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Posted July 08, 2014
Some hate it, many like myself love them: the cryo games. Having recently played Atlantis 1-3 which are very good and atmospheric (especially 1+2, not so much part 3), I crave for more! :-)

I'm sure the "value"/volume of the adventure portion of gog would greatly benefit from it. A few are available on the Microids site, but I'm sure they wouldn't mind another channel to sell their games and generate more income for them:-)
Below are my game suggestions (Please use the best source for graphics/sound possible, for some of the games there is a DVD-ROM version, gog :-) ).

No simplified versions please, like Purple Hills!

-Atlantis: Evolution
- The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy
-Lost Eden (wonderful, played it as a kid!)
-Aztec
-China
-Versailles 1685 (also known as Versailles: A Game of Intrigue)
-Versailles II - Testament of the King (not the crappy purple hills version!)
-Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses
-Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen
-Ring 2
-Salammbo: Battle for Carthage
-The New Adventures of the Time Machine
-Faust
-Egypt 1, 2, 3
-Egypt Kids
-Dune (1992/3, PC CD-ROM version)
-Frank Herbert's Dune (2001)
-Pompeji
-Jerusalem
-King Artus 1+2 (arthur's knights)
-Secret of the nautilus
-Cleopatra
-Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hide
-Venezia
-Black moon chronicles
-Dragon lore 2
-Thorgal: curse of atlantis
-Casanova
-Asterix & Obelix
-The Devil Inside
- Gift
-KGB/Conspiracy
- Virus - it is aware
-Aliens- a comic book adventure
-Dreams to reality
-Guardian of Darkness
-Persian wars
-Riverworld
-Treasure hunter
-Necronomicon
-Woody Woodpecker: Escape from Buzz Buzzard Park
-Hellboy: Dogs of the Night
-Pink Panther: Pinkadelic Pursuit
-From Dusk Till Dawn
-Shadow of Zorro
-Commander Blood
-Big Bug Bang (sequel to Commander Blood)
-Deo Gratias
-Pax Corpus
-Saga: Rage of the Vikings
-UBIK

Feel free to comment if you agree or if I missed some titles!
Post edited July 10, 2014 by Xscape2041
Posted July 08, 2014
Totally agree, would love to see more Cryo games here. ;)
Posted July 08, 2014
cryo's not just myst-like games, I'd also like to see all their other stuff.

btw Dragon Lore is already here
Post edited July 08, 2014 by XYCat
Posted July 08, 2014
Dune, yes. Everything else, no. Well, I won't mind if they come here, I just won't buy them.

Cryo were a strange bunch. They employed (so it seemed anyway) some of the best graphics artists and sound engineers in the world, and some of the absolute worst game designers. Their games were generally extremely beautiful, very atmospheric and almost unplayable.

Except for Dune. That was fucking awesome.
Posted July 08, 2014
Well, I guess it's not for everyone, love it or hate it :-)
I love these myst-like games, and Atlantis + Lost Eden were very playable for me and like was said have some of the best graphics (for their time) and atmosphere.
"Ring" however was practically unplayable (loading time between scenes, like 10-20fps). But I think this one was developed by Arxel Tribe. Maybe gog can improve the performance. :-)

But please add all the missing titles (also the not-myst-like games)
Post edited July 09, 2014 by Xscape2041
Posted July 08, 2014
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Xscape2041: Well, I guess it's not for everyone, love it or hate it :-)
I love these myst-like games, and Atlantis + Lost Eden were very playable for me and like was said have some of the best graphics (for their time) and atmosphere.
I played the first Atlantis game shortly after it was released. It was one of the most beautiful and atmospheric games I had ever seen, and the "puzzles" made me want to pull out my hair and beat the designers to death with a nail-studded club for failing to grasp the point of playing games at all.

Some of the puzzles I solved by tedious trial and error and some by sheer blind dumb luck. Few of them gave any indication of what you were supposed to do. Then I reached the orrery puzzle. After spending a lot of time on it I finally gave up and went looking for a walkthrough online. Wouldn't you know it, Cryo themselves had an official walkthrough on their home page! That alone should have been a warning. When a developer puts out a complete walkthrough for a game they only just released, that probably means they are aware that the puzzles suck. Anyway, I expected an official walkthrough from the developer to explain the logic behind each puzzle. Do you know how the solution for the orrery puzzle was described by the very people who designed it? "Pull the left handle 46 times, and the right handle 47 times". At that point I uninstalled the game in disgust.
Posted July 08, 2014
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XYCat: cryo's not just myst-like games, I'd also like to see all their other stuff.

btw Dragon Lore is already here
Alot of them are Myst like though, and Dragon Lore 2 is still missing.
Find it to have some bugs with my original cds, maybe that is holding back GOG too, or the not so great sales of the first one.
Post edited July 08, 2014 by lugum
Posted July 08, 2014
If they are adventures and have anything to do with Microids count me in!! As you can tell from my avatar and name I am a point and click fan and have a special place in my heart for Syberia.
Posted July 08, 2014
Count me in too. I would love to see more adventure games even the atmospheric games like myst.
Posted July 08, 2014
My suggestion for non-adventure Cryo games:
- The Devil Inside (survival horror - reality show style)
- Gift (platformer game)
Posted July 08, 2014
KGB/Conspiracy was pretty awesome (incredible, incredible soundtrack), although it was one of the hardest adventure games ever made (somewhat mitigated by a time-rewind ability). The CD version even had dodgy low-res (even for the time) clips of Donald Sutherland giving generic "TRY LOOKING AROUND THE ROOM" hints.
Posted July 08, 2014
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Xscape2041: Some hate it, many like myself love them: the cryo games. Having recently played Atlantis 1-3 which are very good and atmospheric (especially 1+2, not so much part 3), I crave for more! :-)

I'm sure the "value"/volume of the adventure portion of gog would greatly benefit from it. A few are available on the Microids site, but I'm sure they wouldn't mind another channel to sell their games and generate more income for them:-)
Below are my game suggestions (Please use the best source for graphics/sound possible, for some of the games there is a DVD-ROM version, gog :-) ).

No simplified versions please, like Purple Hills!

-Atlantis 4+5
-Lost Eden (wonderful, played it as a kid!)
-Aztec
-China
-Versailles 1+2 (not the crappy purple hills version!)
-Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses
-Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen
-Ring 2
-Salammbo: Battle for Carthage
-The New Adventures of the Time Machine
-Faust
-Egypt 1, 2, 3
-Frank Herbert's Dune
-Pompeji
-Jerusalem
-King Artus 1+2 (arthur's knights)
-secret of the nautilus
-cleopatra
-Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hide
-Venezia
-Black moon chronicles
-Dragon lore
-Thorgal: curse of atlantis
-Casanova
-Asterix & Obelix :-)

Feel free to comment if you agree or if I missed some titles!
As XYCat said, Dragon Lore is already here:)

http://www.gog.com/game/dragon_lore_the_legend_begins
Posted July 08, 2014
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Gremmi: KGB/Conspiracy was pretty awesome (incredible, incredible soundtrack), although it was one of the hardest adventure games ever made (somewhat mitigated by a time-rewind ability). The CD version even had dodgy low-res (even for the time) clips of Donald Sutherland giving generic "TRY LOOKING AROUND THE ROOM" hints.
I wasn't even aware that KGB was made by Cryo. Yes, KGB is also a great game. I have fond memories of it.
Posted July 09, 2014
Edit: I completed the list with the additional games that have been mentioned + many missing ones.
Speaking of Donald Sutherland. There also is a game by Cryo called "virus" (like the movie with Donald Sutherland, don't know if he's featured in the game).
I once read it is the worst game ever made... Did someone here play it?

I din't know Dragon lore was already on gog, thanks! Dragon lore 2 is still missing, then :-)

The only games by Cryo I played myself so far are: Atlantis 1-3, Egypt 1, China, Lost Eden, Ring, Versailles 1.
Looking forward to the rest!
Post edited July 09, 2014 by Xscape2041
Posted July 09, 2014
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Frozen: My suggestion for non-adventure Cryo games:
- The Devil Inside (survival horror - reality show style)
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