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A game starring Han Solo and Chewbacca would be pretty swell.

I watched it a second time today, it's still awesome.

The low res nostalgia is absent from this game but I think it's for the better. I love pixel art and the 320x200 resolution, but these backgrounds and characters look infinitely better in high res than they did in their low res, anti-aliased to the bone, counterpart, especially the characters, that character close-up background is stunning.

No biggy about the engine switch. I guess AGS's next goal will be portability over Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android. It's an extremely important market for many indie games, adventure or not. Unless this happen, I'm not surprised if some developers going commercial decide to switch engine.

Aye, always give the choice. The reason I did not listen to the Blackwell commentaries when I played the series is because they only featured audio track with no subtitles, and I was not fluent enough to understand spoken english back then.

I don't know if the topic was brought up before but when I told about the AGS Bake Sale to my friends, one of them told me to send you this:

http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/paypal-fiasco-summary.php

Long story short, be extra extra careful how you will handle the whole selling process if Paypal is involved because the last thing you need is Paypal freezing the money and/or forcing you to refund everyone, leeching yet again a cuts from the transactions in the process.

I could be wrong, but virus tend to infect .exe and .dll files. It's not the end of the world, get yourself an external hard drive and backup everything you can salvage. Format your computer, re-install windows, install a good antivirus (personally I reverted from bloated Kaspersky to the free version of Avast and I'm not having any problems, but surely there's better antivirus softwares out there), and the next time you plug in your external HD, don't copy anything from it, don't open anything on it, just scan it, a custom scan, at maximum setting, with all the most time consuming options checked, and let it scan your external HD. I've been doing this since 2004. A virus ain't the end of the world, a total hard drive crash due to lightning storm however...

I finally got tired of seeing this game in my folder of games to play one of these days and figured I'd be better off finishing it, even if it meant cheating to skip the bugged mission.

I found two more bugs:

Spoiler

I got the money tank asploded during the fifth mission (SPUDD'S Guerrilla Warfare) and the commie general's "My money! NOOOOO!!!" speech went on an infinite loop, meaning I couldn't do anything anymore except ALT+X out of the game.

The game crashed on the same mission, after a Bears Attack followed by a "Ha ha! Not really." message.

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I'm one step ahead of you all, I hate all new designs, period. For some reason, all website updates have to be more bloated than the previous ones. And I don't like wasting my time learning once again where the buttons and features I use the most are, which is the number one reason why I'm not changing OS, browsers, keyboard layout, music player, chatting program or drawing software.

In fact, my desktop has not changed in 11 years. The first thing I did when I updated to XP was to revert to the classic windows look. I listen music in the same program I grabbed when I downloaded the Pleurghburg soundtrack, I still use Paint Shop Pro 7, which was taught to us in college, I still use mIRC, and I still use the skin a friend made when we were in college, and I use Opera since 2003 or so and every time I updated it I had to fight tooth and nail to disable most of the new features and make it look exactly how it looked before I updated it.

I miss the days where I could open 70 different tabs in Opera without hogging all the memory, without making the browser stutter. Yep, there was such a time.

I used Windows 98 from 1999 to 2006, and Windows XP since 2006. I'm always playing or replaying old games and the fear I won't be able to run these old games is mostly the reason why I'm not switching to another OS.

Effective and not ugly at all! Especially the outdoor locations, they are charmingly cute.

Nice. I played it for the first time a couple months ago. I haven't played its sequel yet.

The second part is out:

http://www.gog.com/en/news/your_questions_about_tex_murphy_answered_by_aaron_conners_pt_ii

Dear AGS Forums,
Plz stay online forever.

Your best buddy,
-blueskirt

http://alt.systemlink.me/2011/11/gogcom-to-take-on-steam-and-origin.html
http://www.gog.com/en/news/gog_coms_plan_for_the_future_gets_some_news

This is just in, the folks at Good Old Games have decided to sell recent games starting next year, but always DRM-free, at a fixed price worldwide and bundling extra goodies with the games, but they will keep on adding old games to their library. One interesting thing is they're also looking forward to work with independent developers. Could that mean games like Blackwell, Gemini, Downfall, Time Gentlemen or Al Emmo will find their way there?

It's bitchy but it's quite true. If you asked me what were my fondest memories of playing table top RPGs, it would be those time where we just ate dinner and talked among ourselves in character, or when we goofed around in quirky shops, or when we Macgyvered plans to get out of sticky situations or defeat enemies that were way too tough for us to defeat in conventional battle, in good old adventure game fashion. And while fighting monsters and rolling the dices can be fun, the main dish in a table top RPG is role playing a character, being an actor rather than a spectator and making crazy tons of decisions, may they be strategic, moral (and not just good or evil but every shade of gray in between) or purely cosmetic, so many decisions that no two campaign will unfold the same way, even if you replayed it with the same players.

I loaded up Torment the other day to play it, and accidentally spent ~5 hours wandering around enjoying Sigil (well, a tiny, tiny portion of it). About 10 minutes of this total play time was spent "wargaming".

And that's great!

Back to the original question, I loved Super Mario RPG, I especially love the humor and how they injected the lore and mechanics of the Mario platformers in the game. And I love the Quest For Glory series, the classes system with different solutions to problems, and how it integrated traditional adventure aspects like conversation and inventory puzzles (actual puzzles, not just fetch quests or key unlocks door), the world changing as the sun rises, the night falls and days go on, asking random strangers about rumors or the weather, using spells to change your environment and solve puzzles, not just incinerate monsters.

I have not yet played Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gates, Bastion or Beyond Good And Evil, but I'll get around to eventually.

And I hope I'll see another game set in the Shadowrun universe before I die. One that's actually a RPG and not a multiplayer shooter. Oh, and a game set in Magic The Gathering's Weatherlight saga, that'd be an awesome setting.

Finished it, with 3987 points.

There's also Thule Trail. I used to be the top score holder in that game for a little while.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/10/steam-hacked/

The title says it all. Spread the news, lads, and be vigilant.

http://insomnia.ac/commentary/on_role-playing_games/

Found that essay a couple days ago. It perfectly sums my point of view on RPGs.

Good to see some of you are liking it. I might go watch it next tuesday instead of waiting for the DVD.

Argh, I'm so sick of the whole "Tintin was racist/fascist/Nazi" chestnut being trotted out every time the character is mentioned.

Not to mention Hergé considered these first adventures to be his Old Shame and begged for them to be left out of reprint.

Edit: Soundtrack by John Williams? Ok, sold.

In the last months Good Old Games asked its users to submit them questions for their interview with Aaron Conners. The first part of their interview was finally posted today:

http://www.gog.com/en/news/your_questions_about_tex_murphy_answered_by_aaron_conners_pt_i