![[PC, Steam] Heretic/Hexen 4-Game Pack $1.49 @ Steam](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/85/845485.jpg?h=ae9dca74)
Games include
Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders (very positive)
HeXen II (very positive)
HeXen: Beyond Heretic (very positive)
Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel (mostly positive)
old games, but a decent deal at <40c per game
[PC, Steam] Heretic/Hexen 4-Game Pack $1.49 @ Steam
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docians on 12/05/2024 - 12:06 store.steampowered.com (1704 clicks)
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Last edited 13/05/2024 - 16:37 by 1 other user
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You had to be there at the time, when there was almost no good first person action games and the Doom engine was like next gen shit.
I was there and these games were great.
I spent many hours turning my brothers into chickens in multiplayer. This was very good at the time
I was there…
I was there, gandalf…… I was there 3000 years ago.
The memories ☺️
Doom, Simpsons Doom and Heretic are my childhood.
I still have a sealed big box copy of this one.
Simpson doom! Now that takes me back
Great games but eclipsed by Doom, Wolf 3d, Unreal and Quake series during its time
The Gauntlets were my favourinte, in the day. I don't remember the levels looking as similar to Doom as this video shows 🤔 https://www.google.com/search?q=pc+game+heretic+gauntlets&oq…
The sort of game I'd expect to see go free on GoG, but would look better on an emulator with good upscaling (as is the case with most this age)
HEXEN ii prob has the most hours for me growing up as a kid, next to classics like Duke Nukem 3D, and virtual Springfield .
Now these are games I haven't played in decades!
Anyone tried playing this on the Steam Deck?
Like to know this too
I just loaded it up on steamdeck. It works but I had to choose a community controller layout as you need to map keyboard bindings to the controller. The default “official Raven” one didn’t work for me
sweet, thanks for reporting back, care to share which community controller you ended up with?
how is the control like? arrow keys or ASDW with mouse look?
I’d suggest using the GZDoom source port if you want to use mouse look
Why haven't classic games like this been remastered? Heretic, Commander Keen, Leisure Suit Larry, etc.
At least Leisure suit Larry got some modern day additions to the series, even if (iirc) they were not received well.
Ah, Commander Keen. I used to be able to read the intergalactic alphabet. And I was very surprised it's used in Minecraft.
Still can't find Keen 6 anywhere. I played that demo to death.
IIRC the Steam version of these games comes with DOSBox as the emulator. Not recommended.
I’d suggest using GZDoom as the source port if you’d like a more modernised experience, or Chocolate Doom if you want to replicate the original 90s experience
I just played the original Heretic game and it ran fine through DOSBox.
It is fine, but IMO there’s better options
Hexen 2 was a classic. I remeber going into Ozgames at Chadatone shopping centre back in the day buying a large boxed copy for a massive premium of $89.95 😬😬
Yes, walls lined with boxes of PC games. Me never having enough money to buy Hants often as they were all bloody $80+. Love going into Myer centre then up the top just under the dragon roller coaster to the PC games shop in Brisbane. Oh the memories…
I use to also go to the top floor of Myers to check out all the boxed games. They would often have games on clearence that I would pick up cheap.
I used RBA's inflation calculator and assuming you made the purchase in 1997, that's $180.88 (almost exactly double) in 2023 dollars.
Games weren't cheap back then, and piracy was rampant as they didn't have platforms like Steam and Epic to keep the prices low.
I'm pretty sure these are available as abandonware, eg, https://dosgames.com/game/hexen-beyond-heretic/
"Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, which can no longer be found for sale, and for which no official support is available."
I use the word abandonware for products that cannot be legally purchased new. This includes PC games like Godfather (2006), Quantum of Solace, Forza Horizon 3, Prey (2006), Deadpool. Also anything out of print that isn't available for retail digitally (some books, comics, card decks, old consoles and the cartridges or discs for those consoles containing those games). Some GTA games even had some of there song removed due to copywrong.
Most can be purchased 2nd second on Ebay etc but are extremely expensive. Out of print Tarot decks can sell for over $1,000 for instance. Personally I have issues pir8ing abandonware since the developers/writers/artists aren't getting a cent off the second hand hand, while scalper parasites are making a fortune.
A lot of PC games that were once abandonware now no longer are, mainly due to Gog, but more are showing up on Steam as well now.
I didn't really mean Abaondonware^TM, I just meant there's a heap of sites with old games like this for free online. I used to play a free-ish version of Master of Magic until it popped up on Steam.
Personally I have issues pir8ing abandonware since the developers/writers/artists aren't getting a cent off the second hand hand, while scalper parasites are making a fortune.
Wouldn't that mean that you should support it as it's the scalper parasites that are losing out and the devs etc aren't making a cent anyway?
developers/writers/artists aren't getting a cent off the second hand
Even if you were to buy them first-hand, the people that made the games probably left the companies. And even if they were still working there, the money would go to the publishers, not them.
Nice find. Thanks OP.
Wanted to play Hexen after reading John Romero’s DOOM Guy. Thanks OP!
I remember playing these (and Rise of the Triads) in the early 2000s and even then they seemed ancient.
Doom series
Duke Nukem 3d
Quake IWere my go tos. I'm definitely interested in reliving these old day.
I'm definitely interested in reliving these old day.
Don't do it. You will destroy a lot of those great memories.
At the time they were cutting edge games - but current graphic design is so far ahead these look primitive.
Fun is fun. Have recently played them on VR and they were a blast, Doom series was with some slight modern mods put on (ie. Brutal Doom + VR weapon skins).
I'm also currently playing Duke3D on Switch.
There’s merit to that for sure. But i sometimes get my old Commodore 64 out and play games, the ones that work anyway, and it’s still fun. I expect crap graphics and that’s what i get. But yeah the aura of those games can be eroded by it.
We are long overdue for a new gaming genre to be created followed by a myriad of clones. The fps, rts and fighting game days were glorious.
But we always need another WW2 FPS… The first 3054583 of them are not quite right……
Yeah that’s my complaint and why i don’t game anymore. I suppose there are lots of indie games out there that are platformers or so but the big name games are always the same game with a different skin and world +story. I liked Fallout for that reason, it at least had open world strategy which was different.
Loved turning people into chickens!
Such fond memories of heretic. Put in the doom code for all weapons (idkfa) and it gave you a stick and took away all other weapons. I’d just whack my way through the levels.
Decided to check against GoG… they're not even on sale!
GOG had since dropped the price to $4.49 on a 70% off sale. Still that's not the $1.49 that it's on Steam. But the advantage is DRM free copies from GOG. Is that worth the extra $3?.
Heretic was so great. Didn't get Hexen at all