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I'm surprised by the reaction too. I played this along side of SOCOM on PS2. Sure CDS is no SOCOM but it had it's own way of doing things like being able to control all the men in the squad and heal wounded men. 6 bucks?Heck yeah I'm picking this one up.

I just remembered back when Operation Desert Storm happened. For the first time I saw actual war happening on the TV, live. I was quite young then, but had already started watching the news. Hearing the BBC reporter reporting while bombs fell close nearby was emotional, a little shocking actually.

Well, you know that American militarists will automatically accuse you of being a communist (or is it Muslim these days, I can't keep track of who the latest enemy is) if you're not 100% for "American freedom", and communists will automatically accuse you of being imperialist and a sheep of the capitalist conspiracy if you don't adhere to their doctrine.

The precise reason why I feel sorry for the Average Joe American. The most vocal extremists on both ends of the spectrum spend all of their time pretending that Average Joe doesn't exist.

If GOG is getting on the "obscure titles" wagon, may I suggest that you release Oni at some point? A fantastic FPS that got way too little attention back in the days. Even I loved it, and I generally find the FPS genre to be extremely boring.

Oni isn't an FPS. It's a platformer, and a spectacular pain in the ass to get running on modern PCs at that.

You're probably right, and I'm definitely wrong. I was never one to care much for categories. I meant to say something along the lines of "I usually find games like Oni unbelievably boring because I generally don't like games that force you into near-endless amounts of gunfighting in order to beat them, but something about Oni is strangely attractive, even to me".
Regardless of its category - Oni is an awesome game I'd like to see on here, precicely because I can't get my CD version to run.


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This game wasn't good even for its time. Despite its connection with Iraq and Saddam Hussein himself, Conflict: Desert Storm absolutely paled in comparison with 2002's top PC games like Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Battlefield 1942, Mafia, and Star Wars: Jedi Knight Outcast. Its Metacritic average of 56/100 speaks for itself. Desert Storm was a mediocre game when it first hit store shelves and it certainly isn't any better today. What you'll find is a squad-based third/first-person action game with horrible A.I., graphics and animation that were poor even 10 years ago, and mediocre gunplay. Desert Storm may be old, but it was never particularly "good."

I think it's owned by Take-Two. I could be wrong.

GOG needs Take-Two first.

That's a funny coincidence. I just realized it had been about a decade since I first got Oni, and I dug it out to play it yesterday. I was delighted by the fact that I completely forgot that there is no key or disk check of any kind. However, it crashes after the intro, so I discovered that I needed a new binkw32.dll and binkplay.exe to get it working right.

Now it's working fine as it ever has, but I unfortunately had also forgotten that there are very few options, and mouse sensitivity must be adjusted by changing your system's mouse sensitivity settings. Also, I don't know how to re-watch the intro without reinstalling or going to YouTube. It's disappointing that the community, as far as I can tell from browsing Oni forums, hasn't done much in the way of addressing a lot of these issues in the last decade.


Oni is a ridiculously underrated game. I'm still loving it as much as I did then. People hated it then, and it's all but forgotten now. Oni now belongs to Take2 Interactive, apparently, and I can only hope it shows up on GOG some day, but I can't say I have a lot of faith in it showing up anywhere. If I did, I probably wouldn't have gone about searching for it and trying to get it working right. At the very least, it runs in XP without a hitch, so I have the iso and patching files zipped up and stored with my games now. Still, more people need an excuse to play Oni.

I've played Marathon and the first two Halo games, they're actually all very good (Halo is at least well-made and worth playing at least once with a few hours of multiplayer, but I could never really get all the hype. I found it awfully forgettable in the end and sometimes downright boring, I have no idea what it stood out so well that people consider it as a defining game of the decade. It was one of the earliest Xbox games along with Morrowind and sold systems, that's worth something I suppose. Some folks claim it's because it was the first console FPS that was done right, but I personally don't think even Goldeneye gets that prestige) but when I think of Bungie, the first game that comes to mind is still Oni.


As for Conflict: Desert Storm... eh, I don't have anything nice to say. Better to say nothing at all. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays on GOG are a lot of fun when the suspense pays off, but I've grown accustomed to not anticipating anything jaw-dropping unless GOG tortures us by announcing an announcement. -_-;

I didn't forget; I'm well aware of the events leading up the invasion. My point, however, was that the American-led invasion had absolutely nothing to do with "preserving freedom". Do you think the Western world cares about people's "freedom"? "Freedom" and "democracy" are just buzzwords thrown around to justify aggression. After all, the West is just as often on the side of "aggressors" as "victims". It all depends on who benefits geopolitically. That's how allies and enemies are determined, to greatly simplify things.

Also, from the Iraqi perspective, Kuwait was seen as an Iraqi area that had been unfairly cut off from the rest of the Iraqi nation. Thus, when Iraq went into Kuwait, the majority of Iraqis viewed it as an attempt to unite the country (and simultaneously remove the pro-Western puppet government in Kuwait).
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While I wholeheartedly agree with your original point about it being idiotic to think the West was "fighting for freedom", you really need to get your facts straight in regards to the 1991 Iraq war. The majority of Iraqis are Shia. They most certainly did NOT buy into Hussein's propaganda about Kuwait being rigtfully theirs. In fact, I'd wager that the majority of them were mroe than happy at the potential for the Baathist regime to fall. Also I'll point out that the German populace overwhelmingly supported Hitler's claims to them rightfully deserving the lands he conquered. That didn't make those beliefs correct.

Hussein was clearly the aggressor. The whole world believed this. There's no need to try and put a spin on it. For someone who claims to hate "imperialism" I find it odd that you seem to be claiming there was some justification for Hussein's unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation.

But all fo that aside, you are aware that we're discussing a video game, correct? I highly doubt this title was meant as propaganda. You're being just a bit paranoid. Now if this game were based on the 2003 invasion, that would be different. [url=][/url]
I didn't forget; I'm well aware of the events leading up the invasion. My point, however, was that the American-led invasion had absolutely nothing to do with "preserving freedom". Do you think the Western world cares about people's "freedom"? "Freedom" and "democracy" are just buzzwords thrown around to justify aggression. After all, the West is just as often on the side of "aggressors" as "victims". It all depends on who benefits geopolitically. That's how allies and enemies are determined, to greatly simplify things.

Also, from the Iraqi perspective, Kuwait was seen as an Iraqi area that had been unfairly cut off from the rest of the Iraqi nation. Thus, when Iraq went into Kuwait, the majority of Iraqis viewed it as an attempt to unite the country (and simultaneously remove the pro-Western puppet government in Kuwait).
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While I wholeheartedly agree with your original point about it being idiotic to think the West was "fighting for freedom", you really need to get your facts straight in regards to the 1991 Iraq war. The majority of Iraqis are Shia. They most certainly did NOT buy into Hussein's propaganda about Kuwait being rigtfully theirs. In fact, I'd wager that the majority of them were mroe than happy at the potential for the Baathist regime to fall. Also I'll point out that the German populace overwhelmingly supported Hitler's claims to them rightfully deserving the lands he conquered. That didn't make those beliefs correct.

Hussein was clearly the aggressor. The whole world believed this. There's no need to try and put a spin on it. For someone who claims to hate "imperialism" I find it odd that you seem to be claiming there was some justification for Hussein's unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation.

But all fo that aside, you are aware that we're discussing a video game, correct? I highly doubt this title was meant as propaganda. You're being just a bit paranoid. Now if this game were based on the 2003 invasion, that would be different.

Do you live here? I can honestly say that what you see in the news and on TV, and out of our idiot politicians' mouths is not really what living here is like.

It's also kind of surprising as games like Master of Orion 3, Empire Earth 3, or Star Control 3 didn't earn nearly as much ire as this game is now. Yeesh.

Keep up the good work on bringing us good games for us to get.

I like Conflict series, and while it certainly is nowhere near as classic as previous recent releases (Syndicate, Thief, Hitman, Deus Ex), its a nice addition to GOGs catalogue. Of course id rather have Anachronox or Omikron, which are impossible to find anywhere. Well, at least the price is decent unlike the overpriced Thief. Not that 10 dollars is too much for a classic, Thief certainly deserves it, but i mean, cmon, you can easily find a boxed factory sealed copy of the whole collection including Thief 1 Gold, Thief 2 and 3, all patched, for 10 dollars.