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A great adventure game, filled to the brim with gags and clichés, all packed in fully "talkie" form.
[url=/en/gamecard/simon_the_sorcerer][/url]Sit back, take a few deep breaths and prepare your diaphragm for [url=/en/gamecard/simon_the_sorcerer]Simon the Sorcerer[/url], the first part of the classic point-and-click adventure game series by Adventure Soft. The game offers truckloads of parody and cliché humor and doesn't mind breaking the old "fourth wall". After all, what better way to prove someone is, say, a wizard, than to tell them "It says so when I move my mouse pointer over you"? To put a long story short, it's hours of laughs for only $5.99.
YES! YES! YES! YES! :D
Instant buy (even though I already have it)! Any more adventure games in store for us?
Edit: Whatever the guy above said! :D
Post edited December 09, 2008 by Zer0
Wow, I was contemplating whether or not to buy it from their website (they had a 1 and 2 pack) for sale. Looks like my choice has been made. Thanks so much GoG!
Does it use ScummVM?
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t0mme: Does it use ScummVM?

Probably DOSBox, but you can use ScummVM with it anyway, if you like.
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t0mme: Does it use ScummVM?
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Harzzach: Probably DOSBox, but you can use ScummVM with it anyway, if you like.

I know, just wondering if they included it by default. It's probably the best method for playing SCUMM games.
Yes, they use ScummVM which is included :)
Adventure games! What a pleasantly understated sequence of surprises!
Can i enabled subtitles in game?
OMFG YES
Very complex answer. and how did it?
Post edited December 09, 2008 by Pickles
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jordi: Yes, they use ScummVM which is included :)

Uhm... first DOSBox, then ScummVM, the next will be... MAME? :-P
Well, I'm starting to think that emulation could be a real deal here, contrariwise to what I was thinking about it before....
Ok, here's the truth: if you manage to get a legal ROM for Capcom's Ghosts'n Goblins on your catalogue I'll print flyers for you and I'll attach them to every wall of the city I live in :-P
Well, I can't help with Ghouls and Goblins (that's a CPS2 system, if I'm not mistaken), but I am the proud owner of a Neo Geo Pro Gear Spec cabinet with PuzzleBobble, King of Fighters 98 and a couple other games :)
Anyway, ScummVM isn't an emulator (DOSBox on the other hand is), but a reimplementation of various scripting utility interpreters. Kind of like a Javascript interpreter.
And it's definitely the best way to play these games for a couple of reasons:
1. Because it doesn't have to emulate a computer, it's very, very fast. Fast enough to play practically any game you throw at it on my 200Mhz Tapwave Zodiac.
2. Because it re-implements the game mechanics, the implementation can actually differ from the original game. For example, while most of the ScummVM games used a form for ADPCM encoding (very simple compression) for speech when they were released, ScummVM can also play them if the samples have been replaced with OGG or MP3 encoded ones. Or movies in MPEG-2 instead of Bink.
So, I'd definitely vote for including ScummVM. In fact, I'm gonna put my money where my mouth is and buy Simon the Sorcerer (although I already own it twice) whenever I hear about it being available bundles with ScummVM.
Is GOG going to give credit where credit is due, then? If they really bundle it with ScummVM and run the game that way, should there not be a mention of this somewhere? And the same with DOSBox.
Come one, GOG! It's even a powerful sales argument, given the number of platforms ScummVM is available on. "For just $5.99 you can own Simon The Sorcerer, which you can then play on your Windows/Linux PC, Mac, PS2, PSP, GP2X, iPhone, Amiga, Sega Dreamcast, Gamecube, Wii, any goddamn platform you want!"
[EDIT]
I just now saw this: http://www.gog.com/en/thanks/
How did I find it? Via a link on the ScummVM forum. I certainly would have never stumbled across it by accident. That tiny, grey "Our Thanks" link at the bottom of the page is hardly an eye-grabber. I think it'd be more suitable if you mentioned on the details page for a game, if it used DOSBox or ScummVM.
Other than that, keep up the good work! :-D
Post edited December 09, 2008 by Wishbone