BloodNet added to OP, not the biggest first release splash, but at least an older game that is now unique to GOG. Really hard to find impressions of this on gaf not already mentioned. There's just about 0 people discussing it prior to this thread (other than placing it on a list of Amiga titles or something), I noticed in GOG's release discussion impressions are pretty positive, though reviews of the game are a bit harsh/low going by wikipedia. Certainly a unique title, but definitely not one with a vocal following, for here anyway.
If you do buy it and play it, be sure to give impressions. If there's a few positive impressions of the game, I will add it to the list of recommended games. As it stands now, there's just not enough recommendations for it to be added.
I'm thinking about running banners along with the text summary in the OP through the prior month's releases, so if you just want to check in to the OP every few weeks, there'll be an easy to see visual representation of what's new. Then as they become older, I'll start removing them and all that will remain is the text like normal. This also gives me a ready-to-use banner for the games that are going to make their way to the Recommended Games link as well, at which point I'll just have to add in the quotes half.
Why did they do this? Did the CD version axe the subtitles or something?
I think mainly there's always someone who prefers the floppy version because that's what they played, though as you point out, sometimes there's minor differences between the two in the game as well. This was said about BloodNet from a GOG employee, followed by a GOG forum user's response though:
The weirdest thing of all is that you can't, not to my knowledge at least, have the talkie version with text so we figured it would best to include both versions for two reasons: 1) for those who are hard of hearing and need to have text and 2) because there's that ONE guy who asks about floppy versions of games
Correct.
This is very sad :-(
The CD version also include extra graphics, and a couple of animations.
But it is more or less impossible to play the game without the text, so I don't recommend going for the CD version. The game is so loaded with story, text, talks, information, that you'll want to skip some stuff here and there. And witout seeing the text you'll miss many things.
On top of that, people seem to be saying the Amiga version is better sounding than the DOS version used in GOG's release, but that may be somewhat subjective and dependent on if configure the game to use general midi and load good soundfonts/etc. It was also mentioned the music between the Amiga and DOS versions sounds like it isn't even the same score, and possibly the two versions used different composers.
Also, if one is looking for an oldschool adventure game after today's release, I saw it mentioned that Creative Reality's 1992 adventure
DreamWeb is distributed as freeware
on ScummVM's website (both the 10 meg floppy and 225 meg CD version). Something to consider if you weren't aware, no idea on the game's quality though, but people seem to want that on GOG as well.
