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Darkmakaimura said:
My bad and I read that post prior.

Weird, I thought you could take the money from your bank account and just plop into the PayPal one but I guess not. Maybe that's only if you get an actual PayPal Card (my friend has one of those). Would love to help you and I would but unfortunately I'm flat broke.
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This is pretty much what everyone does if the bank block GOG or other services like Green Man gaming and it usually works fine.

You just have paypal take out so much money and it becomes a paypal balance which you then use to pay for the item. This is a strange situation.

Seems the bank is blocking paypal as well. I would have bought him the game but my damn bank cut off my card after three transactions failed on Green Man gaming last night , lol.
 
mclem said:
Chaos Overlords

Turn-based strategy, and while the name's vaguely familiar, I can't put any detail to it other than that.
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I remember this, I always wanted to try it. Cyperpunk style turn-based strategy where former crime lords and heads of corporations who are now CHAOS OVERLORDS hire mercenary gangs to wage war against each other.

Tom Chick IGN retroview here.
 
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"It all starts with this... a jewel containing the ultimate power."
 
The more I play Raiden Legacy the less I can stand it. It's so damned unresponsive, I practically NEED to leave it on auto-fire because of this. Which also means that scoring is out the window because I'm constantly killing the fairy and god damnit how did you mess this up?

Sticking to RFA then.
 
Is there any chance that blood omen 1 will come out on gog eventually? I'm close to just rebuying on psn but I'd rather play it on PC and want to start my replay from the beginning.
 
Well, at least we got it on sale (and $3 at that) rather than $5.99 just because of that announcement or something.

... Though Steam has WASD-style controls properly mapped. Not up/down looking but I didn't think I'd be that lucky.
 
Eusis said:
... Though Steam has WASD-style controls properly mapped. Not up/down looking but I didn't think I'd be that lucky.
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Has anyone been able to comofortably map these controls for games like Shadow Warrior/Blood/Duke using Xpadder or Joy2Key?

I can't play Shadow Warrior for long due to the keyboard layout, but I'm never quite comfortable with the movement on the 360 controller.
 
bndadm said:
Has anyone been able to comofortably map these controls for games like Shadow Warrior/Blood/Duke using Xpadder or Joy2Key?

I can't play Shadow Warrior for long due to the keyboard layout, but I'm never quite comfortable with the movement on the 360 controller.
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Actually I think DosBox config will have that same function for you. It's just it's already set up on Steam.
 
I played Duke 3D through a source port. I believe Shadow Warrior has one as well, so I will probably play it through that.

Blood, I just make do with the closest I can get to a traditional WASD+mouse setup. It actually works really well, but there was that issue with being unable to move the mouse on diagonals (it checks the X and Y axes separately, and whichever axis had the larger movement is the movement that is actually performed). I know BMOUSE.EXE is supposed to fix that, but I've not yet tried it.
 
oneida said:
The more I play Raiden Legacy the less I can stand it. It's so damned unresponsive, I practically NEED to leave it on auto-fire because of this. Which also means that scoring is out the window because I'm constantly killing the fairy and god damnit how did you mess this up?

Sticking to RFA then.
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They just patched it today.

Change Log said:
Here's a changelog:

Fixed buggy portrait mode

Added in-game portrait mode option

Added scan lines filtering

Added lives per credit option

Hidden ships can now be used (including slaves in Raiden Fighters 2 & Raiden Fighters Jet)

Displays high-scores (by difficulty) in the "Select Mode" menu & in-game (if base high-score is beaten)
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mclem said:
Wouldn't DRM-free be a problem there? Certainly the few more recent ones I'd looked at were dripping with DRM, but that might have changed.
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Dawn of Discovery released on steam got patched to be DRM free, then it was taken off the service. My copy is DRM free (as far as it can be with steam running).

I don't see it as a big hurdle that gog can't overcome. Their catalog and userbase is growing compared to when the service started.

Really I want some of the older entries I can't find. It's a great series.
 
Shaneus said:
Rea... oh.

We need more Codies games on PC, but not like that. Would it have killed them to release one of the Micro Machines titles for $3.99 or something?
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I wonder if the MM titles require negotiating with the real people who appeared in caricature form in them.
 
GOG Weekend Promo: Adventures with Activision. 50% off everything listed (32 games) until Tuesday, June 4, at 3:59AM GMT.

http://www.gog.com/news/weekend_promo_adventures_with_activision


EDIT: Beaten by xelios.

EDIT 2: Almost deleted my formatted post. Didn't mean to usurp you xelios!
 
cicero said:
24 Hour Classic Gem Promo: Conquest: Frontier Wars 60% off ($2.39). The offer lasts until Tuesday, June 4, at 9:59AM GMT.

http://www.gog.com/news/classic_gem_promo_conquest_frontier_wars

I am quite surprised to see this pop up as a Gem deal within six months of it hitting GOG. This promo is a fantastic deal for a great space fleet-based RTS. It is definitely worth the price.
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Conquest sold poorly and declined in price fairly soon after its release, but it was a really great game, so I never regretted having bought it for $50...
 
Catshade said:
There's also the indie release of Expeditions: Conquistador, which looks like a King's Bounty clone with an Aztec Empire setting (with you as the Spanish conquistador, naturally).
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It's like a mix between King's Bounty and NWN 2: Storm of Zheir, though this one tends to stick to realism as much as it can. The world is much more empty than King's Bounty, and starting out that's actually kind of refreshing. Every find you make feels like it has weight, and you really do feel stranded in an uncharted world at times.

But after a while things start to get rolling, you find which classes work, and you generally have a huge surplus of all resources. Every class improves down a linear path so your party members feel expendable, more so since they'll probably have similar characteristics since you freely pick your members. That last bit also makes the moral-system a bit lackluster since most 'difficult' choices will have an option that will improve the moral of most members.

That said it is has a lot of room for customization. You can play iron man, enable perma-death and tweak a lot of difficulty settings. Also every character you pick will have his or her own backstory, though there are a lot of characters to keep track of, and character events are few and far between.

It's fun though, and like King's Bounty it's a potent drug if you're into that genre. The writing is generally pretty good with a few dips here and there, and the music is great.

A pretty solid title I'd say. The first campaign (of two) will take you a good 8-10h to complete.
 
HK-47 said:
Is GRID worth picking up?
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I enjoyed DiRT a fair amount, and went in to GRID sorta blind after playing DiRT... it follows a whole different set of rules. The game looks great and seems like it could be fun so I'll give it another shot eventually, only played it a little (iirc it's flawed specific ways too, I remember reading some complaints about certain aspects of the racing - perhaps it was the cars pivot on the center always), but GRID doesn't seem like a game you can pick up and play like DiRT was, I think you probably need to read about and master a few techniques to enjoy GRID. So it's a riskier purchase than DiRT, perhaps grab it when it's low enough you'd be ok if you don't enjoy it as much either.
 
GRID is one of my favorite racing games from the current generation. It's a happy medium between arcade and simulation. I've only played it with a racing wheel though and I have no idea if it's fun to play with a gamepad.
 
Minsc said:
I enjoyed DiRT a fair amount, and went in to GRID sorta blind after playing DiRT... it follows a whole different set of rules. The game looks great and seems like it could be fun so I'll give it another shot eventually, only played it a little (iirc it's flawed specific ways too, I remember reading some complaints about certain aspects of the racing - perhaps it was the cars pivot on the center always), but GRID doesn't seem like a game you can pick up and play like DiRT was, I think you probably need to read about and master a few techniques to enjoy GRID. So it's a riskier purchase than DiRT, perhaps grab it when it's low enough you'd be ok if you don't enjoy it as much either.
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As a racing fan I must say it is fucking weird. I don't know specifically how, it is just weird to control.
 
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