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GOG News and Updates 2011

Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis released today, already out on a few DD services, so not too exciting. Though the comments on GOG about it make it sound like it's in the running for the lowest sales ever of a GOG release! It'd be nice if we return to EA titles next week again, after this promotion is over.

anddo0 said:
link to D3DWindower?
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I have it linked in the first half of the MOD section in the OP a few times, but it is easily found off google as well, here is a link to it from the second result of a search set to within the last year.
 
Minsc said:
Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis released today, already out on a few DD services, so not too exciting. Though the comments on GOG about it make it sound like it's in the running for the lowest sales ever of a GOG release! It'd be nice if we return to EA titles next week again, after this promotion is over.
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My gut says that they're going to do low-profile releases throughout August and pick things up again in September. But then, RCT came out of nowhere and I believe it's one of their more requested games, so what do *I* know?
 
Can anyone answer this about RCT Deluxe on GOG: When it runs windowed mode, does the cursor clip through the window (basically negating scrolling) or not? My sister said her disc edition has been doing that. Also, it looks like it kills explorer.exe when it runs because of stability issues, but alt-tabbing and stuff should be fine right?
 
Refreshment.01 said:
So what's up with Uru? How does it compare to other adventure games. Can it be played online and how does it work?
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You can actually play the online version for free: http://mystonline.com/en/

Uru: Complete Chronicles is, I believe, only the offline single player version. So if you don't want to play with others this version might be preferable.

Well, if you enjoyed the other Myst games then you'll also enjoy this one. If you haven't played them, basically the game is mostly exploration/mess around with objects and try to figure out how they work. There is not really an overt storyline nor is it dialogue heavy, as the story is mostly presented through exploration. I quite enjoy this type of game, but it might not be for everyone.
 
basically the game is mostly exploration/mess around with objects and try to figure out how they work. There is not really an overt storyline nor is it dialogue heavy, as the story is mostly presented through exploration. I quite enjoy this type of game, but it might not be for everyone.
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I played it when it came out and didn't finish it, but as long as I remember and as long as I played it, it was like this.

It didn't have a straight forward linear story, not much dialogues either, rather a strange game, if you enjoy reading mysteries about ancient civilizations, forgotten cultures, or you enjoy going to museums reading ancient tablets, these type of irks, and you enjoy solving visual puzzles (compared to riddles, like visual novels) you'll really like this. It was somewhat like playing an adventure Tomb Raider, environments filled with mysteries and void of much organic intelligent life.
 
Just purchased Rollercoaster Tycoon. I also snagged Prison Tycoon on Steam so I'll be doing a lot of Tycooning this weekend. I tend to play as a wrathful, sadistic god in sim games so I look forward to all the mayhem I'm gonna create.
 
Can someone point me to essential mods for Fallout 1/2/Tactics? I'm getting the resolution mods for sure, but dunno if there are any other worthwhile mods.

Also, are there any for Eathworm Jim 1+2 too?

Edit: You know what? The GOG forums are very useful actually. Nevermind then.
 
Sgt.Pepper said:
Can someone point me to essential mods for Fallout 1/2/Tactics? I'm getting the resolution mods for sure, but dunno if there are any other worthwhile mods.

Also, are there any for Eathworm Jim 1+2 too?

Edit: You know what? The GOG forums are very useful actually. Nevermind then.
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Minsc has the most important mods listed in his mod post.
 
For some random reason I decided to try out Might & Magic III today (which I haven't actually played before, my start with the series was Xeen) and poof 6 freaking hours go by like that. What a great game.

Am I strange for missing tile based RPG's like that? I think something was lost when MM6 went free roaming.
 
So I decided I wanted a horror themed fps and between Blood and Realms of the Haunting I went with blood. It was a chore to set up, getting both mouselook and the CD audio to work but god damn! What a game! Enjoying it a lot. You can't seem to go wrong with 90s build engine shooters :).
 
Sinatar said:
For some random reason I decided to try out Might & Magic III today (which I haven't actually played before, my start with the series was Xeen) and poof 6 freaking hours go by like that. What a great game.

Am I strange for missing tile based RPG's like that? I think something was lost when MM6 went free roaming.
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III is my favorite M&M, followed by the Xeen games. So, no, I don't think you are strange. The completionist in me likes to know I've set foot on every square of the map so I know I haven't missed anything.
 
Easy_D said:
So I decided I wanted a horror themed fps and between Blood and Realms of the Haunting I went with blood. It was a chore to set up, getting both mouselook and the CD audio to work but god damn! What a game! Enjoying it a lot. You can't seem to go wrong with 90s build engine shooters :).
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Now I feel like buying Blood
 
Is anyone else having trouble with their new downloader?

I never had any problems with the old one that used air. But I've been trying to download the Witcher for the last few days. It works for a while, but then it stops. And then it goes offline.

And I have to start it over again.


Sinatar said:
For some random reason I decided to try out Might & Magic III today (which I haven't actually played before, my start with the series was Xeen) and poof 6 freaking hours go by like that. What a great game.

Am I strange for missing tile based RPG's like that? I think something was lost when MM6 went free roaming.
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No. I pretty much grew up on those. Might & Magic and The Bard's Tale in particular. It's one thing I really, really miss. Those and rollerdisco.
 
Yeah, the new one drops to 0kb/s and stays there. I have to actually kill the process and restart it. Annoying.

Any impressions on Dark Reign, today's deal? I remember being interested back when, but never got around to it.
 
Zizbuka said:
Yeah, the new one drops to 0kb/s and stays there. I have to actually kill the process and restart it. Annoying.

Any impressions on Dark Reign, today's deal? I remember being interested back when, but never got around to it.
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It has great AI (the Search & Destroy command was somewhat groundbreaking at the time). It is also really fast-paced and you can easily lose your units. Back in the day, the game was among the good RTS such as Total Annihilation, Command & Conquer, and KKND. So, if you're into the genre, I'd definitely pick it up if I were you.
 
Zizbuka said:
Yeah, the new one drops to 0kb/s and stays there. I have to actually kill the process and restart it. Annoying.

Any impressions on Dark Reign, today's deal? I remember being interested back when, but never got around to it.
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Dark Reign is solid, had best of breed enemy AI. Well worth it if you're an RTS fan. Skip the sequel though, it was pretty poor.
 
Zizbuka said:
Any impressions on Dark Reign, today's deal? I remember being interested back when, but never got around to it.
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It's an okay 1997 RTS. It's no competition for that year's A-class titles in the genre -- in order, in my opinion, NetStorm (I know almost no one else played it, but it's my favorite non-Blizzard RTS ever. And if I hate Dark Reign for anything, it's for ActiVision spending most of its marketing budget on that game and not NS, which bombed hard but deserved so much more... it was unpolished, but brilliantly unique.), Age of Empires, and Total Annihilation. I'd put Dark Reign solidly in the B group that year, along with the C&C clone KKND (and its standalone addon KKND Xtreme, also released that same year; interestingly though, KKND is a DOS game but Xtreme Win9x. Each has a separate campaign.) and some others. Others from '97 include Dark Colony (I remember this one for being bloodier than these other ones), Star Command Revolution (somewhat generic, but one of the few set in space at that time), War Wind II (somewhat unique but flawed scifi rts), and more I'm sure.

Returning to Dark Reign, it did have a lot of AI settings for the units, yes. It's one of the things the game was more notable for, beyond clearly taking inspiration from C&C like so many RTSes around then.
 
Sober said:
Can anyone answer this about RCT Deluxe on GOG: When it runs windowed mode, does the cursor clip through the window (basically negating scrolling) or not? My sister said her disc edition has been doing that. Also, it looks like it kills explorer.exe when it runs because of stability issues, but alt-tabbing and stuff should be fine right?
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It does disable edge scrolling, as it doesn't lock your cursor in the window. However scrolling is sorta slow that way anyway. You can very easily scroll around by simply holding the right mouse button down and moving the mouse instead while windowed (and in full screen).

In the options, the game offers you the choice between 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 fullscreen, and windowed mode allows you to resize the window to any size you'd like like by dragging the corner, so you can even make it widescreen that way, as it just expands your view to whatever size you make the window.

I don't see the game killing my explorer.exe, when that happens usually my taskbar has to regenerate, and I don't notice that at all when launching the game. Alt+tabbing works like normal for me, or I can simply click out and in (even easier), no need to even alt+tab, after I set it to windowed and quit and restart it so it launches that way.
 
Zizbuka said:
Yeah, the new one drops to 0kb/s and stays there. I have to actually kill the process and restart it. Annoying.

Any impressions on Dark Reign, today's deal? I remember being interested back when, but never got around to it.
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While Dark Reign looks like a Command and Conquer clone, its call to fame is its highly customiziable unit AI. You can tell units to patrol, skirmish, or assault a particular area. You can save these commands in a menu and apply them to a new batch of units. It's a great game to play competitively since the programmable AI adds another layer of control on top of traditional RTS micromanagement and macromanagement.

The single-player isn't as great or creative. The story's narrative is unusual but you'll have to do a lot of reading to understand it. I find it only enjoyable playing on the fastest speed possible since it's too easy to counter the computer otherwise. It only has two factions and each faction is able to steal the other faction's technology.

I'd recommend it for the skirmish and multi-player modes or if you're a fan of classic CnC. You could do a lot worse for $4.
 
I think I'm getting nearish the end of Might & Magic III. Such a fantastic game, I love the humor in some of the enemy designs.

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I remember reading Scorpia's RPG articles in CGW waaaaaay back.
 
Wooo! Beat M&M III. I think I rank it a bit behind the Xeen games purely due to the ridiculously low amount of inventory space available and the fact that all your equipped items share the same space as anything you pick up and the freaking quest items that you can't discard even after finishing with them. Xeen handled this much better.

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kurtrussell said:
Generally, a disappointing summer sale from GOG :( Sanitarium and Longest Journey padded out with a bunch of identikit RTS / war titles.

Meh :(
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Sets us up for great fall/winter sales, I hope. :)
 
kurtrussell said:
Generally, a disappointing summer sale from GOG :( Sanitarium and Longest Journey padded out with a bunch of identikit RTS / war titles.

Meh :(
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I don't see how a RTS as Dark Reign is identical to a game like Ground Control, which some RTS purists wouldn't even label as a RTS.
 
kurtrussell said:
Generally, a disappointing summer sale from GOG :( Sanitarium and Longest Journey padded out with a bunch of identikit RTS / war titles.

Meh :(
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It was a rather varied RTS selection. I'm just hoping they get back to dropping a few more EA titles on us before the end of the summer, since they were not in the sale.
 
Sinatar said:
Wooo! Beat M&M III. I think I rank it a bit behind the Xeen games purely due to the ridiculously low amount of inventory space available and the fact that all your equipped items share the same space as anything you pick up and the freaking quest items that you can't discard even after finishing with them. Xeen handled this much better.
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Congrats. I would also probably rank Xeen a bit higher if you take IV and V as one game. But individually I think they are too short compared to III, I also played III before them so I didn't probably notice the inventory issues as much.

On Scorpia of CGW, I seem to recall her not giving very good reviews of the M&M and Wizardry games. She was more of an adventure game lover and tended to dislike (and give bad reviews) to RPGs that had lots of combat in them and those were the types of games I loved. Unfortunately she was pretty much the defacto RPG reviewer of the day so her giving a bad review to a game could doom it saleswise.

Also regarding the high score, when I was replaying the games several years back after the Might and Magic archives was release, on a whim I submitted my score for M&M II because it took me forever to beat it. And I actually got a hand written letter back from them along with this poster which is still on my wall:

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I thought that was a really nice gesture considering how old M&M II was at that point.
 
That's an awesome poster. I've played MM6/MM7 both twice over the years and have thought about hitting them up again from time to time-I REALLY loved those games, big meaty worlds with lots of stuff to do and plenty of ways for you to go totally broken with your party.

I remember when MM9 came out. I was ready Day One, sadly the game was not. :(
 
Seriously, it's one of the best ever. In the vein of Amnesia story-wise: clearly inspired by the Cthulu lore, lots of backstory in the form of journals... I love it. In fact, I'm considering double-dipping for the director's cut special ending only.
 
Scratches is a great (at least as in an addition to their gallery), if not that old, addition! A really scary adventure game in a desolate manor with (IIRC) good puzzles that felt mostly realistic.

Honestly, I've pussied out and never finished it. Then when I wanted to return to it I couldn't get it to work on Win 7, I hope that's fixed in this version.
 
peakish said:
Scratches is a great (at least as in an addition to their gallery), if not that old, addition! A really scary adventure game in a desolate manor with (IIRC) good puzzles that felt mostly realistic.

Honestly, I've pussied out and never finished it. Then when I wanted to return to it I couldn't get it to work on Win 7, I hope that's fixed in this version.
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Dude, wow, sounds awesome. How come I've never heard of this game until now? Even in "recommend me adventure games!" threads.
 
peakish said:
Honestly, I've pussied out and never finished it. Then when I wanted to return to it I couldn't get it to work on Win 7, I hope that's fixed in this version.
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The gog page for the game says that it's compatible with win 7 32/64 bit
 
LastWindow said:
For Witcher 2, does GOG update the install files to the current version whenever a new patch is released?
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In my experience, no. Had to manually install all the patches (1.0->1.1, 1.1->1.2, 1.2->1.3) after re-downloading and -installing the game.
 
Weekend Deal: 50% off Topware stuff; that includes:

Dream Pinball 3D
Earth 2140 Trilogy
Earth 2150 Trilogy
Earth 2160
Enclave
Gorky 17
Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure (DC)
Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire
Knights and Merchants: The Peasants Rebellion
Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator
Two Worlds


... and on that note, why the hell do I own Earth 2150 but not 2140?
 
Lime said:
In my experience, no. Had to manually install all the patches (1.0->1.1, 1.1->1.2, 1.2->1.3) after re-downloading and -installing the game.
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I see. I've been saving the patches just in case of that. I guess once they're done with patching the game they'll update the install files.

A pretty good weekend sale, too. Finally going to get Two Worlds. Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure and Septerra Core don't have Windows 7 listed. Has anyone been able to play them without any issues?
 
Whats the word on Two Worlds? I noticed its $4.99 on gog (50% off), but $20 on steam.

From the descriptions they are both Epic Editions.
 
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