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So is anyone going to attempt the Gothic Exploration challenge? Good Old Games Front Page posted:
Is Gothic 1 even worth getting, especially when 2 is on GoG as well? And between The Witcher and GoG, I've been convinced Poles can do no wrong.
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Bloodly posted:Speak to me of Capitalism 2. Are any of you familiar wth it? How is it? I want to know more than their page is saying. So I come to you. If you like business sims, it's absolutely brilliant. It's a basic 'form your own supercorporation', whether by massive retail presence (You can sell other companies goods in your own stores), primary production (everyone needs iron for steel), or by massive factories (churning out knicknacks for the suckers who'll buy everything). But of course you'll end up doing a bit of all of them, and making a killing by vertical integration. And there's other diversions like investing in real estate (aparment complexes and mansions), advertising, and the usual Wall Street hijinks. It's all sprite based so it hasn't aged that badly, but for the love of god don't listen to the soundtrack more than once. If you've ever enjoyed a business sim, you're probably going to love this. (But I should point out its pretty serious, no usual videogame silliness) Everyone should buy Capitalism 2 dammit.
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Mar 6, 2009 00:13
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Port Royale 2 is a decent amount of fun, and I think Patrician 3 is more or less the same deal in the Hanse (Northern Europe, and I own Port Royale 2 but I haven't played Patrician 3). If you don't mind trading/economic games, its a decent deal, and there's a bit of fun to be had as a pirate as well. There's multiplayer for Port Royale 2 as well (Not sure about Patrician 3), but I'm not sure how well it runs. There's a few quirks though, like not being able to control more than one ship in a battle (you tag them in or out more or less), but on the whole they're pretty decent games, worth getting if you're into the genre. Also, I'd like to ask how good Painkiller, Arx Fatalis, and Gothic 2 are.
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Mar 14, 2009 01:59
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Heads up, this week's Hidden Gem is Earth 2150. I heard good things about it back in the day, anyone ready to offer their thoughts?
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Oct 13, 2009 10:38
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I'm hoping for Theme Hospital. I never finished the drat thing but it was a hell of a lot of fun (and the multiplayer was pretty fun for tycoon style games) But I honestly wouldn't mind Planescape I suppose (I haven't played it yet)
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Jan 23, 2010 00:31
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Blodskur posted:Some think it's EA. Oh please god this and Troika
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Jan 27, 2010 08:11
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Y'know, GoG had been on a drought of sorts of late, but this more than makes up for it
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Apr 20, 2010 15:35
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So, is there any way to mess around with DosBOX to get MOO2 to run a bit faster? Turns are starting to take longer 0.25s which is starting to get annoying
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Apr 22, 2010 00:51
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Ah MOO3... Why did it have to be so bad... I loved the idea of more macro as opposed to micro, I loved the huge galaxies, I loved new and interesting races (okay just the parasite things that every other race hated), I loved the idea of a galactic council run by aliens who don't really give a poo poo about anything, I loved how the new tactical combat looked and I loved the idea of more MOO, hell I even liked the new terraforming system and how different races had different planet requirements Pity everything else sucked balls
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May 5, 2010 09:12
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MaliciousOnion posted:Shadow Warrior is open source. hth Shadow Warrior is open source, but the game assets aren't (like Freespace 2) Speaking of which I can forgive gog a few lovely sequels especially when I've managed to play some pretty sweet games I never otherwise would have been able to (Sacrifice, Freespace, JA2 and some others) Edit: If memory serves correctly, 3DR put Duke3D on gog before they went up in flames and made their own store, but neglected to add Shadow Warrior. Bastards
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May 7, 2010 06:44
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New game out: Enclave I have no idea what it's about so go hog wild!
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May 11, 2010 12:55
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Hell that is very loving surprising to have it up so soon. I'm considering buying it again just so I don't have to deal with the gamersgate downloader. I thought it was okay when I played it though, I was hoping for something a bit more HOMM (in terms of multiple heroes, towns,etc) and I just stopped at what point because defeating enemies just seemed a bit grindy (in terms of running around looking for someone to fight I would be fairly matched against) and I couldn't get enough troops But I was really hoping for I-War 2 
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Jun 2, 2010 15:11
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Light-headed Fool posted:As far as I've understood, only the engine is open source. The actual game contents are not. The game contents are not provided by the FS2 Source Code Project. Basically, you'll need a copy of the game. In my experience, the one provided by GoG functions perfectly. Yeah, it works really well. With an extra 5min of downloading crap you can get the Hi-Def pack as well! Edit: Someone sell Two Worlds to me (Although I probably wont play it for a while until I'm away from the internet or burn out on Minecraft and SC2)
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Aug 8, 2010 06:10
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MonkeyforaHead posted:Looks like Raptor: Call of the Shadows is out. This is loving brilliant The only way this could be better was if there was an android port
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Aug 10, 2010 09:31
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MonkeyforaHead posted:The Commander Keen Pack is on Steam for just $5 and covers all five games (6 is still stuck in legal hell and likely will be forever), and Death Rally has a free updated Windows port now. Everything else you're on your own with. That depends, apparently the reason a lot of those haven't shown up on gog is due to some licence issues involving the original developers (Raptor for instance was developed by someone else, and published by Apogee).
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Aug 29, 2010 09:56
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Yay! GoG has good games again and will make a bunch of sales! But then steam will finally release Age of Wonders and no one will even look at GoG
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Sep 16, 2010 14:54
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rt4 posted:I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but their favicon is different now. Smells like redesign! Yeah, my current guess is that gog has basically decided that owning the store frontend is a bit pointless, so they've tried to get on Steam/Impulse/Gamersgate and publish their games there. However, none of those parent companies are going to allow GoG to sell their games on their services with a competing website, so the website is pulled (and immediately due to some legalese) At least that's what I hope
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Sep 20, 2010 14:43
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Sudbina posted:There's a new post on NeoGAF saying that some polish website has contacted GOG.com and was told that it was supposedly bought by one of it's competitors: Of all the ways this could end, this is the best In fact... It's almost a good thing
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Sep 20, 2010 16:00
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teethgrinder posted:They could be having compatibility problems... I'm having compatibility problems with them not releasing games! 
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Oct 6, 2010 06:58
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There's also a Lowtax reference in IWD2 if my memory serves me correctly edit: drat this was IWD1 they released Nanpa fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Oct 6, 2010 |
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Oct 6, 2010 15:26
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Cheap Trick posted:The Temple of Elemental Evil is now available for $5.99. Get some more Dungeons & Dragons fun. Never played ToEE but I'm excited Because they're inching closer to Bloodlines!
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Oct 13, 2010 13:41
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Armor-Piercing posted:
I hope its NWN, I'd love to go back and play a couple of the expansions and premium mods
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Oct 14, 2010 06:51
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The Kins posted:Sale time! Strategy First's set. Oh sweet, groundfloor bonus!
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Oct 20, 2010 12:53
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To be fair, it does get them some exposure on deal blogs and the like Awesome its usually the tipping factor that gets me to buy another game off gog that I probably wont even install for months
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Nov 5, 2010 13:24
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Except one Aus Funbuck is nearly $1USD.
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Nov 6, 2010 13:47
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Furret Basket posted:AFAIK this is actually correct. It's sad, I got blood because all the goons were saying how great it was, and it was pretty fun. The difficulty was a bit much at times, but it still seemed pretty good. But I just couldn't get past the constant greys and browns (and I don't mind FO3/NV). I'll still happily replay Duke3D, especially the first episode. Anyway, whats the verdict on The Guild? It always seems to get talked about and I've been tempted but no ones gotten me to pull the trigger yet (the screenshots look a bit divey)
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Nov 13, 2010 03:47
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Nettle Soup posted:Not sure if this is the right place to post it, but there's an open-source Theme Hospital project here that looks interesting. Theme Hospital is one of the few games I would buy instantly if it came onto GOG, despite having the original discs... Okay, this sounds pretty good. Does the entire game work yet or is it just parts?
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Nov 13, 2010 15:03
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Mr Right posted:At least Microsoft's website works in Opera browser. But GoG works fine in Opera 
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Nov 16, 2010 04:13
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Mr Right posted:The latest, and it's been like this since I emailed them many months ago so it's been like that for a while. I'm on Windows 7 64-bit. Do you have the latest (or a recent) Opera installed? I've never been able to view a games pictures. The site loads fine but I just can't do much other than click basic links. I should have the latest version, and I only ever get the occasional problem of when clicking games images instead of the screenshot I get a white line from when the image times out. Usually refreshing the page works
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Nov 16, 2010 12:28
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doctorfrog posted:Not much of a surprise, that they're doing what they're supposed to be doing, but I suppose I can't completely fault them for having to pad out the thrills over two weeks. That big surprise had better god drat be EA
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Dec 4, 2010 03:51
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Half the fun of Space Quest was discovering each and every death, and the snarky responses.
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Jan 23, 2011 01:07
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Dark Reign 1 had a LOT of good features that I'm sad weren't picked up, like the unit orders/AI. You could set them to patrol or scout randomly, set variables like aggressiveness (whether to run away, run through, whether or not to fire first that sort of thing) Pity the sequel was just an okay 3D RTS that was barely related to the first game
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Jan 26, 2011 02:21
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Amethyst posted:90,000 copies of grim fandango were sold in the year of it's release. It's strange that some of the best games to come out of the early noughties and nineties for PC were despite being critically acclaimed struggled commercially. Sacrifice, Freespace, Arcanum, etc And yet there's still people buying them now realising just how much they missed out on
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Feb 1, 2011 14:18
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Dominic White posted:(Pandemic don't exist anymore), That and EA bought them out, so it definitely won't be happening any time soon
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Mar 19, 2011 17:18
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teethgrinder posted:The point is they didn't try. There was a seemingly excellent squad-based FPS game in progress called Alliance. Hasbro bought Microprose to make loving computer versions of boardgames so they poo poo-canned the project and team and cut their losses by making that cookie-cutter Unreal mod with the assets. The saddest thing is that it's being made by Irrational. All they have to do is take SWAT4, change all the criminals to aliens and they'd have a perfect X-Com FPS (and then they can add in the rest of the other stuff). But no we got the X-Files black goop travelled back in time to the 1960's and teamed up with generic shapes to... do something.
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Mar 24, 2011 01:39
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The General posted:How awesome is capitalism 2? Depends, do you like management games? if so, yes. Just mute the music once you get sick of it
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Mar 26, 2011 09:19
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Bats posted:Yeah I think that's why I liked using the harpoon so much in this game, you got that nice lil window popup showing it sink into someone's face/neck etc. I always went for headshots with that drat thing, it was so good. drat, now I want to play it again. I wonder if I could find my disc... Oh just shell out the $6 GoG wins again over goon laziness!
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Mar 31, 2011 16:24
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To anyone that's considering Evil Genius: It's an okay game I guess, but it has nothing at all over Dungeon Keeper 1&2. A fun distraction at best, and if you're really into management/tycoon games you'd better find something else (Capitalism 2 is brilliant! Or even Dwarf Fortress). My personal pick of this sale is Lords of the Realm 2.
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Apr 1, 2011 19:07
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al-azad posted:It could still be EA! The Ultima series is all about time travel, outer space, other planets, and underworlds. Yeah, I'm delusional but ignorance is bliss. Yeah, I'm still hoping for EA. Lucasarts is okay I guess, but it's got nothing on what will happen if the EA floodgates are opened
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Apr 13, 2011 16:01
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Lord_Pigeonbane posted:I was thinking about picking up the Capitalism games. Are they any good? If you like management/business simulators, by all means yes. Just make sure you do the tutorial, without that it can be a bit difficult to figure out what to do. Also, it may take you a couple of tries to figure out what works, but the tutorial should show you a few set ups (just make sure you've figured out retailing at least)
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