King of Dragon Pass
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AKofC




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PostPosted: Tue, 21st Apr 2009 22:36    Post subject: King of Dragon Pass
Lost many hours to this game back in 2000.

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Info from Wikipedia:

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Gameplay from Wikipedia:

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Definitely one of the great classics of PC gaming. Developers site is here:

http://www.a-sharp.com/kodp/

You can have them burn you a game if you can't find a copy. Though I dunno if they'll still do it since it says it's impractical to download 450mb.

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Not sure if it works with Vista, but on XP it was fine last I played. And I think it's time to dig up the CD for when I get that netbook. Give the game a try, it's great.[/spoiler]
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CookieCrumb




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PostPosted: Tue, 21st Apr 2009 22:46    Post subject:
Damn this sound interesting. Is there any combat involved in any way?
Anything more complex than point on an enmy and order them to kill? Very Happy
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AKofC




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PostPosted: Tue, 21st Apr 2009 22:50    Post subject:
There is combat like raids and what not. You get to assign warriors, magic spells, and make sacrifices before sending your boys out, and then like pretty much everything in the game, it spits out the result without much ado.

Some combat screens.







That's pretty much the only screens you'll be seeing. Well apart from different artwork. But those interfaces will be what you'll see when in combat.


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CookieCrumb




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PostPosted: Tue, 21st Apr 2009 22:52    Post subject:
Hm.
I'm definitely gonna try to find this and give it a try, looks like something I could sink a few hours into Wink
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inz




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PostPosted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 13:07    Post subject:
Any place you can buy this online? I remember this was a bitch to find even when it was new, and I really wanted to play it but never got the chance.
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AKofC




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PostPosted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 13:14    Post subject:
http://www.a-sharp.com/buy/ has it for sale.

Well, sort of.


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inz




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PostPosted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 13:24    Post subject:
Hmm think I'll scrounge the auction sites for a used copy... 20$ for just a CD-R copy is a bit steep, probably would have decent P&P costs to Finland, as well.

Thanks anyway. Pity really that GOG doesn't have it, one would think something like this would've been requested there plenty of times.
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PostPosted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 13:44    Post subject:
yeah i loved when your village found some dinosaurs
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CookieCrumb




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PostPosted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 14:43    Post subject:
I found it on some site, funny thing is I can't freaking install it under vista 64...but, if I choose to play from CD it works Very Happy
Haven't played up to now, had no time. Will do so in a few minutes Wink
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PostPosted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 15:03    Post subject:
wow looks really nice, I'll have to check this out!


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CookieCrumb




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PostPosted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 15:24    Post subject:
So, this one intends to keep screwing me.
Installation still doesn't work, keeps asking for a "setup.lid" on the disc.
So anybody with the disc can tell me if the file's supposed to be there? Then my dl was borken. Whatever.
Plus the game window is... small. Plays in 640x480. Gotta have to find a way around that as well Wink
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AKofC




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PostPosted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 16:08    Post subject:
Yeah, doesn't seem to install in Vista. Guess I'll be replaying this on my Netbook.

Someone should pester A# to get this game on Steam.


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AKofC




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PostPosted: Thu, 23rd Apr 2009 00:59    Post subject:
Got it running under Vista.

Just copy the contents of the CD to your hard drive, apply the patch available at A#'s site, then create an image of the files.

Then mount that image, stick the CD into the drive, and run the game using mounted image.

This should run the game patched from the image, since not inserting the CD results in a CD check, and popping it out while playing didn't seem to cause any issue.

Dunno about the resolution though. Guess you have to 640x480 it if you don't want to squint.


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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Apr 2009 14:37    Post subject:
This looks cool.
I'm even interested in that scripting language.
never heard of this before.

Definitely going to give it a try.


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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Apr 2009 14:49    Post subject:
Postmortem for the game I found:

http://www.idevgames.com/postmortems/king-of-dragon-pass


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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Apr 2009 22:21    Post subject:
I'm gonna try this game... Definitly looks like something old school that i like Very Happy


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Big_Gun




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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Apr 2009 14:29    Post subject:
This game must be pretty good. i finally got my hands on a copy. I gave it to my son (13 yrs old). He is usually playing Warcraft 3. 5 hours later, he was still playing this game. he loves to read so that didn't bother him and he said it was very interesting and addictive.


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Lathieza




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PostPosted: Sun, 26th Apr 2009 00:07    Post subject:
i put it away allready Sad
little bit to much reading


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capretto




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PostPosted: Sat, 22nd Jun 2013 16:57    Post subject:
This masterpiece among masterpieces is now part of GOG's summer sale. Given the offensively low price and the stellar quality of the game, I'd really suggest fellow oldgamers to get it if they haven't played it already.


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Stormwolf




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PostPosted: Fri, 27th Sep 2013 15:26    Post subject:
I must say this is a fantastic game! Played for a long time, but holy shit you can make mistakes. Some legendary bull person came to me yapping and whining, and i decided to attack him...... Shouldn't have done that. Game over... Sad
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PostPosted: Wed, 29th Jul 2015 22:19    Post subject:
Now on steam : http://store.steampowered.com/app/352220/
Looks like it's a port of the android version which has extra content and devs say it will get all the content from the ios version too.
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PostPosted: Wed, 29th Jul 2015 23:00    Post subject:
robco wrote:
Now on steam : http://store.steampowered.com/app/352220/
Looks like it's a port of the android version which has extra content and devs say it will get all the content from the ios version too.


so this is better than the gog version?
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robco




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PostPosted: Wed, 29th Jul 2015 23:25    Post subject:
As I understand it the source code for the original game (GOG ver) was lost and the game was remade for ios then android with some new content like extra scenes and bugfixes, the one on steam is a port of the android version.

from the dev on steam on differences between versions
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- overall modernization of gameplay
- several new subplots and artworks
- UI redone, full support of high resolutions
- Mac support
- Steam features (cards, achievements etc)

There are 48 new scenes and 4 new illustrations (plus a new Lore map). There are also new advisors, and a lot more advice in management screens. There are also more treasures. We made many bug fixes (such as unblocking two of the original scenes), and fixed typos. You no longer have to worry about sheep. The economics system should no longer be quite as harsh, with death spirals less likely. (Rest assured that the game is still difficult, especially on the Hard setting.)


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