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GOG News and Updates 2011
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British Monsoon
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Man, now Stainless Games has reacquired the rights to Carmageddon, what are the chances of seeing Carmageddon and Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now on GoG? I would kill for W7 compatible versions of those games, even if CM2 won't have the licensed Iron Maiden tracks.
Joseph Merrick
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neil was asked about it in an interview with rps. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/25/carmageddon-reincarnation-preview/Bootaaay said:
RPS: Is there any scope to re-release the original games too, or is that tied up in whatevers left of SCI?
Neil Barnden: We go round and round with the discussion on this one. We do own everything, so if we want to we can we absolutely own the rights to all the previous code, even the stuff thats Carmageddon-related that we didnt work on ourselves. Its all ours. But I think because its so easy to go online and find a copy of Carmageddon from a warez site or whatever, it doesnt feel to us like thered be an awful lot of point in just rereleasing the originals. We had talked about it, but on our website now weve got guys talking about how to get it running on Windows 7, various patches which make it look nicer and high-res, so rather than try and shut them down and go after the people distributing the game, we just thought weve got to embrace that and let em have it. They can do with it what they want, because theres been a really loyal, core modding community whove continued to put stuff out for the games. Theyre still going.
so yeah. maybe if enough people ask them about gog versions this will happen, otherwise just pirate the old ones like the doctor ordered. but doesn't c2 work pretty much perfectly in win7 anyway? been a while since I played it now. and for c1 and splatpak, just use dosbox. software mode all the way, or just add nglide if you absolutely have to be a dick about it http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide. I guess nglide works for c2 as well.
pffffffffffffffff. bullshit! this year of releases has been fantastic, even without ea. you just haven't played enough games. shape up.Minsc said:
Minsc
Gold Member
Joseph Merrick said:
Haha, yeah, lackluster was definitely too harsh. It's good, perhaps even fantastic as you say, but as far as true new releases go (games you can't buy from another large digital distributor) this is what we have from EA:
Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger
Ultima 4 + 5 + 6
Nox
Populous
Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar
Ultima 1 + 2 + 3
Dungeon Keeper 2
Wing Commander 1 + 2
Magic Carpet
Crusader: No Remorse
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Wing Commander: Privateer
Dungeon Keeper
Ultima Underworld 1 + 2
vs the rest of the year:
Star Control 3
Crusaders of Might & Magic
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion
Battle Isle: The Andosia War
Zork: Grand Inquisitor
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc
RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe
Atlantis: The Lost Tales
SWAT 3: Tactical GOTY Edition
Heroes Chronicles: All Chapters
Broken Sword 2: Remastered
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Dragonsphere
Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone
Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
Star Control 1 & 2
Alone in the Dark 1, 2, & 3
Guilty Gear X2 Reload
Rayman Forever
Might & Magic VIII - Day of the Destroyer
Battle Isle Platinium
Heroes of Might & Magic 4: Complete Edition
Might & Magic VII - For Blood and Honor
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms + Iron Plague expansion
Pinball Gold Pack
Dark Reign 2
Police Quest: SWAT 1 & 2
Return to Zork
The Zork Anthology
Broken Sword: Circle of Blood
Moto Racer 3: Gold Edition
I imagine it should look possibly even a bit more skewed towards EA after the 3rd and possibly 4th batches of EA games release, but there's more great non-EA titles than I initially thought.
Minsc
Gold Member
Time for an update to the list of games which are exclusive to GOG's store. Here's what used to be exclusive to GOG at the time of release, and has appeared elsewhere (bolded titles are just ones that have been recommended, like always):
And here's what's left at GOG and nowhere else afaik (their complete catalog is listed here):
No longer GOG exclusive said:
And here's what's left at GOG and nowhere else afaik (their complete catalog is listed here):
GOG exclusive said:
Joseph Merrick
Member
A couple more
All three Broken Sword games, but only director's cut of 1 and remastered 2. Desperados 1. Locomotion. Alone in the Dark New Nightmare. are on gamesplanet.
All three Moto Racer games are on dotemu.
Also, Hostile Waters was removed from gog a while ago!
All three Broken Sword games, but only director's cut of 1 and remastered 2. Desperados 1. Locomotion. Alone in the Dark New Nightmare. are on gamesplanet.
All three Moto Racer games are on dotemu.
Also, Hostile Waters was removed from gog a while ago!
afternoon delight
Member
NOX!
NOX!
OH MY GOSH IT'S AVAILABLE! Hours upon hours spent on this game back in the day. From what I remember, complicated trap systems and spell combinations that just straight up rocked. Man, it''s middle school all over again.
NOX!
OH MY GOSH IT'S AVAILABLE! Hours upon hours spent on this game back in the day. From what I remember, complicated trap systems and spell combinations that just straight up rocked. Man, it''s middle school all over again.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
All D&D classics up to 60% off this weekend during our 3rd birthday celebration!
Looks like I'm expanding my GOG collection.
Looks like I'm expanding my GOG collection.
Minsc
Gold Member
Joseph Merrick said:
Thanks, I never checked gamesplanet before! The Broken Sword games came back because they used to be available on one of the services I was checking against (Impulse, Steam, Gamersgate, D2D) and are no longer there. But now I can update that list and remove them once again before it sits again for a while. I don't know how I missed the Moto Racer games!
Actually, yes I do. When I do a search for "Moto Racer" in DotEmu, it launches iTunes for one of their iOS games, very strange, but I didn't look any further than that.
epmode said:
Just the demo as I recall, it's been a very long time, and I didn't see many people heavily recommending Nox, actually quite a few people were questioning the nostalgia over the game, so I skipped bolding it at the time. I did play it briefly again after the GOG release, and the controls are a bit quirky but seems like it'd be enjoyable, even if one of the biggest draws (the multi) isn't too accessible.
Spectacular Dr Dawg
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http://www.gog.com/en/news/help_us_achieve_6_million_downloads_milestone
So the person who downloads game nr 6 million gets all the games in gogs catalog? That's pretty amazing. And everyone gets Broken sword 1 for free.
I already own all the games on sale except dragonshard, forgotten realms and neverwinter nights but I don't really want them either so I'm not going to be downloading anything unfrotunately.
So the person who downloads game nr 6 million gets all the games in gogs catalog? That's pretty amazing. And everyone gets Broken sword 1 for free.
I already own all the games on sale except dragonshard, forgotten realms and neverwinter nights but I don't really want them either so I'm not going to be downloading anything unfrotunately.
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Deleted member 17706
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I'm missing 5 games (original Baldur's Gate, Dragonshard, Demon Stone, Icewind Dale 2, and Neverwinter Nights). I can get them all for $19.95. That's not a bad deal.
If there are must-have mods out there, the GOG forums for that particular game will usually have a thread stickied that collects those, so I suggest you check those. There also a good chance that whatever question you have was already answered over there.Carm said:
Also, for a database of widescreen support: http://widescreengamingforum.com/mgl
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Deleted member 10571
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Stupid sale, I wanna buy TOEE and double-dip on Torment, but this "buy more to pay less" thing really doesn't help. I probably pay less for the boxed versions
Bufbaf said:Stupid sale, I wanna buy TOEE and double-dip on Torment, but this "buy more to pay less" thing really doesn't help. I probably pay less for the boxed versions
Yeah I really, really think this strategy is a very stupid move on the part of GOG. They do it every sale, and it's caused me to not buy anything almost every time because I know I won't be getting the "real" sale price if I don't buy the whole pack.
Togglesworlh
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I bought the whole pack. X:
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Deleted member 17706
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Ledsen said:
I cashed in on this promotion because I already had enough of the games to get the 60% off deal on the remaining ones, but I am generally like you, where I end up not buying anything because they usually do bullshit like "30% off individual titles, or 60% off for the whole pack!"
I don't want the whole damn pack!
Minsc
Gold Member
Carm said:
I have a pretty up-to date database in the OP of any important/bigger mods/patches/etc (generally linking to the appropriate GOG thread if need be). Checking the individual game's GOG forum works well as suggested, but for at least a few games, you'll save some time just to look at the list in the OP first.
As for your questions, Demon Stone supports widescreen, but via a bit of stretching, so it's not ideal. ToEE definitely benefits from fan patches and can use widescreen with a little tweaking, but isn't without bugs no matter how you play it. That said, it's often referred to as the best combat in any D&D RPG, so don't let the bugs scare you away.
Dog Problems
Banned
Yeah, that mod page you made has been such a big help.
TheBothersomeMan
Neo Member
Off all the D&D games on sale which ones, if any, would still stand up today to someone who has never played them before but likes most modern RPGs?
Tokubetsu
Member
Miletius said:
I owned Ps2 version of Demonstone (Might still have it in a closet somewhere) and I remember liking it a lot in high school...I also read all the Drizzt books so take that with a grain of salt haha. It's pretty much like those ps2 era LOTR action games though, just with more RPG elements iirc. I also felt like it was pretty difficult. It took me and a friend a couple weeks of switching off controler to get through it.
Dog Problems
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TheBothersomeMan said:
Easily PlaneScape: Torment. If you only get one game from the sale make it that.
Typographenia
Member
I know Planescape is lauded as having one of, if not, the greatest stories in gaming, but is there anything comparable to it gameplay-wise? Not something else DnD, as I've never played any of the DnD games, board or video.
I only ask because I really want to play it and see what all the fuss is about, but I'm afraid the gameplay will keep me from ever seeing it through.
I only ask because I really want to play it and see what all the fuss is about, but I'm afraid the gameplay will keep me from ever seeing it through.
Danne-Danger
Member
Warcraft 3?Typographenia said:
It's pretty much just point-and-click with the occasional spell here and there. You can just run past most confrontations if you want to.
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Deleted member 10571
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Baldur's Gate 2 is probably the best RPG of all times, period. It has like a few hundred hours of play time, and that's _real_ play time, not the cheated find-anything-time modern RPG's have. Planescape is incredibly good, too, but doesn't hold up that good in terms of graphics.TheBothersomeMan said:
Baldur's Gate 1 is great, too, but it's a bit weaker than those two.
The Neverwinter titles are a more action-y version of BG1 and 2. They are fun, though, and you might enjoy them a lot if you are into RPG.
FrontalMonk
Banned
Am I the only one who saw the topic title, said "D&D Classics!" and thought of the Gold Box games, only to be disappointed?
Bufbaf said:Stupid sale, I wanna buy TOEE and double-dip on Torment, but this "buy more to pay less" thing really doesn't help. I probably pay less for the boxed versions
Yeah. I am not familiar with GOG and i saw BG2 for 3.99 and i was going to buy it, until i noticed it was 3.99 only if i bought all the games in that list. Fuck that.
Kandrick said:
If you buy it by itself it's 7.99, which is still a couple of bucks off a price that's not all that steep to begin with.
If they didn't do the whole 'buy more, get a bigger discount' thing, odds are that the sale price for each title would be higher across the board to compensate. Since I usually end up picking up at least a couple of titles at the same time during these sales, and the regular prices are already pretty low to start with, I don't have a problem with it.
Minsc
Gold Member
FrontalMonk said:Am I the only one who saw the topic title, said "D&D Classics!" and thought of the Gold Box games, only to be disappointed?
Now you know! I used GOG's wording, blame them
If the Gold Box games ever got added, it'd be a "xxxxx up today" type title.lordy88 said:
It was $9.99 marked down to $4.99 for me, but I think that's because I already owned the other titles on sale. It might have been ~$6.99 otherwise, not sure.
archnemesis
Member
It was 40% off. If you bought all the Might and Magic games it was 50% off. I picked up Might and Magic 1 to 8 for the price of a lunch.lordy88 said:
I'm pretty sure you need 4 games on that list if you want the full discount, and stuff you already own on GOG counts. If you can't find 4 things worth buying on that list... well, I don't believe you.
edit: Aiee, I was mistaken. Still, five or six of them are practically essential, and that nets a nice discount.
edit: Aiee, I was mistaken. Still, five or six of them are practically essential, and that nets a nice discount.
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Deleted member 10571
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yeah, not if you have four of those five games as boxed versions for years now, you know, since they are fucking OLD?epmode said:
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Deleted member 10571
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And you'd consider that as a normal behaviour?mclem said:
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Deleted member 10571
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Yeah I don't know. I have BG1, BG2 three times, PS:T and the Icewind Dales at home. Only one of them bought on GoG. I won't pay like 30 bucks for the set when I already own 80% of the games on sale, and I won't pay 12 bucks for the two games I actually want if GoG rubs it in that every other person pays way, way less then that. Maybe it's just me, but I'm pretty sure that's how many other people feel, too.Polk said:
GoG could have made a few bucks from me, now they don't, and I'll buy TOEE when I find it somewhere else or on a flea market or whatever. Those deals are impulse buys, and Steam shows how to do that correctly.
Don't get me wrong, I really like GoG, and the idea behind the page, but those deal systems and prices (for really old games, regardless how good they are) are just really not that attractive to me.