Since I was surprised at first to find I own about half or 2/3 of the titles offered, it was fairly easy to pick 5 I wanted. Largely cause the ones left weren't interesting in the slightest to me!

Torchlight (been eyeballing that a while on different sites)
Trine (been in my wishlist since release)
Geneforge 1-5 (been in my wishlist since release)

The real tough calls were Mutant Mudds & Darwinia. I'd missed the former in a recent indie bundle, and although it looks interesting, I certainly wouldn't want to pay full price for it. Darwinia was a mixed bag I'd been long on the fence about. Multiwinia looks like it but exclusively multiplayer which I avoid like the plague, so that was obviously not gonna happen. Then someone said in a review that Darwinia was a lot less frantic and moved at a slower pace, so I thought, what the hell.

So it's like I bought the first three, and the other two were little bonuses that I may or may not enjoy. Either way, I'm quite satisfied with a sale of theirs for the first time in some time.

^^ This.

It doesn't matter if GOG keeps from selling at a huge discount because the other DDs will do it anyway and take the money that could be on GOG's pocket. And then all those whiners who are bitching and moaning now grab those same games at 80% off on Steam and walk away happily saying how Steam has "teh awesomest promos evar!!11!!!one! "

Edit: As for the games, I'm really on the fence here. I'm absolutely set to grab Trine and To the moon no matter what. Geneforge too at first, but I shudder whenever I think how little time I have to dedicate to an RPG, much less 5! So I think I'll pass. I might have a deal with another GOGer that wants just one game I already own as well.
As for the last 2 slots, I'm divided between a quite varied selection of 4 games out of my more usual genres: Symphony, Anomaly Warzone Earth, Darwinia, or just scream "What the heck" and grab Geneforge anyway. So what do you guys recommend?

Great promo the hardest part is deciding which games to choose

Just buy four 5-packs and you'll have them all!

You seem to be implying that being awkward, reserved, and antisocial are bad character traits. Harumph. I, and I suspect many other introverts, would disagree. :)

(By the way, I haven't played these games, so I'm only basing my comments on yours.)

-Justin

You can play offline, with bots...

Considering I am an introverted person...

They're not bad character traits. But she has them, and they play an important part in her character development. She's still like that during her third adventure - but by then she's learned how to interact with other people better.

I meant I avoid multiplayer itself because I don't enjoy it. Bots or real people, doesn't matter much. Everything I read is that Multiwinia is a faster, more hectic version of Darwinia with a heavy emphasis on multiplayer game style.

It's not my thing.

There aren't 5 games on there that are actually interesting to me....

I feel like joining the critics of this way of doing business. It's not just GOG, but I think GOG should find the courage to be different, since it started with this intention. That everybody else is doing it and you have to follow the stream just doesn't make sense.
I was tempted (I'm still tempted) to get this bundle, but I realize I have so many games that I still have to play that probably I wouldn't play them, even if Wadjet's titles look interesting. But I wonder if they really are, I mean, I'm a slow gamer because I like taking games slowly, and I wonder if it isn't better to read a good book at that point, since the time investment would be at least the same... In the end I think I'll restrain myself and I'll pass, and I'll probably pass also in the future.
Maybe I'm catastrophist, but I think the market is getting seriously on drugs. Really it's the same mechanism of drug addiction, and the first addicted is GOG itself, along with Steam and the bundle madness. Some people say these 80% discounts increase sales, but in the long term? With drugs it's the same, euphoria at first, then you need them just to stay normal. And then you crack. I wonder who's still buying games at full price. This kind of sales is ok for very old games (and not even classic ones) that nobody would ever consider buying or even know of without them, not for new games. I f they do it it's just for one reason, that otherwise they don't sell. We're already at the point that the true value of these games is not their full price, but the discounted one (at 70% or more). Really most games nowadays have the depth of (Marvel) comic books (at most). Am I expecting a a new Deus-Ex every day? No, but somehow I doubt that they'll come out more frequently this way. If this is just the normal course of things, and it may well be, I think it's a bad sign and the market is going to burn out. The big crash of the early 80's had more or less the same reasons, too much offer, too little quality, and even less sense.

Please GOG, turn back to your roots and promote quality gaming, not quantity.

1. stop this madness and be different from the other sheep. If you wonder how you could still do business, I wonder it too. But think of everything that didn't sell out and is still around. Just because they cared about quality and not about selling billions of units. I read of people who had CH joysticks for years, they never broke. They never sold billions, and they're still in business. Last Logitech mouse I bought was dead in 6 months, and I'll never buy another one in my life, see the difference?

2. if I weren't a DOS gamer and I came here, I wouldn't know what all this is about. I would think it's a digital shop for Indie and semi-old obscure games, not for CLASSICS (of any date). There isn't even a definite section for DOS games. Yes you can browse for genres, even indies, but it should be like: you want real classics? This section. Curious about indies? This other section. And yes, there is some other stuff in the backroom, if you really want to check it out, other section.

3. Old DOS games had sometimes monster manuals of 300 pages, today who would be so crazy to do something like that? That's progress I guess? Ever noticed that the games whose manuals have heavy watermarks usually suck? Sorry for digressing, but it's all tied together in a way, I think.

Nope, that's a PR hit. As a two-way PWYW promo, it's fine. A store can't really afford to ask for donations.

But others could take the opportunity of a PWYW slider to pay less, so GOG could end up with less money. As a fan of GOG you don't want that.

But paying more is really easy. Just buy the game multiple times and give the gift codes away. That way you can pay extra whatever amount you want and at the same time make a good deed for some poor chap. Much better solution IMHO.

Yeah, but GOG didn't make those games, they're just selling them. You would really give 100$ for this? Some people are so in love with GOG that it could seem they actually made the games. GOG is not selling the car, is selling you the right to use it. The car has been around for years in abandonware sites, that were even considered 'barely legal' until GOG came. I'd wish for example that DOSBox's authors were seeing some money from this, but I understood it isn't so. Anyway I don't want to criticize GOG for this, it's normal they want to do business, and I care for them more than other retailers, just I'd like them to stick with their original spirit and not to bend to the twists of a market tat could be going to hell, for all we know.

I would say that:

1. your gaming gems risk often to drown among not-so-great titles, since they are all put together. Also, I know what I'm looking for, mostly, but younger people who never heard of those games?

2. if a game is really good, and you really care about a certain world of games like I think you do, you shouldn't be happy if they 'try' them, but only if they actually play them. Old DOS games like Ultima/Realms of Arkania/Might&Magic etc. take a really long time to finish, even if you aren't slow like me :)