I have way too many hours in the Fallout series in general, and especially in New Vegas. Engaging story, some of the best companion characters going, and about a metric crapton of great mods out there.
I had both this and New Vegas on Steam, but I had stopped playing both of them due to game breaking bugs. When I saw them on sale here, and with 1 and 2 thrown in for free, I'd had both of these way back on floppies, long fossilized.) I grabbed them both. Both were far better out of the "box", and were easier to set up with FOSE/NVSE and mods. I have never regretted this a bit. I also have done this with the Stalker and Metro series', I'm getting closer to being Steam Free.
I bought this back in the pre-cambrian era when it was first released, I remember on the blurb on the box had a line to the effect "we think it's better than Doom", not a statement that was widely agreed with, I think. I had some fun with this, we were easier to please graphics wise back then. i remember it did have a fairly satisfying ending, somewhat repetitive in spots. May pick it up here just for old times sake, I have a soft spot for these old shooters. I keep an old DX4 100 486 with a 16 mb VLB video card and DOS 6.22 for thes moldy oldies. Yes, I am a dinosaur.
Agree with Fossilfern (first review). The rest of the series is ok, but they don't have the appeal (for me ) that this first one did.
This game, for me, is about the most immersive I've ever played. And with the many mods available now with people translating the excellent Russian mods into English, will give many hours of entertainment. Game is very dynamic, multiple endings depending on how you behave in game. I have a few much newer games that seem flat after playing this trilogy.
I have owned Quake II and the expansion packs for years, but when this came on sale I picked it up for the ease of installation. Gives you a very easy to use interface for the expansion pack/mod(s) you want to run, and also gives you Eraser bots, which are a bear to get working on modern systems, if you can find the files. I run them with KmQuake and the Lazarus mod from Mark Shan, gives you better graphics, smarter monsters and many other improvements. I just renamed the original Quake2.exe to Quake2.bak, and renamed kmquake2.exe to quake2.exe. Saves making up batch files or having several shortcuts as the GOG launcher still works. One of the best deals I ever got from GOG, thank you for this.
This may seem low compared to a lot of the other ones, but it's a personal thing. the game works very well, decent graphics and controls, no real complaints. I personally don't care for the story line, have no desire to play a character I would have nothing but contempt for in real life. This version seems to have dealt with the problems that plagued earlier PC releases, and is quite competent technically for the time it was released. I just can't bring myself to play this sort of character, should have researched it more before downloading instead of just "Cool! Free game!"
I had this when it first came out, but my system was a bit light to run it properly. A 'friend' borrowed it, and you probably know how that works. When it came on sale just lately, I picked it up and it had to be about the best bargain I ever got. Beautiful visuals, decent story, great gameplay. Well worth full price, even managed to get me away from the Stalker series and its' mods for a while. A bit tempramental to get running, kept crashing from the launcher. Made a shortcut direct to the executable in bin64, no problems. Runs at a steady 60 fps (I always run vsync) with everything maxed out on my aging system -Core 2 duo 3.16, 8 gig of ram, 750ti 2gig video card.
Bought both of these on Steam quite a while back, decided to get the GOG versions during this winter sale. Very glad I did, the GOG offerings seem to run better than the Steam games, Fraps bears this out for me. Maybe they don't play well with the Steam overhead, but for twenty bucks for the pair, I'm glad I got them. Last Light comes with all the DLC, (As did the Steam versions) and even base games have enough little nooks and crannies to explore and flesh out the world a bit I find they are worth a replay.
I was unaware that this had a release on PC, was happy to see it here. Extremely immersive, can get quite intense. I enjoyed the Riddick movies, and this in my opinion is one of the best movie to video game adaptations I've seen. Not a run and gun, but also no bizarre nonsensical puzzles to deal with. Recommend it highly.
