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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
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undeadcow: To some this may be a simple Witcher GOG redeem key; but to others this is 3 seconds of space/time cleaved from the universe in a GOG DRM free time machine.

23F7-2YKH-AX*A-HD8L

* = Un*ea*cow
Unrealcow?

It's two different letters.
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 :-)
Let me copy my previous post:

To be perfectly honest this is not the kind of game you buy for gameplay.

The main allure of the game is the uncommon setting (yes, its fantasy, but its very different to the one you usually see in movies / games / books), the storyline and the ambience, interesting characters.

If all the above fail to capture you, then you wont like it, considering that however, you wont really find out untill you actually play it.
There are games like Demons Souls / Dark Souls, which you play because of the gameplay approach they present, and then there are games like Witcher.

Thats not to say that the gameplay is bad, its simply not sophisticated enough to make the game stand solely on its merit.

That being said, I really love this game (and the Witcher books, which I've read after playing this game - I am looking forward to my next playthrough to see if I get something more out of the experience).

I really recommend you to check it out, its unlike anything you've ever played before, and you really cant go wrong at that low a price.
This game is the opposite of Skyrim. Skyrim = a shallow game with a weak storyline. I doesnt make it bad - its simply a totally different kind of game, a sandbox.

Witcher is not a sandbox, but a story-heavy game with a fantastic, immersive, realistic world.

Everything about it is so real. The story, the world, the design, the characters, well written dialogue. Its like a parallel universe to ours, in which magic and other stuff is possible (whereas Skyrim is a pulpy sandbox game).

I dont know if you've played Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (a great Czech game, one of the best games ever made), but its quite a similar situation if you compare it to GTA (even the newest installments).
Yes, GTA gives you more freedom, but doesnt excell at storyline, ambience or mission design (which are way better in Mafia 1, a game from 2002, than in GTA V).

It doesnt make any of these games (Mafia vs GTA, Skyrim vs Witcher) inferior to each other - I mean, how could one even compare 2 completely different things by the same standards (its like apples and oranges, or apples and shrimps - it completely different stuff).
Post edited January 30, 2014 by DrYaboll
Posted January 30, 2014
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MichiGen: This takes eternity. And I've thought that everybody at GOG already had The Witcher 1 :)
...well I do NOW...
Posted January 30, 2014
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MichiGen: This takes eternity. And I've thought that everybody at GOG already had The Witcher 1 :)
Well after this they definitely will, more people should play this game. Especially in preparation for the highly anticipated The Witcher 3 coming this year. :)
Posted January 30, 2014
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undeadcow: To some this may be a simple Witcher GOG redeem key; but to others this is 3 seconds of space/time cleaved from the universe in a GOG DRM free time machine.

23F7-2YKH-AX*A-HD8L

* = Un*ea*cow
LOL! That was more evil than the two secs we had to nab the free games during the Insomnia sale!
Posted January 30, 2014
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undeadcow: To some this may be a simple Witcher GOG redeem key; but to others this is 3 seconds of space/time cleaved from the universe in a GOG DRM free time machine.

23F7-2YKH-AX*A-HD8L

* = Un*ea*cow
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Buenro-games: Unrealcow?

It's two different letters.
*facepalm
Posted January 30, 2014
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graspee: Ugh how long has Witcher been going now? It's getting close to my bed time. Looks like I'll miss the remaining sales. I might have all of them already though.
Are you really located in the UK? And how late is it there now?
Posted January 30, 2014
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MichiGen: This takes eternity. And I've thought that everybody at GOG already had The Witcher 1 :)
I'm tempted to use my remaining Witcher key to hold a "Stop buying The Witcher and win The Witcher" giveaway. But I prefer to let GOG keep making money, even if it means I have to wait a bit longer for the next game.

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Buenro-games: Unrealcow?

It's two different letters.
Unless you speak Engrish, in which case R and L are one letter. ;)
Posted January 30, 2014
Of course I would find this once it's a decade past most of what I would want. Is there a list of the games that were on sale so far?
Posted January 30, 2014
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undeadcow: To some this may be a simple Witcher GOG redeem key; but to others this is 3 seconds of space/time cleaved from the universe in a GOG DRM free time machine.

23F7-2YKH-AX*A-HD8L

* = Un*ea*cow
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MisterLovejoy: LOL! That was more evil than the two secs we had to nab the free games during the Insomnia sale!
You had 2 seconds to hit redeem? I think I had about 1/1000 of one second. I literally hit the button before I even knew what the game was twice and they were STILL all gone.
Posted January 30, 2014
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fluxinfinity: Of course I would find this once it's a decade past most of what I would want. Is there a list of the games that were on sale so far?
The list has been summoned

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/drmfree_time_machine_sale_game_list/page1
Posted January 30, 2014
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MisterLovejoy: LOL! That was more evil than the two secs we had to nab the free games during the Insomnia sale!
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Cyberevil: You had 2 seconds to hit redeem? I think I had about 1/1000 of one second. I literally hit the button before I even knew what the game was twice and they were STILL all gone.
Good point. It was more like .5 secs...I did end up with System Shock 2 though so no complaints from me.
Posted January 30, 2014
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undeadcow: To some this may be a simple Witcher GOG redeem key; but to others this is 3 seconds of space/time cleaved from the universe in a GOG DRM free time machine.

23F7-2YKH-AX*A-HD8L

* = Un*ea*cow

Congratulations to Endgott, enjoy The Witcher.
Guys, it's Undeadcow. Look at their username.

(admittedly I thought it was Unrealcow at first too)
Posted January 30, 2014
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DrYaboll: I dont know if you've played Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (a great Czech game, one of the best games ever made), but its quite a similar situation if you compare it to GTA (even the newest installments).
Yes, GTA gives you more freedom, but doesnt excell at storyline, ambience or mission design (which are way better in Mafia 1, a game from 2002, than in GTA V).

It doesnt make any of these games (Mafia vs GTA, Skyrim vs Witcher) inferior to each other - I mean, how could one even compare 2 completely different things by the same standards (its like apples and oranges, or apples and shrimps - it completely different stuff).
Oh boy, does this bring back memories, Mafia 1 is one of my all time favorite PC games, and I totally agree about it being more immersive than GTA. I definitely prefer the immersion/story of games like The Witcher and Mafia over sandbox titles like Skyrim and GTA. I still remember the great ending of Mafia 1 such a great story, it felt like a videogame version of Goodfellas the classic Martin Scorsese movie.
Post edited January 30, 2014 by stg83
Posted January 30, 2014
This sale is definitely much more fun to watch than the fall insomnia sale. You know the games come only once and you can influence it by the arrow buttons but also seeing the clock changing is funny.

Nevertheless I didn't buy anything. The good games (that run for a long time) I hav them all already and the uninteresting games - no need to spend money on them.
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