gratz trentonlf \o/

guess I will give it a shot at some point. It is not one I would have bought myself for sure

I think I'm going to get to remain in the "No Soup For You" club ;-p

LOL

Alan Wake's Recurring American Nightmare

I loved the original "Pool of Radiance" and "Curse of the Azure Bonds" for my C-64. I still remember having to fight the vampire in PoR.

I definitely will, I'm done shopping now and no freebies for me. Great to see so many getting them though, they sure did seem like a myth last insomnia sale.

PoR was a bit of a religious experience for me, I play it through every couple of years still.

Loved the first one. I didn't buy the second one cuz I thought it looked too similar (sorry I didn't get it now). I loved playing The Stones of Wisdom (their version of Liar's Dice) in Legacy.

Think I'll go see if it's on the wishlist....

The Beholders were nasty business as well, I can distinctly remember the first time I stumbled upon one, and realizing a little too late just how powerful they were. There I was with my head down mapping another little corner when sounds of my party dying came upon my ears. Panic ensued as I tried to retaliate and then flee. Alas, too late, everyone died. Back to my last save game...

When you mention SSI, I think of the AD&D Gold Box series of games. There were a lot of them. They started with Pool of Radiance then Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, and then Pool of Darkness and that was just the first series. There were several more series of these games. You could take your characters from lvl 1 and work them up to the highest lvl in the games which was 40 by transferring them into the next game of the series. I still have saved games for all of the games I played in those series.
These were before the Eye of the Beholder series of games. When SSI Stopped making the gold box series is when they started the EOB series.

@IAmSinistar: If I remember correctly you were asking ... counter definitely decreases not when you hit "Buy now". It even takes a short time after you have sent banking data before it decreases (but that's probably processing latency).

Don't say the words, I can't manage four of these a year :)

EDIT: Oh wait that would be two. Tired :D

Well...in terms of story, American Nightmare is generally standalone, though a few elements aren't going to make as much sense without playing the first game. Gameplay-wise, It keeps the franchise's unique light-based gameplay, with some interesting additions.

Playing it won't spoil much of the story if you play the original afterwards, though playing them in order might let you appreciate some of the details more.

I thought the original Alan Wake was really good - it's worth picking up next time you see it for cheap!