Yes, the good, smoetimes not so good old days when I've been killed a thousand times in my games on Commodore 16, or later on 64. It's kind of fun to relive all the frustrations except here I don't have to start over when I died fo the 3rd or the 4rth time. Looks like it's intentional, all the C16 look, the syntherizerish music, for me it's pure nostalgia, actually reminds me to some not so good things from my happy childhood. How could this game could be improved? Well an even more detailed story, more fun comments from our character. I was going to give 4 stars, but let's make it 5, with all the frustration. It's an unique experience anyway. Thanks!
I'm playing this game. Love it, enjoyed every minutes of it so far. Didn't finish it yet though, trying to get all the secrets, wasn't able to get the handheld games within the game. Not a flawless gem, but definetely a gem. I'll give four stars because of the flaws, If I could, I would give 4,5 stars.
Good memories here. This game was really amazing back then, it's a pain I can't play Dark Forces any more because about 30 minutes of playing it makes me feel very dizzy. A classic old school Star Wars FPS without lightsabers and Force powers. This was well... better than Doom in my opinion. Same controls, but you could jump and crouch, look up and down, which was rare back in the day. I think the game's strongest part is the well designed levels- great atmosphere, especially from 4th level where you need to get Crix Madine out of an imperial prison facility. Then, you need to infiltrate an Imperial Research Facility, visit Nar Shaddaa, which is another hive of scum and villainy, escape Jabba's ship, board the Executor imperial ship- loved to see Tie Fighters leaving the ship's hangar there. The story is no big deal, definetely not the strongest point of this game in my opinion. It' about the Empire comes up with a new very dangerous weapon, the Dark Trooper, and tries to conquer the entire galaxy. Your mission to find and destroy the Arc Hammer, where the Dark Troopers are being manufactured. Enemies are usually dumb, you mostly do target practice, except the spots where you got a lot of them, sometimes they even surprise you. Sounds and music work also pretty well, the game uses the classic iMuse music system, which debuted in Monkey Island 2. If you don't get dizzy and you are ok with the dated graphics, buy this classic - there are some downloadable graphics mod online which improves the graphics a lot, with those installed, the game can be upgraded to a higher resolution, and modern controls instead of the old Doom controls.
Yes. The one and only Fallout 2. The game sucked me in like no other game did. Graphics are dated but still work. Controls are ok, you can do everything with your mouse. Great atmosphere, music, sounds, story, combat system, main quest, sidequests, many easter eggs, pop culture reference, spiced up with a lot of jokes. Before you begin your quest as the Chosen One, installing the fan made Fallout 2 restoration project is highly recommended. Just a few glimpses from the vast world of Fallout 2: You can have very interesting NPCs to join you. At a point of the game one of them meets his daughter and has a dramatic conversation with her. Another one always complaining about his heart condition. Bess the brahmin, a Cyberdog, or a real dog, a mutant, a ghoul, you name it, they're all interesting, most of them are actually useful when you fight your way through the harsh and unforgiving wasteland. In the game you can get married and you can divorce your spouse if you wish. Based on your actions, you will get your karma. You can be nice, or you can be a real jerk. You can use booze and drugs. You can visit prostitutes. You can be a boxing champion, an adult movie star, or a slaver, or... in a certain town there are some notty kids who will try to steal your valuables. And you've got loaded guns. Don't even think about it, those poor children need help, right? You can help them of course. I did. But you can choose to be evil and... That's really sick isn't it? Many NPCs will hate you for that! Some of them will say when they see you: "I hope they'll get you" Of course I never tried this you know, just talked with someone who knows someone who actually did. You know what I'm sayin'? Fallout 2 is 100% coolness, I think it will be my favorite cRPG of my life. If I live long enough, I will probably replay this game a few more times. It's always a different experience. If you don't like to read as much as I do, this game might be not for you, I like to read, that's why I love this game. On the other hand, even if you don't like to read that much, just give this game a shot. Come on, $10 is not much, now with a discount it's only $2,49. Again, don't forget to install the free Fallout 2 Restoration Project, it fixes a lot of bugs, and makes this great game even greater!
A remake of the Amiga classic K240. Question is: why fix things that aren't broken? Loved K240 on my good old Amiga, sometimes still play it in WinUAE. Frankly, I hated this game back then, when it came out. Loved the vulnerable asteroids in K240- if you ever played K240, you know what a Mega Missile was, right? You feared a Mega Missile. When you got hit by it, it really hurted you- on the other hand if you managed to make one, you were able to inflict a lot of pain by it to your enemy, even if it was only an AI. I can't remember if there was a virus missile in FA or not, in K240 if you got hit by it, it was a pain too. If I'm not mistaking, those planets instead of asteroids in Fragile Allegiance are non-destructible-I don't really understand why did they change asteroids to planets. There were a lot of new-at least in my opinion- totally unnecessary features, can't even remember what they were, but weren't that interesting. The Amiga version was flawed but so enjoyable- this one looks much more ambitious...not bad, but falls short of the original K240 experience.
Bioforge... So awesome atmosphere here. Not really scary, but very dark and depressive. I remember this game, played it when I was 18 or so. Had a 486 IBM clone back in the day, all I heard about this game was it's science fiction. Still remember that creepy robotic female voice saying "Subject must stay in bunk. Recuperation is mandatory" When I heard this my first thought was- I can't stay in bunk, have an adventure to play through here! Yes it felt like I'm lying on a hospital bed as one of the victims of a mad scientist's perverted experiment. Got up, fought my cold robot nurse, it was so satisfying to see "her" explode. Escaped my cell, found that other person who lost his mind -and his arm because pf the torture he went through - poor guy. Can he and I be friends? Definetely not, this is not that type of game. If you decide to immerse into this nightmare, you will see the game sustains this cold depressing atmosphere all the way while you fight your way through the difficult but innovative puzzles, the difficult fights. You don't make any friends during your struggle to escape that hellish place. You can't. You are alone and isolated. Poor Dr Escher, I thought I'll be able to save her, but no, no romance, no relief here, just cold, depression and death. Maybe you can escape Mastaba's fortress, but what then? How do you move on with your life? Will you be able to pay Mastaba back all the suffering he's done to you and others? Maybe, maybe not. While playing through again recently I was thinking the developers of this game probably got betrayed by others, and decided to threw all of their bitterness and anger at the player. This game is an unique gem. It's just good as it is. If I remember correctly, I heard about a possibility of a sequel but it probably wouldn't have been a good idea- Better to leave this experience as it is. Thank God this is just a game and you can have normal people, loved ones around- but you need to pursue Dr Mastaba, right?
