GOG News and Updates 2013

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Also an interesting followup to the earlier survey on what games to include, specifically latching on to Planetary Annihilation.

I must confess, it does feel a little like "We didn't like the answer we got, so we're going to break it down and explicitly outline it in terms you can relate to, and have another go". I may be doing them a disservice there (although I was one of those who was actually quite permissive about my response to that first survey!)
 
From playing the 360 version, yeah, Fez is pretty great. About the only flaw I can think of is that Phil Fish is a total tool; I'll leave it up to you all whether or not that's a deal-breaker or not. I'm hesitant to double-dip, personally, but the game really is very good.
 
Gah, forgot to grab the Last Express. Oh well, really have bought too much anyway to play it any time soon. All these sales are making me into one of those horrible, several dozen games deep backlog people :/
 
ricochetguro said:
Gah, forgot to grab the Last Express. Oh well, really have bought too much anyway to play it any time soon. All these sales are making me into one of those horrible, several dozen games deep backlog people :/
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Several dozen..hahahahaha, that's nothing.

Come back when it's a few hundred.



Don't make the same mistake we've made. You can stop before it's too late.
 
Release: Sword of the Stars: The Pit

I got completely thrown by this. I was *sure* Sword of the Stars was a 4X game, and the description here was vastly different (roguelike). Turns out this is a spinoff going off on a wild tangent.

Also, preorders for DYAD are up.
 
Late release, Eador: Masters of the Broken World lands on GOG with less than favorable reviews. For some reason I was thinking it was a sequel to the recently added, older Eador game, but the comments in the reviews indicate it's just a remake of the original with a prettier skin, and perhaps a few extra issues?
 
Minsc said:
Late release, Eador: Masters of the Broken World lands on GOG with less than favorable reviews. For some reason I was thinking it was a sequel to the recently added, older Eador game, but the comments in the reviews indicate it's just a remake of the original with a prettier skin, and perhaps a few extra issues?
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Yeah, it's a straight remake and it's reportedly buggy* even though it ran well enough for me.

I like it because it looks great and it doesn't force me to cut my CPU speed by 50% to work correctly (like Genesis does). I don't like it because the UI apparently doesn't scale which makes it tough to play at high resolutions.



*multiplayer may be entirely broken
 
GOG posted the survey results because it turns out that the people who dislike DLC are in the minority of GOG users (70% voted in favour of DLC). Season passes were far closer, but 52% said yes. Uncompleted episodic games gets a 63% yes vote, while season passes for aforementioned episodic games gets 56% yeses. Early releases of unfinished games get 61%, while 66% would pay more than the RRP for early access to unfinished games. Essentially, everything the GOG forums hate, turns out that they are in the minority among the GOG userbase.

However, serial keys is a no-no: 51% say no to games which require a serial key to play online (despite Unreal Tournament 2004 having this requirement and being in the catalogue from literally day one) and required online accounts get 70% of the no vote. However, Planetary Annihilation gets 77% yes votes. GOG is confused, until you realise that they said with PA, all the online shit was optional.
 
Delusibeta said:
GOG posted the survey results because it turns out that the people who dislike DLC are in the minority of GOG users (70% voted in favour of DLC). Season passes were far closer, but 52% said yes. Uncompleted episodic games gets a 63% yes vote, while season passes for aforementioned episodic games gets 56% yeses. Early releases of unfinished games get 61%, while 66% would pay more than the RRP for early access to unfinished games. Essentially, everything the GOG forums hate, turns out that they are in the minority among the GOG userbase.

However, serial keys is a no-no: 51% say no to games which require a serial key to play online (despite Unreal Tournament 2004 having this requirement and being in the catalogue from literally day one) and required online accounts get 70% of the no vote. However, Planetary Annihilation gets 77% yes votes. GOG is confused, until you realise that they said with PA, all the online shit was optional.
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I think this indicates that MOST people are willing to compromise. I found it kind of disappointing about the serial keys until I saw the next question and realized this was REALLY more about being against the kind of shit EA and Ubisoft want to pull, whereas just offering Game Keys isn't really that bad, especially if they're just to play online.

And honestly having booted up Ultima VII: Serpent Isle in the hopes of getting to freely run around the setting only to bump into its own form of copy protection... I'm kind of grateful we at least went to CD Keys for that crap. Having to be quizzed on reading all the supplemental material that isn't even worth remembering like historical facts is very exasperating.
 
Eusis said:
And honestly having booted up Ultima VII: Serpent Isle in the hopes of getting to freely run around the setting only to bump into its own form of copy protection... I'm kind of grateful we at least went to CD Keys for that crap. Having to be quizzed on reading all the supplemental material that isn't even worth remembering like historical facts is very exasperating.
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I always thought Civilisation's copy protection was the 'lookup' form of copy protection done right - that basically asked you a question about which techs are prerequisites for a given tech (given tech only shown by icon not by name) - i.e., stuff you can look up in the manual, but when you're familiar with the game, you should easily be able to answer it from memory, making it fairly smooth and easy to get into subsequent games.

There was also Home Alone The Computer Game, which gave you a set of coordinates and a grid of sentences, where you have to input the letter found at that coordinate... which I ultimately did by memorising the first sentence (which was, in fact, HOMEALONETHECOMPUTERGAME) and then continually restarting the game until it asked me to input a character from line 1. Still less hassle than digging out the chart.
 
Cheddahz said:
Is Tales of Monkey Island worth the five bucks? I've heard some really good things and some really bad things about it
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I remember it as a mixed bag. In hindsight I didn't really care for the first two episodes, while I enjoyed the rest of the season. It's a Telltale game so it looks dated and the technical limitations were apparent even back when it was released (though I didn't play it on a competent rig), but some locales in the later episodes look nice and atmospheric. Expect the typical easy Telltale puzzles plus a terrible labyrinth section (just like early Lucasarts adventures in that regard). The story is entertaining and some of the characters (including new ones) are interesting, but story relies a lot on cliffhangers. And those are not as effective when you don't have to wait a while to learn how it goes on. My biggest complaint is that the story and some locales are too fantastical for a Monkey Island game in my opinion.
 
Eusis said:
And honestly having booted up Ultima VII: Serpent Isle in the hopes of getting to freely run around the setting only to bump into its own form of copy protection... I'm kind of grateful we at least went to CD Keys for that crap. Having to be quizzed on reading all the supplemental material that isn't even worth remembering like historical facts is very exasperating.
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In Serpent Isle's defense (and I think Ultima VII's as well), I remember being highly amused as a kid when you'd fail the copy protection quiz and all the characters would start speaking complete gibberish.
 
Cheddahz said:
Is Tales of Monkey Island worth the five bucks? I've heard some really good things and some really bad things about it
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I'm not hardcore into Monkey Island, but I really really liked it. Played it as the episodes were coming out initially, so that helped give the cliffhangers some punch. Particularly (big, major spoilers here)
Episode 4's, where Guybrush dies
- I knew they couldn't just leave it like that, but wondering where the hell they'd go from there was quite anxiety-inducing.
 
mclem said:
I always thought Civilisation's copy protection was the 'lookup' form of copy protection done right - that basically asked you a question about which techs are prerequisites for a given tech (given tech only shown by icon not by name) - i.e., stuff you can look up in the manual, but when you're familiar with the game, you should easily be able to answer it from memory, making it fairly smooth and easy to get into subsequent games.

There was also Home Alone The Computer Game, which gave you a set of coordinates and a grid of sentences, where you have to input the letter found at that coordinate... which I ultimately did by memorising the first sentence (which was, in fact, HOMEALONETHECOMPUTERGAME) and then continually restarting the game until it asked me to input a character from line 1. Still less hassle than digging out the chart.
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Yeah, Civilization's actually seems kinda smart for someone whose seriously into the game, though it'd still seem annoying to me. I guess it's a boon of mostly staying on consoles until PC games largely gave this up/went to CD keys.

And Home Alone just sounds stupid as hell.
jb1234 said:
In Serpent Isle's defense (and I think Ultima VII's as well), I remember being highly amused as a kid when you'd fail the copy protection quiz and all the characters would start speaking complete gibberish.
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True, at least they had some fun with it, and while I could get into the experience looking up the answers in the materials I could probably just use the internet to skip past at this point anyway. I only did it since I had to solve that mystery to get out of Ultima VII's starting town, and while that's probably a good way to teach you how to play the game I kinda just wanted to run wildly outside and possibly get myself killed, just to get a taste for the exploration and possibly what to expect from Divinity: Original Sin.
 
Delusibeta said:
FYI, to celebrate hitting 11,111 subscribers for the YouTube channel, another giveaway!

tl;dw edition: 111 games to be won to people who subscribe to their YouTube channel before the 8th. Three commenters will also have the opportunity to get their PR guy to say something insulting about his hat.
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Has this ended yet? I'd kinda like to unsubscribe already; really not interested in their YouTube channel.

I mean, the 8th was ages ago, so I kinda assume it's over, but I wanna be 100% sure.
 
Funny thing for me, I'm using FireFox v20 and for some reason at checkout the box where I'm supposed to enter the cardholder's name for payment doesn't appear. It's just not there, so the only way I can check out is using PayPal.

I disabled AdBlock and still have the same issue. Does anyone else experience this?
 
Big list of Mac releases today. Not sure if we're still going to get a conventional release as well.

Slightly weird to see a game I worked on in the Mac releases section, given we coded it with absolutely no concession to portability to the platform! I assume there's an emulator (or, alternatively, a form of WINE, which is Not An Emulator) doing the business behind the scenes?
 
mclem said:
Big list of Mac releases today. Not sure if we're still going to get a conventional release as well.

Slightly weird to see a game I worked on in the Mac releases section, given we coded it with absolutely no concession to portability to the platform! I assume there's an emulator (or, alternatively, a form of WINE, which is Not An Emulator) doing the business behind the scenes?
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If it was a DOS game, then it's an emulator. DOSBox runs on pretty much everything, it was actually one of the most stable emulators when I was running Linux on my PS3. Too bad the performance was terrible, I could barely get 5 fps in Descent 1.
 
mclem said:
Ah, an actual release; Don't Starve. 20% off for the first fortnight.
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Nice, I see the OT has not gotten much attention, but I might grab this one instead of wish-listing it. I've taken a liking to roguelikes for the challenge / start over with new abilities aspect, and the wilderness theme seems like a great fit.
 
androvsky said:
If it was a DOS game, then it's an emulator. DOSBox runs on pretty much everything, it was actually one of the most stable emulators when I was running Linux on my PS3. Too bad the performance was terrible, I could barely get 5 fps in Descent 1.
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Nah, Sniper Elite. Windows, very much so. To be fair, the engine was designed to be portable, I just find it hard to believe anyone at Rebellion would have put the work in to put it on Macs. I may well be doing them a massive disservice there!
 
Persona7 said:
I need to keep playing the original Two Worlds, I kind of like it.
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Played it when it came out on 360 and liked it enough to 100% it (could never get the Visited All Locations achievement to pop, but close enough). We can be oddballs together.
 
 
xelios said:
Played it when it came out on 360 and liked it enough to 100% it (could never get the Visited All Locations achievement to pop, but close enough). We can be oddballs together.
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The game has problems but I really enjoy exploring the world. I am going to pick up Two Worlds 2 when I beat the first game, which should be soon.
 
Bought La-Mulana.

Edit: This game just trapped me with no way to get out besides restarting. I regret buying this. Won't play it again.
 
Teppic said:
Bought La-Mulana.

Edit: This game just trapped me with no way to get out besides restarting. I regret buying this. Won't play it again.
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Just restart from a previous save. I have been caught several times now, but I keep reloading and delving further in. This isn't Super Meat Boy, it requires old school patience. I hope you stick with it.

...I hope I stick with it too!@#
 
Caved in and bought La Mulana.

I love GOG.

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Sinatar said:
Like this?

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Respect. I love your taste. Healthy mix of genres with some great games from all, especially the adventures. :)

I'd love if the shelf had more than five games per row, since much of the space in the screen goes to waste.
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inm8num2 said:
You need to add more games to your shelf! ;)

On a side note I love GOG's game shelf. I do wish it had a few more features like "categories" to better sort games. But sometimes it's fun to organize the shelf and just stare at it.
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I'm poor and only recently used GOG.
 
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