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Posted April 24, 2014
The legacy of blood is yours to witness.

Dracula 4 + 5, that is Shadow of the Dragon and newly released The Blood Legacy, a contemporary tale of mystery and terror delivered in the form of an intriguing and immersive point-and-click adventure game, is available 75% off on GOG.com. That's only $4.99 for the first three days! If you already own Dracula 4: Shadow of the Dragon on GOG.com, you receive the fifth game as a free update!

In the ominous reaches of the Carpathian mountains a ruthless voivod ruled from the height of his throne red with blood of his enemies. Whoever met him in battle would call him a demon, or a devil. His subjects had a different name for him, though, in their tongue. They called him Dracul, the Dragon. The legend has it, that this fierce warrior renounced God and become cursed to roam the Earth forever, restless, hungry for innocent blood, and doomed never to see the light of day again. But the curse came with power growing with every century of roaming the darkness. Thus, Dracul became the embodiment of evil and darkness itself, the one that fills our hearts with fear whenever the light goes out. The Vampire, the immortal enemy of man, that hunts in the night up to this day. So the legend says. There is at least a grain of truth to every legend.

Dracula 4 + 5 takes the vampiric lore into the modern setting. We follow Ellen Cross, a young art restorer, on her journey across Europe. In her way she's confronted with mysterious and terrifying events that will make her question everything us humans assume to know about the world. Secret societies, dark rituals, and powerful demons stand in her path. Finally, Ellen discovers new information about the Shadow of the Dragon--the mysterious brotherhood that the infamous Vlad Tepes might have been affiliated with. Thus begins the endgame of the centuries-long struggle between the light and dark. Will you dare to follow Ellen's blood-chilling story?

Immerse yourself in the twisted, dark, and dangerous world of the vampire mythos and challenge the Dark Lord of Carpathia himself! Get Dracula 4 + 5 for only $4.99 before Sunday, April 27, at 1:59PM GMT.
Posted April 25, 2014
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HypersomniacLive: ...But now you got me curious - have you played the games you describe as "low quality adventures"? If yes, what is it about them that makes you classify them as such? If not, how did you decide that they're not good?
I can see that you took offense by "low quality shovelware", but it was only an opinion of one user. You might be aware that such opinions often are formed by rather shallow information acts and not everything that is said on the internet is well thought out.

Anyway here my confession: I only played Still Life and Syberia and enjoyed them, solid good games. I forgot that they are from Anuman. I also monitored for about a year new releases on GamersGate and whenever I come across an Anuman adventure I saw very similar descriptions there. Also there were a lot of them and some were tagged both as an adventure and as casual. Also the ratings were mostly three stars which is already not that good (on GOG >75% of the games have at least four stars). Written reviews were rather negative. Together it gave me the impression of a high number of generic products of low quality. But now I would say that I cannot really know because I judged them from quite far away.

Are your questions sufficiently answered?
Post edited April 25, 2014 by Trilarion
Posted April 25, 2014
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adambiser: Any official word on this?
Thanks.
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Niggles: Waiting on this as well. my code is showing as invalid as well :/
Apparently the Dracula 4 codes from Indie Gala work again. I just tried one of mine and it showed Dracula 4+5 and a note that i already own those games. So try redeeming your code again.
Posted April 25, 2014
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Trilarion: I can see that you took offense by "low quality shovelware", but it was only an opinion of one user. You might be aware that such opinions often are formed by rather shallow information acts and not everything that is said on the internet is well thought out.

Anyway here my confession: I only played Still Life and Syberia and enjoyed them, solid good games. I forgot that they are from Anuman. I also monitored for about a year new releases on GamersGate and whenever I come across an Anuman adventure I saw very similar descriptions there. Also there were a lot of them and some were tagged both as an adventure and as casual. Also the ratings were mostly three stars which is already not that good (on GOG >75% of the games have at least four stars). Together it gave me the impression of a high number of generic products of low quality. But now I would say that I cannot really know because I judged them from quite far away.

Are your questions sufficiently answered?
I took absolutely no offence by the use of that term, it's not mandatory for two people to like the same games (things in general).
It's just that you gave me the impression that you haven't played the games, thus I found it odd that you used such a strong term to classify them. I only asked you to make sure that I didn't misunderstand anything.

If I came across too strong, I apologise; it was honest curiosity, perhaps expressed with poor wording.

I'll also assume that your last question is a bit poorly worded and that you didn't actually intend to get ironic with me, and move on.
Have a nice weekend :-)
Posted April 25, 2014
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Niggles: Waiting on this as well. my code is showing as invalid as well :/
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Impaler26: Apparently the Dracula 4 codes from Indie Gala work again. I just tried one of mine and it showed Dracula 4+5 and a note that i already own those games. So try redeeming your code again.
Mine did, too. Thanks for pointing out that they work again.
Posted April 25, 2014
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HypersomniacLive: ...I'll also assume that your last question is a bit poorly worded and that you didn't actually intend to get ironic ...
Yes, you guessed right and I just wanted to honestly know if there are open questions left. Problem is that irony and dead serious answers always look the same.

Enjoy your weekend too. :)
Posted April 25, 2014
Good surprise, thanks for the free update with Dracula 5!! And the French editions.. :)
Posted April 25, 2014
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Niggles: Waiting on this as well. my code is showing as invalid as well :/
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Impaler26: Apparently the Dracula 4 codes from Indie Gala work again. I just tried one of mine and it showed Dracula 4+5 and a note that i already own those games. So try redeeming your code again.
thanks for the headsup. confirmed mine worked as well :)
Posted April 25, 2014
For anyone wanting a chance that doesn't have $5:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/massive_dracula_45_giveaway/post1
Posted April 26, 2014
Thanks for free update and fifth release. Keep bringing more Microids/Anuman adventure games.
Posted April 26, 2014
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Trilarion: Among them and of course this is only my opinion are quite a large number of low quality adventures. To name a few: Dream Chamber, Nicolas Eymerich, Tony Tough, Pompei, Necronomicon, Loussiana Adventure, Red Johnson's Chronicles, Aztec, CIA Petrodollars, Jack the Ripper, The Princess Case, Egypt 1156 BC, Hollywood, ...
You are now my Public Enemy N.1 for labeling Aztec as low quality :P

Seriously though, I'd recommend giving the actual adventures a try (a few of those mentioned are casuals, if I'm not mistaken Petrodollars, Hollywood and The Princess Case, so don't know about those). I'd say gog has a lot of catching up to do, although honestly now it's kinda like with the bundled forever indies showing up here.

Especially the Cryo games are worth picking up, like Aztec, Egypt, Salammbo, Pompei (but some are still sorely missing; someone really should dig up Lost Eden and Faust already). Necronomicon is a solid Lovecraftian horror adventure, and the first Tony Tough is great. I was also positively surprised by The Inquisitor.

What Anuman does have a bit of a track record lately is splitting some of their older games into parts, dumbing them down (as in literally simplifying or cutting out the harder sections and puzzles) and releasing as episodes for the mobile/casual markets. Problem is, more often than not this wasn't very clearly conveyed and could get confusing; so when you see Dracula Series Episode 1: The Strange Case of Martha, beware, as it's just a neutered 1/3rd of Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon. Beware I tell you!
I hope they're done with that practice.
Posted April 26, 2014
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HypersomniacLive: The Dracula Trilogy games were developed by Anuman Interactive and you will notice a difference when you play them... sometime between soon and soonish ;-P
So far so good. The first Dracula game went down in one bite (that is it was rather short) and I must admit that I was really impressed. I'm not really a fan of FPP adventure games but I really enjoyed it. The second game spilled some blood (that is I died several times;) and even though I don't like those act-fast-or-die moments in adventure games I was even more impressed then before. I started the third one and while I haven't done much thus far (I've just reached the point where my objectives changed) I think that will be my favorite part. I believe that ditching the original characters from the novel was a huge step forward because it open a lot of new possibilities how to tell the story. As far as I can tell they really used those possibilities very well. And to think that I almost missed this series...
Posted April 26, 2014
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Ghorpm: So far so good. The first Dracula game went down in one bite (that is it was rather short) and I must admit that I was really impressed. I'm not really a fan of FPP adventure games but I really enjoyed it. The second game spilled some blood (that is I died several times;) and even though I don't like those act-fast-or-die moments in adventure games I was even more impressed then before. I started the third one and while I haven't done much thus far (I've just reached the point where my objectives changed) I think that will be my favorite part. I believe that ditching the original characters from the novel was a huge step forward because it open a lot of new possibilities how to tell the story. As far as I can tell they really used those possibilities very well. And to think that I almost missed this series...
Glad you like them. ;-)

May I advise a break before playing Dracula 4+5? Just to avoid the direct comparison and potential disappointment?


EDIT: formatting
Post edited April 26, 2014 by HypersomniacLive
Posted April 26, 2014
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Ghorpm: So far so good. The first Dracula game went down in one bite (that is it was rather short) and I must admit that I was really impressed. I'm not really a fan of FPP adventure games but I really enjoyed it. The second game spilled some blood (that is I died several times;) and even though I don't like those act-fast-or-die moments in adventure games I was even more impressed then before. I started the third one and while I haven't done much thus far (I've just reached the point where my objectives changed) I think that will be my favorite part. I believe that ditching the original characters from the novel was a huge step forward because it open a lot of new possibilities how to tell the story. As far as I can tell they really used those possibilities very well. And to think that I almost missed this series...
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HypersomniacLive: Glad you like them. ;-)

May I advise a break before playing Dracula 4+5? Just to avoid the direct comparison and potential disappointment?

EDIT: formatting
That's the plan ;) I like Dracula 3 so much that I wouldn't dare to continue with the rest of the series after I finish it (whenever it might be, because I'm not done yet)
Posted April 28, 2014
When exactly did these games start being "good" as in "Good Old Games"?
Posted April 28, 2014
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Schloop: When exactly did these games start being "good" as in "Good Old Games"?
GOG doesn't stand for Good Old Games anymore, hasn't for some time now, it's just GOG.COM. There even was an offical announcement about it.
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