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General discussion (archive)Classic Gem Promo: Krush Kill 'N Destroy Series up to 70% off!(38 posts)(38 posts)
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Posted July 22, 2013
Double impact!

Krush Kill 'N Destroy Series, that is: Krush Kill 'N Destroy Xtreme + Krush Kill 'N Destroy: Krossfire, is available bundled 70% off today, on GOG.com. That's only $3.58 for both games for the next 24 hours! Games also available separately with 60% discount.

Ah, the nuclear wasteland! What else could be so terrifyingly beautiful? Those green sunsets, those glowing dunes, the smell of poison desert flowers--every mutated heart will instantly recognize this feeling: "home". There are those, however, who cling to the old ways and look down at us, mutants. Those bunker-dwelling basterds should know better than to oppose the Sacred Evolution and its children. There can be no peace on the new and improved Earth, until those murderous relics of old times get back underground where they were buried. And stay that way, this time!

Krush Kill 'N Destroy Series is one of the highlights of classic RTS genre. It has a unique post-apocalyptic atmosphere that mixes some futuristic nuclear terror with lots of dark and twisted humor. The solid gameplay with much diversity in units and structures makes it very replayable and you will have a blast playing through all the available campaigns. If you're a real-time strategy fan you can't go wrong with this time-proven classic gem double-pack!

Conquer the mad post-nuclear wasteland in Krush Kill 'N Destroy Series, for only $3.58 on GOG.com. If you own one of the games, you can complete the bundle with the 70% discount rate. The offer lasts until Tuesday, July 23, at 9:59AM GMT.
Posted July 22, 2013
How do these games compare to other RTS? Micromanagement? Pathfinding? AI?

One review mentioned reduced micromanagement, which seems promising, but it is hard to take GOG nostalgia-tinged reviews seriously.

And also how well to they work on modern systems? I remember buying Dark Reign here for $7.49 and I felt ripped off because it barely works.
Posted July 22, 2013
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doady: How do these games compare to other RTS? Micromanagement? Pathfinding? AI?

One review mentioned reduced micromanagement, which seems promising, but it is hard to take GOG nostalgia-tinged reviews seriously.

And also how well to they work on modern systems? I remember buying Dark Reign here for $7.49 and I felt ripped off because it barely works.
Micromanagement wise i would say it is a little(appreciably even) less than Command&Conquer. Pathfinding is passable but does have its occasional hiccups. Compared to CnC there is less space available for units to move around and this can sometimes become a headache for the topt tier units that are quite large. AI is perhaps a little better and more unpredictable than CnC but not anything to write home about. Nevertheless the AI usually did a good job of keeping me on my toes as some levels really aren't easy. In CnC victory was all about amassing a large force and rushing the enemy base. In kknd that has often led to me having to restart a game and force me to be more smart in when and where i apply force.
These are all technical details however and is not what i think makes the game so memorable. If i think of kknd i remember, the explosions, gunfire, mad max post apocalyptic feel and the humor. On all four these areas the game really outdoes itself. The gunfire in particular has a very visceral quality to it. I'd say give it a go, atleast the first kknd.

Stability? Mixed bag im afraid. I had little to no issue on my win 7 laptop, but i do often read of other people struggling with crashes
Posted July 22, 2013
Hopefully we see more sales on Atari games if they might be leaving GOG soon; I regret hesitating on Blood 2.

The good news is that the Star Control franchise is safe on GOG.
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Messi_is_Messiah: no need to worry about backing it up though cuz gog keeps them in your library even if they no longer sell it.
Out of curiousity if I purchase these as a gift and retain the redeem code would it remain valid even if the product is pulled for new buyers?
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mondo84: ...I'm wondering if GOG is putting the games on sale preemptively or if there might be some writing on the wall that certain games are in danger of being pulled from the store.
I don't recall seeing much about the outcome of the KKND franchise auction so imagine the sale is hypothetic because "anything could happen."
Post edited July 22, 2013 by undeadcow
Posted July 22, 2013
I have so far played (finished) only the first one. I'm afraid to play the second one, as the first one was at times murderously hard, and I've heard the second one is even harder. So hard that the developers even wrote an official walkthrough for one of the hardest KKND2 missions which many felt was impossible to finish successfully. :)

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s23021536: Micromanagement wise i would say it is a little (appreciably even) less than Command&Conquer. Pathfinding is passable but does have its occasional hiccups. Compared to CnC there is less space available for units to move around and this can sometimes become a headache for the topt tier units that are quite large.
I think that was intentional, to encourage you to build other units too besides just the most powerful ones. There were even levels where you couldn't move the biggest units out of your starting base due to narrow passages and stuff, so you had to make the weaker/smaller units to even get to the enemy. So the more powerful units are also more cumbersome, kinda makes sense I guess.

About micromanagement, I think KKND had too much of it, at least if you wanted to try to repair your veteran vehicles too. I mean, you pretty much had to park them outside your repair facility, and move them into it, one by one. And with the bigger units, you had to move them out of the way after repairing them so that other units could get there too. Occasionally it started to feel like a valet parking simulator.

The obvious way to overcome that was to say "fcuk it" and forget about trying to repair any of your vehicles. Just let them get destroyed (eventually), and build more.
Post edited July 22, 2013 by timppu
Posted July 22, 2013
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timppu: it started to feel like a valet parking simulator.
Lol that is an incredibly apt description. I had forgotten about that - perhaps because of how traumatic it was, I blocked it out. Possibly even worse were multiple tankers on one power station *shudder*, although, to be fair, that had been a problem ever since dune II - the blooming rosetta stone of the entire genre!
Posted July 22, 2013
Damn, I bought both last week for 60% off with that Atari promo.

Seems a little unfair, but oh well.
Posted July 22, 2013
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Gyrocoptor: Damn, I bought both last week for 60% off with that Atari promo.

Seems a little unfair, but oh well.
Me too (well, I already had 1, but I bought 2 last week). I guess this is probably the equivalent of a going out of business sale for Atari. Who knows, some Atari properties may be on *80%* sale this weekend... Regardless of how much you pay for them, it's a good idea to get them while you can, since there's no guarantee that you'll be able to buy them in the near future...
Posted July 23, 2013
Grabbed em due to the sale...never even heard of this series.
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