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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: runequester on August 26, 2012, 05:38:47 PM
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One of the best things of growing up was playing game, and being able to talk about it, and share experiences with other's playing the same game.
So..why don't we? I brought it up in another thread and at least one other user was interested.
Basically, we'll pick a game, we'll all play it for at least a while, discuss how we do, share tricks etc.
If you are interested, pipe in with titles you'd be interested in doing this with.
It might be more interesting if we find a game that most people aren't experts at, of course.
If it's a strategy game, flight sim or RPG, we'll probably want something that has manuals available online.
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I like the idea:)
What about MegaLoMania ? or PowerMonger ? both so cool games, and PowerMonger you can play with two if you link the Amiga. Have you ever tried playing over the net ? there was this tool... Hamachi or so... never tried it though...
I am in portland too by the way :insane: keep portland weird :)
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there's a handful of portland'ites or at least oregon'ites around. We had talked a while ago about some sort of meet, but it never came to anything.
Megalomania might be a good one. Each level is fairly short so it's not a monster time investment.
I've played it enough to be familiar, but never really got that good at it.
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One option to play certain games together is Lemon/EAB game competitions:
http://www.lemonamiga.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=19
Ok, different forum, but there's pretty good setup for this kind of action already. Or maybe some ideas could brought here too or even join the forces some day?
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I was thinking less a competition and more just playing and discussing, though that's something we could consider too.
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I was thinking less a competition and more just playing and discussing, though that's something we could consider too.
As said before, I will join, hit up a game and I will play, I got a fairly large scanned Manual collection, so odds are I might have a manual for said game!
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So like a book club, but with games
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Exactly!
Some games id be interested in doing:
megalomania
syndicate
breathless (aga)
alien breed 3d (aga)
some of the battle isle or historyline games
maybe an adventure game if we can all resist the temptation to look up a walkthrough :)
an RPG might work too. Always wanted to give bards tale or ishar a decent shot.
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I think looking up walkthrough should be fine as people say they used one.
That's if it is a case of just analysing the game we played.
Some people may not be as good as others at games and may not see enough of the game to warrant a discussion without using some kind of guide/cheat.
Speris Legacy would be a good one to discuss
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Yeah thats a good point. Im notoriously crap at adventure games so id be stuck at the first 3 screens anyways :)
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Im up for either a RPG, or Breathless, Alien Breed 3D, I could play any of the Point and click adventures on Amiga besides the games that use SCUMM engine since ive played nearly all of em. Im up for Speris Legacy also, have not even tried it and it looks like an RPG I would like :)
Whatever game we pick I will play on a real Amiga :)
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huh, Speris Legacy looks interesting. Never seen it before, so I'd be all over trying that.
Only concern is it's an AGA title, so if we have anyone who wants to play, and only have an OCS/ECS machine, that could be an issue. If everyone has 1200's or UAE, I vote it's a go :)
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huh, Speris Legacy looks interesting. Never seen it before, so I'd be all over trying that.
Only concern is it's an AGA title, so if we have anyone who wants to play, and only have an OCS/ECS machine, that could be an issue. If everyone has 1200's or UAE, I vote it's a go :)
I have an A1200, so it's up to others to decide :)
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huh, Speris Legacy looks interesting. Never seen it before, so I'd be all over trying that.
Only concern is it's an AGA title, so if we have anyone who wants to play, and only have an OCS/ECS machine, that could be an issue. If everyone has 1200's or UAE, I vote it's a go :)
I have an A1200, so it's up to others to decide :)
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a'ight, got Speris Legacy installed and ready to go, if thats what we settle on :)
I figure we'll leave the thread until thursday to see if theres other votes, or non AGA users who want in, and otherwise we'll kick it off over the weekend
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I have an AGA one too, will check it out !
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okay, do you guys want to just get started, and people can drop in along the way, or do youwant to wait until the weekend and give it a bit more for people to join?
I don't want to have a whole ton of rules and nonsense, but it might be helpfull if we each post the basic system we're running the game on (1200, 4000, UAE, WHDload or floppy?) and since this one has multiple control methods (1 and 2 button joystick, keyboard) how you are playing it.
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Im up for either a RPG, or Breathless, Alien Breed 3D, I could play any of the Point and click adventures on Amiga besides the games that use SCUMM engine since ive played nearly all of em. Im up for Speris Legacy also, have not even tried it and it looks like an RPG I would like :)
Whatever game we pick I will play on a real Amiga :)
Hi have you tried Hook on the Amiga? i think it is an okay Adventure game :-)
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There is Cruise for a corpse and Flight of the amazon queen, quite good adventure games i think :-)
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Okay, so I cheated a bit and started on Speris Legacy last night. I can tell this is both going to be a really fun game, and a really frustrating one :)
I'll hold off talking about any details until saturday (Got a wedding to go to friday. I'll probably get to do some amiga gaming today with a buddy of mine, but it's likely to be Balance of Power in multiplayer)
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Okay, so I got started a bit, and made it out of the starting town.
A few comments so far:
The music is quite excellent. I love the tune in the first town.
I found a shield, but aren't sure how to use it.
Autofire button makes sword fighting easy :)
Things respawn.. so hacking up baddies for extra XP is pretty easy. Seems the experience mainly gives you more hit points.
Some things are "hidden in plain sight". It took me a while of poking around, before I found the sword, and finding the maze where you get the shield wasn't very obvious either. This is definately a game where I'll end up getting stuck a lot :)
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I have had some work needed to my 1200 before I could start, but now ive started, just got the sword and I am now leaving town, I like the music, the story is quite simple so far, alas I love the graphics, im happy this game is not turn based :D
So far so good :) Wish me luck in my journeys :D
Edit: also a tip, at the south part of town, near your house a sign tells you the royal maze is to the south, just discovered to enter you just hack away on the wall with your sword :)
Edit: also I find that this game would play better with a joypad instead of joystick, so putting down an order for one tonight :)
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I have had some work needed to my 1200 before I could start, but now ive started, just got the sword and I am now leaving town, I like the music, the story is quite simple so far, alas I love the graphics, im happy this game is not turn based :D
So far so good :) Wish me luck in my journeys :D
Edit: also a tip, at the south part of town, near your house a sign tells you the royal maze is to the south, just discovered to enter you just hack away on the wall with your sword :)
Edit: also I find that this game would play better with a joypad instead of joystick, so putting down an order for one tonight :)
Yeah, I found the shield in the southern maze, but I couldn't figure out what to do with it.
My son was playing SWIV today, so once he has a nap, I will get back to it. I saved the game having reached a second town, by following the road outside.
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Yeah, I found the shield in the southern maze, but I couldn't figure out what to do with it.
My son was playing SWIV today, so once he has a nap, I will get back to it. I saved the game having reached a second town, by following the road outside.
Great, nice to know im on the right track :D You just have to put the shield in your sword slot, you still use your sword with the attack button but your shield is active and make you loose less vitality when hit :)
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I am running around in the Huge second city, I traded 10 gems for a new dagger I can throw by holding the button and could kill the green troll to enter the main area of town, ive solved a puzzle to get a jackhammer or if it's an drill in the mysterious house and right now I do not know what to do, im looking for a pipe for a NPC :P
Also found the huge ferocious looking plant in the end of the maze and my avatar tells me he wants to take an sample of it, but I do not yet know how :)
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Hey I haven't been playing recently coz I recently moved and havent got my A1200 set up properly yet.
I have completed it previously. It's a great game. Though it does have some faults.
If your Amiga isn't upgraded then save often because it can suddenly freeze.
In the underground area there is a cracked wall this if you hit with a hammer reveals part of a pipe. You can then walk on this pipe and go into the lava area. Problem is theres nothing to do in this area. I spent ages thinking I was supposed to do something there.
I'm sure the shield you just assign as an item you are holding.
Som99 have you got the gloves?
Also try talking to people again as they can sometimes have different things to say. I seem to remember the pipe being in the shop in the top right area of the map.
I could be wrong though. I just remember the woman being reluctant to part with it unless you give her something.
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Hey I haven't been playing recently coz I recently moved and havent got my A1200 set up properly yet.
I have completed it previously. It's a great game. Though it does have some faults.
If your Amiga isn't upgraded then save often because it can suddenly freeze.
In the underground area there is a cracked wall this if you hit with a hammer reveals part of a pipe. You can then walk on this pipe and go into the lava area. Problem is theres nothing to do in this area. I spent ages thinking I was supposed to do something there.
I'm sure the shield you just assign as an item you are holding.
Som99 have you got the gloves?
Also try talking to people again as they can sometimes have different things to say. I seem to remember the pipe being in the shop in the top right area of the map.
I could be wrong though. I just remember the woman being reluctant to part with it unless you give her something.
Hey thanks, I got no gloves yet, also the shop at the top says it's open certain times but I do not know how to check the time since when I tried to enter it nothing happened (I guess it was closed), any tip on that?
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Since m yson is unexpectedly at daycare today, I should be able to get to explore that damn second city today :)
More to follow!
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Time isn't important it wil open after you do something else. I'm trying not to say too much coz I don't want to spoil it. Do talk to eveyone again.
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Exactly!
an RPG might work too. Always wanted to give bards tale or ishar a decent shot.
I'm down if you play BT, but I have that game memorized, practically, so I already know where everything is. ;P
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Since m yson is unexpectedly at daycare today, I should be able to get to explore that damn second city today :)
More to follow!
Im exploring the place also :D
Time isn't important it wil open after you do something else. I'm trying not to say too much coz I don't want to spoil it. Do talk to eveyone again.
Thanks for not spoiling to much, im running around checking all now :D
I'm down if you play BT, but I have that game memorized, practically, so I already know where everything is. ;P
We are playing "Speris Legacy", jump in and join us :)
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How you guy's doing? Have you got to the next section with the cracked wall I mentioned earlier?
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How you guy's doing? Have you got to the next section with the cracked wall I mentioned earlier?
Ive been at work, had had a few rough days, 3 days left until im free again but ill try to play some tomorrow or sunday, got a few new gamepads I will rebuild for Amiga first :)
Edit: Also what is the powerdrill or if it's a jackhammer for?
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Isn't it used to get rid of rocks?
I think sword is used to cut flowers
Bombs are used to get rid of them round tiles
and I can picture the drill being used against rocks to shrink them.
Or I'm mixing it up with another game?