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offline hexane on 2009-09-17 05:37 [#02327197]
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The game takes place at an unknown point in a dystopian
future in Australia, where the Earth has been significantly
damaged by pollution or nuclear fallout. Robert Foster is an
innocent outsider stranded in a vast city where oppressed
civilians live and work in soaring tower blocks... while the
corrupt, covetous and rich lie underground, shielded from
all pollution. Alone, save for a robot circuit board, Foster
must fight for survival... and discover the sinister truth
behind his abduction.

Best game of all time!alltime


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offline hexane on 2009-09-17 05:39 [#02327198]
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Beneath a Steel Sky is a British 1994 science fiction point
and click adventure game in the cyberpunk genre. It featured
comedy elements and was developed by Revolution Software and
published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was
initially released for DOS and Amiga


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offline hexane on 2009-09-17 05:40 [#02327199]
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Beneath a Steel Sky is a British 1994 science fiction point
and click adventure game in the cyberpunk genre. It featured
comedy elements and was developed by Revolution Software and
published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was
initially released for DOS and Amiga.


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offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-09-17 06:00 [#02327206]
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Review

+ awesome visuals
+ good humour
+ engaging puzzles
+ clean interface
+ pretty damn hard

- crappy music and voice acting
- too short?

81%



 

offline md_geist from Man's-Chest-Yeh? on 2009-09-17 06:15 [#02327212]
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It's WHEEZING and BANGING like an asthmatic dinosaur in the
mating season.

[chuckle]


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2009-09-17 06:23 [#02327215]
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I've played a lot of adventure games, but somehow this one
slipped past my radar. Will check this out, thanks.


 

offline khrimson from the fridge on 2009-09-17 06:46 [#02327219]
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it's good, it's freeware now


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2009-09-17 07:03 [#02327222]
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the artist is the same one that drew Watchmen


 

offline md_geist from Man's-Chest-Yeh? on 2009-09-17 07:22 [#02327237]
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It's pretty slow and geeky, but I enjoyed what I played (I'm
shit at compooter games)


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2009-09-17 08:53 [#02327258]
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it's not the best game of all time, but it's a decent
adventure game. 7/10


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-09-17 09:05 [#02327264]
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This looks/sounds awesome. Will it work with windows vista?


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-09-17 09:10 [#02327269]
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does it work on wine


 

offline khrimson from the fridge on 2009-09-17 10:22 [#02327319]
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works in ScummVM


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-09-17 10:31 [#02327324]
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can you explain how you got it working? I downloaded beneath
a steal sky, ran the exe it came with, it made a couple
folders that don't really have much in them, I copied all
the files into ScummVM folder as per the readme
instructions, and then tried adding the game from every
folder I could, and it says it can't find anything. I'm
using vista 64-bit, is that the problem?


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2009-09-17 11:18 [#02327353]
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i'm really looking forward to the soon to be released iphone
version. supposedly the original artist revamped the artwork
and the screenshots look great


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-09-17 11:46 [#02327372]
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go up a folder. seriously thats all you do.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-09-17 12:56 [#02327403]
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I went all the way "up" as far as I could and tried to add
the game at every stage and it says it cant find it. when i
run the BaSS exe it says something about putting a gog.com
folder in my program files, which is where im assuming the
game files would be, but I can't find that folder either. :(


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-09-17 13:02 [#02327405]
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also ive tried running the exe as both win 98 and winxp
compatibility, and as an administrator, to no avail. :(

the installer installs like one file and then says:

"Unrecognized game target: 'beneath
Usage: [OPTIONS] ... [GAME]

try '--help' for more options"



 

offline Steinvordhosbn from London (United Kingdom) on 2009-09-17 13:06 [#02327408]
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I just ran it on vista, though I don't know if it makes any
difference that I have dosbox installed.

I got fucking stuck after going out the door and then
couldn't get back in. Tsssh.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-09-17 13:12 [#02327410]
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if you can't even install it you're probably not going to
get very far in the game. i think thats being fair.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-09-17 13:19 [#02327412]
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yeah it must be completely my fault. no chance of software
error here at all. I'm just clicking on an .exe and it
fails, what should I be doing differently?


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2009-09-17 13:35 [#02327417]
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genuine lol


 

offline khrimson from the fridge on 2009-09-17 13:36 [#02327419]
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sorry I can't help, I played it a couple of years ago and I
don't have it on my hd now


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2009-09-17 16:36 [#02327501]
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It's so easy to run on Scumm. It even ran on my Nintendo DS
last year.


 

offline freqy on 2009-09-17 17:56 [#02327526]
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"while the
corrupt, covetous and rich lie underground, shielded from
all pollution"

sounds like our future.


 

offline hexane on 2009-09-17 19:28 [#02327546]
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WOLFSLICE> Man, surprised you haven't played this yet! Hope
you enjoy.

FREQY>It's a bit of a steampunky vision of the future, now
15 years later (the way they imagined the webs is pretty
lol). It's kinda accurate already though don't you think...
poor living in highrises and rich living on properties

ZEPHYR> Try the 'thinstall' link in my OP it should work in
vista



 

offline hexane on 2009-09-17 23:28 [#02327576]
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did ya get it to work nigga?


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-09-18 00:31 [#02327579]
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no, it seems to be having trouble extracting the files to
programfiles\gog.com. I'm assuming that's where the files
that I'm supposed to copy into scummvm are intended to go,
but the folder just isn't there. oh well.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-09-18 01:30 [#02327582]
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have you tried this?


 

offline hexane on 2009-09-18 01:38 [#02327583]
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ahahahaha v.nice

don't give up on me zeph!


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-09-18 08:15 [#02327626]
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for the record, has anyone using vista 64-bit been able to
get this to work, or are you guys using vista 32-bit?


 

offline khrimson from the fridge on 2009-09-18 12:57 [#02327751]
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the news


 

offline toby from ^_^ (China) on 2009-09-18 14:12 [#02327778]
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ahh cool. would like so much more click and play. does
anyone have suggestion maybe like clocktower or darkseed.?


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-09-18 16:26 [#02327859]
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Oh, well done. With contributions from samaritans
like yourself and a bit of luck, all forums on the internet
may yet degenerate into mirror sites for google.

I know that scummvm works in 64-bit. I'm asking if the
Beneath a Steel Sky installer unpacks properly in 64-bit
vista.

Would anyone else like to offer an annoyingly obvious
suggestion, or have you lot exhausted yourselves?


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2009-09-18 18:30 [#02327912]
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switch to mac


 

offline hexane on 2009-09-18 21:25 [#02327953]
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Zephyr try this 'thinstall' port it requires no setup:

LAZY_TITLE


 

offline hexane on 2009-09-18 21:26 [#02327955]
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switch to windows fag


 

offline hexane on 2009-09-18 21:28 [#02327956]
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most of those links are irrelevant though arent they?


 

offline khrimson from the fridge on 2009-09-19 05:49 [#02328000]
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I don't have Vista 64 but games for scummvm are not exes so
I don't think they cannot work, scummvm is the executable if
it works then it's fine. I think your problem has to do with
gog.com version. try the version on this page:

LAZY_TITLE

@hexane
I found the link trough that google search


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2009-09-19 07:27 [#02328013]
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flags are so 2001


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2009-09-20 13:54 [#02328328]
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I have this on my PSP


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2010-03-15 15:28 [#02371838]
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I finally found a version of this game that ScummVM will
recognize. According to the FAQ page on ScummVm there are
very specific data files that must be present for ScummVM to
recognize the game, so I'm not really sure how anyone was
getting these .exe versions to work, at least not in version
1.0.

Anyway, it's a cool game. I like watching the characters
unhinge their jaws when they speak.


 

offline hexane on 2010-03-17 03:41 [#02372081]
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Glad you got it going. Have ya beat it yet? Admittedly i
needed a walkthrough once or twice...


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2010-03-17 03:43 [#02372082]
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No not yet, I'm almost ground level I think. Is it a pretty
long game? The part where the LINC disposes of that security
officer trying to stop you was badass.


 

offline hexane on 2010-03-17 04:22 [#02372092]
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It's not long at all, as Guybrush pointed out much too
short.
That part was pretty badass, LINC doesn't fuck around


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2010-03-17 04:27 [#02372094]
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He was right about the voice acting, too. I turned it off in
favor of the text-only mode. I actually prefer text to voice
acting in 99% of games, anyway, so turning it off didn't
bother me.


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2012-10-13 21:03 [#02442758]
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works great with some haunted house music playing in the
background


 

offline Haft from Tublin (Ireland) on 2012-10-14 19:09 [#02442825]
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This game looks like a lotta fun. Very airy vibes going on
though. Sort of reminds me of this, one of the
worst trips you'll ever experience in a video game


 


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