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ymgve posted:9FHHD11927835F7A3P Master of Orion This game turned out to be really fun. I never got into space 4x before. I tried civ awhile back and have civ 3 I got for free but they never did a thing for me. I was p burned out on games in general till I started playing this and Star Wars: Empire at War. Haven't even got into the ship crafting system yet but it looks like it plays out a lot like Gratuitous Space Battles except that you can control it. That game was super fun.
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New rescues from the corporate abyss: Night Dive rereleased Titanic: Adventure Out of Time (Dust: A Tale of the Wired West was by the same devs and publisher - to the Wishlist!), and retro cartridge manufacturers who've moved into digital game publishing, Piko Interactive, bought 60 titles from Atari last October and have started their rereleases with Legend Entertainment's Death Gate - a licensed title based on a book, even! Time to vote on every single one of their adventure games on the Wishlist.
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BiggerJ posted:New rescues from the corporate abyss: Night Dive rereleased Titanic: Adventure Out of Time (Dust: A Tale of the Wired West was by the same devs and publisher - to the Wishlist!), and retro cartridge manufacturers have moved into digital game publishing Piko Interactive bought 60 titles from Atari last October and have started their rereleases with Legend Entertainment's Death Gate - a licensed title based on a book, even! Time to vote on every single one of their adventure games on the Wishlist. Cool! Death Gate was a game I really wanted to try after I read the premise. I think I downloaded it off of Abandonia or one of the abandonware sites, but I never got around to actually playing it. I'm hoping the GOG version is the CD-ROM version, as that had higher-resolution, SVGA graphics. Also, if more Legend Entertainment stuff is coming down the pipeline, my hope is that we'll get Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.
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Well this is odd: https://twitter.com/zachtronics/status/949408278659792896
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Jan 6, 2018 00:30
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Not that odd; the guy who got the Super 3D Noah's Ark rerelease going got a similar rejection message from GOG a few years ago.
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Max Wilco posted:Also, if more Legend Entertainment stuff is coming down the pipeline, my hope is that we'll get Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. I need to play through my disc copy of Callahan's.
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Jan 6, 2018 01:19
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I remember loving the Shannara game as a kid but I was also a loving idiot so there's that
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RichterIX posted:a kid but I was also a loving idiot
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Jan 6, 2018 18:33
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Piko Interactive has revealed that they only bought about half of Legend Entertainment's adventure games.
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Jan 7, 2018 01:09
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Johnny Law posted:Well this is odd: GOG have rejected a bunch of really good old school/indie style games on similarly weird and vague grounds, Sword and Sorcery Underworld is another one. Need to keep that space free for real classic experiences like Assassin's Creed I guess
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:GOG have rejected a bunch of really good old school/indie style games on similarly weird and vague grounds, Sword and Sorcery Underworld is another one. Need to keep that space free for real classic experiences like Assassin's Creed I guess I actually heard about that right after it happened from Charles, the French bloke who wrote the game. I was really annoyed by that, as was he. This was before he released the Definitive Edition that is French/English (the original was English only) and is now on Steam, so I fancy that he never bothered to re-submit the Definitive edition to GOG.
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Yeah, he's a good guy who communicates well, I know how much he put into that game and it's legitimately really good. I'm sure there are other examples I don't even know about. It's real lovely and must be extremely frustrating and dispiriting I mean obviously it's their choice what games they put on their site but I feel like they're missing the point a bit
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Jan 7, 2018 01:38
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They have several other Zachtronics games in the store, I don't know what's wrong with Opus Magnum.
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GOG cannot support any game that promotes alchemy?
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Isn't it basically Spacechem II? They have Spacechem.
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I hope it isn't some weird case of doubling down on a decision that didn't make sense in the first place. "From the angle of our entire userbase." Zachtronics games have really high ratings on GOG. Userbase seems to like 'em just fine. e: Maybe they're reacting to the contingent of users who bitch and moan about not enough old games being released, and they introduced a quota system for new games, and this one didn't make the cut?
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Bad Seafood posted:They have several other Zachtronics games in the store, I don't know what's wrong with Opus Magnum. The spheres are too shiny, probably.
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I thought GOG might just be waiting for a good gap in their release schedule since a side-by-side competitor with Steam is a bad prospect but they can't say as much, so I looked at the releases of Spacechem on Steam and GOG. Steam says they got it in March of 2011, GOG says they got it in January of 2011. Wha?
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Twobirds posted:I thought GOG might just be waiting for a good gap in their release schedule since a side-by-side competitor with Steam is a bad prospect but they can't say as much, so I looked at the releases of Spacechem on Steam and GOG. Steam says they got it in March of 2011, GOG says they got it in January of 2011.
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Yeah... I also forgot Steam gives the release date when they got it, GOG says when it was originally released.
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Jan 7, 2018 16:48
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Twobirds posted:Yeah... I also forgot Steam gives the release date when they got it, GOG says when it was originally released. Both make sense for their own perspective. GOG's early focus on old games meant it made sense to give original release dates instead of pretending a 1993 titles is from 2012. Steam didn't have that focus on republishing oldies, so giving the date it's been added to the catalogue is more logical.
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Steam release dates depend on whatever the publisher puts in the release date field. There doesn't seem to be a hard or fast rule. For example, Doom 2 lists its original release date of May the 5th 1994.
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I still kinda miss when GOG was exclusively old games (good or otherwise). Gave them a specialty shop sorta flavor. I understand why they had to branch out, but still. I don't think I've actually bought any modern games off them except for the Witcher series and maybe the Last Door? I'd have to check.
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Bad Seafood posted:I still kinda miss when GOG was exclusively old games (good or otherwise). Gave them a specialty shop sorta flavor. I guess but to be fair there was always going to be a finite number of classic games to rerelease. Plus we now get DRM free releases of new games which is good given how lovely some DRM is these days.
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gog is great for bethesda/ (obsidian) games because you don't have to deal with steam messing up morrowind or any of that oblivion or fallout 3 drm (which was still in up until recently) plus gog lets you crossbuy occasionally which is the best of both worlds
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Offering Indies and borderline Indies like Hellblade is fine but why is poo poo like fallout 3 and assassins creed on there. Star Wars Force Unleashed 2 is there for gods sake
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Convex posted:Plus we now get DRM free releases of new games which is good given how lovely some DRM is these days.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Star Wars Force Unleashed 2 is there for gods sake
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The Kins posted:I too enjoy paying full price for games with all the online functionality stripped out because only one and a half developers give even the slightest of shits about GOG Galaxy. Poor, poor Lords of Magic. 
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Jan 7, 2018 19:36
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Still holding out hope for Wheel of Time...
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Jan 7, 2018 19:44
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Goddamn, what a giant disappointment the Force Unleashed 2 was, considering how much I played with the first game.
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The Kins posted:I too enjoy paying full price for games with all the online functionality stripped out because only one and a half developers give even the slightest of shits about GOG Galaxy. Well that's on you for buying at full price I guess
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Offering Indies and borderline Indies like Hellblade is fine but why is poo poo like fallout 3 and assassins creed on there. Star Wars Force Unleashed 2 is there for gods sake Why not? They don't adhere to any particular type of games, except that they're DRM-free. The Kins posted:I too enjoy paying full price for games with all the online functionality stripped out because only one and a half developers give even the slightest of shits about GOG Galaxy. What games have this happened to? Do devs need to do anything in particular for their games to work with Galaxy, isn't it just a platform for downloading games, cloud saves and connecting players? Though I imagine the community is much smaller for most games compared to Steam, of course.
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The Kins posted:I too enjoy paying full price for games with all the online functionality stripped out because only one and a half developers give even the slightest of shits about GOG Galaxy. Here's a secret: You don't have to pay full price.
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The Kins posted:I too enjoy paying full price for games with all the online functionality stripped out because only one and a half developers give even the slightest of shits about GOG Galaxy. This but unironically
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:Why not? They don't adhere to any particular type of games, except that they're DRM-free.
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So I installed GOG Galaxy on my mac a while ago, and everything was well until now, and I cannot for some reason install games on my machine anymore. Whenever I click install, a box that supposed to have options pops up but never populates. Any suggestions how I could remedy that?
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Putrid Grin posted:So I installed GOG Galaxy on my mac a while ago, and everything was well until now, and I cannot for some reason install games on my machine anymore. Whenever I click install, a box that supposed to have options pops up but never populates. Any suggestions how I could remedy that? re-install GOG galaxy after wiping the installation directory?
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:What games have this happened to? EDIT: Found a list. Some highlights: Clustertruck lacks the level editor, replays, leaderboards and custom map support. Postal 2 lacks all the additional content developed for the Steam release (seasonal easter eggs, gamepad support, improved editor, new expansion pack...) Escape Goat 2 lacks the level editor. Necropolis Brutal Edition lacks all multiplayer functionality. Luftrausers lacks a patch for a nasty bug. Sam and Max Season 1 lacks patches for nasty bugs. The Chaos Engine lacks all online multiplayer functionality. Both OlliOlli games lack daily challenges and leaderboards Spelunky lacks the daily challenge mode Nuclear Throne is stuck on version 96 (Steam ver is on 99) and has no daily/weekly challenge modes KOTOR lacks the big official 2015 patch Doom 3 BFG Edition has multiplayer menus removed, although you can kind of hack around it with console commands Steamworld Heist hasn't received any patches. Captain Scandinaiva posted:Do devs need to do anything in particular for their games to work with Galaxy, isn't it just a platform for downloading games, cloud saves and connecting players? Though I imagine the community is much smaller for most games compared to Steam, of course. The Kins fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Jan 8, 2018 |
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All the games in my GOG library are either free or I got through the GOG sync with Steam.
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