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GOG | November 2014 - The dark side beckons you on GOG
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vagabondarts
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The gamer gate mess should get its own community thread instead of you know, games discussion.
Yeah I hated the freeway mini game back in the day
Shadow Hog
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The freeway minigame doesn't even really make sense to me. So the goal is to not hit the posts, as they suck away time? That's... kind of overly simple. I think you get points for jumping over the signs, but I can't consistently jump over or into the signs to say for sure because the scaling is so amazingly choppy (odd, since it's usually second-nature for SCUMM games). Seeing as you get tons of points for just reaching the end with time left over, it seems like you could get a perfectly reasonable score by doing the boring thing and just avoiding the signs altogether.
I gave it a go once and basically never bothered with it thereafter. Main game was far more compelling, regardless.
I gave it a go once and basically never bothered with it thereafter. Main game was far more compelling, regardless.
Most of the minigames in Hit the Road are pointless little extras. Highway surfing is fun for a level or two, but it's not really something you play a lot of, similar to the copy-protection dress up game and the coloring pages.
Car Bomb has a bit of depth to it, but only because it's a Battleship clone.
EDIT: Speaking of pointless little extras, if you didn't know already, pressing the B key will flip game in and out of film noir (black & white) mode. This could very well be a reference to the black & white Sam & Max comics.
Car Bomb has a bit of depth to it, but only because it's a Battleship clone.
EDIT: Speaking of pointless little extras, if you didn't know already, pressing the B key will flip game in and out of film noir (black & white) mode. This could very well be a reference to the black & white Sam & Max comics.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
And today's release is... a movie.
Pretty deflating week so far. Wonder if there's a mid-day update we just don't know about yet...
Pretty deflating week so far. Wonder if there's a mid-day update we just don't know about yet...
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
New game: Infested Planet
No idea if it's any good.
This would have been a really good week to release an Ys game.
No idea if it's any good.
This would have been a really good week to release an Ys game.
Little Big Adventure is currently free for 24 hours to celebrate their store's french localization. Also weekend promo.
Tizoc
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Oh nice I got LBA2 from a bundle, thanks GOG!
Raiden Legacy is only three bucks this weekend, I think I just might finally pick it up
Dragoon En Regalia
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AVGN Movie's out, as is Cinemaware's Rocket Ranger w/Amiga emulation and DOS version. Make sure to get your free copy of LBA! Glad to hear the site's French-language now.
If you like Icewind Dale style more combat-centric Real-Time with Pause RPGs with a bit of in-depth tactics, get Aarklash: Legacy.
Really solid, and has that really needed innovative feature of queueing up your movements, attacks and skills. You can also see your enemy's full skillset and its descriptions, so you're always well-informed when, for example, a green timer appears before enemy's head (it means they're about to use their powerful, interruptible healing skill)
Like you can command a unit to "move here, then debuff the guy far away from you, then start auto-attacking the nearest enemy"
Really solid, and has that really needed innovative feature of queueing up your movements, attacks and skills. You can also see your enemy's full skillset and its descriptions, so you're always well-informed when, for example, a green timer appears before enemy's head (it means they're about to use their powerful, interruptible healing skill)
Like you can command a unit to "move here, then debuff the guy far away from you, then start auto-attacking the nearest enemy"
Last Baron
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How do you get it? I keep getting redirected to the front page.
Ingueferroque
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I got Moto Racer 2, had most other things I wanted. Look forward to trying it out.
The promo was on the front page, but I think it expired earlier today.
Minsc
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A bit of catching up this week, three new games from the prior weeks added, and a bunch more eliminated.
Door Kickers is first to make the list, just barely squeezing by with the minimal amount of (all positive) impressions. It seems to draw some parallels to Frozen Synapse, but without the sci-fi theme, and delivers on providing a ridiculous amount of content. Even before the full release, you could drop a ton of time in to the missions planning your attacks, but its since added a campaign, new tweaks to the combat, and there's a pretty active mod community that is putting out some nice content too.
Dreamfall Chapters - Season Pass is next, and thankfully it recently received a patch that greatly helped the performance issues many people were complaining about (consistently poor framerate on high-end hardware, now fixed). While veterans to the series generally agree it's a good start, with very nice attentions to details though perhaps falling a little short on the puzzles - you really should be sure to play the first two games to get the most out of it... and the content right now is a bit short for the price since only the first chapter is out. Still, a highly recommended, mature adventure with a few caveats.
Legend of Grimrock 2 is the final entry this week, and most people seem to agree it's a solid improvement from the first game. Better designed combat with enemies that don't require kiting around them so much, and well thought out puzzles to solve like before. This time it's more hub-based, instead of escaping a single dungeon, so a bit more variety to the environments. Definitely a good RPG for both those new and those familiar to dungeon crawlers.
As for what didn't make it the cut (all releases from this past week are still in review):
- Kromaia (not enough impressions)
- Devil's Dare (not enough impressions)
- TRI (not enough impressions)
- A Golden Wake (impressions were too few and too mixed to make it)
- Starpoint Gemini 2 (not enough impressions)
- Smugglers V: Invasion (not enough impressions)
- Wings! Remastered (not enough impressions)
- Halfway (not enough impressions)
- Screencheat (not enough impressions)
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
So uh, there's a sale going on.
A big one.
A big one.
Zero-Crescent
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Yeah, if you check in (via activating a stamp) once per day for seven days, you'll unlock Witcher 2 and a movie.
Also worth noting that they're giving away the original Mount and Blade for 24 hours, both in celebration of the sale and of the release of the M&B series on GOG.
for 48 hours actually, well, now it's 1 day and 20 hours left.
How's that
Sale related - don't you hate each time D&D games get discounted, they have a good discount only for a bundle? I don't really care for Neverwinter Nights, guys, or Dragonshard, just let me buy BG or ToEE. :\
Tizoc
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Tizoc
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aFTER You click for a stamp, gog will tell you when the next time you can avail for another one.
Tizoc
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it seems to be 5AM PST when it rolls over to the next day.
Minsc
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Caught up through Week 45 with the above, just need to look at last week's releases still.
Going to skip the mini write-up for now, the impressions in the quotes are picked to generally give an understanding of what the game is about anyway. On to what didn't make the cut:
- Pier Solar and the Great Architects (impressions seem a bit mixed overall)
- Rocket Ranger (not enough impressions)
Thought maybe I should post this here as well:
I have a Witcher 2 code from the stamp collection thing
I have a Witcher 2 code from the stamp collection thing
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Coreda
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Once Galaxy has a public release I'll probably start looking more at GOG sales and releases. If the client has the install/update convenience of Steam I could see myself preferring the DRM-free versions of games, even if occasionally paying a little extra. If they get it right I'd be very happy using it.
Minsc
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Only two releases so far this week, both from yesterday:
- The Marvellous Miss Take (2014), Action (NeoGAF |OT|)
- Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms (2014), Action
Neither has very many impressions yet, though TMMT having an |OT| does give it a slight edge, it has a couple people interested in it, but still not much more.
- The Marvellous Miss Take (2014), Action (NeoGAF |OT|)
- Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms (2014), Action
Neither has very many impressions yet, though TMMT having an |OT| does give it a slight edge, it has a couple people interested in it, but still not much more.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Crimzon Clover: World Ignition is launching next week on December 4th.
Please look forward to it *bow*
Please look forward to it *bow*
Shadow Hog
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Getting back to this post from page 1: it now has a store page (and also a StrawPoll between it and the similarly-upcoming Agarest: Generations of War as to which Jesse Cox should stream on GOG's twitch channel), so it looks like it's gonna be sooner than later.
Minsc
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December thread is up now, for those still following. 
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