WHAT?! Easter egg: Click the characters repeatedly until you piss them off and then they yell at you. :D This was perhaps the first Easter egg in a game that I had ever heard of. I played these games until there was zero replay value left in them. I beat the stuffing out of them in every conceivable way, and came back for more. Yes, of course, they're dated.. but they are perfectly acceptable in my opinion. MOST IMPORTANTLY.. they don't cost $15 a month to play. :D :D :D Oh yeah, I'm looking at you Blizzard. Shame on you, raking in untold hundreds of millions of dollars in 'server fees' and screwing over your clients. I actually WON'T be buying this bundle, because I have my original Key Code converted and stored on battle.net and I can download a working copy from there. :D IF GoG ever releases these Blizzard games (including StarCraft and the Diablo games)) for the Linux platform however.. I'll be all over it like stink on a pig. :D
First and Last: This game should be played, start to finish, by every gamer on the planet. Period. You need the story line, and you need to experience how it was implemented. Period. Are the graphics and mechanics dated? Yeah, they're old as piss. However, compare them to the other trash that was being released at the time and you'll see why this was the first viral game in existence, with hundreds of thousands of people playing it online (at the same time) during it's hay-day. The first game to top that record? Diablo II. AFTER you have completed the story line at least once, you should: 1) Consider trying to beat the game with different characters. The game mechanics change significantly by character type. One person might find it simple to play one character type, yet have serious challenges with another character type. 2) Consider downloading and installing Belzebub (Diablo HD). It has updated graphics, better screen sizes, AND has all of the original content that Blizzard ditched hacked back in to the game. You can think of Belzebub as the 'Director's cut' of Diablo. https://mod.diablo.noktis.pl/ 3) Consider purchasing and installing Hellfire, the only 'official' expansion for Diablo ever released. I say 'official', because Blizzard didn't release it, they authorized Sierra to release it. https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Diablo:_Hellfire I highly recommend going through Belzebub at least once before playing Hellfire, though, to get the complete experience. With any luck, by the time you get done playing vanilla Diablo and Belzebub, GOG will have released Hellfire as well. :D Hellfire adds a couple of new character classes (which were actually re-introduced in Belzebub). It also includes a few new dungeons, and tons of new quests, including the infamous Cow Quest (NOT the cow level). 4) IF you ever get bored enough (which I never have) you can seek out and play various mods for Diablo. If I recall, the Hellfire expansion enables you to use mods, YMMV.
Can't tell you how ridiculously irritated I am at this game. Sounds like the sort of game you could play remotely, or even play by sending save files through email, right? NOPE. There is NO LAN play, no exporting games, absolutely NO way to play this game without being logged in to a server. This game makes the exact same mistake Diablo 3 did, no offline play. Worse, it's intentional. They WANT to force you to log in to their server every time you play in order to track you and control how many people are playing the game. They claim it's in order to curb hacking, but I'm calling B.S. This would be the PERFECT offline tactical game for people who don't have internet access, or only occasionally have it. My son and I live WAY out in the middle of nowhere. We have access to internet access.. but we don't HAVE internet access. At least not reliable internet access. I REALLY REALLY want to be able to play this game with him, and discuss tactical situations and etc.. but the devs of this game more assuredly crippled it than any other example I have ever seen in the history of gaming. FURTHERMORE.. it seriously irritates me that GOG would even allow this kind of DRM on their website. They're encouraging it by allowing it, and just as sure as baby bunnies are born every spring, devs will keep creating crippled games as long as it's allowed.
The statement that the female robot identifies as female almost made me understand how snowflakes keep getting offended by words and statements. Wall-e was a multi-billion dollar franchise, and nobody had to tell anybody which robot was a boy and which was a girl. Is there some sort of gaping hole in your storyline that prevents people from figuring it out for themselves?? The price point is ludicrous considering the other reviews. If this game ever goes on clearance for less than one dollar, I'll consider purchasing it here. Consider.
Pajama Sam 2 is an INCREDIBLE work and deserves like 8 stars! It's designed for children, of course, but it is in fact a nearly flawless game that anyone can enjoy. Pajama Sam (part 1) was a travesty, so the developers went the extra mile like ten times over to get Pajama Sam 2 as flawless as humanly conceivable. Every parson who enjoys the genre should play this game as a baseline on how an adventure game is done right. Developers should be chained to a desk and made to play it repeatedly until they get it. The world would be a better place if they did. ^^
Nobody who has actually played THIS game can rate it five stars. It's entirely too short with a clunky interface and huge gaping plot holes that even small children can figure out. Been there, done that. Part 2 is an INCREDIBLE work and deserves like 8 stars! It's designed for children, of course, but it is in fact a nearly flawless game that anyone can enjoy. I'm not really sure what GoG was thinking by offering this game on its own merits. It ought to be included as a bonus for part 2, free of charge.
I've never even heard of this game, so to be fair I'm going to rate it five stars. I found this while looking for the game: The Dark Eye. The Dark Eye is a collection of mini-games all tied together revolving around the works of Edgar Allen Poe. A true masterpiece on multiple levels. I'm not even sure if it's tied to this game series or not, but given the mixed reviews of this game, it's certainly superior.
Make up your own mind about the graphics, but it definitely detracts from the immersive environment that these games are intended to give. I've seen them compared to offering an Avatar type experience, and that's probably the best way to view this specific sub-genre of game. I actually hate to give this game such a low rating, but considering the ridiculous asking price, most people are probably visiting this page and wondering WHY there are no reviews. That's why. It's over priced for the experience that it offers. Check out the free version of WolfQuest for a much better experience. I actually can't help but wonder about HOW this game made it to GoG before WolfQuest did.
