i'm in for TE :D

One of my most memorable gaming experiences:

The end of "The Last of Us", and i mean pretty much the last words and looks that are exchanged. Never has any game put so much charakter in so little time and words. The game is a masterpiece, and it doesnt shy away to make a quiet scene as one of the most memorables ever in a world where all is about big set pieces.

I wont spoil the ending here, but "woah ... wait?" describes my reaction to it. At the same time i got to know so much more, and still wanted to know more, but if they ever make a sequel they should build on the world, not on the characters, because they ended on exactly the right note.

I keep forgetting to get this game! I have high hopes that I will play it in 2014! Moving it to the front of my backlog :)

Public demo of Tesla Effect now up... but only on Steam :S

Memorable BUMP! ;)

Thanks for the bump. A bit quiet today :)

Not in bud, but nicely done!

As to a gaming memory, I think having just unleashed Armageddon in Worms: Armageddon when the news hit about September 11th when I was coming down from a particularly bad bout of funghal experimentation is, sadly, rather hard to bypass!

Many thanks foxworks for this wonderful giveaway. TE is already on my radar so I would be in for a combination of other GOG titles please.

Favorite gaming memories would have to be anytime I started up an rpg that I'd not played before. Bard's tale, M&M's, Wizardy's, Ultima's, Witcher, PS:T, TES, Krondor, BG, etc etc etc. As much as beating the game is an achievement, for me it paled in comparison to the beginning moments of immersing myself on a new adventure. Sadly, as I get older, those feelings don't occur as often. It takes longer for me to finish games, and while I still have enthusiasm, I lack the time to fully immerse myself. not to mention with the internet, I don't discover many things for myself if I've already read up on a game I'm interested in.

Thank you again for this chance..

Thanks foxworks and everyone who contributed for making this such a wonderful read. In for the non-tex games.

What I've been thinking of for the last four pages: My humble settlement needed a well. I ordered the construction a little sloppily, and my computer-controlled subjects went about the execution equally lackluster. It could have worked the way I did it, but I failed to make sure. When the shaft was almost finished, both people tasked with digging it fell in, what must be 20m IRL onto stone floor. One was dead on the spot. The body served to cushion the other ones fall, letting them survive with almost no bone unbroken. These two had become lovers only weeks before, the first couple of my little village.

Had I encountered this story in a prewritten adventure/rpg setting, I would have rolled my eyes at the cheesiness and moved on, but the rules of the game and my small mistake combining to produce this out of a simple construction project made it heartwrenching. I did my utmost to watch over the survivor's recovery and after some miserable months in hospital they went on to become the major, the safest job I had to offer.

On a lighter note, a more meta experience with a lot more deaths: I had enjoyed the third part of "Realms of Arkania" a lot, but it took me years to finally find the second somewhere. By that time the game was severly dated, and there was no GOG around to make it work. Walking around towns and doing stuff there worked just fine, but the trouble started when travelling between places. On that travel map the game moved insanely fast on my then modern computer. After a few ingame hours you would get the message that party members get hungry. Normally one would stop the travelling, make camp and continue when everyone was fed and watered. But at the lightning speed this part of the game was running, I couldn't interrupt travel fast enough - only once a party member starved to death the game would stop on its own. No problem, go to a temple to get them revived. Which means more map travelling. More people starved. The game allowed moving around only for parties with more than half the people alive. So I split the group, left the corpses with one watcher and moved on with the rest. More deaths, more party splitting, repeat.

I never got far in that game, obviously, but I had a blast for several evenings with what had turned into a keysmashing arcade game of avoiding being killed by my cpu with a side serving of logic puzzle which way to split the party would yield the best chance to reach a town.

Awesome giveaway for an awesome game! I'm in!

Please count me in for a chance to win the Tesla Effect. Big fan of the series and am anticipating the new title. I do have all of the other Tex Murphy games so I'll pass along the bonus classic game to someone else should I happen to win.

Here are a few of my most memorable game experiences that spring to mind:

1) Halflife

I remember being in Best Buy in Toronto with friends looking at video games and a buddy of mine spotting Halflife and getting all excited about it because he had read about it in magazines and whatnot. None of us had ever heard anything about it and had no idea what he was yammering on about. He bought the game and we all bought some games that day, then we went back to a mutual friend's house and Halflife was the #1 game everyone wanted to see at this point. We installed it, suffered from a CDROM compatibility issue and a few hours delay finding a solution to the problem on the Internet, then finally got to see it. This was on a PC that was high end at the time so we got to see it in all its glory the way it was intended to be also. All I can say is *WOW*. We were blown away by how detailed the game was, the story, the immersiveness, the special effects, the weapons, how the levels joined together seamlessly to give the illusion it was all one big world rather than individual maps. The game just totally blew us away in every way like nothing we'd ever seen before in the world of 3D FPS games. My computer wasn't powerful enough to remotely handle the game so it was many months before I was able to play it on my system and even then it was in super low resolution and crappy in comparison. It was still one of the best game moments ever though.

2) DOOM 3
An employee of ATI or similar had leaked a copy of DOOM 3 development build onto the Internet or something like that and a friend of mine downloaded a copy. Personally I am not interested in game demos of any kind whether they are official or leaks or devel build leaks etc. and so I wouldn't have bothered to download it myself as I just can't be bothered with such. But, my buddy came over to do gaming one night and had it with him and insisted we install it and try it out on my computer which was more powerful than his. After arguing about it for a while, he managed to raise my curiousity and got the best of me. We installed it and it was clunky if I remember but we got the map loaded and just sitting there looking at it blew my mind. The lighting effects were incredible, the mood very dark and scary and ultra creepy. We turned the lights off, cranked the speakers up loud as hell and played it on my 19" monitor which was considered a big monitor at the time. There were no monsters at first and that just made it creepier, you could feel this feeling of an unknown impending doom coming up on you - no pun intended. Then all of a sudden ... THUMP... WHAM... WHAM WHAM WHAM... something BIG was pounding on one of the walls or something. Then it happened... this huge monster beast thingie came flying through the wall with parts of the wall flying all over the place, it saw me and started running at me. It scared the SHIT out of me and I pulled the trigger and ran backwards like you would in real life just about crapping my pants. I even screamed out loud like a little girl and ended up pushing my chair away from the computer and falling off the chair backwards cracking my head on the hard linoleum floor. I got a good goose egg and drew blood. My adrenaline was probably as high as it can go without causing death. Holy shit was that creepy. Sadly, there wasn't much else of the game there to test-run if I remember, but that was one hell of a scary ass experience and the game graphics were just epic compared to anything else out there at the time at least anything I had seen. Eventually DOOM 3 came out and I got the full game of course and it blew me away even more although I still have never finished the damn thing! I totally have to install it one of these days and go through the whole game and hopefully have that same or similar experience again - although I'm toughened up and spoiled a bit from all the games that have come out since, id always did make some scary creepy shit in their games. ;o)

I could tell similar stories of being awed with Halflife 2, Far Cry, and more recently with Tomb Raider (2013), Bioshock Infinite, Metro 2033, but they all mostly sum up to being blown away by graphic and special effect improvements, storyline and immersiveness, and triggering various emotions from fear to excitement or even both at the same time. ;o)

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Some great gaming experiences! Keep 'em coming. Unfortunately, my PC wasn't up to snuff to play the above games on release so I'm doing plenty of catching up! Sad, I have yet to experience half-life. The upshot is I have them in my backlog!

BUMP. Last entry was four days ago. May wrap up this giveaway early :)

Thanks, I'm in for Tesla Effect. Just finished Overseer last night.

Hard to think of a most memorable gaming experience, but one that stands out is the first time I played the Doom shareware episode. I had a pretty crummy computer at the time that had trouble running lots of newer games, and I didn't expect anything from Doom, which was the most hyped up game out there, but I had the disk so I figured I'd give it a shot. Not only did it run, it was perfectly smooth, full-speed performance. I just couldn't believe it. I spent most of the weekend flipping out while I played that demo.

Even if I loved UAKM and bought the full Tex Murphy pack here, I cannot choose the preorder.. I always need user reviews first!
I'll choose the other games codes, then, thanks.

One memorable gaming experience (there are so many!): Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis!! My first adventure and one of the best. I liked it a bit more than Monkey Island due to its great story, music, graphic and movie-like setting.

Just a heads up. I am moving up the closing for this drawing. Last entry will be accepted 11:59PM PDT Friday, April 18 and the winners chosen on April 19. That's right, winners.

I will now hold two separate drawings! One drawing for Tex Murphy, the other for those wanting the other GOG titles.

Please see rules for entry here

Best of luck to all!