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Ah, what the heck, I've been trying to find a good excuse to buy Alpha Centuri (without Crossfire) for a while now and at this price it's just too unbeatable. I think I'll pass on the DK games thanks to the somewhat sour state they appear to be in.

That said, I've never had the chance to dip my toe in the Populous pools, so I'll grab those and Simcity 2000 as well.

All in all, another successful sale, GOG. :)
So, is there any point at all getting populous 1? I've got number 2, and although fun in very small doses, it just becomes a repetitive, "Flatten the terrain" game.

When I saw EA promo come up, I thought Wing commander would be on sale :(
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PMIK: So, is there any point at all getting populous 1? I've got number 2, and although fun in very small doses, it just becomes a repetitive, "Flatten the terrain" game.
Not really. The sequel is basically Populous 2.0.
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Simplex: I wanted to buy DK2, but the two most helpful reviews say that the port is horrible, not compatible with Win7. If that's true, then I'll pass.
Ok as said, I installed and played GOG Dungeon Keeper 2 for awhile (only the first level so far).

Target machine: Lenovo Thinkpad T400 laptop, Win7 64bit, 4GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series.

Installed fine.

First run: In the in-game graphics options, I set Water Translucency and Environment Mapping ON, resolution 800x600, details HIGH, and enabled the Direct3D hardware acceleration. This caused me to hit the "black screen problem" that apparently plagues this game with ATI/AMD graphics chips.

Exited the game with Alt-F4. I read the sticky in the DK subforum which asked AMD/ATI owners to run the game with "Dungeon Keeper 2 Safe Mode" and HW acceleration disabled, so I did that.

After that the game runs fine (water translucency and environment mapping still enabled, details high). Even though HW acceleration is disabled in the ingame menu, still the textures do look bilinear filtered? So in essence, it even looks HW accelerated now.

I don't know if it looks any better with HW acceleration enabled, but as it is, the graphics look great to me (for a game of that era), they are butter smooth, and at least so far I didn't hit any problems like stability issues.

My personal verdict for now: runs fine in Win7 64bit, I would definitely buy it even though I have the ATI/AMD hardware that the GOG gamecard disclaimer is warning about. I have no idea if others have more severe problems with it though, but apparently even the HW acceleration is supposed to work with NVidia hardware.
Post edited May 18, 2012 by timppu
Yay! I would get Alpha Centauri. Hope they bring Civilization 3 soon x.x
DK 2 http://www.gamefront.com/files/928718/Dungeon-Keeper-2-v1.7--Patch/
Hmm $12.00 for DK 1+2 and Popolous 1+2, I might take advantage of this and get digital backups for these games also.
Dungeon Keeper 1 still without Deeper Dungeons

SMAC still without SMAX


EA sucks!
Wouldn't this be better?

http://games.softpedia.com/get/Patch/Dungeon-Keeper-2-Unofficial-Patch.shtml
At least according to the menu screen of the GOG version (Dungeon Keeper 2), it is already v1.7.
Post edited May 18, 2012 by timppu
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F4LL0UT: Hm, 4 of these games were made by Bullfrog, 4 of these games are on your wishlist... do I see a pattern here? ;)
Nay, I don't like Dungeon Keepers. As for other 4 - tough dilemma.
I've got Alpha Centauri, and none of the others appeal to me, largely because I'm still burnt out on Sim City 2000 back in the day, and whilst I enjoyed DK2, I didn't think it was all that amazingly special. Good fun, sure, but nothing more than that... Same with the Populous games.

Now, if they had included any of the other EA games released since christmas, I can think of two insta-buys and a definite maybe... Ahh well, I'm in no rush - I'll pick them up whenever they appear on offer.
Hmm, a good promo. Seeing as I already have these games except for Simcity 2000 and the populous series I think I may have to pass on it.
Even without regional (phenomenal localisation and voice acting!) still want it.
Funny because not played so much RTS/sim/strategy in my (gaming) life.

Editor? How exciting. Training before LoG editor.
Counter looks useful.