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Frant
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 Posted: Tue, 21st Apr 2009 02:08 Post subject: American McGee's Scrapland |
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I'm one of those people that sometimes install games that are 5+ years old and play them from start to finish. Obviously they have to be something special to be worth it since technology most often puts older games to shame. In any case, this thread is a place where we can recommend and promote old games that have probably passed under the radar of the average gamer and that we think are worth a replay with today's hardware.
I'll start with American McGee's Scrapland.
It's one of the great underrated games, released in 2004 (So it's not that old), wildly creative and with an attractive design that made it a highly original piece of game, reminiscent of other underrated games like Psychonauts.
I'll just copy the text from Wiki:
| Quote: | American McGee presents: Scrapland is a game developed by Mercury Steam Entertainment, with American McGee as a producer and published by Enlight Software. It stars the robot D-Tritus as the protagonist, and as the game progresses, is involved in investigating a series of bizarre murders targeted at the city's most powerful figures in the areas of law enforcement, politics, finance and religion. With help from an unknown stranger, D-Tritus must uncover the reason and source behind the murders before all of Scrapland comes under control of the perpetrator.
Most of the game takes place within the City of Chimera, a sprawling metropolis that acts as Scrapland's capital. While there are facilities in operation outside the city itself, they are only viewable from space as thin thread-like strips of light extending outwards from the capital onto the rest of the planet; in comparison, the City of Chimera from space appears as a massive circle of city-lights. While the robots have the entire planet to themselves, most of them are based within Chimera on the otherwise lifeless, barren rock. |
It features 6-degrees-of-freedom both indoors and outdoors. You build ships (with weapons, engines and hulls) from blueprints that you steal, find, win etc., you can engage in races, combat, impersonation etc.. It's just a damn good game that is worth a second and third look if you've missed it.
Outdoors
Indoors
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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Teniak
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| Posted: Tue, 21st Apr 2009 12:06 Post subject: Re: Golden Oldies |
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| Frant wrote: |
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Outdoors was great , and music Zuperb ! |
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Frant
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| Posted: Tue, 19th May 2009 14:35 Post subject: |
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playing it atm, it's awesome and has ws support altho not native ar
still loox and plays great with kb/mice for a 5 yo game
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| Posted: Sun, 31st May 2009 17:21 Post subject: |
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It's alright. I remember playing a demo back when it was released (or something like that) and I thought it was great... Well, not so great in 2007.
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Frant
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| Posted: Mon, 1st Jun 2009 00:18 Post subject: |
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There's a place near where I live that sells used books, CD's, movies, consoles, and games and shit. i have picked that game up at least 3 times there and looked at it. Started to buy it but never have. Found it on warez now. I am going to give this one a go. The "build ships" aspect is something i like in games.
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Big_Gun
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| Posted: Mon, 1st Jun 2009 04:18 Post subject: |
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Well, apparently this game doesn't like Vista 64.
I'll give it a go on my XP partition later.
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Frant
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| Posted: Mon, 1st Jun 2009 07:53 Post subject: |
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I had no problems getting the game to run under Windows 7 x64.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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Big_Gun
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| Posted: Mon, 1st Jun 2009 14:57 Post subject: |
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| Frant wrote: | | I had no problems getting the game to run under Windows 7 x64. |
It is probably this shitty Sound Balster Fatality card.
I'll try disabling it today and see if it runs.
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| Posted: Mon, 1st Jun 2009 14:59 Post subject: |
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Very cool game, love the combo of space sim and adventure. Dont know how I missed this...
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