Warning: If you work in a place where videos of demons tearing apart the faces of ladies are strictly prohibited, you should probably pass on clicking play until you get home. Everyone else, enjoy the awesome mid-'90s gore.
Digital distribution service Good Old Games recently added Phantasmagoria and Space Quest 4, 5, and 6to its line-up of DRM-free games, hence the video. The point-and-click snuff adventure (read more about it here) and the Space Quest bundle will both run you $9.99.
As for discounts, yep, there are some. Ordinarily priced at $9.99 each, the Red Baron pack and The Incredible Machine pack are half price until Monday. Here's the promo landing page.
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Phantasmagoria is pretty horrendous as a game. It was really just the novelty of ZOMFG LIVE ACTION ACTORS back in the day. It plays completely "meh" (there are practically no clever designed puzzles in the game, it's all just clicking on stuff until the next scene ensues), and the acting is hilariously bad at times. Up to the point where supposedly frightening/disturbing scenes become totally laughable. From a trash perspective it's still fun, but more like how say... an Uwe Boll movie is fun.
Space Quest is awesome though. But isn't the entire series on Steam for 10 bucks?
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You should see some of the other stuff they do in that game. One slight variation of the clip above shows a brief "after" shot of the woman's face. Not pretty.
As Quoth already said, as a game, Phantasmagoria is terrible. It's Roberta Williams logic and the acting is pretty darn bad. Still nice for some good ol' fashioned gore, though.
@Quoth: The 2006 collection edition is up on Steam but it's $20. Also, the original AGI version of SQ1 is missing from the package, which is a downer. (They chose instead to package in the remake -- same for the KQ, PQ and LSL collections. If you're gonna release a collection, why not put everything in? A few hundred kilobytes wouldn't have hurt anybody in exchange for digital posterity.) So you get the first three games for ten dollars more, but GOG is DRM-free and includes a couple of perks. Guess there are pros and cons to both.
I wish this was a definitive SQ collection on GOG, featuring each and every game rather than the prettiest three of the bunch, but this is okay too. I fully back any and all support of Space Quest. Now if only Telltale would announce the acquisition of a few certain Sierra licenses...
Phantasmorgia was Roberta Williams' worst game BY FAR.
Seriously, it was trying to hard to be "mature" it was just a crappy game. I can still hardly believe the same person who brought us King's Quest released this piece of crap.
I've seen maybe 2 or 3 videos of Phantasmagoria, but that's all I needed to be able to tell that the game isn't for me. I love adventure games, but there was something downright unsettling about watching someone be force-fed human organs until they die, and it did not leave me wanting to see more. I'd rather play a game like Resident Evil, where my motivation for playing well is because I'm scared of seeing my character get killed in a nasty way, rather than being a helpless bystander to other people's suffering throughout the game.
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Wow. That was a crazy clip.
DAMMIT I wish GOG did Mac support. (Someone, please PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong that they don't release games for Macs.)
Space Quest is awesome though. But isn't the entire series on Steam for 10 bucks?
You should see some of the other stuff they do in that game. One slight variation of the clip above shows a brief "after" shot of the woman's face. Not pretty.
As Quoth already said, as a game, Phantasmagoria is terrible. It's Roberta Williams logic and the acting is pretty darn bad. Still nice for some good ol' fashioned gore, though.
I wish this was a definitive SQ collection on GOG, featuring each and every game rather than the prettiest three of the bunch, but this is okay too. I fully back any and all support of Space Quest. Now if only Telltale would announce the acquisition of a few certain Sierra licenses...
Seriously, it was trying to hard to be "mature" it was just a crappy game. I can still hardly believe the same person who brought us King's Quest released this piece of crap.