I’ve played a shit load of games. I’d like to think that I’ve played most PC games.

Sacrifice is that good.
Nox is that good.

I’ve played through them countless times, never got tired. Haven’t fallen in love with a game like that ever since.

“My Pet Rock… will be… an orphan..”

It´s incredibly amusing and sad at the same time.

In any event, I will be get around to playing my copy of Sacrifice very soon and will post my renewed opinions on here when I have! :)

Well, I read the 2 articles about Sacrifice and now there’s a high probability I’m gonna play it.
Thank you for this great homage, I read wiki articles about AP and all the stuff, but I don’t feel so sad.

You know, I played Counter-Strike since first release (in LAN), Day Of Defeat first beta, Front Line Force (Half-Life 1 mod) and many other mods/games back in the days, there was a special feeling, a “natural” co-op game, some values, no griefer/cheater at all.

Now it’s dead, all these good players I “knew” seems to have disappear, CS became a huge joke, DoD is MoH copycat, FLF is a ghost (:’(), there’s no more the magic 50+ players servers on Vietcong 1 (omg that was so freaking awesome), today no one know Dungeon Keeper, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, …

But I don’t feel sad. I still have TIE Fighter/X-Wing CDs, people still developing things like DOSbox, and I can’t believe all these people who played such games died/travelled to another planet.

Finally, there was players for these games, why there won’t be players for such games, today ?

Don’t misinterpret actual situation : there’s more and more players, but there’s still many “good” “open-mind” players ; they were x% of total players, now they are y%, there’s just plenty of new gamer (ex. “casual” gaming).

Thanks again for the article :D

Can I also say that between DOSBox and GOG.com, retro PC gaming is in the ascendancy and you see people talking about 10 year old games all the time on all sorts of sites now! I also want to say how the gaming media has changed too, and how articles like the above, taken from PC Gamer, are just not written with that type of insight and skill any more!

I have Sacrifice sitting proudly next to Giants and Wargames. Once I finish Gabriel Knight again I am going to dig out Sacrifice and see if I can get beyond about level 4! Like others I egotistically believe I am a better player all these years later, but somehow I think we all get softened up by shallower, easier later games! :)

What I do remember of it – probably tinged with nostalgia from reading this article, admittedly – was a game of the same ilk as Magic Carpet. As has been said, the feeling of manic power those games gave seems to have fallen by the wayside. I can remember playing both the Magic Carpet games to absolute death, simply because they fed my inner megalomaniac.

Being able to sweep around landscapes tearing the ground apart, dismissively annihilating minions between blasting a real big beastie was just special. That sort of game used to keep me up all night, provoking increasingly irate visits from my sleep-deprived parents, thanks to my joyous laughs of power.

Now I’m stuck herding enormous grazing cocks with my dozen or so underlings in Spore. That is probably the closest game I can think of playing in recent times. Most other games seem to have become more like the westernised film industry – all about set pieces and plot devices. Some great games follow that formula, but I miss the choice of something grander and more free-form.

I mean, how many million times better would Oblivion have been if you could unleash the kind of fury that Sacrifice or Magic Carpet allowed you to dish out as a matter of course? Many many, in my opinion.

I still listen to the soundtrack. Great game.