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Put your costume on, John!

Costume Quest, a true to its roots RPG disguised in a colorful outfit of a cartoony Halloween adventure, is now available 50% off on GOG.com. That's only $7.49 for the next two days!

Ah, to be a kid on Halloween! On this one special night the veil between reality and imagination was lifted and anything could happen. The world was full of strange creatures, dangerous monsters, and incredible adventures. The best part was, however, becoming someone you were not. You would put on a Jedi costume, and felt like the fate of the galaxy rested in your little hands. You would become a Knight of the Round Table, and never minded the fact, that your armor is made of tin foil and cardboard. You would strap on a vacuum-cleaner proton pack and a brown jumpsuit and go hunting ghosts in the alleys. On that one night ghosts, dragon, and Sith lords felt real too.

Costume Quest, created by Tim Schafer's Double Fine, tries to capture the spirit of those nights when you were a kid, and everything felt real to you on Halloween. With traditional RPG mechanics, including turn based combat, it tells a story of a group of kids on their incredible adventure. Rescuing your kidnaped sibling is a true quest when you're 8 years old, and even more so when the neighborhood is infested with all sorts of monsters, brought to our world by magic. Luckily, you have the special powers of your costume to help you on your way!

It's time to go trick-or-treating, so dress up and conquer your neighborhood in Costume Quest, for only $7.49 until Thursday, November 15, at 10.59 AM GMT.
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grviper: I.e. whatever updates get released, they remain bundle and Steam exclusives, while gog users maintain a special frankenbuild?
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Immoli: Yeah. Great support, huh?
Yeah. Better than PS3 Brutal Legend. The patch to fix save corruption was never released because the publisher didn't want to pay Sony for uploading the file to PSN.
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Immoli: Yeah. Great support, huh?
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grviper: Yeah. Better than PS3 Brutal Legend. The patch to fix save corruption was never released because the publisher didn't want to pay Sony for uploading the file to PSN.
That's the reason I passed on that game.
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Wishbone: Apparently, the Costume Quest installer uses negative compression. Either that, or it contains a bunch of data that it doesn't actually install. Or the figure it gives for how much space it needs is wrong, take your pick.
Nope, the figure isn't wrong. The installer is actually significantly bigger than what it installs. Look at this comparison of the folder containing nothing but the installer, and the folder I installed the game to.
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grviper: Yay, $15 price tag on a game, which can be beaten 100% (with the DLC) in 7 hours of repetitive QTE mashing...
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Fred_DM: this, and it's been way cheaper than this elsewhere.
"This" what?
Amazing game! Already own it on Steam though, and can't exactly afford to double dip again for Doublefine (I'm looking at you, somewhat useless extra copy of Psychonauts on GOG).

Suitable for kids, but not only enjoyable by kids. Tasty little morsel of JRPG-lite goodness. Haiku.
yay!
Ah, nice one. Only wishlisted for now, as I spent too much money on games lately, but I will definitely pick it up in the near future.

But, guys, I want to have a word with you about those game trailers. It seems like you put absolutely no effort in making them. All you do is take an existing one and paste the GOG logo in at the end. That may be fine. Nobody expects you to produce own new trailers. But you could at least be a little more thorough and professional. Just look again at the last six or seven seconds of your video for Costume Quest. The GOG logo is fading in while the game logo is faded out halfway before it's even faded in completely! In the laws of editing that's like a capital crime. And the audio editing is terrible too. "Available now on Xbox Live Arcade and Sony Play..." You serious? I could've done this better with Windows Movie Maker in like five minutes.

Since you make the "This week on GOG" videos, I assume have a capable person for video and audio editing in your team, as well as the necessary software at hand. Then why does the editing for the trailers suck so much?
Come on guys, not everybody in the world is celebrating Halloween. Here in Germany we are now in the Fifth Season (Carnival / Mardi Gras). That's time for costumes her around. So the time is perfect for this sale.
As my Steam game was a present, I may now even justify a second version :)
Oh, and I really, really want The Cave DRM free, as well as DFA! PLEASE GOG!!!
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gixgox: Oh, and I really, really want The Cave DRM free,
Published by Sega...
Played this game and the expansion on PS3 ... if you had a childhood, you'll enjoy. So charming. Charming as fukk. Buy em!
Whishlisted.
low rated
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grviper: Yay, $15 price tag on a game, which can be beaten 100% (with the DLC) in 7 hours of repetitive QTE mashing...
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Fred_DM: this, and it's been way cheaper than this elsewhere.
Why was this post downrated? Are we not allowed to critisize anything here anymore?

What the hell is this? The Bioware forums?
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Roman5: Why was this post downrated? Are we not allowed to critisize anything here anymore?

What the hell is this? The Bioware forums?
We are not allowed to:
1. post harassing, intimidating, threatening, discriminating, obscene, pornographic, sexually explicit or offensive content
2. spam ads
3. "promote illegal acts" (anything that can get GOG in trouble with the law, even though it may be not actually illegal).

Criticism of a price is not on the list, thus, the post you quoted doesn't break any of the above rules. In full accordance with the rules, it was therefore not removed by the mods, and the poster did not suffer any listed penalty (warning, temp ban, permaban).
I've been waiting this release.
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Roman5: Why was this post downrated? Are we not allowed to critisize anything here anymore?

What the hell is this? The Bioware forums?
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Starmaker: We are not allowed to:
1. post harassing, intimidating, threatening, discriminating, obscene, pornographic, sexually explicit or offensive content
2. spam ads
3. "promote illegal acts" (anything that can get GOG in trouble with the law, even though it may be not actually illegal).

Criticism of a price is not on the list, thus, the post you quoted doesn't break any of the above rules. In full accordance with the rules, it was therefore not removed by the mods, and the poster did not suffer any listed penalty (warning, temp ban, permaban).
Downvoting still sucks though. I wish that feature could be removed.