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City manager, space explorer, omnipotent entity, or a keeper of a humorous dungeon--whichever way you want to play, you’re the master.

Rule the EA Worlds! Decide which of the EA classic worlds you want to rule (or rule them all!) and get 50% off on GOG.com during this weekend’s promo. This promo ends next Monday, May 21 11:59 PM EDT

Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri is a space-based spin-off from the legendary Civilization series. Alpha Centauri is a 4X turn-based strategy at genre’s best: build, colonize, produce, research, and kill in a fantastic sci-fi world. Whether you’re a technology-loving Academician or a Chairman whose goal is to crush his people under the burden of neural stapling, you can get this fantastic startegy game from GOG.com for just $2.99.

SimCity 2000 Special Edition is a sequel to a ground-breaking SimCity, and it improves on the original in every aspect. As a mayor of an isometric city, you need to create a hi-tech metropolis starting from the smallest village. Setting up streets, houses, commercial facilities, preparing your city for disasters, setting up taxes, and managing other aspects of everyday city running--SimCity 2000 life is a tough nut to crack. Create the best city ever for only $2.99 on GOG.com.

Dungeon Keeper and Dungeon Keeper 2 form a pair of wonderfully evil and hellishly entertaining RTS-sim games in which you’re in charge of an underground empire. Set up deadly traps, recruit demons and imps, and send the gloriously hapless holy heroes straight to heaven. There’s never been a game that offered so much fun when you’re being the bad guy, probably thanks to tons of dark humor and addictive gameplay. Rule your very own nightmare dungeon for only $2.99.

, designed by the famous Peter Molyneux, is a ‘god-sim’ that places you in a game of world domination between the gods. You need to use your divine powers to control and award your followers or punish and destroy the non-believers with a goal to destroy other player’s enemy forces. Flooding, lightning, earthquake--you’re omnipotent so it’s only up to you how to shepherd your people. [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/populous_2]Populous 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods follows its almighty predecessor with more spells, an enhanced interface, and adding a character development system. You’re now son of Zeus and need to battle your way through the Greek pantheon. Kill all the gods for only $2.99 this weekend on GOG.com.
Nice promo, shame not to include some of the newer releases. Have them all except for DK2 & Alpha Centauri. Don't care for DK2, DK1 was way better for me. Also, already own the sold out edition of Alpha Centauri with the expansion. Will pass on these.
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timppu: Exited the game with Alt-F4. I read the sticky in the DK subforum which asked AMD/ATI owners to run the game with "Dungeon Keeper 2 Safe Mode" and HW acceleration disabled, so I did that.

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My personal verdict for now: runs fine in Win7 64bit, I would definitely buy it even though I have the ATI/AMD hardware that the GOG gamecard disclaimer is warning about. I have no idea if others have more severe problems with it though, but apparently even the HW acceleration is supposed to work with NVidia hardware.
I'm wondering if some of the other people who can't get DK2 to run just haven't tried doing what you did. (I'm sure some have and then some, but I wonder about this...)
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Mivas: I'd go for Dungeon Keeper but according to reviews, a port isn't well-done
AFAIK, it's the DOS version, 320x240 but you can hit alt+r to bump it to 640x480 and (I think somenow) 800x600. I'm not interested in the game so I haven't bought it, but that's the gist of what I've read.

DK2 has had some serious problems, but I think there are work arounds...
Post edited May 18, 2012 by tfishell
Great promo, not really into the pop games and already own the DK series. Waiting for theme hospital to go on sale to complete my bullfrog collection.
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tfishell: I'm wondering if some of the other people who can't get DK2 to run just haven't tried doing what you did. (I'm sure some have and then some, but I wonder about this...)
it's not exactly hard to get these games to run WITHOUT hardware acceleration...

i'm not purchasing, or re-purchasing, 10-year old games to play them in a worse state than on release. at the very least they should be playable in the same quality as back in the day.

that includes the latest patches and expansions.
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tfishell: I'm wondering if some of the other people who can't get DK2 to run just haven't tried doing what you did. (I'm sure some have and then some, but I wonder about this...)
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Fred_DM: it's not exactly hard to get these games to run WITHOUT hardware acceleration...

i'm not purchasing, or re-purchasing, 10-year old games to play them in a worse state than on release. at the very least they should be playable in the same quality as back in the day.

that includes the latest patches and expansions.
Dude, that's fine, but others certainly have the right to purchase and play if they want to, even if it's not in a terrific state or without expansions. I was just suggesting that some people may have not done enough research to actually be able to play the GOG version, as there are workarounds.
Good promo for any would-be dictators...

Out of these games, which one would allow "my friend" to rule with an iron fist?
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Fred_DM: it's not exactly hard to get these games to run WITHOUT hardware acceleration...

i'm not purchasing, or re-purchasing, 10-year old games to play them in a worse state than on release. at the very least they should be playable in the same quality as back in the day.

that includes the latest patches and expansions.
I've a similar stance. I don't like to purchase a game when there is a fair chance I won't run what I payed for even after modifications. I have bad experiences with a number of Steam and boxed games regarding these issues (i.e. a solution didn't exist or mods didn't help), thus I reached the point where I'm not willing to experiment.
Post edited May 18, 2012 by Mivas
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Mivas: I've a similar stance. I don't like to purchase a game when there is a fair chance I won't run what I payed for even after modifications. I have bad experiences with a number of Steam and boxed games regarding these issues (i.e. a solution didn't exist or mods didn't help), thus I reached the point where I'm not willing to experiment.
And that's perfectly fine. EDIT: Although, technically speaking, any game you purchase has a chance that it won't run. (I guess, not necessarily a "fair" chance, though...)
Post edited May 18, 2012 by tfishell
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Mivas: I've a similar stance....
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tfishell: And that's perfectly fine.
I don't criticize the fact that the game is here, tfishell, just expressing my opinion about items on sale :). More people enjoy promoted titles, the better, of course.
Finally a countdown timer! Now I don't have to struggle with time zone calculations anymore. Much appreciated.
I miss the old promos where you could get 60% or even 75% off if you purchased the whole set.

I can simply wait till the Christmas sale and get almost any game here I want for 50% off. The weekend sales no longer offer anything unique. =(
Bought DK and have been evil for the last few hours.
It is so good, oh, so good, to be evil.
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PaladinHeart: I can simply wait till the Christmas sale and get almost any game here I want for 50% off. The weekend sales no longer offer anything unique. =(
Yes, the solid 50% really made deal-hunting a bit boring...

*celebrates the sale by staring with adoration at his legit DK1 + Expansion discs which were released even in Russia*
Interested in Alpha Centauri, but I think I'll wait till GOG has the expansion too.
Let me think... both Dungeon Keepers for 6$ even though I already have them? Let us support the DRM-free revolution!

EDIT: I made the separate topic: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/convince_me_and_win_a_game
Post edited May 18, 2012 by Ghorpm