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[Hugehead]

Huh.  Went to look at sales on GOG and...they're selling DRM-free movies now.  That's a surprise.  Gaming-related ones only at the moment, presumably to show good faith and demonstrate that it's a model that works, but an interesting move if is pays off.  So, yes, movies on sale.

Kind of wanted to make a specific 'huh' thread about this, but not sure it actually fits in Other Games, despite what the second G in GOG stands for! 

Since you didn't mention the sales they have going on... GOG have a large bunch of games in a "Last Chance Sale", your last chance to buy them ther before they have to remove them due to their publishers not agreeing with their new regional pricing. http://www.gog.com/promo/last_chance_special_promo_270814
They stay in your library forever after you buy them, they just won't be available for purchase any longer.

[Sirus]

Huh.  Went to look at sales on GOG and...they're selling DRM-free movies now.  That's a surprise.  Gaming-related ones only at the moment, presumably to show good faith and demonstrate that it's a model that works, but an interesting move if is pays off.  So, yes, movies on sale.

Kind of wanted to make a specific 'huh' thread about this, but not sure it actually fits in Other Games, despite what the second G in GOG stands for! 

Since you didn't mention the sales they have going on... GOG have a large bunch of games in a "Last Chance Sale", your last chance to buy them ther before they have to remove them due to their publishers not agreeing with their new regional pricing. http://www.gog.com/promo/last_chance_special_promo_270814
They stay in your library forever after you buy them, they just won't be available for purchase any longer.

How long does the sale last? I'm stuck away from my computer for....well, the rest of the day probably.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Five days.

A few good games there, shame about Nordic pulling out of GOG.

[Teneb]

Huh.  Went to look at sales on GOG and...they're selling DRM-free movies now.  That's a surprise.  Gaming-related ones only at the moment, presumably to show good faith and demonstrate that it's a model that works, but an interesting move if is pays off.  So, yes, movies on sale.

Kind of wanted to make a specific 'huh' thread about this, but not sure it actually fits in Other Games, despite what the second G in GOG stands for! 

Since you didn't mention the sales they have going on... GOG have a large bunch of games in a "Last Chance Sale", your last chance to buy them ther before they have to remove them due to their publishers not agreeing with their new regional pricing. http://www.gog.com/promo/last_chance_special_promo_270814
They stay in your library forever after you buy them, they just won't be available for purchase any longer.

How long does the sale last? I'm stuck away from my computer for....well, the rest of the day probably.

As of this post, 5 days and 6 hours

Ninja'd

[DeKaFu]

Man. I'd been planning to get the Guild games on there someday, so I guess it needs to be now.

What's the deal with The Guild 2 vs. Guild 2 Pirates of the European Seas vs. Guild 2 Renaissance?

Wikipedia calls the latter two "stand-alone expansions" but I'm not sure what that means. Do you need to buy all 3 to access all the available content, or is the base game included in the latter ones?

[Glloyd]

If you're going to get one, get Renaissance. It has all the features of the other two. Then get the fan patches.

[Teneb]

Man. I'd been planning to get the Guild games on there someday, so I guess it needs to be now.

What's the deal with The Guild 2 vs. Guild 2 Pirates of the European Seas vs. Guild 2 Renaissance?

Wikipedia calls the latter two "stand-alone expansions" but I'm not sure what that means. Do you need to buy all 3 to access all the available content, or is the base game included in the latter ones?

I don't know how The Guild does it, but this is how it happened in, say, Dawn of War 2, or Heroes of Might and Magic 5: You can only play the original campaigns in the standard game, but you can play multiplayer (or non-campaign singleplayer) with all features on just the last one.

[BigD145]

If you're going to get one, get Renaissance. It has all the features of the other two. Then get the fan patches.

This is the correct advice.

[Sirus]

Five days.

A few good games there, shame about Nordic pulling out of GOG.

Nice. I was afraid it would end before I could even get home

[Teneb]

The only thing I know and like from the GOG sale is Red Faction 1. I'd recommend skipping the second one, it's just... bad. Game has little to no relation to the first game and the shooting itself is as generic as it gets with only minor terrain destruction to it's name.

[Delta Foxtrot]

The only thing I know and like from the GOG sale is Red Faction 1. I'd recommend skipping the second one, it's just... bad. Game has little to no relation to the first game and the shooting itself is as generic as it gets with only minor terrain destruction to it's name.

Absolutely seconded. Personally the first one reminded me of Half-Life, but maybe I've just played a very small number of 90's corridor shooters. It's definitely a nice romp if you like some oldie shooty gaming. Still, I have a feeling I didn't like it as much as most people. The terrain destruction thing never seemed that significant to me.

Painkiller is highly recommended, Lots of enemies, lots of guns, alternate fire modes for all the guns, solid gameplay and good looking too.
I've played and liked Aquanox, but I was rather young then. No guarantee of the impeccable taste I have going for me nowadays. It's a rather casual underwater fighter-sim.
Desperados has gameplay similar to Commandos series.

[Sean Mirrsen]

The bigger surprise for me is that GOG is now actually offering prices in Rubles. For everything. I wonder if they kept Steam's favorable conversion rates.

[n9103]

Dunno if this is favorable or not, but here's the target prices they discussed at some point:

For $5.99 classics, we would like to make the games 3.49 GBP, 4.49 EUR, 199 RUB, and $6.49 AUD. For $9.99 classics, our targets are 5.99 GBP, 7.49 EUR, 349 RUB, and $10.99 AUD.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Nah, that seems like direct cost conversion. Slightly lower, but mostly just so it looks nice, "almost round".

Steam has better prices, at least some of the time.

[KoE]

So Contagion is 75% off for 5 bucks and has most of a whole day left on its free weekend. At first glance it seems like a Left 4 Dead / standard co-op zombie shooter. At second glance it claims not to be and that's not an entirely hollow claim. I think every single game mode (I could be forgetting one) is a sort of asymmetric player-vs-player and co-op (with the definite exception of Hunted, which is simply a free-for-all last-man standing mode where dying turns you into a zombie).

Spoiler: Shameless schilling (click to show/hide)

Most game modes start with one or two of the 8-16 players infected. They have no prior warning and will start turning almost immediately. From there they play as a fast zombie (who can gather a horde to follow them, if the mode has AI zombies). The zombie side's objective is, obviously, to kill all survivors. Survivors are either attempting a semi-randomized series of objectives (in Escape and Panic Objective), extract AI survivors from houses and fight AI zombies in waves (Extraction), or to kill a certain number of zombies (Panic Classic).

Game flow is usually fairly slow and a little clunky; the game is definitely not meant to be a fast-paced shooter. I bring it up because I apparently just spent three or four straight hours playing Panic Classic, which reminds me a (very tiny) bit of Natural Selection 2. The survivors start scattered about the map and race to get equipment and a defensive position; once the infected amongst them turn, the zombies must pick off stragglers and find a way to assault the survivor's position before losing too many of their own lives. (un)Dying is actually a lot of fun if anyone takes charge, as the original Infected are zombies in riot armor (and thus extremely hard to damage everywhere except the front of the head, and still very durable even then). So it becomes a matter of amassing a big enough horde to behind a pair of tanks to outmaneuver the survivor's headshots.

The tl;dr is that when it works it works really well as a 'player zombies figure out ways to assault the guys usually effectively headshotting them'. I wanted to bring it up just so there's a better chance there'll be folks playing once the free weekend is over (though I really have no clue as to the health of the game on non-free weekends).