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GOG News and Updates 2011
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Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
As much as the PQ series are a classic and people love their text adventures, I'm more excited about the rest of Activision's catalogue.
Spycraft, Zork Nemesis and Grand Inquisitor, MechWarrior 2 / Mercs, Call to Power, the first few Tony Hawk games, some of the early Star Trek games. There's a lot of solid B tier stuff trapped in there.
Spycraft, Zork Nemesis and Grand Inquisitor, MechWarrior 2 / Mercs, Call to Power, the first few Tony Hawk games, some of the early Star Trek games. There's a lot of solid B tier stuff trapped in there.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Spycraft seems would be nice - a lot of their other stuff is licensed stuff though.
EphemeralDream
Member
Doubt it would ever happen due to music licensing, board companies, skaters, etc.Stumpokapow said:
I have always wanted to play Mechwarrior 2 mercs a lot. I think I avoided it originally because of system requirements but the PSX version seemed really cool when I rented it.Stumpokapow said:
Joystick/Gamepad games are something I have not tried on GOG yet. Do they support modern gamepads well usually? I own Freespace 2 but have not tried to play it yet.
cartman414
Member
Instro said:
Yep. I'd also like to see it happen.
Dick Laurent
Member
maybe only the quake series heheMinsc said:
charlequin
Banned
Tim-E said:
Activision is sitting on two of the three greatest collections of adventure games ever created (the Sierra On-Line games and the Infocom catalogue), the former being only spottily available (KQ, SQ, and Gabriel Knight) and the latter currently available legally nowhere. Both Police Quest and the Infocom games would be excellent and highly-recommended additions to GOG. I think that would leave the really important SOL releases at only Quest for Glory and the Laura Bow adventures?
mclem said:
Nobody is going to pay $5 apiece for the Infocom games and I doubt they want to add any lower price points. My guess is that they'd post them as the packs (the Zork Collection, as well as the Mystery, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, and Sci-Fi genre packs.)
Frotz is GPL so they wouldn't actually need to strike a deal to distribute it.
Lasthope106
Member
So I just had a vision while posting on the Telltale JP thread. Does anyone remember that Capcom used to release pc versions of their games in the late 90's early 2000's? I mean we are talking about:
Resident Evil 1-3
Dino Crisis 1-2
If GOG could get these games, I would buy them in an instant. I don't know how good were the pc versions compared to the PS ones, but enough people should have bought the games and created mods, and patches. What say you PC-GAF? Am I alone in wanting this games on GOG?
Resident Evil 1-3
Dino Crisis 1-2
If GOG could get these games, I would buy them in an instant. I don't know how good were the pc versions compared to the PS ones, but enough people should have bought the games and created mods, and patches. What say you PC-GAF? Am I alone in wanting this games on GOG?
HadesGigas
Member
Lasthope106 said:
Japanese companies in general would be a nice addition to GOG.
charlequin said:
Good thinking, since after checking the breakdown I note that that cunningly avoids the issues with Shogun.
Wasn't the original Zork trilogy completely released for free at some point? They could add it to their freebies collection if so, would be a nice promotional gesture at the start of the reveal.
Versipellis
Member
It was, but just for a limited period of time.mclem said:
The Zork page on wikipedia links to a site where you can download the trilogy for free, but on the "List of commercial video games released as freeware" page (on wikipedia) they state that the trilogy is no longer "liberated".
The only Zork you can play for free seems to be Dungeon (the MIT version of the game) @ http://pr-if.org/event/play-zork/
Versipellis said:
Ah, much like the status of Betrayal At Krondor, then. It's something I can imagine them redoing, anyway, but we'll see.
I assume this'll also mean the later titles; Return to Zork was a bit meh, but I rather liked Zork Nemesis, and I heard Grand Inquisitor was pretty good, too. It may, however, also mean Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2. You can't have everything.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Still no Realms of the Haunting 
New release:
Police Quest 1+2+3+4
Zork Anthology (includes Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Beyond Zork, Zork Zero, and Planetfall)
Police Quest 1+2+3+4
Zork Anthology (includes Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Beyond Zork, Zork Zero, and Planetfall)
Minsc
Gold Member
Never played Zork, and it's been ages since I played PQ! Probably my least favorite of the Quest games, but I still enjoyed it when it came out. Only played the original though (and all I can really remember is shooting myself in the leg and pulling over a woman who tries to get out of the ticket).
I wonder how they hold up? Both series were highly regarded, but I know PQ's difficulty will be a pretty big turn off to any one new (timed quests and dying), compared to how adventure games work today. And I have no idea if Zork would still be fun for someone who never played it either.
You'd be fine in most cases, except maybe the newer more 3D intensive stuff. There are requirements listed on the individual game's pages, figure those as a starting point I guess. The older 2D titles like Heroes of Might & Magic, Baldur's Gate, Torment, Blood, etc, should run on anything.
I wonder how they hold up? Both series were highly regarded, but I know PQ's difficulty will be a pretty big turn off to any one new (timed quests and dying), compared to how adventure games work today. And I have no idea if Zork would still be fun for someone who never played it either.
mrklaw said:
You'd be fine in most cases, except maybe the newer more 3D intensive stuff. There are requirements listed on the individual game's pages, figure those as a starting point I guess. The older 2D titles like Heroes of Might & Magic, Baldur's Gate, Torment, Blood, etc, should run on anything.
Minsc
Gold Member
mrklaw said:
Do HoMM2&3/Disciples 2 style games count? They're definitely TBS, but with less of a focus on tactical combat, and more focus on army building/map & resource control. JA2 is supposed to be much improved over the 1st, so that's a good choice (if not the best choice), Master of Magic or Shadow Magic are two more if you're allowing empire building in to the game. MoO2 is a great space 4X TBS as well, then if you allow turn-based RPGs, you could also look at Fallout 1/2 (entire game worlds are played on hex-based combat), Gorky 17, and ToEE, and to a lesser extent the rest of the infinity engine games. That's all I got, but those are some pretty engrossing games, most of those titles are ones you could play for 50+ hours.
HK-47 said:
I'm thinking about it just because there's very few games I've played like that, text adventures. They can't be very long games either, so perhaps.
HK-47 said:
FLOYD!
I wonder what their plans are for Stationfall? I half-expect to see that turn up in a bundle of the Enchanter series or somesuch, given how out-of-the-blue the appearance of it in a Zork bundle is.
I also wonder what their long-term plans are, if they'll be going for some of the more obscure titles. Trinity is possibly the best game Infocom ever made, but it's not as well known as the big-name titles.
Minsc said:
I feel bad saying this - given that these are classics - but a number of the adventures which were released by amateurs *after* the days of Infocom are probably better entry points, with some more player-friendly design decisions (for instance, unlimited inventories); they've also been constantly output, with the yearly IFComp having run since 1995 and still going strong to this day.
Of those, I'd recommend Photopia as an excellent example of using the medium for storytelling (still some puzzling, but fairly simple stuff) and... maybe Uncle Zebulon's Will as a nice entry-point for a puzzler.
leroy hacker
Member
Catshade said:
Huh. I wonder if the person that designed this pack even realized that Planetfall has a sequel. I can imagine the thinking at Activision: "Zork collection will be our best selling pack, and we can make 20% more money if we throw a sixth game in. Let's pick something random."
Wishbringer should have been the obvious choice for a sixth game in the Zork pack, since it's actually set in the Zork universe and is designed for beginners, so it would have been perfect for people getting this set that have never played any text adventures before.
I'm not saying Planetfall is a bad game though. Not at all. I just would have expected it to be in a sci-fi pack including Stationfall, its sequel.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Grayman said:
A lot of fans would tell you MW2 vanilla is the high point of the series but MW2 Mercs is my favourite. I last played it around 2001 or 2002 and it was still highly playable then. Unfortunately none of my high school buddies are still around or if they are they left their old PC discs a few house moves ago, so I haven't got a chance to play it in more recent years. Really hope to change that.
The reason why I loved Mercs was the excellent, varied mission design.
It's going to vary by game. A lot of GOG stuff goes through DOSBox, so you're basically at the mercy of DOSBox's support. DOSBox I think supports DirectInput controllers. Not sure about other types.
EphemeralDream said:
Which actually, thinking about it, explains why the no-brainer Tony Hawk 2 PSN/XBLA port never happened.
leroy hacker
Member
mclem said:
Shade is another short and straightforward puzzler.
leroy hacker said:
I never really regarded that as a puzzler, more like
the room raids from Finders Keepers in text form
Can I claim to be the only person to successfully guess the (then) anonymous author of Shade? Unfortunately, I posted the review which I wrote at the time *after* he admitted his involvement, which rather spoils my claim to fame. But it's true!
d1rtn4p said:OK, now with the addition of the Police Quest series, GOG is really testing my patienceThey are going to make me break my Steam only promise!
Just make GoG your Steam supplement. Most of their catalogs don't overlap, and there is no GOG Client taking up cpu/ram resources to worry about. Seems silly to miss out on hundreds of classic games not available on Steam, just to stay loyal to a digital distributor.
They're pretty different overall, and while it's been a loooong time (and I never actually finished it), my memory is that FT benefits heavily from being familiar with F1/2. Offhand, I'd say Age of Wonders 2: Shadow Magic may be a better bet, as the campaign tends to give you limited resources to achieve goals (although I never got far because it was hard).mrklaw said:
Jagged Alliance 2 is really the best option, though. Alternatively get the first two (or three depending on tolerance) X-Com games off Steam.
Versipellis
Member
I suggest 9:05: very short and easy (there are no real puzzles), but with its nice "whoa!" moment.mclem said:
Violet is good too and easy for the most part.
Police Quest is a brutal sell to anyone. I watched a full playthrough of PQ3. It's one of the most tedious Quest games with almost no room of leniency. You have to do everything by the handbook or will get game over instantly. Also there's a point in the game if you forget to do something, and save between that point you are fucked and are forced to start over from the beginning.
The deaths are hilarious though, and the story telling, while predictable, is quite decent for 1991.
The deaths are hilarious though, and the story telling, while predictable, is quite decent for 1991.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
There's only a preorder for one new game and it's made by the people who own GOG.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
Banned
Tim-E said:
FORM 3.14!!!!
Is Open Season the voiced version? IIRC There was a voiced version of Open Season.
disappeared
Banned
They finally release Police Quest and my paypal account won't work FFFFFFUUUUUUUU