Picked up the entire Kain collection in the recent sale, this first one has a lot of charm and personality. Love the pixel graphics, story and voice acting and the gameplay mechanics gradually open up and become quite deep as you acquire new forms, spells and equipment. The combat is a bit wonky, I started out playing this game using the keyboard but feels much better with a controller. Recommended.
Played this gem of a game years ago and decided fire it up and play again. Sadly it doesn't work on Windows 10. You can probably get it to work with enough research, patching, and fiddling with .ini files but I just don't have the time for that. I just want to play the game. Apparently the version over at Steam doesn't have the same issue and it has Workshop support so it's easy to download and install mods.
Ah another year and another attempt to finally play this game. It's been in my library forever, and I every so often I install it and try to get into it. This year is probably my fifth attempt and it still hasn't pulled me in. This is of course very old school, so unless you cheat and pull up a walkthrough, you're going to spend a lot of time wandering around, talking to NPCs trying to figure out what to do next. I just don't have the patience, but cheers to those who do. It seems like very interesting take on the CRPG genre and very different than other similar games of its time, so I want to like it but this game requires a high amount of player time and effort to enjoy and I'm not certain it's worth it. I'd rather play similar games that provide a more rewarding experience.
All the QLF improvements are here. Completely playable and enjoyable for the modern gamer. The problem with most of these old games is that they are so difficult to play now on modern systems and for the modern gamer. This EE version of the original System Shock makes enjoying this classic a breeze. There are so many other older classics like this that could use this type of update (Ultima Underworld games come to mind).
I picked this game up on sale for $1 and got about 4 hours of gameplay before the frustration set in. As others have stated, its the first in the Hitman series and it's just not fully baked yet. A lot of great ideas that are executed poorly in this first attempt. Fortunately, the sequels do a much better job of delivering on those ideas but my advice to skip this one entirely.
