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Post by Xeogred on Jun 29, 2020 20:54:52 GMT -5
People always talk about Myst... but for me Shivers was the random point and click adventure game I grew up with!
I had never heard of Shivers before. I was much more the console kid, but on PC King's Quest series and 7th Guest were much bigger for me, as well as some other titles I just don't remember anymore. I wonder though if Shivers gets the short shrift because it was released in 95 while 7th Guest and Myst were 93/94.
7th Guest looks cool to me. I was going to wishlist it on GOG, but I think they just have the 25th Anniversary Edition and some of the reviews are knocking on it a lot. Hmmm...
This reminds me of the other obscure point and click adventure game I grew up with, not on PC...
I don't think I've met a single person that also played this. I remember this and Ecco the Dolphin were pretty scratched up, so they had some weird issues while playing them, or would freeze up sometimes. I got them for free though, my aunt was a manager at Blockbuster and would sometimes give me the "defective" games that often turned out to be fine. lol
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Post by Ex on Jun 29, 2020 21:24:43 GMT -5
7th Guest looks cool to me. / some of the reviews are knocking on it a lot. When I was about 14, I owned copies of The 7th Guest and Myst. IIRC they came with a CD-ROM caddy system I bought for a desktop I built at the time. I remember both games as being technologically impressive, but terribly boring to play. I never finished either one of them. I do recall thinking the The 7th Guest was better than Myst though.
If you are looking for some '90s horror gaming in that vein on GOG, you might be better off with:
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Post by Xeogred on Jun 29, 2020 21:44:38 GMT -5
Seems like Shivers is rated higher than all of those, I'll have to revisit that one first. Those all look cool though, Phantasmagoria seems extremely familiar... must have seen ads for that one in magazines back in the day or something, even the screenshots look like something I've stumbled upon before.
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Post by Sarge on Jun 29, 2020 23:16:07 GMT -5
You might really like Realms of the Haunting, it's a sort of FPS-adventure hybrid.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2020 1:28:25 GMT -5
I had never heard of Shivers before. I was much more the console kid, but on PC King's Quest series and 7th Guest were much bigger for me, as well as some other titles I just don't remember anymore. I wonder though if Shivers gets the short shrift because it was released in 95 while 7th Guest and Myst were 93/94.
7th Guest looks cool to me. I was going to wishlist it on GOG, but I think they just have the 25th Anniversary Edition and some of the reviews are knocking on it a lot. Hmmm...
This reminds me of the other obscure point and click adventure game I grew up with, not on PC...
I don't think I've met a single person that also played this. I remember this and Ecco the Dolphin were pretty scratched up, so they had some weird issues while playing them, or would freeze up sometimes. I got them for free though, my aunt was a manager at Blockbuster and would sometimes give me the "defective" games that often turned out to be fine. lol
I don't think I ever knew that this was different from the Genesis Jurassic Park. I loved that game. I knew the SNES game was different, but why would the Genesis and SegaCD be totally different games without different names!? 7th Guest looks cool to me. / some of the reviews are knocking on it a lot. When I was about 14, I owned copies of The 7th Guest and Myst. IIRC they came with a CD-ROM caddy system I bought for a desktop I built at the time. I remember both games as being technologically impressive, but terribly boring to play. I never finished either one of them. I do recall thinking the The 7th Guest was better than Myst though. This is my opinion of the two games. I also think that 14 is too old for 7th Guest. I was I think 10 or so when I played it.
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Post by Ex on Jun 30, 2020 9:59:07 GMT -5
You might really like Realms of the Haunting, it's a sort of FPS-adventure hybrid. I think Xeogred would definitely enjoy RotH. But he never listens to my suggestions. I also think that 14 is too old for 7th Guest. I was I think 10 or so when I played it. Thinking harder about it, I now recall building that particular 486 33mhz desktop in 1994. I know it was 1994 for sure, because I remember the very first CD album I played in that computer, was The Downward Spiral by NIN, which I had bought and listened to the same month it released (March 1994). I'm certain now I was actually fifteen when I played Myst and The 7th Guest. I agree ten years old would've been a much better age to play The 7th Guest versus fifteen. Ten years old would be a better age for Shivers as well. I remember reading reviews for Shivers when it released in 1995, and the game seemed targeted towards a 10-13 year old crowd. The premise of its story begins with the player being dared by their friends to spend a night in a museum for starters. Sierra On-Line also released Phantasmagoria that very same year, and reviews indicated it was " Shivers for adults". The fact that Sierra On-Line released both Shivers and Phantasmagoria in the same year, indicates to me they weren't worried about their two products competing with one another, due to different demographic targeting.
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Post by Ex on Jul 1, 2020 15:28:50 GMT -5
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Post by Xeogred on Jul 1, 2020 22:26:49 GMT -5
The power of Unreal Engine 4.
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Post by Sarge on Jul 4, 2020 18:37:42 GMT -5
Well that's fascinating. The new version of GOG Galaxy (the 2.0 beta) lets you add your own executables, and while I'm not sure what database they're hitting up, it also happens to have console games listed as well. I just experimented with adding an NES game to the mix, and it works fine as long as you give it the right startup parameters.
An advantage to this (and I'm sure other programs do this as well) is that I can more easily log time spent with a game.
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Post by Xeogred on Jul 4, 2020 20:17:31 GMT -5
Well that's fascinating. The new version of GOG Galaxy (the 2.0 beta) lets you add your own executables, and while I'm not sure what database they're hitting up, it also happens to have console games listed as well. I just experimented with adding an NES game to the mix, and it works fine as long as you give it the right startup parameters. An advantage to this (and I'm sure other programs do this as well) is that I can more easily log time spent with a game. That seems odd with the time tracking... I mean, I'm guessing you added an emulator/rom for whatever NES game? How is it going to track that time for a specific game/rom?
Unless it's just logging the emulator or main program and you're doing the math manually. That's still nice too if that's what you mean though. But if you're going to play multiple games before finishing them that way, it'll be a headache.
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