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GOG | News and Updates 2017 - Back to the basics
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Redemption is a little more janky, and not first person, but its worth getting
Two old P&C games released today: The Colonel's Bequest and The Dagger of Amon Ra. Definitely never heard of those two before...
Tizoc
Member
Holy shit.
Glad to see these get released. I've heard of them but never played them and while archaic are worth looking into personally speaking, form a historical viewpoint.
Baron_Calamity
Member
Something is really strange about The Colonel's Bequest screenshots. Its looks like some weird EGA mode. I played it in Tandy 320x200x16 back in the day and it looked better than that.
Shadow Hog
Member
Looks like EGA 320x200 to me, albeit probably with aspect ratio correction at a resolution where that wouldn't result in clean integer scaling.
Another great classics release week: Hidden & Dangerous and Hidden & Dangerous 2.
Noice! Great games.
Syphon Filter
Member
Are these hybrid rts and shooting? What shooter is it most similar to if any?
ShadowOwl
Member
Still loving GOG but the support situation for some games is pissing me off.
It's been almost 3 months since the latest patch (1.03) for good old Nexus - The Jupiter Incident has been released on Steam, which fixes annoying crash issues and adds GUI scaling. Here's a list documenting similar cases: https://www.gog.com/mix/games_that_treat_gog_customers_as_second_class_citizens
I hate it that many developers, especially some indies, treat GOG users as second class customers. I know that it can be costly to support DRM free releases but if you are unable to do so you shouldn't offer your games on that platform in the first place. Gah...
It's been almost 3 months since the latest patch (1.03) for good old Nexus - The Jupiter Incident has been released on Steam, which fixes annoying crash issues and adds GUI scaling. Here's a list documenting similar cases: https://www.gog.com/mix/games_that_treat_gog_customers_as_second_class_citizens
I hate it that many developers, especially some indies, treat GOG users as second class customers. I know that it can be costly to support DRM free releases but if you are unable to do so you shouldn't offer your games on that platform in the first place. Gah...
Coreda
Member
Especially when they're often paying more for the games than on other services. I've read explanations that it takes a bit more to package patches for GOG but like you said there are some devs that simply don't seem to bother for months on end.
Also is Minsc MIA? PM'd about a title change but no luck. I believe others have, too.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
It's still 2015, baybeee
Minsc
Gold Member
I guess I wasn't updating the title in hopes of either someone starting a new thread or myself getting to it eventually. Doesn't really seem like GOG has the activity it used to here, but I just can't remove or update the year in good faith (all the other platforms would just want mega threads again too).
Syphon Filter
Member
I just noticed that lol. It sort of picked up traffic recently, It would be nice if more were here since gog is pretty awesome.
Maybe a title change would drive traffic? Stop people from thinking we're continually necrobumping the post
Coreda
Member
I mean, when there's so little posting to not reach even 25 pages in almost two years I don't think anyone is going to mind
The SteamGAF discussion thread on the other hand reaches the max quota every month, sometimes earlier. Compare this to the Steam News thread which was started in 2014 and ran for two years without any date in the title as it was intended as a purely informative service news and updates (similar to this thread). To me it seems reasonable to leave out the date entirely in such cases. Or at least something so it doesn't seem quite as outdated, such as an updated year title (I've seen updated years in titles on other threads IIRC), or a new thread as you mentioned.I'd imagine if this topic was more discussion oriented it would probably gain more replies, if that's a goal. As the impression is of a news only thread (it's in the title after all) so even for games I've bought on GOG I tend to just post in SteamGAF as it seems open to casual game/PC discussion. My two cents anyway. Would be interested in how others view this thread.
Syphon Filter
Member
I mean, when there's so little posting to not reach even 25 pages in almost two years I don't think anyone is going to mind
I'd imagine if this topic was more discussion oriented it would probably gain more replies, if that's a goal. As the impression is of a news only thread (it's in the title after all) so even for games I've bought on GOG I tend to just post in SteamGAF as it seems open to casual game/PC discussion. My two cents anyway. Would be interested in how others view this thread.
Good points. A title change might solve this problem. Just talking about the games can lead to discussion and more activity and when galaxy gets more mature I can see that generating more traffic as well.
Coreda
Member
Yet again GOG rejects a really cool looking game
This time a point-and-click based on Renaissance paintings animated marionette-style ala Terry Gilliam.
Four Last Things | Trailer | RPS piece.
When asked about a GOG release the dev tweeted:
Four Last Things | Trailer | RPS piece.
When asked about a GOG release the dev tweeted:
Joe Richardson said:I actually submitted to gog but got (very politely) rejected
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
Anyone here knowledgeable about gog wallet refunds? Customer support seemingly can't help me and I wondering about the consequences about forcing a refund over paypal.
What did support tell you?
Syphon Filter
Member
Anyone getting that Torment game? What game is it similar to and how is the combat style?
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
They said that they can't refund. I'm basically only asking if anyone knows what would happen if I tried to force the refund through paypal dispute. I wouldn't mind losing my gog account if that's the only thing. Also I'm EU.
Dsyndrome
Member
Everyone. Similar to Planescape: Torment, combat is not something to write home about.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
I bought the Immortal Edition. I have faith in this thing.
D3RANG3D
Member
Tizoc
Member
Well shit ive heard of thos game before and am looking forward to playing it
For some reason three lines from this have stuck in my mind ever since I played this:
"WILLY BEAMISH! What did I just say?" (I think this might be the first line said in gameplay?)
"The Beamish's front stoop is littered with skidmarks from Willy's skateboard"
"Kibbles an' bits, kibbles an' bits, I'm gonna get me some kibbles an' bits"
It's a fun adventure, if from a slightly odd period in Sierra's life.
KainXVIII
Member
Jimnymebob
Member
This is freaky. I was thinking about this game for the first time in years last night.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Kinda wish we'd get something more interesting as the retro release than another P&C. What I wouldn't do for a GOG release of Lode Runner: The Legend Returns that works on modern systems.
Same here. It popped up in my twitter feed a few weeks ago and brought back waves of nostalgia. I hadn't even thought of it once since the 90s. Ended up youtubing it. All I really remembered was the opening scene and an insanely convoluted puzzle where you have to drop a frog into a pot or something. Made me want to throw my computer out as an 8 year old.
Buying immediately
My old copy of The Legend Returns comes with versions for Win95, Win 3.1 and DOS. The latter two run great in DOSBox, and as far as I know are not in any way gimped compared to Win95.
But yeah, a GOG release would be neat. IMHO the best "newer" version of Lode Runner. Didn't really like the newer Tozai games. The rights situation for TLR might be a little weird though? It probably belongs to Activision, while the rights to Lode Runner as a brand are somewhere else. Would probably require some work to sort that out.
Land Shark Gun.
2nd game from Planet Moon Studios, the guys who did Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Syphon Filter
Member
Anyone pm'ed Minsc about the title ideas we had?
Syphon Filter
Member
Ok, fine... 2017, here we are!
Yea I wonder if a new thread launch should happen too. I am ok with doing one if others have ideas.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Riddick has been delisted from GOG. So that game basically doesn't exist anymore on PC. GOG version was the way to go, though, since even the Steam release still had TAGES in it.
Considering it's been delisted for years on Steam now, and how much of a licensing hell that whole thing must be in, I wouldn't expect to see it return.
Considering it's been delisted for years on Steam now, and how much of a licensing hell that whole thing must be in, I wouldn't expect to see it return.
Dog Problems
Banned
I thought it was deactivated and just had some files remaining that did nothing?
What's the licensing issue involved?
It's a movie licensed game that was published by Atari (who barely exists at this point). I imagine the license expired.