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General discussion (archive)Release: <b>Populous: The Beginning</b>(94 posts)(94 posts)
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Posted April 18, 2012
With the powers of nature in your hand and the Blue tribe following, will you become the omnipotent entity?

With great power comes great responsibility and with small price comes great value--combine these two and you’ll get a GOG.com exclusive Populous&trade;: The Beginning, a 3D Strategy game with almighty strength, released for only $5.99 right here on GOG.com.

The third part in the series, the first one in full 3D, Populous: The Beginning places you in control of a female shaman and her tribe. You need to battle your way through 25 planets and defeat the rival Dakini, Chumara, and Matak tribes for dominion over the solar system. Grow in followers, grow in strength and unleash the earth-shattering powers to wreak havoc and control your tribesman. Build your forces, annihilate the non-believers, and finally become the ultimate almighty ruler of the Populous universe.

Execution of Populous: The Beginning is quite impressive: each scenario sports a different richly-detailed small world, and the engine accurately represents the fact that you are on a globe, with curved surfaces and an effective horizon. The creators of Populous and Dungeon Keeper packed some clever ideas, fun-to-play gameplay, 3D graphics, and sweet multiplayer into a perfect cure for gamers with a god complex. If you like real-time strategy games, this is one of the most innovative and well-designed you’ll be ever likely to play, especially when it’s only $5.99, available now on GOG.com
Posted April 18, 2012
Haven't we already been over this? :/ Some blue-text posted a while ago that they were fighting for the rights (very tangled "legal and licensing" issues), so presumably they're still trying.
Posted April 18, 2012
Thanks, GOG. I hope you´d be able to get those expansions aboard as well.
Never played this one, only Black&White games, which I found unique - I loved my cow-titan as an adolescent !:)
Post edited April 18, 2012 by Tarhiel
Posted April 18, 2012
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tfishell: Haven't we already been over this? :/ Some blue-text posted a while ago that they were fighting for the rights (very tangled "legal and licensing" issues), so presumably they're still trying.
Yes:

Jun 2011: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/ea_and_lack_of_expansions_to_games/post40

Jan 2012:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/reasons_that_keep_gog_from_releasing_the_expansions/post55
Posted April 18, 2012
No expansion->no money from me.
Posted April 18, 2012
Hey cool, I, along with my brother, used to play the demo of this A LOT. I grabbed this game as soon as I could.
Posted April 18, 2012
Ever since I joined GOG there's been a few games I've desperately wanted to see here. Those were Syndicate, Popolous: The Beginning and the Discworld games.
So far GOG has been making steady progress, thank you!
Posted April 18, 2012
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gyokzoli: Same here...
On the other hand I fear the day when my wishlist will be empty :-)
Posted April 18, 2012
What a fantastic surprise....

Purchased and on my gog download queue ;)
Posted April 18, 2012
2 Bullfrog games in a row!
Posted April 18, 2012
Oh boy! I actually bought this one originally when it was available in the EA classic budget series. I was unsure if it was going to be any good so I was a bit wary of it, but I actually ended up enjoying it just as much if not more so than the previous Populous games. I don't think I ever completed the game though. Got to rectify that. Insta buy!

Sure, the lack of expansions may be lamentable, but since I've never played any of those that were made for the EA games on offer here I don't know what I'm missing. I'm going to be blissfully ignorant then. =P Generally though, especially back in the '90s - from the few I did experience - expansion packs rarely measured up to the original games. More often than not they weren't made by the core team and it was reflected in their quality.
Post edited April 18, 2012 by mistermumbles
Posted April 18, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKWpGJ4Xhw8

Hell yes.
Posted April 18, 2012
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Okanehira: Not too young, 25. Probably just how I define childhood. I had an Amiga and Ataris etc.. when i was a "little kid" but from 6-13 (what i would call childhood) Stuff like Outrun/Theme Hospital/Populous/C&C95 just leave the strongest memories.
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gyokzoli: That's very young. :)

I'm 38.
That's very young. :-)

I'm 53.
Posted April 18, 2012
I never liked this series (much because of the horrible interface of the first game which kept me away from the sequels) but anything with "Populous" in its name is huge and classic, and that's the kind of game I like released on GOG. I'm glad this came up.

I never played this third installment, it appears quite polished from the screenshots. Correct me if I'm wrong though, it appears it's one of those classics that might have been supplanted a while ago by a very similar but newer and better game: Black and White. This happens with many great games (Lords of the Realm II x Medieval: Total War, King's Bounty x Heroes of Might and Magic). Might be the case.

Then again, great release, fits right here in GOG.
Posted April 19, 2012
I was very, very pleased to see a Good Old Game released on a Wednesday no less. Excellent! Keep up the good work GOG! :-)
Posted April 19, 2012
In the words of Z's tiny red robots - "Nice one!"
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