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Posted March 29, 2012
[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ][/url]Best Independent Adventure, Best Adventure of 2009 Runner-Up,
Best Graphic Design, Best Music, Best Animation - Aggie
Best Indie Game of 2009 - Gamasutra
Best Traditional Adventure Game of 2009 - AceGamez
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction - Academy of Interactive Arts
Excellence in Visual Art in 2009 - Independent Game Fesitval
PC Game of the Year 2009 Runner-up - Kotaku

You can add [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ]Machinarium[/url], indie gold nugget, to your very own ‘Best of’ collection for only $9.99 with 8 wallpapers, full soundtrack (which costs $5 extra elsewhere), 8 avatars, 22 artworks, 114 design sketches, available today on GOG.com.

You may have thought Czech are famous only for pilsner, dumplings, Eva Herzigová and [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/vampire_the_masquerade_redemption" target="_blank]Vampires roaming the streets of Prague[/url]. Now, thanks to a few brilliant people from Amanita Design, the Czech Republic is also known as the homeland of trippy point-and-clicks, giant robo-junkyards, and mechanical cities. In Machinarium, you find a small robot named Josef lying on a scrapheap, kicked out of the strange city of robots. You need to get back to the city to confront and defeat the Evil Black Cap Brotherhood that terrorized robot kind and took away Josef’s girlfriend. The goal of Machinarium is to solve a series of puzzles and brain teasers by clicking on objects that are within Josef’s reach. So, it’s a typical point-and-click, but in the same fashion as The Triplets Of Belleville is a typical animation.

[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ]Machinarium[/url] is hands down one of the most beautiful games for PCs ever. Of course it’s a matter of taste, but the colored pencil drawings, eerie music, and the clever conversations that involve no dialogues but rather pictographs all combine to create an ethereal atmosphere like in Le Voyage dans la lune or Metropolis. Extraordinary amount of work has been put to detailing the world to perfection, allowing you to discover all the small and big things that make the story of the little robot so artistically unique, brilliantly crafted, imaginatively realised, and fascinating to play. Machinarium is like reading your favorite book in a strange fantastic language you find yourself comprehending after the first few lines.

There is no game quite like [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ]Machinarium[/url], and you should not be reading this right now. Instead you should be immersed in the imaginative and memorable robo-world for $9.99 only, available now on GOG.com.
Posted March 29, 2012
Well it seems that my prediction on the first was correct to the letter. but luckily it has died down and TheEnigmaticT saves the day again confirming a return of old releases next week, so good did come out of this.

To the people that say that that everyone has got these games from elsewhere like steam and bundles, I am not one of those people, so games like this are pretty new to me and I welcome them.

Keep up the good work GOG, now I am going to play some Treasure Adventure Game since I am at the half way mark I think there is a good chance I will finish it.
Posted March 29, 2012
I actually like the addition of indie games, it lets us discover more games than just what we remember playing when we were young or something we see in a newspaper
Posted March 29, 2012
To all those threatening to leave:

Please do.

As for Macfhinarium. I've praised it a hell of a lot already. But those who have somehow missed it until now no longer have any excuse.
Posted March 29, 2012
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gameon: Whos threatened to leave?
Some idiots spitting bile about GOG not focussing solely on old games anymore.
Posted March 29, 2012
Just played the demo at the site; I loved the game!!! Thanks GOG for making me aware of it and making it available, although I will get it when I have money xD! Really nice game :D
Posted March 29, 2012
How long has GOG been around? 3 years?
Of those three years there were what, 4 days that GOG released newer games? Witcher 2, and then the last 3 releases.

And people are bitching?
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Posted March 30, 2012
I think the expansion of GOG to include indies (especially the ones they've chosen) is perfectly fitting: the whole indie game scene came about from people wanting to make games that focused on *gameplay*, rather than the latest graphics and trends; they were and continue to be heavily influenced by the classics of gaming, many of which just happen to be available right here on GOG. Isn't that, in a lot of ways, what GOG is all about - bringing us gameplay over glitz, substance over style, affordability over AAA prices?
Posted March 30, 2012
Most people who took issue with today's release, myself included, do not seem to be against either newer games nor indies being released on GOG. The issue is GOOD OLD GAMES should not take a back seat to this stuff in our minds. That is all. Nothing more needs to be read into comments that is not expressly said. The last three release days in a row did not feature GOOD OLD GAMES. So naturally, that is worrisome to those of us who love this place primarily for those. I was disappointed this morning to not see a classic release. I don't mind a great indie like Machinarium being released. I just think the regular classic release should have happened too on this day or perhaps even the indies should have been released on other days. That is all.

Now I notice the TheEnigmaticT states in this thread that they plan in the next two months to have at least ONE classic a week. Well that is sort of good news but it is also a step backwards from trying to have TWO a week. It was already a slow release schedule to begin with.

The digs, insults, comments on self-entitlement, etc. in this thread have been pretty shitty to be honest. I think that all most of us who were not too pleased today really wanted to express, is that we don't want to see what has always been the best thing about GOG become an afterthought. As customers we do have a legitimate right to make our desires known and GOG would do well to keep them in mind. Somebody above made an insulting crack about people threatening to leave and implying they are idiots. This was an ironic comment for them to make considering that in twelve pages I've been reading I don't recall seeing that except I think in one single instance.

The division over this expressed here today speaks to the legitimacy of the issue at hand. Many of us very much appreciate and want to see GOG continue to provide Good Old Games. It is not wrong for us to want this. In my own opinion it isn't wrong either for GOG to want to expand its horizons and earn more money. That works for me. I want them to succeed so they can bring me more classics.

The whole angst thing today was all about, "Hey GOG, don't stop releasing classics twice a week like you have been." That is all. I don't think anybody needed to get shitty towards people wanting that. I didn't see a lot hating on the newer games or indies. I saw people not wanting less of the classics. Frankly, a promise of at least one a week when previously the status quo had been two isn't all that comforting.
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Posted March 30, 2012
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dirtyharry50: Snip
The problem mate is that those comments are completely pointless.

They JUST started to release new games. new feature so they concentrate on that. When we get new publisher we get first few games from them while every other publisher's releases are postponed.
this is no different.

The whining is simply childlish. Especially because machinarium is such a great game (so i heard. I myself had no chance to play it for many reasons) and does not deserve this whole thread.

four years worth of old games and more to come but 3 new games released in a row in a first week brings out such a immaturity?
Pointless.
Posted March 30, 2012
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dirtyharry50: Snip
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lukaszthegreat: The problem mate is that those comments are completely pointless.

They JUST started to release new games. new feature so they concentrate on that. When we get new publisher we get first few games from them while every other publisher's releases are postponed.
this is no different.

The whining is simply childlish. Especially because machinarium is such a great game (so i heard. I myself had no chance to play it for many reasons) and does not deserve this whole thread.

four years worth of old games and more to come but 3 new games released in a row in a first week brings out such a immaturity?
Pointless.
Once again, why the need to sink to insults? It isn't childish to have a view that happens to differ from yours, sorry.

I guessed while snipping you missed the part of my post where I pointed out ONE release a week now versus two, a step backwards, etc. Is it childish also to care about that?
Posted March 30, 2012
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dirtyharry50: Once again, why the need to sink to insults? It isn't childish to have a view that happens to differ from yours, sorry.

I guessed while snipping you missed the part of my post where I pointed out ONE release a week now versus two, a step backwards, etc. Is it childish also to care about that?
Childish is not an insult. it is criticism of how people act and how they are perceived. there is a meaning behind that word, therefore it is a valid argument which you of course can disprove.
They said: "at least one"
Its a difference.
We mostly got 2 releases a week, next week there will be 2 releases of old games too. Therefore nothing really changed.

Stating your worries is perfectly alright. Making a fuss such as in this thread is I believe, below the standards of this community.
Posted March 30, 2012
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dirtyharry50: Once again, why the need to sink to insults? It isn't childish to have a view that happens to differ from yours, sorry.

I guessed while snipping you missed the part of my post where I pointed out ONE release a week now versus two, a step backwards, etc. Is it childish also to care about that?
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lukaszthegreat: Childish is not an insult. it is criticism of how people act and how they are perceived. there is a meaning behind that word, therefore it is a valid argument which you of course can disprove.
They said: "at least one"
Its a difference.
We mostly got 2 releases a week, next week there will be 2 releases of old games too. Therefore nothing really changed.

Stating your worries is perfectly alright. Making a fuss such as in this thread is I believe, below the standards of this community.
You keep telling yourself that stuff. We'll see how it all turns out. Not that I agree with the explaining away of insults about being childish behavior, etc. but otherwise I hope you are right. I'd be just fine with that. Unfortunately, you don't know what the future holds anymore than anybody else posting here does with the exception of TheEnigmaticT and to some degree I sense he ain't telling.
Posted March 30, 2012
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lukaszthegreat: Childish is not an insult. it is criticism of how people act and how they are perceived. there is a meaning behind that word, therefore it is a valid argument which you of course can disprove.
They said: "at least one"
Its a difference.
We mostly got 2 releases a week, next week there will be 2 releases of old games too. Therefore nothing really changed.

Stating your worries is perfectly alright. Making a fuss such as in this thread is I believe, below the standards of this community.
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dirtyharry50: You keep telling yourself that stuff. We'll see how it all turns out. Not that I agree with the explaining away of insults about being childish behavior, etc. but otherwise I hope you are right. I'd be just fine with that. Unfortunately, you don't know what the future holds anymore than anybody else posting here does with the exception of TheEnigmaticT and to some degree I sense he ain't telling.
True. I don't know the future.

therefore why making a scene by saying it will be a bad future?
Posted March 30, 2012
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dirtyharry50: You keep telling yourself that stuff. We'll see how it all turns out. Not that I agree with the explaining away of insults about being childish behavior, etc. but otherwise I hope you are right. I'd be just fine with that. Unfortunately, you don't know what the future holds anymore than anybody else posting here does with the exception of TheEnigmaticT and to some degree I sense he ain't telling.
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lukaszthegreat: True. I don't know the future.

therefore why making a scene by saying it will be a bad future?
Where did I say the future WILL be bad?
Posted March 30, 2012
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dirtyharry50: The issue is GOOD OLD GAMES should not take a back seat to this stuff...
The last three release days in a row did not feature GOOD OLD GAMES.
Well, it is clear (at least for me) that Good Old Games has become GOG. It was clearly stated in the official announcement.
And why stumble on technicalities like a good old game needs to be max. year 2005 (for example)?
For me Machinarium (and other newer games) its exactly a good old game, it has the same spirit and savor, i truly enjoy it, like a classic ... and this makes it a classic in my book. It doesnt matter that it was release in 2010.
You cannot define a good old game by its release year. Just the word "old" doesnt mean anything.

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dirtyharry50: Now I notice the TheEnigmaticT states in this thread that they plan in the next two months to have at least ONE classic a week. Well that is sort of good news but it is also a step backwards from trying to have TWO a week. It was already a slow release schedule to begin with.
I've told you several times that every one of us has his own different definition for "classic".
So for some people, classic its also 2008-2010, and they'll have 2 classics release per week.
And more than 2 releases per week its really crazy, I for one dont have this much time just to play. There are a lot of people that have HUGE backlogs of games owned and not played yet. So this is not a "slow" schedule, its normal. Why would I buy a game and not play it? 3-5 releases per week? where in the hell would i have time to play those games?
etc

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dirtyharry50: ...we don't want to see what has always been the best thing about GOG become an afterthought.
You dont understand, the best of GOG just became better!
When you'll see things from this angle maybe you'll have a better understanding of what just happened here.
The service its improving not the other way arround, as you suggest it.

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dirtyharry50: As customers we do have a legitimate right to make our desires known and GOG would do well to keep them in mind.
Guess what, the customers have spoken, they want a new and improved GOG offerring new games, indies, etc
You're just part of a very vocal small minority (sic!) that doesnt want this to happen.

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dirtyharry50: ...a promise of at least one a week when previously the status quo had been two isn't all that comforting.
You know what, you have 2 options here:
-accept the change and embrace the new GOG;
-leave this community because you cant change for better.
Its just that simple.

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dirtyharry50: ...why the need to sink to insults? It isn't childish to ...
Childish is not an insult.
Its just your attitude towards this matter, pure childish. You've been served so many logical arguments but you insist on being childish. Suit yourself.
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