The Indie Gem Promo of the week is Giana Sisters for 5 bucks. It's... I dunno, I'm pretty sure there's a huge discussion about it somewhere in this thread.
It feels very polished and the concept is really interesting for a platformer. The level design is good, but not as tight as e.g. the Mario franchise. I'd say it's totally worth it for 5 bucks.
The main discussion in this thread was about the difficulty, and I think everyone agrees that it gets pretty damn hard fast.
So you OWN System Shock 2 and haven't played it yet?
I recommend dropping any plans you have and go and play and finish it... now.
It's a masterpiece.
I just rarely have time for games anymore. And I don't want to play it before finishing System Shock 1, which seems like a big game. I'm just not ready to tackle another series yet.
Lame sale. Come on GOG, last year it was 10% off your entire order if you bought more than one game. If you were afraid people were going to apply it to System Shock 2, you could have programmed it so they couldn't.
Given the massively dated graphics, I can't imagine why they didn't just stop at 5,00$ AND made a 50% introductory offer.
For 2,49$, I'd have given this a shot for sure! :cool:
Honestly, I don't want to criticize beloved games here. The game might have been a milestone without a doubt. But gog.com is not entitled to charge for the level of love a game has seen in its time. Final Fantasy VII is now sixteen years old. If I am ever to buy it again, it will cost 5$ or less without DRM, and that's one of my personal milestones.
$10 is a fairly standard price for a 'new' game there.
I can understand why you wouldn't want to pay that much, but there are plenty of others who would (hell, I did, and I never pay full price for stuff these days), so presumably that's why they've done it.
American numerical notation uses commas to separate large numbers and a decimal point (a period) to denote...decimals.
American currency notation also puts the dollar sign in front of the number, or the cent sign after the number (which is used only if referring to values less than one dollar, and even then it's more common to instead use a decimal dollar value.)
It occurs to me that there is many a game which is probably far less requested than System Shock 2, which cost more to buy either now or when they were first released (or both).
So I don't see what the problem is with asking people to pay 10 bucks for a fantastic game.
By that standard, no older games downloadable on consoles/tablets is worth 10 bucks.
Depends on what has to be done with the game to get it running on tablets. But in principle, yeah. Games from the last century should be considerably less than 10 bucks, just as books or movies from that era should be accessible with a similarly reasonable price tag. The actual makers of said games have long ceased to make money out of them anyway.
Depends on what has to be done with the game to get it running on tablets. But in principle, yeah. Games from the last century should be considerably less than 10 bucks, just as books or movies from that era should be accessible with a similarly reasonable price tag. The actual makers of said games have long ceased to make money out of them anyway.
Define "last century." I wouldn't expect them to charge as much for, say, Zork or King's Quest 1 than for System Shock 2.
So then if games from 1999 are $5 or so, then games from 1990 are worth $1.50?
This all despite the fact that these old games are still almost certainly playable right out of the box, come with extra pdf manuals and soundtracks, have no DRM, and free you from the need to keep up with any discs in order to play them?
Not to mention that without GOG, these games are obscure, expensive, and often hard to find reasonably priced legit copies of, (while still requiring the disc inserted to play.)
My point is not to belittle. My point is to point out the silliness of complaining about not wanting to pay 10 bucks.
In my case, it's simply because it's in a genre I usually don't play, so I'm not sure if it will be worth the price to me (for instance, Waxworks was a game that looked interesting, but that I didn't like too much because of it's gameplay (the atmosphere was great though). I paid $5, so I don't feel like I wasted my money. I most likely would have if I paid $10).
Looks like this is shaping up to be GOG's fastest selling game of all time. 16 hours since launch, and it's pretty high up on GOG's best-seller list. As of this posting, the game is sitting pretty between Another World and the first Broken Sword.
Why didn't they put the first game up, anyway? Because of the rights issues? Are the rights for both games not the same?
Who knows. It sounds like they might have only gotten the distribution rights to System Shock 2, and maybe they'll talk if that one does well. Of course, since it's sitting at roughly 127th place out of 505, it'd be crazy if they weren't at least talking.
Lame Valentine's day promo getting you down? Well, you need to get you some cRPGs, stat! What better way to celebrate the most requested RPG on GOG launching, than with an RPG SALE! Half off things like Divinity, Gothic, The Witcher and more.
And here's This Week in GOG for your recap and next game clue. Sounds like we're getting a sports game next.
This all despite the fact that these old games are still almost certainly playable right out of the box, come with extra pdf manuals and soundtracks, have no DRM, and free you from the need to keep up with any discs in order to play them?
Why didn't they put the first game up, anyway? Because of the rights issues? Are the rights for both games not the same?
From the RPS interview, I got the impression that System Shock 2's digital distribution rights were only leased from the insurance company that now owns the Looking Glass share. The rights are still a horrible clusterfuck and haven't reverted to or been purchased by anybody.
Makes me wonder how long GOG can be allowed to continue selling SS2.
If it keeps selling as well as it's selling, I can't see them pulling it any time soon. Still, given the volatile rights issues, best to grab it while you can.
Monday Gem Promo time! Get 60% off classic adventure game Sanitarium, which was overtaken on the best sellers list by System Shock 2 back on Saturday.
Edit: And I missed this one when I did the update, but here it is anyway; GOG has a new pricing structure for classic games! Don't worry, this isn't the much dreaded "50% anticipation tax", rather, it's a new $3.99 and $6.99 price point.
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I recommend dropping any plans you have and go and play and finish it... now.
It's a masterpiece.
It feels very polished and the concept is really interesting for a platformer. The level design is good, but not as tight as e.g. the Mario franchise. I'd say it's totally worth it for 5 bucks.
The main discussion in this thread was about the difficulty, and I think everyone agrees that it gets pretty damn hard fast.
Tomorrow morning, 11am GMT. 9,99 dollars.
Here's an interesting article over at RockPaperShotgun talking about how they got the rights sorted out.
EDIT: Sigh. Ninja'd again. Oh well, at least I can share the original game.
I just rarely have time for games anymore. And I don't want to play it before finishing System Shock 1, which seems like a big game. I'm just not ready to tackle another series yet.
Next stop, LucasArts!
Love for Sail and System Shock as well, please.
Also, a Valentine's Day promotion. There's four 'romance' games with 60% off.
- Deponia
- Runaway: A Twist of Fate
- The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
- Wallace & Gromit: Grand Adventures
But really, who cares about them when you've got SYSTEM SHOCK 2.
And again, if you want the first one, here it is. Freely available for, well, free. So hush.
The game is. thirteen. years. old. :mad:
As Gibbey said, I'm just glad they didn't charge more for it.
For 2,49$, I'd have given this a shot for sure! :cool:
Honestly, I don't want to criticize beloved games here. The game might have been a milestone without a doubt. But gog.com is not entitled to charge for the level of love a game has seen in its time. Final Fantasy VII is now sixteen years old. If I am ever to buy it again, it will cost 5$ or less without DRM, and that's one of my personal milestones.
I can understand why you wouldn't want to pay that much, but there are plenty of others who would (hell, I did, and I never pay full price for stuff these days), so presumably that's why they've done it.
Give it some time. It'll go on sale eventually.
Also, I agree with Marsden. Supply and demand, you know.
For the record, I bought it.
American currency notation also puts the dollar sign in front of the number, or the cent sign after the number (which is used only if referring to values less than one dollar, and even then it's more common to instead use a decimal dollar value.)
I was hoping that Love for Sail would show up for Valentine's Day. Oh well (I've still got to finish Larry 6 anyway).
So I don't see what the problem is with asking people to pay 10 bucks for a fantastic game.
It's 10 bucks. 10 bucks is nothing.
...well, we're smarter than they are, obviously.
Oh wait. Being that they're on consoles, they have some form of DRM on them, don't they? So that makes them worthless too, I guess.
My point is not to belittle. My point is to point out the silliness of complaining about not wanting to pay 10 bucks.
Depends on what has to be done with the game to get it running on tablets. But in principle, yeah. Games from the last century should be considerably less than 10 bucks, just as books or movies from that era should be accessible with a similarly reasonable price tag. The actual makers of said games have long ceased to make money out of them anyway.
Define "last century." I wouldn't expect them to charge as much for, say, Zork or King's Quest 1 than for System Shock 2.
SS2 was released in 1999. not 1985.
1900 - 1999. Thank you, thank you.
This all despite the fact that these old games are still almost certainly playable right out of the box, come with extra pdf manuals and soundtracks, have no DRM, and free you from the need to keep up with any discs in order to play them?
Not to mention that without GOG, these games are obscure, expensive, and often hard to find reasonably priced legit copies of, (while still requiring the disc inserted to play.)
But then trial versions might end up being full versions with time limits, which means DRM, so that idea is out.
Who knows. It sounds like they might have only gotten the distribution rights to System Shock 2, and maybe they'll talk if that one does well. Of course, since it's sitting at roughly 127th place out of 505, it'd be crazy if they weren't at least talking.
And here's This Week in GOG for your recap and next game clue. Sounds like we're getting a sports game next.
Sometimes, you will have to listen to people.
If it keeps selling as well as it's selling, I can't see them pulling it any time soon. Still, given the volatile rights issues, best to grab it while you can.
Edit: And I missed this one when I did the update, but here it is anyway; GOG has a new pricing structure for classic games! Don't worry, this isn't the much dreaded "50% anticipation tax", rather, it's a new $3.99 and $6.99 price point.