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Posted January 28, 2014
Let's do the time warp again*!

Welcome to our [url=http://www.gog.com]DRM-Free Time Machine Sale! Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for a fascinating ride to the early days of PC gaming and back again, with 30 excellent titles selected from the years 1983-2013, available up to 90% off (that is for as little as $0.59!). You'll find amazing games in amazing prices featured one by one on GOG.com main page, and before the sale is done you'll be able to complete your very own display of gaming history on a budget below $65 (because this would be the cost to get every single game in the sale). Are you ready?

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There's more than just buying games incredibly cheap to our DRM-Free Time Machine Sale! We're ready to pass its steering wheel (or rather the control console) to YOU. Each game in the sale is offered for a limited time only, and how long we stay in its year is up to you! Each time you see a new game on sale you can vote to either add or subtract 1 second from the timer. Each time you buy a game, you add 3 seconds to the time of it being on sale. We begin with 1983's Zork, bundled with the rest of the Zork Anthology of 6 games in total, for only $1.79. How long will it last on the front page? You'll be the judge. What comes next, as the game of 1984? Let's find out!

Let's take a trip in GOG.com's DRM-Free Time Machine Sale! 30 great games from 1983-2013 will be available up to 90% off, and you get to decide how long each game is on sale. Ready? The technomagical gateway to 1983 opens NOW!

* "Again?", you might ask, "when did they ever do the time warp?". Well, once you embark on a journey through time, all becomes relevant and there's absolutely no guarantee that what you are doing, you are doing for the first time. In fact, that's highly improbable. After all, time isn't linear. It's more like a giant wobbly-bobbly goggy-boggy ball of gaming awesome!
Post edited January 28, 2014 by G-Doc
Posted January 29, 2014
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ChiefOblivious: Alright, I think it's safe to go to bed now, having contributed to Deus Ex Keanism myself.
I'll pull an all nighter to ensure it stays here when you wake up, so rest easy.
Posted January 29, 2014
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CorranHorn: I think SE are going to be very surprised when Thief won´t sell the numbers of copies they are expecting. So far the game looks very dull and if I didn´t know it was a Thief game I would have thought it was Dishonored 2. Publishers today either don´t give a damn or have no idea any more why a game like Thief and Deus Ex became popular in the first place.
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InfraSuperman: Yup, exactly. I think to a lot of game companies, the concept of "excitement" equals "action" and "cinematic presentation", which usually results in their games shackling the player to completely linear, strictly predefined progression, excessive cutscenes and quick-time events (usually in the form of premade finishing moves). It just creates a facade of exciting gameplay, and since that's exactly what every publisher does, it means that the games turn out to be boring and generic. All in the name of making a safe bet, because taking risks is not feasible anymore.

In a hilarious bit of irony, the original Thief games managed to create actual pulse-pounding suspense out of crawling around shadows for several hours, simply because they left the player to their own devices and let things occur organically within gameplay.

Then again, this is a company that apparently does not even understand why their own flagship series became such a beloved icon, considering how FF XIII turned out...
Yes, SE turned Hitman into a game more like the old Splinter Cell (I like the old SC but Hitman is all about suspense and waiting for the right moment, one mistake and you´ll have to do it all over again. The same in Thief, i a guard saw you then it was pretty much game over if you played it on Expert, even on Normal it´s a harder game than many of the games being made today.
Posted January 29, 2014
Can Deus Ex be played w/ a controller or mouse/keyboard only?
Posted January 29, 2014
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Niggles: strange question
some of these classics have been on sale multiple times in the past, I would have thought the bulk of people who wanted them would have bought them already. I'm surprised there is still such a strong demands for a given game.
says a lot about classic games eh?
I've attempted to buy dozens of games on GOG in the past, I wind up with 40-60 tabs open - trying to decide; even add stuff to the cart. Then real life crashes in, Go back to my tabs a day or 2 later, and items that were in the cart - at checkout all the prices go back to "normal" and my $50-$100 purchase becomes $200-$500 - sale has ended. so I get nothing :P
Posted January 29, 2014
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CrashNBrn: ...
BTW, I wasn't really serious about auto-pausing after each character's turn, that's too excessive. There are other auto-pause options; personally, I just auto-pause if someone runs out of ammo, otherwise I just pause when I feel the need to. I'm not going to auto-pause just because of three random kobolds or gibberlings.
Posted January 29, 2014
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Niggles: strange question
some of these classics have been on sale multiple times in the past, I would have thought the bulk of people who wanted them would have bought them already. I'm surprised there is still such a strong demands for a given game.
says a lot about classic games eh?
You need to factor in the new customers GOG gets with each sale, promo, etc. So long as there's a constant stream of new blood joining GOG, these games will always sell on promos and sales.
Posted January 29, 2014
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Niggles: I'm surprised there is still such a strong demands for a given game.
says a lot about classic games eh?
You are aware that GOG has over 50 million accounts, right?
Posted January 29, 2014
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flambeau: Can Deus Ex be played w/ a controller or mouse/keyboard only?
I´ve played UT 2004 with a controller and that game has no support for it.
Posted January 29, 2014
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OdanUrr: Will it reach the 6-hour mark or is that too ambitious?
Right now it's at 4 hours, 25 minutes projected total.. Could definitely hit that mark, I think.
Posted January 29, 2014
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OdanUrr: Will it reach the 6-hour mark or is that too ambitious?
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CarrionCrow: Right now it's at 4 hours, 25 minutes projected total.. Could definitely hit that mark, I think.
so what do people think of that?
Posted January 29, 2014
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Niggles: strange question
some of these classics have been on sale multiple times in the past, I would have thought the bulk of people who wanted them would have bought them already. I'm surprised there is still such a strong demands for a given game.
says a lot about classic games eh?
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HypersomniacLive: You need to factor in the new customers GOG gets with each sale, promo, etc. So long as there's a constant stream of new blood joining GOG, these games will always sell on promos and sales.
You also need to factor in the gifting of spouses, co-workers, distant relatives... can I gift Deus Ex to my local representatives? Maybe the Illuminati will scare the NSA into privacy compliance!
Posted January 29, 2014
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Niggles: I'm surprised there is still such a strong demands for a given game.
says a lot about classic games eh?
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JMich: You are aware that GOG has over 50 million accounts, right?
well now I do.....
Posted January 29, 2014
It´s still not below 2 hours :-)
Posted January 29, 2014
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CarrionCrow: Right now it's at 4 hours, 25 minutes projected total.. Could definitely hit that mark, I think.
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Niggles: so what do people think of that?
Maybe TW2 could beat that, but just maybe.
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Posted January 29, 2014
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Niggles: I'm surprised there is still such a strong demands for a given game.
says a lot about classic games eh?
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JMich: You are aware that GOG has over 50 million accounts, right?
Source ?
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