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General discussion (archive)Special Promo: IGN's Year of Adventure: King's Quest 1+2+3(79 posts)(79 posts)
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Posted February 09, 2014
Let's go adventuring!

Pick up King's Quest 1, 2, and 3 for 60% off--and go read IGN's Year of Adventure retrospective on the series here!

The cool cats over at IGN have decided that this year they will run a "Year of Adventure" series of retrospective of some of the best adventure games ever made. We heard about that and said, "Fantastically good classic adventure games? The devil you say! We have loads of those here at GOG.com. Maybe we can work together to increase the amount of awesome on the Internet!"

And lo, we have. While we don't have *every* fantastic classic adventure game in the catalog (yet! We're keep trying!), for the games that we do have in our collection that IGN has found to be worth covering in their retrospective series, we'll be offering that game at a great discount for 48 hours after their article runs.

The first game we're offering is the incomparable King's Quest 1 + 2 + 3 series. IGN's article covers what makes these games so compelling--even today--in greater depth than we can in a newspost like this. Check out the article--and the sale--and tell us what you think a critical game for a "year of adventure" retrospective should be in the comments below. The offer lasts until Tuesday, February 11, at 11:59PM GMT.
Posted February 10, 2014
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Wishbone: I think a critical game for a "year of adventure" retrospective would be anything from LucasArts. Now get Disney on the horn and work out a deal ;-)
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TheEnigmaticT: We've been trying.

For, like, 5 years. >.>
Not hard enough. Try offering them some DRM-free Pizza
Post edited February 10, 2014 by mrking58
Posted February 10, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: We've been trying.

For, like, 5 years. >.>
You had your chance, you just had to give more money than Disney and buy LA :]
Posted February 10, 2014
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Telika: From IGN :

People who grew up playing games like this will never understand someone who uses the same save slot to save their progress, as doing so for them could very well trigger a nervous breakdown.
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Telika: Actually yes. I realise that I haven't loaded a "former save game" for ages, yet I always keep saving in different slots, and panic when there are too few of them available.

I hadn't realised how deeply such games had traumatised me. I feel like a veteran who, in times of peace, just can't get rid of his war tricks. :-/
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mrking58: I have never played a text point and click adventure game.

Tonight I will think about picking this one up
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Telika: Yes well... think about picking space quest or hero quest instead, maybe ?

I adored King Quest when they were new (and new they were, yes), but they're not necessarily the most fun and encouraging ones to play, for a first contact. I adore text parsers, and sierra's combination of them with graphic adventures, wouldn't want you to get disgusted of the genre if it's your first try...
Gateway: Homeworld (and the excellent sequel) by Legend Entertainment are, in my opinion, the best text parser adventure games made. You should check 'em out if you don't know 'em.

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TheEnigmaticT: We've been trying.

For, like, 5 years. >.>
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SLP2000: You had your chance, you just had to give more money than Disney and buy LA :]
Didn't they sell LA for, like, 2 billion USD? I'm pretty sure that's outside of our petty cash budget here at GOG. :P
Post edited February 10, 2014 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted February 10, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: Didn't they sell LA for, like, 2 billion USD? I'm pretty sure that's outside of our petty cash budget here at GOG. :P
There's always an excuse, always :P
Posted February 10, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: Didn't they sell LA for, like, 2 billion USD? I'm pretty sure that's outside of our petty cash budget here at GOG. :P
That's why Jesus invented lottery - just make it mandatory GOG employees buy 5 tickets each month and with a little luck someone will win. Provided they don't get eaten by a shark or hit by lightning, which are both more likely options :/ Here's to hope!
Posted February 10, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: Didn't they sell LA for, like, 2 billion USD? I'm pretty sure that's outside of our petty cash budget here at GOG. :P
I'm pretty sure there are a few users on GOG who would have gladly kicked in a few bucks to cover it. :)


Just curious though, is there any noticeable difference in talking with Disney in regards to the game IP's they now hold due to the sale or is just the same old talking heads that don't see the benefit of releasing old games.
Post edited February 10, 2014 by wolfsite
Posted February 10, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: Didn't they sell LA for, like, 2 billion USD? I'm pretty sure that's outside of our petty cash budget here at GOG. :P
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DrRoxo: That's why Jesus invented lottery - just make it mandatory GOG employees buy 5 tickets each month and with a little luck someone will win. Provided they don't get eaten by a shark or hit by lightning, which are both more likely options :/ Here's to hope!
In Poland, the lottery tens to run to about 15 million PLN, or about 5 million dollars.

So we'd need to win the lottery 400 times before we could afford that...
Posted February 10, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: In Poland, the lottery tens to run to about 15 million PLN, or about 5 million dollars.

So we'd need to win the lottery 400 times before we could afford that...
Oooh, that was billions! Funny how my brain seems to misunderstand and sometimes completely block out the numbers it doesn't understand. Well, good luck anyway :)

EDIT: also, I'm totes not fangirling right now cause Mr T replied to my post. Totes not. >_>
Post edited February 10, 2014 by DrRoxo
Posted February 10, 2014
How can anybody hate IGN? Look what game they liked!
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2008/04/28/jack-keane-review
Posted February 10, 2014
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IwubCheeze: I apologize in advance for the ignorant post here but why the IGN hate?
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groze: No need to apologize, mate! In all honesty, all the IGN hate comes mostly out of the well known internet bandwagon effect. It's cool to hate IGN, and it shows you're "intelligent" and not part of that uninformed mass of people that still care about what IGN has to say. I absolutely forgot the reasons behind it, all I know is that you *have* to hate IGN if you consider yourself a "true gamer" (whatever that may be).

Personally? I neither hate nor love them, I read some of their articles and find them to be informative, most of the articles are crap, but that happens with pretty much every media editorials, big or small -- it's just human nature to blindly hate the big ones, but keep in mind that today's "small" is tomorrow's "big". Whether big or small news companies, you need to learn how to be selective and pick the news and the articles you find interesting, and that goes to IGN as well.

With that said, they *do* generate a lot of traffic and I more than welcome this partnership, as I can see good things coming GOG's way due to it.
Oh, so that's all it was, I thought it was something major and specific that happened. Before posting, I also did a quick Google search on "why IGN sucks" and all I found was the same criticisms that I have with any major publication. Mostly, inconsistent criteria when reviewing a game. For example slamming one game for being too linear yet giving another game a glowing review even though that game was also linear, just stuff like that. One reason I stopped reading PC Gamer way back in 1999 was because a lot of their reviews (at that time) were obsessed over a games graphics. However, some of these major publications also allow users to submit their own reviews so it does balance out, definitely nothing to spew hate over. Anyways, my question has been answered so I'll just drop it now.

Defiantely agree on your last comment. If IGN's event will generate traffic to GoG then that's definitely a good thing, More customers means more money for Gog which means Gog will have more resources to acquire more titles. The only things worse off will be our wallets and our game backlogs (just got mine down to 23 yesterday).
Posted February 10, 2014
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Wishbone: I think a critical game for a "year of adventure" retrospective would be anything from LucasArts. Now get Disney on the horn and work out a deal ;-)
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TheEnigmaticT: We've been trying.

For, like, 5 years. >.>
What would Sean Connery have to say to that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD5GtohtRYU

Sad that Disney just doesn't grok video games.
Post edited February 10, 2014 by andysheets1975
Posted February 10, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: Gateway: Homeworld (and the excellent sequel) by Legend Entertainment are, in my opinion, the best text parser adventure games made. You should check 'em out if you don't know 'em.
I should, I should. But can I ?

...

ahA. It was all a TRAP. Nice try, almost fell for it.
Post edited February 10, 2014 by Telika
Posted February 10, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: Gateway: Homeworld (and the excellent sequel) by Legend Entertainment are, in my opinion, the best text parser adventure games made. You should check 'em out if you don't know 'em.
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Telika: I should, I should. But can I ?

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ahA. It was all a TRAP. Nice try, almost fell for it.
Sadly, we don't sell them here, no.
Posted February 10, 2014
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Telika: I should, I should. But can I ?

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ahA. It was all a TRAP. Nice try, almost fell for it.
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TheEnigmaticT: Sadly, we don't sell them here, no.
Well, do.

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/frederik_pohls_gateway
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/gateway_ii_homeworld

(Forumers, tell them to do.)

(Also, why weren't they on Amiga. This is not fair.)
Post edited February 10, 2014 by Telika
Posted February 10, 2014
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nadenitza: Play the free remakes from AGD they are AWESOME!

http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html
Don't know a thing about IGN or the value of this promo, but comments like this are the reason I love reading these threads. Thanks for the links nadenitza.
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