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[Solid Snail]

GOG confirmed only Telltale games were given away to people who had those wishlisted.

 

[ScrotumBroth]

It's done by devs who left Cloud Imperium Games, the company that's working on Star Citizen, so make of that what you will.

Incidentally, I've stopped following SC when Wingman left. It just wasn't the same.

 

[Infinitron]

Give 50% dammit

 

[PorkBarrellGuy]

Wasn't The Adventures of Willy Beamish a fucking Sega CD title?

EDIT: Yeah, actually, got ported to SCD in 1993. Knew I had seen that name in a weird place before.

 

[Rivmusique]

Stealth beg detected.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Daikatana seems to have a bad rep, but I wonder how much of that is properly founded; or if by the pure nature of modern day decline it’ll seem a lot better in retrospect?

Penny Arcade, November 1999

 

[Sceptic]

If anything the game's been vindicated by time: there have been worse games and they haven't been reviled anywhere as much.

 

[deuxhero]

GBC DaiKatana is actually good. Not greatest game ever material, but easily material.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Daikashana would be ok if NPCs were immortal, expecting AI to be competent in videogames? nah

 

[Siveon]

With mods (and proper removal of the NPCs), Daikatana turns into a decently running 90s shooter. Not the best, no, the level design isn't all there but it is still fun enough.

 

[Sceptic]

I played Daikatana twice, first time just after release (gave up on it VERY quickly), second time a few years later when it was fully patched. Honestly the patches improved the game tremendously and took out most of the bugs. The only real problems I remember having with it were related to the suicidal NPC AI (which was bad because keeping them alive is required) and the interminable loading times (which are not hardware-dependent). Outside of those, and especially in levels with no NPCs, the game has quite a bit going for it actually, including really cool weapon variety and some fun level design. With the immortal NPCs fix it would actually turn into a decent shooter I think. Even in the state I'd played it I place it above most of the straight-line, 2-weapons-max, shitty scripted grimdark modern war shooters that I've played in the past decade or so. It might've been a terrible game compared to the likes of Doom, Quake, Unreal, Half-Life et al, but really, as I've said time has given us so much worse.

 

[Naraya]

What.The.Fuck?

https://www.gog.com/game/flashback
Just look at these scalers...

 

[FeelTheRads]

This is what happens when you let newfags put their hands on old games.
Are they also filling the black borders with a blurred version of the screen (to totally make it look like it's wide screen) or is that just for the screenshots?

 

[Infinitron]

Hey, don't bury the lede. Flashback is coming to GOG, that's great news. It was absurd that that the crappy remake was available but not the original.

 

[Naraya]

Hey, don't bury the lede.

TIL.

Yeah, you are right but I got angry.

 

[Fronzel Neekburm]

Has Soldier Of Fortune: Payback on his wishlist

Have you no dignity? This shit isn't even worth pirating.

 

[LESS T_T]

What.The.Fuck?

https://www.gog.com/game/flashback
Just look at these scalers...

I guess this is the same version released on Nintendo Switch. It reportedly can be played with original graphics:

 

[Astral Rag]

What.The.Fuck?

https://www.gog.com/game/flashback
Just look at these scalers...

Hopefully this re-release won't mean the end of:

http://cyxdown.free.fr/reminiscence/

edit: Probably not since it doesn't come with the original exe but you never know.

 

[DayofBlow]

Has Soldier Of Fortune: Payback on his wishlist

Have you no dignity? This shit isn't even worth pirating.

Shit game, but shooting apart enemies is somewhat fun. I like how the game is called 'Payback' but you don't know what you are paying back for until like the final mission. A paddy hot potatoed the face of your girl friend. Voice acting and cutscenes are on the cusp of being unintentionally funny, but the average person would feel sick by the time he reaches them.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Release:
Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem.
https://af.gog.com/game/close_combat_last_stand_arnhem?as=1649904300

 

[Love]

All things Rebellion on sale. I suggest the immensely fun Rogue Trooper.

 

[Infinitron]

Huh: http://ultimacodex.com/2018/12/the-codex-will-no-longer-be-a-gog-affiliate/

The Codex Will No Longer Be a GOG Affiliate
BY WTF DRAGON · PUBLISHED DECEMBER 3, 2018 · UPDATED DECEMBER 3, 2018

It wasn’t the happiest email I could have received, I suppose, although in truth it didn’t come as much of a surprise.

The Ultima Codex — and Ultima Aiera, before it — has been an affiliate of GOG for a number of years now, since either 2011 or 2012 (I can’t actually recall). It was a partnership brokered in part by Mythic, who at the time were working with GOG to arrange for the Ultima games to be made available for sale.

And initially, being a GOG affiliate was good for the site; it was a bit of extra money coming in to help offset hosting costs, after all. Over the years, due to various changes GOG has made to the program, being an affiliate has been less advantageous; payouts became less frequent. And, this morning, I was informed that after January 2, 2019, the Codex’s involvement with the affiliate program will end, apparently because GOG are moving in a different direction with the program.

This won’t really mean much in the way of changes here on the Codex, however; Patreon has largely overtaken GOG as a means of offsetting hosting costs. I may consider bringing back Amazon affiliate links and/or a PayPal donation button, as additional options…I haven’t decided on that, just yet.

The GOG links — to the store pages for each Ultima game or collection — will also remain in the sidebar, though obviously I’ll be removing the affiliate ID from the links.

At any rate, if GOG was a way that you, O Reader, supported the Codex, you have my thanks for that. It’s a shame that things with GOG are coming to an end, but don’t worry: things won’t be changing for the worse around here in the wake of it.

Chad J. Thundercock Taluntain Are we next?

 

[unfairlight]

I hope not.

 

[Boleskine]

 

[Goral]

GOG is getting worse with every second. Removing my GOGmix (and later all other gogmixes), banning people for non-politically correct comments, firing Linko90 for some harmless tweet which triggered some Resetera retards, some stupid curation which prevents good indie games to be present there, etc. etc.