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Originally Posted by Motoki Personally, I was always more a paddle person myself.

Me too.

Enjoy :

truepcgaming.com/2012/12/30/gamersgate-ceo-responds-to-recent-pricing-errors/

Originally Posted by Motoki Personally, I was always more a paddle person myself.

Circus Atari club here!!

Originally Posted by ddearce Enjoy : truepcgaming.com/2012/12/30/gamersgate-ceo-responds-to-recent-pricing-errors/

Yeah someone else posted that earlier. Except he doesn't really "respond" at all, he just talks in circles and you don't come away from that interview with anymore information than before you read it.

Originally Posted by Motoki They look hideously dated, though I do love Gothic 2. I dunno, Risen 1 is free on VOID. Well for the time being. Better enjoy because who the hell knows what's going to happen with Gamersgate. I really did like the pirate setting in Risen 2 though. I think it sets it apart from the other PB games and most RPGs in general. They had a good thing going with the tone and setting I just think they needed to keep this thing in development a little longer (the patch they pushed had fixes that should have been in the version that shipped), promote it better, not piss people off with the trivial crap day 1 DLC that was actually baked into the base game and so forth.

Sid Meier's Pirates is still the greatest pirate game of all time, although I have been eyeing Risen for some time because of my love for SMP.

Originally Posted by espy605 Sid Meier's Pirates is still the greatest pirate game of all time, although I have been eyeing Risen for some time because of my love for SMP.

What's smp if I may ask?

Originally Posted by asheskitty Me too.

Originally Posted by espy605 Sid Meier's Pirates is still the greatest pirate game of all time, although I have been eyeing Risen for some time because of my love for SMP.

Originally Posted by DonRamon What's smp if I may ask?

Originally Posted by Mooby Old graphics don't bother me at all -- mostly because I've lived through everything since Atari 2600.

I think it's because I lived through that once that I have a low tolerance for crap graphics and little love for the "retro 8-bit indie" style. I didn't wait through thirty years of blocky graphics just to go back to it because "the game play is so good!". Too many games with good game play AND modern graphics.

Of course, I just bought Hotline Miami since everyone gushes about it so it better knock my socks off. $2.50 was the price point for me to take a stab at it.

Originally Posted by DonRamon What's smp if I may ask?

Sid Meiers' Pirates! I assume.

I have a copy and enjoy it (even the changes over the classic Commodore era version) but it glitches terribly and mistimes when I do the dancing part on my Win 7 box. Worked fine on my old Win XP box. I've changed some hardware since then so maybe someday I'll reinstall it and see if that made a difference.

Originally Posted by asheskitty Me too.

Sweet, another picture of asheskitty!

Originally Posted by Neuro5i5 Originally Posted by espy605 Sid Meier's Pirates is still the greatest pirate game of all time, although I have been eyeing Risen for some time because of my love for SMP. Quote: Originally Posted by DonRamon What's smp if I may ask?

oops, he mentioned Risen and I got all aroused it was a sub genre of RPG gaming called SMP....lol!

Originally Posted by Motoki Yeah someone else posted that earlier. Except he doesn't really "respond" at all, he just talks in circles and you don't come away from that interview with anymore information than before you read it.

It tells us that they really don't want to let us know what's going on.

Originally Posted by DonRamon oops, he mentioned Risen and I got all aroused it was a sub genre of RPG gaming called SMP....lol!

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That cat doesn't look grumpy enough.

Originally Posted by MysterD @Idiotekque That cat doesn't look grumpy enough.

Those are sexy eyes. He's aroused.

Originally Posted by Syntax Error I think it's because I lived through that once that I have a low tolerance for crap graphics and little love for the "retro 8-bit indie" style. I didn't wait through thirty years of blocky graphics just to go back to it because "the game play is so good!". Too many games with good game play AND modern graphics. Of course, I just bought Hotline Miami since everyone gushes about it so it better knock my socks off. $2.50 was the price point for me to take a stab at it. Sid Meiers' Pirates! I assume. I have a copy and enjoy it (even the changes over the classic Commodore era version) but it glitches terribly and mistimes when I do the dancing part on my Win 7 box. Worked fine on my old Win XP box. I've changed some hardware since then so maybe someday I'll reinstall it and see if that made a difference.

I'm okay with some old graphics but it depends on which ones we are talking about here. Most 2D stuff from the 8-bit era up (I'll be honest, I won't be playing Atari Adventure any time soon) I am okay with but I feel like that era in the late 90s and early 2000s in the early days of 3D polygonal graphics has aged especially terribly.

It's a shame too because I really do love some of those games like Gothic 2 and Wizardy 8 but you look at those heinous blocky heads and it looks awful. Like Minecraft but worse because it's not even trying to be stylized. That was all they could do with the 3D processing hardware at the time.

Now if you compare those to 2D games of the same era or in some cases earlier, I think those games have aged much better. Baldur's Gate was released around that time and I still think it looks quite good. It's really not that far off from the look of something like Diablo III (just talking visuals, not play style here). Beamdog didn't even really have to do much to it for the re-release.

Oh and I want that damned SMP but it never goes below 50% off.

May have to cave one day and buy it at 50 off but not now. Spent too much this go round already.

Originally Posted by walkonshadows Procedure to decrypt and backup GamersGate Game Setup Files: The installer contact's their servers to unencrypt the installer setup.exe file. I already have all of my GamersGate installers backed up using the following procedure (and you should do it too for any games your worried about losing access to). Which basically removes the need for the installer to contact GamersGate at all, making it a normal unencrypted game installer, taking GamersGate completely out of the equation. You are only backing up the installer files, not installing the game. So this directly answers the question by the poster above. 1. Download installer to an empty directory (preferably already named for the game you are downloading). 2. It should launch into the games setup after downloading. Do not close it, but don't start installing either. 3. Navigate to folder where downloader was stored. 4. You will see the downloader file, and a folder with a random number like "435678", that is the folder where the setup files are stored and currently unencrypted (because the installer is open). 5. Copy all of the contents of the random number folder: example "435678" to the root game folder (where you downloaded the original single .exe file to start downloading the game installation files). 6. After that copy is complete, close the game's setup. It will ask to delete or keep the games setup files, select delete (this will delete the random number folder. Now delete the .exe file (always named for the game your downloading) that downloads the setup files and your done. 7. Done. Some games did come with a serial that will be present of the game's page on your "digital shelf" (look on the right just below the game's profile/avatar pic). Be sure to copy it to a text file in the root game installer folder. If I didn't explain this well, here's another guide (on GOG of all places): http://www.gog.com/forum/general/hel...launch_f/post1

Originally Posted by The End Trick doesn't seem to work for "Space Rangers 2" or "Space Rangers 2 Reboot". It converts the launcher for a split-second, but then it converts it right back and I get the pop-up asking me if I want to delete the content or not. Gonna skip those for now and see if I run into any other snags.

Originally Posted by walkonshadows That doesn't make sense to me. When does it ask to delete the content? when you copy the running .exe?? It can't just immediately close to the "delete temp files" dialog when it decrypts the .exe or you'd never be able to install the game. I don't have those 2 games, so I need a little clarity to help you out.

Originally Posted by The End With the previous 60 or so games that I downloaded, I would click on the download manager that I downloaded from GamersGate. Then a security window from Microsoft would pop up asking if I really wanted to download this. I click "yes", and then the download begins. As soon as the download finishes, I get two separate windows that pop up. One is the actual installer with a menu of items to select (Run, Settings, Install, Uninstall, Manual & Quit). The other one is the window from Gamersgate that usually only pops up AFTER you have chosen to exit out of the installer. It has selections that read: * Remove Temporary Files (Recommended if Instillation was successful) * Keep Temporary Files (If you want to run the installer again) * Restart Installer The "Launch" file in my download location is encrypted. If I click away the installer and select "Restart Installer" from the Gamersgate window pop-up, I can momentarily see the "launch" file un-encrypt, then quickly re-encrypt. It happens much too fast for me to copy the file. Oh, on another note, the download managers from Gamersgate are apparently only good for 24 hours. I just started getting prompted to log-in when I clicked on them. Last night I had just decided to download all the download manager links to save me the hassle of having to go back to the website each time. I've just gone past the 24 hour point from when I did that. So I assume that's what was happening. I just re-downloaded a few of the links and I was no longer being prompted to log-in. EDIT: Oh and I wasn't necessarily asking for you to come to my aid. Didn't mean to make it seem like I was putting you on the spot. I'm not sure if there is a fix to this. Looks like it's just a quirk of that particular game. I quoted your post so that people would know what the hell I was talking about.

Originally Posted by walkonshadows @The End Ohh, so you can't install the game at all. I guess throw a support ticket (an actual one) their way before they go belly up. The Gamersgate menu is detecting the installer "closing", but can't tell the difference between a crash and a user wanting to exit. Windows could be shutting it down automatically due to programing conflicts on GamersGate's end. Try this: 1. turn off DEP (just temporary, turn back on after successful copy of the .exe) Here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ntion-settings 2. turn off all antivirus, and windows firewall (again just for this) 3. Control Panel--->Internet Options--> Custom level--->scroll down to "launching applications and unsafe files" and select "enable". (yes, microsoft buried this settings in internet options even though it applies system wide) 4. right click and run gamersgate install as "administrator" If that didn't work, then you'll have to contact their support, be sure to change all your settings back.

Originally Posted by The End Actually, I haven't tried to install any of the games. I've just been following the instructions that you laid out to back-up the instillation files. I didn't have any trouble with the first 60 games that I backed up. And I haven't had any trouble with the 8 games that I've tried since moving on from the Space Rangers 2 snafu. It was just SR2 & the expansion game, SR2 Reloaded. Everything else has been smooth (albeit time consuming) sailing.

Originally Posted by walkonshadows Right, I'm still talking about corying the .exe without installing the game. My understanding was that as soon as you launched the Gamersgate .exe to install the game, it would immediately crash the installer and bounce to gamergate asking to delete the installer files. My theory is that the game's setup .exe is being flagged by a program (firewall,antivirus,DEP, other windows protections, etc.) shutting it down immediatley, and thereby causing the gamersgate code to believe you purposefully closed the games setup file. That list was meant to eliminate those possibilities.

Originally Posted by The End Oh Ok. I guess it's worth a shot. I'm gonna continue on with the games after SR2 for now, and I'll double back and try SR2 after I'm done. Probably wont get to it until tomorrow. I'll post the results when I have them though.

Well I've tried all that, but it didn't work. So it was apparently just something weird with Space Rangers 2. I was able to download all the other 1C games without a problem.

Honestly, I don't ever care all that much anymore. I'm only bothering to post about it because you went out of your way to try and help me with this walkonshadows. So I figured at the very least, I owed you a report on the results. Though I guess it might come in handy with anybody else who bought the 1C pack and is thinking about backing up the installer files.

Space Rangers 2 is awesome. >.>

Originally Posted by The End Well I've tried all that, but it didn't work. So it was apparently just something weird with Space Rangers 2. I was able to download all the other 1C games without a problem. Honestly, I don't ever care all that much anymore. I'm only bothering to post about it because you went out of your way to try and help me with this walkonshadows. So I figured at the very least, I owed you a report on the results. Though I guess it might come in handy with anybody else who bought the 1C pack and is thinking about backing up the installer files.

Roger that. Gonna take a more knowledgeable person than me. I wonder however if it isn't possible to just copy/paste the game folder that has already been installed as a backup? along with any executables (directX,etc) that the installer came with.