Seems like Activision released a bunch of classic games today, and among them is Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. This is a really nice surprise, I really had fun with this game and I've always hoped it would come to Steam, but I didn't think it would really happen

The other released games are games from Sierra :

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Sierra
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Sierra%20On-Line


https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/crrOy/arcanum-of-steamworks-and-magick-obscura

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Have you played it ?

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oh how I loved this game! Sadly it never got as popular as it deserved, devs missed their opportunity and released it when whole genre of isometric RPGs was already dying, if it got released 2 years earlier it would be a massive hit!

8 years ago
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Ahh Arcanum, one of the most underrated games ever made. The fun I had playing my tech character!
I mean don't get me wrong I am not saying its perfect, game is full of bugs and ending is... well... not great
Not everyone has the patience to play it, let alone finish it but it might be one the best RPGs ever made.
I hope steam adds fan made mods and patches.
Thanks a lot for the news and GA. I hope we get to see Torment again too.

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yeah, I also played as techie ;)
and you are right, I did not have the patience enough to finish it ... or maybe I did, but the ending was so ... unending that I don't remember it

8 years ago
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i want to cry c':
you made my day, buddy.

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As it turns out, that elf was one of the nicer and friendlier ones compared to the ones in their native land. :)
On the plus side, their leader kicks ass. She is a healer and one of the best ranged fighter followers in the entire game.

8 years ago
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Man, there's like 5+ ways to get that info, including searching the cabin after you kill the elf.

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Checked out the other game releases you linked and found out....Quest for Glory 1-5 is available on Steam!! BUY IT NOW, y'all!

Then go pick your nose. For reals. In game of course, dummy. And use a lockpick, not your hand.

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Great game, played this a while back!

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Got them all on GOG a while ago and won't get them on Steam again unless they turn up in a bundle. Arcanum is a really unique and pretty good RPG, so get it if you don't have it yet.

8 years ago
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Got them all on GOG a while ago and won't get them on Steam again unless they turn up in a bundle.

Just got the 20$ bundle... -_-

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Oh, wow! I played the hell out of that game back in the day.
Good to see it coming back.

8 years ago
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Yeah that was one of my first games I bought. I spend countless of hours in this. Still have the disc.

8 years ago
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INCLUDING
http://store.steampowered.com/app/10100/
King's Quest Collection (I-VIII, 1985-1998) ist back :3333333333333

Good for Collector, bad for Removed Steam games seller :)

8 years ago
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  1. my fav game of all times
  2. not sure if it's gonna work sweet on steam with overlay and 3rd party patches hmmmmmmmmm

anyway
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v9dunwue3vwavji/arcanum_3rd-party-addons-patch.zip?dl=0

8 years ago
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Awesome! Never been a fan of the Gabriel Knight series, but I wanted to play Arcanum for a long while.

8 years ago
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Sierra was my favorite developer when I was young... good to see some classics coming to Steam.

8 years ago
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I'm quite surprised most people have said Yes in the poll :O

8 years ago
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Bunch of liars ! Well, I knew that this game isn't one of the most popular but still had a decent fanbase, but I still expected a majority of no.
A possible explanation is simply that people who played it are much more likely to open this thread.

8 years ago
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well, tha name of the game in the title was definitely what made me click to check, even though i should be asleep as of now :D

8 years ago
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That was one of my favorites back in the day. I even own it off GoG.

Being a Nietzsche Poster Child was always fun.

Or an elf with a magic allergy. :P

Just be careful of that 'special' one in the brothel. >_<

8 years ago
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finished 2 times, one of my favourite game of my childood <3

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OMG ! one of my first real rpg, this game was really awesome with a lots of possibility in game, the background was really well done, i still have the CD and game installed on my PC so i don't need to buy it on steam though :D

Also notice with your link some gabriel knight game... i had one but never was able to finish it^^ (harder when you don't have internet to unblock you ;) )

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I really had fun with this game and I've always hoped it would come to Steam

Meanwhile, the rest of us already got it on GOG during one of its many regular 80+% off discounts. :P
Was only $1 when I got it. ^.^

8 years ago
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I didn't really need it badly since I still have a physical copy, I just thought it would be nice to have it on Steam as well

8 years ago
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Okay, I got a 'strong desire/need it badly' vibe from the use of the phrase 'always hoped', so I was just teasing the fact that most anyone who was familiar with the game had likely already gotten a copy by now. ^.^

8 years ago
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I bought a GOG copy last sale even though I have a ~ decade old boxed copy :) This is the dearest of all games from my childhood - I was disappointed at first as one of the box art looks completely different and expected a side-looking fighter-shooter something, but then as scarce new games were in my childhood I just tried to make the most out of it, learnt the language with it, expressions, settings, tones, euphemisms, etc. It left me with memories like kicking (and missing) a wolf so hard that my head rolled off, the unstoppable force mage (ridiculous), trying to shoot open a chest with a 100% wizard only to get critically damaged by the shotgun for 98% of my health, meeting Gill Bates and Appleby, fighting The Rabbit, finding the brahmin before even knowing about Fallout, accidentally f***king a sheep .... Oh the memories :D

8 years ago
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Played it, beaten it, have it in my game shelf (no digital version yet).

It's a wonderful mess of a game. Lots of bugs, terrible game balance and and end part that feels unfinished... but the setting is amazing and there's just so much to do in the game.

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It's a wonderful mess of a game. Lots of bugs, terrible game balance and and end part that feels unfinished... but the setting is amazing and there's just so much to do in the game.

tl;dr version: Troika Games. :P

Gotta love 'em, especially with that creativity and breadth of gameplay that still stands out among games to date..
..but also gotta be glad that they didn't end up carrying that reputation of buggyness over to Obsidian. :P

..oh, wait- nevermind. >.>

8 years ago
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I think Troika made Temple of Elemental Evil as well, and it was pretty buggy. I highly recommend people try out the Circle of 8 mods for the game. They fix a LOT of bugs and add some really neat content. I completed that one, and it was a good game when the bugs were squashed.

8 years ago
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Arcanum, ToEE, and VTMB, yeah. All three are excellent games that far out-class similar games of their genre in creativity, atmosphere, breadth of gameplay, depth of content.. and buggyness :P

The unofficial patches for all three games are pretty much a necessity to play them. :X
(And the Co8 mod for ToEE and Clan Quest Mod for VTMB do a good job of expanding content, as well. ^.^)

ToEE is basically as close to a tabletop experience of D&D as we've gotten in CRPG form thus far. It's good fun. ^.^

8 years ago
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I think I have one of the Vampire games on CD somewhere, but I've never played it. I used to have a glow-in-the-dark Malkavian t-shirt, but it eventually fell apart from being so old. :(

I really thought ToEE wasn't as bad as people said when it came out, even with the bugs. Another game I enjoyed more than most people was Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. I completed that one, and managed to avoid the bug that apparently would delete your harddrive if you uninstalled it a certain way.

And I agree with your assessment on ToEE being quite close to an actual tabletop experience.:)

8 years ago
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Hm, maybe I have ToEE as well on GOG. In one of my weak moments I bought every old cRPG/classic on GOG - Icewind Dal1-2e, BG1-2, ToEE (?), with Arcanum and Planescape Torment recently. I just need to cool my head down a little and get back to these games from the faster ones :)

8 years ago
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Vampire I think was the game that managed to overtake Quake II in terms of amounts of glitches and bugs, but not in patches. (Although IIRC, StarCraft 1 is the king of patch amounts.) Just the list of bugfixes on those three games are longer than the feature list of each and every video game released in the past decade.

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Are you sure it was StarCraft 1? They did a lot of unit balancing, but I don't recall it being buggy. Diablo 2 on the other hand...., well that was nearly unplayable till patch 1.07 or something hit. :)

8 years ago
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Yeah, I was referring to the unit balances, sorry. It had over 100 patches that messed around it? Somewhere along that number, I remember the patch list on its wiki is massive. (Good thing that according to its fans, it is the most balanced RTS ever. I'd hate to see how many rebalance patches it would have gotten if it was not balanced…)

8 years ago
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Now bring us ToEE and I'll be in heaven!

8 years ago
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Wishlisted, joined, thank you and bump.

8 years ago
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Here's to hoping it doesn't crash all the time on steam

8 years ago
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I noticed this earlier. I will be buying every one of the games they released in Steam today as soon as they see a sale. NOSTALGIA FOREVER!! ^_^

8 years ago
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FINALLY

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8 years ago
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Wow, I loved this game, never finished it though. :( Doubt I'd remember to give it a try if I bought it again, but I'll have to keep watching for sales anyway... :)

8 years ago
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It's 1-2$ on every sale on GOG :3

8 years ago
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Fortunately this amazing new Humble Bundle solved all my problems... :)

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