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[JimboM12]

Dammit, my wallet already hurts just thinking about it.

[BigD145]

Inb4 moaning about wallet sizes.

inb4 moaning about already having title x

[Frumple]

All this moaning... y'all should really stay away from the VN section.

[timferius]

Hmm, only one midweek sale on Steam makes me think there will probably be a Halloween sale starting today.

Err, thought it was Thursday, so, sale probably tomorrow. GoG, Greenman, Origin and a few others all have Halloween sales up.

[i2amroy]

All this moaning... y'all should really stay away from the VN section.

Oh god, why can't I stop laughing. XD

[yamo]

GOG has 4 old WH strategy games for cheap this week...likely go off sale on friday.

[Mech#4]

Good Old Games has also added the "Ravenloft Series", "Dark Sun Series" and the "Krynn Series" to their library.

"Ravenloft Series" is two games: "Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession" and "Ravenloft: Stone Prophet". The first involves really typical "Transylvanian Vampires" while the second involves ancient mummies and curses. 1st person dungeon crawlers.

The "Krynn Series" is three games made by SSI of the Gold Box games. Top down RPGs that utilise long dialogue and journal entries by looking at the relevant page in the manual. Being in Krynn, they're based off of the Dragonlance series and the war against Takhisis, the chromatic dragons and the draconians.

I've actually watched play throughs of the above games by a YouTuber called "Byron". I can recommend them, though the Ravenloft games may be easier to access due to the better graphics, voice acting and so on.

I haven't played or seen the Dark Sun series to comment on it. Though from images they seem rather similar to the Ravenloft series. At least mechanically.

[Rolan7]

GOG has 4 old WH strategy games for cheap this week...likely go off sale on friday.

Oh nice, Shadow of the Horned Rat was surprisingly fun.  I like managing mercenaries and finances and such, and the magic system was neat.

I might need to look up cheats though.  If I remember, it had that "feature" where you can win...  But lose too many men to really succeed long-term.  Was a long time ago though, and I like that in theory.

[Frumple]

I haven't played or seen the Dark Sun series to comment on it. Though from images they seem rather similar to the Ravenloft series. At least mechanically.

The first one is pretty excellent, imo. It's probably my personal baseline for "This is how a party-based cRPG should play" and the storyline and whatnot wasn't entirely terrible -- I have a pretty much eternal love for the dark sun setting because of that game. Pretty heavily recommended if you can stand playing that era and style of game, heh. Engaging combat for that time period, rather interesting setting that lends itself to a quite neat magic/ability system (relative to the time, at least, and imo) and some non-standard races (thri-keen!), just a bunch of really nice stuff.

The second one I've tried to start and stopped very shortly after several times... something about the graphics just throws me off really bad, makes it hard for me to play. Supposedly it's largely the better of the two, though, if more unstable, iirc.

They're mechanically pretty much nothing like the ravenloft series, though. They're top down, heh, among other things. E2: One of the reviews actually nails it pretty well -- the two games are pretty close to the immediate precursor to Baldur's Gate. Entirely turn-based instead of real-time w/ pause, but otherwise definitely in the same vein (or rather BG is in the same vein as Dark Sun, heh).

E: Also jeez, those reviews on gog. It seems people agree with me :V

[Flying Dice]

All this moaning... y'all should really stay away from the VN section.

Oh god, why can't I stop laughing. XD

But what if I want to spend money and waste time playing candy crush to look at mediocre porn?

[Shakerag]

All this moaning... y'all should really stay away from the VN section.

Oh god, why can't I stop laughing. XD

But what if I want to spend money and waste time playing candy crush to look at mediocre porn?

Dude.  Some of the achievements for that game are brutal.

[Frumple]

But what if I want to spend money and waste time playing candy crush to look at mediocre porn?

You're welcome to, but please invest in headphones and perhaps expend some effort to avoid vocalization while playing >_>

[Metalax]

GOG has 4 old WH strategy games for cheap this week...likely go off sale on friday.

Oh nice, Shadow of the Horned Rat was surprisingly fun.  I like managing mercenaries and finances and such, and the magic system was neat.

I might need to look up cheats though.  If I remember, it had that "feature" where you can win...  But lose too many men to really succeed long-term.  Was a long time ago though, and I like that in theory.

Yes, there were at least two points in the campaign where your ability to reinforce your units back up to full strength was fairly limited so if you lost too many men you would fail against a future battle. You may also want to dig up one of the old loot guides. Almost every map had at least one piece of buried treasure, whether a magic item or a cache of gold and succeeding or failing to pick them up could heavily effect your chances further down the campaign.

[Graknorke]

But what if I want to spend money and waste time playing candy crush to look at mediocre porn?

Dude.  Some of the achievements for that game are brutal.

Why do half of all players have the 'bestiality' achievement? Is catfucking a key part of the story?

[BigD145]

I had fun with Krynn back in the day. At some point you're underwater.