Goodbye GOG.com

[RPGmasterBoo]

All rise the King has entered

[Labadal]

Bought this 10 minutes ago. I own the first with its expansion since many years. And I have played BGII at a friends house, but I can now proudly say that I own it.

 

Arcanum

Fallout 2

Baldur's Gate 2

Vampire Bloodlines

 

My "retro rpg" backlog is killing me.

[Gizmo]

I'm sure that nobody here gives a damn, but GOG just got Baldur's Gate 2

Added it to my account it!

Thanks for the heads up.

 

 

I have a feeling I would love Baldur's Gate 2 if I could stand the combat. It's like a modern version of Pool of Radiance and I loved that.

 

I once made it out of that first dungeon and into some sort of.. town. That's it.

I thought

was that.

Edit: **

 

If I'm not mistaken, the same company made Secret of the Silver Blades or Gateway to the Savage Frontier (don't remember which).

Edited November 15, 2010 by Gizmo

[Nepenthe]

I'm sure that nobody here gives a damn, but GOG just got Baldur's Gate 2

Added it to my account it!

Thanks for the heads up.

 

 

I have a feeling I would love Baldur's Gate 2 if I could stand the combat. It's like a modern version of Pool of Radiance and I loved that.

 

I once made it out of that first dungeon and into some sort of.. town. That's it.

I thought

was that.

Edit: **

 

If I'm not mistaken, the same company made Secret of the Silver Blades or Gateway to the Savage Frontier (don't remember which).

 

... Wha?

 

Pool of Radiance 2, that heresy, shall not be mentioned when I'm around.

 

Pool of Radiance (the REAL one), was the first part of a quadrilogy, the following installments were Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades and Pools of Darkness.

 

The same firm, SSI, also released a Dragonlance trilogy, Champions/Death Knights/The Dark Queen of Krynn and another FR series Gateway to/Treasures of the Savage Frontier.

 

Yeah, those games, along with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were essentially the only games I played from '89 until Fall 2000, when I got Baldur's Gate.

[RPGmasterBoo]

At which point you realized how unplayable they were.

[Nepenthe]

At which point you realized how unplayable they were.

 

No, I'm not a gaming snob.

[RPGmasterBoo]

At which point you realized how unplayable they were.

 

No, I'm not a gaming snob.

 

One doesn't become a snob by pointing out the obvious. I tried playing those games, and from todays perspective they're simply a chore. With no payoff.

Edited November 15, 2010 by RPGmasterBoo

[HoonDing]

And 20 years from now, Baldur's Gate 2 will be regarded just as the Goldbox games are nowadays. Sic transit gloria mundi.

 

That said, though, I could never finish Death Knights of Krynn because that blasted Lord Soth just kept resurrecting himself and I never found a way to counter this, being in the pre-gamefaqs age.

[RPGmasterBoo]

Very likely. Though I like to think it is still unsurpassed and a qualitative improvement over that mythical golden age.

[Nepenthe]

Oh, I'll take RTWP over turn-based any day of the week, and those games didn't exactly have much in the way or C&C or even dialogue. But they were still pretty good for what they did, and if I had the time or inclination to spend that amount of time sitting in front of a computer screen as opposed to lounging in my sofa with a 40" tv and 5.1 surround system, I'd definitely be playing those games again (and BG2). But unfortunately, since I sit in front of a computer 10 hours a day at work, my gaming needs to pass the sofa test, these days.

[RPGmasterBoo]

Sofa gaming is a terrible downward spiral that leads to the abyss of casual gaming.

[Nepenthe]

Sofa gaming is a terrible downward spiral that leads to the abyss of casual gaming.

 

gaming snob.

[RPGmasterBoo]

[mkreku]

Pool of Radiance (the REAL one), was the first part of a quadrilogy, the following installments were Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades and Pools of Darkness.

 

The same firm, SSI, also released a Dragonlance trilogy, Champions/Death Knights/The Dark Queen of Krynn and another FR series Gateway to/Treasures of the Savage Frontier.

I still own the Commodore 64 versions of most of those games. It was such a hassle trying to buy these games in Kiruna (tiny town far, far north in Sweden) back in the day. I remember that when they stopped making them for the C64, that was the turning point when I gave up on computers for a decade.

 

I wonder if they'll be worth something some day?

[Nepenthe]

Pool of Radiance (the REAL one), was the first part of a quadrilogy, the following installments were Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades and Pools of Darkness.

 

The same firm, SSI, also released a Dragonlance trilogy, Champions/Death Knights/The Dark Queen of Krynn and another FR series Gateway to/Treasures of the Savage Frontier.

I still own the Commodore 64 versions of most of those games. It was such a hassle trying to buy these games in Kiruna (tiny town far, far north in Sweden) back in the day. I remember that when they stopped making them for the C64, that was the turning point when I gave up on computers for a decade.

 

I wonder if they'll be worth something some day?

 

I have the mac versions - they had updated art and audio over the dos version... sigh.

[Humanoid]

Pool of Radiance (the REAL one), was the first part of a quadrilogy, the following installments were Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades and Pools of Darkness.

 

The same firm, SSI, also released a Dragonlance trilogy, Champions/Death Knights/The Dark Queen of Krynn and another FR series Gateway to/Treasures of the Savage Frontier.

I still own the Commodore 64 versions of most of those games. It was such a hassle trying to buy these games in Kiruna (tiny town far, far north in Sweden) back in the day. I remember that when they stopped making them for the C64, that was the turning point when I gave up on computers for a decade.

 

I wonder if they'll be worth something some day?

 

Not sure how much correlation between age and value there is. I have a couple of copies of Wing Commander Kilrathi Saga which are apparently now worth hundreds of dollars each (when the RRP was actually half of a standard new release game) from 1997, whereas my five copies (yeah) of Ultima 5 have barely clawed their way back to the release price.

 

I also have two shrink wrapped copies of Wrath of the Lich King that I picked up for $45 each on clearance. Quick eBay check shows they're worth ~$200 each though that's just based off a couple of sellers, and the game is less than two years old.

 

Not a PC game but I also have a sealed Planescape campaign setting - wonder what it's worth....

Edited November 16, 2010 by Humanoid

[MacMichael]

GOG is now offering pre-orders of The Witcher 2.

http://www.gog.com/en/page/tw2_preorder/

[Humodour]

Not saying HOTU isn't overpowered cheese as it certainly is but no worse than any other CRPG.

 

HOTU was awesome. Good old-school RPG fun with a touch of the exotic strangeness that made games like PS:T more intriguing. Beats the pants of the NWN OC.

[Humodour]

GOG is now offering pre-orders of The Witcher 2.

http://www.gog.com/en/page/tw2_preorder/

 

Sweeeeet!

[Tigranes]

Oho, the free game thing is nice. Fair Price deal is also nice, too.

[Labadal]

Very nice indeed.

 

For

[Humanoid]

Mm, Ubisoft games from back when they weren't so evil. Maybe it's still lining their pockets but I'll just tell myself that I'm showing them the right way to do things - and because my copy of HoMM3 is a few hundred km away from me.

[Majek]

http://www.gog.com/en/page/dec2010

 

GOG in december o.ob

[Humanoid]

So, pretty much the entire catalogue is on sale now (except Activision which will start within 3 days) - could probably rack up a couple hundred dollars worth with a 5 minute perusal of the list.

 

 

 

Not sure if it means anything but will very soon have more games on GoG than on Steam.

[entrerix]

thanks for the heads up, i was able to buy all the games i wanted on GoG and have been putting off buying for less than 35$

 

hurray for holidays!

 

my old laptop will be so happy with all the classic gaming soon to be gracing its hard-drive