27-03-21, 20:49 | #11 | |
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The "thumbnail" options work really well. I like those new animations! They're the only good thing about the DVD game. |
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28-03-21, 05:20 | #12 | |
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It's quite short and you couldn't really save, it had that weird 'a code for a level' system but honestly who was keeping track of those? I did like it tho, it was the kidz bop version of TRAoD. |
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28-03-21, 21:03 | #13 |
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The inicial print of Angel of Darkness for PC was 2 CD-ROMs. Disc 1 is Paris and Disc 2 is Prague.
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28-03-21, 22:05 | #14 |
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I own a AOD original dvd case with two discs for pc and it was just 2 discs to install the whole game...nothing special sadly.
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07-04-21, 18:14 | #15 |
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This is the infamous buggy one I had. Later on I had the platinum version for PS2. I think they eventually released a PC version on DVD with V1 still being on 750MB CD's as a lot of people still only had CD roms on their PC's in '03.
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09-04-21, 20:15 | #16 |
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^ The PC version in general was a hot mess, especially at a time that it wasn't easy to dispatch patches (or in a console's case, basically impossible short of a re-release).
I'm so glad that nowadays most of the issues exclusive to the PC version have been fixed by the community. I think the only thing short of the eye movements (which even the PS2 doesn't have) is the blood effects/water drops when getting shot and getting out of water, respectively. Plus, now we have EAX again! I'd forgotten honestly how much of an impact it made with the sound. |
10-04-21, 10:47 | #17 |
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Releasing patches was always rather easy on PC. They were released on the websites of the games, on gaming websites and on the CD-ROMs that came with many gaming magazines. Sometimes when a PC game was re-released the patches even came on the discs (though they still had to be installed independently). But AoD was such a messy game that patches alone couldn't fix its many problems. After all it took fans years to fix some more of its issues and it's still from being a perfect game.
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10-04-21, 14:07 | #18 | |
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It's really sad that so much context with the story in particular is missing. Like at the end how Lara just knows who Karel is already, due to the removal of the two other locations. That scene actually could've worked in the released game if they'd just not had Lara mention Karel's name and save that for the sequel. We know that they'd planned on him not actually being dead and were going to bring him back in the sequels. I figure she could've reasonably put together that he was part of the Cabal, so that would've still worked as-is. Or at the very least have him introduce himself right then and there, though I don't know how well that would've worked right at the end of the game. Last edited by Jathom95; 10-04-21 at 15:47. |
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16-05-21, 12:00 | #20 |
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Actually it rather depends on what kind of installation you choose to do. If you do a full installation of the game, you won't need the discs. Otherwise you need disc 1 for the first half of the game and after finishing the level "Galleries Under Siege" and the bunch of cutscenes with Lara chasing Kurtis, being picked up by Bouchard and the FMV cutscene of Lara entering Von Croy's Apartment, the game will ask you to insert disc 2.
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