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Not gonna lie, I like collecting .jpgs.......

And I just purchased the Bloodstained DLC.

If there's one piece of Bloodstained DLC that I'd recommend (other than the soundtrack), it would be Classic Mode 2, which I enjoyed immensely. I've been wanting a game like Castlevania 2 for a while, and this DLC definitely delivered. It actually does improve on Castlevania 2 in meaningful ways, like giving each mansion a different theme (and each one has a boss), and giving good hints if you talk to the townspeople (not to mention a menu where you can check the town dialog anywhere, which is handy).

I would understand jrpgs... but .jpgs?!?

OMGWTF?

Shit, now I have quite many costly items in my wishlist that are discounted...
Tunic
Front Mission 1-2
Master of Magic: Scourge of the Seas
Trepang2 Season Pass
As Dusk Falls
Stargate: Timekeepers
SpellForce: Conquest of Eo - Demon Scourge

Just to name a few... Shit, will this never end? No it won't! It can't! It shan't!

Oh well, I guess I will just wait a couple of days and then buy them. By then I should have forgotten already I blew around 100€ to earlier GOG purchases just a couple days earlier.

It feels like a fresh start, like you are a total GOG virgin, buying a GOG game for the very first time, like a vi-ii-ii-ii-rgin, with your heart beats next to mine...

I just run these four commands, and they all get updated (= all updated or new files/games downloaded, and obsolete old files moved to somewhere else where I can delete them when I see fit, and all files' integrity verified that they are ok):

python gogrepoc.py update --lang en --os windows
python gogrepoc.py download d:\GOG_installers\
python gogrepoc.py clean d:\GOG_installers\
python gogrepoc.py verify d:\GOG_installers\

Ez pez lemon sqez. You can even enter those lines into e.g. gog.bat text file, so you need to run only gog.bat to run all those commands.

I do that max once a month (or less) though, don't want to waste GOG resources too much. So if Tunguska has received ten updates during the last month, I am not redownloading all of them, just the latest one.

In a case like Tunguska or some online game which gets updates often, I'd probably want to play them through a client like Galaxy or Steam, just so that it is always up to date when I want to play it. With a bit older games which rarely or never get updates, offline installers are preferred. I usually use offline installers because I tend to play older games, e.g. currently playing Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).

EDIT: And as I mentioned, I have a 18TB WB MyBook USB hard drive, plenty of room for my GOG installers, still several terabytes available. Before that I divided my installers to two 5TB USB HDDs, but they started to become too cramped so I moved the files to the 18TB HDD and the 5TB ones got a grand new life and purpose (storing my pr0n collection, mostly).

The initial setup can be a bit daunting if you don't have any instructions, but with clear instructions it is easy, just install python (downloadable from python.org), install it (during the installation, tell it to include python to PATH so that you can run python code on any Windows folder), run a few "pip install" commands to install python modules that gogrepoc.py needs... and then you are ready to go. Similar steps in Linux too, python is either already installed or you install it normally how you install stuff in Linux, from the repository.

Just run "python gogrepoc.py login" once to download GOG login cookies to your account, and then the four commands I listed before over and over again (replacing the path to where you want to download your GOG installers; and change the --os and --language options too if you want also non-English and non-Windows versions of installers (I don't)), whenever you want to refresh your GOG installer collection. "login" needs to be run only once, or once in a bluemoon, to get fresh GOG cookies that let you log into your GOG account.

And if you don't want to run those four commands manually, just make a .bat file to run them without more typing.

If you wonder how much space your all your games would take when downloaded, you can run the "download" command (the second command) with a --dryrun option. It will show how much data it would download overall, without actually starting the download. Then you know if you have enough free space in the target directory/drive.

Yes, just connect it to a power and USB-A port, and you are fine, 18TB space for storage.

If 5TB is enough, you can get a small 2.5" USB HDD that is pretty cheap and doesn't need external power, just connect it to the USB port.

Summer Sale purchases until now:

Titanic Adventure Out of Time
Timelapse
The Fall Part 2: Unbound
A Normal Lost Phone
Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story
Call of Juarez (this paying the Amazon Prime)
The Mystery of Woolley Mountain
The Void
Dust: An Elysian Tale
Tender Loving Care
XIII - Remake

All of these games for about 15 euros, not bad.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/how_many_games_have_you_bought_in_2024/post44

An update to my situation:

After buying "A Space for the Unbound" because someone recommended it in this thread, I've ended up buying the following games from my wishlist (except the Simon the Sorcerer remake games which I just run into yesterday and I thought why not):

7.49€ As Dusk Falls
11.59€ Master of Magic: Scourge of the Seas
4.50€ Simon the Sorcerer 2: 25th Anniversary Edition
4.50€ Simon the Sorcerer: 25th Anniversary Edition
10.39€ SpellForce: Conquest of Eo - Demon Scourge
24.29€ Stargate: Timekeepers
27.99€ TUNIC + TUNIC (Original Game Soundtrack)
30.49€ Tactical Warfare Bundle (Front Mission 1-2)
7.09 Trepang2 Season Pass
10.54€ Kona II: Brume
10.99€ HROT

Now I feel I've bought all the games that interest me at the moment (that I'm aware of) and I have either less interesting or non-discounted games on my wishlist (55 items still on it but I might actually remove a couple from it, e.g. Broken Roads: Deluxe Edition whose reviews now seem rather meh; I think some Youtube review video or article recommended it though and that is why I originally entered it into my wishlist, so go figure).

So I will abstain myself from buying any more GOG games, at least for the rest of the week. Unless something interesting catches my eye of course, but otherwise:

NO! This is enough! Not anymore! Read my lips! (in case you are deaf and can't hear me, unfortunately I don't know any sign language and to my understanding the sign languages are different in different language regions around the world anyway so you probably wouldn't understand my sign language anyway no matter how hard I waved my hands. For instance, in the Finnish sign language, showing your middle finger actually means "I love you so much!", go figure).

Don't believe me? Then F U.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/sign-language/

9 games:

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered
Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak
Amnesia Rebirth
No Man's Sky
Kingdom Come: Deliverance Royal Edition
Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
Mortal Shell
Terminator Resistance
Resident Evil 4 Gold Edition

Too many to count, as usual.

I'll do some of this. Don't know it all off the top or my and kind of lazy so I won't check them all. Anyways...

PC games...all in General here:
- TMNT: Cowabunga Edition (Steam key from a digital store: GreenManGaming)
- World War Zero (Steam key from digital store: Fanatical).

Humble Bundlle and/or Humble Store:
- Humble Choice Bundle every month in 2024 (this will be until Dec. 2024, as I'm a yearly member).
- Killer 7 (for Steam)
- Capcom Cup: Fighters & Arcade Classic Pack
- Humble Heriones: Action, Adventure & Intrigue Bundle
- Monster Hunter World & Rise Saga Bundle
- Future Games Bundle
- Strate-GOG Bundle

Steam:
- 30XX
- Spacebourne
- ARMA 3 [base-game]
- Forza Horizon 4: Ultimate
- Shadow Warrior Bundle
- Invisible Inc Bundle
- Fallen Aces
- FireWatch
- Divinity: Original Sin 2
- Umurangi Generation OG and Macro
- Helldivers: Dive Harder Edition
- Evil Genius 2: Deluxe Ed.

GOG:
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance Royal Edition Upgrade
- Blade Runner: Enhanced
- Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny Remake
- Realms of Araknia: Star Trail Remake
- The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
- FlatOut 1 and 2
- Disciples 2 Gold
- Jagged Alliance 2
- Metal Gear
- Metal Gear Solid
- Thief 1 Gold, Thief 2, and Thief: Deadly Shadows.
- Kingpin
- Star Explorers
- LEGRAND LEGACY: Tales of the FateBounds
- Spec Ops: The Line
- King's Bounty II: Duke's Edition
- The Chant
- WereWolf: The Apocalypse EARTHBLOOD
- Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy & The New Nightmare
- Gods Will Fall: Valiant Edition
- STAR WARS: Shadow of the Empire
- Shoot 'Em Up Bundle
- Vampire's Fall: Origins
- PowerSlave (old PC version)
- In Cold Blood
- ITORAH
- IO Interactive Games -> Hitman 2: SA, Hitman 3 Contracts & Hitman 4: Blood Money.
- Freedom Fighters.
- Bound By Flame
- Dragon Age: Origins ULTIMATE
- Inspector Schmidt

PS4 Console -> assume from retail on disc, unless stated otherwise:
- Horizon: Forbidden West
- MLB: The Show 2023
- VTM: SwanSong
- Shin Megami Tensai 3: Nocturne HD

LAST UPDATE in this format (of Month/Day/Year format) = 07-18-2024.

2024

===Fractal Softworks

Starsector

===steam

Bayonetta
NieR: Automata
The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker
3030 Death War: A Space Odyssey - Redux
Green Hell (the perpetually discounted game + ost bundle)
Subnautica: Below Zero
Delta V: Rings of Saturn

===humble

SNEG VIDEO GAME CLASSICS BUNDLE

Blade of Darkness
Chasm: The Rift
CyClones
Dark Legions
Diggles: The Myth of Fenris
Fantasy General - (previously owned)
Great Naval Battles: The Final Fury
Necrodome
Pacific General
Phantasie Memorial Set
Prophecy of the Shadow
Renegade: Battle for Jacob's Star
Siege of Avalon: Anthology
Star Command
Star General
The Summoning
Veil of Darkness
War Wind II: Blood Vengeance
Wargame Construction Set
Wargame Construction Set II: Tanks!
Wargame Construction Set III: Age of Rifles
Warlords
Warlords II Deluxe
Warlords III: Darklords Rising
Witchaven
Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance

===gog

Cyberia
Tron 2.0
Brigand Oxaca - Gold
Risen 3: Titan Lords - Complete
Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! HD
Othercide
The Axis Unseen
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition
Underrail
The Age of Decadence
The Wheel of Time
Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle (double dip)
Barrow Hill: The Dark Path
Shadow of Mordor GOTY
Shadow of War Definitive
Medieval Dynasty - Supporter Edition
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Final Cut
Resident Evil 3
Disco Elysium Final Cut
Frostpunk GOTY
Starcom: Nexus
Resident Evil 2
Mortal Shell - Deluxe (double dip)
God of War
IXION
Delta V: Rings of Saturn - Tungsten (double dip)
Asterigos Ultimate
Felvidek
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Resident Evil
X3: Terran War Pack (double dip)
Days Gone
Stellaris
Prey + Mooncrash
Remothered: Broken porcelain
Curved Space
Bear with Me: The complete Collection
Cris Tales
Lost Words: Beyong the Page
In Sound Mind
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Edge of Eternity
Spec Ops: The Line (double dip)
The Sinking City Deluxe
EYE: Divine Cybermancy
Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals (double dip)

Haven't bought much this year. 2023 and its string of massive failures (Payday 3, Cities Skylines 2, Forza Motorsport etc.) left a very bad taste.
That being said, i did buy a few things:
Helldivers 2
Deep Rock Galactic Survivor
Terminator Resistance
Vampire Survivors
Crash Bandicoot 4
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
SKALD
Stronghold Definitive Edition
Pro Wrestling Sim
Anno 1800
Crime Boss: Rockay City
and numerous DLC's for Pinball FX, Pinball M, American and European Truck Simulator

3 on GOG:
- Painkiller Black
- Painkiller Overdose
- Deus Ex: Invisible War.

I buy considerably more on Steam, maybe around 20-ish I think, especially since I start buying from HumbleBundle. Some of the deals are extremely worth it!

All from GoG:

3 purchased
Oriental Empires
Distant Worlds: Universe
Bridge Constructor Portal

2 Freebies
Mordheim: City of the Damned
Shadows: Awakening

2 on GOG:
Solasta: Crown of the Magister - Palace of Ice
God of War

1 on Steam:
Selaco


Too often I look at a game and think; "Do I really need it now?", and, "Haven't I enough in my back-log already?".

LOL. I must be getting old. :D