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Slender The Arrival
Recettear An Item Shop's Tale
Chantelise - A Tale of Two Sisters
Warsow (free)
Fractured Soul
Miasmata
Mutant Mudds
Dyad
Sokobond
Chronology
Devil's Dare
99 Levels to Hell
The Ballads of Reemus: When The Bed Bites
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard (free)

 

Always a shame to see games delisted, crap or not.

 

Not Recettear!

 

Looks like GOG is doing some autumn cleaning.

 

Anyone seen this Pirate Bay movie? Worth downloading?

 

Isn't it free? At least I have it in my library, but it could have been a giveaway.

 

It's free, I just want to know if I should download it or not . My queue is quite long.

 

New GOG Connect games available (various titles more or less connected with the horror genre).

https://www.gog.com/connect?pp=cb4e5208b4cd87268b208e49452ed6e89a68e0b8

Also, Halloween sale has started.

 

Neverwinter Nights 2 still not on sale

 

Avadon / Avernum / DROD / Last Door / The Suffering series are on sale . Sweet .

 

I've picked up the Alone in the Dark trilogy and Blood, in the spirit of Halloween or whatever the fuck.

Spoopyness shall be dispensed.

 

Is Hand of Fate good ?

 

I've played worse but there's better games available in the GOG sale.
Boredom kicks in fairly quickly in once the same gameplay mechanics get used over and over.
Essentially you fight continuous melee battles in series of small area maps against a very limited selection of enemies.
You travel between each fight/stage one step at a time through the cards that are laid out by the dealer.
Some of the cards benefit you - others penalise.
It gets tougher through each stage as food, gold and items get harder to acquire.
Some "find the treasure" & boss maps get introduced to break up the repetitiveness.
Quite grindy really.

Mordheim CotD is my favourite at the minute but that's on STEAM unfortunately. 75% off at the moment though.

 

It's $1 in this Humble Bundle (together with 3 other games) at the moment. If you want it on GOG, activate it on Steam and transfer it via GOG Connect.

 

DROD Bundle 80% off, yea or nay? Never played the series...

 

DROD 1+2+3 for $2 is an absolute steal, but I'd hold off on the others though because there's a chance you may be burned out after having played the first three games.

DROD 2 is the best game in the series.

 

https://www.gog.com/game/call_of_ct...h?pp=cb4e5208b4cd87268b208e49452ed6e89a68e0b8

 

Well, didn't see that one coming at all. That game was supposed to be pretty hard to release for GOG, so that's right there.

EDIT And the price is for Bethesda. If you are interested, you should buy at 5 shekels really fast. It's a mistake most likely. EDIT : Same price as steam in fact, so the bugs.

 

Plus: When you buy this game, The Elder Scrolls: Arena and The Elder Scrolls Chapter II: Daggerfall will be added to your GOG.com account for free!

 

Plus: When you buy this game, The Elder Scrolls: Arena and The Elder Scrolls Chapter II: Daggerfall will be added to your GOG.com account for free!

I know Sherlock, it's Beth game after all
got it with RtCW (still not work properly on Win7 64bit ffs) and Morrowind (because potato version have different files structure)

 

Call of Cthulhu is a strange one. I remember playing it back in the day and thinking it was one of the best horror games I ever got my hands on... and then "Attack of the Fishmen" happened and it took a nosedive. What started out as a first person adventure game with some neat stealth and insanity mechanics turned into an on-rails scriptfest that will punish you hard for making the slightest mistake. I just replayed the game up until that part and it's even worse than I remembered it. I mainly remembered it being totally out of place with the deliberately slow-paced beginning of the game. But playing it again I'm really amazed at the number of unfathomably awful design choices they managed to cram into that one sequence. The thing is: you can't quicksave during this game, and this chapter in particular is purely trial and error (with zero margin for the latter, you'll have to start over again). Which wouldn't be so bad, were it not for the fact that you'll have to perform one tedious, time-consuming task after another: slowly push wardrobes out of the way, crawl underneath some windows to avoid getting shot. You get killed very easily during that sequence, which already ruins all suspense the game built up to that point. But the feeling of "Oh, I'll have to push that thing out of the way again! I have to crawl down that hallway again!" is what makes me want to uninstall this immediately.

This has a perfect 5/5 user score on gog right now, and I can't quite understand why. Did these people never play it past the first 90 minutes? I can't remember how far I got into the game, I just remember it taking a further turn for the worse by turning into an insipid shooter with awful gun mechanics. Should I give this a second chance? Does it ever come up with anything resembling the first chapter in terms of gameplay? Or should I just relish the memory of that great first hour and a half and just quit once the townsfolk start knocking at my hotel room door?

 

On one hand, it does turn into a shooter (with occasional respawning enemies to boot), so it's not like you're entirely wrong.

But on the other...

I can maybe understand dying once because you didn't block both doors in one of the rooms. But come on, did you play it with a steering wheel or something? Nobody I know found it hard. And it's a great sequence, still unmatched by imitations in Penumbra/Amnesia. And how would you suggest improving it, play it as a 5 minute long cutscene? Or do the cool new horror-walking-sim thing and respawn on the next checkpoint instead of the previous one?

 

You can't really sell a whole game alone on that one short sequence - as good as it is - although it's nice to see this pop up on GOG.
Getting caught or shot usually means you've failed to block/bolt a door or took the wrong turn.
It's more or less certain death if spotted on the streets but that's not necessarily a bad thing. They could've provided the player with a few tools to make a distraction - like in Splinter Cell / Metal Gear Solid / Thief.
I thought the game was decent up until the raid sequence.
If the game was re-done today it would likely be filled with idiot-proof QTE moments; smashing Cthulu himself in the face by hitting X.

The game doesn't particularly excel in any area and does a lot of stuff worse than many earlier games that came before it i.e. Deus Ex (2000), Thief (1998), System Shock (1994), etc.
It's all a bit clunky, muddy and blocky. Filled with game breaking bugs and left for dead by Bethesda.
The "sanity system" is nothing more than blurring your vision or applying another irritating effect.
The developers didn't appear to have any clue on where to take the gameplay once the player leaves Innsmouth but then their track record is less than brilliant.
Turning it into a poorly executed shooter with respawning enemies was a bit of a cop out.
As a horror game I didn't particularly find it any jumpier than Aliens vs Predator (1999, 2001).
The whole thing probably would've worked a lot better as a classic Resident Evil style game aka Alone in the Dark.

The GOG rating is just typical initial excitement over it's release - it probably deserves something closer to a 3/5.
I find it's lacking something extra to push it into greatness like Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (2006)

 

I haven't played it, but that sounds like it should be no problem for anyone who's read The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

 

Another one bites the dust :

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/g...e?pp=cb4e5208b4cd87268b208e49452ed6e89a68e0b8