Fountain of Dreams

Per

Per

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Fountain of Dreams is now available for download at HotU, so I got it only to find that the enclosed save files aren't "pristine" - characters have been created and it's unclear how much has already happened in the game. I'm wondering:

a) If anyone has a set of untouched save files, and

b) If it's at all worth bothering with.
 
Per said:
a) If anyone has a set of untouched save files, and

b) If it's at all worth bothering with.
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a) No, never made it very far.

b) Play for about an hour - if you don't have any desire to punch anything after then, then you might as well finish it. Supposedly once your team reaches a certain level the game becomes much more bearable, however I couldn't find enough redeeming features (or any, really) to keep me playing that long.

I have a version of it from another site and I don't think there are any save games on it. If you want it, let me know.
 
i tried to play the game.... I made it alll the way to miami, then got killed. because my char's couldnt shooot worth shit, and they all had .22 pistols, ment for killing squirrels.
 
Well, I'll give it a try. UJ, could you send the files to pel@zeta.telenordia.se? I assume they're the four Disk1-4 files and three map files - don't know which have been changed, so better include all of them. Thanks!

(Also, does anyone know what keh.exe does?)
 
File request Alert! File request Alert! :P

Good go with the game, Per. Maybe if it's good we'll see a fourth guide from you? ;)
 
Silencer said:
File request Alert! File request Alert! :P
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It's abandonware though. Don't know if that makes a legal difference, but most people seem to think it makes a moral difference.

Silencer said:
Good go with the game, Per. Maybe if it's good we'll see a fourth guide from you? ;)
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I toyed with the idea, but it doesn't really look good enough to deserve it. We'll see after I've played it. I noted that the author of the best walkthrough of the game wrote in it that he doesn't really recommend the game to anyone.

UJ, I got it from Montez - granted, haven't got the installer to work yet, but hopefully I'm getting there.

Lastly, what's up with my topic watch apparently going up in smoke? Does the board do that sometimes, or is there a 2-week limit?
 
I got it to install when I put the files on one floppy and installed to another (then moving all the resulting files to my hard drive). It didn't work when trying to install from C: to C: or A: to C:, even when I put the master files in the root directory. Oh well. Now, what's up with having my entire party killed in the first random encounter?
 
Per said:
Now, what's up with having my entire party killed in the first random encounter?
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Hmm.....Was it an evil clown, by any chance? Get used to it, you're going to die a lot. The amount of random encounters in that game puts the Final Fantasy games to shame. There's nothing quite like the experience of getting bit and poisoned by a snake in a random encounter, then having the same thing happen EVERY SINGLE MOVE to every party member while you're going to the hospital/healer and eventually dying outside of the healer because of it. All of this happening "in-town", as well. I've never wanted to punch something so bad while playing a game as I have with FOD.
 
I think it was a rat the first time, then later on spiders and thugs. It's funny how every time I try bumping into something or someone it starts a fight with 10+ enemies which all seem more powerful than my characters (of course I can't tell because of the scrolling speed). It's like the game is telling me: don't explore and don't experiment, just read our minds and go exactly where we intended you to go first. I'll give it a try later with Dosbox, but I'm giving it a rest for now; all it does is underscore how flawless Wasteland's design was.
 
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