Alone in the Dark

mickkk · Post by **mickkk** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:13 pm

Hasnt the Alone in the Dark series been posted in the wrong section, I thought it was more of an adventure collection rather than a shooter.

mickkk

Post by **hfric** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:28 pm

its the first survival horror game EVER , so its a shooter with a adventure in it

Oyn · Post by **Oyn** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:29 pm

I wouldn't call it a 'shooter', there are at least as many melee weapons as there are guns in the game.

barev · Post by **barev** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:19 am

Who cares what genre is it exactly, it's a really good game, true classic.
I remember when I played it back in 1995 on my 486 laptop, even though the laptop didn't have a soundcard that was the most awesome game I've ever played back then.

mickkk · Post by **mickkk** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:36 pm

Who cares what genre is it exactly

I do!!

and if it wasnt important we could post anything we liked here and WHERE we liked as long as it fits the 2003 limit. you see then chaos comes and plays a big part in you trying to find your download, because your looking in the wrong section of the site which is getting bigger and bigger and.........

mickkk

Rekrul · Post by **Rekrul** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:14 pm

barev wrote:Who cares what genre is it exactly, it's a really good game, true classic.
I remember when I played it back in 1995 on my 486 laptop, even though the laptop didn't have a soundcard that was the most awesome game I've ever played back then.

I tried playing Alone in the Dark a while back. It seemed to run ok under Windows 98, but I couldn't make Mr. Pringles run no matter what I did. It also had a nasty tendancy to corrupt my save files at the same point every time, making it impossible to get by a certain area.

Xeon · Post by **Xeon** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:16 am

Rekrul wrote:
barev wrote:Who cares what genre is it exactly, it's a really good game, true classic.
I remember when I played it back in 1995 on my 486 laptop, even though the laptop didn't have a soundcard that was the most awesome game I've ever played back then.
I tried playing Alone in the Dark a while back. It seemed to run ok under Windows 98, but I couldn't make Mr. Pringles run no matter what I did. It also had a nasty tendancy to corrupt my save files at the same point every time, making it impossible to get by a certain area.

the game has an awful method to make Pringles run and if im not mistaken processor speeds tend to take into account. i managed to make him run at times on my 300 Mhz PC, slowing it made it a easier (still not snappy).

i think the way is to move forward, release then move again right after releasing, pretty hard to pull off really. how todays people with Ghz PCs cope with it would be beyond me (DOSBox maybe?).

Rekrul · Post by **Rekrul** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:57 am

Xeon wrote:the game has an awful method to make Pringles run and if im not mistaken processor speeds tend to take into account. i managed to make him run at times on my 300 Mhz PC, slowing it made it a easier (still not snappy).

i think the way is to move forward, release then move again right after releasing, pretty hard to pull off really. how todays people with Ghz PCs cope with it would be beyond me (DOSBox maybe?).

Yes, if I remember correctly, you were supposed to tap the forward key twice. I think I managed to do it once. Then I read that running was required to get past later parts of the game and I realized that I'd never be able to complete it.

I'll never understand why they would do it that way. If the game had been programmed for a console with limited buttons, it might make sense, but a keyboard has enough keys to map every single function in the game to a dedicated key.

Also, for some reason, every time I got to the point with the pirate ghost (I think), the game would corrupt my save file. I'd save before I got to that point, re-load it to test it and it worked fine. I'd continue on, get killed, re-load the save and the game would crash. At first I figured it was just a bug loading at that point, but I started a new game, loaded from there and it still crashed.