From what I've read about Jazzpunk. This is the best price for it. It's a quirky fun game with lots of jokes and tech references. (early into the game there's a reference to John Draper's toy whistle phreaking). One common complaint is that it has very little replayability and I agree. At full price it's not a good deal but with this discount, you're getting well over your money's worth. It's about the same amount I used to rent VHS movies for.

Sympathies when it comes to poor sleep, but you've got the double consolation prize - the item as well as the rarity of a partner who's close enough to your own wavelength to give you the heads-up.

Interesting statement, bard, given that you signed up around the time GOG stopped being Good Old Games. ;-)

Hey, it's never too late. I joined 5 months later, specifically for the Interplay catalog, the old EA catalog, as well as the D&D games.

ok... somehow I am over looking the post with the list to see how often games came up already. So could anyone be nice and tell me if there was any game on flash sale this weekend that had not been on flash sale before? Thanks :-)

Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now, Magicmaker and Startopia.

Hey, unfair Mr Cyclops! You make it sound like it was intentional!

It definitely feels like there are more good old games than new ones. Different sensibilities and perspectives when you're independent and realize that you've got to somehow make your mark in three months or less in the midst of a glutted market before you have to resign yourself to the reality that your passion project, the project you sweat and struggled and starved and stressed for, is destined for pay your own price, 10 for a dollar Humble Bundle purgatory at best and unrecognized oblivion at worst, perhaps.
Would like to think that more people want to actually craft something with meaning. But then you've got to balance that against the material requirements of the world. No one will give a crap about your work if it's garbage, but if you can't eat or pay the rent, it'll never be finished. So then you're stuck, and have to try to split the difference.
Also, maybe it's just me, but it feels like part of why I'm more inclined to retrieve older items is because of how frigging cannibalistic the video game industry is. Bits and pieces of mechanics and styles and approaches will be retained, but overall, it seems like the big companies are A-okay with grinding their own past under in the name of advancing Corridor Shooter 35 instead.
So then people feel compelled to grab everything they can, since it feels like the big companies just don't give a damn (and frequently they don't), not like we do with our personal connections to older games.

Market pressures can unfortunately warp people's sensibilities (developers as well as buyers) to the point that what was good about a great many older titles, in a word, heart, has been replaced by formulaic horse-sh!t and slick visuals. There seems to be too much care these days about form instead of content. The indies are doing their bit (some, at least) to counter this, but what game makers generally rarely, if ever, find is what they probably can't, and that is nostalgia. They can maybe produce a pastiche, but what most if not all of us here love is that sense and look of old. And that is something which can be kept alive only by enthusiasts. Unfortunately, its called progress.

Agreed. You put it very well.

That's the great thing about Gog. I could plunk down $60 to get a game that probably won't be that impressive in the first place, or I could hit up the sales here and get over a dozen games for the same price, most, if not all, of which will be better than the $60 shoot (aliens/enemy soldiers/the evil baddie who kidnapped my character's [sister/girlfriend/work partner]) game.

He knows enough to not judge on games sales. I wasn't actually expecting him to keep an eye on sales so him telling me was a nice surprise.

(As for the bad sleep, things are stressful at home which has been impacting his sleep. He's a light sleeper to begin with, so if I'm having a bad night, he's guaranteed to have one as my tossing and turing keeps him awake).

A moment of warm domesticity amid the gripes and general chit-chat. Aahhhh, I'm glad to be called a Gogger.

ps. hope the stress doesn't last too long ;-)

Indeed. That links back to what I've been saying with infinityeight. It's the difference between a construct and an experience, going through the motions versus actually giving a damn.
And yes, marketing is definitely a big factor in the perpetuation of a "we aren't going to make anything real, and the customers should be content with the insanely hollow, repetitively presented shooty-shooty-bang-bang flashing lights/glittering hi-def set pieces we charge them out the nose for" attitude. Marketing tells the masses that Call of Mediocrity version 14.0.1 is the very best they can get, people don't look for anything more, the publishers get paid by the truckload, the corporations (demonstrating all the imagination and creativity of a puddle of rapidly drying dog urine) set plans in motion for the next ten sequels, all of them virtually identical, while allocating another 50 million for the marketing campaign, and on and on it goes.
One person's progress is another person's devolution.
As for the indies, a lot of them are guilty of the same thing, only in a different direction. They build constructs out of the pieces of the past, and it turns into one long series of "Hey, hey, see what we did there? Doesn't that remind you of what you played when you were a kid/teenager/whatever? It's just like what you used to like! That makes it great by default!"

god. they are all repeats...