Anyone else played or even heard of this game? I saw it while scrolling through GOG to find some interesting vidya and it seemed neato enough.
Messiah
William Sanders
Matthew Myers
I did, more than a decade ago. I remember it having clunky controls, but not much more.
Austin Edwards
I went ahead and picked it up, since I can refund it if I don't like it. The default controls are shit, but you can rebind them luckily, and I like how it plays well enough, infiltration gameplay using body swapping.
Carter Robinson
I hear it was a unique game
Asher Richardson
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Connor Jenkins
Played when it came out (late 90s or early 00s can't remember), it had an interesting concept but I didn't like the controls (even back then).
I remember it being overhyped as fuck by gaming magazines, probably that's why it disappointed me.
Elijah Howard
That was a thing in gaming mags, even then?
Jose Harris
Yes, of course. In some cases it was fabricated, paid by devs (also paid reviews were always a thing too) or legit hype by the guys who worked on mags (there were gaming mags staffed by actual gamers back then, I know it's hard to believe but it's true).
Jace Ward
Damn, I guess that's what happens when a hobby get some suits with a lot of money. Never kept up with the magazines myself. I guess without all the hype, Messiah is a 6/10 game. It's not particularly good, due to the controls and camera sucking ass for the most part, but the gameplay and story seem interesting enough.
Samuel Scott
Back then it was way, way, way easier to generate hype and fabricate how good a game was. Since that was essentially the only place you even knew what the new games were at the time. Aside from going to the store and seeing a display for it.
It was way easier to control the narrative back then that a game was good when it was actually shit. And paid reviews was just the norm. Like read up on the Driver 3 controversy about how the main reason that game sold decently well for its time was because they paid off two magazines to publish glowing reviews of the game and censored opinions on fan forums. Which was also way easier to do because there was no sites like 4chan where you could organize people against it.
In fact the only proof we have now that it even took place (since they also baleeted Google Cache) was because one dude was smart enough to archive all of the evidence.
Lincoln Morales
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Carter Ward
I remember reading about it in mags back in the day, but never really got around actually playing it. Thanks for reminding me about it, OP.
Nicholas Hall
Imageboards existed at the time but most massed gaming communities mostly used internet forums and shit like ign.
It wasn't like now where developers actually visit them. It was unheard of to see devs find their comments sections trolled with memes or their aggregate scores skewed because of groups of people organized to do so.
I remember at the time most people I talked to online trusted gamefaq's reviews more than IGN. And that's insane thinking back on it.
Hudson Morris
Driver going to shit after the first two games is such a game, the first two games were so good. Even had blinker technology which modern games like GTA still haven't figured out.
They had a significantly smaller user base and video games were still in a sort of golden age. Most video game discussion was on your big forums like gamefags and fanforums, at least in terms of visibility.
Aiden Price
I'm having some trouble finding an active torrent for this game, since it's so old and both dev team and publisher are dead, I don't think it should be paid for. I can upload my GOG copy somewhere if you guys want to play it.
Chase White
I remember playing it, thinking "can't be as bad as people say". So I start, wander around a bit, walk to a car… walk through a car, actually. Clip right through the hood. Not even five fucking minutes in, and I bump into a glitch.
Asher Mitchell
I tend to buy GOG games because I support GOG as a site and I want to see it continue.
Since it's shown devs will re-release their games to it and make pre-fixed versions. A lot of the time it's significantly better than Steam versions too. And they patch out disk checking.
Like I loved it when Dark Forces 2 was re-released on GOG because I could never play that game properly until it was.
Seeing the site stay relevant long enough for other games like No One Lives Forever (I still have hope dammit) being re-released is enough for me.
Ian Richardson
As a poorfag, I'd appreciate it. (If there's extras, please upload them too.)
Parker Hughes
What are some free ways to upload files publicly now? Megaupload is kill and I don't know where else I can put it.
Angel Gomez
Mega.nz
Firestop
Mediafire
Chase Martinez
I found a physical cardboard box copy a few years ago (still wrapped in plastic and all, I have no idea where the shop found it). But I can't get it to run on Windows 8. Anyone knows how GOG managed to make the game run on modern computers?
Ian Parker
I played it, it's clunky but unique.
Ending was sad as fuck.
Jacob Foster
Check pcgw if they have a fix or just get a dedicated XP machine for old games.
Luke Harris
I played it when I was a kid, it scared the shit out of me
could your dad be possessed? could your mother?
how do you know?
Adrian Gray
Virtual machine nigger, it's way easier than going through all the trouble
Adrian Cooper
That game was a victim of over hype and being released early/incomplete.
In the initial release, the intro of the game didn't even have any sound. They later patched it in. You had to download the patch from the website.
It was an ambitious game withn a neat idea. Just it unfortunately didn't make the deadlines and it shows.
Joshua Morales
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Joshua White
I'll upload the game tonight with the extras, don't have time right now due to my work. I've also got some other GOG games if anyone wants them, like Shadowrun Returns, STASIS, and Shadow Man.
Jonathan Adams
Ayden Hughes
Adrian Foster
Thanks lad, might dump some other games if anyone is interested, pic related.
Christian Adams
Pirated a copy a few years back.
I really liked the whole Geist possession aspect, tho I wish it was more open world with less annoying platforming sections.
But what I remember the most? The game broke my fucking microphone.
It never worked right after that. Every time I would turn it on slightly, I could hear the loud screeching sound. Any other anons have similar problems?
Ryan Reyes
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