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Dark Seed you say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs
I hope. I'd love to play it.
The beeeees - the beeeeeees!
To be honest, I'd rather see "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" over "Dark Seed" on sale at GOG.
It'd be interesting if it got released on Good Old Games, though I'm sure quite a few people outside of this community would probably only know it from and [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCfVSRbzaMY]this (NSFW language warning).
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Gyrocoptor: It'd be interesting if it got released on Good Old Games, though I'm sure quite a few people outside of this community would probably only know it from and [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCfVSRbzaMY]this (NSFW language warning).
I'm sure at least some of those people have read these.
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Telnet: To be honest, I'd rather see "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" over "Dark Seed" on sale at GOG.
I haven't played Dark Seed, but I Have No Mouth is an absolute classic. Easily one of my top 5 adventure games. In fact, all GOG would then need is Lucasarts on board to complete that top five.
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Telnet: To be honest, I'd rather see "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" over "Dark Seed" on sale at GOG.
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Navagon: I haven't played Dark Seed, but I Have No Mouth is an absolute classic. Easily one of my top 5 adventure games. In fact, all GOG would then need is Lucasarts on board to complete that top five.
I think Broken Sword 1 would make it into my top 5 if I really thought about it - maybe Beneath a Steel Sky too - give Revolution some love!
I managed to find a cheap copy of IHNMAIMS (wow still a lot despite being an acronym) a few years back - apparently it's a rare game to find at a decent price.

Dark Seed is a very mixed game, though. I bought it in a second hand store on CD some 13 years ago I think and I wasn't too impressed. While the backdrops ooze atmosphere, the game itself is both short and not that good. For starters, the game feels too static and empty. There's only a few people you can talk to, and there aren't a lot of different areas either. Nothing really moves in those areas so it all feels rather dead.

IHNMAIMS had the same problems really: very static, very dead, almost no-one to talk to.

Don't get me wrong: they're decent adventure games and they both ooze atmosphere, but if they had felt more alive, had more vivid worlds, they could have become real classics.
Darkseed should be here (Weird but I always thought it is already here). It's a Cyberdreams game as I Have No Mouth as I Must Scream. It's great gothic horror game, not gameplaywise but in terms of art style (Thanks to great backgrounds of H.R Giger)
Holy necro Batman!
Some of the people at DreamForge Intertainment (Sanitarium) worked on Dark Seed, as well, and -- supposedly -- EA now owns the rights to the game. Since GOG already has distributing deals with both EA and DreamForge (not that the DreamForge one would matter much, as the company is defunct since 2000, but it's nice to have the people of ex-DreamForge on board, all the same), it's not at all impossible to see Dark Seed in here, in the future.

Then again, one never knows how these things work, it may look simple enough on paper, but who knows? I'm pretty sure GOG is trying their best to get the game here but, in the meanwhile, our best shot at playing it ("owning" it) is via the murky waters of abandonware, which is far from being 100% legal, but, still... if you can live with that, look for the game in some abandonware site and play it.
SAUSAGE!
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groze: Some of the people at DreamForge Intertainment (Sanitarium) worked on Dark Seed, as well, and -- supposedly -- EA now owns the rights to the game. Since GOG already has distributing deals with both EA and DreamForge (not that the DreamForge one would matter much, as the company is defunct since 2000, but it's nice to have the people of ex-DreamForge on board, all the same), it's not at all impossible to see Dark Seed in here, in the future.

Then again, one never knows how these things work, it may look simple enough on paper, but who knows? I'm pretty sure GOG is trying their best to get the game here but, in the meanwhile, our best shot at playing it ("owning" it) is via the murky waters of abandonware, which is far from being 100% legal, but, still... if you can live with that, look for the game in some abandonware site and play it.
I could never achieve to work it in modern systems properly even with DOSBox. After the famous intro scene, the game screen gets full of weird lines and freezes.
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amuleth: I could never achieve to work it in modern systems properly even with DOSBox. After the famous intro scene, the game screen gets full of weird lines and freezes.
I got it to work on Vista 32bit in my laptop, using DOSBox. Then again, a whole lot of other components in each of our machines may work against it running properly. My laptop is an old Acer TravelMate 5520, with a dual core AMD Turion 64 TL-58 CPU, an ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 HyperMemory GPU and 2 GB DDR2. I'm not sure how it performs under newer systems, higher-tier spec machines or different brand manufacturer components.