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GOG News and Updates 2011

epmode said:
What's up with the missing expansions on this EA stuff? I don't think they've managed to get any of them! GOG's usually so good with that sort of thing.

I hope correcting this is a priority for them since these are real, honest to god expansions, not the half-assed DLC we see today.
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My suspicion is that EA want to sell them separately.

That said, that doesn't quite explain why they then bundled UW1 & 2; I'm sure those could have been split, too.
 
mclem said:
My suspicion is that EA want to sell them separately.

That said, that doesn't quite explain why they then bundled UW1 & 2; I'm sure those could have been split, too.
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Or is it a case of something like the Sierra produced Diablo: Hellfire, where even Blizzard is stuck in legal hell and can't get the rights to bundle it with Diablo? That's what I figured anyway, but if EA 100% owns the rights to them, at least that increases the chances of them surfacing later.

I'd rather just have seen it at the 9.99 price point with the expansions myself, I doubt they'll sell the expansion separately, have they done that for any title to date?
 
mclem said:
My suspicion is that EA want to sell them separately.

That said, that doesn't quite explain why they then bundled UW1 & 2; I'm sure those could have been split, too.
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I remember Underworld 1 and 2 being packed in together as a retail budget game years ago. Maybe they just used that release instead of splitting them or something...
 
mclem said:
My suspicion is that EA want to sell them separately.

That said, that doesn't quite explain why they then bundled UW1 & 2; I'm sure those could have been split, too.
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That would be the first time GOG charged for an expansion. They're always included with the game.

But even if price were the factor, GOG still has the higher price point of $10...

I guess it's just legal and licensing stuff that still hasn't cleared. I hope. Because missing out on some of these expansions is a dealbreaker (WING COMMANDER).
 
They did say they're working on getting the extras though, so maybe just a little more time.

Johann said:
Not missing too much. New factions are bland. Alien factions are complete imba and take away from the philosophical undertones of the story.

Nonetheless, it had some game balances, such as the nerf for the hunter-killer algorithm. Getting that for the University in the original basically made them tech so far ahead of everyone else.
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Apparently there's an unofficial patch for both SMAC and SMAX that'll fix some of the imba, so it really sounds like SMAX doesn't do as much as I feared it would (and if anything it sorta sounds like it breaks the game), so missing it isn't as big a deal.
 
Minsc said:
Apparently there's an unofficial patch for both SMAC and SMAX that'll fix some of the imba, so it really sounds like SMAX doesn't do as much as I feared it would (and if anything it sorta sounds like it breaks the game), so missing it isn't as big a deal.
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In SMAX, I usually play entirely with the original factions and occasionally with the Nautilus Pirates. The rest of the new factions are poorly balanced, restricted to a very specific play style, or just too bland to play. I've read that Brian Reynolds wasn't as involved in the expansion as he was in the original. The rest of the team added more traditional sci-fi elements in lieu of Frank Herbert/Greg Bear style of space politics and philosophy which Reynolds favored. I would have preferred the return to Earth idea they were throwing around in development.

In particular, they added they the two new alien factions which played very differently from the human factions. The aliens were designed so that the combined might of humanity would be needed to combat them. However, the human factions AI rarely get along well enough to fight the aliens together.
 
Any widescreen hacks for Alpha Centauri?
 
Damnit. Picked up SMAC and tried to run it on my netbook, but it just outright dies as soon as I run it. terran.exe shows up in the task manager briefly and then disappears. Oh well.
 
FGMPR said:
I remember Underworld 1 and 2 being packed in together as a retail budget game years ago. Maybe they just used that release instead of splitting them or something...
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While this may be true, GoG's Privateer release derives from Privateer Gold, which was - yep - Privateer and Righteous Fire bundled together.
 
I guess when we DO get Syndicate (which we will, I believe the old cooky monks will pull it off eventually), it won't include the American Revolt expansion pack that came out for it either.
 
Weekend promo - Strategy First catalogue 50% off!

http://www.gog.com/en/promo/strategy_first_games_06_2011

Apache v Havoc
Comanche v Hokum
Combat Chess
Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
Darkstar One
Disciples 2 Gold
Disciples Sacred Lands Gold
Flatout
Ghost Master
Jagged Aliance
Jagged Aliance 2
Jagged Aliance Deadly Games
Patrician 3
Port Royale 2
Pro Pinball Big Race USA
Pro Pinball Fantastic Journey
Pro Pinball Timeshock
Sacred Gold
Strategic Command European Theatre
 
kurtrussell said:
Weekend promo - Strategy First catalogue 50% off!

http://www.gog.com/en/promo/strategy_first_games_06_2011

Apache v Havoc
Comanche v Hokum
Combat Chess
Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
Darkstar One
Disciples 2 Gold
Disciples Sacred Lands Gold
Flatout
Ghost Master
Jagged Aliance
Jagged Aliance 2
Jagged Aliance Deadly Games
Patrician 3
Port Royale 2
Pro Pinball Big Race USA
Pro Pinball Fantastic Journey
Pro Pinball Timeshock
Sacred Gold
Strategic Command European Theatre
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It's always fun when some companies end up with IPs that completely go against what their entire company identity embodies!
 
Disciples 2 Gold is a hell of a buy too, if you don't own it. Beautiful. Same can be said for the Pro Pinball games, but you have to like pinball games to enjoy those. Disciples 2 can be enjoyed by anyone who enjoys RPGs or Strategy games like Civ or HoM&M.
 
Minsc said:
Apparently there's an unofficial patch for both SMAC and SMAX that'll fix some of the imba, so it really sounds like SMAX doesn't do as much as I feared it would (and if anything it sorta sounds like it breaks the game), so missing it isn't as big a deal.
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In SMAX, I usually play with the original factions and occasionally with the pirates. The new human factions are relegated to a very specific style of play or just too bland to play. The alien factions are just too overpowered. The designers made it so that the combined forces of humanity are needed to combat the aliens. However, the human AI rarely gets along often enough to fight the aliens as a unified force.

I heard Brian Reynolds took a backseat approach to the expansion pack. The new guys in charge went for a more traditional sci-fi approach rather than the Brian Herbert/Greg Bear style of the original.

fallout said:
Damnit. Picked up SMAC and tried to run it on my netbook, but it just outright dies as soon as I run it. terran.exe shows up in the task manager briefly and then disappears. Oh well.
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Quite a number of people have that problem. Try the fixes suggested in this thread:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=148225
 
mclem said:
It's always fun when some companies end up with IPs that completely go against what their entire company identity embodies!
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Are you saying there isn't any strategy involved in pinball?
 
larvi said:
Are you saying there isn't any strategy involved in pinball?
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Yea, I was thinking about disputing that too, but it's arguably more skill/reflex than strategy, really it comes down to being able to control the ball perfectly and knowing the table. The Pro Pinball tables are absolutely nuts though, you could spend 10 hours playing just one of them trying to figure out all the different modes and everything needed to beat it. They all have very involved long term goals that have you needing to get certain other goals done in different modes of the pinball table which can only be accessed by accomplishing tasks in each mode. Way, way more complex than your typical table. You probably won't even get to see a fraction of what the table has to offer until after a few solid hours of losing, unless you're a pinball buff.
 
Minsc said:
Disciples 2 Gold is a hell of a buy too, if you don't own it. Beautiful. Same can be said for the Pro Pinball games, but you have to like pinball games to enjoy those. Disciples 2 can be enjoyed by anyone who enjoys RPGs or Strategy games like Civ or HoM&M.
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i'm pretty close to pulling the trigger on this (along with dungeon keeper and alpha centauri), do i need to play disciples 1 before 2? or is it skippable?
 
pineapple juice said:
i'm pretty close to pulling the trigger on this (along with dungeon keeper and alpha centauri), do i need to play disciples 1 before 2? or is it skippable?
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Inferior in every way. I played the heck out of Disciples 2 (like 200 hours, every single mission of every campaign of every expansion), and loved it all. It's hard though, at times cruel even, damn spiders. Amazing artwork, definitely a slight curve to getting good. Then again, after the Heroes of Might & Magic 2 demo, that pretty much scarred me for life on difficulty, and you get used to losing to an unfair CPU. Not that D2 is impossible, but until you get control of the maps (or a physical immune unit or two), it can be an uphill battle sometimes. The mage hero is definitely the strongest in the end, thanks to the mass attack, but they all have nice advantages.

I went back to Disciples 1 because I loved 2 so much, and finished 1 as well, but unless you seriously love the genre and know you will spend 100s of hours between the games, I'd skip it for the 2nd.
 
I'm interested in getting the Jagged Alliance games as I'd like to play through them again in preparation for the new one coming out. But they're not listed as working on Windows 7. Has anyone had any luck getting them to run?
 
Minsc said:
Yea, I was thinking about disputing that too, but it's arguably more skill/reflex than strategy, really it comes down to being able to control the ball perfectly and knowing the table. The Pro Pinball tables are absolutely nuts though, you could spend 10 hours playing just one of them trying to figure out all the different modes and everything needed to beat it. They all have very involved long term goals that have you needing to get certain other goals done in different modes of the pinball table which can only be accessed by accomplishing tasks in each mode. Way, way more complex than your typical table. You probably won't even get to see a fraction of what the table has to offer until after a few solid hours of losing, unless you're a pinball buff.
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Yea, I guess Strategy First isn't entirely appropriate for pinball, maybe Strategy Third :) Regardless, I had been waiting for a sale on the Pro Pinball games so I jumped on those. I already own a lot of the rest of the SF catalog both on GoG and other dl services.

LastWindow said:
I'm interested in getting the Jagged Alliance games as I'd like to play through them again in preparation for the new one coming out. But they're not listed as working on Windows 7. Has anyone had any luck getting them to run?
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I have them from GoG and they work fine for me on Win7 64bit. A quick browse of the forums didn't seem to mention any obvious problems with Win 7 either.
 
Crusader No Remorse stills holds up, man that game is fun. The controls take a bit of getting used to after so long, but I love the level of control you have over the Silencers movement, turning the combat scenarios into more puzzles then action sequences.

I'd love to see EA revive the franchise but I imagine it'd just be made into a bland ass cover based shooter.
 
Sinatar said:
Crusader No Remorse stills holds up, man that game is fun. The controls take a bit of getting used to after so long, but I love the level of control you have over the Silencers movement, turning the combat scenarios into more puzzles then action sequences.

I'd love to see EA revive the franchise but I imagine it'd just be made into a bland ass cover based shooter.
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I'd really like to try it again. I don't remember playing very far before my teenage attention-span called it quits.
 
I can't decide what to buy first and I'm vacillating between buying Planescape: Torment, Descent 1+2 and now Crusader: No Remorse. I haven't played any of them before and they all look pretty awesome.
 
Crusader looks a lot better than I though it would. It's nice and hi-res, although the animation are pretty shonky.

Still, I really want to get into it but those controls are a bitch. It's a real barrier.
 
jaundicejuice said:
I can't decide what to buy first and I'm vacillating between buying Planescape: Torment, Descent 1+2 and now Crusader: No Remorse. I haven't played any of them before and they all look pretty awesome.
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Do you want a true masterpiece of interactive novel (literally, 800,000 words - over twice as long as your typical Robert Jordan 600 page tomb), a classic FPS that plays like a space sim (joystick preferred, kb/m is serviceable i think), or a older but awesome puzzle/action game with a bit of a curve for controls?

FGMPR said:
Crusader looks a lot better than I though it would. It's nice and hi-res, although the animation are pretty shonky.

Still, I really want to get into it but those controls are a bitch. It's a real barrier.
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I remember they were always a bitch, even back then too. You do eventually get used to them, give it another 3 or 4 hours. At first you're rolling into pits and death traps and look like an idiot, but later you can roll right on to the trigger of an elevator and pick off a security camera and guard before they can move.
 
jaundicejuice said:
I can't decide what to buy first and I'm vacillating between buying Planescape: Torment, Descent 1+2 and now Crusader: No Remorse. I haven't played any of them before and they all look pretty awesome.
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Go for Planescape if you're into RPGs. Descent always gives me a headache and Crusader is probably better with a glass of nostalgin, although I'm only guessing.
 
kurtrussell said:
Weekend promo - Strategy First catalogue 50% off!

http://www.gog.com/en/promo/strategy_first_games_06_2011

Apache v Havoc
Comanche v Hokum
Combat Chess
Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
Darkstar One
Disciples 2 Gold
Disciples Sacred Lands Gold
Flatout
Ghost Master
Jagged Aliance
Jagged Aliance 2
Jagged Aliance Deadly Games
Patrician 3
Port Royale 2
Pro Pinball Big Race USA
Pro Pinball Fantastic Journey
Pro Pinball Timeshock
Sacred Gold
Strategic Command European Theatre
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Are Patrician 3 and Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord worth $5 each?
 
Any signs of 7th Quest and 11th hour coming to GoG?

Also, if someone had a couple hundred to spend on GoG, what are the must have games you'd recommend? If anyone has a list handy.
 
LovingSteam said:
Any signs of 7th Quest and 11th hour coming to GoG?

Also, if someone had a couple hundred to spend on GoG, what are the must have games you'd recommend? If anyone has a list handy.
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Well Trilobyte seems to hold the rights to them still and were planning on rereleasing them on iPad/Phone so it doesn't seem out of the question.
 
LovingSteam said:
Any signs of 7th Quest and 11th hour coming to GoG?
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I would love this so much! Though I never finished 11th Hour... it wasn't as interesting as the original. And from what I've seen of videos 7th Guest hasn't aged well at all... but it's not like that has ever stopped me from playing/enjoying old games.
 
LovingSteam said:
Also, if someone had a couple hundred to spend on GoG, what are the must have games you'd recommend? If anyone has a list handy.
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If you go to the OP, there's a link to GOG's complete library (summed up in a post). The bolded titles there are the ones heavily recommended by people in this thread (including myself). If it's also italic, that means it's exclusive to GOG's library (or was), so probably give those special notice, since you can't get them elsewhere.

Sinatar said:
Well Trilobyte seems to hold the rights to them still and were planning on rereleasing them on iPad/Phone so it doesn't seem out of the question.
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7th Guest did make it out on iOS a while ago, still waiting for 11th Hour. But yea, doesn't seem like it'd be out of the question for a future release.
 
Just cracked and bought Jagged Allience 2 along with Alpha Centauri due to me always having wanted to play them and the cheapness. Really hope the games hold up as I've no nostalgia for either of them.
 
Minsc said:
If you go to the OP, there's a link to GOG's complete library (summed up in a post). The bolded titles there are the ones heavily recommended by people in this thread (including myself). If it's also italic, that means it's exclusive to GOG's library (or was), so probably give those special notice, since you can't get them elsewhere.



7th Guest did make it out on iOS a while ago, still waiting for 11th Hour. But yea, doesn't seem like it'd be out of the question for a future release.
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I'm surprised that the OG Rainbow Six and Ghost Reacon and as well as Sands of Time arent bolded. Is something wrong with them?
 
I've noticed some icons for games are nice and clean, while others look like the cover you'd buy in a store. Rating logo on it and other "stickers" you'd see on the retail version. Do they ever clean these up and replace them with nicer versions?

I know it's OCD but I'm picky about how my library looks. :-D
 
Can anyone sell me on Alpha Centauri?

I've never really played a strategy game before (yeah, I know), so how noob-friendly is this game? Furthermore, does it hold up well?
 
HK-47 said:
I'm surprised that the OG Rainbow Six and Ghost Reacon and as well as Sands of Time arent bolded. Is something wrong with them?
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No one's spoken of them here, though Yahtzee has praised Sands of Time before, saying he preferred it over the newer titles. Never played either, just the original Prince of Persia, which I don't think I'd find too fun today, though it could probably be a fun game if you enjoyed doing speed runs, as that's what it is basically, a speed run with a death penalty for missing an action.

I tried to just not bold everything too, I prefer to wait until people say it's great, and hopefully say it's great because they were playing it, or played it recently under Windows 7 and everything still works correctly.

I already planned on playing Sands of Time at some point, but what's so special about OG Rainbow Six? It's probably a stealth game if I had to guess, never cared too much for those.
 
Sands of Time is one of the greatest 3D platformers of last gen, while Ghost Reacon and Rainbow Six defined the tactical shooter genre before it was butchered.

Unless someone knows of something wrong with these versions, they are all highly recommendable.
 
HK-47 said:
Sands of Time is one of the greatest 3D platformers of last gen, while Ghost Reacon and Rainbow Six defined the tactical shooter genre before it was butchered.

Unless someone knows of something wrong with these versions, they are all highly recommendable.
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Yeah, can't speak for the shooters, but Sands of Time is amazing. Unless there's some kind of problem with the PC port, it should be recommended.
 
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