Nice article NTSC-uk recently had on Dreamweb, but no corresponding topic? No people talking about it? No mention of the Amiga version or the fact that the PC game is easily found on abandonware sites?
For shame retro fans!
Anyway, nice write up. So good I tracked it down, (about 9mb I think, and don't ask me where, Google is good for more than just finding naughty pictures
).
I also tracked down a PDF of the diary and manual, and I'm very impressed with the diary. It was actually hand written, not just printed, and makes for a good read. I really like it when games include a short novella for you to read.
But I really liked it, mainly since I love dark moody games like this (currently going through System Shock 2 as well ^_^). I also loved the unique control method, where you can look at and pick up every single item, and read descriptions of everything. Spent ages examining pipes, food cartons, literally everything. It reminded me of Morrowind/Oblivion, in the way every item could be picked up, just about.
So yeah, why has no one else started a topic on this? It's a really good sci-fi adventure, and easy to complete. The sudden death situations aren't that bad (only the first killing is tough), and it's quite easy once you realise you need to only keep your eyes focused on items likely to be usefull (EG: the gherkin on the floor clearly isn't
). I completed it in 3 days, on/off playing, only looked at a FAQ at once (beach puzzle had me stumped).
EDIT:
Apparantly there's also a CD ROM version with voice acting, I only found the disk version. But they both require DOSBox to work. It's the first time I've really properly used DB, and also dloaded a nice front end for it. Simple to set up, so it's worth experimenting with.
For shame retro fans!
Anyway, nice write up. So good I tracked it down, (about 9mb I think, and don't ask me where, Google is good for more than just finding naughty pictures
).I also tracked down a PDF of the diary and manual, and I'm very impressed with the diary. It was actually hand written, not just printed, and makes for a good read. I really like it when games include a short novella for you to read.
But I really liked it, mainly since I love dark moody games like this (currently going through System Shock 2 as well ^_^). I also loved the unique control method, where you can look at and pick up every single item, and read descriptions of everything. Spent ages examining pipes, food cartons, literally everything. It reminded me of Morrowind/Oblivion, in the way every item could be picked up, just about.
So yeah, why has no one else started a topic on this? It's a really good sci-fi adventure, and easy to complete. The sudden death situations aren't that bad (only the first killing is tough), and it's quite easy once you realise you need to only keep your eyes focused on items likely to be usefull (EG: the gherkin on the floor clearly isn't
). I completed it in 3 days, on/off playing, only looked at a FAQ at once (beach puzzle had me stumped).EDIT:
Apparantly there's also a CD ROM version with voice acting, I only found the disk version. But they both require DOSBox to work. It's the first time I've really properly used DB, and also dloaded a nice front end for it. Simple to set up, so it's worth experimenting with.
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