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Posted December 12, 2015
500+ deals up to 90% off, $3 mystery games, and free games just for shopping.

A jocund flame swallows up the cold, cold streams of outside air. The holidays are coming, and everyone begins to feel a little more generous, a little more kind, and a little bit giddy. We're feeling it too, because this time around, winter came to GOG.com before it was cool.

The Holiday Ninja Squirrel (have you met her yet?) brings a generous surprise for all with $3 Mystery Games from the GOG.com catalog, each worth between $6.99 and $34.99. These games won't be part of the regular sale lineup, and unowned games will be prioritized to minimize repeats. We're starting out with a pool of 50+ games, but we'll be adding more throughout the sale - we'll let you know when that happens.


Finale - 2/2
Of emotional good-buys.

Finding the best way to cope with harsh goodbyes builds character. But finding a way to turn the gloomy vibe around and come out on top can build heartfelt devotion. And amazing game collections.

So turn that frown upside down and come celebrate the bombastic last day of our Big Winter Sale. One surefire way to lift your spirits is to stop by our gourmet-but-totally-affordable buffet of all returning Daily Deals. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, winner of The Game Awards GOTY, is a real treat at -50%, and so are Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition (-33%) or Pillars of Eternity (-50%). You can also go for some mouth-watering point'n'clicks like The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 and Stasis (-50%), or exercise your aptitude in wielding blunt weapons as a Shovel Knight (-33%).

The curtain is falling on our Big Winter Sale but the uplifting mood lingers on, as there is still time to have a final go at those intriguing mystery games and grab your FREE copy of Giants: Citizen Kabuto before he runs back into the wild.

Got room for another gift? Then go ahead and grab a festive wallpaper featuring a certain woodland creature, lovingly put together by our amazing art team: gogcom.imgur.com

With a subtle nod of the head, the Holiday Ninja Squirrel would like to thank you all for joining us in the heartwarming price-chopping, certain that she will see you back for all the joyful events to follow.



Earn free games while shopping in the Big Winter Sale. Whether to keep for yourself or to surprise a friend, you'll get a free copy of Divine Divinity after spending $5, and Blackguards Special Edition after spending $50 or more.

Following the 48-hour launch offer, all bundles and deals will change every 24 hours. With a few surprises in store, check back daily to see what's new in the GOG.com Big Winter Sale!

The sale will last for 11 days, until December 13, 1:59 PM GMT / 2:59 PM CET / 5:59 AM PST / 8:59 AM EST.
Posted December 10, 2015
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grimwerk: Alright chums, let's do this?
Eh?
Posted December 10, 2015
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Green_Hilltop: Ah, I'm not interested in any of those games, but thanks for the offer! I'm looking mostly for adventure games, I'll repost my trading notice in the trading thread tomorrow again.
ToME, Pixeljunk shooters and Windforge aren't adventure games? Hmmm... I could also add Ring Runner to the list, love that game...

Perhaps to note Xenonaughts is like a $35 game, so...

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HunchBluntley: I think they work, but they only consider the regular price of the game. So no using one worth $5.99 to buy a $19.99 game that's 75% off, for example.
Yeah i know. It seems they would be great for buying cheap DLC packs, like The Pit
Posted December 10, 2015
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adambiser: Side note: Really with the store had the ability to order by price.
If you haven't already voted you can do it here. ;)
Posted December 10, 2015
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adambiser: Side note: Really with the store had the ability to order by price.
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eiii: If you haven't already voted you can do it here. ;)
I had already, but thanks for posting the wishlist link. Hopefully enough will want it and vote and they'll decide to add it.
Posted December 10, 2015
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adambiser: Side note: Really with the store had the ability to order by price.
MaGog will do it.

Games which are presently on sale, ordered by price:
[url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=652&scp=gdspur&dsp=ip&ord=p0&flt=pos~1~&opt=f&myf=ThuDec100108092015_empty_GdBtnTPWLBikb]MaGog[/url]
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grimwerk: Alright chums, let's do this?
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HunchBluntley: Eh?
Sorry, there's an obscure calculation in the Leroy Jenkins video, followed by a percentage, followed by the above phrase. Your own calculation reminded me of it.
Post edited December 10, 2015 by grimwerk
Posted December 10, 2015
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rtcvb32: ToME, Pixeljunk shooters and Windforge aren't adventure games? Hmmm... I could also add Ring Runner to the list, love that game...
No, games like King's Quest, Monkey Island and Simon the Sorcerer are. :D Those are just games that are slapped with the "adventure" genre because they are adventurous, but not actually point and click or other type of adventure games (like parser based).

Edit: Actually, even according to GOG none of those games are adventure games, just check their genres on their store pages, haha! :) Good old GOG is great that is actually only labels true adventure games as such, unlike Steam!

By the way, what's ToME? I tried looking it up and realized I have no idea. I knew the other four games though.
Post edited December 10, 2015 by Green_Hilltop
Posted December 10, 2015
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elgonzo: (Yes, i know. It's totally off-topic, and i apologize for it. But the sale is dragging on, and on, and on... ;-) )
No apologies necessary. When I first saw the Up Tack I originally assumed it was the symbol for a right (perpendicular) angle also. I didn't realize they were different until I saw them both together on the Wikipedia article for the Up tack.
Posted December 10, 2015
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Splatsch: Yeah, feel free to ask if it can help ! It will be a pleasure ! You're welcome :)
I though of a question: Did you play Mark of the Ninja with a console controller, or with the keyboard and mouse? If it was the latter, how were the controls?

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Splatsch: (never heard about "Ragnarok" I must confess :P)
You must have edited this in after I last read this, else I would have enlightened you before now. =P
The European version was apparently called Valhalla, which was released commercially and had music (or so I've read). In the U.S., it was released as "pay-if-you-enjoy-it" shareware (and, years later, freeware) and had no music and very basic PC speaker sounds. But Ragnarok was, I believe, among the earliest "Rogue-likes" (before that term was in common use) to strive to offer a mostly mouse-driven, graphical interface (though there are keyboard commands for almost everything, of course). I found a decent review of it here if you're interested. (The website linked to at the top of that page is defunct, but, thanks to it having been freeware for years, there are various other sites where it can still be downloaded.)

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HunchBluntley: Eh?
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grimwerk: Sorry, there's an obscure calculation in the Leroy Jenkins video, followed by a percentage, followed by the above phrase. Your own calculation reminded me of it.
Ah. I was basically pulling from the rich tradition of sci-fi robots, scientists and super-geniuses who can just pull a percentage figure out of their ass regarding the likelihood of success or failure for anything about to be (foolishly) attempted, or anything which was just (barely) accomplished. See: C-3PO, science-y characters in any Stargate series, etc.
I guess I and the nerd in the Leeroy Jenkins video were riffing on the same thing.

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Green_Hilltop: By the way, what's ToME? I tried looking it up and realized I have no idea. I knew the other four games though.
Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Post edited December 10, 2015 by HunchBluntley
Posted December 10, 2015
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HunchBluntley: I though of a question: Did you play Mark of the Ninja with a console controller, or with the keyboard and mouse? If it was the latter, how were the controls?
It was with a controller... I don't know at all how it handle with keyboard+mouse, sorry... If I have the time, if you want, I'll try it tomorrow (I have to leave), but not sure at all that I'll be able to do the test before next batch of games, sorry :/
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HunchBluntley: You must have edited this in after I last read this, else I would have enlightened you before now. =P
I remember I have edited very soon after my answer, because I suddenly realized this one didn't titt anything in my head :P
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HunchBluntley: [...]I found a decent review of it here if you're interested. [...]
Oh, thanks for the explanations, and the link ! In fact, I'm always happy to learn more in general, and so about video-games too ! Especially when it's things I'm absolutely ignorant about XD So I'll read this :) (and I find this interesting, so thanks again for explanations)
Posted December 10, 2015
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eiii: Works for me under Wine 1.6. The game installs, starts and plays the intro. I've started the campaign, colonized an island and constructed a few buildings. No problems so far. :)
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immi101: does the music work? I remember that needed some additional winetricks magic when I last tried the disc version.
You are right, the music did not work. "winetricks directmusic" fixed it for me (thanks to this WineHQ entry).

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immi101: haven't bought the other two here. Though if 1503 works, then 1602 probably works as well. They were pretty similar.
Don't know about 1701. The AppDB mentions some problems
But if your disc version works, then there is usually a good chance that you will get the GOG version to work as well :)
Has anybody else tried the GOG versions of Anno 1602 and 1701 under Linux/Wine?
Posted December 10, 2015
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eiii: If you haven't already voted you can do it here. ;)
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adambiser: I had already, but thanks for posting the wishlist link. Hopefully enough will want it and vote and they'll decide to add it.
Indeed, no new vote from you, but thankfully a few other people have discovered the wishlist entry and have voted for it. The vote counter has increased from 43 to 46 since my last post. :)
Posted December 10, 2015
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HunchBluntley: I though of a question: Did you play Mark of the Ninja with a console controller, or with the keyboard and mouse? If it was the latter, how were the controls?
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Splatsch: It was with a controller... I don't know at all how it handle with keyboard+mouse, sorry... If I have the time, if you want, I'll try it tomorrow (I have to leave), but not sure at all that I'll be able to do the test before next batch of games, sorry :/
Don't worry about it. I've already halfway talked myself out of buying it this time anyway, since it was apparently cheaper at least once before, and likely will be again. But I still have a couple more titles to consider getting in the last couple days. : )
Posted December 10, 2015
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Green_Hilltop: No, games like King's Quest, Monkey Island and Simon the Sorcerer are. :D Those are just games that are slapped with the "adventure" genre because they are adventurous, but not actually point and click or other type of adventure games (like parser based).

Edit: Actually, even according to GOG none of those games are adventure games, just check their genres on their store pages, haha! :) Good old GOG is great that is actually only labels true adventure games as such, unlike Steam!

By the way, what's ToME? I tried looking it up and realized I have no idea. I knew the other four games though.
So you want point&click games... Ahhh... Then you'd want Deponia more than any of the others i listed :P

Usually games qualify as several genres, however it's usually the strongest core mechanic that it's distilled to 1-2 rather than including them all.

You don't look at a TV-show and when someone asks you what genre it is you say 'Star Trek!' which although describes the show's name very very well (like, The Next Generation) but that really doesn't say much, often each episode of section is quite different. There's comedy, there's satire, there's silliness at times, serious situations, death, birth, adventures, puzzles, borg, time travel, war, peace, subterfuge, etc etc.

Although that's not entirely true... Metroid, Sonic, Mario Brothers, Mario Party, Rogue-like, these are all references to actual games that have defined their own genre/play style, so if you've played one of those before you know a lot of what to expect from it. Probably at this point just hearing TellTale will give you a good idea of what a game is just by what company that makes it :P
Posted December 10, 2015
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HunchBluntley: Don't worry about it. I've already halfway talked myself out of buying it this time anyway, since it was apparently cheaper at least once before, and likely will be again. But I still have a couple more titles to consider getting in the last couple days. : )
Okay :)
Gamepad is advised, but I think it can be played with keyboard and mouse if you're used to play platform games with a keyboard.
But in all case, it's a very good game and I was very pleased to discover and play it. Stealth action in 2D in this game is well thought, and gameplay and atmosphere are very good.
Posted December 10, 2015
OK, so tomorrow is about second chances (probably all bundles will show up for 48 hours like in the fall sale). But what are dis-countdowns? Like for some new uber-releases on Monday?
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