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Have an old video game that you'd like a wiki entry on? Let me know. Anything pre-1990.

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I thoroughly enjoyed Rebel Galaxy, and have had an itch to head back to space.... I was considering Elite (the commodore original of which I have MANY hours into), but something with a bit more structure sounds good. Starpoint Gemini is a series I have no familiarity with, but is 50% of with Gold this month on Xbox...

What do you think, if I loved Rebel Galaxy, but am not willing to commit to Elite, is Starpoint a happy medium? Is it worth 17 bucks?

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@fisk0 Cybernoid 1 complete, on to part two. The C64 version has such good music...

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I must have at least 5-600 C64 and Amiga games alone... I'm guessing I have in the neighborhood of 1500 games all said.

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Alright, finished all three Transylvania games, and the series overview page. That was a lot of fun playing through. The Amiga versions in particular. Updated with some info regarding the Comprehend parsing engine, Polarware's answer to Infocom's more advanced parser.

On to Cybernoid.

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@slag Yah duder! I'll be doing the final game when I get through it. Very different than the first two.

@fisk0 Cybernoid is a great idea; very familiar with the Amiga version. That will be next. Never played Border Zone, which is odd, because I have a lot of hours into Infocom games. I may put that one on the burner depending on what else is requested, seeing as though I just did 3 text adventures.

Keep 'em coming!

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@bhtav said:

Good GOD this game is a HOT MESS on XBox. The GUI is wholesale just moved to console, with no concessions made for ease of use, basic visibility, 'mouse' acceleration, snapping, dragging, etc... it is, simply, the worst port of a PC game I've ever played, in my 38 years of being alive.

Nomination: Hot Mess 2016. And 2017, because it's that hot of a mess.

I've been having to crank up the UI Scaling to maximum just to read the tutorial text. And that's not even mentioning the essential readout information -- including measurements regarding apoapsis/periapsis -- which is literally illegible at any scale.

For as difficult as this game is to manage and control on a keyboard, it is a billion times harder on an Xbox controller.

And then (never explained) you click a thumbstick to turn it into a mouse, and drag windows around (ugh......) so that they aren't blocking the subject of the tutorial (which they always do by default!?!)... then the next page of the tutorial REVERTS BACK TO BLOCKING EVERYTHING.

There is NO WAY this was tested... like at all.

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Alias:

The Crimson Crown

  • Transylvania ii
  • Transylvania 2
  • Transylvania ii: The Crimson Crown

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Alright, it was fun remembering this one. Never played the sequels. Going to briefly mess with them on an emulator before hitting them and the franchise page. Enjoy!

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@rafaelfc said:

If they put some thought into the Wii U version it could very well be the actual best way to play the game.

I doubt they will though cause it's 2016 and it's the Wii U.

Agreed, It would definitely be a great use case for the tablet.

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Great Call. Transylvania is a game that I have and am familiar with. First in the queue.