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Re:One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level by xentronium on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:03PM (#12782875)
Blood, anyone? I think Blood is the single scariest game I played as a teenager.
Re:One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level by dakull on Monday October 24, 2016 @06:24PM (#12783458)
The GOG version is great and runs great on modern hardware. Blood was my favorite FPS as a kid.
Re:One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level by qwertyuiop924 on Monday October 24, 2016 @07:57PM (#12783989)
Really? I'll have to check that out when I find the time.
Re:One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level by softawre on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:37PM (#12784237)
If it is like many of their old games, it's just packaging a dos emulator with the game, giving you a single click experience.
Re:One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level by qwertyuiop924 on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:58PM (#12784335)
Oh. Well then, I may as well buy the disks and edit the dosbox confs myself.
Re:One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level by khedoros1 on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:21AM (#12785265)
Well...yes, but in your other comment, you said that it would be difficult to run on your computer. You seemed happy when Dakull mentioned that the GOG version would be trouble-free, and then you seemed disappointed when you heard how it would be done. That confuses me a little.

With the current Dosbox defaults, the game installs nicely, is easy to configure, and runs well. Based on getting the demo running just now:

Extract the files somewhere. Mount the directory in Dosbox. Mount another directory as an install location. Run the install (the demo's is just install.exe). The installer drops you into the game directory when it exits. Run setup.exe. Select Sound Blaster for the SFX, and either Sound Blaster or General MIDI for music (personal choice). Save the configuration and exit. Run the game (blood.exe). Oh, I also set it to 800x600 resolution, when given the option to set a display mode (it's available under the VESA setting).

I see Blood available on Steam for $4.99, on GOG for $5.99...or on Ebay for various higher prices, if you really want the hard copy and the classic-ish setup experience.

Re:One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level by NTripleOne on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @08:06AM (#12795745)
Maybe it's just me; but games played in dosbox never feel... right? That's my biggest gripe with it, at least.
Re:One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level by Gracana on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:14AM (#12785237)
gog is pretty awesome and it'll be a drm-free game download anyway. I've always felt pretty good about paying them for games.
Re:One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level by dakull on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @11:52AM (#12788951)
Did I mention it comes with all the goodies [0] and "DLCs"? but even without that memorabilia (original manuals) the simple fact the the game just runs great is worth the admission price.

[0] - https://www.gog.com/game/one_unit_whole_blood

Re:One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level by qwertyuiop924 on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:09PM (#12782927)
I wasn't there at the time, and it's really hard to actually run Build games nowadays. You have to run DOS, an emulator, or one of several not-entirely-functional sourceports. None of those options are really appealing.
Re:One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level by clarry on Monday October 24, 2016 @06:25PM (#12783459)
It might not be really appealign, but once you take the plunge, is there an actual problem?
Re:One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level by qwertyuiop924 on Monday October 24, 2016 @06:55PM (#12783637)
Getting it running on my computer is hard: that's a pretty big problem.