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ymgve posted:The "regular" sales they have with $1 or 10-25% off just seem useless. If I didn't want to buy it for $6, my threshold for buying won't be $5. If they made the games $15 normally and the priced them at their sale prices during sales ($5 or so), I'd totally buy them for the same reason I've bought 100+ games on Steam that I have yet to finish (most of which I've yet to play): can't miss those great deals.
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Myst being released on GoG is the final nail in the coffin for my gametap account. I've probably spent $40 on games from GoG - some of which they have on gametap already. gently caress I love GoG. I've got 6 games from there I haven't finished yet too (Sacrifice, Giants, MDK, MDK 2, Fallout, Fallout 2). Thank god for the Christmas holidays.
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Hidden gem of the week: Warlords Battlecry 3 for $7.99 I played this a couple of years ago, mainly multiplayer, because we were looking for an accessible fantasy RTS. It's good and really easy to get into, but maybe because of this, it also lacks a little in depth.
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Anyone own Evil Genius from GoG? I got it through Steam and that resolution hack for it makes it completely incompatible with Steam Community (my main chat client), and the Steam version crashes when you Alt+Tab and doesn't register with Steam (because for some reason you start the launcher that starts the exe and then closes instead of skipping that step) so no one can tell you're playing. Basically, I've heard there's improved resolution support or something through the GoG version. Also wondering if the Alt+Tab crash exists in it.
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I don't recall the game ever crashing with my gog version, also you should get the fan patch that improves some stuff like increasing the henchman limit, or making the carpet loot walkable on.
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Have it, just fixes/adds some features insofar as edited object description files and the like doesn't fix anything under the hood really in terms of bugs. If you've got it installed, can you check and see if any of that is different?
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nah sorry, got rid of it some time ago, but there are some people having crashes under Vista on the gog forums
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Dec 8, 2009 11:51
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Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord for $9.99.
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Dec 8, 2009 12:12
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Blodskur posted:Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord for $9.99. Wow, completely forgot about this series. I wonder if they'll add the expansions... Too bad they never ever ever made another one of these!
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The Machine posted:
Really hoping this is a dig against the hate crime that was "Shock Force" 
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Dec 8, 2009 21:20
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The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition is out for $5.99.
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It's weird not seeing any of the 3 Fallout games on the Top 10 list. Seems like 1 or 2 always lingered on there, but I guess most people that use GOG have at least one of them by now!smr posted:Really hoping this is a dig against the hate crime that was "Shock Force" Huh? Never heard of it. Probably doesn't exist. Ahem.
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This weekend's promo is the Realms of Arkania games 25% off.
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Charles Martel posted:This weekend's promo is the Realms of Arkania games 25% off. Probably the best RPGs from the early 90s era. They included all the niceties we expect from modern RPGs (auto-map, fast or complex character creation, focus on details) while still being hardcore difficult. I like how sleeping without a sleeping bag could give your character's a cold and how you need flint and tinder to light a lantern.
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How does Capitalism 2 measure up to Capitalism Plus?
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Dec 15, 2009 02:19
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Is anyone else having trouble accessing the site?
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Ratmann posted:Is anyone else having trouble accessing the site? "Hey all, sorry the site's down... hope to have an update for you soon!" was posted on their Twitter account.
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kissekatt posted:How does Capitalism 2 measure up to Capitalism Plus? Better in pretty much every way. Edit: two side notes: when the gently caress is Aftershock getting released, and will they ever get that Starship Troopers RTS in their roster? Thompsons fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Dec 15, 2009 |
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Thompsons posted:Better in pretty much every way. This might please you, as UFO: Aftershock is now out for $9.99.
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The last new game of the year is Riven for $5.99
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Get it. Get it now.
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They're reporting on the facebook group that there's a 'holiday surprise' coming today, apparently the first of many. What that means is anyone's guess, though.
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I guess I'll buy Riven again, like now. I never actually finished it but I always considered it a really beautiful, weird giant of a game. Having the convenience of not needing to swap 5 loving CDs or disc images as it is (especially that the game isn't very linear and you need to be going from island to island/disc to disc all the time) is cool. I guess they've done quite some re-encoding to stuff since the download's only 1.6 GB :?:
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Zat posted:I guess they've done quite some re-encoding to stuff since the download's only 1.6 GB :?: Almost certainly. All of the video in the original game was in Quicktime format, which is horrendously inefficient in regard to file size. They've probably been re-encoded as H.264 files or something.
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http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/tex_murphy_1_2 Tex Murphy 1 & 2 are free until Dec 24th.
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thedaian posted:They're reporting on the facebook group that there's a 'holiday surprise' coming today, apparently the first of many. What that means is anyone's guess, though. It means Tex Murphy 1 & 2 for free! (until December 24) 
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Yes! I was really wanting to try Tex Murphy, Getting it for free is awesome. and GOG is even nicer, if you already bought Tex Murphy previously, you can Apply for an alternate gift. Anyone who already had Tex Murphy might want to sign up for that, and tell us all what you get (I'm guessing it might just be a free game coupon)
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@GOGcom: Hope everyone's enjoying Tex Murphy! We're not quite done with the holiday surprises, but we'll let you have fun with this one first!
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I like these guys. They know how to keep old games fresh and interesting.
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Wow, if anyone wants a great action-RPG with a huge world to explore and tons of interesting sub-quests, you can't go wrong with Divine Divinity for $5! I load up that game every year.
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Heroes of Might & Magic 1-3 + Might & Magic 1-6 pack half price: http://www.gog.com/en/promo/might_and_magic
That's a lot of loving play time for $19.96.
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Weedle posted:Almost certainly. All of the video in the original game was in Quicktime format, which is horrendously inefficient in regard to file size. They've probably been re-encoded as H.264 files or something. Well, there was a DVD version of Riven released as part of the Myst 10th anniversary collection, so I'm guessing this is just a re-release of that. It came out in 2003, so it's probably Xvid encodes or something (I never really looked at the video encoding on my copy of that).
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Kreeblah posted:Well, there was a DVD version of Riven released as part of the Myst 10th anniversary collection, so I'm guessing this is just a re-release of that. It came out in 2003, so it's probably Xvid encodes or something (I never really looked at the video encoding on my copy of that). I have never played Riven before and bought it off GoG last night. Looks totally awesome. My only complaint is that sometimes in an otherwise static background there is an "animation overlay" that is sometimes a few pixels off. Is that something that was in the original or is it a product of any re-encoding work that may have been done? It's not a really big deal either way. Just curious.
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Heroes of Might & Magic 1-3 + Might & Magic 1-6 pack half price: http://www.gog.com/en/promo/might_and_magic Getting all three Heroes games is a little redundant, but the M&M 6-pack is $7 all by itself... Goddamnit what a lovely time to literally not have any money. Someone buy this instead of me and I'll just play it vicariously through you 
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Overwined posted:I have never played Riven before and bought it off GoG last night. Looks totally awesome. My only complaint is that sometimes in an otherwise static background there is an "animation overlay" that is sometimes a few pixels off. Is that something that was in the original or is it a product of any re-encoding work that may have been done? Do you mean 'off' as in shifted on the screen or 'off' as in discolored? If the latter, I think it was there before due to computer limitations when it came out.
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Heroes of Might & Magic 1-3 + Might & Magic 1-6 pack half price: http://www.gog.com/en/promo/might_and_magic Also buying that pack and cutting one game out is actually more expensive than buying all of them, which really shouldn't bother me but kinda does because I don't want to re-buy Heroes 3. Edit: Why was I mixing Roman numerals with regular numbers? I don't know! This is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night. Woebin fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Dec 18, 2009 |
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Woebin posted:I've already got Heroes 3 Complete, what are the odds that I'll ever actually play the other two when I've got that around? Zero, there's no point.
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Magnificent Quiver posted:Zero, there's no point. Agreed. Heroes 3 is all you need. And the M&M pack if that's your thing.
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flatluigi posted:Do you mean 'off' as in shifted on the screen or 'off' as in discolored? If the latter, I think it was there before due to computer limitations when it came out. Shifted on the screen.
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Overwined posted:Shifted on the screen. Huh. What's your screen resolution?
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