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Posted November 20, 2012
15,504 ways to play!

Decisions, decisions, decisions. Once the holiday season gets closer, you have to decide what gifts to buy, what wrapping to use, which phone numbers to accidentally delete. There are many decisions to make as you get ready for the holidays, but one decision that we’re making easy for you is, “Should I buy anything from GOG.com’s Black Friday sale?” (The answer is “yes”, by the way. ;) Not only are we launching the sale early--in case you spend Friday in a turkey-induced coma--but we’re also giving you the power to pick your own promo!

In our Pick 5 & Pay $10 sale you pick 5 out of twenty fantastic indie games and pay $10 for them regardless of the game’s regular full price. That's $2 per game, for such titles like Torchlight, Resonance, Alan Wake's American Nightmare, Botanicula, Geneforge 1-5, Uplink, To the Moon, and many others. Seven of these games are both PC and Mac compatible, so everyone can enjoy!

The games are fantastic--and there are so many of them! That's why we started this sale early: to give you time to pick your dream-set of 5 games out of 15,504 possible combinations. You could look at this as another decision you have to make this year, but unlike trying to figure out who you should sit next to your slightly crazy uncle at Thanksgiving dinner, this one’s fun!

Black Friday marks the start of the “shopping season” for the holidays, so don’t forget to buy the gift of GOG for a gamer you love--or even just kind of like. You can’t spread much more holiday joy than this for just $10.
Posted November 20, 2012
Great sale thanks: exactly 5 of my wishlisted games in the list.
Posted November 20, 2012
This is a nice surprise to come home to.

I have most of the games I want, but I can always get another copy or two to give away at this price.

Thanks for the great promo!
Posted November 20, 2012
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mondo84: People complain GOG's sales aren't good enough.

GOG has better sales with higher discounts.

People complain that GOG is going with the flow.

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LOL which one is it? Should GOG stand by their earlier stance or should they evolve? No matter what they choose people criticize them for giving in, going back on their word, etc.

There's just no logic in the big picture of the complaints. Only a strange need to raise a stink every time GOG makes an announcement, releases a game, or has a sale.
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tfishell: Well, keep in mind that, with so many different people here, you're going to get a variety of opinions anyway! Some people love the big sales, others are concerned that these big sales will devalue games and such - and thus bickering commences.

I'd suggest that these "stinks" are just a few vocal people creating a lots of posts.
I guess my point is that the contradicting viewpoints ("We want better sales! Wait, why did you give us better sales! Rabble rabble rabble!") come from the same people. It's not an issue of different people having different views so much as it is the same people contradicting themselves to raise a fuss because GOG is evil.
Posted November 20, 2012
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kalirion: Well then my advice would be useless because I preferred Blackwell to Gemini Rue.

Btw if you have the full Blackwell Saga, play Unbound - very different main character. And then play Convergence - Rosangela has had time to get used to the whole ghost thing by then.
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Foxhack: That's the point. You're not supposed to stand her at the start. She's awkward, she's reserved, antisocial... her cases make her improve as a person.

'Course, I find this out after beating the first game with commentary, so. :p
Thanks!, maybe i will give blackwell another shot then.

Next question: the bonus soundtrack of Gemini Rue is that a full album, or only a couple of short tracks?
Posted November 20, 2012
in general which ones if any will run on an average laptop? geneforge looks like it would, trine not, darwinia maybe ect I am terrible at computers. Should any of these be a problem? It'd be easier to tell if gog had demos.

also which ones are good/worth buying?
ect. and all other noob questions and such.
Post edited November 20, 2012 by pseudonarne
Posted November 20, 2012
Screenshots on GOG show Resonance as having high-res text, while screenshots and videos elsewhere show it having low-res text. Is low-res text an option for the GOG version? I much prefer low-res text. Also wondering if low-res text is available for Blackwell as well.
Posted November 20, 2012
I am tempted in a few of these game but are games like Gamini Rue and Resonance adventure games of old like Sam &Max: Hit the Road and Kings Quest. If they are then it will make me picking 5 games that much easier. :)
Posted November 20, 2012
What's just happened is I bought my selection of 5 games in this promo, downloaded them, organized them on my hard drive, then went back to playing my MMO of choice. Then a few hours later my guilt built up to the point where I decided to play at least one of the games I've just bought instead of let them all sink in my bottomless backlog as usual.

And so I've just finished playing through Unmechanical. It was an excellent, although short game - it took me about 2 hours to finish. It's really like a puzzle game version of Machinarium beautifully rendered in 3D in the Unreal Engine. Or perhaps a simplified reiteration of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet with less action and more puzzling. As expected of a game without words the story was simple, but I noticed that it left a few questions open and unresolved - whether by design or due to some other reason (e.g. sloppy writing) I'm not sure.

My overall impression of Unmechanical is that it's a very short but otherwise solid casual puzzle game, and at $2 I heartily recommend it to anyone who might be on the fence about getting it.
Posted November 20, 2012
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mondo84: I guess my point is that the contradicting viewpoints ("We want better sales! Wait, why did you give us better sales! Rabble rabble rabble!") come from the same people. It's not an issue of different people having different views so much as it is the same people contradicting themselves to raise a fuss because GOG is evil.
Are you sure? I suppose it's possible, but I have a hard time imagining this. I'd still suggest the "different people and different opinions = arguments" idea is valid. Take screenshots to document these contradictions. ;-)
Posted November 20, 2012
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silenthunter382: I am tempted in a few of these game but are games like Gamini Rue and Resonance adventure games of old like Sam &Max: Hit the Road and Kings Quest. If they are then it will make me picking 5 games that much easier. :)
Yes, they are along the line of the early-mid 90's adventure games.
Posted November 20, 2012
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Adzeth: This is one of those deals that has games that I want, but it makes 'em too cheap, so I'd feel bad if I bought 'em at that price -_-
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SCPM: I bought Shadow Warrior at full price and I felt like I underpaid, I love that game a lot. Since value is subjective, maybe GOG should just add that PWYW slider for every purchase with the base/sale price being the minimum, and let us pay them and the developers a little extra for those games we value more.
My reasoning for games that are "too cheap" is that sales don't happen every day. Thus I often buy games at full price or games with a small discount (eg: 10% off). So even though I am buying 5 games for $10, everything works out in the end. It's not like the $2/game I spend will be the last $2 for a game from that developer. So in the long run of things, I spend $15 here, $12 there, $2 in this promo, $5 another time and it all pretty much 'even-out' over time.
Posted November 20, 2012
I was curious and had to check the math in the announcement

They say 15,504 ways to play.

You have 20 distinct items and 5 boxes to place them in. Order does not matter, and there is no repetition. This is a combination problem, not a permutation.

So, the number of possible combinations is:

( n ! )/ [ r ! * (n - r) ! ), where n is the total number of items (n=20), and r is the number of choices or boxes (r=5)

Note that x ! = x * (x-1) * (x-2) * ... * 2 * 1

So, 20! / [ 5! * (20-5) ! ] = 2432902008176640000 / ( 120 * 1307674368000) = 15504

GOG wins!
Posted November 20, 2012
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pseudonarne: in general which ones if any will run on an average laptop? geneforge looks like it would, trine not, darwinia maybe ect I am terrible at computers. Should any of these be a problem? It'd be easier to tell if gog had demos.

also which ones are good/worth buying?
ect. and all other noob questions and such.
It all depends on the laptop - but taking my netbook at the worst case scenario:

I already have the geneforge set running on my netbook - I think there is one (number 5 maybe) that wont work - or is at least tricky to get going. On a laptop you should have no bother. Been enjoying the first in the series so far (incidentally Avadon: THe Black Fortress from the same guy works a treat).

I just bought Blackwell, Gemini Rue, Machinarium, Botanicula and Resonance - they all run fine (I had to change the graphics options to use Direct Draw 5 on the nebook). I havent given them a full run obviously but they all start up and go through the first minute or so with no problems. I cant comment on how good they are as I just got them - heard good things about them tho'.

Of the others that I know about:
- Torchlight actually has a netbook mode (surprised me) and is great fun
- Spacechem sadly wont go on my netbook but as long as you have a resolution of 1024x768 you should have no problem and is also excellent
- Defcon I never really managed to get into depsite wanting to like it
- Trine is good but I havent tried it on the netbook (doubt it would handle it really)
- Darwinia also excellent but not tried on netbook

Thats only the ones I know - I can't comment on the rest.

EDIT: Machinarium graphics are clipped on the netbook - trying to figure if I can change it.
Post edited November 20, 2012 by brianhutchison
Posted November 20, 2012
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mondo84: I guess my point is that the contradicting viewpoints ("We want better sales! Wait, why did you give us better sales! Rabble rabble rabble!") come from the same people. It's not an issue of different people having different views so much as it is the same people contradicting themselves to raise a fuss because GOG is evil.
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tfishell: Are you sure? I suppose it's possible, but I have a hard time imagining this. I'd still suggest the "different people and different opinions = arguments" idea is valid. Take screenshots to document these contradictions. ;-)
Sorry, I haven't been taking screenshots during the last year or so when these discussions come up. I don't need to win an e-argument that badly. :)
Posted November 20, 2012
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silenthunter382: I am tempted in a few of these game but are games like Gamini Rue and Resonance adventure games of old like Sam &Max: Hit the Road and Kings Quest. If they are then it will make me picking 5 games that much easier. :)
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AFnord: Yes, they are along the line of the early-mid 90's adventure games.
Thank you. Looks like I know my 5 games I will be getting.
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