GOG Deals Thread

tyfreak said:
well cag 90 is new 80 nwo hehe
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Incorrect...90 is the new 70.

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Well, I am proud of myself.  I held out against buying any of the games going out...  Sweet!!  

Now, if they would have put it on a timer, like the summer sale, I would have bought them all up.  

I loved that sale.  Had the laptop at the dinner table with the wife and kids.  When a new game would pop up, wife and kids would all get excited...  HURRY!  YOU NEED TO BUY IT BEFORE IT GOES AWAY!!  We are a strange family.  But I love them!!

 
simpsonps121 said:
Well, I am proud of myself. I held out against buying any of the games going out... Sweet!!

Now, if they would have put it on a timer, like the summer sale, I would have bought them all up.

I loved that sale. Had the laptop at the dinner table with the wife and kids. When a new game would pop up, wife and kids would all get excited... HURRY! YOU NEED TO BUY IT BEFORE IT GOES AWAY!! We are a strange family. But I love them!!
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Not me. I used to be an RTS fanatic, although the only ones I've really played lately are the two most recent installments of StarCraft. No one but ActiBlizzard makes big-budget RTS games anymore, and that may have something to do with it. Anyway. . . I had to snag the Nations game pack in case I got a wild hair up my ass to play the RTS games I have backlogged on GOG at some point. This list currently includes:

The Nations: Gold

Alien Nations

Total Annihilation: Kingdoms

Krush, Kill N' Destroy 2: Krossfire

Total Annihilation: Commander Pack

Knights and Merchants

KKND Extreme

Empire Earth: Gold

Praetorians

Warlords: Battlecry 3

Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising

And if you count these as RTS games, Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2 and Spellforce Platinum.

Oh, new gem promo: Moebius: Empire Rising at $11.99.

 
simpsonps121 said:
Well, I am proud of myself. I held out against buying any of the games going out... Sweet!!

Now, if they would have put it on a timer, like the summer sale, I would have bought them all up.

I loved that sale. Had the laptop at the dinner table with the wife and kids. When a new game would pop up, wife and kids would all get excited... HURRY! YOU NEED TO BUY IT BEFORE IT GOES AWAY!! We are a strange family. But I love them!!
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Cute. I do like those sales too and the sales percentages are usually very decent.

 
Warren - I enjoy the RTS alot... and then I get burned out for a bit.  I have played the Starcraft...  But C&C is more my style.  I enjoy the terrible acting.  I can't wait to watch another crazy movie. :)  

What I am really looking for is more stuff like Erica Reed's Thriller.  The thriller genre is awesome.  Recently played (read) 39 steps. I enjoyed it way too much.  :)  Not sure what to play next...  

 
simpsonps121 said:
Warren - I enjoy the RTS alot... and then I get burned out for a bit. I have played the Starcraft... But C&C is more my style. I enjoy the terrible acting. I can't wait to watch another crazy movie. :)

What I am really looking for is more stuff like Erica Reed's Thriller. The thriller genre is awesome. Recently played (read) 39 steps. I enjoyed it way too much. :) Not sure what to play next...
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Oh, I like C&C too, but mostly the Red Alert games. I started those with Red Alert 2. The Tiberian wars stuff was great until Twilight came along. I want to play the old ones, but going back and playing Red Alert 1, I've found that the missions are essentially puzzles with one specific solution and are very unforgiving and I miss the modern UI tweaks.

I watched The 39 Steps a couple of months ago and I was a bit underwhelmed. It started out with a really intriguing if a little generic Hitchcockian premise of a naive guy stumbling into international intrigue completely by accident, but the whole thing seemed to wrap up in a rushed, deus ex machina sort of way at the end. I have been curious about what the game is like.

 
I passed on the Spellforce games during the farewell sale and kind of wish I hadn't. What other games are similar to them? Trying to decide if they're worth buying during a Steam sale.

 
warreni said:
Not me. I used to be an RTS fanatic, although the only ones I've really played lately are the two most recent installments of StarCraft. No one but ActiBlizzard makes big-budget RTS games anymore, and that may have something to do with it. Anyway. . . I had to snag the Nations game pack in case I got a wild hair up my ass to play the RTS games I have backlogged on GOG at some point. This list currently includes:

The Nations: Gold

Alien Nations

Total Annihilation: Kingdoms

Krush, Kill N' Destroy 2: Krossfire

Total Annihilation: Commander Pack

Knights and Merchants

KKND Extreme

Empire Earth: Gold

Praetorians

Warlords: Battlecry 3

Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising

And if you count these as RTS games, Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2 and Spellforce Platinum.

Oh, new gem promo: Moebius: Empire Rising at $11.99.
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I almost bought the Nations games. I hope I don't regret my decision to pass. The Guild was also on my list but I only ended up buying Silver.

 
Warreni - the game is exactly the same.  Awesome... until they wrap the end up in like 2 minutes.  Say what??!?!  But the ride was a lot of fun.  

 
What? 18 games are $2.39 or less, 9 games are $3.99. Should every game be $1? If you want to hoard shitty games, that's what Indie Gala is for. I'd rather spend the extra dollar or two on something worth playing.
 
whitereflection said:
What? 18 games are $2.39 or less, 9 games are $3.99. Should every game be $1? If you want to hoard shitty games, that's what Indie Gala is for. I'd rather spend the extra dollar or two on something worth playing.
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80% off >> 75% off > 60% off.

What's hard to understand? GOG has 75% or better off sales about three times a year, and most of the other sales are 50-60% off. CAGs don't open their eyelids for less than 60% and rarely crack their wallets for less than 75%. If you aren't familiar with this, you may be on the wrong site.

 
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warreni said:
80% off >> 75% off > 60% off.

What's hard to understand? GOG has 75% or better off sales about three times a year, and most of the other sales are 50-60% off. CAGs don't open their eyelids for less than 60% and rarely crack their wallets for less than 75%. If you aren't familiar with this, you may be on the wrong site.
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The 75% off sales are always around the busiest times of the year or at ungodly hours late into the night. If you want to play something soon, it doesn't make sense to wait around for one to roll around just to save an additional 90 cents, especially when GOG is the most likely PC games retailer to delist games due to expiring rights or changes in pricing policy. You may be able to find those games on Steam or elsewhere, but GOG is your best bet for getting them to run on your system as painfree as possible, in many cases because they're actually the ones to handle the porting to modern systems.
 
whitereflection said:
The 75% off sales are always around the busiest times of the year or at ungodly hours late into the night. If you want to play something soon, it doesn't make sense to wait around for one to roll around just to save an additional 90 cents, especially when GOG is the most likely PC games retailer to delist games due to expiring rights or changes in pricing policy. You may be able to find those games on Steam or elsewhere, but GOG is your best bet for getting them to run on your system as painfree as possible, in many cases because they're actually the ones to handle the porting to modern systems.
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This is where you are going wrong.

 
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Well, you don't even have to want to play it soon. Just look at the thread title - games get delisted from GOG frequently. I didn't have any interest in Summoner before it was announced for delisting, but I'm really enjoying it and am glad to have picked it up. It wouldn't be around if I waited for a better sale.

Another thing that has changed with the recent redesign that I haven't seen talked about much here is that games no longer have region-free pricing. In areas where you pay more for the games, GOG credits you the difference in store credit. So it may mean you pay more upfront and get the rebate. It could mean that instead of 60% off a $5.99 game, we'll get 70% off a $9.99 game. GOG's policies are always changing. It wasn't long ago where if you wanted the maximum discount rate, you needed to buy multiple games in the sale. So I wouldn't be surprised if sales over 60% become less frequent.
 
whitereflection said:
The 75% off sales are always around the busiest times of the year or at ungodly hours late into the night. If you want to play something soon...
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I can't imagine being in any sort of rush to play anything soon on GOG. The reasoning is in GOG's own name. If you've already waited 5/10/15 years to play what is much of their library, I don't see the problem with waiting a few days/weeks/months for a better price.
 
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whitereflection said:
The 75% off sales are always around the busiest times of the year or at ungodly hours late into the night. If you want to play something soon, it doesn't make sense to wait around for one to roll around just to save an additional 90 cents, especially when GOG is the most likely PC games retailer to delist games due to expiring rights or changes in pricing policy. You may be able to find those games on Steam or elsewhere, but GOG is your best bet for getting them to run on your system as painfree as possible, in many cases because they're actually the ones to handle the porting to modern systems.
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GOG's 6th Birthday Sale: Day 1.  So, a funny thing happened to me on my way home from the ShinyLoot Summer Sale...

Heroes of Might & Magic Complete - $2.99
Beyond Good and Evil - $2.99
Unreal Gold - $2.49 
Unreal Tournament 2004 ECE - $2.49
Stronghold Crusader HD - $3.99
Settlers® 2: Gold Edition - $2.99
Capitalism 2 - $2.99  
Far Cry - $2.99  
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon - $2.99
Jagged Alliance 2 - $2.49
Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition - $1.99
Evil Genius - $3.99
Warlords Battlecry 3 - $2.99
Runaway: A Road Adventure - $1.99
POSTAL 2 - $1.99
Broken Sword 2: Remastered + The Original Game - $1.99
Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon - $1.99 
Tom Clancy\'s Rainbow Six - $2.99  
Knights and Merchants: The Peasants Rebellion - $1.79
Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator - $1.79
Earth 2150 Trilogy - $1.79 
Rise of the Triad: Dark War - $1.79
Simon the Sorcerer - $1.49
Simon the Sorcerer 2 - $1.49
 
GOG's 6th Birthday Sale: Year 2.

Advent Rising $2.39
Another World: 20th Anniversary Edition $2.99
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura $2.39
Blood: One Unit Whole Blood $1.99
BloodRayne $2.39
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers $2.39
Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time, The $2.99
Longest Journey, The $3.99
MASTER OF ORION 1+2 $1.99
Master of Magic $1.99
Might and Magic® 6-pack: Limited Edition $2.99
Myst: Masterpiece Edition $1.99
Realms of Arkania 1+2 $1.19
Red Baron Pack $2.49
Riven: The Sequel to Myst $1.99
Sanitarium $3.49
Serious Sam: The First Encounter $1.79
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter $1.79
Syberia $1.99
Syberia 2 $1.99
Tropico Reloaded $2.39
Two Worlds $2.99
Vampire The Masquerade - Redemption $2.39
 
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I have been trying to get rid of my physical clutter when digital versions become available and/or go on sale so I might finally buy Blood.  According to ITAD the price has not gone below $1.99.  67% off makes me pause though.

Anything else look interesting and worth a purchase?

 
A lot of these games are great...their sales percent OK but not amazing. Just go with your gut and most games will go lower someday possibly during an insomnia sale.

 
Malkan said:
I enjoyed Arcanum back in the day. It's a steampunk rpg. If I didn't have it on disc I'd grab that.

Dunno if you care, but blood came out on steam not long ago.
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Looking at Arcanum now. So many classic RPGs, so little time.

Blood? Oh, yes it did! I even put it on my wishlist. Thanks for the reminder.

 
Malkan said:
I enjoyed Arcanum back in the day. It's a steampunk rpg. If I didn't have it on disc I'd grab that.

Dunno if you care, but blood came out on steam not long ago.
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It's worth noting that Arcanum is a Troika game, meaning it's probably unplayable without the community patch, and even then it might still be broken (YMMV).

Anybody have thoughts on Realms of Arkania 1+2? I sort of remember they were in a bundle a while ago, but I can't remember details, so I may just be making it up.
 
Souffrir said:
Anybody have thoughts on Realms of Arkania 1+2? I sort of remember they were in a bundle a while ago, but I can't remember details, so I may just be making it up.
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They were free if you took a little GOG survey awhile ago. The Steam versions were also in at least one bundle (BundleStars).

They're well regarded old school RPGs. Course I haven't played them.

 
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Souffrir said:
It's worth noting that Arcanum is a Troika game, meaning it's probably unplayable without the community patch, and even then it might still be broken (YMMV).

Anybody have thoughts on Realms of Arkania 1+2? I sort of remember they were in a bundle a while ago, but I can't remember details, so I may just be making it up.
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Troika's scope in their games + quality of writing, prose, dialogue is very hard for most games to even remotely think of trying to touch.

So, yes - I highly recommend Arcanum + Vampire: Bloodlines - with ALL their official patches and ESPECIALLY the Unofficial Patches.

And if you're playing Arcanum, just do NOT play in real-time - b/c the game is hard to keep up with, as enemies especially w/ better stats will cream you. It's best played turn-based, old-school Fallout 1 + 2 style.

To me, Arcanum is a cRPG that's set in a Victorian-era Industrial Revolution setting that's mixed w/ fantasy elements (with elves, orcs, + magic) + steampunk.

Arcanum's so underrated, it ain't even funny.

 
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MysterD said:
Troika's scope in their games + quality of writing, prose, dialogue is very hard for most games to even remotely think of trying to touch.

So, yes - I highly recommend Arcanum + Vampire: Bloodlines - with ALL their official patches and ESPECIALLY the Unofficial Patches.

And if you're playing Arcanum, just do NOT play in real-time - b/c the game is hard to keep up with, as enemies especially w/ better stats will cream you. It's best played turn-based, old-school Fallout 1 + 2 style.

To me, Arcanum is a cRPG that's set in a Victorian-era Industrial Revolution setting that's mixed w/ fantasy elements (with elves, orcs, + magic) + steampunk.

Arcanum's so underrated, it ain't even funny.
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I haven't tried Arcanum yet (backlog), and Bloodlines played fine after I patched it; but ToEE would regularly CTD and eat my saves even with the community patch. Like I said, YMMV, but so far my experience with Troika games being playable is 50-50.
 
I have TOEE (from Retail on disc; and also DRM-FREE from Gamersgate).

And for some reason, each time, barely touched it. Some other game always gets in my way, for some reason.

For me, Arcanum's biggest problem is that I just can't push the res' too damn high w/ that unofficial res' mod. Otherwise, it can freeze the PC. 

 
I couldn't get too far in TOEE due to all the bugs.  I keep thinking that there was a bug where if you tried to uninstall it then it would delete system files and you were supposed to manually delete the files to prevent that. Never had a good opinion of the game due to all of that.

 
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