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Posted February 24, 2014
Gentlemaniacs, start your engines!

Carmageddon 1 + 2, the infamous games of ruthless racing rivalry and motorized metal mayhem are now available bundled 70% off, on GOG.com. That's only $5.98 for the set of two, for the next 24 hours.

Ah, automobile racing! Such a classy sport. The pinnacle of friendly rivalry, fair play, and finesse. There's quite no other activity a gentleman could enjoy more on a Sunday afternoon in the company of his good chums. I know there are some unprogressive circles proclaiming automobile racing to be brutish, morally corrupt, and unworthy of a true gentleman. I say! It's hard to understand all that public controversy surrounding our favorite pastime. Some accidents are bound to happen, but risk is a crucial ingredient of every elite entertainment. It's certainly not like we are putting anyone but ourselves in the harm's way. The thought that a gentleman driver could run over a pedestrian with his automobile is simply... pedestrian. I can't imagine how this noble sport could ever become unfair, not to mention brutal. Absurd notion, I say. Absurd!
--Sir Harold M. Damage, April 1908, Dullbottomshire

It's safe to assume that Carmageddon 1 + 2 bundle offers one of the highest currency to badassery exchange rate available anywhere in the known universe. The amount of manic aggression, high-speed mayhem, chrome, steel, gasoline, and blood splatter you get for your buck will not be matched easily, even by grindhouse cinema. Both being interesting racing games offering a peculiar driving model and a plethora of creative elaborate tracks, the Carmageddon games excel in the portrayal of vehicular violence. It's a very bad idea to drive angry in the real world, here--in the game world--anger will lead you to victory in most cases, as you don't need to finish the race at all to win. Nope. It's enough to make sure that all the other drivers don't finish at all. Poor Sir Harold, he couldn't have seen that coming.

Don't miss your chance to equip yourself in two of the most effective and entertaining stress-relieve apps in existence, that is Carmageddon 1 + 2, for only $5.98 on GOG.com. That's 70% off on the bundle of two. Both titles also available separately, 60% off, that is for $3.99 each. Games already owned on GOG.com count towards the higher discount rate. The offer lasts until Tuesday, February 25, at 10:59AM GMT.
Posted February 24, 2014
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Matthew94: Honestly you should take step back and realise what the other guy is doing is perfectly reasonable.
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Johnmourby: Sure. It's in his rights to stop buying if he doesn't like the service. I think it's silly to stop when the service hasn't changed yet. But What I think is silly is how so many people are saying "I'm going away and never coming back". What Incentive is there for GOG to change back if it's consumers wont come back?

And frankly all the people proclaiming the death of GOG but hanging around just to complain is getting on my nerves. Either say you want a change for the better (When change for the bad actually happens and not before) or just leave. You're just being annoying other wise.
GOG have changed their policy, therefore the negative change has already taken place. We simply haven't felt its impact yet. Quit trolling peoples' politics.
Posted February 24, 2014
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Matthew94: Honestly you should take step back and realise what the other guy is doing is perfectly reasonable.
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Johnmourby: Sure. It's in his rights to stop buying if he doesn't like the service. I think it's silly to stop when the service hasn't changed yet. But What I think is silly is how so many people are saying "I'm going away and never coming back". What Incentive is there for GOG to change back if it's consumers wont come back?

And frankly all the people proclaiming the death of GOG but hanging around just to complain is getting on my nerves. Either say you want a change for the better (When change for the bad actually happens and not before) or just leave. You're just being annoying other wise.
That's a bit like suggesting that we should wait until the store is literally on fire before installing a fire suppression system. Or that we should wait until the horses have left the barn before closing the door.

The fact of the matter is that I probably would have bought these games today, but I won't because they've changed their policy. You're fooling yourself if you think that the publishers demanded the change so they could delivery better prices. Right now it's just 3 titles, but if people don't make a stink, it could wind up affecting any number of the titles already here when they go up for renegotiation or any new titles they want to bring here.
Posted February 24, 2014
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Johnmourby: Sure. It's in his rights to stop buying if he doesn't like the service. I think it's silly to stop when the service hasn't changed yet. But What I think is silly is how so many people are saying "I'm going away and never coming back". What Incentive is there for GOG to change back if it's consumers wont come back?

And frankly all the people proclaiming the death of GOG but hanging around just to complain is getting on my nerves. Either say you want a change for the better (When change for the bad actually happens and not before) or just leave. You're just being annoying other wise.
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hedwards: That's a bit like suggesting that we should wait until the store is literally on fire before installing a fire suppression system. Or that we should wait until the horses have left the barn before closing the door.
No. I'm suggesting using the fire suppression system when the is a fire. Or bolting the door when there a horse inside. Rather than turning the sprinklers on full blast because there will be a fire 20 minutes later. It's a good way of wasting water, or in this case negative sales.
Posted February 24, 2014
Scored Carmageddon 2. Can't wait to play it once my exam is over.
Posted February 24, 2014
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hedwards: That's a bit like suggesting that we should wait until the store is literally on fire before installing a fire suppression system. Or that we should wait until the horses have left the barn before closing the door.
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Johnmourby: No. I'm suggesting using the fire suppression system when the is a fire. Or bolting the door when there a horse inside. Rather than turning the sprinklers on full blast because there will be a fire 20 minutes later. It's a good way of wasting water, or in this case negative sales.
No, you're not, because the shop is already on fire and the horses have already bolted. The change has been announced and the time to have a shitstorm about it is now and until they change their stupid policy. We haven't yet seen the change, but it's already there. We can no longer count on games having region free pricing.

The bigger the shitstorm the better. Hopefully we can scare enough of the other publishers here that they don't try this bullshit.
Posted February 24, 2014
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Johnmourby: No. I'm suggesting using the fire suppression system when the is a fire. Or bolting the door when there a horse inside. Rather than turning the sprinklers on full blast because there will be a fire 20 minutes later. It's a good way of wasting water, or in this case negative sales.
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hedwards: No, you're not, because the shop is already on fire and the horses have already bolted. The change has been announced and the time to have a shitstorm about it is now and until they change their stupid policy. We haven't yet seen the change, but it's already there. We can no longer count on games having region free pricing.

The bigger the shitstorm the better. Hopefully we can scare enough of the other publishers here that they don't try this bullshit.
Outrage is a resource that like any other can be used to much and too quickly. This sort of the thing happens all the time in the comic-book industry. Something is announced that the fans don't like, the fans go ape-shit, the something happens, the angry fans forget why the where angry/get overruled by morecasule fan who don't give a damn, The comic-book-men laugh their way to the bank.

Yelling betrayal doesn't scare bean counters. What would make more sense is if we Boycotted the Regionally priced games and the region free games went on selling. But I'm guessing that won't happen as that would take effort and organisation.
Posted February 24, 2014
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hedwards: No, you're not, because the shop is already on fire and the horses have already bolted. The change has been announced and the time to have a shitstorm about it is now and until they change their stupid policy. We haven't yet seen the change, but it's already there. We can no longer count on games having region free pricing.

The bigger the shitstorm the better. Hopefully we can scare enough of the other publishers here that they don't try this bullshit.
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Johnmourby: Outrage is a resource that like any other can be used to much and too quickly. This sort of the thing happens all the time in the comic-book industry. Something is announced that the fans don't like, the fans go ape-shit, the something happens, the angry fans forget why the where angry/get overruled by morecasule fan who don't give a damn, The comic-book-men laugh their way to the bank.

Yelling betrayal doesn't scare bean counters. What would make more sense is if we Boycotted the Regionally priced games and the region free games went on selling. But I'm guessing that won't happen as that would take effort and organisation.
They're comic book fans though, I'm sure there are reasonable ones, but they get outraged constantly. I think if they only got outraged every few years that the situation would likely be different.

OTOH, fuck Marvel for screwing up Wolverine. ..
Posted February 24, 2014
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hedwards: OTOH, fuck Marvel for screwing up Wolverine. ..
Ooh what did they do?
Comics are kind of annoying to procure over here so I'm not following any series.
I do like them though.
Posted February 24, 2014
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hedwards: (everything)
Same views. But I don't expect a boycott of a sale to have any effect. But I'm not in a purchasing mood anymore since I read this :

"We honestly don't know what's going to happen with our classic games (who knows what happens when lawyers get involved? )"

Read it as "We know we open a can of worms, but we proceed for the sake of competing with Steam on a few AAA games ".
Posted February 24, 2014
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hedwards: The change has been announced and the time to have a shitstorm about it is now and until they change their stupid policy.
Is it really wise to boycott the games with no region-specific pricing "because" of some future region-priced games?
Posted February 24, 2014
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hedwards: OTOH, fuck Marvel for screwing up Wolverine. ..
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Smannesman: Ooh what did they do?
Comics are kind of annoying to procure over here so I'm not following any series.
I do like them though.
They changed his origin. Now rather than having a mutation for super healing, he has a mutation for the adamantium skeleton and medical intervention for the super healing. Basically change for the sake of change without any particularly good justification.
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hedwards: The change has been announced and the time to have a shitstorm about it is now and until they change their stupid policy.
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Vestin: Is it really wise to boycott the games with no region-specific pricing "because" of some future region-priced games?
Yes, I do. The only core value they have left intact is the DRM-free games and I can get those elsewhere. Hell, in most cases I'm having to buy elsewhere anyways because GOG refuses to stock the Linux version even when there is one.
Post edited February 24, 2014 by hedwards
Posted February 24, 2014
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hedwards: They changed his origin. Now rather than having a mutation for super healing, he has a mutation for the adamantium skeleton and medical intervention for the super healing. Basically change for the sake of change without any particularly good justification.
Wow that is weird.
Although the claw thing is fairly outlandish, his healing ability made the most sense out of all the mutations.
And being able to survive the bonding of the metal to the skeleton made sense because of the regeneration.
Is it in the main line or like the African-American Spider-man in one of the side-stories (or whatever the 'official' terminology is)?
Posted February 24, 2014
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hedwards: They changed his origin. Now rather than having a mutation for super healing, he has a mutation for the adamantium skeleton and medical intervention for the super healing. Basically change for the sake of change without any particularly good justification.
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Smannesman: Wow that is weird.
Although the claw thing is fairly outlandish, his healing ability made the most sense out of all the mutations.
And being able to survive the bonding of the metal to the skeleton made sense because of the regeneration.
Is it in the main line or like the African-American Spider-man in one of the side-stories (or whatever the 'official' terminology is)?
What pisses me off about it isn't as much that they changed it as there's really no point in changing it. In the end you wind up with somebody that has a super-strong skeleton and an astonishing regeneration ability, but the story makes far less sense.
Posted February 24, 2014
I used to have Carmageddon 2 on CD years ago and it had a nice metal soundtrack. I'd like to piece it together with songs from RDIO or other such service but I can't remember any of the song titles other than Iron Maiden: Be Quick or Be Dead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmageddon_2
Has the song list but I seem to think more than 2 bands were on the soundtrack. Anyone with a physical copy able to comment?

Nice sale, BTW, Carmageddon 2 was on my wish list.
Posted February 25, 2014
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deonast: I don't think the added dash of crazy violence would persuade me really.
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JMich: If you have a tablet, you can try the free version of the game. or [url=https://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/carma-free/id529828827?mt=8]iTunes version. Quite faithful to the original, though limited to one map (and specific opponents only).
Cool I'll keep that in mind, don't have a tablet at the moment but probably will later on (spent too much money on games for the PC :)
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