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Posted December 07, 2024
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tfishell: Did GOG get games in 2024 that interest you?
Honestly - I would have to look up a list of all the releases from this year, to answer that question.

What I can say with certainty is: MOST of the games that got released on GOG in 2024, do NOT interest me.
Posted December 07, 2024
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Hurricane0440: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 (if it actually ends up here)
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timppu: I haven't kept up with the news, but are there any news or indication of that coming to GOG?

I am not keeping my hopes up, just so that I am not too disappointed if and when it doesn't. I'm fine if it comes later (than to Steam), I don't recall how it was with the original.

I'll survive if it doesn't come to GOG, but it would certainly be nice, assuming it is any good of course.
Confirmed to not be coming to GOG on day 1:
https://80.lv/articles/fans-cancel-kingdom-come-deliverance-ii-pre-orders-because-of-denuvo/

They went the Denuvo route. But the fact they say "on day one" instead of "will not be coming" most likely means it will arrive later. I could see it happening a year after release.
Posted December 07, 2024
Well, my most anticipated game of the last decade didn't release here...

... Dragon's Dogma II...

... so that was a blow to my excitement regarding GOG's ability to attract larger games soon after release (although to be fair I never expected it to be available here day 1). But overall...

... I feel that GOG was gaining momentum with their releases (both "older" AAA and classics) until 2024. In 2024 the releases were IMO more niche indies and generally over-priced. Where 2023 had SEGA's surprise release of most of the Yakuza franchise, 2024 had Alone in the Dark and some games that "quietly" emerged from EA (or from exclusivity elsewhere... Darkest Dungeon II). And of the GOG releases, most seemingly were reviewed moderately at best.

I don't mean to make it sound like GOG hasn't released anything in 2024 that I want to play. That's not true (Skald, Monomyth, Headquarters WWII, Alone in the Dark, Darkest Dungeon II), but... after 2023, the number of "older" AAA's releasing here has seemingly dropped off a cliff and the price-point for AA's (and indies) that I'm interested in has creeped higher. Add this to sales that generally regurgitate the same titles and lack -- for the most part -- both themes and exciting price-points, and...

... you've got a ho-hum 2024.

Will the Winter Sale save the year with some big releases? Maybe... but probably not.

So with all of that said are there titles releasing elsewhere that I'm interested in? Yes... but... not a lot. It's a dry season for games overall.
Post edited December 07, 2024 by kai2
Posted December 07, 2024
Honestly the lack of Spike Chunsoft games except for a few really pisses me off as VN's seem to do well at GOG. I even suspect GOG has a larger number of VN fans than Steam so it is on GOG for not approaching them strong enough about their audience.
Post edited December 07, 2024 by Sarang
Posted December 07, 2024
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kai2: So with all of that said are there titles releasing elsewhere that I'm interested in? Yes... but... not a lot. It's a dry season for games overall.
I agree with this. Very few games seem to be getting released anywhere these days that I'm really interested in. So, it's not really a 'GOG problem', as much as a wider 'games industry problem'.

Never have so many games been released, and yet never have so few games been released that interest me.
Posted December 07, 2024
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Sarang: Honestly the lack of Spike Chunsoft games except for a few really pisses me off as VN's seem to do well at GOG. I even suspect GOG has a larger number of VN fans than Steam so it is on GOG for not approaching them strong enough about their audience.
If we're talking Spike Chunsoft, we can forget their visual novels, how about a couple of Mystery Dungeon games?
Posted December 07, 2024
Youtuber SplatterCat does all the work and they could court each game he plays. Do we get even a quarter of those titles? No.

There we are.

Caveat, most of those devlopers are thinking GoG courts people. Apparently not. Because we have almost none of those games I want to play, here on gog.
Posted December 07, 2024
It's not a GOG problem.... its everything. Other than Fallout London.... nothing this year interested me including the glorified interactive movie that is Indiana Jones with its forced ray tracing because some eedjit ceo woke up one morning after a weekend long bender and saw the wrong spreadsheets convincing him "this is the thing now everyone wants it".

Its just shovelware and duds as far as the eye can see. It was just a bad year.... mostly probably because a lot of games were delayed because enough studios seem to have starting to wake up from the great awokening after the utter pandering disasters started becoming unignorable.... but that's just a theory.

I can only hope next year will be better.
Posted December 08, 2024
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Sarang: Honestly the lack of Spike Chunsoft games except for a few really pisses me off as VN's seem to do well at GOG. I even suspect GOG has a larger number of VN fans than Steam so it is on GOG for not approaching them strong enough about their audience.
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dnovraD: If we're talking Spike Chunsoft, we can forget their visual novels, how about a couple of Mystery Dungeon games?
What happened? I want the Shibuya Scramble game and a few others. I mean I know we likely can't get Quintessential Quintuplets but I would think we could get Danganroupa.

I wouldn't mind the Mystery Dungeons as well as people love roguelikes and those are some of the earliest Japanese ones.
Posted December 08, 2024
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Sarang: What happened? I want the Shibuya Scramble game and a few others. I mean I know we likely can't get Quintessential Quintuplets but I would think we could get Danganroupa.

I wouldn't mind the Mystery Dungeons as well as people love roguelikes and those are some of the earliest Japanese ones.
Nothing happened, but imagine visual novels as the middle sheep in the following clip, and me as Homer Simpson. (The smallest sheep is of course, Mystery Dungeons.)
Posted December 08, 2024
Now that I checked, I see 31 wishlisted titles that were added to the catalog this year. Of course, they range from just added to keep an eye on them just in case to at most moderate interest, but that goes for pretty much everything.
Posted December 08, 2024
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Time4Tea: Very few games seem to be getting released anywhere these days that I'm really interested in. So, it's not really a 'GOG problem', as much as a wider 'games industry problem'.

Never have so many games been released, and yet never have so few games been released that interest me.
Outside of a few point & click adventures, that's exactly how I feel. Lacking the newest & shiniest 2024 unoptimised performance-turd AAA's is no problem for me at all when most AAA's I want to play came out pre-2017. But when you're also not really into porn games and you hate unnecessary remasters, what's left is definitely a "dry season". I'd like to see more of:-

- Missing games from publishers whom GOG had previously good partnerships (eg, Klei's Oxygen Not Included)?

- Missing DOS titles (there appear to be no problem with other stores getting the rights to sell Gold Rush, Paganitzu, etc)

- Missing sequels to originals we do have (eg, ARMA 3, FAR Changing Tides, Oxenfree 2, etc).

- Missing GZDoom engine games (make Selaco happen)!

- Indie Myst-like games (maybe Neyyah will be to Riven what Quern Undying Thoughts was to Myst)?

- Portal-like games (I'd definitely like to see Quantum Conundrum and The Turing Test here)

- More of the unusual platform puzzlers in general, (eg, Contrast and Hue).

I think what's really needed is more "A" games or "upper-tier Indie's" that sit between "low-effort pixel-art rogue like" vs Skyrim (The Forgotten City, The Planet Crafter, Paradise Killer, The Pedestrian, The Witness, etc, are great examples of what small teams of Indie devs can pull off).
Posted December 08, 2024
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Order history says 'yes'...
Posted December 08, 2024
There are only so many games one can reasonably acquire and play in a single year. So even if there are only half a dozen games that actually interest me in a single year, I would still be satisfied. I have many physical games and still have many titles released in years past that I don't own, so it doesn't take much to please me.

I can't tell if I got a little unfortunate or if it's indicative of the state of the industry, however, as out of the four games that I bought which were released this year, it would have been better if two of them were instead released next year.
Thankfully I have backlog, patience, and am more merciful than I ought to independent developers... but it shouldn't be this way. It's disappointing when I find a free, independently made game that has more polish than things which I payed for.
Post edited December 08, 2024 by SultanOfSuave
Posted December 08, 2024
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