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Posted: Tue, 21st Apr 2009 22:36 Post subject: King of Dragon Pass |
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Lost many hours to this game back in 2000.
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Info from Wikipedia:
Spoiler: | King of Dragon Pass is a 1999 computer game published by A Sharp. Set in the fictional world of Glorantha, it depicts the lives and fortunes of one of several barbarian clans, settling the untamed lands of Dragon Pass over the course of several decades. The clans bear some similarities, such as fyrds and lawspeakers, to the Iron Age Nordic peoples.
The most distinctive features of the game are its greatest oddities. KoDP contains no animation whatsoever, instead depicting people and events with lavish hand-drawn artwork. The game's genre is somewhat unclassifiable and anachronistic — it has elements of strategy, construction and management simulation, and role-playing, even though it offers no proper alter ego. |
Gameplay from Wikipedia:
Spoiler: | The player controls the seven-member clan ring leading the clan, providing leadership to the clan in all aspects of its life from rituals to diplomacy. The ring can make two macro-level decisions per each of the five seasons in the Gloranthan year. Random events are drawn from a pool of hundreds and are often influenced by previous decisions. In battle, the player determines the goals and preparations, and possibly chooses the actions of his nobles at pivotal moments.
To succeed, a player must balance the various needs of survival and prospering, as well as manage the problems presented by the setting or the clan individuals - a lack of food might be solvable by clearing more farmland, but when the forest responds by sending a talking fox to urge leaving the trees alone, a wrong choice could bring the clan hunters to war with their environment. Likewise, should a member of the clan act in a selfish and foolish manner, action needs to be taken to stabilize and defuse the situation, if necessary. |
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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Posted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 13:07 Post subject: |
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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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Posted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 13:24 Post subject: |
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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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Surray
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Posted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 15:03 Post subject: |
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wow looks really nice, I'll have to check this out!
Likot Mosuskekim, Woodcutter cancels Sleep: Interrupted by Elephant.
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Posted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 16:08 Post subject: |
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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.
Gustave the Steel
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Posted: Thu, 23rd Apr 2009 00:59 Post subject: |
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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.
Gustave the Steel
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Big_Gun
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Posted: Fri, 24th Apr 2009 14:37 Post subject: |
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This looks cool.
I'm even interested in that scripting language.
never heard of this before.
Definitely going to give it a try.
1 stripe purple belt in JiuJitsu (good grief this takes FOREVER hahah)
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Big_Gun
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Posted: Fri, 24th Apr 2009 22:21 Post subject: |
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I'm gonna try this game... Definitly looks like something old school that i like 
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Big_Gun
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Posted: Sat, 25th Apr 2009 14:29 Post subject: |
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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.
1 stripe purple belt in JiuJitsu (good grief this takes FOREVER hahah)
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Posted: Sun, 26th Apr 2009 00:07 Post subject: |
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i put it away allready
little bit to much reading
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Posted: Sat, 22nd Jun 2013 16:57 Post subject: |
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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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Posted: Wed, 29th Jul 2015 22:19 Post subject: |
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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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Posted: Wed, 29th Jul 2015 23:00 Post subject: |
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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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Posted: Wed, 29th Jul 2015 23:25 Post subject: |
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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
Quote: | - 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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