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I've never played a Tex Murphy game before this one, and seeing how old they are, I have no intention to.
I thought they did a pretty good job introducing the character to a new audience such as myself...
Sadly the reviews for that game are mostly negative. Not even sure if I can get it to work on Windows 10. I guess maybe on a sale I will take a look. I have a couple other games of Tex Murphy. But only the Overseer and Telsa Effect are connected. The other games do not connect to each other at all?
And yes, there are some connections to the previous games - but it will not detract from your enjoyment.
The best in the series in my opinion is The Pandora Directive, and they are currently working on a remaster (a shame the Overseer remaster from fans didn't work out in the end).
So both Overseer's did not work out?
Still does.
Anyhow, I recommend you watch the youtube longplays to get a sense of the storyline. If you can't run it, just watch, quite jolly good entertainment that is.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mlMcjQUY6oPk2Wg_-gu2rvivqR20Ob2O/view?usp=sharing. this is my own drive link because i can't find the file online. it was given to me on a forum after complaining that the controls were so sensitive. just put the exe file in the tex3 directory and run it instead of the main exe even if it's gog.com.
The gameplay is basically exactly the same, just the interface and graphics are a lot more primitive.
I bought the whole set on Steam during one of the sales a while back and barely got around to playing them in order just now. I just passed Overseer and am about to play Tesla Effect. I played them in order and the interfaces/controls are a little different the further you go back. The first 2 played like King's Quest and the next ones began implementing 3D/FPS and mouse controls/movement. The third game reminded me of the Elder Scrolls Dagger Fall or early Ultima Underwold games where you had to use the mouse and hold a mouse button to move or switch between movement and mouse/free look. Thankfully, the third game in the series let you use the keyboard for some things. Otherwise, it would be Carpal Tunnel City.
I got Overseer running on an old HP Probook 645 G3 laptop with Win 10. I used this thread https://steamcommunity.com/app/302370/discussions/0/154644787619146566/, which points to this link: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Tex_Murphy:_Overseer. Scroll down to "issues Fixed". Then, I downloaded each program and installed them as the notes indicated. I was hesitant about installing all of that on my main computer. I think i tried most except the one of the video and sound utilities. I was afraid that could really mess up the computer since they are some kind of driver overlays and i didn't know if they would affect only the game or the OS and other games as well. The game still crashed to desktop several times, but i was able to relaunch the game and the cool thing is that Overseer autosaves right before the crash, so no progress was lost from the crashes and the game offers to continue where you left off without having to load your save when you fire up the game. There was one spot where i had to reload a game, because it just didn't like the spot i was in. I think it was the locker room in the Law & Order building. Make sure to have rolling saves and save very often, at least 1 time when you go to a new location and then have another save for progress during that area, like before you enter each room/area.
Ironically, this was a series i completely skipped over when i was growing up. I recently watched the Youtube "making of" video on the series and Chris had mentioned that Overseer sold poorly, because a lot of other people were implementing FMV along with and after them and a lot of the games that came out before this one did not spend serious money like they were doing specifically for this game (whether through acting, overuse, not fitting in to a game where it was just slapped in as a gimmick) and it kind of made the genre grow cold to consumers. FMV to me felt like a gimmick at the time, based on the games i played. I played a handful of games with FMV scenes, like Creature Shock, 7th Guest and 11th hour. I had my fill with FMV games after those 3, so i think he was right. Also, at the time, i wasn't old enough to really buy my own games, so i really had to pick and choose what i wanted to play. The first 2 games in the series were essentially a Sierra style game and those games were notoriously known as the original DLC-Hint book required to play and finish the game, especially for puzzles a young person might not be able to figure out. The puzzles were pretty tough for 7th guest to me. (i was a kid and the internet was just dawning at the time, so you couldn't easily get a walkthrough. You had to comb a BBS and general game forums, often posting a question and then hoping someone would answer it several days later if you were lucky. The Internet, Search Engines and web sites were in their infancy in the mid 90s) Anyways, the perceived Sierra-esque puzzles for the game also threw me off from getting them back then as well. After finally playing them, I think the Tex series did a better job. with their puzzles though. If you wrote everything down, you could figure most of them out and a lot of puzzles had pieces snap in place if you just blindly tested pieces. Plus, you can now just look up a text or video walk through if you get stuck, instead of needing to buy a hint book with a magic marker or red 3d lens to reveal an answer like you had to do with some of the Sierra games.