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GOG Winter Sale
Wow thats a nice sale going on .. some really great games at nice prices there ...
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Those who prefer the Star-way of "hit me with some random game I don't have yet", there's a tracking thread about the games on the list: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/star_tracking_thread_2017/page1
I remember going to EB when I was young and there were tons of games I wanted to play, and 90% (if not more) of the store was PC games or PC related. Its kind of weird thinking that games where actually more expensive back then. I don't remember them having sales and it took lots of new technology to drop the prices on outdated games. I had to spend $50 or so for pretty much every game - new, old, small dev team, large, whatever. If it was a game made for the PC it was going to cost $50, with no returns at all (due to piracy) and a total crap shot on if it was good or not.
And this is where I regale you with tails of walking 50 miles through battle zones to school. And spending years in my science lab to make a working boot disk. And hard disks louder than airplane engines. Back when rock and roll was men dressed as women yelling nonsense. We didn't need your damn hippy sales back then. Sorry for wasting your time with this useless post.
Since they launched gog I'm there, mainly for that reason only (on the side I support them for promoting the drm-free viewpoint too), for the good old games. I'm not some steamy punk kid with hundreds of games on the list (no offense, Gorwe
At launch I strictly bought games I already had, either because the floppies were unreadable, or the cd was scratched beyond proper reading.
Then I moved on buying games as backup (so where the actual disk was still working, but it seemed a good move to keep a digital copy as well).
Then moved even further and buying games I either lost or even missed in the first place (Freddie Pharkas, Kyrandia's third game, etc.).
I could count on one hand the games on my virtual shelf which weren't "good old games", during the first few years. Now it's a bit different, since the indie scene took off, and there are numerous amazing adventure games (from Wadjet and Daedelic for example), Ragnar's Dreamfall Chapters was released there too, and a few interesting releases like Shadwen (where the more people tried the free demo version, the more discount the game got at release, a really cool idea).
Still, the vast majority of my gog games are old, going back till the '80s even. For me gog is the place to show some support for my old games, instead of turning to an abandonware collecting site. Spending a few bucks on an old classic, totally worth it for me
Or maybe Oxenfree.
One of those two
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