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lol, who needs a hintbook for WB?

time for Ecoquest and Rainforest, the latter is much fun!

CaliMonk - 02 March 2017 04:51 PM

Advie - 02 March 2017 04:48 PM

lol, who needs a hintbook for WB?

time for Ecoquest and Rainforest, the latter is much fun!

EcoQuest +10000

Loved it. Replayed it often, feel its undervalued

Jane had a great start with Sierra back then.. and tho she wasn’t there at the developing of The Rainforest the game was good, i liked it more than EcoQuest as it was without all the environmental ethics tasks and wasn’t directed to 7-10 (imo) age players (as EcoQuest)

So that was indeed the reason why Christy Marx took down the download links from her own page.

Kurufinwe - 04 May 2017 09:12 AM

Sierra’s best game is finally on GOG. Also Conquests of Camelot.

https://www.gog.com/game/conquests_of_camelot
https://www.gog.com/game/conquests_of_the_longbow

so do they fix the famous bugs that keep players from finishing the game before GOGing it or one still needs to patch LB before playing it again.

what are you talking about, GOG is not doing it job the way it should be with all the Copy Protections and Bugs still apparent. it’s time we stop applauding for anything for sake of the genre like spoiling a lousy kid.

Advie - 04 May 2017 11:21 AM

what are you talking about, GOG is not doing it job the way it should be with all the Copy Protections and Bugs still apparent. it’s time we stop applauding for anything for sake of the genre like spoiling a lousy kid.

GOG is just a distribution platform for most games, they can’t really do much for actual bugs, as that would require them to have source code access. Fixing those is really a job for those who own the actual code, but in many cases that actual source code has been lost ages ago, so fixing some old bugs might be a tad difficult thing to do even for the people who actually coded the game in the first place.

Not to mention, that modern coding environment wouldn’t probably even compile the old code without causing other severe issues, if compile them at all.

I think the only occasion GOG has themselves removed copy protection was with SSI gold box games, as they purchased the rights for themselves, but they can’t really do that for every game in their catalogue.

Kurufinwe - 04 May 2017 09:12 AM

https://www.gog.com/game/conquests_of_the_longbow

Finally. We had seen it coming for some time, but I’m none less happy for that.

Longbow is among the very narrow list of adventures (with some of the Legend’s catalogue, and EA’s Sherlock Holmes games) which I had long ago promised myself, out of principle, to buy on Day 1 when or if they come to GoG. They are what ideally the store should be primarily about: rereleasing games not played by enough people when they were new, but always remembered with admiration by those who had*. So I am putting my money where my mouth was, backlog or no backlog. (The only gripe I have is that they could have released it on Tuesday, and I’d have an obvious candidate for a prize in April Fool Tourney.)

*Of course they have tons of AGs that fit that description already available. It’s just that most either I had already bought in some form before, or are not that high on my WANT list.