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[Sappho]

Good Old Games has started a weekend-long Black Friday sale. 70% off 65 different titles. Most of them are quite old, but in keeping with the name of GOG, most of them look quite... good.

I'm thinking of grabbing one of the Creatures games. They always looked interesting, and they're only $1.79 each. Maybe Constructor as well, same price...

[Walter Sullivan]

Constructor is awesome(played a lot in my childhood, never won the $1,000,000 challenge ), but they are gonna make an HD version, so I would wait for that.

[Sappho]

Constructor is awesome(played a lot in my childhood, never won the $1,000,000 challenge ), but they are gonna make an HD version, so I would wait for that.

Ohhhhh good to know, thanks. I'll hold off, then.

Anyone have any opinions on Creatures?

[acidia]

I was thinking about getting capitalism 2.  I remember enjoying capitalism plus so at $3 it should be a good deal, right?

[Walter Sullivan]

I was thinking about getting capitalism 2.  I remember enjoying capitalism plus so at $3 it should be a good deal, right?

Never played the capitalism plus myself, but I played Capitalism 2 a few years ago and I enjoyed it. It was a little hard to learn how to do some stuff in the beginning, but that's probably because I started playing without reading a manual, and I don't remember if it has a playable tutorial, since I started playing it on multiplayer with my cousin, hehe. But yes, I would recommend it.

[gimlet]

I liked Capitalism 2, although it's a LOT like Cap 1 - still, for $3...

My recommendation - Chaos Overlords, it's a fun little game of abstract gang combat.  There used to be a demo, should still be findable so you can check it out.   It had some interesting wrinkles, the hard mode is HARD.  I even managed to play some MP games over the internet a few years ago, there used to be a website to find opponents.

[Gunner-Chan]

but in keeping with the name of GOG, most of them look quite... good.

I'm not sure if that name is valid anymore. They DID add Daikatana.

[Bouchart]

but in keeping with the name of GOG, most of them look quite... good.

I'm not sure if that name is valid anymore. They DID add Daikatana.

Daikatana is there because it's historically relevant.  GoG should also get the rights to sell Big Rigs if they can.

[sluissa]

creatures is an awesome little experimental sandbox. 1 and 2 are more realistic while 3 is more of a game that let's the player interact more, but theyre all fun for a bit.

[Sappho]

Well I went ahead and bought 1 and 2. Thought I'd just jump in and fiddle for a while but it seems it's far more complicated than that. So I read the manuals, then decided I was too tired and went to sleep.

I will be playing with 2 later today (looks deeper and more interesting than 1, with a slightly better interface), but first I have to finish my NaNo 50k...

Edit: Holy hell, this game is difficult. I can't get the stupid little critter to eat. It knows the word eat, I tell it to eat, it ignores me. I slap it, try again, still ignores me. This has been going on for ages. It's starving to death now, and you can't force-feed them. I drop food in front of it, say eat, it walks right past it. Maybe certain genetic material wasn't meant to survive... I also can't seem to get it to look at the food long enough to teach it the word "food."

[sluissa]

I could be mixing up versions, but some of the verbage in the game can be kind of strange. "Push (object)", if I remember correctly is the generic "interact with this thing" sentence, as I'm not sure if there are any seperate commands for say, eat, play, or either sex or hit.

But the more I think about it, I could be confusing the 2nd game with the 3rd, which I played a lot more of (main draw was the multiplayer which sadly doesn't seem to work anymore after the servers died a while back.) C3's language was a lot more hard coded, C2 might have been more freeform where it didn't matter so much what you taught them.

Personally, my favorite thing to do was Wolfling and Feral runs where you'd simply hatch a bunch of starting creatures, and either don't do anything else, or just give them some starting resources and let them try to survive on their own for a while, hours, days, occasionally weeks, and see how it went. Often ended up in extinction at some point fairly early. But those rare occasions where things simply flourished and it went through several generations it was interesting to simply sift through everything and see what happened, like an archae/anthropologist, or maybe reading through DF Legends mode.