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Posted January 22, 2014
The Dark Eye gazes upon you!

Blackguards Special Edition, an engaging RPG in the world of the Dark Eye with deep tactical combat mechanics, is available 10% off on GOG.com. That's $40.49 for the first week!

<i>The Dark Eye</i> (or rather, <i>Das Schwarze Auge</i>) is to the German role-playing gamers what <i>Dungeons and Dragons</i> is to their US counterparts. For exactly 30 years now, the brave adventures have roamed the land known as Aventuria. It witnessed epic campaigns, secretive plots, and strange magical happenings--everything that makes a place <i>real</i> in player's imagination. Now, Daedalic Entertainment, the german game-dev powerhouse that ventured into the world of The Dark Eye in their adventure games, [url=http://www.gog.com/game/the_dark_eye_chains_of_satinav]Chains of Satinav and Memoria, gives you a whole new and original story to experience. And this time--it's an RPG.

Blackguards Special Edition, a new turn-based strategy RPG, places the fate of the land in the hands of a pack of misfits, convicts, and outcasts. In its grim, yet engrossing gameworld, you will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder. Play as a warrior, mage or hunter and customize your character's skills as you see fit. The challenging campaign delivers a story of doubt, treason and loss. You decide the course of the story at key turning points and determine its outcome. The game comes with a full soundtrack in WAV format (no lossy MP3 compression here, nope!), and video interviews with its creators.

Set out on an adventure unlike any other, and get to know the party of unlikely heroes of Blackguards Special Edition, for only $40.49 on GOG.com. The 10% off release discount offer lasts until Wednesday, January 29, at 3:59PM GMT.

Notice:
We'd like to invite you to an AMA event GOG.com and Daedalic Entertainment is currently holding on . Feel free to come, ask the creators of Blackguards some questions and pick up a complimentary copy of [url=http://www.gog.com/game/the_dark_eye_chains_of_satinav]Chains of Satinav.
Posted January 22, 2014
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JudasIscariot: How about some old games with German and maybe hand scanned Handbuchs in German? :)
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Fesin: German Handbücher for German games would definitely appreciated. I still like to read the Gothic II manual every now and then, it's just beautifully done.

And of course, if you could add German language to The Guild, Spellforce, Spellforce 2, Spellforce 2: Dragon Storm and Sacred, I would like that very much. ;)
You can find the German manuals of the Gothic series in the relative game folder. And yeah, Spellforce series would be an instabuy for me with German language support. Two Worlds 1 would be a nice addition as well.
Posted January 22, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Didn't Gothic II Deutsch get the German manual in the installer? Unless I am thinking of another game? Check your shortcuts from the Start menu :)

edit: no more derailing this thread from me :)
Yep, just checked, they're actually in there. Although the reason I was mentioning the Gothic II manual wasn't because I thought you didn't have it, but just as an example of a particularly well done manual.

Like I said, I have it in "analogue" form anyway, so I don't need it. :P
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Posted January 22, 2014
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RS1978: Please, do further so. It's great seeing new games here with German language support, soundtracks and more extras. :) I've bought it immediately to show my support for this policy and hope we will see a lot of more current games in this manner.
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JudasIscariot: RS1978, we always try to do so but whether we're successful depends on a variety of factors :)

How about some old games with German and maybe hand scanned Handbuchs in German? :)
"Handbücher" it is. Get yourself a proper keyboard. ;-) Personally I do not need a manual for older games since I usually played most of them back in the days. There were some artistically great manuals though which I loved reading and just watching the art, like Frontier or Blizzard's manuals for Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo.

I too bought Blackguards immediately too. The package with all the extras is excellent compared with Steam and once again due to the Dollar to Euro conversion rate, the game is also still cheaper despite offering more content here on GOG.com. A great offer by you guys and Daedalic that I did not expect after what happened with the Deponia 3 release here on GOG. Chapeau and thank you!

(What I wonder though is, why Daedalic increased the price for the game so drastically, since I believe it was already on 15€ in the Winter Sale on Steam and generally on 30€ as Early Access. So would have expected this as the price rather than 40€/45$ which it is now. Well I think it is still worth the money.)
Post edited January 22, 2014 by Quasebarth
Posted January 22, 2014
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JudasIscariot: RS1978, we always try to do so but whether we're successful depends on a variety of factors :)

How about some old games with German and maybe hand scanned Handbuchs in German? :)
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Quasebarth: "Handbücher" it is. Get yourself a proper keyboard. ;-) Personally I do not need a manual for older games since I usually played most of them back in the days. There were some artistically great manuals though which I loved reading and just watching the art, like Frontier or Blizzard's manuals for Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo.
OK, I guess I'll just delete the German version of this manual that I've been working on since you won't need it. That's cool, figured German speakers won't appreciate it, thanks for letting me know :(
Post edited January 22, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted January 22, 2014
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RS1978: Please, do further so. It's great seeing new games here with German language support, soundtracks and more extras. :) I've bought it immediately to show my support for this policy and hope we will see a lot of more current games in this manner.
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JudasIscariot: RS1978, we always try to do so but whether we're successful depends on a variety of factors :)

How about some old games with German and maybe hand scanned Handbuchs in German? :)
Well, more languages are better than less, aren´t they?
*weired smile*
Posted January 22, 2014
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JudasIscariot: RS1978, we always try to do so but whether we're successful depends on a variety of factors :)

How about some old games with German and maybe hand scanned Handbuchs in German? :)
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RadonGOG: Well, more languages are better than less, aren´t they?
*weired smile*
Of course, but let's not derail this thread AGAIN :P

Let's all enjoy the release of Blackguards :)
Posted January 22, 2014
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RadonGOG: Well, more languages are better than less, aren´t they?
*weired smile*
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JudasIscariot: Of course, but let's not derail this thread AGAIN :P

Let's all enjoy the release of Blackguards :)
We're going off the rails on this crazy thread~

in all seriousness. This looks like I had an awesome game. If I had $40 available right now I'd so be buying it.
Posted January 22, 2014
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RadonGOG: Well, more languages are better than less, aren´t they?
*weired smile*
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JudasIscariot: Of course, but let's not derail this thread AGAIN :P

Let's all enjoy the release of Blackguards :)
@Blackguards: I´m glad that this one arrived here. And I think the pricing is O.K., not brilliant, but O.K.!
Everybody who played the demo know that this one is designed very well and got something that is really lacking in most turn-based-RPGs:
This one nearly got NO boring scenes, it´s instead of that going on and on and on---there are simply no letdown in that game, which is pretty fantastic in my eyes.
I might would have liked a few more travelling & ambrush scenes, but it´s definitivly well done, ruleset has been improved (yes, improved, not simply cut-down! It´s actually way more balanced than in Drakensang...) and the storyline seems to be very interesting!
So, in general: I think that this one is just a perfect game for every fan of Deadalics Adventures and the DrakensangRPGs---as I´m a big fan of both, this is just fantastic for me ;)
Posted January 22, 2014
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DyNaer: GOG : price is the same all around the world , whatever people earn each month (that quite unfair ihmo)
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timppu: It is not any more unfair than that someone e.g. in US makes 1000x times more money than another person in the same country, yet the Steam price is the same for both just because they happen to live in the same region. Same goes for e.g. a carton of milk.
Not quite: in areas with lower incomes, shops and services will charge less for things because - essentially - otherwise no one would buy them. A carton of milk would cost less - compared to a GOG game - for someone in that country (however much they earn) than in a country with higher incomes. Rather dull Wikipedia article which states what I've summarised in exhaustive detail, so you know I haven't just made it up

I agree entirely with your second point, though.
Posted January 22, 2014
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Quasebarth: (What I wonder though is, why Daedalic increased the price for the game so drastically, since I believe it was already on 15€ in the Winter Sale on Steam and generally on 30€ as Early Access. So would have expected this as the price rather than 40€/45$ which it is now. Well I think it is still worth the money.)
Hm, GOG version is ~30€ yet? (My PayPal bill was about 30,85€.) Seems a good price to me for such a new game with German language and Soundtrack included.
Posted January 22, 2014
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Quasebarth: "Handbücher" it is. Get yourself a proper keyboard. ;-) Personally I do not need a manual for older games since I usually played most of them back in the days. There were some artistically great manuals though which I loved reading and just watching the art, like Frontier or Blizzard's manuals for Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo.
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JudasIscariot: OK, I guess I'll just delete the German version of this manual that I've been working on since you won't need it. That's cool, figured German speakers won't appreciate it, thanks for letting me know :(
Maybe I would like to read your handwritten interpretation of the German manual in Polish. Kind of like what happens when you put some text into google and translate it through various languages and back the original I suppose. Still a funny way to waste some time at work when you need to get your head up on other things. ;-)

Seriously though. I figured out the tutorial and ingame help for Blackguards is pretty complete. Still I also saw by a glimpse at the English manual from the account page that there is some backstory and character portraits in the manual. A translation for the manual while not really necessary for me is of course appreciated. Good job!
Looking at the clock though, I would say, as a customer and so one of the people that indirectly pay you, you can take off the rest of the day now and finish the scan tomorrow when you are back in the office at, let's say 6 o'clock. Gracious I know, tell your boss I said so, no hurry. ;-)


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Quasebarth: (What I wonder though is, why Daedalic increased the price for the game so drastically, since I believe it was already on 15€ in the Winter Sale on Steam and generally on 30€ as Early Access. So would have expected this as the price rather than 40€/45$ which it is now. Well I think it is still worth the money.)
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RS1978: Hm, GOG version is ~30€ yet? (My PayPal bill was about 30,85€.) Seems a good price to me for such a new game with German language and Soundtrack included.
I know and I do not complain, but it is only because of the exchange rate. The Steam price during Early Access was 30€ (and I suppose 30$) and now it is 40€/40$, 45$ on GOG for the "Special Edition".
Post edited January 22, 2014 by Quasebarth
Posted January 22, 2014
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JudasIscariot: OK, I guess I'll just delete the German version of this manual that I've been working on since you won't need it. That's cool, figured German speakers won't appreciate it, thanks for letting me know :(
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Quasebarth: Maybe I would like to read your handwritten interpretation of the German manual in Polish. Kind of like what happens when you put some text into google and translate it through various languages and back the original I suppose. Still a funny way to waste some time at work when you need to get your head up on other things. ;-)

Seriously though. I figured out the tutorial and ingame help for Blackguards is pretty complete. Still I also saw by a glimpse at the English manual from the account page that there is some backstory and character portraits in the manual. A translation for the manual while not really necessary for me is of course appreciated. Good job!
Looking at the clock though, I would say, as a customer and so one of the people that indirectly pay you, you can take off the rest of the day now and finish the scan tomorrow when you are back in the office at, let's say 6 o'clock. Gracious I know, tell your boss I said so, no hurry. ;-)
>implying I haven't already finished the scan and was putting the finishing touches on the manual to make it look like it wasn't scanned
Posted January 22, 2014
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Quasebarth: Maybe I would like to read your handwritten interpretation of the German manual in Polish. Kind of like what happens when you put some text into google and translate it through various languages and back the original I suppose. Still a funny way to waste some time at work when you need to get your head up on other things. ;-)

Seriously though. I figured out the tutorial and ingame help for Blackguards is pretty complete. Still I also saw by a glimpse at the English manual from the account page that there is some backstory and character portraits in the manual. A translation for the manual while not really necessary for me is of course appreciated. Good job!
Looking at the clock though, I would say, as a customer and so one of the people that indirectly pay you, you can take off the rest of the day now and finish the scan tomorrow when you are back in the office at, let's say 6 o'clock. Gracious I know, tell your boss I said so, no hurry. ;-)
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JudasIscariot: >implying I haven't already finished the scan and was putting the finishing touches on the manual to make it look like it wasn't scanned
Keep up the hard work. :P
Posted January 22, 2014
Woooo! Been waiting for this one to come out! Insta-wishlist. Really, really happy to see this on GOG, I am very glad I held off buying it on Steam.

Edit: Also, thanks for Chains and.... Wednesday release! It's a Wednesday release! \o/ (Sorry, couldn't believe no-one else had done that).
Post edited January 22, 2014 by Melhelix
Posted January 22, 2014
I´m glad Daedalic decided to release it here form the day one, DRM-free :)
WIshlisted fro now, this month I can hardly afford a Deadfall DLC for Shadowrun Returns, but the next one I´d like to buy this one.

Again, glad to see more contemporary developers releasing their games through GOG.
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