Original Praetorians. Highly underated. Quite a good game. Entertaining and enjoyable. If you want to improve the graphics because you feel they are a bit to outdated for you, don't go for the lazy "Remaster" with insane price tag. Get the original and apply a Mod yourself (e.g. Mods Complex). Get this, before they remove it too (like Commandos)!
The original Praetorians is very cool. Highly underrated. I enjoyed it a lot. But same as with the "Commandos" games, this is a really bad "remaster", if you can even call it that. Poorly executed, it's not much more than just a HD-texture mod slapped on top. In addition a very shitty move by Pyro Studios to remove the old games from store and not offer them anymore (I guess to promote this new "over holed" version, where they also probably removed things due to expired licensing deals?). I'm so glad, I bought all the old version when they still were available. Really shitty move from a games preservation standpoint. I can enjoy and relive the unchanged old versions and if I want better textures, I apply a free fan-mod (e.g. Mods Complex) and get a similar or better result, with better performance. An example of a remaster done right while still including the original underneath would be the Monkey Island games and others of their line <3 Retroactively changing finished and completed products due to expiring licenses should be illegal. You can offer improvements and bug-fixes - but not change or kill the original basis. And companies that are lazy and apply graphics mods, remove the original and slap a new insane price tag on it (for this lazy effort?) have no place in the market. Calling this a "Remaster" is a disgrace! DON'T GET THIS! Rather "find" the originals online somewhere else!
Thank you, thank you, thank you GOG. I loved this game back on x486 and the DOS era. Narrative, interactive comic style story telling, video sequences and voice over, the awesome physically correct fluid mechanics driving your vehicle under water, with currents, drag, inertia ... all that. It was FAR OUT back then! A little indie gem. I still have the original box and CD. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to run under Windows XP or 7 anymore, even with DOS-BOX there were always issues - be it joystick controls or audio. GOG came to the rescue. As soon as I saw it here, I had to have it. And everything suddenly worked again. I don't know what magic they conjured and how they tweaked DOS-Box, but thanks! Now I have moved away completely from Windows and are under Linux. And it works! Granted, it is NOT a Linux game with a port or binary and there is no Steam-Version to help you out with Valve-Tinkering and Proton. I use Heroic for store and library management. Works well enough. I have no idea what tinker-steps I need to apply to get DOS-Box running with Wine through a Heroic-install. Tried, didn't work (started after the longest time with an error and crashed - NOT THE GAMES FAULT ... looking at you unfair reviewers). So what do you do? Go to Lutris (other people have solved and tinkered this already). Ran the installer, let it do its thing (takes a little time) and BAM! Runs. Sound and everything (no crackling, smooth videos ... I LOVE it!). A BLISS! But you do NEED a joystick to full appreciate this game ;)
Huge disappointment to the legacy of the old AquaNOx's developed by massive Development (or "Archimedean Dynasty" as some might remember the first game by, still under MS-DOS, with its original titel being "Schleichfahrt" in German, also developed by Massive Development, published by BlueByte - those were the days!) Emerald "Deadeye" Flint \o/ The "AquanNOx" follow-ups were already only "hmmmm". This one is the most mediocre one. Granted, visually more up-to-date and running on newer platforms. But Unreal Engine does not guarantee a game-success! It doesn't live up to the expectations and hopes that the fans had in regard to the legacy. It is NOT the shining grand child that stands as a reminder and monument to the glory of old. (Plus the asking price is insane for a failed attempt and the years it already shoulders). BUT ... I would still pick it up on a huge sale. If only for a complete collection. But I ALSO hear it works very well - astoundingly well so even - with VR! With a VR headset, this would definitely go to my small selection of games that stand out and deliver a joyful VR experience.
Really enjoyable and cool little indie game. Crafting, exploring, survival ... in Space. Subnautica on land if you will. As for some unfair ratings here, especially in regard to a Linux experience: - runs perfectly fine on Linux - this game does not support Linux directly and doesn't offer binaries to run native under Linux, so you will take the translation-layer road with Wine/Proton (as is often the case nowadays). It is a Windows-game that does Windows-things. - On Steam, Valve takes care of the set-up and tweaking. How do you do it with GOG when GOG Galaxy is not available for Linux? I bet Heroic Games launcher (as I do)? Here you have to sometimes do a bit of the tweaking yourself. You need to know if a game e.g. requires some VC++ libraries and which ones to enable in Wine-tricks and so on (like for Horizon Zero Dawn). There can also be other obstacles in file-naming syntax or other tweaks necessary. - Usually, when a game gives me trouble on my first try through Heroic, I just go and install it through Lutris (like I had with Dorfromantik or Lego Pirates of the Caribbean). On Lutris, the community takes care of the tweaking and install process set-up and has written install skripts to tune the game. @ObscureDelight: This game runs perfectly fine, if you know what you are doing and what your problem is. White Screen and missing fonts? Not the games fault! Try Lutris or run to Steam - your choice. But don't blame the game and give unfair reviews
Bad bad remake. Get the Original version instead
The game is really nice and relaxing. Clean up the environment and enjoy reviving landscapes. A refreshingly different type of game. Free Update "Vita Nova": On Steam and in some gaming news you might have read that Terra Nil got a free update on Steam. Well, it also got it on GOG - but with no fuzz and quietly in the background. No news, no release note ... you devs are allowed to speak up more, we wont bite you for that :D In any case, I checked, the free update is there. Waiting for you in your game backlog on your shelf.
A goodie is not a game, no. But also: a coupon is not a goodie! The only "goodie" in this is the wallpapers. A spiked present.
Oh look, it's another DLC adding to the plathora of already existing ones that you need to get for a complete game. Just like many others by Paradox. It's the Paradox formula. Just yesterday it was this one here for Stellaris, today another one to the 66 existing for Europa Universalis IV. And there are plans already for new DLC for each quarter of 2024. Seems the money press has been spun up again. If it wasn't for the DLC-madness, the games would actually be good. :(
