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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 30, 2012
Machinarium is a beautiful, fun, innovative and inspired game. I don't like point'n'clicks for about ten years now, but I'd play Machinarium (I only played the demo, when it was released).
Posted March 30, 2012
I'd just like to point out that those saying "didn't everyone say they wanted NEW games on GOG?" shouldn't be so quick to assume everyone was for these changes. I for one didn't know about most of them until it was largely too late to say anything, and when I did those in favour of the changes ganged up and ranted at me for not "supporting" GOG's growth.

I'll say now what I said then. I didn't come here for "new" games, most Indie games can be found elsewhere.. often for cheaper, which is also important to me. Money is always tight, and the number of games I buy is getting lower and lower. But places like GOG, Steam, and a few other places were able to keep me gaming with older (or less powerful) stuff my computer could actually handle.

Going on about how awesome it is we have games like Machinarium, which may be the best thing since sliced bread, but wouldn't matter a pair of fetid dingo's kidneys if my computer can't run it. Especially with these higher prices, such as $14.99. Thankfully Machinarium isn't that high and I'll await it going on sale... but the thing is, I came to GOG cause it sold games I could afford, AND could run.


Then again.. this thread was supposed to be about Machinarium, and I've seen very little discussion about it. That's a bit sad, but I realize there's more at stake than just an indie game.
Posted March 31, 2012
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HiroshiMishima: I'd just like to point out that those saying "didn't everyone say they wanted NEW games on GOG?" shouldn't be so quick to assume everyone was for these changes. I for one didn't know about most of them until it was largely too late to say anything, and when I did those in favour of the changes ganged up and ranted at me for not "supporting" GOG's growth.
For sure it wasnt everyone down to peanuts, but for sure it was the vast majority that wanted this.
The way i see it, this small vocal minority has 2 options:
-accept the change and embrace the new GOG;
-leave this community because it cant give you what you want anymore (that is only old games).
Its just that simple.

Ofc you can also stay here and "express your concerns" (in my book that's bitching) every time a newer game or indie gets released instead of your precious old games but then be prepared to meet the other (bigger) camp's arguments.
Post edited March 31, 2012 by mobutu
Posted March 31, 2012
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HiroshiMishima: I'd just like to point out that those saying "didn't everyone say they wanted NEW games on GOG?" shouldn't be so quick to assume everyone was for these changes. I for one didn't know about most of them until it was largely too late to say anything, and when I did those in favour of the changes ganged up and ranted at me for not "supporting" GOG's growth.
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mobutu: For sure it wasnt everyone down to peanuts, but for sure it was the vast majority that wanted this.
The way i see it, this small vocal minority has 2 options:
-accept the change and embrace the new GOG;
-leave this community because it cant give you what you want anymore (that is only old games).
Its just that simple.

Ofc you can also stay here and "express your concerns" (in my book that's bitching) every time a newer game or indie gets released instead of your precious old games but then be prepared to meet the other (bigger) camp's arguments.
From what I have read on this forum, many of the "bigger camp" welcome the indie games on GOG but seem to a: Note that they have already bought (On Steam/direct for dev). b: Point out cheeper elsewhere or that they will probably wait for the sale.

To make these points is not "Bitching." In terms of cost and market saturation they are fair criticisms which many people are able to make without resorting to name calling.
Post edited March 31, 2012 by drewpants
Posted March 31, 2012
I've got propositions for indie releases:
1) Super Meat Boy,
2) Zeno Clash,
3) LIMBO,
4) Braid,
5) World of Goo,
6) Penumbra Anthology,
7) Cave Story+
Post edited March 31, 2012 by MichJack2010
Posted April 01, 2012
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HiroshiMishima: I'd just like to point out that those saying "didn't everyone say they wanted NEW games on GOG?" shouldn't be so quick to assume everyone was for these changes. I for one didn't know about most of them until it was largely too late to say anything, and when I did those in favour of the changes ganged up and ranted at me for not "supporting" GOG's growth.
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mobutu: For sure it wasnt everyone down to peanuts, but for sure it was the vast majority that wanted this.
The way i see it, this small vocal minority has 2 options:
-accept the change and embrace the new GOG;
-leave this community because it cant give you what you want anymore (that is only old games).
Its just that simple.

Ofc you can also stay here and "express your concerns" (in my book that's bitching) every time a newer game or indie gets released instead of your precious old games but then be prepared to meet the other (bigger) camp's arguments.
How magnanimous of you, may I also eat my lunch or is that going to somehow affront the people that want indie games here?

Seriously, do you have any idea how pompous you sound giving leave to express completely legitimate concerns about bringing games which are often times available elsewhere at a low price and without DRM?
Posted April 01, 2012
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hedwards: ...completely legitimate concerns...
These are not the right words to describe it. On the contrary.
Read the whole topic and you'll see some of the real words for this kind of behavior: childish, overreacting, even paranoia.
Posted April 01, 2012
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hedwards: ...completely legitimate concerns...
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mobutu: These are not the right words to describe it. On the contrary.
Read the whole topic and you'll see some of the real words for this kind of behavior: childish, overreacting, even paranoia.
After all the material you have given concerning your personality through your intransigent, aggressive, violent, and even obsessive comments along this thread, so suspicious of others being paranoid and so quick to condemn them, something interesting has become quite a believable possibility :
That you may be the ghost of Mobutu, or rather someone very close to this dictator.
Seriously.
"http://knowyourdictator.com/dictators/mobutu-sese-seko"

(Yes, yes, yes, we know already, don't bother to point it out: this comment is childish, reflecting a 3 years old mentality, (which you strangely associate systematically to being capricious and stupid), and has obviously been written by an idiot who doesn't have enough brain to agree with you.)

Also, it is certain that anyone trying to pick "Adolph H." or "Mussolini", or even "Ceaușescu" or "Gaddafi" as a nickname would have been rejected. That "Mobutu" could have been accepted must be some sort of mistake.
Post edited April 01, 2012 by Merchito
Posted April 01, 2012
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hedwards: ...completely legitimate concerns...
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mobutu: These are not the right words to describe it. On the contrary.
Read the whole topic and you'll see some of the real words for this kind of behavior: childish, overreacting, even paranoia.
I reiterate, you just come off as pompous and arrogant when you make those sorts of comments. It's legitimate to be concerned that GOG has lost its focus.

You yourself are hardly a paragon of virtue here in that you've made it quite clear that any disagreement with the bigger camp.
Posted April 01, 2012
mobutu please stop writing nonsense. And grow up.
Posted April 01, 2012
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hedwards: I reiterate, you just come off as pompous and arrogant when you make those sorts of comments. It's legitimate to be concerned that GOG has lost its focus.
You can call it what you like, for me its just the truth, nothing else: GOG hasnt lost its focus, on the contrary, its focus now is on a new level, a better one.

It s a very simple concept: GOG has to expand in order to survive.
GOG cant stay at this level of releasing only old games just because a small minority is afraid of changes.
Doing so, expanding, we are assured that they can bring other old games to the market. So you have nothing to worry from this point of view.
They stated countless times that they'll stick to old games, but you guys literally act like childs, you need "promises" (lol).
Hardly a week passed since they launch this campaign and you cant wait at least 1 month to see where this is going ... no, you need to "express your legimate concerns" (lol).
Get on your grips, its so simple, from now on GOG will release other games besides the old ones. Whether you want this or not. It's the natural and logical way of expanding, of growing, of getting bigger, of delivering more than just a niche.
But no, you only want old games. I would have understanded if you were to complain about the quality of the new releases ... that would have been allright (thou i'm confident GOG will release, in vast majority, only quality titles). Nobody is perfect, not even GOG.
If one cannot comprehend such a simple concept ... what can i say?
As far as I'm concerned, labeling this kind of attitude like "childish" or "overreacting" its only obvious, pure truth.

Anyway, no matter what you'll do GOG will not return back from this new logical path they've chosen (because we, their clients, drove them here, remember?) just because a small part of their clients is afraid of change and only want to stick to the old GOG.

Like they say, it's inevitable.

That is why i listed some choices that you can take/do.

Yes, Merchito, this comment speaking of new, choice, growth, logical expanding etc comes from a dictator, go figure that.
There is nothing "aggresive" and/or "violent" there, as you implied. You're probably just too sensitive and take offence where is nothing but the truth.
Posted April 01, 2012
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hedwards: I reiterate, you just come off as pompous and arrogant when you make those sorts of comments. It's legitimate to be concerned that GOG has lost its focus.
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mobutu: You can call it what you like, for me its just the truth, nothing else: GOG hasnt lost its focus, on the contrary, its focus now is on a new level, a better one.

It s a very simple concept: GOG has to expand in order to survive.
GOG cant stay at this level of releasing only old games just because a small minority is afraid of changes.
First you say that they haven't lost their focus, then you say their focus is on a new level...

It has nothing to do with being "afraid of changes", as most people have welcomed an expansion (if it comes as something extra). The most important thing is continous releases of the classics - everything else we can easily get elsewhere. I already own all the new releases bar Legends of Grimrock, and they are already easily available for me. That means there is nothing exciting about the new releases so far. If they continue to release two classics a week then everything is fine, but this week the thursday release was a new game (in the place of a classic). That is a worrying sign.

I've shown loyalty to Good Old Games by buying their entire catalogue, but that is not the sort of loyalty they can expect for their new line of games. I haven't even decided if I'm going to buy Legends of Grimrock on GOG or Steam.
Posted April 01, 2012
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ithilien827: First you say that they haven't lost their focus, then you say their focus is on a new level...
If what i wanted to say wasnt clear enough then let me rephrase: they havent lost their focus, they fine tuned their focus, they enhanced it, they took it to the next (inevitable) level.
There you go, hope it's crystal clear now.

Yes it is, imho, "afraid of change", of welcoming of newer quality games here on GOG. All of you take your time to express precisely that.

And the "continuous release of classics" its impossible, because there'll also be newer game releases. And these will break that "continuous". Hopefully these newer games will be "classic" too, not on their age but relatively to their essence, charm, flavor etc. If you get my point.
So there'll be old and new, not only "continuous" old.

And speaking of "loyalty", it is great that one have all gog catalogue, kudos to that.
But the way i see it gog has done tremendous service to gaming industry in general and to us in particular and given the fact that they now host newer games now its just a great oportunity for us to say thanks for the great service provided so far.

Why not buy old and new HERE? As long as they release quality old and new titles and they stick to drm-free and flat-worldwide-pricing I'm looking forward to show my gratitude/loyalty to the only dd service that matters. IMHO

They were the ONLY dd service that bring back the quality old games. I have enjoyed them and i cannot thank them enough for bringing them to me, when all hope was lost.
And now, when they add newer quality games, should i trash them for "not being true to their value" or "losing their focus" or "i quit this service" or "whatever trash was in this topic"? Should I forget all the good things? All this time they mentioned a gazzillion times they WONT abandon the old games.
No, i should buy these newer games from them, not from somebody else. Its the way i see it.
Post edited April 01, 2012 by mobutu
Posted April 02, 2012
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mobutu: SNIP
Nice trolling, we didn't drive them to this decision, I personally have bought over a hundred games from them and I doubt very much that they're hurting for sales from other people as well.

Expanding sales is reasonable enough, but the fact is that there are plenty of others ways in which they could have expanded their sales that wouldn't distract focus from providing DRM-free retro games on modern hardware. Expanding into an already glutted market is usually not a wise move. Indie games tend to be DRM free and the others tend to be smaller developers that have to rely upon Steam to get heard, neither of which really need to be here at the moment.
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ithilien827: First you say that they haven't lost their focus, then you say their focus is on a new level...
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mobutu: If what i wanted to say wasnt clear enough then let me rephrase: they havent lost their focus, they fine tuned their focus, they enhanced it, they took it to the next (inevitable) level.
There you go, hope it's crystal clear now.
Methinks you don't understand what focus is.
Post edited April 02, 2012 by hedwards
Posted April 02, 2012
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hedwards: ...we didn't drive them to this decision...
Yes, we did, remember that survey they did among customers?
Ofc, not everyone down to peanuts wanted this but the (vast) majority did.
You can look at this from whatever angle you like, in the end this is a solid fact.

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hedwards: Expanding into an already glutted market is usually not a wise move.
Im pretty sure GOG wont sell crap games so I'll say it again: as long as they release quality games, drm-free and flat-worldwide-pricing the expanding WILL be a good/smart move. It doesnt matter the age of a game, it matters the quality of it which makes it an instant classic or not.

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hedwards: Methinks you don't understand what focus is.
Sorry, but you dont understand evolution. GOG is evolving into a better service.
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