I remember I used to love the game back in the Amiga days. But the game didn't age all that well. I'm not sure if it's the PC version or the game itself but I don't find the experience that enjoyable anymore. The game speed is strange. It's got that annoying balance between "my computer is too slow" and "everything just flashes before my eyes". The missions are confusing (and I completed whole game back in the 90's when noone in Poland heard about copyrights so I had no manual or anything and had to figure out everything by myself). And the sound in dosbox (not sure whether original PC version had same issue) is a bit clicky. Might be worth checking out if bought on deep sale and if you were a great fan of the original. Otherwise... not really.
It's true this game is one of the milestones of cRPG evolution and back in its time it was a huge achievement in terms of openness, writing and mechanics. It is also bugged with issues that can make the game frustrating (disappearing car anyone?). It used to be a pinaccle of game development so if you played this back in the days and want to relive the experience, it's definitely worth going for it again. I'd suggest to add Fallout Restoration Project to have modern resolutions and some other tweaks. If you're new to the series (or, even worse, you know only F3 and later ones), be cautious as this may not live up to your expectations. Having said that - even then it's worth to buy it on sale if only to check out for yourself whether the hype is justified or not.
It's one of those games I wanted to buy without wating for discounts, so it says much ;-) But seriously - the game is a must for any Blade Runner fan. It nicely complements the movie universe and the game itself is a quite good one for a point-and-click fan. Having said that - the game shows signs of aging. You can't overlook the crudely rendered "3D" characters. Hand-drawn games aged much better. But that's a minor flaw. More important flaw is that most of the Linux games you can buy on GOG really work quite ok on pretty much any Linux distro. At least on those popular ones (Fedora, Debian, Arch...). Not just on Ubuntu 18.04. This one maybe indeed does work on Ubuntu, but as people mentioned on forums, has problems with running on other distros. Good thing is that you can just run a standalone copy of ScummVM, add the game data and run it this way but for a "linux" game I'd expect something a bit better.
The game itself is of course a classic. It has (or used to have back when I played it last time those 2-3 years ago) a still vibrant modding community if the original content isn't enough for you. But lately CDP started pushing their own annoying launcher. So it's not enought that I use Galaxy (which I don't mind). Now I can't launch the game straight from it. No, I click "start game" and it launches the bloody launcher instead of the game. The same goes for CP2077.
True, the game is 'console-ish' in gameplay which can be a bit frustrating. True, the controls can be annoying and some partsof the game are a bit too hard. But still, it's the story and immersion that counts. And here the game is unbeatable. I got it on some sale on Steam (or maybe even as a freebie, I don't remember). I started playing just as something to tick off of the to-play list. I don't very much like third person view (with a notable exception for gta and the witcher) so I wasn't too thrilled at first. But the more I played and the further in game I got I ended up getting more and more involved in the game. The game can be viewed as a not-so-good port of a console game but it's soooo worth to suffer through some of the small annoyances to get to the end of the story. Believe me, it's really worth it.
I got this game on a sale I think so I don't judge it so harshly as if I got it full price. That's for starters - keep it in mind. The game itself - you have to judge it on two different levels. One is the story - it's an interesting one albeit quite linear. You can skip and "reorder" the story slightly, especially if you cheat a bit to get more money/pearls but there are no choices you can make that cause the game progress to differ or end up with different endings. The game is pretty much set on its tracks and you can't bounce it off them. But the story itself is quite interesting and engaging. The only flaw is... the ending. It was very anticlimactic for me. But the rest is very nice. The other thing about this game is the interface/mechanics. And it is where the game can be annoying if not frustrating. For the most time it's ok, but at some times, especially when the camera changes position, it can be very confusing and the fights can be simply tiring. Apart from that - it's worth buying and playin. Especially if bought on a sale.
