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One of the best games of all time.

This is what Warren Spector made while Romero was busy pissing money away and constantly rewriting Daikatana.

The one worthwhile thing to come out of Ion Storm.

Lots of emergent gameplay. Almost always more than one way to solve each puzzle. Stealth, brute strength melee, long range combat, explosives, computer hacking ...

Branching story with multiple endings.

A must play.

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Having played a good portion of Daikatana with a big fix-up mod, I'd say it's one of those games where there's a good game trying to get out and would have been a great if it released in a better state - but it didn't. However it's really hard to see how any commercial project could do an overhaul/remake to try and explore that potential and not deal with that baggage. Probably similar for Duke Nukem Forever, if that had been a well run project instead of a 14 year saga, it seems like the poison is being a bit drunk on earlier success and having too much money available without accountability for it.

maybe if they released Daikatana today it would be hailed as GOTY and get all the prizes. but those days, people expected a game to actually work.

> The one worthwhile thing to come out of Ion Storm.

Anachronix too. Not a 10/10 game but an absolutely solid entry for the period.

Oh my god!

For 15 years I have been trying to recall the name ofthis game my mom got me randomly for for PC as a kid!!!!!!!!!

I have googled EVERYTHING possible related to "late 90s to early 2000s PC game starting with A".

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

ChatGPT is great for these tip of the tongue/joystick type things.

For sure. I haven't thought of this particular TOMT for a few years now, IE; last time I dug was before LLM/Chatbot popularity.

So it's kind of like a.....double whammy for me. Can't wait to play later.

I might have to try it. Currently playing Beyond Zork.

ChatGPT is great for {inser anything} things.

*Anachronox

and not to forget the soundtrack masterpiece, which until today gives me goosebumps.

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