Witchaven I & II Bundle

I have never heard of this game before. All I can say is that I am now a fan. I love old school FPS. The game runs flawlessly on a Windows 10 laptop. The game has some good weapons and combat is very satisfying. A warning though, your weapons do wear out and they do break. If you're into the Hexon/Heretic series, you will definetly like this series.

Today videogames cannot bring feelings you only would get with pieces of ancient broken art as Witchaven I & II: - The game was difficult to set-up - Sometimes it wont even start or had crashes everywhere - Saving the game was a nightmare depending on your PC - And it was glitchy in terms on playing which made the game quite challenging. Sounds like a pain in the ass, right? But it dind't felt that way, back then. This was just the normal drill on PC gaming during the 90s. On the other hand, this was one of the first first person shooters with prerendered graphics! And let me tell something: you that was a hell of revolution during that time. Closest experience to reality, closest experience to be Arnold in Conan or some brawny hero from Richard Corben's marvelous mind. You had to be there to dig what I'm saying... Now, you have to understand that all this dificulties were not in bane. Thanks to these hellish PC type of games, the domestic console industry took off, because there was a market niche that was not in condition and had not patience to deal with all this technical challenges or didn't had the financial muscle to pay a fortune for a 486 or a Pentium PC. These people never played Witachaven and never delightly tasted all this tehcnical nightmarish charm that made you feel like you was playing a challenging state of the art videogame. This feeling of "unreachable gaming" just died with that generation and can only been understood by those that lived during that period of time. After that, patches became popular, PSX worked just by inserting a disc in his mouth and the rest is history. Amazing times! I never finished Witachven due to all this technical glitches, but the intensity an excitement I had back then, still remains inside of me. I've been waiting for years to have this: one single easy going install (without reviving that old pain), with some improvements made by somebody that knows what he/she's doing...and now I can be that little boy again!

I remember trying to install this game on a Win98 computer, about 20 years ago, choosing sound card details and whatnot during the installation. For a long while the game would refuse to save the progress, forcing me to start from scratch every time. I could not find a solution for it. I don't know how but eventually I found out that choosing nothing for the sound card during installation would save this issue for me and I could finally save the game progress. Not long after I finished the game, unable to listen to the outro but still, imagining what was happening in my then boundless imagination as a child. I miss those times, the imagination that I have lost and the taste of playing these games with many difficulties. Thank you GOG for bringing this game back!

The box art is cool. The game's artstyle style is cool. I really dig this style of dark fantasy and melee combat. Its super satisfying slashing through hordes of demons. Some might not enjoy its simplicity, but its definitely up my alley. For 2 games at $5 each, why not give it a shot? For many like me, its a hidden gem.