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Posted December 04, 2014
48-hour Frost Flash Frenzy with 30 deals per hour, daily bundles, awesome games up to 90% off, and Age of Wonders for FREE!

Winter is upon us and the holiday season is nigh, so what better time to get your game on and stack up with great titles at ridiculous prices?! Let's kick off the 2014 DRM-free BIG Winter Sale! If you're getting a feeling of déjà vu, look closer: we've prepared a brand new lineup of flash deals and fresh daily bundles for you, for the next 11 days!

Your holiday shopping rush begins with the 48-hour Frost Flash Frenzy: 30 flash deals available every hour for the first two days of our Big Winter Sale! We also have an awesome "first come, first served" gift: 250.000 copies of the seminal turn-based strategy classic Age of Wonders for FREE. If you're a fan, make sure you pick up Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard's Throne and Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic 75% off in one of today's bundles and the more recent entry to the franchise Age of Wonders 3 available 66% off for the first 24 hours of the sale!

But, obviously, there is much more to our Winter Promo. Today's daily bundles feature the acclaimed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy as well as our flagship pairing of the Witcher 1&2. Today's flash deals include hit titles like Wasteland 2, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Dreamfall Chapters, Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Terraria, and many more.

So there you have it, the BIG Winter Sale is here to bring you a gaming good time. Visit daily to get the best deals! The promo ends on December 15, at 1:59 PM GMT.

Now, get ready for the Age of Wonders special surprise stream with Quill18, starting 5PM GMT / 12PM EST / 9AM PST on Twitch.tv/GOGcom.


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Post edited December 04, 2014 by G-Doc
Posted December 05, 2014
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cyboff: ah, ok, then there are black borders... there is a mode which "should" stretch to the sides, but it works only for 4:3 aspect ratio screens...
Black borders? Thank you, that's just what I wanted to hear.

Now to hope I'm at the compy when it comes back through rotation.
Posted December 05, 2014
Just when my biorhythm was returning to normal after the fall sale.

Well, as long as I stick to my rule of not buying anything higher than 5 euros or discounts lower than 60% I should be okay. Otherwise, back to sale-rehab for me...

There must come a point where there's simply nothing left to buy, right?
Posted December 05, 2014
Just reached the 350 games milestone. I guess I'll be dead before playing every of them :(
Posted December 05, 2014
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catpower1980: Just reached the 350 games milestone. I guess I'll be dead before playing every of them :(
Just stop sleeping and eating and posting in the forum. All that useless stuff is just eating your time, you need to go play those games ;-)
Posted December 05, 2014
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catpower1980: Just reached the 350 games milestone. I guess I'll be dead before playing every of them :(
I started less than six months ago, on steam and GOG, intending to buy all the games I used to play in the past and figured were worth it. Also to digitize my games (no room on my physical shelves). I now have 300+ on both. Even with my rule, the average price being about 2.50, you can imagine how much I spent on games I'll probably never play again. In less than six months.

My accounting program is going to kill me.
Posted December 05, 2014
As if I wasn't bankrupt enough. Oh well.
Posted December 05, 2014
I've already bought almost everything I intend to this year. So my wallet is quite safe. :)

Except if there's going to be good releases or Linux version additions.
Posted December 05, 2014
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awalterj: Thanks for the info!
Is there any reason why one needs to buy this if one still has and enjoys the old game though? I don't mind the old graphics.
So far, the only difference seems to be that you can directly steer the interceptor jets in Xeno but are there any other notable differences?
The main differences I can think of right now are the Air combat (some love it, but not me), graphics/resolution on newer machines, fresh story and alien descriptions (good the first time through, then like the original that gets clicked through), better (different) balance in game mechanics (ie. the exploits from the original don't work...I'm sure different ones can be found), difficulty level seems harder to me, lots of mods to change things up. Overall, it really does play similarly to the original (that's a good thing to me). I backed it for years before it came out so I am biased... :)
Posted December 05, 2014
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awalterj:
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Russonc: The main differences I can think of right now are the Air combat (some love it, but not me), graphics/resolution on newer machines, fresh story and alien descriptions (good the first time through, then like the original that gets clicked through), better (different) balance in game mechanics (ie. the exploits from the original don't work...I'm sure different ones can be found), difficulty level seems harder to me, lots of mods to change things up. Overall, it really does play similarly to the original (that's a good thing to me). I backed it for years before it came out so I am biased... :)
Thanks again for the info! I just now decided to buy Expeditions Conquistador instead of Xenonauts to try a bit of a different setting for a change, hopefully I won't regret that decision though. Still going to look out for Xenonauts in the future when it drops to a lower price.
Posted December 05, 2014
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Russonc: The main differences I can think of right now are the Air combat (some love it, but not me), graphics/resolution on newer machines, fresh story and alien descriptions (good the first time through, then like the original that gets clicked through), better (different) balance in game mechanics (ie. the exploits from the original don't work...I'm sure different ones can be found), difficulty level seems harder to me, lots of mods to change things up. Overall, it really does play similarly to the original (that's a good thing to me). I backed it for years before it came out so I am biased... :)
As a fan of the original I loved Xeno, although the version I played was still a bit unrefined. It was a relief to play after that disgrace to the name XCOM that I will not mention here (I did love The Bureau though). It would be cool if someone managed to mods Xeno to recreate the original storyline.
Never got the original to work well for me, it got all hyperactive on me and I wasn't able to successfully scale it back.
Posted December 05, 2014
...the moment I decided to buy Rainbow Six, I saw it isn't the one I played & loved back in the day... Actually I had played Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, not the original RS. Too bad it isn't in the catalogue.. :( Anyway, instead I bought this Pixeljunk Shooter - after all the physics look nice. :)
Posted December 05, 2014
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Russonc: The main differences I can think of right now are the Air combat (some love it, but not me), graphics/resolution on newer machines, fresh story and alien descriptions (good the first time through, then like the original that gets clicked through), better (different) balance in game mechanics (ie. the exploits from the original don't work...I'm sure different ones can be found), difficulty level seems harder to me, lots of mods to change things up. Overall, it really does play similarly to the original (that's a good thing to me). I backed it for years before it came out so I am biased... :)
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Orionos: As a fan of the original I loved Xeno, although the version I played was still a bit unrefined. It was a relief to play after that disgrace to the name XCOM that I will not mention here (I did love The Bureau though). It would be cool if someone managed to mods Xeno to recreate the original storyline.
Never got the original to work well for me, it got all hyperactive on me and I wasn't able to successfully scale it back.
Are you referring to the difficulty or from a technical standpoint? If technical, have you tried OpenXCOM?
Posted December 05, 2014
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Orionos: As a fan of the original I loved Xeno, although the version I played was still a bit unrefined. It was a relief to play after that disgrace to the name XCOM that I will not mention here (I did love The Bureau though). It would be cool if someone managed to mods Xeno to recreate the original storyline.
Never got the original to work well for me, it got all hyperactive on me and I wasn't able to successfully scale it back.
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jackster79: Are you referring to the difficulty or from a technical standpoint? If technical, have you tried OpenXCOM?
If you're referring to my last statement, issues were technical. I can get used to the physics-defying speeds due to processing power, but I ran into some other issues. I'll check out OpenXCOM, thanks.
Posted December 05, 2014
FYI, the html code is buggy in the main post. Looks like this to me:
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Posted December 05, 2014
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disi: FYI, the html code is buggy in the main post. Looks like this to me:
That's because it's a copy from the news posting:
http://www.gog.com/news/2014_drmfree_winter_sale

I don't think this forum supports embedded flash videos.
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