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Outcast out on GOG.com
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MasPingon
Arcane
I got australian box version/yeeeah/, this was never distributed in Poland. Btw, best game ever made. Now what the fuck are you doing here, get this!
TheCowburner
Educated
Great game (not an RPG though).
MasPingon
Arcane
TheCowburner said:
It's not less of rpg then The Witcher or Mass Effect tho
Clockwork Knight
Arcane
Heeeey, this game is p. sweet. I got too confused when I first played it, though. No hand holding at all, iirc.
Razz
Educated
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I'm very intrigued by this and will probably pick it up at some point.
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Also this just in from the GoG reviews:
Holy shit totally worth it (Sorry, but I'm Belgian and come on - were you being sarcastic?relootz said:
)Also this just in from the GoG reviews:
Seems like the Codex' cup of tea :]
Trash
Pointing and laughing.
MasPingon
Arcane
Not really, thanks to voxels it still looks good
MasPingon
Arcane
Low res(512x384) is the problem but it still doesn't look like shit, I think gfx are nice. It didin't get old like most of 3D games from that time
phanboy_iv
Liturgist
Never played Outcast, pretty impressed with it so far. Intro video is nifty, anyway.
But in other news, One Whole Unit Blood is coming to GOG. Which is amazing, as that pack is notoriously hard to find.
But in other news, One Whole Unit Blood is coming to GOG. Which is amazing, as that pack is notoriously hard to find.
phanboy_iv
Liturgist
Never played Outcast, pretty impressed with it so far. Intro video is nifty, anyway.
How does one go about getting it to run windowed? INI file?
But in other news, One Whole Unit Blood is coming to GOG. Which is amazing, as that pack is notoriously hard to find.
EDIT: The devil did it double-post for..
How does one go about getting it to run windowed? INI file?
But in other news, One Whole Unit Blood is coming to GOG. Which is amazing, as that pack is notoriously hard to find.
EDIT: The devil did it double-post for..
MasPingon
Arcane
It's a sci-fi Gothic ancestor, without stats. So yeah
phanboy_iv
Liturgist
Hory said:
I installed it. Clicked the shortcut. It worked. CD music and all.
When I replayed it last year, I was impressed at how good it looks despite all the time. Yes, it is early 3D, has rather low quality textures, but it still comes together pretty well to create beautiful alien landscapes. Another exemple of good art direction being far more memorable than mere technology.
foxfire29
Novice
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- Jan 24, 2009
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I just bought this thanks to this thread and I have to ask , is it a deep game and whats the combat/char building like if applicable its just I turned it on 5 mins ago and first impessions are this game has potential to be epic but then Im worried im deluding myself! excellent first impression, thanks for recommend!
A prime example of how when graphics werent the be all and end all programmers would do decent graphics and be utterly creative, fist impression says this has potential to be old school at its best
....final edit on this post
Getting into Outcaast even more and its frankly astounding what was achieved in the game thus far and I have barely scratched the surface
A prime example of how when graphics werent the be all and end all programmers would do decent graphics and be utterly creative, fist impression says this has potential to be old school at its best
....final edit on this post
Getting into Outcaast even more and its frankly astounding what was achieved in the game thus far and I have barely scratched the surface
Zeus
Cipher
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I think old-fashioned 3D graphics get a really bad rep, while old-fashioned 2D graphics totally get a free pass.
For some reason, "pixel art" is hip and chic and Liz Lemon glasses wearing college students crank out blocky, 2D "art games" and nobody seems to mind. People build Mario pixel-by-pixel out of post it notes and submit the pics to Reddit. The list goes on. Oldschool 2D is in.
But when it comes to oldschool 3D graphics, there's no love or nostalgia for it. (Except maybe retro arcade vector Tempest-style graphics.)
I think that's kind of strange, because yeah, I can look at Outcast or Turok 64 and say, "No horizon, muddy graphics, blah blah blah," but then I'd also have to trash NES graphics or Gold Box games because they're technologically inferior to the 2D beauty of a hand drawn Sega Saturn title or pre-rendered beauty of Baldur's Gate 2. (Nobody seems to have an issue with the art design as much as the low polygon count, or blocky voxels, or some other technical aspect.)
It's weird that when a game with old-fashioned, low-tech 2D graphics comes along, people eat it up. But when a game with old-fashioned, low-tech 3D graphics comes out, people go, 'Hurr hurr, Crysis looks better!'
For some reason, "pixel art" is hip and chic and Liz Lemon glasses wearing college students crank out blocky, 2D "art games" and nobody seems to mind. People build Mario pixel-by-pixel out of post it notes and submit the pics to Reddit. The list goes on. Oldschool 2D is in.
But when it comes to oldschool 3D graphics, there's no love or nostalgia for it. (Except maybe retro arcade vector Tempest-style graphics.)
I think that's kind of strange, because yeah, I can look at Outcast or Turok 64 and say, "No horizon, muddy graphics, blah blah blah," but then I'd also have to trash NES graphics or Gold Box games because they're technologically inferior to the 2D beauty of a hand drawn Sega Saturn title or pre-rendered beauty of Baldur's Gate 2. (Nobody seems to have an issue with the art design as much as the low polygon count, or blocky voxels, or some other technical aspect.)
It's weird that when a game with old-fashioned, low-tech 2D graphics comes along, people eat it up. But when a game with old-fashioned, low-tech 3D graphics comes out, people go, 'Hurr hurr, Crysis looks better!'
While I do not give a free pass to every 2D game (some old ones really look ugly), lack of technology can help a game to age better than one that tried to use every new trick. King of Dragon Pass may be a bit extreme but I think it illustrates the point well.
Outcast was sortof advanced for the time, despite the use of voxels. That was actually a gamble when you consider that not everyone got a 3D at that time, though the drawback was that you needed to have a good CPU to enjoy it at high detail.
Else I can remember a few early 3D games that still look pretty good today despite the dated technology because of what it actually did with this technology, like my old favourite Dungeon Keeper 2.
Outcast was sortof advanced for the time, despite the use of voxels. That was actually a gamble when you consider that not everyone got a 3D at that time, though the drawback was that you needed to have a good CPU to enjoy it at high detail.
Else I can remember a few early 3D games that still look pretty good today despite the dated technology because of what it actually did with this technology, like my old favourite Dungeon Keeper 2.
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