What kind of distinguished mentally-challenged fellows think that shutting down a site where you paid for games, without warning, as a joke would earn them more customers?
What kind of distinguished mentally-challenged fellows think that shutting down a site where you paid for games, without warning, as a joke would earn them more customers?
Archie
I already own Baldur's Gate. Cause I'm more hardcore PC gamer...
What kind of distinguished mentally-challenged fellow would purchase a game on a website that depended on that website staying up?
Millions of people who buy games off Steam, iTunes and other DD services? ???
Millions of people who buy games off Steam, iTunes and other DD services? ???
Millions of people who buy games off Steam, iTunes and other DD services? ???
but Steam will never go down because Valve will be around forever :smug
Millions of people who buy games off Steam, iTunes and other DD services? ???
but Steam will never go down because Valve will be around forever :smug
Gabe's arteries aren't immortal. :'(
Cool, that sounds awesome
> torrent
What a disastrous PR stunt.
What a disastrous PR stunt.
Again, everyone is talking about it, so it sounds like their plan worked just fine.
What a disastrous PR stunt.
Again, everyone is talking about it, so it sounds like their plan worked just fine.
Everyone talked about Ubi DRM as well. Was that their plan too? :lol
I like GoG and I've bought tons of games from them. I was a bit concerned when the original message went up, even a bit pissed since I don't keep my installers, but it's not like I would have needed them for this one week anyway. I don't agree that it was a good marketing stunt, but whatever, I'll be back buying shit from them once they go back up.
"I've never bought anything from GoG before or even gone to their site, but this news just has me STEAMED!"
No, you are run by distinguished mentally-challenged fellows.
:-*"I've never bought anything from GoG before or even gone to their site, but this news just has me STEAMED!"
:lol - um, yeah, sadly almost dead-on. I've visited GoG several times, haven't found anything to override my reticence, but thought it was a good idea for a service. If Jinfash is right that the site even offered downloads WHILE looking like they might shut down, this is just bad judgment but nothing harmful. I'd been under the impression that the main page hosted that "KTHXBYE" message, AND offered no means of downloading. I should have checked the site before manifesting my nerd rage. :-[
Honey, you rage with tact and class. I approve :heart
Sorry everyone for the delay in the launch of the new website. Our servers, even though we've augmented their number, just didn't manage to support the huge interest from your side - we're having 20 times the biggest traffic we have ever had in our history! We're adding more servers as we speak and everything should start improving. Enjoy the new website, all the features and the newly released Baldur's Gate.
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/icewind_dale_complete
IWD just reaffirms that the GREATEST RPG OF ALL TIME is coming out next week. :bow2
oh hey look, old-as-fuck WRPGs that are unplayable by today's standards getting tons of love on a video game forum.
oh hey look, old-as-fuck WRPGs that are unplayable by today's standards getting tons of love on a video game forum.
oh hey look, old-as-fuck WRPGs that are unplayable by today's standards getting tons of love on a video game forum.
both math and the English language have changed irreversably since 1999! our ability to enjoy these games is lost to us
oh hey look, old-as-fuck WRPGs that are unplayable by today's standards getting tons of love on a video game forum.
I'd struggle to call DA2 an RPG. "Brawler with stats" is a more apt description.
Even the old Gold Box games are enjoyable. Because maybe they used a good rules system?
:bow Jeremy Soule :bow2:bow
:bow Jeremy Soule :bow2:bow
:bow Jeremy Soule :bow2:bow
nailed it.
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Oh god I forgot how godly the IWD soundtrack was.
:bow Jeremy Soule :bow2
see, i want to play one of these old D&D games due to my nostalgia for D&D, but i don't want to punch a hole in my nice new monitor
everyone's always praising Planescape, but they always refer to the characters and dialogue and i never read anything about the fighting - so i guess what i am asking is if i buy planescape am i ever going to be given the opportunity to decapitate anyone or is every dispute handled by clicking through a dialogue tree
Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games is free to everyone who had an account before they went out of beta.Some of my Warhammer/Necromunda playing friends really, really loved that game. I own a copy, but never have booted it. :-\
I forgot since these were DRM free you can just pirate them and never have to pay, so I stopped buying stuff.
No excuse not to install it on my laptop now (...unless it doesnt run on W7)
compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit)
at $10, it seems rude not to buy it, even though I have the disks right here. Anyone tried it on Win7 yet? (64 bit here)
The greatest RPG of all time is now available (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/baldurs_gate_2_complete)
:bow GOG :bow2
omggg my dick is so hard
Moto Racer's on GoG.com for $5.99 (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/moto_racer)
Following recent video game trends the title will offer a very short and linear story. Almost no gameplay whatsoever and twenty launch DLCs, including a special pink banjo (normally obtainable by finishing a game) and a unicorn mount, will have you stuck in front of your computer screen for minutes. Check out the announcement trailer below and visit http://www.saviors-of-queens.com for even less details.
Planescape has great characters, great writing, great story, and great setting. You don't play it for the combat.
Planescape has great characters, great writing, great story, and great setting. You don't play it for the combat.
Sounds like I'll love it. I'll get to it sometime after Baldur's Gate.
:bow GoG :bow2
it's The Movies.
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/realms_of_the_haunting
:omg
EA
Take 2
Square Enix
LucasArts
Microsoft Game Studios
GOG has signed a deal with one of those publishers and has 25 games in the pipeline and they are close to signing deals with two more.
Alone in the Dark trilogy for $6 is pretty tempting, but I've still got the first two on CD and it isn't that hard to get them to run in Dosbox.
We’ve come to the conclusion that there are a number of issues with using a customer’s IP address to determine what offer they are being presented with from GOG.com. A good number of users can find themselves negatively impacted by a policy of using geo IP to set their region.:bow gog
For example, customers may be travelling when they want to purchase or download a game from GOG.com. In this case, automatic IP address capture might change the price or the content of the game they’re ordering (such as the default language of the installer). Further, geo IP data collection is not always right. IP addresses are not a perfect or unique identifier of location, and can report the incorrect region of users, particularly ones who are not using standard Internet connections. Finally, we’re always very sensitive of our users’ privacy. Effective privacy protections for our users means that any data that we don’t need to collect, we shouldn’t. We only need to know the country that you’re making this purchase from, so although we originally planned to use geo-IP to determine user’s location, we’ve decided to trust our users and let them inform us as to the correct region for their purchase.
Any of you who are having problems with your country’s location (and the offer you're presented with) can update this by going to ”My Account” and clicking on “Account & Settings."
The change is now live on GOG.com and will effect all current purchases and preorders.
EDIT: We'll update the privacy policy on our website to reflect this tomorrow, because we're having caching problems with it today. rest assured, the new changes are in effect even if the page doesn't show it.
thanks, but I was just joking (do I come off as that lazy :-\) Would probably serve someone who doesn't own the game already.
my boxed copy has sat on my shelf for months now as a reminder to replay it before the witcher 2 is released. yeah, that never happened.
thanks, but I was just joking (do I come off as that lazy :-\) Would probably serve someone who doesn't own the game already.
my boxed copy has sat on my shelf for months now as a reminder to replay it before the witcher 2 is released. yeah, that never happened.
Buy it and sell the retail copy to me. I've been wanting to play The Witcher.
I remember when I bought the SE when it came out on Steam for $40.
I've barely touched it. :-\
$67 in Australia :-\
I remember back when Messiah was hyped through the roof. Ultimately, it didn't deliver, but I think it was actually a decent game with some nice ideas that just never quite reached as high as it should have.I remember all the hype it got. The tech they used made it so you couldn't see the seams on the polygons. At the time the character models were very impressive. It was hyped to high heaven then just disappeared. I never knew it was even released until GoG got it lol.
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/normality
:bow GOG :bow2
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/ultima_1_2_3
:bow
Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1.8 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM (1 GB recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), 2GB HDD, Mouse, Keyboard.
LoL 1, 2 or 3?
I may have asked before, but how and what are the Little Big Adventure games?
Anyone else buy games on GOG not for the games themselves (lol, who has 1000 hours to play all these old classics while new games are coming out daily) but for the jpgs and pdfs of all the cool shit that game with games back in the day? Like to preserve classic awesomeness?
I'm flipping through the Zork Anthology goodies, the classic Calender of the 12 Flatheads, and the great lore of Zork, the little maps and scribbles; this is easily worth $2.99 for me.
holiday sale
Empire Earth is free: http://www.gog.com/en/news/get_empire_earth_gold_edition_free
almost everything is 50% off: http://www.gog.com/en/page/xmas11
I can play SS2 just fine, actually had it running a few seconds ago.
Anyone pick up Syndicate? keeps crashing to desktop after cutscene
Square Enix / Eidos is now on GoG: http://www.gog.com/en/news/introducing_square_enix_on_gog_com
first two games aren't special since they're on Steam (Deus Ex 1 and Hitman 1) but original Thief has been teased
The thing is that SE is pretty good about having all their stuff on steam, so I dunno if GoG will get exclusives from them.
Anachronox was awesome, but I never could beat it because of game-breaking bugs. There was one part where you had to tail some guy, and in between loading screens, if you're processor was too fast it would decide that he had already moved too far ahead and that you'd lost him and would get a Game Over.
Man, that was a great game. Scary as hell, too. Who thought worms could be scary?
They doin games for mac too now :bow2 and they're running some good sales. Picked up the two Deponia games (2nd one's a pre-order), Little Big Adventure and Sim City SE for $28
They're doing pay-what-you-want with Interplay games right now. I guess the Baldur's Gate games aren't included? Maybe it's just because Interplay was only the publisher.
Come to think of it, isn't Interplay basically two guys and a C64 anymore? I thought they imploded.
I like the art in the screenshots, but I still haven't heard any positive impressions of Inquisitor.
They updated Alpha Centauri with Alien Crossfire. For free. :rock
XIII (ubisoft's cel-shaded fps game from the ps2-era) will be removed from GoG after 2012.
If for some reason you wanted it, it's on sale for $3: http://www.gog.com/gamecard/xiii
i'm curious if it will hold up or if it's one of those things people love more due to nostalgia
i haven't played it since it first came out
i'm curious if it will hold up or if it's one of those things people love more due to nostalgia
Teaser for tomorrow's reveal:
(http://i.imgur.com/vLa43bA.png)spoiler (click to show/hide)That's almost certainly the Dark Savant from the Wizardry series.[close]
Torchlight is free if you need a third or fourth copy of it.
I really love this idea, and I hope it gets Steam to step up their game in courting indies, as well.
http://www.gog.com/game/i_have_no_mouth_and_i_must_scream:rejoice
Harlan ElliTON :gladbron
I remember that this game got really shitty reviews in german game mags, is it actually good?
I remember that this game got really shitty reviews in german game mags, is it actually good?
eh, i tried playing it last year and didnt last more than an hour or two. tried playing as the woman in the egyptian level and thought it was corny and frustrating.I'm sorry you couldn't step outside your cis-shoes for a couple of minutes and broaden your gender horizons :yeshrug
I remember that this game got really shitty reviews in german game mags, is it actually good?
Yeah, it's pretty amazing actually.
eh, i tried playing it last year and didnt last more than an hour or two. tried playing as the woman in the egyptian level and thought it was corny and frustrating.I'm sorry you couldn't step outside your cis-shoes for a couple of minutes and broaden your gender horizons :yeshrug
wait this shit is windows only :holeup :beli
Finally, we would like to express our condolences to everyone who's been furloughed by the shutdown. More than that, actually, we'd like to offer you the games pack of our special Shutdown Promo for free. Send an email to thanksobama@gog.com with your picture holding the official furlough letter you received, before Friday 11 October 2013 at 12:00 EDT and we'll give you The Guild: Gold Edition, Capitalism, Capitalism 2, Tropico: Gold Edition, Alpha Centauri + Alien Crossfire, Theme Hospital, and Redneck Rampage free.