mantarrochen: Hmmm, convince me to buy Tropico 3 Gold. I am totally new to this franchise.

richiev333: I can't convince you for Tropic 3 but having spent a bunch of hours with Tropico 4. It's like Civilization or Sim City but with a whacked out sense of humor.

You basically play the bad guy, (A Castro like Dictator) and build up your country.

Anyone else have anything to add?

richiev333: I can't convince you for Tropic 3 but having spent a bunch of hours with Tropico 4. It's like Civilization or Sim City but with a whacked out sense of humor.

You basically play the bad guy, (A Castro like Dictator) and build up your country.

Anyone else have anything to add?

skeletonbow: All sales anywhere will have impulse buys as there are always impulsive people out there. I'm not really an impulsive person myself however I've bought a number of things impulsively this year from GOG and the various bundle sites primarily due to the prices being so hot for the perceived value. ;) Mind you, despite the number of buys I don't really spend money impulsively or frivolously on anything else, don't have cable TV or satellite or any other recurring entertainment expenses so my gaming budget is pretty cheap compared to the average person for the most part, and a great deal no matter how one slices it hehe.

Let us not forget though that the idea of promotions - is to promote, both the games themselves as well as GOG, and I've noted a large number of newbies to the forum posting in this and other threads so I think the sale is drawing all kinds of new customers to GOG (impulsively or otherwise) that they never had before and getting some good word of mouth. I have a good feeling that this is going to translate to GOG sales increasing and their "buying power" so to speak allowing them to do more to bring on more publishers and titles in the future. It's kind of cool to be a part of the whole GOG community and watch this business grow from the ground up grass roots. I read somewhere that GOG is allegedly the 2nd largest online digital distributor lately. I don't know if that is factual or not but it surprised me in a good way (if it is true), and would suggest we've all got some good things in store for us from them in the future. :)

Just wait for the holiday sales to start if you really really want to see impulsive buying on promotions. :) I know I'm probably going to go crazy again this year clearing off some items from my wishlist. :)

Take care.

mantarrochen: Hmmm, convince me to buy Tropico 3 Gold. I am totally new to this franchise.

Knofbath: Tropico 3 has you managing a small Caribbean island as a despot. You build up the islands production and resources while trying to keep the people happy or quelling revolts. You can play it as a benevolent patriarch or ruthless dictator kept in power by force. They generally give you a set of goals and a time period of office. You'll have to balance relations with the foreign powers of the US and USSR, the time period is generally the 50s to 70s, so expect retro music and events from that time period.

tim-tom: When the sale started I was only planning on buying 3 or 4 games. I ended up with 29 and still waiting for brutal legend.

Knofbath: Tropico 3 has you managing a small Caribbean island as a despot. You build up the islands production and resources while trying to keep the people happy or quelling revolts. You can play it as a benevolent patriarch or ruthless dictator kept in power by force. They generally give you a set of goals and a time period of office. You'll have to balance relations with the foreign powers of the US and USSR, the time period is generally the 50s to 70s, so expect retro music and events from that time period.

peanutsticks: Yeah Tropico 3 is like Sim City except you are a Dictator on an island and the buildings aren't as modern. Game has great sound and atmosphere.

Also Tropico has always been the more intimate series getting you down on the citizen level. Each citizen walks around as they would in a game like Sims (you watch them go to work, eat, vacation, etc). Lots of individual needs you need to satisfy and if you don't they will attempt a coup on your dictatorship so you might have to execute them or send your military to put them down. Things like that.

Fun city building series (though admittedly the difficulty went way down for the 3rd and 4th edition. Citizens were way too easy to keep happy for my tastes. In that sense I prefer the original Tropico.)

Crappynuker1: Morning everyone. I think more games passed in my sleep then here on the frontpage since I left to bed. xD