Topic: Gogamer 48 Hour Madness

[MysterD]

You know the place -- Gogamer!

All prices BEFORE shipping costs, of course.

The 48 Hour Madness List
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Tabula Rasa: Collector's Edition -- $29.90
Timeshift -- $29.90
Everquest II: Rise of Kunark (Expansion) -- $29.90
FEAR: Platinum Edition (FEAR + Extraction Point + Perseus Mandate) -- $29.99
FEAR: Perseus Mandate -- $19.90
SOF: Payback -- $19.90
Loki -- $19.90
Galactic Assault: Prisoner of Power (Import) -- $17.90
Moto GP '07 (Import) -- $14.90
Silverfall DVD (Import) -- $12.90
Nox -- $7.90
Doom 3: Res Of Evil Expansion (Import) -- $5.90

[Pugnate]

Meh....

[Quemaqua]

Nox for eight bucks!  Do it!

[idolminds]

That makes me feel good since I bought Nox at a thrift store for $3 when I was in North Dakota.

[Pugnate]

I'd rather put that $8 towards something better. I realize I find all these great $10 deals, and then end up not having time for those games. It all adds up at the end, I think.

[Quemaqua]

True.  But Nox was awesome.  In fact, I should buy it.  I don't have it.

[Pugnate]

I actually have Nox. It is very cool. I bought it after Xessive showed it to me.

I didn't mean to say Nox wasn't worth it. Was just thinking out loud after having bought 4 great deals for $10, and realizing I spent $40 out of curiosity for four titles I wouldn't give that much time to.

[Quemaqua]

I do hear you.  I've done that a bit much, but most of it is classic stuff I'm glad to have around just in case I someday need to look back on it or remember something I played years ago.

Also, you should go buy Aquaria now.  Except their website seems to be down, so you can't... but at least go find someplace with the demo.

[Pugnate]

Yea I often see a lot of classics that I just want to own, and I find myself very satisfied with those purchases.

I am definitely buying Aquaria. I made that decision when you showed it to us so long ago. Looks to be a gem. The demo I am downloading from the links you posted. Should be done soon.

[MysterD]

Does Nox work on Win-XP? Vista?

EDIT:
I'm reading some reviews about Nox, but this game's MP sounds more like a FPS thing -- DM and CTF modes?? Interesting.

Wait -- can you bring your SP character right into the MP-side???

This game sounds like Diablo, but w/ some of its own twists...

EDIT #2:

That makes me feel good since I bought Nox at a thrift store for $3 when I was in North Dakota.

Idol, how'd you like Nox?

[MysterD]

I realize I find all these great $10 deals, and then end up not having time for those games. It all adds up at the end, I think.

I understand that. I got more games than I have time and actual hard-drive space for.

[idolminds]

I haven't installed it yet.

[PyroMenace]

Nox for eight bucks!  Do it!

Hell yes! I thought this game couldn't be found anywhere!

[Quemaqua]

From Wikipedia:

Shortly after the 1.2 patch release, Westwood Studios (which is a subset of EA) lost full rights to Nox to EA, which then took over "development"[citation needed]. EA chose to no longer support Nox, and the official Westwood servers for Clan, Ladder and Standard multiplayer were closed, as well as the online ladder ranking system. Without the knowledge of how to host proper dedicated servers, or the ability to easily produce new content for the game (EA had strictly been against releasing the map editor for Nox), the Nox community quickly fell apart due to lack of quality hosting[citation needed]. It has since been discovered that a dedicated Nox server can be run using the program arguments -serveronly, -port, and -clientport, and some servers are now run by the remaining community which rival the quality of the official servers[citation needed].

Eventually, major server exploits and hacks, further led to the diminishing of online play[citation needed]. A significant contribution to this decline was the public release of an exploit which was capably of crashing servers; disgruntled players would often crash both official and private Nox servers[citation needed]. EA discontinued support for Nox before this exploit was fixed. A handful of Nox players from both forum communities still play the game online, however (ie, NoxForum).

Gee, EA fucking something up?  Who'd have thought?  This makes me even more curious, though.

[MysterD]

EA sucks.

EDIT:
Looks like this thread on these Noxforum Boards is a lot of help for trying to Nox going on XP.