scared me away.
Also, since it's been a long long time since I played the first two games, what kind of support is there for controller other than keyboard? Mouse? Joystick? Gamepad?
Posted August 25, 2011
I got Win 7 64-bit aka the hardest to get to work right with old games and it works perfect for me. The sound is all there and it comes through like a dream. any Dos Box game is smooth sailing man.
Posted August 25, 2011
Hope one of them is Privateer 2. I never finished it and would like to run it easily.
Posted August 25, 2011
I hope we get the Syndicate or system shock games
Posted August 26, 2011
I hope we get Ultima next week.
Posted August 26, 2011
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TwilightBard: Not every company has all of the rights to everything in every part of their games + expansions. This becomes the problem, you have the rights to the games by say, Company A, but the music was done by Mr. B, and he managed to retain the rights to his music. Now Company A after a while loses the ability to use Mr. B's music. For this release though, you need both.

It's just not as simple as it's made out to be.
But every expansion, to every game, from at least four formerly independent companies? It can't all be asset rights. Magic Carpet's expansion was purely a mission pack, no new content that I can remember.
Posted August 26, 2011
I would like to know WHY there are no expansions included in the EA games downloads :-(

I don´t complain, nor say "Without the expansions I will never buy it", but it´s strange. There are so many games in completele, gold, diamond etc. editions... why not just these too?

Please could it answer somebody from GOG?
Posted August 26, 2011
Too bad that they didn't release the native Windows versions of Wing Commander 1+2, which were done for the "The Kilrathi Saga" collection and even featured CD-quality music... :-(
Post edited August 26, 2011 by timo.weirich
Posted August 26, 2011
Regarding the EA classics, I'm holding thumbs for Little Big Adventure 1 & 2 (AKA Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure & Twinsen's Odyssey when re-released by Activision).
Posted August 26, 2011
I've read the additional EULA for those EA games. You might as well have sold them with DRM. I'll pass.
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Posted August 26, 2011
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gnarbrag: I've read the additional EULA for those EA games. You might as well have sold them with DRM. I'll pass.
eh? care to explain?
Posted August 26, 2011
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gnarbrag: I've read the additional EULA for those EA games. You might as well have sold them with DRM. I'll pass.
shhhh, if you won't tell them you have them on back up disc, I won't tell them either! ;-D
Posted August 26, 2011
What would be the point of having a distribution contract with EA, if Ultima wasn't on the Horizon... come on ULTIMA
Posted August 26, 2011
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epmode: After that initial incredible press conference, this EA situation has been pretty disappointing. Sucks that there isn't any official word besides "no comment".
They've made official comments like a dozen times dude. Getting the licensing done for the expansions and extras has been harder than anticipated with the EA titles. When they get the licenses for the content they will distribute it.
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