Boy.... you got quite upset for others have their own opinion. But i wouldnt mind over 30 bucks too, if i were your age and it was my parents money.
I like permadeath, i like roguelike, i like low res, i like indie games.
I like being "you people" if it means i´m not like you, groze.
What i dont like is paying an amount of money, that woulda coulda shoulda have been 60 DM. We are talking about being ripped off. Cause: if (and thats always like this) the game is reduced to sales just a 3 months from now - i would feel pretty mucked - if i payed just 30 freaking bucks for that, while the others who waited get the reward for waiting.
If you dont check this with your neurofabric inside your head, you´re either veeeery rich or veeery young or veeery .... shortsighted.
And by the way: I AM annoyed by these puny people who blindly obey gog and dont check how they´re being treated.
Ciao Bella!

Edit: I WILL buy this game, for sure. But for sure at 10 - 15 bucks.

"Hey Bob, could you stop complaining about your job all the time? It's getting annoying."

"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states-"

"Shut the fuck up Bob"

GoG new game releases thread in a nutshell. Bravo sir.

Do you have some examples of the bold, because I can' remember seeing negative posts about such things?

The complaints about pixeljunk©®, roguelikes, random generation, permanent death, walking sims, or you name it are all coming from the viewpoint that these things are being advertised as exciting or innovative features.

Thimbleweed Park is pixelated but I only remember seeing praise because it looks to be an actual game. Instead of what feels very much like a cut & paste cash in from the ones getting blasted.

When has random generation worked well outside of MP map generation for RTS or TBS? How is throwing in roguelike or permanent death for no reason other than to say it's there a good thing?

As far as GOG itself I see two options for people. It's either don't buy things and potentially kill the platform or hope that they'll change for the best by constantly berating them for trying to stuff Galaxy up everyone's arse or other dubious decisions.

This game might be worthwhile to some people but can you really blame others for disapproving of episodic content at full price? There's no guarantee that the rest of the game will be finished on time or at all.

Good to see it out of in-dev, good game that i dropped to play other games.
Seems it's gone thru a vast amount of change from what i've seen, glad to be able to pick it back up again.
Honestly, it was worth the money as a in dev game, so maybe it's improved tenfold.
Hope so, time to load it up again....

Never said that complaining (just for the sake of complaining) and general chronic negativity is a beautiful trait to have; at least in here, you can get out as easy as you got in. ;)

Episodes? ...I'll wait until they're all out before making a decision. Looks good tho.

2017, where you can put out two fifth of a story and call it a full game.

I'm only replying to your last paragraph, since it's the only part pertaining to the game being discussed here, and I feel like I've derailed the thread enough, already. If you want to discuss any other matters regarding what I said, feel free to PM me.

To put it simply: yes. Yes, I can blame others for disapproving of episodic content at "full price". I wouldn't, if we were talking about, say, Kentucky Route Zero (which, by the way, is still missing its last episode). But KR0 is a narrative game. It lives or dies because of its narrative content, its "story" -- contained in its *episodes*. If Kentucky Route Zero never gets its final episode, then, yes, I can't blame people for being pissed at the devs for having released an unfinished game -- and I do own this one so, yeah, I'd be pretty angry at the devs if such a thing happened. The Long Dark, though, was primarily developed as a survival game. You don't have to like survival games, no one's making you, you like the games you like, that's fine. But if you do like survival games, you can't go wrong with this one. Yes, there are only two episodes included in the game, as of now (with circa 15 hours of play time, which is more than a lot of "fully released" games give you, but, still...), but the bulk, the core of the game is there, already, it's most definitely finished and it's potentially endless: the sandbox survival mode. The story mode is a nice addition, a cool afterthought that I'm glad they're including, but it doesn't turn it into an adventure game, per se. For a bit over €30 (or your local equivalent), you're getting an excellent survival game that also happens to include a story mode. And that story mode just so happens to be episodic.

As for the oh-so-usual on these forums "there's no guarantee that the rest of the game will be finished" fear-mongering slippery slope argument, I could also say there's no guarantee that my house won't burn to the ground one of these days, taking with it all of the external drives containing the backups of all my DRM-free games, so, there's no point in me -- or anyone else who lives in a house -- buying any game. Slippery slopes are stupid, it's just people dealing in hypothetical scenarios and treating them like factual truths.

Is survival actually possible, or do you always die in the end and the goal is to go for the highscore?

You always die in the end.

I mean literally, in real life, don't know about the game.

Edit: unfortunately there's no universal "highscore" accepted by all parties, so far, although some groups go with fame, money, etc...

I'm probably not the best person to ask, since I'm pretty terrible at survival games, even though I do like them a lot. This is not an easy game, by any means, and you will die a lot; but I'd say survival is possible... the sandbox mode theoretically goes on forever, so, as long as you're really good at the game (or found some way to exploit it), you should be able to just "keep surviving".

If you're more of a "going for a highscore" kind of person, The Long Dark can be played that way, too... at least I think so.

Gonna check out some Let's Plays and see what it's like. Hopefully they won't spoil too much.

To be fair, no one called it a full game. Everyone has called it two episodes + a sandbox, with three more episodes to come.

It's not like episodic games are new, even on GOG.

And while I'm not keen on episodic games, I get the whole "we can make it a better game overall by realizing some cash flow from the first episodes to invest in the later episodes". Especially from an indie dev. And so, sometimes I don't mind throwing cash at an indie dev's episodic game.

I'd have bought this one at some point if I hadn't already won it in a giveaway.