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Posted December 19, 2014
Nordic In-n-Out: complete your Nordic Games catalog with titles like The Guild series, the Spellforce saga, and Black Mirror 1&2 up to 90% off!

How you like THEM apples?!! We teamed up with our friends at Nordic to bring back their games to GOG.com for one more brief but glorious stint. Their entire catalog will be available for purchase for the next 4 days and it's an offer you can't refuse. You can get all the great titles at individual discounts ranging from 75% to 85%, or you can complete your Nordic catalog with all the missing games at 90% off! Let's take a look at some of the highlights on offer.

The Spellforce series delivers an RTS/RPG mixture depicting a fantasy saga of epic proportions. With a vast realm to explore and conquer, a huge collection of story-driven scenarios, and many memorable character, this series is something that every strategy and RPG fan should try at least once, especially when it's 85% off.

Painkiller: Black Edition is everything you love about old-school first person perspective shooters delivered in a good-looking, demonic package. The protagonist of the game takes on the denizens of hell and delivers a royal whooping to the fallen angel host and their monstrous pets. With incredible weapon design, satisfying fast-paced gameplay, and hordes of foes to shred to pieces, this game will satisfy your need for ultimate badassdom.

And let's not forget about the one-two combo of the acclaimed Gothic series with Gothic 2 Gold Edition and Gothic 3 available 85% off. Prepare yourself for a long and enjoyable visit to the realm of Myrtana full of peril and mystery.

There are many more gems among the 35 titles included in the promo so make sure you head on to the promo page and pick your own Nordic notables. Make haste, the games will only be available for purchase for the next 96 hours! The offer lasts until Tuesday, December 23, at 10:59AM GMT.
Posted December 19, 2014
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The_Blog: Spellforce in my opinion. But there are both great and you really can't compare them. They are too different.
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IronArcturus: Of the Spellforce series, are some games better than others? It looks like there are 4 Spellforce games available.
I played the first one only so far. They're huge, huge games. You'll put in over 100 hours. (http://www.howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=8925)

I've heard good and bad about the newer games, but that they are all fairly similar still. Each installation of Spellforce 2 is shorter and the general consensus is that they progressively get shorter and less interesting. I haven't played any of 2.

I'd recommend just starting with the first and moving on from there.

There are RPG elements, but I didn't find them to be super-RPG-ish at all. More RTSy. Like, 90/10 split. And the RPG elements if placed in a purely RPG game just wouldn't be very fun. But it all works together fairly well.

Spellforce isn't a great game IMHO, but it's pretty decent and worth a try to see if you like it.

I thought it would be like another RPG-RTS I like: Warlords Battlecry. But it's very different. And that's good. I haven't really played much quite like it.
Posted December 19, 2014
What the fuck? Why come back for a few days? What in the hell is wrong with Nordic?

No way am I giving them another red cent if they can't show any care or commitment to this place.

God dammit, I was ready to throw money at you for so many games you could have brought here.
Posted December 19, 2014
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Cyraxpt: Do i need to buy every Spellforce or can i buy just one (and what is the better one) to understand the story?
I've only played Spellforce 1. From what I've played (it's a huge, huge game and I haven't come close to beating it), it feels like the story is what propels the gameplay. But it's nothing to really write home about. I haven't played the game in a year and I honestly can't remember what it was about anymore. Oops. :)

But you'll have fun tackling hordes of bad guys or getting an elite group to push through and wreak havoc on an enemy. And trying to cast a certain spell in a panic, hoping that SOME of you guys might live.
Posted December 19, 2014
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tinyE: Nordic In-n-Out

Sounds like a viking porno.
Or, for those fuent in French, a promo inspired by Serge Gainsbourg / Jane Birkin : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA
Posted December 19, 2014
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IronArcturus: Which is better: the Gothic series or the Spellforce series?
Depends on what is your preferred game genre. I like strategy games most, so for me it's Spellforce (especially the first one).
Posted December 19, 2014
Have you ever tried the Full Spectrum Warrior series? Is it any good?
Posted December 19, 2014
Weak.

If they were back I'd buy some gifts. Cash grab? Yeah right.

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Post edited December 19, 2014 by budejovice
Posted December 19, 2014
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IronArcturus: Have you ever tried the Full Spectrum Warrior series? Is it any good?
I haven't, but I did a heap of research this morning. Looks like another "Almost good" game that just never reached its potential.

Grab ARMA 2 and you won't need another game in that genre. :)

I've also really enjoyed the Operation Flashpoint games.
Posted December 19, 2014
Red Faction 2 is the only one of the series that I don't own. I heard it has problems on modern systems - is that all fixed in GOG version?
Posted December 19, 2014
Quite funny strategy :D 99.9% of people buy games or on release, or on the promo, so why to have games on catalog in between, it only makes mess in accountancy :D
Posted December 19, 2014
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LeonardoCornejo: I think it would be a wise idea to buy at least one game as a way to show Nordic that we are willing to forgive them from leaving, even if they are coming back just for a while, that could motivate those greedy guys to stay for good.
That's a good point. Now I have some 90 hours to think about which one. :)
Posted December 19, 2014
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Cyraxpt: Do i need to buy every Spellforce or can i buy just one (and what is the better one) to understand the story?
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Tallima: I've only played Spellforce 1. From what I've played (it's a huge, huge game and I haven't come close to beating it),
I finished Spellforce 1, and , yes, it is huge. Spellforce 2 is in my backlog. Tried it, but didn't go very far. It's nicer, but the game mechanics felt quite different. Maybe faster paced and more "offensive" minded . For one or another reason, I couldn't fully get into it. I'm not saying SF1 is better than SF2, but that it's probably better to buy either SF1 , or SF2, not both.
Posted December 19, 2014
The updated "bulk purchase" list:

Book of Unwritten Tales (Tallima)
Desperados (Tallima)
Guild 2 Renaissance, The (Ghorpm)
Guild Gold Edition, The (Tallima)
Jack Keane 2 (Grargar)
Neighbours From Hell (Grargar)
Raven, The: Legacy Of A Master Thief (HypersomniacLive)
Silver (Ghorpm)
Spellforce 2: Demons Of The Past (Ghorpm)
Spellforce 2: Dragon Storm (Ghorpm)
Spellforce 2: ShadowWars (Tallima)
Summoner (Ghorpm)

Still going through the PMs, more details shortly.
Posted December 19, 2014
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Cavalary: Meh, whatever. Just adding another name to the naughty list regarding this. Wonder if there's anyone else left on the hardline side that made the fuss back in February...
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eiii: That glorious "hardline site" which has caused the introduction of the annoying "Fair Price Package", which forces all GOG customers to support regionally priced games even when they don't buy a single regionally priced game? No, thanks!

(Don't be stupid, it's not GOG who pays the difference, it's every customer who buys a game on GOG, even a not regionally priced one, who pays the difference.)
That argument would work if games would increase in price on here to compensate, which doesn't happen, though I do agree that buying anything on a shop that allows regional pricing makes for a certain amount of support for the concept in itself, which is part of why I'm so pissed at them in general.
On the other hand, they already offered compensation in gift codes for most of the difference from the start, for AoW3 back then, so the outcry only added a little more on top to make for the full difference, a package would have already existed anyway.
So you had the matter introduced as "good news" in February, then they admitted it wasn't so good news, made some changes and largely buried it till August, when they introduced it full force and lo and behold, the outcry was far lesser.

Oh, in addition, what that original hardline crowd did was make local currencies optional, so people can choose what they prefer to pay in, as their original plans had the switch mandatory.
Posted December 19, 2014
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Cyraxpt: Do i need to buy every Spellforce or can i buy just one (and what is the better one) to understand the story?
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Tallima: I've only played Spellforce 1. From what I've played (it's a huge, huge game and I haven't come close to beating it), it feels like the story is what propels the gameplay. But it's nothing to really write home about. I haven't played the game in a year and I honestly can't remember what it was about anymore. Oops. :)

But you'll have fun tackling hordes of bad guys or getting an elite group to push through and wreak havoc on an enemy. And trying to cast a certain spell in a panic, hoping that SOME of you guys might live.
Yeah, i've been reading the answers here, the "more than 100 hours" turns me off since i don't to waste that amount of time in a single game and considering that it's a rts, i'm having bad flashbacks from Heroes of Annihilated Empires where the game just cheated against you by sending infinite hords of enemies against you while you had to do the usual stuff (build base, gather resources, upgrade base and troops, recruit troops, etc), this was a reallllllllllllllllllly long process and boring since you would end up losing most of the troops defending the base. Urgh, why did i buy that crap...
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