Gog 2013 summer sale

[pontifex]

Ah, you just missed it, ended Sunday.

OK, I'm kidding. July sometime.

i would expect July 4th week/weekend it will start

 

[Craig234]

I'm tempted by the sierra bundle. I loved a several old sierra games back in the day and I never played space quest, king's quest etc but I always was interested. Is it worth picking up this bundle?

Well I clicked on it and it said 'you already own all these games'. I'd say it's worth it to a limited audience who likes those older games.

 

[pontifex]

Well I clicked on it and it said 'you already own all these games'. I'd say it's worth it to a limited audience who likes those older games.

the old graphics would bother me. not that i'm a graphics whore, but some of that stuff is REALLY old and not sure I could get into it.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Yea, I have that problem with games like Ultima 7. I want to play it badly, but the graphics are so bad, I can barely make out whats on the screen. Hard to believe back in the day that was good graphics

 

[pontifex]

Yea, I have that problem with games like Ultima 7. I want to play it badly, but the graphics are so bad, I can barely make out whats on the screen. Hard to believe back in the day that was good graphics

yeah, you just get so used to a crisp, clear picture that going backwards sucks, haha

 

[Fallen Kell]

It's like they are reading this site for my requests...

King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, and Ultima all went on sale today

I also picked up Starflight 1+2, some of the Wing Commander games, Master of Orion 1,2,3, and Syndicate+Syndicate Wars (as they were on sale too). Man some of those were great games. I know I still have Starflight 2 around as I just found it's box, but I don't have a 5.25" floppy drive anymore, and I don't think the map was in there, which meant that the space police would hunt me down as a pirate because I would get the number of red stars wrong in sector A4...

 

[georgec84]

Good lord there are so many games I want.

 

[irishScott]

I'm really regretting past GOG impulse buys now. I can't get the bundles I want because I already own one or two of the games in them. Granted the other stuff I want is still 50% off, but...

 

[Dannar26]

The Witcher 2 is 5.99. Decided to jump on 1 & 2.

Tried using their proprietary downloader thing. Install of the witcher failed due to a bad download, apparently.

This is my first run in with GoG. Are they always this spotty?

 

[Texashiker]

This is my first run in with GoG. Are they always this spotty?

their servers are probably getting slammed right now.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Just download the Windows installer for your games, not the downloader thing.

Also, if you already own games in the bundle, it shows them as owned and it does not add that price and you still get the higher % off. So you don't get screwed over if you already own them.

 

[irishScott]

The Witcher 2 is 5.99. Decided to jump on 1 & 2.

Tried using their proprietary downloader thing. Install of the witcher failed due to a bad download, apparently.

This is my first run in with GoG. Are they always this spotty?

I've never had a bad download from Gog, ever; with or without their downloader. And I've got over 20 games from them. Probably just the server load.

 

[irishScott]

Just download the Windows installer for your games, not the downloader thing.

The downloader will also tell you if there's an update to anything installed. I've found it useful.

 

[irishScott]

the old graphics would bother me. not that i'm a graphics whore, but some of that stuff is REALLY old and not sure I could get into it.

Agreed. I heard great things about Anachronox, and while the game itself is solid the graphics make me want to puke. Everyone's face is some squinty-eyed trapezoid. I'm usually not picky about old graphics (I'm fine with the original Deus Ex, Jedi Knight, etc) but this is just bad. Even in 2001 there's no excuse for that.

 

[Craig234]

I'm really regretting past GOG impulse buys now. I can't get the bundles I want because I already own one or two of the games in them. Granted the other stuff I want is still 50% off, but...

No, if you already own some of the games it discounts the bundles and offers you the ones you don't have at the same bundle discount.

It's a lot better than Steam about it which does tell you 'buy the whole bundle including re-buying games you already bought' usually.

Make sure you're logged in.

 

[xSkyDrAx]

picked up ultima 7, alpha centari, and theme hospital today. ultima 7 graphics arent that bad, reminds me of runescape but fullscreen lol

 

[ImpulsE69]

Make sure you check the bundles you get. They screwed up one of mine where they didn't give me the bundle, only gave me 1 game and charged me the full price of the game.

 

[kinev]

For those people who bought the Sierra Adventure Game Bundle, playing King's Quest in AGI was okay back in the 80's, but it can be tough to stand these days. If you're into the Sierra adventure games I encourage you to check out AGD Interactive's FREE remake of KQ 1-3.

http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html

I've played the first one and really enjoyed it!

 

[you2]

I think I'm going to wait for wizadry 8 to go on sale. Hum. Probably won't this time around.

 

[you2]

Do you need the original to play the remake ?

For those people who bought the Sierra Adventure Game Bundle, playing King's Quest in AGI was okay back in the 80's, but it can be tough to stand these days. If you're into the Sierra adventure games I encourage you to check out AGD Interactive's FREE remake of KQ 1-3.

http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html

I've played the first one and really enjoyed it!

 

[Craig234]

For those people who bought the Sierra Adventure Game Bundle, playing King's Quest in AGI was okay back in the 80's, but it can be tough to stand these days. If you're into the Sierra adventure games I encourage you to check out AGD Interactive's FREE remake of KQ 1-3.

http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html

I've played the first one and really enjoyed it!

Thanks.

Looks like remakes and new games.

 

[kinev]

Do you need the original to play the remake ?

No, they're standalone. You don't need anything to play them (that I know of). AGD isn't affiliated with Sierra. I'm not sure how they got around copyright laws (I think because they're giving it away), but they're just good looking remakes of the originals.

From what I gather, the people that made the remakes are just big fans of adventure games and wanted to bring the genre back. They re-did the most famous franchise and now they are making their own new games (Al Emmo and some new game that I don't think is finished yet).

I have very fond memories of playing the original KQ games and I was stoked to find out about the updated versions. I had only played the first one, but going on GOG reminded me that I need to play the next two. So, I downloaded KQ 1-3 again off of AGD and bought KG 4-6 on GOG. I never played KQ 7-8 (supposedly not very good), so I skipped those.

 

[ImpulsE69]

I think I'm going to wait for wizadry 8 to go on sale. Hum. Probably won't this time around.

All the Wizardry's were on sale (for like 80% off) yesterday. Unless they do some final blowout, I think you missed the big discount and are stuck with 50% off.

 

[Craig234]

All the Wizardry's were on sale (for like 80% off) yesterday. Unless they do some final blowout, I think you missed the big discount and are stuck with 50% off.

No, they weren't, that I saw. Ultimas and Might and Magic were.

 

[acheron]

No, they're standalone. You don't need anything to play them (that I know of). AGD isn't affiliated with Sierra. I'm not sure how they got around copyright laws (I think because they're giving it away), but they're just good looking remakes of the originals.

From what I gather, the people that made the remakes are just big fans of adventure games and wanted to bring the genre back. They re-did the most famous franchise and now they are making their own new games (Al Emmo and some new game that I don't think is finished yet).

I have very fond memories of playing the original KQ games and I was stoked to find out about the updated versions. I had only played the first one, but going on GOG reminded me that I need to play the next two. So, I downloaded KQ 1-3 again off of AGD and bought KG 4-6 on GOG. I never played KQ 7-8 (supposedly not very good), so I skipped those.

KQ7 is pretty good. Little different style from the earlier games but I think it's still worth playing it.

We just pretend KQ8 never happened.