Can someone explain the appeal of "ripped" games?

NE0 · Post by **NE0** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:00 pm

germo wrote:Maybe in Alice, NFSU, Q2 and some other games music creates the mood but generally it doesn't. Seriously I think I could count all games I've ever played which had great music. In all other games I'm turning music down and listening to radio For cutscenes: maybe in 10% of the games they are worth a penny. In many others they are just annoying.

I know this aint a shooter but play rollcage 1 & 2 pc or psx (same soundtrack) this is one of the best ost i heard for a racing game, beats most newer nfs (nfs 4 for me has the best musik) (yeah i know i like techno, house, this type of music) but serously they rock.

germo · Post by **germo** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:58 pm

Yeah and music from Wipeout rox too! Future Sound of London - We have the Explosive is maybe best in-game track I've ever heard

Post by **MasteromaN** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:37 pm

Hey guys, have you played the rip of Ed Hunter ? Sometimes, but only sometimes, music is important.

erty906 · Post by **erty906** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:48 am

There's something I HATE about RIPs... Imagine Myst, Without sounds... You can't finish it, there's puzzles sound based...

Post by **Scaryfun** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:39 am

That's why no rips exist for a lot of early cdrom adventures... if gameplay is affected by missing speech or movies then rips would be nuked.

Narfous · Post by **Narfous** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:03 pm

heh the scarface rip was terrible, no sound at all!

erty906 · Post by **erty906** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:19 am

SCARFACE WITHOUT SOUNDS ?!? Horrible... Tony's quotes are the only thing that make this game fun...

Post by **zobraks** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:50 pm

Scaryfun wrote:That's why no rips exist for a lot of early cdrom adventures... if gameplay is affected by missing speech or movies then rips would be nuked.

Unfortunately, some of the adventure rips still exist, to little avail. I've played the rip of Normality (1996), and although it's a great game in its own right, it turned out that almost all the important clues for advancing were in the cutscenes which (due to their size) were missing.

While someone might consider such blunders as nice additional challenges in adventures, I don't.