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Okay. Pulled the trigger on the Divinity pack. I remember not being too enthused about it back in the day, but that may be because it made my system at the time (a 1 GHz Celeron with some low-end video card) chug to a crawl. I love top-down action-RPGs, though, so it's time to give it another shot. Now they just need to get the rights to Westwood Studios games so that they can release Nox and my life will be complete... 
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| # ¿ Feb 22, 2010 20:55 |
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| # ¿ May 19, 2013 23:02 |
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Honest Thief posted:Phantasmagoria 2 is up, and Return to Kronder is coming soon. Might get Krondor's sequel. No Betrayal?  drat. Return to Krondor is enjoyable on its own merits, but it doesn't have the depth of its predecessor. I'll probably end up getting it if only to play it again without the awful software rendering on my old lovely circa-2001 computer.
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| # ¿ Mar 2, 2010 13:24 |
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Weedle posted:Betrayal at Krondor was released as freeware some years ago, and can be downloaded from Abandonia and run in DOSBox: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/2...at+Krondor.html  Thanks a bunch!
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| # ¿ Mar 2, 2010 14:51 |
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Return to Krondor is up for $5.99! It's an early 3D game and it looks it, but it should be worth a look if you're a fan of Raymond Feist and/or Betrayal.
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| # ¿ Mar 4, 2010 15:15 |
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HitmanAndQuitIt posted:Oh god I just realised the divinity games are on gog You missed the 50% off sale like 2 weeks ago, too.
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| # ¿ Mar 8, 2010 14:09 |
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rt4 posted:The video is giving me a FreeSpace vibe. Is that an accurate impression? The first. AquaNox is more arcadey than a Freespace/Freelancer-type game. But don't let that dissuade you - the reviews at the time were mostly nerdy dick-waving about how arcadey it is and how dare those simplistic games sully our beloved PC platform  Just come into it expecting a fairly simple but fun mission-based "flight" game, and nothing more, and you'll probably enjoy it. Devil Wears Wings fucked around with this message at Mar 9, 2010 around 16:23 |
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Osmosisch posted:Oh man, Nox was amazing. Some of the best multiplayer on the PC at the time, to me at least. So many ways to dick with people with creative use of spell bombs. Hell yeah. It really makes me wish that someone else would come out with a top-down multiplayer Diablo=style game with FPS-style gameplay modes like deathmatch and CTF.
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| # ¿ Mar 10, 2010 13:27 |
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Blodskur posted:Weekend promo: 50% off The Longest Journey and Sanitarium. The Longest Journey is a wonderful game and I've been looking for an excuse to grab Sanitarium as well. This is definitely one of the best deals that GoG has had in a long while and you'll be very sorry if you pass it up.
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| # ¿ Mar 19, 2010 14:35 |
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Blodskur posted:Syberia is now on GOG for $9.99. Syberia 2 and Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy are coming soon for the same price. Ooh! Great to see Benoit Sokal games showing up on GoG. They are a bit too pricey at $9.99 each, though; I suggest waiting for a sale.
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| # ¿ Mar 25, 2010 16:20 |
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Looks like the weekend deal is a gently caress-ton of Kalypso strategy titles. Are any of these absolutely worth the (sale) price?
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| # ¿ Mar 26, 2010 14:32 |
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Serious Michael posted:I think it's a good sale. Hell, they're putting out tons of awesome classic games optimized to run on modern machines at less than budget prices. I picked up Gothic 2. I had good memories of the demo that unfortunately was in German. Ditto on both the "good sale" and "picked up Gothic 2" parts. Can anyone put in a good plug for Disciples 2? The description says it's turn-based strategy, but is it more like Civ or Heroes of Might & Magic or what?
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| # ¿ Apr 2, 2010 13:13 |
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C-Euro posted:Cool, this might be the time where I finally break down and get Fallout. That generally won't happen with HoMM3, largely because you can save anywhere and most battles really don't last more than 5-10 minutes apiece.
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| # ¿ Apr 2, 2010 18:20 |
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...and purchased Disciples II too. I love me some HoMM-style strategy. Thanks for the plugs, guys!
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| # ¿ Apr 2, 2010 18:57 |
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Blodskur posted:Sniper Elite: Berlin 1945 is now on GOG for $9.99. Pretty lame, considering it was just on sale for $2 over at Steam for like the past week.
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| # ¿ Apr 15, 2010 12:27 |
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Weekend deal time! It looks like the subject this time around is a few Interplay games: Giants Citizen Kabuto and both MDK games. Only 30% off, but there's definitely no "duds" in that bunch. I've actually been looking for an excuse to pick up all three so woo!
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| # ¿ Apr 30, 2010 12:17 |
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Weekend deal time again! And this time it's... more Kalypso stuff. The Creatures games, Constructor, and something called Mob Rule. Feh. I guess there's always next weekend. v  v
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| # ¿ May 7, 2010 13:43 |
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Has anyone mentioned The Neverhood yet? That's the first game I'd love to see if/when GOG signs on EA.
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| # ¿ May 10, 2010 21:27 |
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Placebo posted:Still have the box and disk for this game. It works for me under Win7 x64 if you set it to Win95 compatibility and 256 colors. I'd just really enjoy a version that doesn't have to stream data from the CD, since those loading times are a pain in the rear end. And maybe with remastered video or something, but that's probably too much to ask.
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| # ¿ May 12, 2010 12:29 |
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Horn posted:I'd love to see Nox on GOG. Of the bunch of diablo clones that came out in the 90's Nox was easily my favorite. I remember the story being a little strange but the multiplayer was a blast. Some of my fondest gaming memories are using the warrior's charge ability to smash my friends to pieces. I know I've said this before, but I'd really rather they balanced the Wizard a bit better in multiplayer if they did decide to release Nox. Neither of the other two classes had a chance against a reasonably skilled Wizard using Shield-Haste-Invisible-Magic Missile spam.
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| # ¿ May 12, 2010 13:44 |
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Hipster Scumbag posted:People played it at the time because they were all pleasantly surprised to find out it was better than Oblivion (every game is better than Oblivion). Oblivion is actually a very good game once you mod out the enemy/item level scaling. (EDIT: Francesco's Mod is the one I was thinking of. I'd consider it borderline-essential if you're playing for the first time.) That said, the decision between Oblivion and Two Worlds basically rests on whether you want a fairly serious fantasy sandbox or a completely ridiculous one. Devil Wears Wings fucked around with this message at May 13, 2010 around 14:06 |
| # ¿ May 13, 2010 14:00 |
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Placebo posted:I actually did take a few days to read through it all. I still need to set aside a couple of hours to do it myself. But yeah, running down that hallway is a pain. Thus why we need a version that doesn't stream data from the CD.  It is quite an accomplishment, though, that the dev team made basically the only FMV adventure game worth playing.Re, weekend deal: Everyone should get Painkiller right loving now if they don't have it already, and AquaNox is definitely worth the $3.50ish if you're into a mission-based underwater Freespace. Question, though: Are the Redneck Rampage games as terrible and gimmicky as they look?
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| # ¿ May 14, 2010 12:30 |
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wretched_gavek posted:If you seriously cant think of a worse game than oblivion than something is pretty wrong with you. The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games: Parading Opinion as Fact, All Day, Every Day
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| # ¿ May 14, 2010 13:21 |
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Buff Butler posted:It's not very good. Betrayal at Krondor is a much better game, if you haven't played that yet. Not sure if the GOG version of BaK is the full CD version of the game, though. The download for BaK is 104 MB, so that would point to the fact that it's a re-compressed release of the CD version.
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| # ¿ May 20, 2010 12:25 |
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AxeManiac posted:They should have released Outlaws or something like that to compete! Or maybe Alone in the Dark to compete with Alan Wake, since the latter is supposed to be a horror game or something. I'd be all over that poo poo.
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| # ¿ May 21, 2010 12:31 |
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Andrigaar posted:Hmmm... Anyone know if the first two are easy to rig up in DOS Box? All of the information you seek is in the OP.
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| # ¿ May 21, 2010 13:20 |
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wretched_gavek posted:I have always wondered about these games. I am not the biggest point and click adventure fan but can usually get sucked into one after a couple hours. Are these particularly good? 2 and 3 look like rear end but is one worth playing? 3 has the infamous "cat hair mustache" puzzle. That's all that you should need to know about that particular iteration.
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| # ¿ May 21, 2010 13:36 |
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A word of warning: Disciples 2 is a good game, but I can only get it to run at low resolutions (there don't seem to be any resolution hacks floating around the 'net). Unless you have a 4:3 CRT or something, it'll probably end up looking like a blurry mess. That said, I picked up Jagged Alliance 2, since it's apparently a classic and I love turn-based strategy. Why oh why do I keep buying games...
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| # ¿ May 28, 2010 13:25 |
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Ansob. posted:Surely you can just alt+enter it to windowed mode?  Well that settles it: I'm giving the game another try this weekend.
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| # ¿ May 28, 2010 14:51 |
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Filthy Monkey posted:Jagged Alliance 2 is totally worth $5 for anybody who doesn't already own it. With the 1.13 fan patch installed, it is a fantastic tactical shooter. I was initially wary of it because the Games thread makes it look like a bunch of sperglord micro-managing, but I figured for $5 I can see for myself. And hell, it was developed by the guys behind the fantastic Wizardry series.
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| # ¿ May 28, 2010 18:25 |
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Weekend deal time! This time it's 30% off some good ol' RPGs: Arx Fatalis, Divine Divinity, Realms of Arkania 1+2 and 3, and Warlords Battlecry 3. So lessee... Divine Divinity is an excellent open-world Diablo-ish game, albeit with some game mechanics (most notably the buying/selling system) that haven't aged well. Arx Fatalis is basically Ultima Underworld 3, and I love it for that. Don't know about the rest, though Warlords looks like a pretty decent Warcraft 3 clone.
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| # ¿ Jun 11, 2010 12:32 |
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Andrigaar posted:CD Projekt do enjoy having ample women run around The Witcher in less than ample clothing. This is the reason why I couldn't make it past the third chapter in The Witcher: Every female character was either an old crone or a sex object, and it creeped me out quite a bit. One of my roommates commented, after watching me play it a while: "It's like every creepy nerdy shut-in's power fantasy."
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| # ¿ Jun 17, 2010 12:24 |
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GreenNight posted:The Witcher is pretty great despite the amount of nudity. Seriously, who cares? There is more boobs on French TV. I'd just rather they developed the female characters more beyond, "Wants to gently caress Geralt #27," "Wants to gently caress Geralt #35," and so on. EDIT: And to clarify, I actually enjoyed the rest of the game. I just can't play games that so flagrantly objectify women like that. It gives me the same creepy feeling that hentai games do. The only other game I've had this problem with was Ninja Gaiden on Xbox (gently caress Team Ninja and what they did to the visual design of that franchise). But to actually get this thread back on track: I guess there'll be no Thursday announcement since we got two games on Tuesday. It's a shame, but I've already got like 40 games in my backlog anyway.
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| # ¿ Jun 17, 2010 13:51 |
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This weekend, zee deal is the Tex Murphy collection for 50% off, or individual Tex games for 30% off.
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| # ¿ Jun 18, 2010 12:49 |
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BigJoe posted:I had a dream that I bought The Neverhood off of GoG and I was playing it. I have this dream every day, brah.  
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| # ¿ Jun 29, 2010 19:47 |
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New release today: Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare for $6. I remember playing the PS1 version and being less than impressed by it. Is the PC version any better?
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| # ¿ Jul 20, 2010 13:31 |
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At least it bodes well for their adding the other games in the future, right?
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| # ¿ Jul 20, 2010 15:03 |
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And it's weekend deal time! This time it's Arcanum and VtM: Redemption (Note: This is NOT the same game as VtM: Bloodlines) at 30% off, putting them at around $4.20  each.Both games are well worth getting at that price. Arcanum is basically a steampunk Fallout, and Redemption is an action-RPG with some really cool ideas and atmosphere.
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| # ¿ Jul 23, 2010 13:29 |
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Weekend deal is the friggin' Kalypso pack again. I swear these games are on sale like every month.
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| # ¿ Jul 30, 2010 13:08 |
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Hidden Asbestos posted:I'm not sure why you'd get these now that the HD editions are out though? They're awesome games, don't get me wrong, but these older ones gave me trouble when I tried them recently and they are definitely looking a bit dated in the character department. GoG guarantees that the games they sell will work on Windows Vista and 7, so that's not a problem. And there's some things that the ol' Serious Engine could do that the new "HD" one can't.
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Gashroom posted:Apogee pack is 50% off (~12€) this weekend. It includes Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition, Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project, Rise of the Triad and two Blake Stone games. No Raptor What's the verdict on Manhattan Project? I know Duke 3D is a classic but I haven't heard anything about that game.
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