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Nox, free on Origin for a limited time · 6:37pm Jun 2nd, 2016
Made by the legendary Westwood Studios, Nox is an often forgotten Diabo clone.
A really, really, really good Diablo clone that didn't sell a thousenth of what it deserved due to bad PR at launch. One of those sad, near text book cases of the good word of mouth having done the rounds only when the physical copies where all off the shelves already.
I am dead certain that if this had been released nowadays with all that entails in social medias and the like, it would have been a household name. 
One of the first games that gave a 'line-of-sight' system a try (that used to murder my poor Voodoo 4-5 something back in the day), three different classes with big differences in story and game play, and some really nice 2D graphics that still hold up.
Give it a go. Highly, highly recommended, and you can't beat free.
Of course now it will only be downloaded a small fraction of what it would otherwise be because it is on origin which is a really lousy service that embeds itself into your system and wastes resources.
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Not going to deny that. Keep the thing off myself unless I have to.
Still, Nox is a underrated gem far too few gave a go the first time and, again, you can't beat free.
Yeah, but Origin...
Of course, you can also get it on Good Old Games, I mean you have to pay for it there but... Origin... ugh
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Wow.
I was going to make a joke about horse's mouths, but you know that a service has a PR problem when they can't give things away...
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It's not that Origin is bad (it is), but that everything else is better by far.
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Super cool story bro time.
A long, long time ago, maybe about a year or so ago, Origin gave away The Sims 2 collection. For free. Everything. The whole kit and caboodle. Everything was free. FREE. You can probably google and see when Origin gave away the game for free.
Like a fool, I downloaded it. I like the Sims.
Everything was fine until about a month later when I get an email from Origin stating that my account is in danger. I open up the email and discover that I owe them money. They tried to charge me for the free game... ALL OF THEM. AT 20 TO 40 DOLLARS PER EXPANSION PACK. And they tried to bill my old credit card number, on an old bank card that is no longer being used. Do you know how many expansions The Sims 2 had?
There is some back and forth about this whole thing, in which I explain that I downloaded the game for free. I'm told that I need to pay. I refuse. My Origin account is locked down and I am blocked out of it, meaning that I could no longer play the games I paid for, such as Sim City, which I stopped playing because it was so terrible, and a few other games.
So, in short, FUCK EA and FUCK ORIGIN. They can go eat a big bowl of big fat floppy donkey dicks as far as I am concerned.
Voodoo 4 is total overkill for Nox.
I presume that you are confusing something.
Nox was playable on 8 Mb version of S3 Virge. And P166MMX, those were the times!
Nox was indeed pretty cool game.
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Wow, that is hilariously terrible.
The entire reason I put up with Origin when I need to use it for something (ME3, generally) is because their CS has been miles above Steam's in my experience and that of friends, but that might take the cake for worst customer service I've ever. It's right up there with CCP (publishers of EVE Online) stealing money from my exes by accusing them of trying to scam CCP when they contacted customer service (repeatedly) to get the shirts they paid for.
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Wonder if you might have gotten something if you had the foresight to screencap buying the things. Ah well.
Origin sometimes makes really tempting offers but its still EA and.. no, really no, i don't even want it as a gift if its tied to Origin.
Its like when a company that runs nuclear power plants offers you lifetime supplies of free food but in return you have to store boxes of their unsecured nuclear waste in your house.
It's simply not an appealing offer if its tied to that.
Everything's free when you have Frostwire.
I really need to get around to playing this one of these days. I read about it in a magazine when it was new (yes, back when "real paper" video game magazines were still a thing) and thought the whole thing sounded neat even then. I've owned in on GOG for years, but I just never can get around to it.
These days, I have a massive backlog of some 800 games or more that I've never actually touched. I really need to stop buying bundles.
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I actually bought the boxed "classics" re-release back in the day and you've gotta watch the intro cutscene which plays after a loading screen (I think. It's been at least 15 years since I last played it) which explains that the souls of the ancient necromancers of Nox were sealed within a crystal and banished to another dimension.
No other game I can remember from that time period gave anything close to that kind of first impression, character-wise.
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That sort of BS is why, if a game is only available with online activation, I'll just play something else. (My entire library is a mix of GOG, Humble, other DRM-free digital download services, and physical media... all of which I've made at least one DVD+R backup of.)
It's not as if I'm hurting for choice. (I'm a packrat and, over the course of the last three decades, I've accumulated over 3500 games (not counting shareware compilations), over 1000 books, and various indie movies, yet I spend most of my time reading fanfiction and writing programs these days... or playing Stardew Valley.)
Well, that and only buying games through PayPal, so a trusted third party can guarantee that they can't bill for extra later. (And making sure I keep all of my GOG invoices and Humble transaction completion notices, since they send them for the freebies too.)