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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 30, 2014
So, if my math's right, during the Deus Ex sale the time machine was travelling at 0.97 times the speed of light.
Posted January 30, 2014
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Buenro-games: It's definitely not an open world, but saying NOT ENTERTAINING is ridiculous. The story and characters are superb. I also loved the fighting mechanism which you had to time (although lots of *ahem* kids complained about it being too complicated and they changed it in the 2nd Witcher).

But anyways, that game is what you can truly call a great adventure. In the sense of reading a great book and enjoying it. It's worth it so much and at this price, you have to be mad not to give it a try.
Agreed, this is the game that finally got me to dip my toes in the RPG genre a great game with a very badass protagonist in the form of Geralt of Rivia the white wolf.
Posted January 30, 2014
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flanner: i read that witcher is, unlike skyrim, very linear and possibilities of free acting are limited and not entertaining.

do someone of you know if is it right? im not used to play main lines :-)
I wouldn't say The Witcher is not entertaining but, yes, it's a different RPG style than Skyrim. It's not as open-ended and definitely not a sandbox game like the overrated, über-glitchy modern Bethesda titles.

Still, there's loads of stuff you can do, if you don't wish to stick to the main quest. Nothing that will make you forget there's even a main quest, like what happens in Skyrim, but the side quests should keep you busy for a while.

If you want a Witcher game that's more open-ended and generally loose, you'd be better off waiting for Witcher 3. I would still highly recommend getting the Witcher at this sale price, though. It's an amazing game all around, if you're willing to give non-Skyrim RPGs a chance. Purists of the genre and most hardcore gamers would go as far as to argue The Witcher is better than Skyrim (I definitely think so but, then again, I was never a big fan of the Bethesda model of games to begin with).
Posted January 30, 2014
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flanner: i read that witcher is, unlike skyrim, very linear and possibilities of free acting are limited and not entertaining.

do someone of you know if is it right? im not used to play main lines :-)
Link someone else said, it's not an open-world game like the Elder Scrolls.
There are many maps and places but they're not open-world.

But the story is not linear, your choises have consequences in long-term game plot and there are a bunch of different endings(don't know how much).

I enjoyed the witcher way much more than any of the ES.

My personal opinion is that for 2$ it's worth a try if you like rpg :)
Posted January 30, 2014
I would also say that if you do like RPG style games, that you owe it to yourself to try the Witcher. For any of you that like modding your games, there are some great mods for the Witcher. Give it a try!
Posted January 30, 2014
Meh, missed Sam and Max.

No matter. Move on Witcher...already have you.
Posted January 30, 2014
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mattimao: I would also say that if you do like RPG style games, that you owe it to yourself to try the Witcher. For any of you that like modding your games, there are some great mods for the Witcher. Give it a try!
Yup, that also, big time.

The modding community is huge and there are mods a plenty.

http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/?
Posted January 30, 2014
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mkdfan: I set my alarm last night to go off every 90 mins so I didn't miss any deals. Only missed Cannon Fodder the previous night.

Also what is this "Keane" people keep replacing words with? I think I'm missing an inside joke.
Keane 2: The Fire Within was a game sold during the Insomnia sale, where games were sold 1 at a time, like now, but with a fixed number of copies. Keane, being expensive for being new and hardly discounted (it was €11,99 while many games in the sale were only 1,99 or 2,49) it took hours and hours for it's fixed number of copies to sell out, especially in the second round of the sale, that was slower than the first round. There were 1400 copies and goggers created fake reviews praising Keane to heaven to boost sales. It became known as The Keaning and the news-topic about of the sale is a fun read, though a bit long. Luckily in the third round, the number of copies was decreased, by half if I remember well.

Maybe someone can provide us with a link to the page of the historic moment The Keaning started and sowed doom (but lots of hilarity on the forum) for hours on end?
Post edited January 30, 2014 by DubConqueror
Posted January 30, 2014
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mkdfan: Also what is this "Keane" people keep replacing words with? I think I'm missing an inside joke.
During the insomniac sale Jack Keane 2 was offered. And almost stayed for good. People actually managed to get a good night's sleep and not miss any other games while JK was on. Some of us later recognised Keane as a benevolent being that gave us rest, when we were on the brink of sleep deprivation-driven madness. Thus, the Church of Keaning was created. November 15th is widely recognised as the keaning day, a day when we remember Keane's gifts to us.
Posted January 30, 2014
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mattimao: Yeah, i think Tomb Raider is the one I am sad about the most.
Overall though I am glad to see GOG doing another great sale!
Thanks GOG!
Don't be sad!
*manipulates time and creates a "Got-Tomb Raider"-time vortex
Posted January 30, 2014
You can even mod and get a cuter Shani.

See??!!...


http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/633/?tab=3&amp;navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fwitcher%2Fajax%2Fmodimages%2F%3Fuser%3D0%26id%3D633

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Posted January 30, 2014
Time Travel is Awesome!

ClockwerkDE went back in time and somehow put a copy of Tomb Raider in my account!!!

Thank You ClockwerkDE!!

Now if you could just find me my Hoverboard. :)
Posted January 30, 2014
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flanner: i read that witcher is, unlike skyrim, very linear and possibilities of free acting are limited and not entertaining.

do someone of you know if is it right? im not used to play main lines :-)
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elorenz: Link someone else said, it's not an open-world game like the Elder Scrolls.
There are many maps and places but they're not open-world.

But the story is not linear, your choises have consequences in long-term game plot and there are a bunch of different endings(don't know how much).

I enjoyed the witcher way much more than any of the ES.

My personal opinion is that for 2$ it's worth a try if you like rpg :)
thanks a lot to italy again! my last question answered italian too (if not directly you:) nice communicative folks! :D
Posted January 30, 2014
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ClockwerkDE: Don't be sad!
*manipulates time and creates a "Got-Tomb Raider"-time vortex
Good work, have a +1 upon your return to the present.
Posted January 30, 2014
WitcherNEXUS is great. I have no idea how many mods I put on my copy of the Witcher. I had so much fun playing that game. Kudos to all the mod authors out there.

It would be nice if as these games go on sale, if people know about any mods available for them, they post it.

Some games go from being "good" to being "great" once they are modded.
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