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Lucas
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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raydeen
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OSX is now being supported. http://www.gog.com/news/gogcom_goes_macJust downloaded Ultima Underworld 1&2, Ultima 1-6, and the two Worlds of Ultima games. Now if/when they release OSX installers for the Might and Magic games, it's all over. No more productivity at work ever again. |
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Thrawn
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Picked up Theme Hospital on sale today for my wife and I, have never played it but always hear it's a great game.
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Zetor
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Mini-necro time! There's a one-week sale going on right now where you pick 5 games from their list and pay $10 for the lot. Pretty good deal, imo. http://www.gog.com/pick_5_pay_10Games I already played and recommend: - Resonance: great Maniac Mansion / Day of the Tentacle style point-and-click adventure, multiple characters you switch between and whatnot. Full voice acting, pretty good. - Gemini Rue: Same, only with two characters; also has good voice acting. Mindscrews ahoy! - Blackwell Bundle: It is a sorta-episodic adventure game series with a decent storyline and good voice acting (see a pattern?). For four games at $2, this is an insanely good deal. edit: the first game isn't as good as the others, FWIW - Uplink: THE haxxor game. - Geneforge 1-5: I've only played 1-2 so far, but they're very solid story-driven RPGs reminiscent of Fallout. I think there's a free demo for this on the Spiderweb software site too if you want to check it out. Again, you are getting all 5 for $2. - Machinarium Collector's Edition: Robot adventure game with a funky art style. - Trine: Lost Vikings-style platformer/puzzle game. Pretty neat. Other games of interest (to me, anyway): - Botanicula: this is from the same dudes who did Samorost and Machinarium. Same style adventure game. - To the Moon: 16 bit (SNES)-style adventure game with a surprisingly deep story, apparently. - Torchlight: if someone doesn't have it yet - SpaceChem: logic/puzzle game; DLC included |
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Ingmar
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Botanicula is great.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
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Lucas
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Yeah, wonderful promo ! I have purchased:
- Resonance
- Blackwell Bundle
- Gemini Rue
- Botanicula
- Unmechanical
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Lucas
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Holiday sale on GOG will kick off tomorrow  http://www.gog.com/news/holiday_sale_incomingI'll likely purchase/de-disk: - The Last Express (lost the CD which came with a magazine a long time ago) - Sanitarium - Simon the Sorcerer series - Thief series - Rollercoaster Tycoon: Deluxe - Anachronox - Sim City 2000: Special Edition |
" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Lucas
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It has begun  The entire catalogue is 50% off 'til January 3rd; new deal each day, probably always at 75%: for "packages" (like today's Bullfrog one), you get the full discount only if you purchase the entire pack. |
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HaemishM
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Also you get Duke Nukem 3d for free.
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Lucas
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Today's (14th December) sale has a couple interesting games if you haven't bought them yet: Legend of Grimrock and Inquisitor, at $ 3.74 each (other offers: Torchlight 1, Geneforge 1-5, The Real Texas) http://www.gog.com/promo/indie_rpgs Inquisitor is apparently a VERY hard, unforgiving, old-school CRPG: unbalanced, a not so good english translation, lots of filler combat, basically a much darker "Divine Divinity" gone bad. In other words, the perfect game whenever you feel inclined to curse at your monitor . http://www.gog.com/gamecard/inquisitorReviews on RPG Watch, Codex: http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/article?articleid=197&ref=0&id=59http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=8538 |
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« Last Edit: December 14, 2012, 07:47:26 AM by Lucas »
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Ard
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Geneforge is actually really fantastic also, if you can stand the early-90s graphics and UI. It's got a lot of text to it, and actually made me feel terrible about one of the decisions I made in game. It's closest comparison gameplay-wise is probably baldur's gate, although combat is turn based.
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« Last Edit: December 14, 2012, 08:08:23 AM by Ard »
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Zetor
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Looks like the last day in the GOG holiday sale is a redux of the first: 75% off quite a few game bundles. The Might&Magic and Ultima bundles look mighty tempting... hnnng.
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« Last Edit: January 02, 2013, 08:59:51 AM by Zetor »
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Lucas
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I ended my sale with only The Last Express, Theme Hospital and Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, but that will do, for now.
the Ultima bundle is great: both underworlds (which are truly ageless, probably more than any of the "main" episodes), Ultima VI and Ultima VII (part 1 and 2, both with the expansions) would already be enough to justify such a price (and don't forget that the "Worlds of Ultima" are free!).
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Lucas
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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raydeen
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I was drinking when I wrote this, so sue me if it goes astray.
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koro
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Was Mysteries of Westgate any good? I mean, it's not possibly $15-for-a-second-copy-of-NWN2 good, but I'm curious.
(On a side note, NWN1 and 2 are both gone from Steam now for some reason.)
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I'm sorry. I've tried twice. I can't make it through the first act. |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Sky
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I've got NWN2 and apparently I've played almost two hours. Which I believe was a very odd shoehorning of a traditional mmo everyone loves this guy beginning, due to me being an evil dark elf necromancer. Also, tiny text not couch friendly. Maybe I should give it a whirl on the new monitor, but then there are so many good games out there it's hard to go back to something that's already had a chance :)
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Lucas
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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raydeen
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So there's a countdown clock up on GOG's homepage with a little less then 24 hours to go. Something's coming. If I had to guess by the tone of the presentation, System Shock maybe?
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I was drinking when I wrote this, so sue me if it goes astray.
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Lucas
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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tgr
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cironian
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Same, but replace the "squee" with that garbled noise that precedes every SHODAN transmission. |
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luckton
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
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I had actually never played SS2 before but heard a lot of good things. Better late than never I suppose!
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Sky
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I played it exactly once and lost my CDs. Unsure how it would hold up after all this time.
But of course I'm buying it!
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Rasix
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 I always had so much trouble getting this to run on modern systems. All sorts of weird shit would happen. Mostly it was the cutscenes screwing everything up or just crashing the game. This will definitely get a reply once I'm between games.
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Lucas
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I also missed ever playing System Shock, but everybody here has hyped it up so much, I will certainly indulge myself. Is it worth it to play the first game before the second, or will it not effect the experience either way? I'm torn on if I should stay home playing this tonight or go make the rounds at the bars/clubs in Warsaw for Valentines day. |
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luckton
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The first will get you to know how SHODAN came to be, but really you're not missing much. SS2 improved so much upon what SS1 did; thus why most people clamour over SS2 than SS1 in the first place |
"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Lucas
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The first will get you to know how SHODAN came to be, but really you're not missing much. SS2 improved so much upon what SS1 did; thus why most people clamour over SS2 than SS1 in the first place Yes, it's a much more refined experience, although I find SS1 even more fascinating and definitely a lot weirder (and probably more difficult) when it comes to levels and environments. I mean, this is LEVEL ONE of SS1:  |
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Sky
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I suddenly want to play SS1 again so bad. That game was so awesome. Damn you Lucas.
GOG, y u no have SS1? Not sure if I could live with the ancient technology, but still.
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« Last Edit: February 14, 2013, 09:10:59 AM by Sky »
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Kail
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GOG, y u no have SS1? Not sure if I could live with the ancient technology, but still.
On the bright side, they just recently got Daikatana, too! You could play that instead! |
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« Last Edit: February 14, 2013, 03:10:37 PM by Kail »
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koro
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Or you can just watch the classic 2007 Let's Play Proteus from SA did and spare yourself the suffering and $5. |
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