Which game would you call "GoG's flag ship" ?
I mean game or series of games.

Neverwinter nights ?
Baldurs gate?
planet scape torment?

There are other very good games that are not RPGs,
can they call them self "GoG's flag ship"?

I go with "The witcher" series, but I'm a fan. Besides that, I join gog this year. I don't know was hot at gog before that.

I like to know someone else opinion.

I'd say they have quite a few, but the D&D stuff and the Ultima games are probably the ones I hear bandied around the most. If we aren't talking series, then I'd have to go for PS:T, MoO, and SMAC.

Dungeon Keeper, it's not just their flagship product, but an accurate portrayal of life at the GOG offices.

Sort of like what Half-Life is for Steam.

So everyone at Steam has head crabs?

I'm pretty sure he means they're running around with crowbars all day long, what with the rate at which they're cranking out Half-Life sequels.

Planescape is probably their crowning achievement so far simply because it was such a bitch for them to secure the rights to that game. That and it's a good game too.

Naturally when they get Syndicate it's goodbye Mr Nameless and hello nameless clones.

Won't a third game with nameless people in it be a bit too much?

Given how many games have amnesia as a plot element I think we have to be accommodating on that front.

In the first place there were the Fallout games, later Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (best selling 10$ for a long time). With the relaunch the DnD games brought many new customers, but now you can get these also from other places. Now I would call both Witchers as the new flagships. So, when you understand flagship as example for a growing customer base I would say every time has it's own flagships.

Indeed, IIRC you don't figure out who you are in Sanitarium until most of the way through the game. I'd be tempted to nominate that game, but it's way too short to be considered a flagship game.

It's still bloody good though. But yeah, it's one among many when it comes to games with amnesia-based plots.

Fallout

It was the biggest "must have" title on GOG when it first came out from what I remember, for a long time

My vote is on Wing Commander 3. It was last published in 1996 - from that point you could only buy it second-hand. No other DD (even Origin) sells it now. EA deal with GOG was a blessing to me. If they manage to publish WC4 DVD - I'll be in heaven.

I'd say the Tex Murphy series. Before you dismiss me as a fanboy for banging on about those games in every thread without failure, I have my reasons.

I'm sure that the Fallouts (among my favourite games of all time) bring a lot of people to GOG, especially after the launch of FO3 and NV, those games have always been available in retail on online (i.e. Amazon).

Access was bought and shut down by Microsoft a long time ago. I still had my original Pandora Directive CDs, but getting them working on a modern system was a bitch (not impossible, just a bitch, especially the sound). Not to mention that you couldn't find them anywhere but in eBay. Not to mention the annoying CD-swapping for a 6 CD game (you could bypass this by ripping each CD onto your HDD, creating 6 virtual drives and changing the .ini to read each CD from a different drive, but once again - effort). Also, I had not been able to acquire Overseer before and I had been unable to finish UAKM because one of my CDs had become scratched.

I remember when GOG was first launched and I remember all the publicity it got in the beginning and with the addition of the Fallouts, etc but I never bothered to join. One day by accident I found out that they had the Tex Murphy series and I joined immediately and without losing a second. I actually had to badger my girlfriend to buy me the games because I was out of money at the time. Thanks GOG!


TL;DR I don't think it's the so to say 'classics' like Bioware RPGs, etc. I believe it's the rare games from defunct companies that are now unobtainable through conventional retail, or which are extremely difficult to get working on modern systems