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Posted June 06, 2014
Rogue Legacy, Thunderscape, Steamworld Dig, and more indies & classics for as little as $1.79!

June Jamboree</a>With yesterday's launch of The Witcher: Wild Hunt exclusive pre-orders we've got quite a lot of new people discovering GOG.com. Hello! Welcome to your DRM-Free one-step online boutique full of gaming goodness! This here, is the June Jamboree sale, one of our weekly promos, always starting on Friday, at 10:00AM GMT and lasting throughout the whole weekend, up to Tuesday at 3:59 in the morning. With all the new faces around, we thought it would be a nice thing to mix our weekend offer a bit, so it features some neat titles both from our unsurpassed classic catalog as well as our extensive indie offer. Let's take a quick look at some of the games, shall we?

Steamworld Dig is one of the newer titles in the offer. It's a platform mining adventure with strong Metroidvanian influences. Take the role of Rusty, a lone mining steambot, as he arrives at an old mining town in great need. Dig your way through the old earth, gaining riches while uncovering the ancient threat that lurks below. Yours for only $4.99, this weekend!

Thunderscape is one of the golden classics from the good old days. It presents you with many time-proven RPG ideas that work together so well, that it's astounding that anyone would want to modify them. You get a party of six brave champions, a large gameworld to explore, lots of items to collect, stats to build, and enemies to slay. With everything that made dungeon crawlers so successful in the 1990 and some very distinctive steampunk-ish feel, this game is highly recommended to all cRPG fans looking for a challenge. Now, only $1.79!

Finally, Rogue Legacy, an indie smash-hit of 2013, known for its insane replayability leading to severe cases of the "just-one-more-playthrough" syndrome. You will get to choose among the children to pick the character whose traits and flaws suit you the most, and continue their parent's quest retaining the stat bonuses and equipment they managed to secure. A difficult, challenging, but extremely rewarding and fun! Only $4.99 until Tuesday!

That's only a small part of our June Jamboree weekend offer. There's 16 more exciting titles, new and old, waiting to be discovered in the promo page. They will tempt you with their ridiculously low prices only until Tuesday, June 10, at 3:59AM GMT, so don't miss out!
Posted June 06, 2014
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IAmSinistar: No recommendations for Fist Puncher? It's almost like you people don't want to support games created with a 30-day trial copy of Visual Basic and MS-Paint.
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JudasIscariot: Any game that has a level where I get to break up a Fuhrer's birthday party and beat the crap out of neo-fascists and klansmen is a good game by me :)
That does sound enjoyable, as well as morally gratifying. And normally I'm the last person to let graphics sway my decision, but these are just way too grating. I don't feel that I could get any sense of immersion to enjoy the game's good points.
Posted June 07, 2014
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phaolo: Hey, can you tell me something about these please:
- Conquest: Frontier Wars -> average or worthy?
- Scratches Director's Cut -> good or great?
- Swapper -> seems nice, but I fear it's overrated
- Steamworld Dig -> is it like Spelunky? Better \ worse?
- Depths of Peril -> is it better than Darkstone?
Also, I fogot to mention - if you want to play DoP before you buy it, you can go to Soldak's website and download a fairly large demo. Cool part is your progress carries over if you purchase the game!
Posted June 07, 2014
Launched Depths of Peril and realised, hey wait a second, I recognize this! Apparently I played a demo? of it years ago and completely forgot the name. Neat!
Posted June 07, 2014
Quick question - are Depths of Peril any good plot-wise?
Posted June 07, 2014
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Novotnus: Quick question - are Depths of Peril any good plot-wise?
XD NO!
Still fun game albeit I just bought it yesterday but so far I'm digging it. There seems to be a lot of "alliance" and "clan prominence/power" stuff but not really any story or plot.
Posted June 07, 2014
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tinyE: XD NO!
Still fun game albeit I just bought it yesterday but so far I'm digging it. There seems to be a lot of "alliance" and "clan prominence/power" stuff but not really any story or plot.
Well, the description kind of sounded more like a strategy game than RPG...
Thanks!
Posted June 07, 2014
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tinyE: XD NO!
Still fun game albeit I just bought it yesterday but so far I'm digging it. There seems to be a lot of "alliance" and "clan prominence/power" stuff but not really any story or plot.
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Novotnus: Well, the description kind of sounded more like a strategy game than RPG...
Thanks!
No, it's pure hack & slash but it just keeps reminding you of clans and stuff.
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tinyE: XD NO!
Still fun game albeit I just bought it yesterday but so far I'm digging it. There seems to be a lot of "alliance" and "clan prominence/power" stuff but not really any story or plot.
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Novotnus: Well, the description kind of sounded more like a strategy game than RPG...
Thanks!
Here. Normally I avoid GameSpot reviews but this little bit does a nice job of pointing out some of the differences and little tweeks that set it apart from being standard H&S.
- additional things to do, due to the diplomatic interactions with other convents
- shared stash among all characters created
- the chance to create a new world after you Save&Exit, adjusting it to your level and preference of difficulty but keeping all items and recruits (only the additional guards, diplomatic relations and quests will be lost)
- cute little extras with buying guards for your house
- lots and lots of things and equipment to be found, a dream of all those collecting souls out there
Post edited June 07, 2014 by tinyE
Posted June 07, 2014
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MindsEyeSplinter: Of course I would buy Depths of Peril HOURS before it goes on sale! Se la vie...[..]
Thank you +1
I'll wishlist it for the moment, however, and buy the cheaper titles in the promo.
Posted June 07, 2014
Took the opportunity and picked up The Swapper, Thanks GOG.
Posted June 07, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Any game that has a level where I get to break up a Fuhrer's birthday party and beat the crap out of neo-fascists and klansmen is a good game by me :)
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IAmSinistar: That does sound enjoyable, as well as morally gratifying. And normally I'm the last person to let graphics sway my decision, but these are just way too grating. I don't feel that I could get any sense of immersion to enjoy the game's good points.
I don't know, I like the graphics myself but then again, I am quite easy to please in the graphics department as I tend look over the mechanics of a game first, graphics second :)
Posted June 07, 2014
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JudasIscariot: I don't know, I like the graphics myself but then again, I am quite easy to please in the graphics department as I tend look over the mechanics of a game first, graphics second :)
Likewise, but sometime the case is so severe that the visuals work against the content. It's sort of like trying to read a serious text in Comic Sans. :)
Posted June 07, 2014
For me, the graphics of Fist Puncher work in its favor, because it reminds me of irreverent genre greats like River City Ransom and all of its many off-shoots, or You're Pretty Snotty for a Hero and Half-Minute Hero or 3D Dot Game Heroes. I've never played Minecraft before, but it reminds me of that too. All these games seem like the gaming version of punk music: making their graphics playfully obnoxious in order to complement their tone which is more "weeeeeee!" and a lot less "arrrrrrrg!" than most games, or as a beaten-up thug in River City might say, "barf!"

I understand the immersion argument, because it's the reason I didn't play dwarf fortress until it got a slightly better graphics engine and can't get myself into roguelikes that are made up of symbols and letters. But that's only because I need at least some connection to be able to relate to what I'm playing, even if it's just a text description, because otherwise I start wondering what the point of the "video" is in video game. I don't really want to be immersed, but when it comes to games like these, I think they do have the potential to absorb players by making them feel like a band member from the Sex Pistols just by playing it.
Post edited June 07, 2014 by Sazanamistyle
Posted June 08, 2014
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cyboff: For new/indie games, definitely... but it is really like this for all those old games re-released recently on Steam too?
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Matruchus: For most of them yes, since gog does not have them yet, unfornately. Thats the problem at the moment - Steam releasing games long wishlisted on gog.
On the other hand, Steam releases the games "as is" while gog fixes them as best as possible to run on new machines. One case I noticed is Septerra Core: The Steam forums have complaints about the stuttering dialogue bug that gog fixed in their release. Steam might be releasing the games, but they sure as heck aren't SUPPORTING them (at least, not to the point GOG is).
Post edited June 08, 2014 by vyong
Posted June 08, 2014
Is Postal Classic or Postal 2 the better game
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Posted June 08, 2014
Nice promo.
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