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Posted January 08, 2013
Eat your heart out, Columbus!

Cultures 1+2, a set of two exploration-focused RTS games in which you lead a Viking kindred to unimaginable glory, is now available on GOG.com, for only $9.99.

Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, Christopher Columbus, the great sailors of the age of exploration, shared one little known thing. They all hated Vikings. Why? Just imagine. You spend long months at sea, battling against the storms, trying to keep your flotilla afloat and your men alive, you don't eat nearly enough, you don't get decent sleep, everything tastes like vinegar, and you miss the company of ladies. It takes you so long to reach your destination, that you almost forget that dry land actually exists. But then you hear a cheerful "land, ho!" coming down from the crow's nest and you just know that all of this was worth it. You tremble with excitement, as you board the landing boat and you want to shout from the top of your lungs as your feet touch the sandy beach of the NEW WORLD for the first time. But then you notice. A broken down drakkar. A horned helmet half-buried in the sand. A standing-stone with a runic description saying "Eric wuz here". Of course, you never tell that to anyone. Back home you are celebrated as the first European who set foot in the new land. But you know. Vikings. Damn Vikings.

Cultures 1+2 let you become the leader of an adventurous tribe of Vikings to set off on a voyage of exploration and settle new, more or less exotic lands. The first game's main focus lies in the process of discovery and building a well-functioning infrastructure. In the second one the balance shifts towards war and politics, giving more focus to warrior and diplomat character classes. Both iterations offer endearing, colorful graphics and an amazing amount of gameplay details. If you like RTS games but prefer more focus on exploration and development than most of the games in this genre offer, be sure to try Cultures!

Did you ever wanted to visit distant lands and meet exciting new people (to conquer and enslave or possibly coexist peacefully with)? Become the brave young Viking, Bjarni, and do just that in Cultures 1+2, for only $9.99!
Posted January 08, 2013
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Wishbone: I've never heard of these games, but they look like shameless Settlers clones. That could be either good (if done well) or bad (if not). Can anyone who knows the games comment on this?
To be more specific, they are far superior to Settlers 3. You have a lot of control over your settlement, you can give specific professions, skills and equipment. Each individual has a Sims like needs, such as hunger, sleep, social... the better you fulfill these needs, the longer they can go without. Better quality food, for instance, keeps them going longer than berries they find in the wilderness.
Professions must be either tought in school or learned the hard way - from the ground up. A future swordsmith will first have to mine ore to get the basic idea of smelting, then forging, and lastly mastering the trade. Unless his shop has an assistant, he will have to find his own resources, and if he doesn't find an in his immediate surrounding, he will go "meh", and idle about.
There are also much more resources you can gather, products that you can make, and the visuals are really nice. And to get more people, you actually have to go tell people to make babies (hearts come out of the room, then a stork flies in ;) , not like in S3 where you just build a house and then people pour out of it.
Posted January 08, 2013
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timppu: ...as long as they don't have overlapping bundles... So I don't mind that GOG is currently selling e.g. Ultima 1-3, Might&Magic 1-6 or Tomb Raider 1-3 together as fixed bundles, because they didn't first introduce the individual games from those bundles separately.
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SimonG: Technically, GOG does not sell bundles. At least in the sense that GOG themself bundle games together.
They do, but they are not as fixed as on many other sites. The Christmas promos were a good example, they offered a set of games where you got the extra bundle discount (75% off instead of 50% off) in case you bought them all together, ie. the whole bundle.

Then again, GOG does sell fixed bundles too, e.g. M&M 1-6, Tomb Raider 1-3 and Ultima 1-3. It is not really relevant whether those bundles were originally bundled together by GOG or the original publisher. I think GOG had its say with them anyway, in order to fit the bundles to their most common $6 and $10 price points.
Posted January 08, 2013
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timppu: I think GOG had its say with them anyway, in order to fit the bundles to their most common $6 and $10 price points.
There isn't a single "fixed" bundle on this page that GOG has created*. They aquire license of previous releases and then agree with the publisher on a price. GOG gets a product offered (or goes after said product) and then talks with the right holders about the price.


*excluding maybe new games.

And the "christmas bundles" weren't really bundles in the sense of D&D or Culture Bundles. Here you bought a collection of games for a discount. With the D&D anthology, eg, you buy the D&D Anthology for its asked price.

With games released before DD, GOG is pretty much a reseller of those old licenses. Being it a single license that had a couple of games

(http://www.mobygames.com/game/might-and-magic-sixpack)

Or a single game

(http://www.mobygames.com/game/might-and-magic-vii-for-blood-and-honor)

That might sound awfully technical and anal for you. But that explains a lot of GOGs acquisition process, pricing and eg. why the EA expansions where missing but not Ultima VII. Or why some games are censored or languages are missing.

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The Cultures Anthology on Dotemu is something only Dotemu offers. Not a resale of an older license. Why Dotemu does something like this and GOG not is somethin only GOG can answer.
Post edited January 08, 2013 by SimonG
Posted January 08, 2013
Thanks GOG, I've never played these two. As soon as I finish working my way through the Spellforce series I will grab this one.
Posted January 08, 2013
Standard question for these type of games:

Random map generator/Sand box mode?
Replayability?
Posted January 08, 2013
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Titanium: *snip*
So what you're saying is that it's much closer to The Nations than to The Settlers. Hmm, a pity. I've spent ages on Settlers II, but I got tired of The Nations really quickly.

Still, the implementation of the features counts for a lot. It might still be a lot more fun than The Nations, I suppose.
Posted January 08, 2013
Finally a release. I missed old games.
Posted January 08, 2013
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towerbooks3192: Standard question for these type of games:

Random map generator/Sand box mode?
Replayability?
What he asked.
Posted January 08, 2013
Sorry gog, yer a year late, got it on DotEmu last Christmas (and it's the whole series to boot).
Recommended for anyone else, lots of charming fun!
Post edited January 08, 2013 by MoP
Posted January 08, 2013
Some of the reviews of Cultures 1+2 on GOG.com makes me think of Beasts and Bumpkins, like the importance of food, the baby making, houses and less emphasis on milatary

Edit: I know it's a silly game, but would like B&B on GOG
Post edited January 08, 2013 by Edmund
Posted January 08, 2013
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keeveek: But I won't tell anything more, because I get downrepped every day ;-( Goodbye, cruel wordl! ;-(
Have a Coke and a smile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD6j_7bgrtA
Posted January 08, 2013
As I said in recent "Cultures giveaway" topic (and the post is invisible for some reason), this is one of my favorite games, the tempo of the game is probably too slow for some gamers but to me its just perfect, very relaxing stuff.

Of course this title is inspired by Settlers, but IMHO it's slightly better that it's role model. Maybe because it has Vikings in it.

If someone buys this title(s) and don't like it, feel free to gift them to me. :D
Posted January 08, 2013
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VIPERs: Bravo GOG! Bravissimo!

A brilliant way to start a new year's first release. With a true Good OLD Game.
i could swear this has to be sarcastic...

it's a mediocre Settlers clone from the developers that seem to be damned to make Settlers games and Settlers clones for all eternity.
Post edited January 08, 2013 by Fred_DM
Posted January 08, 2013
It's actually very simple: If GOG.com is too cheap to get ther German language version, I am too cheap to buy the game, it's as simple as that.

Although to be fair, this isn't a game I'm terrible interested, but it's just another example of one of the biggest criticism I have of GOG.com.
Posted January 08, 2013
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Fesin: It's actually very simple: If GOG.com is too cheap to get ther German language version, I am too cheap to buy the game, it's as simple as that.

Although to be fair, this isn't a game I'm terrible interested, but it's just another example of one of the biggest criticism I have of GOG.com.
what i don't get is how DotEmu, which is a much smaller and less popular shop than GOG, manages to get proper multilanguage support when GOG doesn't. if anything, i'd expect it to be the other way round.
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