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GreenNight posted:All the games in my GOG library are either free or I got through the GOG sync with Steam. Same, except I bought tons of older games for cheap before they were available on steam and I have never played them.
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The Kins posted:Brutal Legend is one, off the top of my head. I'm sure there's more, but my mind might be mixing this up with similar behaviour on the Mac App Store. Ok, that's pretty bad. I did notice for Pillars of Eternity how the Gog version got patches a few days after Steam. That said, I own more games on Gog than Steam (though it's not a huge collection). Steam feels so big and devoid of support, it gets arbitrary if you ever have trouble. DRM-free gives you more control. Plus they got a lot of good will out of the idea at the start, bringing back old games and supporting them, which they have stuck to even though they hold a lot of other games now. It's probably better to get newer games on Steam (where devs/publishers tend to focus their support), and older games on Gog still (since older games tend to just be dumped on Steam without almost any patching).
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I really like and prefer GOG, but I've had to adopt the habit of browsing forums before buying a game to see what's being left out that's inexplicably left in on Steam, whether the developer is too lazy to push patches to GOG, stuff like that. I will say that generally, if I agitate for a patch it eventually gets updated (thanks usually to Iscariot on GOG). There's always this extra legwork to do to see if a game is busted or not before pulling the trigger, buying, installing, and getting to a place halfway through that ruins the experience. I think that overall, though, they just plain care about games even if they don't seem to care about all of them. Steam, I assume has an empire management mentality that's similar to Facebook's. I use it if I have to, otherwise, gently caress 'em. But of course, they're both just shopping places for buying games and it doesn't make much sense to get all worked up about.
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When Locus or freedom fighters makes it onto gog I'll be over the moon.
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The Kins posted:Brutal Legend is one, off the top of my head. That is really awful. Brutal Legend's single-player was basically a really long tutorial for it's multi-player. Single-player is still fun but I remember having a blast playing it online back when it came out.
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Does anyone remember when they were doing that sale where you had to clear through all the copies of one game before another one would pop up, and it got stuck forever on some crappy (adventure?) game no-one had ever heard of? edit: It was Jack Keane 2 The Chad Jihad fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Jan 9, 2018 |
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Jan 9, 2018 02:27
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I'll be an old man on my deathbed and still remember Jack Keane 2.
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Bad Seafood posted:I'll be an old man on my deathbed and still remember Jack Keane 2. And you won't be able to expire until another 300 copies have sold.
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The Chad Jihad posted:Does anyone remember when they were doing that sale where you had to clear through all the copies of one game before another one would pop up, and it got stuck forever on some crappy (adventure?) game no-one had ever heard of?  I think this was a mock-up (the actual count and price were different).
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I think more people would have bought Jack Keane 2 if it was actually 2.99 during that sale. If I remember right it was like 12 or 15 dollars. It was discounted, but it was still kind of pricey even with the discount.
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FruitPunchSamurai posted:I think more people would have bought Jack Keane 2 if it was actually 2.99 during that sale. If I remember right it was like 12 or 15 dollars. It was discounted, but it was still kind of pricey even with the discount. I think it was like 7.50 or something like that, still a lot for a lovely adventure game that nobody cared about or even remembers. It's like if the Runaway franchise turned up, nobody cared about it when it was released and they're mediocre as gently caress
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As much as I love Gog one thing that really annoys me about their Galaxy client and their installers in general is that they clutter up my start menu by adding an entry group for each individual game installed. And since those entry folders are listed as Game Name [Gog.com] they get scattered all over the place. Would it have killed them to at least keep them under a gog.com folder or give us the option to not add start menu entries?
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wafflemoose posted:Would it have killed them to at least keep them under a gog.com folder That's where they are for me. Perhaps a difference between Galaxy and normal installers? I don't use Galaxy. I suppose you could try the wishlist.
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It's a Windows 8+ thing IIRC. Windows started flattening nested folders so they changed the installers to put them on the top level.
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So this is more of a general old-PC-game's thing but sweet mother of god; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6TPTiOCuVk The original creators of Theme Hospital are making a new game  .
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Neddy Seagoon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6TPTiOCuVk The original creators of Theme Hospital are making a new Theme Hospital
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Carmageddon TDR 2000 is free for 48 hours, if you enjoy poo poo.
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I was about to ask if it's really that bad (I don't know that much about the Carmageddon games), but the description on the GOG page says it outright; that Stainless had nothing to do with the game, that's it the turd game in the series. I guess I should have read that before grabbing it, but oh well.
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Max Wilco posted:I guess I should have read that before grabbing it, but oh well. The way I see it, it's one less unwanted game to buy to get max discount on a bundle some years down the line.
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Max Wilco posted:I was about to ask if it's really that bad (I don't know that much about the Carmageddon games), but the description on the GOG page says it outright; that Stainless had nothing to do with the game, that's it the turd game in the series. Yet it's got a better user rating than Max Damage.
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I've played all of 20 minutes of Max Damage and nothing about it feels right. I can't really explain why
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I've played all of 20 minutes of Max Damage and nothing about it feels right. I can't really explain why I thought the forced missions were just terrible. 33 minutes for me!
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FruitPunchSamurai posted:I think more people would have bought Jack Keane 2 if it was actually 2.99 during that sale. If I remember right it was like 12 or 15 dollars. It was discounted, but it was still kind of pricey even with the discount. How long was is stuck there for? Did it stay until the end of the sale?
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I've played all of 20 minutes of Max Damage and nothing about it feels right. I can't really explain why I've played through it back then, and it could be fun here and there but not overly so. I found it's indistinguishable powerups, map design, and overall physical behaviour not really satisfying. But it's by far not as awful as TDR2000
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BiggerJ posted:How long was is stuck there for? Did it stay until the end of the sale? consider how some games were gone in mere seconds 100 copies of keane 2: keane harder held up the program for a good 5 hours lol
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scamtank posted:consider how some games were gone in mere seconds It's a bad idea for a sale anyway, and it's not something they could do again even if they wanted to due to diminishing returns.
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I thought Carmageddon Max Damage was fun but I also Kickstarted it, so I may be biased. It was a big step up from the first version that came out of the Kickstarter at least. I did miss the old structure of playing a few matches, which were pretty easy, and then doing a mission, which required some skill. The "career" in Max Damage is only matches against bots with better cars as you advance.
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:I did miss the old structure of playing a few matches, which were pretty easy, and then doing a mission, which required some skill. The "career" in Max Damage is only matches against bots with better cars as you advance. I'm fairly sure that's still how it works?
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It's true there are other game modes in every "set",
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Anyone know if Capitalism or Capitalism II are any good?
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bessantj posted:Anyone know if Capitalism or Capitalism II are any good? II was fantastic when it came out, albeit ball bustingly hard while you learned the systems. No idea how well it’s aged though.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:II was fantastic when it came out, albeit ball bustingly hard while you learned the systems. No idea how well it’s aged though. Thanks, as it's on sale I'll give it a go.
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What’s good on this jrpg sale besides legend of heroes?
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Billzasilver posted:What’s good on this jrpg sale besides legend of heroes? Cosmic Star Heroine has a pretty fun turn-based battle system and mostly throwaway writing. I liked it. Xanadu Next is a solid dungeon exploring game but has rather simplistic combat and has a slight grind to it. You can play the whole game with mouse only. Threre's just one character, it's not party based. I'd played like 20 minutes and like two battles of Regalia about 9 months ago and it had bad and cheesy writing but I'm dying for new tactics rpg experiences so I'm probably give it another try again. People seem to think it's okay and probably worth a look if you care about tactics rpgs. Elminage Gothic is a staight-up old-fashioned dungeon crawler, with all the pro's and con's that come with it. Basically the type of game you know beforehand whether you'll like it or not.
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Cross-posting my review of Xanadu Next from the Steam thread since it's a game I'm rather fond of and wouldn't mind hawking to a few more people.Bad Seafood posted:Xanadu Next is a neat little game with a lot of character around the corners and a deceptively deep combat system (considering it's all mouse-control). It's very arcade-like with just enough plot for context, so if you're one of those people who're tired of RPGs that never shut up it should be right up your alley. If you're a completionist, however, be prepared to suffer. It's one of those games that expects a lot out of you if you plan to 100% it.
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Looks like they changed their mind about Opus Magnum.
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Close Combat series. https://www.gog.com/news/release_close_combat_series Quite well-regarded grognardish RTS games.
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Three Moves Ahead references the Close Combat games a bunch if you want an expert overview: https://www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes/close-combat
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Kennel posted:Close Combat series. https://www.gog.com/news/release_close_combat_series gently caress yes, good poo poo
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