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Posted February 15, 2011
[url=http://www.nowgamer.com/features/1207/most-influential-people-in-the-games-industry-pt1" target="blank][/url]This was unexpected, but definitely deserved, we won't argue about that ;) [url=http://www.nowgamer.com" target="blank]NowGamer[/url], a multiformat videogames website, have published a list of [url=http://www.nowgamer.com/features/1207/most-influential-people-in-the-games-industry-pt1" target="blank]"Most Influential People in the Games Industry"[/url] where among many great names, the staff have included Guillaume Rambourg - GOG.com's Managing Director! GOG and its boss appeared on the list for preserving the history of gaming and revitalizing classics for next generations of gamers. That's an honor for the whole GOG Team and an incentive to work even harder and bring even more great classics to the catalogue.
Posted February 15, 2011
Bobby Kotick's in the list? That's a sad statement on the game industry. Find it funny too, that both Todd Howard and Chris Avellone share nomination too, Todd "mass appeal console retardfriendly GTA clones in medieval forests games" Howard in the same list as Mr. Planescape Torment? :D
Posted February 15, 2011
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timw: Congratulations on making it on the list!

For the people who complained about big names not being on there:
I don't think this list is meant to be historical. It looks like a list of the people they think are big influences right now.
Fair enough, but Mario, Link, and so many other Miyamoto games are still some of the most popular best selling games on the market today. So from both a historical and a current perspective he is one of the most influential men in the gaming industry, and leaving him off the list is just ridiculous.
Posted February 15, 2011
Congratulations to the french monk and his merry men!

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drmlessgames: Todd "mass appeal console retardfriendly GTA clones in medieval forests games" Howard in the same list as Mr. Planescape Torment? :D
Aw man come on! Calling the elder scrolls series "GTA clones in medieval forests games" is a very silly thing to do. Though they are both called "sandbox games" I don' t think they have very much in common. It is like calling all all roleplaying games made today that use some kind of character stats Dragon Age: Origins clones since Dragon Age: Origins make use of character stats.

I have a bad feeling about the way Bethesda is walking and I don't like what they did to Fallout apart from the art direction but they are still a very good studio in my opinion. At least they haven't started to emulate the horrible World of Warcraft art style that is popular in fantasy game these days.
Post edited February 15, 2011 by Sargon
Posted February 15, 2011
There is no different ways the game can be played, you can be a master killer-mage-fighter-wizard-thief, no difference in the outcome of the game's linearity. It IS a GTA game. But that's what sells and pays to fund Skyrim, right?
Posted February 15, 2011
Yes there are some weaknesses (many if unmodded), but just because you can do something it doesn't mean that you should.
Posted February 15, 2011
Isnt that the whole point of roleplaying? Otherwise it's just a scripted action movie with QTE.
Posted February 15, 2011
Well done and well deserved. GoG will always stay many gamer's favourite.
Posted February 15, 2011
GOG has made enormous progress since I joined in '08.The GOG team wholly deserves this honor. Thanks to you guys, everyone can enjoy Planescape: Torment, Gabriel Knight, and MYST.
Posted February 15, 2011
Thoroughly deserved! Congratulations.
NOW FOR WORLD DOMINA...........too early?
Posted February 15, 2011
Congrats guys!!

Finally others will begin to learn what we here already know.

Congratulations again and keep up the outstanding work.
Posted February 15, 2011
Grats!

Now some facts for you felleas qouting that gibberish about elderscrolls beeing medieval forest gta clones; My problem with the statement, is it's quite the opposite case, arena the first installment was released in 1994. I don't care to google when gta 1 was released, but it was at least few years later
Posted February 15, 2011
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Khalaq: Let's check our list, here....

--Made it possible to legally purchase and play old PC games, breathing new life into old classics? CHECK.

--Put the pressure on other digital distributors to start offering the same classic hits? CHECK.

--Convinced doubting publishers that there was money to be made in reviving retired titles? CHECK.

--Did all of the above without DRM, thus making the point that the vast majority of PC gamers are more than willing to pay for good value received. DOUBLE CHECK.


Yes, I'd say that GOG's recognition is well-deserved. Congratulations, gentlemen. )


-Khalaq
You should've made #3 on the list "Convinced doubting publishers that there was money to be made in reviving retired titles while stripping out all unnecessary DRM." [emphasis added]

(While I don't know if they removed the copy-protection from games like Space Quest 5 and King's Quest 6, if they didn't, I'd imagine it was because they were either a necessary puzzle or there was too much fan nostalgia attached to remove.)
Posted February 15, 2011
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drmlessgames: Isnt that the whole point of roleplaying? Otherwise it's just a scripted action movie with QTE.
If you are really roleplaying you are trying to make the choices that your character would make in the gameworld as if it were a real world. Thus he would not think : "Crap I only have two hitpoints left," He would think: "Agh it hurts!" and "Where is my healing potion?"

I'm not that good at it myself either, usually when I try to roleplay (and not just play the game) a CRPG or a strategy game I make most of my decisions for strategic reasons and then make up some explanation for why it happened afterwards.
Post edited February 15, 2011 by Sargon
Posted February 15, 2011
Congratulations!

You should do the Monk dress up thing again. Walking around as Franciscan monks holding game boxes and manuals instead of bibles and the suchlike.
Posted February 15, 2011
Awesome! Surely such an amazing monk can hurry up and get us Zork Nemesis.
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