Unfortunately, I don't anything terribly constructive to add either. I bought a used copy of Koudelka after finding out it was a sort of prequel to the Shadow Hearts series - I was immensely enjoying Shadow Hearts: Covenant at the time. Now, 17 years later, I still haven't played beyond a few minute...

It was fall of 1996, and I had just started college with my first computer since the commodore64 - an off-the-shelf Pentium 166. For school work, obviously. One of the first people I had gotten to know on campus introduced me to this game called Quake. He suggested we play online. I wasn't unfamilia...