Steam Holiday sale now live.
Whew, nothing I want yet. I shouldn't spend any more money but it's so hard for me to resist a steam sale.
Yep, just snagged it myself and I can take the crappy download speed for less than $2 for a game I've wanted to play ever since it came out.
I'm having fun with it so far. I've played a few adventure games before, not a ton but a few. In my experience the key is figuring out how the game thinks. Now that I've figured out what the game considers clickable and fair play (and not cheap and annoying as was my original assessment) I'm having some fun. For example, whole control panels sometimes give you the "clickable" cursor no matter where you point, yet you're supposed to click on the tiny little lever you can barely make out at the top of the panel
before you click on the panel, because you can't see the lever when you're zoomed in on the panel. Grrrr. Had quite a bit of frustrating trouble to begin with, but I've past that and now I'm making progress.
The game crashes quite a lot. It freezes a lot too, but still lets you save and reload while frozen, which fixes the problem. This actually turns out to be a boon because it forces you to save more often which at least helps you not pull your hair out from the frequent crashing. But it's an old game, I can't really complain.
The graphics hold up well enough I'd say, but some of the design choices really date it. You can only skip transitions sometimes, and when you can't it becomes mighty tedious watching the camera float around again. But I'm having fun slowly uncovering the campy-but-interesting story as I wander around the ship grumpily looking at things. Extended hibernation has apparently made me really disgruntled in addition to my amnesia.