Maybe I didn't play Gobliiins 1 enough, but from memory of the GOG version there was no dialogue except in the small cutscenes between certain levels. But there were some digital sound effects. That's the same as what I remember from the CD version I played as a child.

Possibly you wrote your comment before GOG released the floppy versions too. Now you can choose either (you probably remember the floppy versions).

You write this as if GOG added them.

Cool. But I've been playing the floppy versions a little bit, and I don't get what's good about it. It seems to just be the CD version without some of the music. Am I missing something?

It's also missing the voiceover.

It's probably nostalgia, but when I originally played this on my Atari ST, I found the unique voice-like sounds really charming. (While the voiceover of the CD version is nothing but dated and noisy voiceover.)

I completely agree. The CD version voice overs are TERRIBLE and the lack of music in Gobliins 2 was a step in the wrong direction. The floppy versions are where it's at.

Heck yes, so true.

Goddamn, whoever had the idea that Fingus should sound like Mickey Mouse shall be sent to a Disney Cinema and be forced to watch Mickey Mouse 24 / 7 / 365 / 366.

It's so annoying and killing the charme the Gobliins had...well, time to install the Floppy then ^^

Agreed too, CD voiceovers are terrible. original floopy version 'synthetic croaking' are much adequate for gobliins. Fortunatey GOG package contains them...

Contains them, you say? I'm looking in the install directory but I'm not seeing them. How does one access this?

The desktop and start menu shortcuts are created on install for all versions. The main install folder should similarly contain six subfolders - one for each version - plus the ScummVM folder (but you need the shortcuts to launch the games with it). That is, if you actually had all of the boxes checked during the installation, but that seems to be default.

(If you're actually searching for the games' executable/batch files - those don't exist: the shortcuts actually call the ScummVM emulator with specific parameters, so it loads the files for the chosen game.)

It wasn't, but that's where they were. That options box is located in a place you'd commonly recognize as a cancel button, so I overlooked it. Might have been a recent update, but in my installer only the CD versions were selected by default. Thanks for the help.

I played the first game on the Amiga as a kid, I don't even recall a narrator. As I very much remember going "What the heck is the plot!? What am I even doing?"

Oh and apparently the "floppy" version of Goblins II was recent, as when I first downloaded the game sometime over a year ago, I never got the floppy version. I only had one icon. After reading this I downloaded it again, and I have both versions. So it seems GOG fixed it since, maybe even because of this thread? In fact, it seems GOG reads these as I remember reading a complaint in a review for "Simon the Sorcerer" about the "voice only" version. As there was no subtitle option, the music was the same volume of the voices at all times, and it was British, which the accents are sometimes hard to understand to non-Brits. Lo and Behold, a text only version was released sometime after.

So GOG does understand and listens <3