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Posted January 20, 2011
Also, while easily fixed, it's weird that Zork Zero is named "Zero Zork" on the desktop. Was it ever referred to in that flipped format anywhere?
Posted January 20, 2011
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rrussell: Are some missing?
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Arjak: Unfortunately, yes. The manuals for Zork 1-3 are missing and so is...well, everything except a map for Planetfall.
OIC.

Thanks for the info.

Nothing that keeps you from finishing the game, I hope.
Posted January 20, 2011
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Arjak: Unfortunately, yes. The manuals for Zork 1-3 are missing and so is...well, everything except a map for Planetfall.
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rrussell: OIC.

Thanks for the info.

Nothing that keeps you from finishing the game, I hope.
None whatsoever.
Post edited January 20, 2011 by spege
Posted January 22, 2011
Definitely overpriced. I got the COMPLETE Infocom text adventure collection YEARS, something like 40+ games in 2 boxed sets for about double the price of some of the zork games plus planetfall...

Isn;t Zork Zero free anyways? I seem to recall getting it with some other game and I also seem to recall that it was generally available for download...
Posted January 23, 2011
There could be a significant argument on this forum on the meaning of "price" and "value." If you're willing to pay for something, then it's really not overpriced. At any rate, it's an entirely personal decision, and personally, six new-to-me games for six bucks is worthwhile. Other people have found better deals (apparently as low as nothing whatsoever for some of them) but personally, to purchase six games which will no doubt provide me with hours of entertainment for less than a dollar apiece is well worth the cost. Yes, there may be or have been better bargains, but that doesn't make this one a bad deal.

Besides which, I'm reasonably certain that, with the right amount of searching and a little bit of larceny, I could find 90% of the games of GOG for the low, low price of $0. That's not why I joined up. I'm an ardent supporter of older games. I grew up gaming, and I lament the quality of the options that are placed in front of me these days. And so, I come to GOG not just to find old games that I can't get anywhere else (with the exception of the above-mentioned larceny), and not just to get great deals for games, but also to support one of the greatest but most misunderstood arts and media which I feel is headed by-and-large in the wrong directions these days.
And if I can at least show a little support for the people who so entertained me in the past and continue to do so in the present, well, I'll pay that price. $6 gets me hours upon hours of entertainment, and allows me to express my (strictly platonic) love for the makers. And that's not a bad value in the least.
Posted January 23, 2011
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organmike: snip
*slow clap -- hard clapping -- slowly stands -- standing ovation for 2 minutes*

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organmike: my (strictly platonic) love
Liar. It is completely sexual.
Posted January 23, 2011
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organmike: my (strictly platonic) love
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Vagabond: Liar. It is completely sexual.
Alright, you caught me. Just don't tell my girlfriend. Or said game designers; I wouldn't want them to know.
Posted January 23, 2011
It's six games for six bucks. With maps. And they're damn good too, if I do say so myself. I felt it was a fantastic value for my money.
Posted January 23, 2011
At just a dollar (or as we say in Canada, a loonie)? Can you imagine if all the new AAA titles that came out now were just a dollar apiece, there would probably still be people coming up with justifications as to why it wasn't worth it.
Posted January 25, 2011
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organmike: There could be a significant argument on this forum on the meaning of "price" and "value." If you're willing to pay for something, then it's really not overpriced. At any rate, it's an entirely personal decision, and personally, six new-to-me games for six bucks is worthwhile. Other people have found better deals (apparently as low as nothing whatsoever for some of them) but personally, to purchase six games which will no doubt provide me with hours of entertainment for less than a dollar apiece is well worth the cost. Yes, there may be or have been better bargains, but that doesn't make this one a bad deal.

Besides which, I'm reasonably certain that, with the right amount of searching and a little bit of larceny, I could find 90% of the games of GOG for the low, low price of $0. That's not why I joined up. I'm an ardent supporter of older games. I grew up gaming, and I lament the quality of the options that are placed in front of me these days. And so, I come to GOG not just to find old games that I can't get anywhere else (with the exception of the above-mentioned larceny), and not just to get great deals for games, but also to support one of the greatest but most misunderstood arts and media which I feel is headed by-and-large in the wrong directions these days.
And if I can at least show a little support for the people who so entertained me in the past and continue to do so in the present, well, I'll pay that price. $6 gets me hours upon hours of entertainment, and allows me to express my (strictly platonic) love for the makers. And that's not a bad value in the least.
As a point of fact it does make it a bad deal when I just got through pointing out that this very same publisher published two boxed set containing ALL infocom text adventures, and now they're trying to sell four at a time for $6?! WTF?!

$6 for ALL of the infocom text adventures WOULD be a good deal, but not for four.
Posted January 25, 2011
To be honest, I just bought the pack to support GOG and give them a nudge to release more Infocom (and maybe Magnetic Scrolls) games.

I love most of the Infocom games and I already own all of them - albeit on Amiga discs but thanks to the wonders of technology I am able to play them using a Windows interpreter.

Even though I own the discs most of my manuals (and sadly almost all feelies). Being able to download them legally again is great!


The truth is, however, that the Zork games are not exactly my favourite Infocom games and I hope GOG will release a few later (and better) games as well.

Also, I thought this might be a test-run and, perhaps, GOG will add the missing Zork games to the package later.
Posted January 25, 2011
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cutterjohn: As a point of fact it does make it a bad deal when I just got through pointing out that this very same publisher published two boxed set containing ALL infocom text adventures, and now they're trying to sell four at a time for $6?! WTF?!

$6 for ALL of the infocom text adventures WOULD be a good deal, but not for four.
As a point of fact, you didn't listen to me. Just because there was a better deal available does not make this one a bad deal.
If I buy something worth $20 for $15, and you buy it for $10, that doesn't mean that I got ripped off. You may have got a better deal, but I still got 25% off. And at any rate, the value of something like this is exactly what people are willing to pay for it, and for what works out to about fifteen minutes' work for me, I get hours upon hours of entertainment.
Not a bad deal by any stretch.
If you were to state that, as a point of fact, these games originally retailed at $6 for the entire set of games, then perhaps this would be a bad deal. However, their original retail price would have been far, far greater (probably somewhere along the lines of $20-$50 per game) so regardless of what this publisher has offered in the past, this is still a good deal.

If you don't like it, there's a simple, respectful, very capitalistic solution: don't buy it. But don't go telling me that, as a point of fact, I got ripped off because there was once upon a time a better deal available. As a point of fact, I did not, nor did anyone else purchasing these games. I've heard similar arguments about music ("You pay for CDs when you can just pirate them and burn them? You're getting ripped off!") and I've told people exactly the same thing. "Not best" is not the same as "Bad."
Posted January 25, 2011
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cutterjohn: As a point of fact it does make it a bad deal when I just got through pointing out that this very same publisher published two boxed set containing ALL infocom text adventures, and now they're trying to sell four at a time for $6?! WTF?!

$6 for ALL of the infocom text adventures WOULD be a good deal, but not for four.
Also, when you bought that set, you probably got it way discounted from it's original price. I'm sure what you paid for it wasn't Activision's msrp. Besides, you have all the titles, so it's no skin off your back.
Posted January 25, 2011
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cutterjohn: As a point of fact it does make it a bad deal when I just got through pointing out that this very same publisher published two boxed set containing ALL infocom text adventures, and now they're trying to sell four at a time for $6?! WTF?!

$6 for ALL of the infocom text adventures WOULD be a good deal, but not for four.
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brendano: Also, when you bought that set, you probably got it way discounted from it's original price. I'm sure what you paid for it wasn't Activision's msrp. Besides, you have all the titles, so it's no skin off your back.
I can assure you, assuming he got it for the price he claims (likely in a garage sale or thrift shop), the price was heavily discounted.

I actually did have the 'Lost Treasures of Infocom I" collection. Got it in either 1991 or 92, I think, and I know they were charging $49.99 for it at the time.

Huge value then too, since it was a compilation of the more popular games and while it didn't have any "feelies", it did include reproductions of the invisiclue maps (which listed items) and included a thick book with documentation for each game and a second thick book full of the compiled 'invisiclues' for the games.

They're somewhat hard to come by today and routinely sell for anywhere from $50 to $100 for compete packages.

Like others, I already own the Infocom catalog (though the Zork series are still among the few folios I'm searching for) but I have no problem giving $6 both for not having to mess with 5 1/4 discs as well as to encourage further interactive fiction releases.
Posted January 26, 2011

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