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Mr. Wookums posted:How did Die By the Sword age? I have a feeling if I tried it again, I'd just toss it for bad controls. After all, there have not been any games that have tried the same system since. Unfortunately, though, the game suffers from the "open up every window that is minimized and resize them all to really small squares" problem that a lot of older games happen to have. Because of that, I usually play it in Linux via Wine (although it still likes to sometimes mess with my desktop widgets) or in VirtualBox.
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Mr Pepper posted:They don't just do gog.com, they also made a little game called The Witcher. I must be retarded because I never put that together. Mr Pepper posted:Painkiller And this is always the right answer. The two games I really want to see on there is Raptor: Call of the Shadows and Rocket Jockey. Come on now both are well deserving. Also I'd like to see an Alone in the Dark anthology thrown up for good measure.
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No wishlist of "games I want to see on GoG" is ever really correct without the Lucasarts adventure games. Speaking of which, who actually has the rights to those?
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GrandpaPants posted:No wishlist of "games I want to see on GoG" is ever really correct without the Lucasarts adventure games. Unless it's a special case or one they licensed, I'd imagine Lucasarts does...
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Mar 6, 2009 05:28
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GrandpaPants posted:No wishlist of "games I want to see on GoG" is ever really correct without the Lucasarts adventure games. all of lucas arts adventure games are still available on the shelf, you can just buy them and dump them in SCUMMVM.
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Yodzilla posted:The two games I really want to see on there is Raptor: Call of the Shadows and Rocket Jockey. Come on now both are well deserving. Also I'd like to see an Alone in the Dark anthology thrown up for good measure. I highly doubt we're going to see Raptor, as much as I'd like it on here. The big problem with most of the classic Apogee games is that they had individual developers who made the games. Apogee merely published them, and Raptor is no exception. Scott Host, who developed Raptor and owned Cygnus Studios, changed the name to Mountain King Studios and sells a Windows version of Raptor on his website, yet 3D Realms still sells the original (and, in my opinion, superior) DOS version, so who knows. I've been reading through The Apogee Legacy Interviews where they interview the minds behind each of their old games, and it's quite interesting. It also shows just how many different people are responsible for all their games, and all the different calls that need to be made for licensing deals. I'd absolutely love to see the Alone in the Dark Trilogy here, but who owns them now? Atari? Watching Malorie's Let's Play of AitD 2 is making me miss it and want to play it again. 
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Mar 6, 2009 05:40
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Rocket Jockey will probably be tricky to get working on both XP and Vista. It works on XP if you use a fan installer, but it still requires the CD to be in the drive. Same with Vista, although my experience has been that you get some really weird input lag under Vista, and I tried pretty much every "old game remedy" there is. On top of that, both the developer and publisher no longer exist. I have no idea if it's even possible to secure a deal for the game.
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So, I just stumbled across this while checking out Apogee's full list of games on Wikipedia: List of Commercial games available as freeware, and...wow! I never knew Abuse, the Dark Sun games, Ground Control, and Hidden and Dangerous Deluxe were now free! I forgot Apogee's Boppin' is now free too. And with that, I'm going to bed.
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404notfound posted:Rocket Jockey will probably be tricky to get working on both XP and Vista. It works on XP if you use a fan installer, but it still requires the CD to be in the drive. Same with Vista, although my experience has been that you get some really weird input lag under Vista, and I tried pretty much every "old game remedy" there is. Didn't SEGA just absorb all of the SegaSoft stuff?
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well I just restarted Arx Fatalis (last time I played it was buggy and I couldn't finish a quest involving the goblin king or something). Anyone having an issue with the GOG version chopping up in menu screens?
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Mar 6, 2009 07:18
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Weekend Deal: Simon the Sorcerer pack for $14.97
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Is Simon the Sorcerer more like Lucasarts adventure games where they're fun and challenging or Sierra adventure games where if you don't click on a pixel on the second screen you can't beat the game?
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GrandpaPants posted:Is Simon the Sorcerer more like Lucasarts adventure games where they're fun and challenging or Sierra adventure games where if you don't click on a pixel on the second screen you can't beat the game? Definitely Lucas Artsy. You can't die or get stuck and they are funny as hell!
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Mar 6, 2009 11:45
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On the other hand, is Simon 3D worth the extra 3 dollars? Just Simon 1 and 2 make it $12 total while the 3D installment looks terrible. I'm genuinely asking because I will most likely buy at least Simon 1 and 2, eventually, and I've only played Simon 1 yet never finished it.
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FLX posted:All that talk about Giants: Citizen Kabuto has made me remember Armed and Dangerous which was made by the same company and played really similar to Giants as well. It was rather short but I really liked the atmosphere and the crazy setting. Armed and Dangerous was awesome; my mate and I played it through together and laughed our asses off at the humor in it. Sadly, like with most games based on jokes and humor, the game is a lot less fun the second time through when you know all the jokes already.
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Mar 6, 2009 14:29
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Armed & Dangerous was really fun but the thing that stood out to me was that is had the worst compression on its CG movies I have ever seen. Seriously the cutscenes (where most of the humor was) looked like absolute garbage. Oh Planet Moon why aren't you allowed to make anything cool anymore.
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Big question here, does GOG allow re-downloads like Steam, or is it a one time use like iTunes? Because of the DRM, I'd imagine the latter, which is a bit of an annoyance.
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Casao posted:Big question here, does GOG allow re-downloads like Steam, or is it a one time use like iTunes? Because of the DRM, I'd imagine the latter, which is a bit of an annoyance. You can re-download them as many times as you need.
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Casao posted:Big question here, does GOG allow re-downloads like Steam, or is it a one time use like iTunes? Because of the DRM, I'd imagine the latter, which is a bit of an annoyance. Yes, it's unlimited downloads to as many computers as you want.
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Casao posted:Big question here, does GOG allow re-downloads like Steam, or is it a one time use like iTunes? Because of the DRM, I'd imagine the latter, which is a bit of an annoyance. what DRM
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Jinnigan posted:what DRM
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Jinnigan posted:what DRM That was my point.
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Casao posted:That was my point. you don't make sense
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Casao posted:That was my point. You must have meant former, because the latter in this case was indicating an itunes-like one download policy.
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Mug posted:all of lucas arts adventure games are still available on the shelf, you can just buy them and dump them in SCUMMVM. I have never ever seen any LucasArts adventure game on the shelf. Mind telling me where this is so I can rush out and find it?
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Plavski posted:whut I make plenty of sense. I was referring to the DRM situation in general, I guess it just wasn't clear. Drox posted:You must have meant former, because the latter in this case was indicating an itunes-like one download policy. I meant latter, because iTunes only allows one download regardless of DRM/DRM free, Amazon only allows one and it's DRM free, etc. Most DRM-free downloads I come across only allow one download.
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Casao posted:I make plenty of sense. I was referring to the DRM situation in general, I guess it just wasn't clear. iTunes became infamous for having extremely strict DRM and so saying a DRM free service must act like iTunes sounds silly.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:iTunes became infamous for having extremely strict DRM and so saying a DRM free service must act like iTunes sounds silly. I was not referring to iTunes's DRM policy. I was referring to their download policy. Why is this so hard for you to understand? If I had said Amazon MP3, which holds the same download policy, would you guys still be making GBS threads bricks or would you have let it go?
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They have Darkstar One. That is totally awesome.
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Happy Friday everyone! Added a Weekend Promo section to the OP as well as emphasized a couple points.Casao posted:I make plenty of sense. I was referring to the DRM situation in general, I guess it just wasn't clear. There's absolutely zero. Once you purchase a game, you can download it (and it's extra goodies) as many times as you want, burn it to a CD/DVD, and install it on all of your other computers if you want. There's no restrictions whatsoever.
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Charles Martel posted:There's absolutely zero. Once you purchase a game, you can download it (and it's extra goodies) as many times as you want, burn it to a CD/DVD, and install it on all of your other computers if you want. There's no restrictions whatsoever. And that's why I've been buying games from them that I already own in addition to ones I don't. It's just way more convenient to be able to download a game I've bought when I want to install it instead of hunting down the CD somewhere.
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So according to the message boards on GoG.com, the GoG team likes to post the newest dirt on what they're doing on their Twitter account, and I found this little piece of info people are already speculating on posted a couple days ago:The GoG Team posted:Next Tuesday will bring Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and a new publisher! I made a Twitter account just to keep an eye on this, but in the meantime, it's time to play Who will it beeee??
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Sporadic posted:20% off It seems you have to pay $20 to join that site. I'd rather spend that on GOG directly.
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Blodskur posted:It seems you have to pay $20 to join that site. I'd rather spend that on GOG directly. Whoops, sorry. I didn't read/comprehend that one all the way.
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I feel like buying a shooter, Should I get Rise of the Triad or Duke Nukem? (allready have duke on 360 and N64)
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The Skeep posted:I feel like buying a shooter, Should I get Rise of the Triad or Duke Nukem? (allready have duke on 360 and N64) If you've already got DN3D on XBLA there's not much point unless you feel like modding the hell out of it. Personally I'm not huge on ROTT, but it's a different game, go for it.
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The Skeep posted:I feel like buying a shooter, Should I get Rise of the Triad or Duke Nukem? (allready have duke on 360 and N64)
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The Skeep posted:I feel like buying a shooter, Should I get Rise of the Triad or Duke Nukem? (allready have duke on 360 and N64) I personally love RotT, but it's an acquired taste. You can't fail with Duke3D, but seeing as how you already have it buying it again would seem like a waste.
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MonkeyforaHead posted:If you've already got DN3D on XBLA there's not much point unless you feel like modding the hell out of it. Personally I'm not huge on ROTT, but it's a different game, go for it. Proper Mouselook, user maps and 3D acceleration is reason enough.
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