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[dunno lah]

Regarding Assassin's Creed, are you really playing an assassin? From screenshots I've seen I get the impression it's more like some martial arts expert fighting in the open than an assassin using stealth and shadows to take down his victims.

From what I gather there's a whole order of them, and they blend in by... wearing a uniform that is unlike anything anyone else wears...

Based on my experiences with AssCreed 2, didn't play other parts:
AssCreed is not much stealth at all. At most it's avoiding being spotted by using some parkour moves and staying out of LOS of the guards, or blending into groups of people (once you are close to a group you are considered part of it and turn invisible, even when you look nothing like the people in the group).
The gameplay is made up by parkouring to your target, fighting groups of guards that most of the time conveniently take turns attacking you and then killing your target.
With the exception of a proper light-based detection system, in principle the stuff for real covert assassinations is there, though, it's just (almost) never used in the game.
I guess that at some point they wanted to do a game where you play a real assassin who has to hide, work from the shadows, be careful not to blow his cover, etc., but instead they went full popamole.
Your character is an overpowered master-sword-fighter and parkour-specialist who can take on several heavily armored guards at once and then jump from a 50 meters high belltower right into a haystack without even straining his ankle.
Sightseeing is nice though - if they did one thing right, it's the recreation of italian rennaissance cities.

Yeah. Synchronizing from the Santa Maria del Fiore was pretty cool.

 

[J_C]

Settlers 4 is a barf, but woot, Settlers 3 come to papa.

Btw guise - Imperialism 1 or 2 or both?

Why do you prefer S3 to S4? I always liked the latter more, because basicly it's like S3 with some extra stuff added. I especially liked the hunter and gardener units.

 

[cvv]

Settlers 4 is a barf, but woot, Settlers 3 come to papa.

Btw guise - Imperialism 1 or 2 or both?

Why do you prefer S3 to S4? I always liked the latter more, because basicly it's like S3 with some extra stuff added. I especially liked the hunter and gardener units.

Tbh I haven't played either of those for like 10 years but I still remember I had helluva time with S3 and when they wheeled out S4 I was disappointed, frustrated and hurt...for some reason. Wasn't it too dumbed down or something? I dunno, can't be arsed to trawl the net now.

 

[Infinitron]

Settlers 2 is that one that got changed/"dumbed down" (by changing the game from a logistics management game to more of an RTS)

 

[Gragt]

Settlers 2 is that one that got changed/"dumbed down" (by changing the game from a logistics management game to more of an RTS)

I liek roads too!

 

[Boleskine]

GOG will be running a charity promo starting on November 5.



Basically, a variety of game packs/bundles with 100% of proceeds going to charity. The one example mentioned in the video is FTL+Pid+The Whispered World for $5.

 

[Overboard]

A little update on this, the games include Darwinia, FTL, Pid, Botanicula, Creatures Village, Waking Mars, Incredipede, The Whispered World, Driftmoon, and Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee.

Three charities to choose from, one by a youtube 'personality', one by a Nu Yok author who needs money to buy cows, and the World Wrestling Federation. Choose wisely!

 

[Zarniwoop]

GOG will be running a charity promo starting on November 5.



Basically, a variety of game packs/bundles with 100% of proceeds going to charity. The one example mentioned in the video is FTL+Pid+The Whispered World for $5.

Just saw this on GOG, then came to see if the eagle-eyed viewers of the Codex knew something about it...

GOG really has an identity crisis, first it turned from Good Old Games, to Mostly Good and Mostly Old Games, then it became New Indie Games and now it's thehumblebundle.com 2: Electric Boogaloo

 

[dnf]

Wathever brings them money i guess.

 

[MicoSelva]

I want to pick up Driftmoon and The Whispered World, but I don't have any idea what to choose as a third game (I already have FTL and I don't like Oddworld). Any recommendations?

 

[Cosmic Misogynerd]

Any recommendations?

Kill yourself.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Rogue Trooper released. One of the betterTPP that I've played. with fun customisation and lack of RPG elements (so no spaming "XP +100" on the screen). The only game (with Gears of War) where cover system work properly, without rage makiing.
Still -
http://af.gog.com/game/rogue_trooper?as=1649904300

I want to pick up Driftmoon and The Whispered World, but I don't have any idea what to choose as a third game (I already have FTL and I don't like Oddworld). Any recommendations?

Botanicula. Not MAchinarium level but still fun. Acctually - any game that genre you can stand.

 

[Zewp]

I remember playing Rogue Trooper as a child (was a fan of the comics too) and it wasn't too bad. One of a select few third-person shooters I can bring myself to play to completion.

 

[Infinitron]

Wing Commander: Prophecy released! http://af.gog.com/news/release_wing_commander_v_prophecy?as=1649904300

Only Armada is left.

 

[Infinitron]

Bobby wants some money: http://af.gog.com/promo/activision_weekend_promo_081113?as=1649904300

Think I'll grab Spycraft, see what that's about.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

A really nice list of games. This is a sale in which I'm going to take adventage. I have none of these games on GOG. I played Arcanum and the Quest of Glory series many years ago around when they came out, but lack copies now. I was thinking of picking up Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption, since I never finished it before due to a game ending bug towards the end of the Middle Ages section.

I'll definitely grab Betrayal at Krondor since a ton of Codexers insisted I play it when I put up a recent poll on older games I hadn't tried yet.

 

[catfood]

What's with all of these animu styled platformers on GOG lately?

 

[JudasIscariot]

Sword of the Stars: The Pit Gold Edition has been released :D

http://af.gog.com/game/sword_of_the_stars_the_pit_gold_edition?as=1649904300

(this time I made sure the link keeps the referral number :D )

 

[Infinitron]

Sword of the Stars: The Pit Gold Edition has been released :D

http://af.gog.com/game/sword_of_the_stars_the_pit_gold_edition?as=1649904300

(this time I made sure the link keeps the referral number :D )

Why'd you guys typo Wasteland's name? http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4817#p80133

 

[Zarniwoop]

GOG is more like LOL now, look at this fine example of human intelligence.... I've seen this kind of "logic" before. I'm guessing this individual owns at least one Apple product:

I just dont get it, why there are people who gave this game bad rating just because GOG made some mistake with the release... its not changing the quality of this game in any way... and this game is epic...

FUCK YEAH THE GAME IS UNPLAYABLE! BEST EPIC GAEM EVER FUCK YEAH!!! FIVE STARS GOTY 10/10 OMG CRYBABBYS JUST CUZ U CAN'T PLAY THE GAME AT ALL DOESN'T MEAN IT'S NOT AWESUMEZ0RZ!!!

http://af.gog.com/game/sword_of_the_stars_the_pit_gold_edition?as=1649904300

 

[oscar]

It is unfair to trash a game's reviews (and consequently sales) because of GOG fucking something up. Is it so hard to reserve judgement for the day or two it takes for it to be fixed?

 

[Zarniwoop]

It's not unfair, no. The working edition of the game has perfectly good reviews. The non-working product is just that, NON-WORKING. People should absolutely be discouraged from buying it until such time as it's fixed. Because at the moment you'd be paying for nothing.

Otherwise you (and whoever posted that apologetic review) could just as well be defending EA and their Simcity fiasco.

Edit: It's made even worse by the fact that they're putting a broken product on a promo sale.

 

[Infinitron]

That's...not analogous at all.

 

[Crooked Bee]

I think it's pretty awful when the game gets bad reviews just because the distribution platform fucked up and did something wrong. The reviews are there to stay, after all, and will continue to influence the game's rating.

GOG should've immediately withdrawn the game, imo, until the issue is fixed.

 

[FeelTheRads]

It's not unfair, no. The working edition of the game has perfectly good reviews. The non-working product is just that, NON-WORKING. People should absolutely be discouraged from buying it until such time as it's fixed. Because at the moment you'd be paying for nothing.

Really? And when it's fixed who's gonna remove the bad ratings?