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General discussion[Giveaway] Cheap old games to "celebrate" a new computer(65 posts)(65 posts)
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Posted January 04, 2025
I am in for Amazon: Guardians of Eden

New computers are cool :'(
Post edited January 04, 2025 by ywzywz
Posted January 04, 2025
Thank you for the giveaway, enjoy your new computer!

I'm in for:
Amazon: Guardians of Eden
Lula: The Sexy Empire
Sid Meier's Colonization
Posted January 04, 2025
Thank you for the giveaway. I'm in for Summer and Winter: Olympic Challenge.

I would also like to say how happy I am to see Colonization in the giveaway list and to recommend it to everybody with an interest in strategy games and/or History. It is one of the games that have granted me more hours of fun in the last three decades, and one of the reasons why I register my GOG account. :)
Posted January 04, 2025
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Riser_N: I'm really curious though... what was the game you bought for yourself?
Also an oldie, Emperor.
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solseb: Wonderful mainboard. https://www.asus.com/uk/motherboards-components/motherboards/tuf-gaming/tuf-gaming-b650-plus/ I read your profile and Asus description, yet I still don't know what graphic card this is, even knowing some of its tech specs. Then after a long search found it as "Integrated AMD RDNA™ graphics (Actual support may vary by CPU)"
While your CPU is more than enough, your chipset can go all the way dx12, and be compared to...https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-780M-GPU-Benchmarks-and-Specs.680539.0.html In addition, there is a nice PCI slot for any future upgrades. Sounds like a good choice : )
Yeah, like I said, no dedicated graphics card, using the CPU's integrated graphics. And there won't be any dedicated graphics card, so that slot's pointless.
Post edited January 04, 2025 by Cavalary
Posted January 04, 2025
Congratulations for your new machine!

I'm in for Sid Meier's Colonization

I'm also thinking to upgrade mine
Posted January 04, 2025
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ConsulCaesar: I would also like to say how happy I am to see Colonization in the giveaway list and to recommend it to everybody with an interest in strategy games and/or History.
Indeed, it's the one exception I was mentioning in the OP :)

In other "news", two people need to look better at rule 4. Call it me being a stickler for rules, but...
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ywzywz: I am in for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjnUkE9wp7k
If that was supposed to be a reference to any of the offered games, I didn't get it.
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veve178: Congratulations for your new machine!

I'm in for Sid Meier's Colonization

I'm also thinking to upgrade mine
Hmm, can't find any other recent posts by you. If I missed them, could you provide some links?
Post edited January 04, 2025 by Cavalary
Posted January 04, 2025
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Cavalary: (....)
You gave me something today. The last time I bought myself a laptop was in 2016. It was a Lenovo 20405.
Now, it was a time for the Republic of Gamers thanks to your recom. Of course, it's "old and cheap", and on Win 10 and will only ride games up to.... maybe 2020. But as ya said "completely sufficient for me for the foreseeable future" & "is somewhere in the stratosphere compared to that" (*previous machine)
Same performance as yours, but you can zip rars quicker. I am much more interested in your thread than the games offered; I just needed your decisiveness and inspiration to buy myself one unit : ) Butterfly Effect ^ Thanks!
Posted January 04, 2025
I am sorry it just a missclick :)

i am in for Amazon: Guardians of Eden
Posted January 04, 2025
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ConsulCaesar: I would also like to say how happy I am to see Colonization in the giveaway list and to recommend it to everybody with an interest in strategy games and/or History.
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Cavalary: Indeed, it's the one exception I was mentioning in the OP :)

In other "news", two people need to look better at rule 4. Call it me being a stickler for rules, but...
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ywzywz: I am in for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjnUkE9wp7k
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Cavalary: If that was supposed to be a reference to any of the offered games, I didn't get it.
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veve178: Congratulations for your new machine!

I'm in for Sid Meier's Colonization

I'm also thinking to upgrade mine
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Cavalary: Hmm, can't find any other recent posts by you. If I missed them, could you provide some links?
oh i didn't notice that rule. i was in here for very long time but didn't reply to any posts, just ignore me if i don't fit the requirement
Posted January 04, 2025
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Cavalary: After 9.5 years on the previous one, a while ago I finally got the parts for a new computer and put it together, so to mark the occasion I made my first game purchases since 2020 as well, one for myself, the rest for you :) All of them are old and cheap, however, games I played way back, and sticking to the rule of not buying any game with a regional price that's higher than the base (US) one. And, possibly with one exception, they're probably games that you wouldn't be able to justify paying anything for anymore. But in case you have any interest or curiosity about them, now that the big sales are over (even if two of them are still discounted), you can ask for them here.

Rules:
- Account created before November 2024.
- Not a scammer or other known undesirable.
- Have recent forum activity outside giveaways and forum games.
- Put "I'm in for" followed by the game or games in the post. Yes, bold the "in".
- Entries will close on Jan 12.
- In case there will be no entries for any of the games by Jan 12, those codes will go to The Community Giveaway.
- Taking a cue from BenKii, I'll use dice to determine the winners. Regular ones, since I don't have any others, but three of them, like rolling stats. In case of a tie, I'll roll a fourth. If the tie persists, highest die of the four wins, then second highest, then third highest. In the extremely unlikely case of all four being equal, I'll reroll all four until there is a winner.

Games and entrants:
Amazon: Guardians of Eden - 01kipper, DiffuseReflection, erbello, thiagott
Lula: The Sexy Empire - DiffuseReflection, erbello, KillingMoon
Sid Meier's Colonization - DiffuseReflection, erbello, KillingMoon, RenKalan
Summer and Winter: Olympic Challenge - ConsulCaesar, erbello
I'm in for Sid Meier's Colonization.
Posted January 04, 2025
I'm in for for Sid Meier's Colonization.

I have played a lot of games during my Life but the first Computer game I played was Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings in the year 2001 when my uncle brought a CD from the school, I didn't have any idea about how far I would get to immerse myself into the RTS Genre, later in 2007 I finally got a copy of Civilization III in CD. and learned the sub-genre of turn based strategy, which I like even more than RTS, due to its practical use when you don't have a whole hour to play in multiplayer. So since then I have been collecting different games from this genre and I love everything that has do do with Historical settings.

Thank you very much for organizing this giveaway, and may you have Marvelous and Wonderful New Year!
Posted January 05, 2025
Not in. Congrats on the new PC and thank you for your generosity.
Posted January 05, 2025
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Riser_N: I'm really curious though... what was the game you bought for yourself?
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Cavalary: Also an oldie, Emperor.
Nice. Does look interesting. Thanks for letting me know. :)
Posted January 05, 2025
Freespace 2 always and all the time.

A tense, gripping and emotional game with high stakes and the Flying Dutchman.
Posted January 05, 2025
I'm in for Amazon: Guardians of Eden and Lula: The Sexy Empire (in this order, if that matters).
Congrats on your new system, and thanks for the chance!
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