cartman414
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I really wish they could get the Quest for Glory series up there.
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GOG News and Updates 2012
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Well, there wasn't much story there to begin with (especially in II) so all the same basics of the original story are still there, it's just expanded on. I don't think there would be any continuity errors in relation to later games.
I do feel weird about the vastly different puzzles though :O
And in II I thought the gem door thing was weird :/
Sportbilly
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Is it actually worthwhile getting Thief from GOG? I can get Thief 1, 2 and 3 from Amazon for less than £5, whereas Thief 1 alone is about £7 on GOG. I'd likely have to use the community patches to get it to work but it looks like you're best off using the patches on the GOG version anyway.
archnemesis
Member
Wait for a sale. It's bound to be at least 40 percent off within a year.
Sportbilly
Member
True, but even if it is, it'll still be not much less than the entire trilogy.
Thief Gold or just Thief? Gold is a lot harder to find than the original release and it has a bunch of extra content.
SteveWinwood
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When arevthey gonna sign Lucasarts? I want my damn tie fighter and grim fandango.
Given how they've handled things in the past, I suspect the answer is "As soon as Lucasarts says yes"
I wonder if Star Wars would be on the table if they did. On the one hand, it's a licensed property with extra difficulties in getting the rights. On the other hand, though, it's Lucasarts. Just how much of a tie do they have to the mothership these days?
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Lucasarts doesn't have to worry about the license for the old Star Wars games.
Just trust me on that.
Just trust me on that.
SteveWinwood
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After some googling it seems it's been brought up a billion times on lucasarts forums and the response is always that lucasarts will not release their games on a drm-free platform.
I really wanna talk to some of the business people that make these decisions.
I really wanna talk to some of the business people that make these decisions.
Last Baron
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But I thought George was a fan of money?
Guerrillas in the Mist
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It's not like they need to worry about older games. How else would they make money out of them? It's a win-win scenario as far as I'm concerned. Some publicity, AND make money out of an otherwise idle backlog.
Dark Forces is on Steam as a DOSBox game. It's 100% DRM-free. It can be copied to and run from other computers as many times as you'd like, even without a Steam installation. A great deal of LucasArts' potential GOG games would behave the same way on Steam.
Idiot management IMO.
Idiot management IMO.
SteveWinwood
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I can't find any official response that says that though. I just find tons of threads with lots of people asking and one guy or two (with really high post counts) sighing, saying they've had this discussion a bajillion times, and that it won't happen because it's drm free. Then people bash steam.
If people actually read emails nowadays I wouldn't mind typing one up and sending it to lucasarts. But I doubt it would do anything and I'd just get a generic thanks for your interest response.
If people actually read emails nowadays I wouldn't mind typing one up and sending it to lucasarts. But I doubt it would do anything and I'd just get a generic thanks for your interest response.
When they did their Big Five tease prior to EA - the list was EA, LA, Squeenix, Microsoft and Take 2 - I think the actual announcement was that EA was now on GoG, *and* I think they added that two were well in progress, hoped to be done by the end of the year. That would suggest that one of the remaining three is very close to announcement
Sportbilly
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Last Baron
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The description says it includes Thief Gold.
Sportbilly
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Heh, so it does...
Guerrillas in the Mist
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Was that part of the PC Gamer Presents series in the UK? That was an awesome budget line, back when large-scale DD was just a pipe dream.
SteveWinwood
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I'm inches away from buying thief gold.
Cydonian__Knight
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It's absolutely, 100% worth it.
hardcastlemccormick
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From GOG.com twitter:
Hah. They tweeted this pic.
That wasn't actually a clue. We don't know what order this week's releases are in, so we decided to tweet something random.
Hah. They tweeted this pic.
MehsterChief
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If the Spider-Man thing is an actual hint, I'm hoping for Tony Hawk 2 (which had Spider-Man as a character to play as). Would be awesome, game was amazing, Probably the best in the series.
the guys in forum see that at a clue
a monkey telling a secret
OMG
Secret of Monkey Island
Perhaps it's Fox's Planet of the Apes game from ages ago.
You have to change your location in your account settings. They purposely don't set the currency based in IP (The Witcher 2 is the exemption).
shiptoncraig
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Just bought the Thief Collection from Amazon for £5 because of this thread - will probably be worth it though.
Dog Problems
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the guys in forum see that at a clue
a monkey telling a secret
OMG
Secret of Monkey Island
Stop playing with me GOG.
the guys in forum see that at a clue
a monkey telling a secret
OMG
Secret of Monkey Island
Clearly it's actually Spoilerchimp 3000.
SteveWinwood
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the guys in forum see that at a clue
a monkey telling a secret
OMG
Secret of Monkey Island
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6W56HwPOQg
Minsc
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So there we have it, two of the highest regarded stealth games, unmatched today, easily obtained once more for cheap with minimal patching (or if you're not fussy none), mainly just to enhance the graphics to support 1080p widescreen over the original 4:3 in release. Not sure if we'll see the third on GOG, but it's easy enough to find on other services so no big loss if not.
No more excuses left now, time for me to try the entire series out soon.
No more excuses left now, time for me to try the entire series out soon.
Joseph Merrick
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seems likely
They're in a weird position right now because they've announced one signing while they're still releasing items from another. I suspect we might see The 7th Guest on Thursday because I doubt they'd want more than a week between signing announcement and first release.
Edit: Actually, I wonder if the "We don't know the order of releases" might be that they always had 7th Guest ready to launch, wanted to launch Thief 2 today but weren't sure if they could get it working adequately on modern systems in time.
Or, indeed, vice-versa.
afternoon delight
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HNNNNNNG
indigo-cyclops
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holy shiot *dies*
That's nice and all but what if DDFix is updated? I guess we can just copy over the appropriate files?
If so, <3 GOG <3
Yesssssssssssssss Thief II
Totally worth it! I have it and it's a great collection. I'm still buying the GOG releases though.
Totally worth it! I have it and it's a great collection. I'm still buying the GOG releases though.
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