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aniviron
Sep 11, 2014

~Coxy posted:

It's been recently added to steam, too.
But if you want to play ET you probably want ET Legacy for QOL.

https://www.etlegacy.com/download

Seconding this, played with some friends recently and ET Legacy basically makes for a seamless modern game experience, at least as far as UI/UX goes.

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tight aspirations
Jul 13, 2009

https://www.gog.com/en/game/genesis_alpha_one_deluxe_edition

Sailor Dave posted:

For anyone who missed the big Evolve (that Turtle Rock 4v1 monster game) resurgence that happened a few months ago, the servers for Stage 2 were partially restored allowing people to play online again, but only for people that still had the game in their library.

2K, the publisher, has just responded just a few days ago and is giving away an absolute shitload of keys that can be redeemed on steam, 4 keys per person, on the Evolve Reunited 2.0 community discord (https://discord.gg/Gt2X4arMQ5, #freekeys channel) The hope is that they relist the game completely, but people think they're gauging interest first before they commit to putting money in.

They made all of the characters and perks available for free when they brought the servers back (except for some unbalanced perks), so the game and all its content is completely open and free to play for everyone now, just not listed on the steam store proper yet. There's already a good amount of people playing, so it's probably worth getting in on it now.

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004
Games With Twitch Prime Amazon Prime Whatever for November

Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Facility 47
WRC 9
Etherborn
Whispering Willows
Last Day of June

ZombieApostate
Mar 13, 2011
Sorry, I didn't read your post.

I'm too busy replying to what I wish you said

:allears:
Saturnalia and Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus are up on Epic.

Next week is Filament and Rising Storm 2: Vietnam.

CatHorse
Jan 5, 2008
Also on Epic: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/gog-galaxy

mutantIke
Oct 24, 2022

Born in '04
Certified Zoomer

The Kins posted:

Games With Twitch Prime Amazon Prime Whatever for November

Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Facility 47
WRC 9
Etherborn
Whispering Willows
Last Day of June

I finally gave in and bought New Vegas like last week :(

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009


Ah, finally, I've been waiting for it to go on sale.

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




mutantIke posted:

I finally gave in and bought New Vegas like last week :(

Thank you for your service :patriot:

RPATDO_LAMD
Mar 22, 2013

🐘🪠🍆

I greabbed this but couldn't help notice the deal of the day.
Evenicle? Since when does GoG sell porno games?

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch
they've had anime games on there forever

Flair
Apr 5, 2016

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

I greabbed this but couldn't help notice the deal of the day.
Evenicle? Since when does GoG sell porno games?


The earliest I can remember is this:

RPATDO_LAMD
Mar 22, 2013

🐘🪠🍆
At least as a business model it makes more sense than Steam selling them, where everyone who buys or plays one gets it broadcast to their whole friend list

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004
Digital Eclipse, of many-retro-compilations fame, has put out a new retro-style game called Candy Creeps, which you can get for free by sacrificing your email address to the pyre of their newsletter before October 31st.

GreenBuckanneer
Sep 15, 2007

Free copy of genesis alpha one on GOG giveaway

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

~Coxy posted:

It's been recently added to steam, too.
But if you want to play ET you probably want ET Legacy for QOL.

https://www.etlegacy.com/download

Unlike the GOG version, this one could accept a modern resolution right away, so it wins.

Fired this up last night.
  • picked a server, it downloaded 3000 things, including a mod that changed the look of all the menus forever and I couldn't remove it
  • this mod also installed itself in the server view and by default blocked viewing of all servers that didn't have the mod (easily toggled though)
  • when I could finally join, I was playing a conversion of a Counter Strike map
  • picked another server, in spite of low ping, I got disconnected due to high ping
  • picked another server, it was full of bots with two humans waiting to play with a 10 minute countdown
  • picked another server, it was full of bots
  • picked another server, it was full of bots
  • just played on a bot server and got bored
Basically, an exact replica of the mid 2000's ET experience.

szary
Mar 12, 2014
It's not an exact replica if someone wasn't griefing by teamkilling in spawn with a flamethrower

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004

GreenBuckanneer posted:

Free copy of genesis alpha one on GOG giveaway
Another upcoming giveaway on GOG was leaked out by, of all things, the GOG Galaxy client's description on the Epic store. Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection will be free between October 31 and November 3.

tight aspirations
Jul 13, 2009

The Kins posted:

Another upcoming giveaway on GOG was leaked out by, of all things, the GOG Galaxy client's description on the Epic store. Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection will be free between October 31 and November 3.

https://www.gog.com/#giveaway

HarmB
Jun 19, 2006




I like to go straight to https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim and not have to worry about the page loading or finding the button.

Or, the worst part, having to learn what game it even is.

If you see {} it worked. Just visit the bookmark whenever someone is talking ITT about new GoG giveaway.

AARP LARPer
Feb 19, 2005

THE DARK SIDE OF SCIENCE BREEDS A WEAPON OF WAR

Buglord

HarmB posted:

I like to go straight to https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim and not have to worry about the page loading or finding the button.

Or, the worst part, having to learn what game it even is.

If you see {} it worked. Just visit the bookmark whenever someone is talking ITT about new GoG giveaway.

mind blown

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD
A level beyond Free Games, redeem your Free Game (Now, My Lord) without knowing what it is or whether it worked.

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch
if you don't know what it was you can't be tempted to play it

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.



HarmB posted:

I like to go straight to https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim and not have to worry about the page loading or finding the button.

Or, the worst part, having to learn what game it even is.

If you see {} it worked. Just visit the bookmark whenever someone is talking ITT about new GoG giveaway.
Yeah, but if GoG logged you out (which it does constantly) that doesn't work and you're just wasting more time than heading straight to the giveaway page and clicking a button.

CatHorse
Jan 5, 2008

Xander77 posted:

Yeah, but if GoG logged you out (which it does constantly)

It doesn't. Look if you have some sort of scam pc optimizer/cleaner installed.

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004

The Kins posted:

Games With Twitch Prime Amazon Prime Whatever for November

Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Facility 47
WRC 9
Etherborn
Whispering Willows
Last Day of June
This is up. Facility 47 is a Legacy Games key, whatever that is, while Fallout is a GOG key.

Lurks With Wolves
Jan 14, 2013

At least I don't dance with them, right?

The Kins posted:

Facility 47 is a Legacy Games key, whatever that is

They're a casual game publisher. You know, all those hidden object and match 3 games that mostly get sold to moms and all that. Facility 47's a hidden object-based adventure game, so it makes sense.

Fart.Bleed.Repeat.
Sep 29, 2001

https://twitter.com/nzxt/status/1587612710874882051?s=21&t=UpHifEoSP8qdmnUPunLRjQ

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!
If anyone feels like playing Facility 47 and doesn't have prime, try this code out:

IYHVC-OMUAH-JVKJ0

Wish I'd remembered I could just give away the keys before reflexively claiming New Vegas on a different store than the one where I previously bought it :ughh:

nitsuga
Jan 1, 2007

2house2fly posted:

If anyone feels like playing Facility 47 and doesn't have prime, try this code out:

IYHVC-OMUAH-JVKJ0

Wish I'd remembered I could just give away the keys before reflexively claiming New Vegas on a different store than the one where I previously bought it :ughh:

Game looks fun, but its been claimed. :-/

tight aspirations
Jul 13, 2009

https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/internet-cafe-simulator

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004
Destroy All Humans: Clone Carnage, the multiplayer expandalone to the Destroy All Humans 2 remake, is now free on Steam and GOG.

Phoning Home, the first game by the developers of Cloudpunk, is now free forever on Steam and GOG.

RPATDO_LAMD
Mar 22, 2013

🐘🪠🍆

yo wtf I don't wanna give my billing address to a free game

evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious
I have a patient which is severely restricted in terms of their movement, they can more or less only use a trackball. Any free games people would recommend in the vein of builders and the like that don't require a ton of complex thinking nor signing up for a service?

mutantIke
Oct 24, 2022

Born in '04
Certified Zoomer
I'm pretty sure you can get a lot of 90s simulation games for free (or cheap on GOG), OpenTTD comes to mind as a railroad management simulator that's 100% FOSS. LucasArts/Double Fine 90s adventure games are also almost entirely playable with mouse and can be picked up for free/very cheap. LucasArts adventure games are also very enjoyable and usually not too hard.

EDIT: GOG is a gameseller but not a "service" per se, IIRC you can just install the games straight to your computer without downloading a client or anything

mutantIke fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Nov 2, 2022

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




mutantIke posted:

I'm pretty sure you can get a lot of 90s simulation games for free (or cheap on GOG), OpenTTD comes to mind as a railroad management simulator that's 100% FOSS. LucasArts/Double Fine 90s adventure games are also almost entirely playable with mouse and can be picked up for free/very cheap. LucasArts adventure games are also very enjoyable and usually not too hard.

EDIT: GOG is a gameseller but not a "service" per se, IIRC you can just install the games straight to your computer without downloading a client or anything

evilmiera posted:

I have a patient which is severely restricted in terms of their movement, they can more or less only use a trackball. Any free games people would recommend in the vein of builders and the like that don't require a ton of complex thinking nor signing up for a service?

GOG stuff is always DRM free, so while there is an account that your purchases save to for redownload, if you have the stuff itself you can just install it, no account needed. Some other stuff may also be abandonware, and others have free ports etc available, like OpenTTD, Open Rails (port of Microsoft Train Simulator) etc.

ilitarist
Apr 26, 2016

illiterate and militarist

evilmiera posted:

I have a patient which is severely restricted in terms of their movement, they can more or less only use a trackball. Any free games people would recommend in the vein of builders and the like that don't require a ton of complex thinking nor signing up for a service?

I'd recommend a completely free game Battle for Wesnoth. You can comfortably control it with just a mouse or trackball. It is turn-based and you don't have more than a dozen units at a time, so you can take as much time as you want. FreeCiv is similar: if you don't raise the difficulty it's just a turn-based game about placing cities and researching stuff.

I understand you've asked about something without complex thinking and I'm giving you strategy games, but other games you can get by with by using just mouse are twitch-based and turn-based nature of these games might make them much easier to digest.

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

Serperoth posted:

GOG stuff is always DRM free

Though they have tried to weasel out of that, they sold Hitman 2016 for a while and tried really hard to justify that a singleplayer game which barely works in offline mode is "DRM Free" before buckling and delisting it

Zet
Aug 3, 2010

repiv posted:

Though they have tried to weasel out of that, they sold Hitman 2016 for a while and tried really hard to justify that a singleplayer game which barely works in offline mode is "DRM Free" before buckling and delisting it

They're going for more DRM with online games again: https://www.gog.com/news/gog_2022_update_5_about_the_games_we_can_play_with_others


evilmiera posted:

I have a patient which is severely restricted in terms of their movement, they can more or less only use a trackball. Any free games people would recommend in the vein of builders and the like that don't require a ton of complex thinking nor signing up for a service?

https://github.com/michelpereira/awesome-open-source-games is a list of open source games. Can't guarantee quality, but they are free.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.


So far, it's brought Wolfenstein Enemy Territory (which has been free for almost two decades) and a free multiplayer version of Destroy All Humans, and they already have Gwent, but yeah, this kinda opens the door to other games that are straight up crap.

There's a minority of their userbase who are out of their minds with rage over this, of course. I don't know how much sway they hold, though. Gwent has apparently been successful, my guess is they'll let in a free-to-play game that the distributor somehow profits off of (not sure how this works on Steam), and see what the profit-to-rage ratio is. If the games are played enough and the customers launch through their Galaxy client, those are eyeballs that can be drawn to spend money, I guess?

doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Nov 2, 2022

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Zet
Aug 3, 2010

doctorfrog posted:

So far, it's brought Wolfenstein Enemy Territory (which has been free for almost two decades) and a free multiplayer version of Destroy All Humans, and they already have Gwent, but yeah, this kinda opens the door to other games that are straight up crap.

There's a minority of their userbase who are out of their minds with rage over this, of course. I don't know how much sway they hold, though. Gwent has apparently been successful, my guess is they'll let in a free-to-play game that the distributor somehow profits off of (not sure how this works on Steam), and see what the profit-to-rage ratio is.

TBH, I hadn't considered ET as one of the results since you can self-host dedicated servers (Not sure if the new version has local listen servers too?). I was thinking it would end up being multiplayer with a single centralized server controlled by some company. I guess it could still go that way.

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