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Posted November 03, 2012
Has anyone ever bought anything off of dotemu.com? It's a site I've known about for a while but never actually looked around until now. I kinda reminds me of GoG and I see that as a good thing. I've already seen a few game that Gog doesn't have that's interesting and it makes me wish GoG did have them, such as this game. (http://www.dotemu.com/en/download-game/4601/tony-tough-and-the-night-of-roasted-moths). I guess the good thing with different selection between these two is if one doesn't have something, the other might. I hope I'm not doing anything bad here or something that would bug GoG. Just showing other gamers some more games they might be interested in.
Posted November 03, 2012
DotEmu is pretty well known here, and they publish some games on GOG even. Raptor and Gobliiins, I think Ishar too.

They're alright, if you don't mind the lack of bonus content. They have SEGA and a couple others games which GOG don't currently have and they put their games on sale a lot.
Posted November 03, 2012
Now that Sega went and spammed the shit out of them their library is a bit of a headache to wade through.

And the stuff on their seems like left over Home of the Underdogs salvage that GOG didn't want for themselves.
Post edited November 03, 2012 by carnival73
Posted November 03, 2012
They have a bigger catalogue and usually more languages than GOG. Some classics I would really love to see here have been added over at their page. They where also involved in the update of FFVII (iirc) and do a lot of porting to mobile platforms.
Posted November 03, 2012
Haven't bought anything from them but I'm familiar with the site. This weekend they have a good sale on a bundle of various horror/adventure/action type games for $15.
Posted November 03, 2012
On the other hand, they've lost Activision lately.
Posted November 03, 2012
What bothers me is that they have agreement with SEGA and GOG hasn't , still. I can't see a reason for this. Everybody has MegaDrive games, except GOG.

What I dislike in DotEmu and the reason why I never bought anything there is regional pricing. Prices for EU customers are 30% higher than prices in dollars. (maybe this is why GOG doesn't have SEGA?)

http://www.dotemu.com/en/download-game/4918/halloween-pack

This pack is awesome, though.

There are also some games, that somehow, GOG refuses to sell. The Sting! and Aliens vs. Predator classic being a basic example. WHY GOG, WHY?
Post edited November 03, 2012 by keeveek
Posted November 03, 2012
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SimonG: Some classics I would really love to see here have been added over at their page. .
Do you have any examples? I'm curious but too lazy to search through the list. I never go there
Posted November 03, 2012
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CaptainGyro: Do you have any examples? I'm curious but too lazy to search through the list. I never go there
The Sting and AVP Classic, for example ;P Also, Cultures series.
Post edited November 03, 2012 by keeveek
Posted November 03, 2012
A quick list of DotEmu's "exclusives".

688I Hunter Killer
A Vampyre Story
Aliens Versus Predator Classic 2000
Atlantis Evolution
Aura - Fate of The Ages
Aura 2 - The Sacred Rings
Chicago 1930
Cold War
Cossacks II - Battle For Europe
Cossacks II - Napoleonic War
Cultures
Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard
Cultures 3: Northland
Cultures 4: 8th Wonder of the World
Curse - The Eye Of Isis
Dangerous Waters
Dungeon Lords
Egypt 3 - The Fate Of Ramses
Escape From Paradise City
Eurofighter Typhoon
Fairy Tale about Father Frost, Ivan and Nastya
FlatOut 2
Fleet Command
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Hardwar
Inquisition
Joan of Arc
Journey to the Moon
Kaan - Barbarian's Blade
Krypton Egg
Loki
Majesty Gold HD
Maya
Metal Mutant
Nicky 2
Nicky Boom
O.R.B.: Off-World Ressource Base
Salammbô
Silverfall
Silverfall: Earth Awakening
Space Empires 4
Space Empires: Starfury
Sub Command
Superpower 2
Thandor
The Abbey
The Sting!
Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths
Traitors Gate 2
Transarctica
Warzone 2100
World War 3: Black Gold

SEGA games.
Posted November 03, 2012
DotEmu is not only a retailer, but also a distributor. The have their own in house emulators which they ship the games with, and do a lot of porting. (gog do not really do either, as far as I understand).

In other words, DotEmu buys rights to games and ports them also, gog only do distribution rights (I think that's the right word)
Posted November 03, 2012
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SimonG: They have a bigger catalogue
They have? From what I know, DotEmu has a lot more games now than before, but quickly counting them just resulted in 270 games (vs. the 473 on GOG). In any case, apart from VTM: Bloodlines and maybe A Vampyre Story, and not counting those that are on both sites, GOG generally has the more interesting games, IMO.

But I agree that DotEmu beats GOG when it comes to languages.
Posted November 03, 2012
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SimonG: They have a bigger catalogue
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Leroux: They have? From what I know, DotEmu has a lot more games now than before, but quickly counting them just resulted in 270 games (vs. the 473 on GOG). In any case, apart from VTM: Bloodlines and maybe A Vampyre Story, and not counting those that are on both sites, GOG generally has the more interesting games, IMO.

But I agree that DotEmu beats GOG when it comes to languages.
DotEmu no longer sells Bloodlines, they've lost their deal with Activision for some reason.
Posted November 03, 2012
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SimonG: They have a bigger catalogue
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Leroux: They have? From what I know, DotEmu has a lot more games now than before, but quickly counting them just resulted in 270 games (vs. the 473 on GOG). In any case, apart from VTM: Bloodlines and maybe A Vampyre Story, and not counting those that are on both sites, GOG generally has the more interesting games, IMO.

But I agree that DotEmu beats GOG when it comes to languages.
Maybe "bigger" was the wrong word. But they have a lot of games I would really like to see here. And I'm not talking about the Sega games, but great classics that should be here.
Posted November 03, 2012
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Fuzzyfireball: A quick list of DotEmu's "exclusives".

688I Hunter Killer
A Vampyre Story
Aliens Versus Predator Classic 2000
Atlantis Evolution
Aura - Fate of The Ages
Aura 2 - The Sacred Rings
Chicago 1930
Cold War
Cossacks II - Battle For Europe
Cossacks II - Napoleonic War
Cultures
Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard
Cultures 3: Northland
Cultures 4: 8th Wonder of the World
Curse - The Eye Of Isis
Dangerous Waters
Dungeon Lords
Egypt 3 - The Fate Of Ramses
Escape From Paradise City
Eurofighter Typhoon
Fairy Tale about Father Frost, Ivan and Nastya
FlatOut 2
Fleet Command
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Hardwar
Inquisition
Joan of Arc
Journey to the Moon
Kaan - Barbarian's Blade
Krypton Egg
Loki
Majesty Gold HD
Maya
Metal Mutant
Nicky 2
Nicky Boom
O.R.B.: Off-World Ressource Base
Salammbô
Silverfall
Silverfall: Earth Awakening
Space Empires 4
Space Empires: Starfury
Sub Command
Superpower 2
Thandor
The Abbey
The Sting!
Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths
Traitors Gate 2
Transarctica
Warzone 2100
World War 3: Black Gold

SEGA games.
...Traitors Gate had a sequel?! Has anyone played it? Also, does buying/downloading games from dotemu require a client?
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