Exhuminator wrote:For a long time (maybe still?) MYST was the best selling computer title ever.
It's not anymore. The Sims knocked it off that perch in 2002, and currently the best-selling PC game is Minecraft...or PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, I'm not entirely sure. I've seen estimates that PUBG has sold 30 million units on Steam and is currently the third-highest grossing game on the service.
According to Wikipedia, Half-Life and Star Craft also outsold Myst, but there's no telling when they passed Myst in sales. They were 1998 titles and Sims was 2000, so if it took them until 2003 to overtake Myst, the Sims would have gotten there first in 2002.
Ack wrote:Please play it next, Elkin! I need to relive my arcade light gun days vicariously through you!
Haha, I'm working on replaying Corpse Killer on Saturn (again through emulation; my limited gametime at home after work is going to be dedicated to SD Gundam G Generation Genesis), but I'll do Area 51 after that!
Hey I forgot about Area 51. I’ve hardly had any time to participate this month but I’ll defintely pull that out later this month. Do Maximum Force or Lethal Enforcers have FMV too? I might check those all out if so.
Ack wrote:Please play it next, Elkin! I need to relive my arcade light gun days vicariously through you!
Haha, I'm working on replaying Corpse Killer on Saturn (again through emulation; my limited gametime at home after work is going to be dedicated to SD Gundam G Generation Genesis), but I'll do Area 51 after that!
Hey I forgot about Area 51. I’ve hardly had any time to participate this month but I’ll defintely pull that out later this month. Do Maximum Force or Lethal Enforcers have FMV too? I might check those all out if so.
Lethal Enforcers has FMV clips as well as digitized sprites. I believe Maximum Force only has digitized sprites. Same with Lethal Enforcers 2.
Beat the first level of Crusader: No Remorse. Good old Origin world building with cheesy FMV layered on top. I really like how the FMV is handled in this. There's the usual mission briefings but also whenever you interact with another character a little FMV pops up to handle the dialog. Going around and talking to people between missions at the rebel base makes for a good breather too.
The controls in the actual game are clunky as all hell but there's a lot of fun destructible mayhem going on and great voice clips sprinkled throughout, including some blood curdling screams. I don't want to say the puzzles are amazing or anything so far as they amount to find switch and flick switch mostly but there's a few clever bits, some resulting in unexpected ways of killing your enemies (or yourself). Speaking of killing your enemies there's some neat weapons. It took me a bit to get used to using the remote control spider-bombs but they're really fun.
Ack wrote:
Exhuminator wrote:For a long time (maybe still?) MYST was the best selling computer title ever.
It's not anymore. The Sims knocked it off that perch in 2002, and currently the best-selling PC game is Minecraft...or PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, I'm not entirely sure. I've seen estimates that PUBG has sold 30 million units on Steam and is currently the third-highest grossing game on the service.
I always wondered how much this was inflated by OEM pack-ins. If you had a PC with a CD-ROM drive at the time you probably had Myst whether you wanted it or not.
Yeah, Tetris is the "highest selling" game of all time. It's also one of the most famous pack-ins, so that is something to consider.
Crusader: No Remorse is a game that I really want to like, but the controls make it really hard for me to do that. Which is sad, because the actual gameplay is a lot of fun, it's just the controls that I loathe.
They're sort of ambitious in attempting to make a cover shooter before cover shooters existed but they're not intuitive at all and pretty indefensible. The isometric viewpoint just doesn't lend itself well to this kind of action game.
I did have fun though and will take mission 2 a little later.
Gunstar Green wrote:I always wondered how much this was inflated by OEM pack-ins. If you had a PC with a CD-ROM drive at the time you probably had Myst whether you wanted it or not.
So much this. When I bought my first CD-ROM (it even used a caddy), yep, MYST came with it. Fourteen year old Ex thought the game sucked btw.
I've fired up wing commander 3 for a short stint and have to say.... it's still awesome. Young me loved playing the game but never got very far, but can easily quote the first set of cutscenes by heart.
The game features a great cast such as Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies, Malcolm McDowell and Thomas F. Wilson. It is crazy to fire up the game and see faces familiar to more recent pop culture like the guy who plays vagabond being the mysterious doctor Chang from LOST.
The acting is great and the use of lighting that coincides with the pretendered backgrounds highlight the attention to detail. Even the minor concerns about how the Kilrathi look were cast to the wayside when I see wingman Hobbes have a very well articulated face with emotions shown quite clearly.
As for the gameplay, it still stands the test of time. The controls are like a second nature to me while managing weapons, comms, navigation and targeting systems. Sure I may have accidentally had my wingman's ship blow up on the first missiom, but I haven't touched the game in over 15 years. I am a bit rusty.
Ack wrote:I don't know, chief, the haunting feeling of lust I feel whenever I look at your avatar makes me think it's real.
-I am the idiot that likes to have fun and be happy.
Well, I am still going in Toonstruck. Currently, I have 9 of the 12 objects I need for the Cutifier to work, and I have an idea of what the remaining required objects are: an arrow, pins, and nuts. I know that I get the pins as a bowling trophy, but I have a bowling bear to deal with. Then there are the nuts, which requires I mess with an evil squirrel. To defeat him, I need some glue. To get that, I'm going to have to indulge the tastes of a sadomasochistic cow dominatrix who's gotten too used to being whipped by her sheep sub. I'm not sure of the arrow yet, but I will figure it out.
This game is ridiculous. It's also a lot of fun and fascinating to watch how Christopher Lloyd has been implemented into the animated segments. I'm having a blast with this one!
I'm not sure what I'll have time for after this. I have never beaten Riven, so...maybe? Or perhaps I could look into Harvester, Bad Mojo, or Phantasmagoria 2. There are so many possibilities.
