Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is an absolute masterpiece that isn't discussed enough today
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I remember playing this game as a child and not knowing how to progress very far.
TIL this game is actually for sale on digital platforms, I will finally be able to see what the fuck happens after the library or university or whatever it was I was stuck on.
TIL this game is actually for sale on digital platforms, I will finally be able to see what the fuck happens after the library or university or whatever it was I was stuck on.
Great post. I'd say the top 3 LucasArts adventures are Fate of Atlantis, The Curse of Monkey Island, and Day of the Tentacle. Then you throw in Grim Fandango, SoMI, and MI2 and that's one hell of a rock solid top tier lineup.
As someone who mainly grew up playing and loving the Sierra games, that company pushed really hard to associate faces and names with their games. On that note Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer are still quite well known and active in the gaming industry, compared to someone like Noah Falstein (who designed FoA with Hal Barwood). Most people who don't care about adventure games probably know the games Tim designed.
So, FoA falls slightly into the shadow of those more recognizable titles like the MI series or GF. It would be great to see FoA get the same remake/facelift treatment as SoMI/MI2/FT. Regardless, FoA is a fantastic game and a must play for adventurers.
Possibly my favorite game of all time. I adore the entire series and love how each game is unique from the others in presentation and gameplay.
As someone who mainly grew up playing and loving the Sierra games, that company pushed really hard to associate faces and names with their games. On that note Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer are still quite well known and active in the gaming industry, compared to someone like Noah Falstein (who designed FoA with Hal Barwood). Most people who don't care about adventure games probably know the games Tim designed.
So, FoA falls slightly into the shadow of those more recognizable titles like the MI series or GF. It would be great to see FoA get the same remake/facelift treatment as SoMI/MI2/FT. Regardless, FoA is a fantastic game and a must play for adventurers.
Possibly my favorite game of all time. I adore the entire series and love how each game is unique from the others in presentation and gameplay.
This is by far my favourite point and click adventure and one of the best of all time in general. It's my youth (thanks Dad!).
Aaaah, I totally forgot that the floppy version had copy protection; only remembered the pirate heads in SoMI.
Guess it's time to replay the action and think paths, did the team path a few months ago.
Yup.
Love Atlantis and the Dig is underrated.
One thing that the Dig did incredibly well was soundtrack, the dynamic music and ambient sounds were absolutely amazing.
A proper 'remake' with scaled/remade backgrounds and audio/ambient track converted to Atmos would be incredible.
Amazing game, and thanks for letting me know that it supports MT-32. I kinda forgot about MT-32 since Monkey Island 1 and 2 can be made to use either CD music or the Special Edition music in SCUMMVM, but it's indeed the best available sound option for Indy!
I remember playing it with a friend of mine back in the day and we were thinking this game should have been a movie. Great game.
Yeah it's a classic, saying this is the real Indy 4 might be cliche, but i really wish Lucas based Indy 4 off of this, Spielberg even told him Aliens was a bad idea & they should do something else, Atlantis would have been perfect to close the Indiana Jones saga off with.
For me the Amiga version is still the best. Although i had a cable running from my amiga that merged left and right together so i got 4 channels on both ears. Which helps a lot, but is also kinda cheating.
But back on topic, yes Fate was amazing. Although i never heard the spoken voice version. I played Fate on the Amiga as well. I like the start of the tune on Amiga better, but it gets messy 30 seconds in.
I need actually played this one: I had the Action Game version on Amiga though, which I remember enjoying.
I seem to recall team giving me the most problems back in the day. Fists is by far the easiest.
I will definitely check this out :)
I never could afford a roland at home!
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Most of the SCUMM games use the CM-32L rather than the MT-32 (things start to get complicated by this point) but basically what you need for it to run properly is the CM32L_CONTROL.ROM and CM32L_PCM.ROM. Can't really say any more since those are copyrighted ROM files but anyone who needs help with configuring the emulation can feel free to shoot me a private message.
As for installing separate apps for the emulation, the emulator is incorporated into ScummVM now! Just drop the CM32L_CONTROL.ROM and CM32_PCM.ROM files into your Program Files/ScummVM folder, enable MT-32 emulation in the ScummVM options, and you're ready to go. But you can do it with an external program if you want to see the emulated MT-32 LCD panel as well.
Maybe I'll give the game another chance. Any time I play it I get stuck and lose interest :X
This is a good point, hahah. Really the pinnacle of the genre.
I did, great game also. But Fate of Atlantis is on an entirely different level.
Oops, I didn't know there was a voiced version out there. ^^
Back in the day it was my first PnC. It came along with a guide and I just played it while reading what to do. Somehow the idea to solve it myself never occured to me. ^^ I played it so often that in the end I knew it inside out. I think I burned myself out on it, cause I cannot imagine to replay it nowadays, although I know what great game it is. (Same goes a bit for Monkey Island 2, but FoA even more.)
The strange thing is, that I can't really say anything about the quality of the puzzles, as I played it by guide. But looking back, it was quite the tough one, I'd say, especially towards the end.
Back in the day it was my first PnC. It came along with a guide and I just played it while reading what to do. Somehow the idea to solve it myself never occured to me. ^^ I played it so often that in the end I knew it inside out. I think I burned myself out on it, cause I cannot imagine to replay it nowadays, although I know what great game it is. (Same goes a bit for Monkey Island 2, but FoA even more.)
The strange thing is, that I can't really say anything about the quality of the puzzles, as I played it by guide. But looking back, it was quite the tough one, I'd say, especially towards the end.
Thanks, I got it working. Sounds fantastic compared to the default! I didn't realize ScummVM has MUNT built into it now. I'm also happy ScummVM works with Steam version without any mods now as I never bought the game at GOG, only Steam.
As a completely separate issue, do you by chance know anything about the Midi and soundfont support of ScummVM? If you select general midi that comes built into Windows 10 in the audio section, does selecting a different soundfont within ScummVM do anything or do you need to have a soundcard with soundfont support, use external programs, or use built in fluidsynth that sounds strange? I was messing a little bit with KQ6 in addition to starting to replay Fate of Atlantis and wasn't sure what to do for it (I think it was composed with general midi of Roland SC55 in mind).
Ill link u to some sounsfonts i use for gabe knight 1 when i get home.
In general the classic lucasarts releases are drm free foe the most part and there are soundfonts thst help output better audio for sierra games at least.
If u got beneath a steel sky from gog, here is a neat sound mod for it that works woth scummvm
https://www.jameswoodcock.co.uk/con...-a-steel-sky-enhanced-soundtrack-for-scummvm/
There are a few more for other games on that site but this one for bass made the experience better imo.
Remind me to never ever take the Team route again. Game was OK up until the final stretch, being the sub and Atlantis, though even then I still wasn't all TOO impressed with the game :S
Still I see some impressions here that manage to back OP's claim so more power to you chaps and lasses.
Still I see some impressions here that manage to back OP's claim so more power to you chaps and lasses.
My brother bought this for me for Christmas on the Amiga 25 years ago. It came on something like 20 discs! I loved it instantly. However I was completely gutted because one of the discs never worked so I never made it to Atlantis. I started a scumm replay a few years back. This is a reminder that I need to go back and finish it!
It's one of my favourite games on PC period. So many fond memories of playing it back in 1992/93 when I had barely learned to read. In a way it too helped to make me an Indiana Jones fan as by the first time I played the game I hadn't seen all the movies.
Also my first exposition to DRM in video games...
This. A childhood dream in cinematic form that never came to be sadly.
Also my first exposition to DRM in video games...
This. A childhood dream in cinematic form that never came to be sadly.
I loved Fate of Atlantis, maybe not as much as Sam & Max Hit the Road but it's up there for graphic adventures.
Anything outside of Nintendo/Playstation/Xbox is overlooked by most here, unfortunately.