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CharlestheHammer posted:Why would you buy their stock? Even at their height they weren’t trading that highly and they are now at a low point that is probably going to get worse before it gets better. If it does It’s a bet that value will improve as they continue to work on the game, Sony re-lists them, and investors get over the turbulence. I think all those things are fairly likely which is why I took out a home equity loan to pay for a few thousand shares.
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Metro Last Light Redux is free on GOG for the next 48h. You'll have to say you want to receive promo emails, but you can immediately go to your account > subscriptions and uncheck it to never receive any spam.
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Dec 30, 2020 15:10
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GOG occasionally sends out some fairly large discount offers in their promo emails so as long as you direct them to their own folder or something it’s one of the few mailing lists I actually do subscribe to.
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Dec 30, 2020 15:57
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I like the ethos GoG has around their store, and until they lose that, I'll still keep trying to patronize their store and hoping they succeed in the world. I don't really know the whole deal with Cyberpunk 2077, I don't generally get games at release anyways. Valve made amazing games at release back in the day, but they eventually quit making games anyways. At least for the most part. I assume that with their general plan of making all the old games they put on their store work for modern machines, they'll work out the problems with Cyberpunk one way or another.
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Dec 31, 2020 02:11
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SlothfulCobra posted:they eventually quit making games anyways This used to be true in like 2015, but in the last two years Valve released three games: Artifact, Dota Underlords, and Half-Life: Alyx. SlothfulCobra posted:I assume that with their general plan of making all the old games they put on their store work for modern machines I don't think GOG has done this sort of thing in a long while or at least not with enough care that you wouldn't require community patches on top of more recent releases to get things working properly.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I like the ethos GoG has around their store, and until they lose that, I'll still keep trying to patronize their store and hoping they succeed in the world. I don't really know the whole deal with Cyberpunk 2077, I don't generally get games at release anyways. Valve made amazing games at release back in the day, but they eventually quit making games anyways. At least for the most part. I guess this shows how out of touch I am with Gamer Culture but I will not likely ever pre-order or release-day buy anything. There are a thousand times more good games than hours available for me to play them, so I personally don't lose much by waiting 1-2 years to buy anything new. I avoid lemons, usually can buy at half price or less, and benefit from numerous patches/DLCs  The modern game development philosophy is "release whatever primitive beta we have when release day rolls around, charge full price, let customers pay to beta test for us then sell missing features as DLC" but it's easy to not get burned by that by just... waiting to buy.
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Dec 31, 2020 03:08
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I mean most games are actually functional when they come out I don’t know where the idea they are betas coming from. Cyberpunk is fairly abnormal in that regard
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Eric the Mauve posted:I guess this shows how out of touch I am with Gamer Culture but I will not likely ever pre-order or release-day buy anything. There are a thousand times more good games than hours available for me to play them, so I personally don't lose much by waiting 1-2 years to buy anything new. I avoid lemons, usually can buy at half price or less, and benefit from numerous patches/DLCs Those big terrible "day one" patches you hate? You're forgetting what it was like in the days of unpatchable disc and cartridge games where all those bugs are there forever unless you hope the developers update later print runs. And you can find it in the wild.
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Dec 31, 2020 03:14
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Those big terrible "day one" patches you hate? You're forgetting what it was like in the days of unpatchable disc and cartridge games where all those bugs are there forever unless you hope the developers update later print runs. And you can find it in the wild. There are absolutely some nightmare examples but those were far fewer and further in between relative to today.
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Dec 31, 2020 03:20
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I just wanna be able to slap a disc in and play like in the ps2 days
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the concept of Day 1 patches are great - they allow work to continue on a game up til release date, so if something critical is discovered after the game went gold, it can be fixed. Its the execution that's the bigger problem
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Dec 31, 2020 03:33
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Saoshyant posted:This used to be true in like 2015, but in the last two years Valve released three games: Artifact, Dota Underlords, and Half-Life: Alyx. So, two games people don’t want to play, and one game most people can’t play
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Dec 31, 2020 03:37
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Gaius Marius posted:I just wanna be able to slap a disc in and play like in the ps2 days Have you considered buying a Nintendo Switch? You slap a cart and play. And it's both a portable and a console. Love that thing. Even has a very optimized port of the Witcher 3. ymgve posted:So, two games people don’t want to play, and one game most people can’t play Just because it's games you don't want to play don't mean they aren't releasing games.
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Counterpoint they should actually finish games before they release them, and then give everyone a vacation do rest and recuperate before they dive into their next project. I don't even think the problem is with schedules or publishers anymore. I think ninety percent of the problems in the game industry are project managers being poo poo at their job. There is zero reason that a development team shouldn't be able to release a good, complete game after four or five years. Nearly every disastrous release I've seen is the studio spinning their wheels, completely unfocused for two years, scrapping everything, and then rushing to get a game out in two years instead of 4
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Dec 31, 2020 03:39
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Saoshyant posted:Have you considered buying a Nintendo Switch? You slap a cart and play. And it's both a portable and a console. Love that thing.
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JazzFlight posted:LOL, what? Switch games get patches, too. Yeah, nobody said they didn't. But things work in my experience out of the box without requiring any patch. My main Switch has CFW, so I have internet turned off completely "just in case". Whatever cart I put on that thing works fine without updating anything. It's as close as an experience to the PS2 era as the other guy was asking about.
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Eric the Mauve posted:I guess this shows how out of touch I am with Gamer Culture but I will not likely ever pre-order or release-day buy anything. There are a thousand times more good games than hours available for me to play them, so I personally don't lose much by waiting 1-2 years to buy anything new. I avoid lemons, usually can buy at half price or less, and benefit from numerous patches/DLCs Hella same, but being excited about a thing--to the point that you're willing to spend a ton of money on it without knowing if it's broken or just bad--is something special. I don't get excited about anything anymore and that's the price I pay for cheap games.
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Just get hyped and buy the latest remaster on day 1, problem solved
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Saoshyant posted:Yeah, nobody said they didn't. But things work in my experience out of the box without requiring any patch. My main Switch has CFW, so I have internet turned off completely "just in case". Whatever cart I put on that thing works fine without updating anything. It's as close as an experience to the PS2 era as the other guy was asking about.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Those big terrible "day one" patches you hate? You're forgetting what it was like in the days of unpatchable disc and cartridge games where all those bugs are there forever unless you hope the developers update later print runs. And you can find it in the wild. Yes, the industry standard way of fixing it in post now vs. trying to release a non broken product then. Completely comparable. Bugs, even game breaking and performance reducing bugs, are a reality, sure. The way the industry has organized itself now around the incredibly candid "we might fix it later" mentality is slightly different from how it was though. Nobody was tripping over themselves to test the waters on whether it would actually hurt their bottom line by releasing broken and unfixable poo poo. It became standard because the internet and consumer apathy made it possible. No doubt post release support is amazing now but holy poo poo if hasn't made the industry more toxic as a result because of capitalism and profit seeking. Saoshyant posted:Just because it's games you don't want to play don't mean they aren't releasing games. but enough about Konami
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The Kins posted:A good number of physical Switch releases don't contain the entire game due to the lethal combo of larger-capacity Switch carts being much pricier to produce than Blu-Rays and publishers cheaping out on them, requiring a large download to get the full deal. Examples include Wolfenstein 2 (only half the game is on-cart), Spyro Trilogy (Only the first couple of levels of each game are on-cart), most multi-game compilations like Megaman Legacy Collection or Banner Saga Trilogy (usually only one game is on cart), and pretty much every 2K game (XCOM 2 only has two starting missions on cart) The Resident Evil collections out are also just one game on the cartridge while the rest of the package is a download. On the upside with the RE4 + 5 + 6 pack the on-cartridge game is RE4! I was considering picking up Mortal Kombat due to the download size, but the physical edition is just a product key card inside the case, no cartridge at all.
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Saoshyant posted:Have you considered buying a Nintendo Switch? You slap a cart and play. And it's both a portable and a console. Love that thing. Seconding this. Having access to a decent set of NES/SNES ports was also a nice surprise, doubly so when I realised the Switch accepts third party USB/Bluetooth gamepads.
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The Kins posted:A good number of physical Switch releases don't contain the entire game due to the lethal combo of larger-capacity Switch carts being much pricier to produce than Blu-Rays and publishers cheaping out on them, requiring a large download to get the full deal. Examples include Wolfenstein 2 (only half the game is on-cart), Spyro Trilogy (Only the first couple of levels of each game are on-cart), most multi-game compilations like Megaman Legacy Collection or Banner Saga Trilogy (usually only one game is on cart), and pretty much every 2K game (XCOM 2 only has two starting missions on cart) Just to add one, I bought a compilation of the Resident Evil Revelations games on Switch. The first one was on cart, but the second was digital only and ths was problematic due to the Switch's tiny memory. Edit: gently caress, beaten Jeff Fatwood posted:Yes, the industry standard way of fixing it in post now vs. trying to release a non broken product then. Completely comparable. I am with you, mate. People acting as if it's okay to regularly release shoddy Day 1 products because "we can fix it in post" is embarassing and shows both fanboyism and how innured people are to this horrible practice. You know as well as I that the Cyberpunk people knew that their product was hosed despite years of work, but they had to release it when they did to meet the Christmas frenzy. They will probably fix it up nicely and everyone will nod along and barely remember how it was, and that's the tragedy here like so many things under capitalism - when horrible things become normal. JustJeff88 fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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I feel like there are some rose tinted glasses here. It absolutely was standard practice to release broken games before patches became the norm. They just never got fixed and the fan bases actually came to love those bugs to a certain extent.
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CharlestheHammer posted:I feel like there are some rose tinted glasses here. It absolutely was standard practice to release broken games before patches became the norm. They just never got fixed and the fan bases actually came to love those bugs to a certain extent. SiN was broken as hell on release for example and had an at-the-time massive 31MB patch to rectify that (this was in 1998 where dialup was the norm).
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Angry_Ed posted:SiN was broken as hell on release for example and had an at-the-time massive 31MB patch to rectify that (this was in 1998 where dialup was the norm). Oh hi, Ross, big fan!
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Oh nevermind, I found out that GOG version comes with the unofficial patch preinstalled and the desktop shortcut just launches it, noice Guillermus fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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THE BAR posted:Oh hi, Ross, big fan! Ha, yes admittedly that's exactly where I got it from. I didn't know about the patch and the size thereof until that video but I do remember SiN being super broken on release. I got stuck on one level because going into a pipe needed to progress basically put me into the infnite skybox zone for no conceivable reason.
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Angry_Ed posted:Ha, yes admittedly that's exactly where I got it from. I didn't know about the patch and the size thereof until that video but I do remember SiN being super broken on release. I got stuck on one level because going into a pipe needed to progress basically put me into the infnite skybox zone for no conceivable reason. And it completely flew under my radar because, as he said, SiN having the worst possible launch window.
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I mostly buy games through GOG these days, and game "collecting" is basically part of my hobby/mental illness. Let's run the numbers for this year. Bit of a lean year in terms of spending. I'd say the game I actually played the most was Talos Principle ($5.47), a melancholy puzzle game that took itself extremely seriously was just the thing. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Jan 7, 2021 |
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Talos Principle is cool. And the puzzles are pretty good.
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I can't remember if it's actual DLC or was a fan project but they got the VA for Serious Sam to say all the Elohim dialogue and it adds some fun levity to the experience
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Yeah, it's the "Serious DLC" dlc. Apparently it changes the script too. I'll have to replay the game with it sometime.
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I don't know how many people have one, but I just received a code for Kingmaker Imperial Edition on GOG which I cannot redeem as I already own it. If anyone wants the code, send me a PM.
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Sorry to double-post, but most of the Sherlock Holmes games are about $2 on GOG right now. Are any of them good? The only one that I have previous experience with is the Case of the Serrated Scalpel, which isn't even on GOG.
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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is the best one of the lot. Recommended if you like Sherlock or adventure games with mysteries to solve. Kind of like a smaller budget LA Noire if you played that.
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JustJeff88 posted:Sorry to double-post, but most of the Sherlock Holmes games are about $2 on GOG right now. Are any of them good? The only one that I have previous experience with is the Case of the Serrated Scalpel, which isn't even on GOG. As far as more traditional adventure games go Silver Earring/Awakened/Nemesis are decent enough, though they do fall on the more puzzle heavy side. Not like Myst or something like that but you aren’t just moving around inventory objects and rubbing them on each other to get to another area. Also at various points you’ll need to reach a conclusion, somewhat by yourself, to progress and that generally involves reviewing and comparing in-game notes and the like.
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Finally a Good Old Game is released on GOG again I don´t have much experience with the DOS version but I absolutely love the Amiga version of this game.
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Arvid posted:Finally a Good Old Game is released on GOG again I saw that today, as well as the RPG sale. I’ve never heard of this game. Game good?
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chaosapiant posted:I saw that today, as well as the RPG sale. I’ve never heard of this game. Game good? Moonstone is great, at least the Amiga version, it's one of those games I played over and over again as a kid, it's ever better with some friends since the game supports up to four players, the DOS-version is worse especially in the sound department but still good and playable. It's not an RPG despite what the description says however, it does have xp and stat-increases but it's more of an action game than anything. Be warned though, the game is pretty hard.
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