Good Old Games still good

[the_dog_days]

3 hours ago, majestic said:

The other one is sharing your stats on social media. Which I get, and is the reason why I am not participating.

As if I don't leave enough digital footprints everyday as it is.

[Keyrock]

2 hours ago, majestic said:

Wow, my brain hurts from reading that thread on the GOG forums. Seems like there are two issues:

First that this is a giveaway where Linux users miss out on wallpaper artwork (!) due to not having the Galaxy client even as an option. I'm sure Keyrock and the other guy on the planet who is exclusively playing on Linux will be fine with that. And if not, they can voice their protest by not buying from GOG. I'm suspecting building and maintaining a Linux version of Galaxy might cost more than the expected increase in sales or usage will rake in.

The other one is sharing your stats on social media. Which I get, and is the reason why I am not participating. If nobody participates then promotions like those will go away on their own. I'm sure a hell not sharing my GOG stats with the world, then everyone would see the thousands of hours I've put into Master of Orion 3. Talk about embarrassing.

There's a third ridiculous complaint that I see all the time when it comes to development. People who say that they should not spend their time making silly promotions but rather finish Cyberpunk. Yeah, sure. Because CDPR's game developers double as marketing team, right? Sigh.

edit:

And before someone from PETL (People for the Ethical Treatment of Linux :p) comes around and berate me for passive-agressive penguin hate - I've been an avid Linux user for longer than most. It's kind of a requirement in my line of work, although it's been a while now, I just never bothered playing games on it. Except Tux Racer.

My solution to GOG's lackluster Linux support (they're still better than Epic et al in this respect) is that I buy from Steam. It's GOG's prerogative to support or not support whatever OSs they choose and I'm sure it's a business-driven decision where they feel developing and maintaining a Linux client for Galaxy is likely a net negative in terms of revenue. I can't fault them for that.

Rather than get angry about it and vent on their boards and/or social media I simply choose to give my hard earned money to Valve instead, on account of their stellar Linux support. Seems like a much better solution, but that's just me. 

[Humanoid]

I can't make heads or tails of what you guys are talking about, and couldn't see anything on the GOG front page either. Only figured it out after diving into their forums and now I'm offended that their official post has broken BBtext and they never bothered to fix it. Disgraceful.

Edited August 9, 2020 by Humanoid

[Melusina]

6 hours ago, Skarpen said:

My take on this is you don't want to then don't. Hardly an intrusion of privacy when it's voluntarily. 

Nah, I participated and shared my stats.

[StupidSeal]

On 6/19/2020 at 6:56 AM, melkathi said:

I grabbed the Eye of the Beholder games for free, though I doubt I'll ever play them

In my expert opinion Eye of the Beholder is overrated. It's fans are just blinded through Nostalgia. 

[melkathi]

Quite likely. Never got into them back then, so don't have much nostalgia either.

[majestic]

13 hours ago, StupidSeal said:

In my expert opinion Eye of the Beholder is overrated. It's fans are just blinded through Nostalgia. 

Overrated in which way?

[StupidSeal]

On 9/7/2020 at 8:51 AM, majestic said:

Overrated in which way?

It's reputation. How it's spoken about. I'm not saying it's a terrible or bad game (because it's a good game), I think it's just overrated by it's fans that's all. On the other hand Eye of the Beholder can also be underrated by it's critics and haters. That's just my opinion. 

[Mamoulian War]

Despite no hints about that on developer's homepage, Vaporum: Lockdown ha been released today on GOG!!!

https://www.gog.com/news/release_vaporum_lockdown

Prequel to exquisite grid-based steampunk dungeon crawler made in Slovakia.

Now go and help grow my country's GDP with the purchase

[BruceVC]

On 9/15/2020 at 9:36 PM, Mamoulian War said:

Despite no hints about that on developer's homepage, Vaporum: Lockdown ha been released today on GOG!!!

https://www.gog.com/news/release_vaporum_lockdown

Prequel to exquisite grid-based steampunk dungeon crawler made in Slovakia.

Now go and help grow my country's GDP with the purchase

Mamie, I have your back,,,,,I will buy this game just to support your country 

I am planning a visit to all east countries as I have never  been to any and we always go the UK and central Europe , I want to visit Czech and Slovakia first .....when I come visit you guys can I count on to set me with some hot, Slovakian women? And you welcome to tell how I have supported your economy....patriotism is a   good thing  

[Chilloutman]

did he just asked to pimp for him?

[Mamoulian War]

1 hour ago, Chilloutman said:

did he just asked to pimp for him?

I am ready, I just need to pick matching colour. Any advices?
 

[BruceVC]

1 hour ago, Chilloutman said:

did he just asked to pimp for him?

We will be coming to Czech for a day or 2 so we must meet for  a drink if you keen? 

 

Edited September 20, 2020 by BruceVC

[the_dog_days]

5 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

I am ready, I just need to pick matching colour. Any advices?

Go with the green. You don't live in the States but everyone knows green is the official color of money.

[bugarup]

1 hour ago, the_dog_days said:

Go with the green. You don't live in the States but everyone knows green is the official color of money.

Nah, stick with the purple, like in the userpic, lest Bruce not recognize you

[Mamoulian War]

1 hour ago, bugarup said:

Nah, stick with the purple, like in the userpic, lest Bruce not recognize you

Hmm, that sounds highly logical. Isn't that illegal on the internet?

[Mamoulian War]

Europa Universalis II for free on GoG nex 90+ hours.

[majestic]

7 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

Europa Universalis II for free on GoG nex 90+ hours.

Grabbed it. Will most likely never play it, but free's free and all that.

[Mamoulian War]

I had lot of fun playing it, it just need hefty time of reading how to play  But I almost conquered whole Africa with the weakest nation in the game

link to my campaign in the sig  

/endshamelessselfpromotion

[majestic]

8 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

I had lot of fun playing it, it just need hefty time of reading how to play  But I almost conquered whole Africa with the weakest nation in the game

link to my campaign in the sig  

/endshamelessselfpromotion

I tried the first Europa Universalis way back when it came out and found it not to my liking, and over the years dabbling in the odd Paradox grand strategy game or two the only one that I enjoyed playing was Stellaris - and that really is more of a traditional 4X game in grand strategy clothing. The one thing that turns me off games even more than being open world with a lack of focus is being a sandbox with no win condition.

Not saying that makes EU a bad game. Just not for me. My brain just doesn't work that way, if something has no set win condition in needs to be competitive (i.e. PVP) for me to like it.

And yes, that means... I never played Minecraft, or The Sims, or really enjoyed Sim City beyond the szenarios with win conditions. *shrug*

[Guard Dog]

Happy birthday to fallout new Vegas. 10 years old and still great.

[bugarup]

https://www.gog.com/news/coming_soon_the_outer_worlds

 

Good things come to those who wait. 

[Mamoulian War]

10 hours ago, majestic said:

I tried the first Europa Universalis way back when it came out and found it not to my liking, and over the years dabbling in the odd Paradox grand strategy game or two the only one that I enjoyed playing was Stellaris - and that really is more of a traditional 4X game in grand strategy clothing. The one thing that turns me off games even more than being open world with a lack of focus is being a sandbox with no win condition.

Not saying that makes EU a bad game. Just not for me. My brain just doesn't work that way, if something has no set win condition in needs to be competitive (i.e. PVP) for me to like it.

And yes, that means... I never played Minecraft, or The Sims, or really enjoyed Sim City beyond the szenarios with win conditions. *shrug*

I am very similar to you, when it comes to games with lack of winning conditions. For some unknown reason EU games were exception to this rule *shrugs*

[Zoraptor]

Setting your own winning conditions is great, as it's only limited by your imagination.

Edited October 21, 2020 by Zoraptor

[Gorth]

Bought Adeptus Mechanicus on GOG a moment ago (together with the Heretek expansion). Both of them between 50 and 65 percent off depending on edition (got the Omnissiah version). Let the galaxy feel the wrench of judgement!