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by MeetTheCryo 3572 days ago
> Really? You should try it if you can, it's great.

'Override is on the list of classic Mac OS games I intend to play or replay, just behind an awful lot of others.

> Now, the third one had problems.

I liked 'Nova a lot – I liked that the world felt (ever so slightly) more alive, I liked the scope of the world, I liked the number and variety of the craft and outfits, I even liked various outfits requiring government approval to purchase and government craft opening fire on your craft if they detected that you were using unauthorised or illegal outfits...

...but I agree that the Vell-os plot line was an awful idea, and I wonder how many players abandoned 'Nova – and how many registrations Ambrosia lost – because of players thinking that the Vell-os plot line was all the game had to offer. The only time 'Nova "offered" the Vell-os plot line to me, I fled to Aurora space and didn't look back...

> Also want to mention Realmz [...]

I never liked Realmz – I think either I was too young to understand it or its gameplay was incompatible with my tastes – but I completed a lot of scenarios for Spiderweb's "Blades of Exile", and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the original "Exile" quadrilogy is now freeware.

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Spiderweb /does/ keep their games up to date, and remakes them all every so often. They get bigger every time, which is kind of a problem actually.

Exile/Avernum is on its second generation of remakes, and the first two games are out on Mac/Windows through Steam, plus iPad.