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Posted May 10, 2016
Just remember that death is not the end



<span class="bold">Barony: Cursed Edition</span>, a first-person dungeon-crawler that throws you inside a treacherous labyrinth, is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, DRM-free on GOG.com, with a 30% launch discount.

If someone's been a pain in the backside while alive, you can bet they're going to be impossible after death. Such is the story of Baron Herx, who's come back as an undead lich, forcing your hero to dive into his lair and dispose of him for good. Thing is, the Baron is holed up inside a hardcore, procedurally-generated dungeon full of sinister traps and monsters, hidden passages, cryptic messages, and heaps of shiny loot. Frantically narrated perma-death lurks around every corner, but don't die alone - grab your friends and go about it in an up-to-4-player-co-op fashion.



Delve into an underground complex full of unpredictable dangers in <span class="bold">Barony: Cursed Edition</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com. The 30% discount ends May 17, 12:59 PM UTC.
Posted May 10, 2016
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Painted_Doll: Goodbye Gog quality control . Prepare for shovelware .
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PaterAlf: You don't like the game. We get it. Do you really need four posts to tell us? And did you even play the game? Or is your harsh judgement ("shovelware", "goodbye quality control", "too niche", "shitty", "marketing trap") only based on the screenshots?
There's a video included too. :P
Posted May 10, 2016
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anothername: Damn you guys are a nasty bunch. Some ppl might like that game. I know the disapointment feeling to see a new release being far away from what I prefer, but should we not use the "where the hell is <day>s new game" thread? ;)
The day GOG stops rejecting high caliber games is the day I stop being salty about average-at-best releases like this.
Posted May 10, 2016
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anothername: Damn you guys are a nasty bunch. Some ppl might like that game. I know the disapointment feeling to see a new release being far away from what I prefer, but should we not use the "where the hell is <day>s new game" thread? ;)
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ReynardFox: The day GOG stops rejecting high caliber games is the day I stop being salty about average-at-best releases like this.
Well said, me too. :-)
Post edited May 10, 2016 by MBiL_248
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I’m surprised at the hostility towards the game. One person says it "looks shitty" and suddenly everyone jumps on and starts bashing the game based on ... I’m not sure what. I always thought more of the GOG community. If you do not like the graphic style, that is totally fine, but denigrating the game in such a way without having even played it, doesn’t make much sense.

I played the game and really liked it. And most Steam users seem to agree. It’s hard and you will have to spend some time with it’s mechanics before you see some decent progress, but that works like almost every other roguelike out there, as far as I know.
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ReynardFox: The day GOG stops rejecting high caliber games is the day I stop being salty about average-at-best releases like this.
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MBiL_248: Well said, me too. :-)
But is it really neccessary to bring so much negativity to a release thread? The developers of Barony are not the ones that are responsible that certain games don't show up here.
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Falkenherz: I’m surprised at the hostility towards the game. One person says it "looks shitty" and suddenly everyone jumps on and starts bashing the game based on ... I’m not sure what. I always thought more of the GOG community. If you do not like the graphic style, that is totally fine, but denigrating the game in such a way without having even played it, doesn’t make much sense.

I played the game and really liked it. And most Steam users seem to agree. It’s hard and you will have to spend some time with it’s mechanics before you see some decent progress, but that works like almost every other roguelike out there, as far as I know.
Didn't you know? Every time GOG release a Indie game a Good Old classic Game release dies.
Posted May 10, 2016
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anothername: Damn you guys are a nasty bunch. Some ppl might like that game. I know the disapointment feeling to see a new release being far away from what I prefer, but should we not use the "where the hell is <day>s new game" thread? ;)
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MBiL_248: You miss the point. Of course GOG is allowed to release every crap they want - but in the past they've declined a couple of interesting and well-known titles, saying they were too nichy. And now such a ... thing?!
... hard to argue against that :P
Posted May 10, 2016
This Wolf3D style and the action make it interesting for me.
Posted May 10, 2016
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Falkenherz: I’m surprised at the hostility towards the game. One person says it "looks shitty" and suddenly everyone jumps on and starts bashing the game based on ... I’m not sure what. I always thought more of the GOG community. If you do not like the graphic style, that is totally fine, but denigrating the game in such a way without having even played it, doesn’t make much sense.

I played the game and really liked it. And most Steam users seem to agree. It’s hard and you will have to spend some time with it’s mechanics before you see some decent progress, but that works like almost every other roguelike out there, as far as I know.
If I needed to buy everything to judge it I'd go broke pretty quickly. :P
I noticed the Steam reviews.
Might be the reason we got it, the wishlist only had 11 votes.
Post edited May 10, 2016 by omega64
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radigram: Why does a game with such graphics have so high system requirement?

If I look at Hexen II, it had in 1997 much more detailed graphics than this, and for today very low hardware needs.
I guess it has to do with the engine they used to develop the game; I don't know much about game engines but it is logical to me that Hexen II & Barony engine have nothing in common, even if the result is somewhat comparable. Also, keep in mind that games back then were supposed to look like that (pixel art) because that was the state of the art technology back then (also keep in mind the specs of PCs back then too!). Nowadays pixel art is not needed but it is designed on purpose; it's just an artificial way to look retro by using modern game engines, hence the high system requirements.

Anyone who has more knowledge in this matter, please correct me if I'm wrong. ;)
Posted May 10, 2016
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MBiL_248: Well said, me too. :-)
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PaterAlf: But is it really neccessary to bring so much negativity to a release thread? The developers of Barony are not the ones that are responsible that certain games don't show up here.
That's not the game's own forum, but a an official GOG release thread, so I think it's reasonable to give GOG staff some feedback about it. But let us not exaggerate. :-)
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Falkenherz: I’m surprised at the hostility towards the game. One person says it "looks shitty" and suddenly everyone jumps on and starts bashing the game based on ... I’m not sure what. I always thought more of the GOG community. If you do not like the graphic style, that is totally fine, but denigrating the game in such a way without having even played it, doesn’t make much sense.

I played the game and really liked it. And most Steam users seem to agree. It’s hard and you will have to spend some time with it’s mechanics before you see some decent progress, but that works like almost every other roguelike out there, as far as I know.
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Tarm: Didn't you know? Every time GOG release a Indie game a Good Old classic Game release dies.
But I DO BELIEVE in classics! :P
Post edited May 10, 2016 by MBiL_248
Posted May 10, 2016
I'm not a graphics whore, but for a game released in 2015 it does look like it should've been released in 1995.
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blotunga: I'm not a graphics whore, but for a game released in 2015 it does look like it should've been released in 1995.
Exactly! That was exactly the same I wanted to say! A game with graphics from 1995 and system requirements from 2016 or even 2020.
Not acceptable!!
Posted May 10, 2016
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Falkenherz: I’m surprised at the hostility towards the game. One person says it "looks shitty" and suddenly everyone jumps on and starts bashing the game based on ... I’m not sure what. I always thought more of the GOG community. If you do not like the graphic style, that is totally fine, but denigrating the game in such a way without having even played it, doesn’t make much sense.

I played the game and really liked it. And most Steam users seem to agree. It’s hard and you will have to spend some time with it’s mechanics before you see some decent progress, but that works like almost every other roguelike out there, as far as I know.
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omega64: If I needed to buy everything to judge it I'd go broke pretty quickly. :P
I noticed the Steam reviews.
Might be the reason we got it, the wishlist only had 11 votes.
Well I'm glad the game got released with onlyl 11 votes in the wishlist. The games with most votes are normally the most famous / popamole ones, or the ones with genres with a wider audience (and good graphics; always good graphics). I'm more into niche genres, so there's still hopes for games I want to show up.

And anyway, I'm always in favour of every good game to be released here, even if I'm not personally interested in it. The problem is, as always, the limited slots. And the fact that many people interpret each release they don't want as a place taken away from a game they do.

... And then there are all those rejected games.
Post edited May 10, 2016 by rgnrk
Posted May 10, 2016
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Tarm: Didn't you know? Every time GOG release a Indie game a Good Old classic Game release dies.
But every time GOG releases an indie game, all good old classic games that haven’t been released here become even more classic and older, upvaluing them? Maybe it just was the wrong week for an indie game release and every other indie released today would have spawned a similiar reaction regardless of it’s quality. Like standing at a street corner and getting run over by a Justin Bieber fan mob because he happened to stand 10 feet behind you. Not your fault, but dead you are nonetheless. (Does this metaphor make sense?)
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