Mighty Ponygirl

"Do YOU come with the car?"

"Oh, you. *giggle*"

GOG already offered Newer Games. They offered King's Bounty: The Legend like a year after it was released for $10. Considering how broken the DRM was on that game, I'm not complaining. Just pointing out. :)

I hope that after you've collected a bunch of flowers you have to sell them to some raccoon to make your mortgage payment.

@Assmar
Glad I'm not the only person who caught that. Hope you don't get flamed for pointing out that normalizing something that for many people is a very real horrible cycle of abuse isn't cool.

I appreciate what he's saying, but I think that Levine is selling himself a bit short. While it's true that the game's brilliant rewrite of what "free will" looks like in a videogame breaks after you cure yourself of Atlas's mind control, and after that you (narratively speaking) should be going after him for pure revenge for using you the way he did (except once again, you have no choice to do otherwise), I didn't consider the Atlas bossfight to be too overwrought, and considering how the Little Sisters came to play in the end and tying the story up it wasn't like I came away from that ending thinking "wow, what a train wreck to an otherwise brilliant game." If anyone needs taking out behind the woodshed for a sound thrashing, it's the writers for BioShock 2.

Huge QFG fan. I hope now that GOG is releasing Police Quest and Kings Quest and the like, Hero's Quest (er, QFG) will be released as well. I would love for another chance to take a character all the way through (esp if I can finally make it through #3 -- the only one I was never able to complete!)

QFG 5 was great for people who were fans of the series. I honestly felt like it was a wonderful way of tying so many of the different games together and providing a good send-off for beloved characters.

@C1
Honestly, I don't get this mentality. If Steam were to shutter its doors tomorrow, you wouldn't have access to your games at all. What GOG did was a little annoying, but when you buy a game off of GOG and download it, it's yours and you don't have to authenticate to their servers every time you want to play it.

You will not get an argument from me that GOG's "we're gone" stunt was pretty dumb, but ultimately, if you had downloaded your games and backed up your installers (which frankly is just good practice in these days of cheap storage and companies disappearing "for real" overnight), then you still had your games.

I'm not saying Steam sucks and GOG rocks, I'm saying that ultimately, what GOG did hurt no one and you still have access to your titles, and it makes no sense to punish "them" (read: yourself) by not buying a game that they offer that you desperately want.

@wcarnation
They do

I had the "incomplete" version of IWD2, and until now I have not thought to purchase GOG games that I already own, but I think this might be the first time I break that rule.

@rahnyc4
You're confusing hi-res and HD. While it's true that on a PC you can crank up your resolution, the texture mapping is still going to hit a ceiling based on the developer's models and artifacts.

What they are talking about is a completely re-skinned game.