Safari Disco Lion posted:

And on GOG that might as well be "this is the worst game in history".

fake edit: Holy poo poo, down to 70! Only five more hours to go!

@GOGcom posted:

We scheduled this tweet hours ago so we have no idea what our Insomnia Sale has now, but it's probably awesome

@GOGcom posted:

We scheduled this tweet hours ago so we have no idea what our Insomnia Sale has now, but it's probably awesome

synertia posted:

Good tweet from the GoG crew: https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/400835622191239168

BadAstronaut posted:

Also, the third review:

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Never before have I wanted to see a game succeed as much as Jack Keane 2. I adore point-and-click adventures, and boy do I fancy me some cleavage as well! This game has all that, AND MORE! EVERYONE should do the right thing and buy Jack Keane 2. Trust me, if I could buy it 63 times, I would! Because it's WORTH IT!

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HOLY poo poo, WHAT A GAME!!! This is like the epitome of adventure games on computer, or anywhere! The story, the locations, the girls - man you gotta be a goof to not pick this game up! If you got the money, man does this game have the time! 10 outta 10 all the way, Can't wait for Keane 3!!

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Putting all this insomnia sale bullshit aside, this game is actually really good and you should buy it
please
please just buy it I'm begging you!

Xotl posted:

If I had manual control over this I'd make the next deal another 50 copies of Jack Keane.

Xotl posted:

If I had manual control over this I'd make the next deal another 50 copies of Jack Keane.

Toadsniff posted:

Can't help but think this is some great PR. People will forever know the name Jack Keane, the killer of sales.

Xotl posted:

Okay, so screw Jack Keane. Inquisitor sounded neat, with its interrogation mechanics and such, to pick up cheap, but I've never heard of the game. Is it worth a play-through? Do the neat-sounding mechanics actually shine through, or is it just fluff/too small a part of the game to matter?

Dog Fat Man Chaser posted:

I bought Inquisitor when it came out and would like to offer my thoughts on it. In short, do not buy it.

Inquisitor is billed as being heavy on investigation, but this isn't really the case. For the most part, you're fighting typical monsters. Orcs, spiders, etc. This is reflected in most of the skills being combat oriented and little to nothing to do with investigation. Skills are also frequently rendered completely useless; as a priest, I got an identification spell, making the skill that identifies items completely useless and a waste of any points. Dialogue options that use skills can just be chosen over and over until you succeed. When you do investigate, the dialogue is very railroaded and you can't often make a mistake or accuse the wrong person or ask questions that seem just plain sensible to ask someone.

Quests aren't very well explained often, and I spent most of my time just wandering around (at a PAINFULLY slow rate) waiting for some obscure quest trigger to pop. Quests might have a task like "find person X" and no direction other than the zone they're in, leading to lots of aimless wandering. Furthermore, these quests often lead to the actual investigation bits, so you can't use your own deductions or guesses, you have to follow the path.

Combat, a majority of the game, is simply dreadful. Class balance is typical of a poorly-balanced RPG in that early game is absurdly difficult for the priest (magic user) but soon they become the only viable class. Some skills are either bad (a priest can trade stamina for mana, but why when stamina is needed to do ANYTHING, move, hit, cast, etc. and mana potions restore mana more efficienty?) or simply useless (the paladin can identify an enemy's spell resistances. He cannot cast spells to take advantage of this info). Spell failure rate is tuned so high a priest will spend most of combat failing over and over at any spell. By the time they have the skill to cast consistently, the next zone will have enemies tough enough that he'll go back to missing and missing and missing. Further, enemies have a ridiculous amount of health; it's not uncommon to spend minutes on a simple fight due to miss rates and enemy HP being so high. Boss battles are hilariously unbalanced; by the time I quit playing, I had gotten to a boss battle that, despite nothing in the area giving me a challenge in combat anymore, killed me so fast I couldn't get but 1 spell off, thanks to his stupid high health and summoning minions that swarmed my allies. Did I also mention magic has a large cooldown for each spell so you can't cast fast?

Potions become the entirety of the game's combat. You'll chug them before, during, and after a fight as they're the only reliable way to deal with the amount of damage you'll be taking unavoidably. Even simple fights become a matter of potion spamming, and from what I can tell reading the game's forums, this is how it's supposed to be, not a mistake on my part.

So, the premise of the game barely comes up, the difficulty comes from cheap design, and your character is always under tooled to suit the encounters the game throws at you.

The setting is cool and it's what tempted me. Don't be me, don't be fooled by the cool setting. It's just not a good game at all. I keep it installed in hopes of a balance mod or something, but those tend to trend towards making the game harder from my experience, and that's just what Inquisitor does not need. Plus it appears to not be supported anymore; the release was just the English translation and that's it.

Toadsniff posted:

radlum posted:

I hope the game gets flooded with great reviews to speed up the sale and from now on, naive users are going to buy it trusting the reviews.

Xotl posted:

Please change the thread title to Jack Keane 2 is out! How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?

Kiavahr posted:

They're at 42 reviews as of now. 41 of them were written today.

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Once in a lifetime, there comes a game that changes not only the face of gaming, but the very soul of all who are blessed enough to experience it. Jake Keane 2: The Fire Within is precisely such a game. While Jack Keane 1: The First Jack Keane was met with lukewarm reception and little to no fanfare, Jack Keane 2 propels the series into legendary status, potentially revolutionizing the art of the interactive narrative with its gripping and emotionally-charged story.

There are few games that I will admit were able to make me cry, but Jack Keane 2 was indeed such a game, as it left me deeply touched and emotionally drained. Not only that but the perfect gameplay is every bit as fast and visceral as it is thoughtful and strategic. To play this game is to achieve nirvana.

I can not recommend this game highly enough. Play it and experience spiritual rebirth.

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Jack Kanini: The Angry Fires is the greatest game any plane of existence has ever had the absolute pleasure to bear witness to. With a story crafted delicately from the collective hearts of all of humankind, and a few primates, there is absolutely no reason why you should not purchase exactly 57 copies of this beautiful game that has been handed to us on a golden platter by God himself.

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I love this game! It is one of the best adventure games I've ever owned. I love how the main character say's awesome one liners and how the antagionist is a evil Sumo Wrestler dragon cyborg!

This game is filled with all sorts of emotions and they will make you feel like you're really there.
For the low low low low low price of 11.99 you can experience this epic masterpiece.

This is a must buy! 10000000/10

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I should preface this by saying that I've been having a lot of trouble with my son. Recently, he's discovered the wide world of the internet as well as computer gaming, and he hasn't been listening to his mother or myself at all.

Jack Keane, your Fire Within has cleansed my son of all desire to turn on a computer from this day forth! He cleaned his room, did the dishes, and wept as he said his prayers. When I asked what brought about the change, he screamed through the raining tears, "JACK KEANE! JACK KEANE!"
Bless you, Jack Keane...

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Where were you when Jack Something Something 2 killed the Insomnia sale?

Toadsniff posted: