I think I got drawn in on all the hype over the last year or so. Preordered the physical GoG version from Amazon so I could get the goodies that came with it, and for only $50. I've only played two or three hours of the game though and will probably wait awhile to go through it. I'm encountering a ton of odd bugs (I know I'm not the only one), the keyboard and mouse controls are, to put it lightly... not good. It's nonsensical. I had to pull out my old Logitech G502 so I had enough buttons to map the many keyboard commands to. Just using the keyboard with no mouse shortcuts, the game makes my hand feel like it's playing Twister. The game is also horribly un-optimized. An i7 7700k overclocked, 32GB Ram and a 2080 Super with the game on an M.2 SSD netted me about 20 FPS with the games default, recommended settings. Also, I'm epileptic and what I read about the lights in certain sequences triggering them is a bit worrisome (although I haven't reached one of those spots in the game yet.) In the end I wish I'd waited to get this. I'm pretty sure I'll be waiting until a lot of the issues in this game are dealt with before I end up going back to it to play all the way through it anyway. Honestly, this reminds me so, SOOO much of the Batman: Arkham Knight PC release. I just hope this game doesn't take them five months to sort out. I'll update my review if/when many of the issues are addressed. While the few hours I've played of the game was interesting, I'd recommend that no one buy this until more things are fixed.
So, I've had this game on disk for many many years (as well as still have the hint book.) As such, I won't be buying it on GOG but still wanted to put down a review. I've played it a couple times over the years, and it is good. Streamed a complete playthrough on Twitch last year. It's got an interesting premise. I like how it plays concurrently with the movie and how it takes place in (sorta) real time. The different events, situations and endings allow for a bit of replayability. I like that it's not an average point and click game. Now, overall the voice acting is generally kind of bad and the voxel graphics don't really do it any favors these days, but for $10 this is well worth buying. If I recall, my full playthroughs have usually been 2.5-3 hours. I'm sure it would take you a bit longer the first time through. And if you replay it a few times for the differences you'll basically have paid about $1 an hour... if you're into that sorta cost/hours=worth it breakdown. If you want to find it on disk instead for some reason, given the video and screenshots here, there doesn't appear to be any difference between this and the disk version. I'm really glad GOG has been getting more games that have either been caught in licensing limbo or were just never on digital before the GOG versions (Diablo, WC 2, Blade Runner...) I hope we see more of this in the future as it's really good that people have access to these old games again.
I had this game on my wishlist for quite awhile. Picked it up in the GoG summer sale, but my god this game is soooo bad! First off, fires are out of control. Two buildings on fire, three fire stations and wells all over town and still both buildings are destroyed. And that wouldn't be so bad maybe, but fires are CONSTANT! Like every three minutes it seem like something catches on fire. Further, the "job system" here is atrocious. You don't slot people into job slots, you make a list of jobs from most important to least important and the people spread out accordingly. The problem with this is that if you have 30 people and your job availability goes something like: 1. Farmers - 15 2. Builders - 7 3. Quarry - 10 4. Doctors - 2 5. Military Training - 13 This means the breakdown of your 30 people will look like this: 1. Farmers - 15 2. Builders - 7 3. Quarry - 8 4. Doctors - 0 5. Military Training - 0 So anything below your maximum number of people in the job list end up with no workers. So you're constantly having to move the items on the list up and down just so you'll have people in certain jobs. This is so frustrating. There's no reason that I can imagine why you always have to fill jobs to the max before putting people in another. Just let me spread workers out in a sensible manner. I know the devs are still updating (at least given updates on the Steam page) so I still hold out hope, but if you in any way get frustrated, you might do well to give this one a pass.
So, I still have my old Diablo and Hellfire expansion disc. Diablo was given to me as a gift about a week after main game's release. It's an amazing game but it's a little frustrating without the expansion. (extra character and ability to run, among other things). I can understand them not having it here as it was published through Sierra, but Diablo just doesn't seem complete to me without it. It's still worth playing though and the price is fair. Still giving it five stars, if for no other reason than all the ears I collected back in the day.
