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GOG | News and Updates 2017 - Back to the basics
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Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Pretty rad day after a couple days of complete crap. Between today's stuff, Wasteland 2 DC, and the Witcher 3 expansion? Pretty killer week.
Dsyndrome
Member
Swamped with RPG goodness, I don't even know why I bought Age of Decadence yesterday when I already have Wasteland 2, Witcher 3, and Divinity DC this month.
OK I have about 20 hours into System Shock Enhanced. Gotta say it's one of the best games I've ever played. I wish games like this were still being made but honestly Bioshock is so watered down compared to SS. SS makes you think without being overcomplicated, it's just so perfectly paced. Night Dive did a great job with this release as well.
None of those games could be called fast paced by any metric. But I guess Settlers would be the easiest to get into despite being the worst of the 3 games.
Tizoc
Member
Thanks, but could you elaborate on why Settlers is the weakest of the bunch?
They tried to revamp the classic Settlers formula to be more of a combat focused traditional RTS and completely shit up everything that makes Settlers great while not at all delivering a quality RTS.
Tizoc
Member
So in Asia there is Project EGG, a service that allows people to buy old 80s and 90s games and PC games.
Among Project EGG's catalog is a bunch of classic Falcom games including Xanadu, Dragon Slayer and Sorcerian
http://www.amusement-center.com/project/egg/
In addition they have a bunch of Konami games too though mainly their MSX and MSX 2 library-
Castlevania 1 MSX
Now granted all games are in Japanese, but it'd be pretty interesting if they can have a partnership and release 'not very Japanese text heavy' games on GOG.
While the site does have an English language option I don't think it features all the games.
Among Project EGG's catalog is a bunch of classic Falcom games including Xanadu, Dragon Slayer and Sorcerian
http://www.amusement-center.com/project/egg/
In addition they have a bunch of Konami games too though mainly their MSX and MSX 2 library-
Castlevania 1 MSX
Now granted all games are in Japanese, but it'd be pretty interesting if they can have a partnership and release 'not very Japanese text heavy' games on GOG.
While the site does have an English language option I don't think it features all the games.
A rare Friday release, and it's niche but interesting:
Falcon Collection
Falcon through to Falcon 4.0. I seem to remember these being really popular amongst my friends who were heavily into flight sims.
Edit: Oh, that's interesting. 4.0 is regarded as a 'bonus item' rather than as one of the games in the pack. Reading the forum, if I'm understanding the implications correctly, it seems that barebones 4.0 isn't really that popular, but it has some very popular user mods. GoG can't distribute the modded version, of course. Hence presenting 4.0 as more of a platform than a game.
Falcon Collection
Falcon through to Falcon 4.0. I seem to remember these being really popular amongst my friends who were heavily into flight sims.
Edit: Oh, that's interesting. 4.0 is regarded as a 'bonus item' rather than as one of the games in the pack. Reading the forum, if I'm understanding the implications correctly, it seems that barebones 4.0 isn't really that popular, but it has some very popular user mods. GoG can't distribute the modded version, of course. Hence presenting 4.0 as more of a platform than a game.
MrFortyFive
Member
You're basically right. A mod on the forums had this to say about it:
"Okay, all jokes aside, here is why Falcon 4.0 was added as an as-is bonus.
The last official version before Hasbro disbanded the dev team was 1.08. After the source code leaked though, the community carried the development cycle on and carried the torch. Currently, the Benchmark Sims team is carrying the torch with their excellent BMS - I, being an A10 Warthog fan, am stunned by the amount of work put into all community projects.
Therefore, fixing the old Falcon 4.0 in terms of compatibility would still give you an inferior game. However, in order to install community projects like BMS, you need to show that you have the original game. Hence the decision to include the original Falcon 4.0 as a bonus."
I don't have much interest in the games myself, but it's cool to see GOG bringing back these games from obscurity for those who do have the interest.
The second chapter is finally coming out?
Ah, I finally saw the thread about it. I've been holding off on playing the first one so I'm ready. IIRC, it's been mentioned that it's nice to play the second one after the first, but the third one isn't as crucial.
Ah, I finally saw the thread about it. I've been holding off on playing the first one so I'm ready. IIRC, it's been mentioned that it's nice to play the second one after the first, but the third one isn't as crucial.
Sorry to ask this kind of question, but how can I assure myself that these are legitimate licensed game downloads? In the West, I certainly feel that GOG is well-known for having publisher agreements, but I'm not familiar with this company. And I saw something about a monthly fee for access -- what's that about, or was it a bad Google Translate thing?
Tizoc
Member
Yup, I was even linked to it in regards to getting the Dragon Slayer collection which I haven't gotten around to yet but someday I will!
Tizoc
Member
Which doesn't offer all the games the JP or Chinese side offer though :/
oh, right.
What's the deal with SotHR user reviews? Last few are just a string of 1/5ths complaining that the game doesn't work.
I thought GOG didn't ship games like that?
They've been dropping the ball a lot late. If a game isn't DOS based (and thus uses DOSBox), then odds are GOG didn't do much to make it work.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
These are still the wrong Warhammer games anyway.
Dawn of War, your time will come.
Dawn of War, your time will come.
This is bullshit.
Also, take note that other Warhammer games in the bundle are getting the same reviews. One of them even mentions you can't return the game if you're running Windows 10 (on which the games don't seem to work at all), since the store product page only mentions compatibility up to Windows 8.
ShadowOwl
Member
How do you know? Also, that update is way overdue. I hate feeling like a 2nd class customer on GOG when it comes to game updates.
Release: Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft Series, Krynn Series, Dark Sun Series all on Linux, Mac, Windows
Neogaf thread
My wallet is crying...
Neogaf thread
My wallet is crying...
Tizoc
Member
PSVita has an option to speed up loading times
Well guess I'll pass on that and go for the PC ver.
So, these games are good, right? Have they aged well? I was too young to enjoy them when they came out...
Dsyndrome
Member
PSVita has an option to speed up loading times
Well guess I'll pass on that and go for the PC ver.
Good luck getting Blood Omen running on a modern OS.
D3RANG3D
Member
Try dgVoodoo2, it fixes literally every old PC game that I throw at it.
Dsyndrome
Member
Holy shit, I got Dark Side of the Moon working with it, even on Windows 10. Wish I had heard about this before.
Edit: well it works every other time, anyways. Need to do some more tweaking.
It's probably one of my favourite pieces of gaming software right now, I've been installing dozen of older games lately that haven't been released on gog and this fixes pretty much all of them to varying degrees. Even notoriously buggy ones like Warhammer Dark Omen, Space Hulk Vengeance of the Blood Angels and Mage Slayer work great with it.
Tizoc
Member
Gonna try out this dgvoodoo thing, the Robin Hood game on steam doesn't work properly on my Lappy (W8) along with a few other DOSBOX games =_=
Lord British
Member
Would you mind explaining how I can use it to play Mage Slayer? I still have my old disc copy.
Doesn't work all that well with Planescape Torment.
No flickering, true, but the minute the gameplay starts, it starts chugging at 5-10 fps.
Might be because I have ddraw fix applied and am playing at 1080p...
MrFortyFive
Member
Yep! There's tons of theme park content outside of roller coasters.