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Looks like the next release is going to be Anachronox, although the link currently takes you to an error page (GOG don't seem to have updated their front page accordingly). No idea on the price.
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Because there have been a lot of games in the past which didn't work due to kernel-mode drivers for CD checking and the like. Obviusly on GOG this sort of thing isn't an issue. Also, a lot of newer games tend to work better than old ones in Wine. See Skyrim, and then try some generic old point-and-click adventure game from the '90s.
I do have Windows 7 installed, I just hate rebooting.
[edit]It's $5.99[/edit]
Looks like the next release is going to be Anachronox, although the link currently takes you to an error page (GOG don't seem to have updated their front page accordingly). No idea on the price.
Anachronox..JPG
Last edited by N'Al; 15th Mar 2012 at 08:46.
Omg YES. Anachronox is one of those games everyone says how awesome it is, but I could never find it anywhere. Finally, I get to play it, realize it's been mostly nostalgia speaking, make a bitchy thread about it and have TTLG collectively shit on me \o/ GO OBAMA
The combat system is tedious as hell, but the game world, characters and story make it worthwhile. I may have to pick this up.
Well, I bought Anachronox, as my original copy refused to work on my Win 7 64 bit machine, no matter what I tried. Not only does the gog version work out of the box, they also seem to have fixed the infamous Lucko Coldwolf bug. I managed to follow the guy without losing him during the first map transition on first try. During my previous playthroughs this bit usually took me up to a dozen tries until it worked.
I wonder if they fixed the bug that cropped up in recent years where fogging is too strong. For example, the Sendormitory interior being almost solid yellow.
I've not encountered that particular problem myself but this may be worth a try.
That is actually the main reason I stopped playing the game before. Nice to know I have the option to pick up the game again and actually get anywhere.Originally Posted by Eshaktaar
Was that a bug that still persisted after all those unofficial patches that one of the developers made long after ION Storm was gone?
I would imagine that GOG are making good use of those patches.
Looks like they are. Pressing backslash speeds everything up to chipmunkville a la unofficial patch 1.02, which is a godsend for the combat.
Backslash doesn't work for me.
Wonder if it's a UK keyboard thing?
Try the hash key (or whatever is next to the enter key) instead.
You can always change your keyboard layout configuration in control panelBackslash doesn't work for me.
Wonder if it's a UK keyboard thing?
The time compression is just a standard keybind. Poke around in the bindings file and change it to whatever you want. I usually map a less extreme compression to "Q" to act as a ghetto run key.
This. It's like they took a jRPG combat system and reinvented it in the worst possible most tedious way. Shame, because it's the fly in the ointment of an otherwise joyous romp of discovery.
The music was also aces, IIRC. Except in combat which, I can only assume, was composed by the deranged monkey responsible for coding it with the aid of a bag of spanners and a tambourine.
Quake 2 engine, wasn't it?
Yes. It was.
Ulukai - yes on the Q2 engine. The graphics are shitty, but still manage some charm. The hash key speeds things for me, so the combat can be sped through a little bit.
Hardly "shitty". Anachronox looked great when it came out, and some of the reasons for that don't age with the technology. I think it looks damned good for its age.
Anachronox never looked *great* (blocky models, low-res textures), but the art design has oodles of character, as does the entire game.
I also seem to remember reading that they had someone who was actually trained in cinematography directing and doing the camerawork in the cutscenes. Which, for a small games studio, was kind of rare those days.
Even when it came out, it looked pretty poor due to using a 5 year old engine. The environments were ok, but the character models were very low-poly compared to its peers. The giant clenched fists being particularly noticeable. It didn't detract from my enjoyment of it though. It still doesn't in fact.
A small games studio?
This. IIRC Ion Storm Dallas had like a fountain in their lobby and games rooms filled with arcade machines.
http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/ga...ur-109788.html
Poor wording on my part, I meant team, not studio. IIRC Ion Storm was divided into teams, the biggest one working on Daikatana and then two smaller ones on Deus Ex and Anachronox. Anyway, small or not it was still unusual for a studio to have someone with actual training in the area directing cutscenes, and not just letting some coder do it.
The engine was fine. The problem was similar to the issue that bit SS2-- they severely lowballed their polygon and texture resolution budgets. If Anachronox had been released when originally planned, instead of years later, it would have looked perfectly acceptable by then-current standards.
Anachronox's version of the Q2 engine was technically ahead of its time in a lot of ways. It had 32-bit color support, much-enhanced particle systems, lip-synched speech, full facial posing (albeit with few control points), the amazing in-engine cinematic system, and a scripting language so powerful that all the arcade games and action sequences were written using it.
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