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[Infinitron]

Codemasters sale: http://af.gog.com/news/weekend_promo_codemasters_catalog?as=1649904300

 

[Zewp]

Hmm, maybe I should buy 1nsane. Had a lot of fun playing it over the network at school years back.

 

[JudasIscariot]

Codemasters sale: http://af.gog.com/news/weekend_promo_codemasters_catalog?as=1649904300

I highly recommend Blade of Darkness although don't start off playing the Barbarian until you've practiced with one of the other characters, The Barbarian is hard mode basically

 

[Baron Dupek]

I highly recommend Blade of Darkness although don't start off playing the Barbarian until you've practiced with one of the other characters, The Barbarian is hard mode basically

You mispelled "dorf". Two times.
And if you want to make it easy - choose Amazon and enjoy rolling on the floor like a twich

 

[AngryEddy]

Codemasters sale: http://af.gog.com/news/weekend_promo_codemasters_catalog?as=1649904300

I highly recommend Blade of Darkness although don't start off playing the Barbarian until you've practiced with one of the other characters, The Barbarian is hard mode basically

I've got Blade of Darkness, I may play it soon.

 

[Boleskine]

Looks like BloodNet is coming to GOG tomorrow.

https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/421044404464676864/photo/1

 

[Azalin]

Looks like BloodNet is coming to GOG tomorrow.

https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/421044404464676864/photo/1

Bloodnet?

 

[sser]

I wonder if they've had a meeting to try and get more cyber-[genre] games into their library because of the CP2077 development...

 

[Crane]

The bad news is that they're just going to slap dosbox on the abandonware CDrom version. The good news is...? There might be some neat bonus stuff to download?

 

[J_C]

Yeeeeeeehhaaaaa, Bloodnet on GOG!!!!.....What is Bloodnet?

 

[Crane]

Yeeeeeeehhaaaaa, Bloodnet on GOG!!!!.....What is Bloodnet?

An incredibly buggy cyberpunk adventure/rpg* hybrid computer game from the 90's. Ghostdog's abandoned LP of it is hilarious, but it doesn't really go into how broken the game is. Its Amiga soundtrack is kind of interesting.


* The rpg aspect of it is pretty weak. The stat system is worthless, for example.

 

[JudasIscariot]

The bad news is that they're just going to slap dosbox on the abandonware CDrom version. The good news is...? There might be some neat bonus stuff to download?

BloodNet includes both the floppy disk and CD ROM versions of the game.

HUE HUE HUE

Sorry had to get that out. Anyways, yall have fun now

 

[Infinitron]

http://af.gog.com/game/bloodnet?as=1649904300

 

[Cyberarmy]

Wow 230 MB disc space, my first comp.at 93 had only 32

 

[Infinitron]

Wow 230 MB disc space, my first comp.at 93 had only 32

In those days, CD checks weren't just for copy protection - you had to stream data off the CD because it was often actually larger than your hard drive.

JudasIscariot So, can we can expect more Microprose-developed games to be released in the future? There are quite a lot of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MicroProse_games

Tommo, give us Rex Nebular!

 

[JudasIscariot]

Wow 230 MB disc space, my first comp.at 93 had only 32

In those days, CD checks weren't just for copy protection - you had to stream data off the CD because it was often actually larger than your hard drive.

JudasIscariot So, can we can expect more Microprose-developed games to be released in the future? There are quite a lot of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MicroProse_games

Tommo, give us Rex Nebular!

The oracle remains silent, Avatar

 

[Cyberarmy]

Wow 230 MB disc space, my first comp.at 93 had only 32

In those days, CD checks weren't just for copy protection - you had to stream data off the CD because it was often actually larger than your hard drive.

Yeah, Bloodnet was one of my first CD games along with Loom and some Greek mythology FMVish adventure.
I still curse my Creative CD Rom time to time.

 

[JudasIscariot]

Wow 230 MB disc space, my first comp.at 93 had only 32

Yeah, part of that is the CD Audio (at least I think it has CD Audio) and some of it is uncompressed environments since the developers were experimenting on a blend of 2D and 3D, I think

 

[Crane]

The next step is Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, obviously. It's BloodNet's sister-game. It has a lot of stuff in common like decking, jury-rigging, similar items like EMP grenades, etc., and it was actually made by most of the same people, if my memory serves me right.

I've played BloodNet to death, so I probably won't be buying this, but I would definitely buy Hell.

Also the cover art they whipped up is 100 times better than the actual cover art.

Gog Version | US Version | EU Version

 

[Infinitron]

The next step is Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, obviously.

Different publisher (Take Two), so no.

 

[Crane]

The next step is Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, obviously.

Different publisher (Take Two), so no.

Does Take Two not jive with GOG?

 

[Infinitron]

The next step is Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, obviously.

Different publisher (Take Two), so no.

Does Take Two not jive with GOG?

Nope. Like Bethesda, they seem reluctant to deal with GOG, although there were rumors in the past: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/10/23/g...-with-either-microsoft-take-two-or-lucasarts/

 

[JudasIscariot]

The next step is Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, obviously. It's BloodNet's sister-game. It has a lot of stuff in common like decking, jury-rigging, similar items like EMP grenades, etc., and it was actually made by most of the same people, if my memory serves me right.

I've played BloodNet to death, so I probably won't be buying this, but I would definitely buy Hell.

Also the cover art they whipped up is 100 times better than the actual cover art.

Gog Version | US Version | EU Version

http://www.mobygames.com/game/bloodnet/cover-art

I thought ours was based on the EU version

 

[Crane]

Oh, whoops. I meant to link to the right one for the EU version.

 

[warpig]

I loved Bloodnet when I was a kid, but I couldn't finish it. What is the difference between the CD version and floppy? And yeah, GOG needs to release Hell next!