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[Alienman]

You okay KeighnMcDeath

 

[pOcHa]

You okay KeighnMcDeath

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Release:
Knights of the Chalice 2
https://af.gog.com/en/game/knights_of_the_chalice_2?as=1649904300

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Why wouldn't I be ok? Are ya'll missing GOG ads that much? I've been busy. Are ya jonsing for another?

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I could do better... but eh w/e

 

[Baron Dupek]

Looks like knight pissing blood.
You want to tell us something?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Looks like knight pissing blood.
You want to tell us something?

It's obviously his cat messing up the threadwork

 

[Tweed]

I could do better... but eh w/e

Anvil of Dawn for the background. Based.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Dark Slag indeed.

 

[Eisen]

Gonna see if ELEX is good enough to inject into my bloodstream

 

[catfood]

https://af.gog.com/en/news/the_experimental_update_for_gog_galaxy_is_out?as=1649904300

With the Proteus update, you can feel like at home with the introduction of a new, experimental feature: customising the “Recent” view to your needs. Now you can add or remove widgets and move them around to your liking, and create a completely personalised experience that is tailor fit for you.

 

[Kev Inkline]

Ok ok... enough GOG advertising... here's a golden oldie.... from today.

 

[Fronzel Neekburm]

48h giveaway: Thea 2: The Shattering

 

[Alienman]

Kinda nuts how many free games I have gotten over the years from GoG. These kind of things were completely unthinkable when I was a kid - free fucking games, are you mad!?

 

[Kev Inkline]

Kinda nuts how many free games I have gotten over the years from GoG. These kind of things were completely unthinkable when I was a kid - free legal fucking games, are you mad!?

FTFY.

 

[Narushima]

And that's forgetting about all those cheap compilation CDs from random PC magazines, that came with dozens of demos and free games.

 

[Alienman]

And that's forgetting about all those cheap compilation CDs from random PC magazines, that came with dozens of demos and free games.

From what I remember it was mostly low effort games. The sharewares were nice though. Most close to a free game,

 

[Ismaul]

Kinda nuts how many free games I have gotten over the years from GoG. These kind of things were completely unthinkable when I was a kid - free fucking games, are you mad!?

Free fucking games I'll never play is just game library pollution.

 

[Kev Inkline]

Kinda nuts how many free games I have gotten over the years from GoG. These kind of things were completely unthinkable when I was a kid - free fucking games, are you mad!?

Free fucking games I'll never play is just game library pollution.

So you're some bleeding heart environmentalist then??

In the picture, my game library:

 

[Bad Sector]

From what I remember it was mostly low effort games. The sharewares were nice though. Most close to a free game,

Here in Greece we had a magazine that gave out several decent games for free in the cover disk, it is how i got games like Anachronox, Arcanum, TRON 2, Spellforce, Jagged Alliance 2, Bloodrayne, Call of Juarez and a bunch of others (i just flipped through a few of them i have behind me :-P). It only happened for a few years though, after the physical magazine sales started to decline because of the Internet becoming easily accessible and free gaming sites popping up everywhere.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Appears GOG quietly removed Weird West's release date after months of selling it as a pre-order, releases in a few hours. Seems to be no change on other storefronts.

 

[mastroego]

Kinda nuts how many free games I have gotten over the years from GoG. These kind of things were completely unthinkable when I was a kid - free fucking games, are you mad!?

Well one has thousands of titles to pick from, I suppose developers need to get aggressive to secure new fans.

 

[Darkozric]

Here in Greece we had a magazine that gave out several decent games for free in the cover disk, it is how i got games like Anachronox, Arcanum, TRON 2, Spellforce, Jagged Alliance 2, Bloodrayne, Call of Juarez and a bunch of others (i just flipped through a few of them i have behind me :-P). It only happened for a few years though, after the physical magazine sales started to decline because of the Internet becoming easily accessible and free gaming sites popping up everywhere.

Some of my PC Master collection. I miss those Paraskevas Tsurinakis' reviews/articles.

 

[Bad Sector]

I miss those Paraskevas Tsurinakis' reviews/articles.

He was a character if nothing else, though i think he was a bit overrated and it went in his head, yet his reviews often contained spoilers (something that people often complained about in the magazine's forum too) and he sometimes talked about stuff he didn't knew about or had weird takes (e.g. he complained that Shodan was female in System Shock 2 - he even claimed that he co-signed a letter about it, though i don't know if that actually happened - because he only had played the beta floppy version of System Shock 1 where Shodan was referred to as male - and IIRC he wrote that Shodan became female in System Shock 2 because Warren Spector or Ken Levine - i don't remember exactly who - put it as a condition for "returning" to work on the sequel to System Shock... and in his review for the game he always used male pronouns for Shodan :-P - and also he spoiled the game's twist).

(FWIW i ended up writing for the magazine myself years later, though it was mainly for fun to see my writing printed in paper on a magazine - in practice i barely got paid and by the time the magazine shut down they owed me several articles' worth of money)

But he had a cult following, probably because he was around the longest time in the most popular (at the time) gaming magazine in Greece... and was friends with the people behind the magazine, so they'd put up with whatever he wanted to write (e.g. i remember an issue where he wrote a big article on his vacations to Galapagos islands and the excuse for that was that it somehow reminded him of adventure games).

 

[Darkozric]

He was a character if nothing else, though i think he was a bit overrated and it went in his head, yet his reviews often contained spoilers (something that people often complained about in the magazine's forum too) and he sometimes talked about stuff he didn't knew about or had weird takes (e.g. he complained that Shodan was female in System Shock 2 - he even claimed that he co-signed a letter about it, though i don't know if that actually happened - because he only had played the beta floppy version of System Shock 1 where Shodan was referred to as male - and IIRC he wrote that Shodan became female in System Shock 2 because Warren Spector or Ken Levine - i don't remember exactly who - put it as a condition for "returning" to work on the sequel to System Shock... and in his review for the game he always used male pronouns for Shodan :-P - and also he spoiled the game's twist).

(FWIW i ended up writing for the magazine myself years later, though it was mainly for fun to see my writing printed in paper on a magazine - in practice i barely got paid and by the time the magazine shut down they owed me several articles' worth of money)

But he had a cult following, probably because he was around the longest time in the most popular (at the time) gaming magazine in Greece... and was friends with the people behind the magazine, so they'd put up with whatever he wanted to write (e.g. i remember an issue where he wrote a big article on his vacations to Galapagos islands and the excuse for that was that it somehow reminded him of adventure games).

Yeah he had some weird takes from time to time but that was one of the reasons I liked reading his reviews (even when I disagreed with him some times), and of course for his love of games like Riven. TBH I don't remember the System Shock drama.
I don't know if he was considered overrated back in the day but I would still prefer weird and useful in Tsurinakis' style reviews than the 100s of useless steam reviews about muh story and muh immersion.