Bought the game on ebay a year ago. But i've been playing it on scummv for many years. Purchased the amiga version in 92 and later pc version (shit sound compared to roland32).
Everytime I play the game, find my self perplexed why we never saw a sequel. This is one of the few pioneer games where it incorporated multipli paths to solve a problem, 2 endings, excellent music and somewhat acceptable voice acting. Not to mention clever puzzles.
I'm suprised we never saw a sequel? Contrary to belief I do NOT want telltalge anywhere near this game, in my opinion they make interactive movies not games.
I'm suprised we never saw a sequel? Contrary to belief I do NOT want telltalge anywhere near this game, in my opinion they make interactive movies not games.
Finally someone that agrees with me on this
Never understood all the fuss around TellTale, I tried playing The Walking Dead twice but always got bored before even finishing ep 1, it was all endless dialogue and cutscenes briefly interrupted every now and again by easy and short gameplay segments made up of banal puzzles and QTEs. Not impressed.
And Fate of Atlantis is awesome, but that goes without saying. Tho my favorite sierra adventure remains MI3.
This was back when Lucas Arts made the best adventure games out there. Within the span of a year and a half, we got:
Indiana Jones & Fate of Atlantis
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Monkey Island 2
Day of the Tentacle
4 of the biggest classics.
Fate of Atlantis is what got me into PC gaming actually. When I was 13 years old back in 1993, my grand parents took me to Sluis, a Dutch town on the border between Belgium and Netherlands, because they got stuff like butter (Croma) which was unavailable in Belgium. To suss me, they let me buy a comic book. But when I was browsing the newsstand, I saw a copy of PC Review, one of the older PC-centric magazines, which had a large picture of Indiana Jones & Cat Woman on the front cover. Loving Indiana Jones, I browsed through it and on the first page inside, was a huge ad for Fate of Atlantis. Before that, I had my Gameboy and stuff, and this game looked miles and miles ahead of anything consoles had at the time.
A month later, I bought the very first issue of PC Gamer (UK - US version was launched half a year later) and a demo of Beneath A Steel Sky was on the cover - it got me so hooked on adventure games that I forgot about my Gameboy. I sold it and all games for 4MB of extra ram
There was a sequel planned at some point (around '96-'97 I think) and it was supposed to be similar in style to The Last Express, but then it got cancelled
And yes, FOA deserves the highest praise possible. One of the best games I've ever played in pretty much any genre.
4treyu wrote:
I got this on my Steam backlog for some time already. You guys are gonna get it pushed closer to the top of it, it seems
It really deserves it. Heck, it's one of the very few adventure games where I can't find any fault - the plot, the characters, the locations, the puzzles, the multiple paths and even an hidden ending (it took me 10 freaking years to actually discover it!), everything's so well put together you'll be really sorry when it ends.
Also, beating Arnold with fists only is one of those things that make you feel proud
Did anyone manage to beat the Atlantis prison guard with fists, by the way? Holy shit, that guy was a freaking monster
Richard Benson: " Durante tutta la mia esistenza, ho avuto sempre un sogno...
(Throughout my whole existence, I've always had a dream...)
Loving fan: "un cazzo 'n culo!"
(A cock deep inside your ass!)
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This game created my childhood, i actually managed to get stuck my first playthrough, i got stuck alone in the damn Atlantis island with the abandoned city/desert, i had to find the moonstones by using a scope and the rock-horns, tails etc. Never got them.
Then i restarted the game and somehow the story changed, now i had sofia with me all the time, i was going nuts, i finished it that time.
Now i have it on my phone playing it the 2 other ways (found out that at the beginning in ur office you choose which path to take, alone, with sofia, etc.)
As much as I enjoy the recent invasion of Telltale's cinematic games (as in, they don't let you play, they just.. tell a tale) I can't help but express my disappointment whenever I remember how glorious these games were back then.
We still have some decent adventures from time to time, but LucasArts' masterpieces..nope, nothing will ever come close to them.
LucasArts has made some truely fantastic games, my favourites are Day of the Tentacle, Fate of Atlantis and Monkey Island 2.
I managed to complete Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island 2 without a guide, but Fate of Atlantis was too hard for me so I had to buy a guide book to complete it. Good times
there was a hidden ending? wonder what that was
this game is golden
Spoiler:
If you don't save Sophia when she gets possessed by Nur-Ab-Sal (by simply leaving the room instead of persuading her to give Indy the necklace), the god machine at the end of the game gets used on her, she dies and Indy escapes alone (the ending sequence on the boat is also different). IIRC the same thing happens if you go directly to the inner ring without rescuing her from jail.
NinjaCool wrote:
Dune 1, my favored Adventure/Strategy game ever came out! It sucked me in so bad, it's freaking awesome
Hell yes. Great concept and the game was so incredibly atmospheric.
Richard Benson: " Durante tutta la mia esistenza, ho avuto sempre un sogno...
(Throughout my whole existence, I've always had a dream...)
Loving fan: "un cazzo 'n culo!"
(A cock deep inside your ass!)
I don't know about a sequel, but you should try "Runaway" games if you hadn't yet.
Will do sir, thanks for suggestion.
The_Leaf wrote:
nforules wrote:
I'm suprised we never saw a sequel? Contrary to belief I do NOT want telltalge anywhere near this game, in my opinion they make interactive movies not games.
Finally someone that agrees with me on this
Never understood all the fuss around TellTale, I tried playing The Walking Dead twice but always got bored before even finishing ep 1, it was all endless dialogue and cutscenes briefly interrupted every now and again by easy and short gameplay segments made up of banal puzzles and QTEs. Not impressed.
And Fate of Atlantis is awesome, but that goes without saying. Tho my favorite sierra adventure remains MI3.
Noir me sir, noir me. I even saw a post a long time ago where they wanted telltale to make an indiana game. Imagine when the movie plays and you have 3 paths to choose from using your 360 controller (ugh).
What's MI3?
FastMemFirst wrote:
Lost Horizon (10$ on steam) has a bit of the old indy flair, however puzzles are easier.
Looks nice, but the question is when/if the mod get's released. Some of them have been in "dev" since early 2000.
capretto wrote:
nforules wrote:
I'm suprised we never saw a sequel?
There was a sequel planned at some point (around '96-'97 I think) and it was supposed to be similar in style to The Last Express, but then it got cancelled
And yes, FOA deserves the highest praise possible. One of the best games I've ever played in pretty much any genre.
4treyu wrote:
I got this on my Steam backlog for some time already. You guys are gonna get it pushed closer to the top of it, it seems
It really deserves it. Heck, it's one of the very few adventure games where I can't find any fault - the plot, the characters, the locations, the puzzles, the multiple paths and even an hidden ending (it took me 10 freaking years to actually discover it!), everything's so well put together you'll be really sorry when it ends.
Also, beating Arnold with fists only is one of those things that make you feel proud
Did anyone manage to beat the Atlantis prison guard with fists, by the way? Holy shit, that guy was a freaking monster
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Tho my favorite sierra adventure remains MI3.
God damn it was canned. Seems like most proper lucararts games always get's canned.
Thanks for the overwhelming response guys. Wasn't aware we had so many humpers who played this classic as well
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