"Good Old Games"

MattKeil · 2011-09-27T00:53:47.000Z

Warning:

I am a ninja who joined GOG.com 1098 days ago.

I am a jedi who joined GOG 1157 days ago.

Inactiviste · 2011-09-27T01:46:21.000Z

I bought The Witcher 2 on GoG and sort of regret doing so. The patching process really is infuriating now that I’m spoiled by Steam…

TurinTur · 2011-09-27T02:17:32.000Z

Inactiviste:

I bought The Witcher 2 on GoG and sort of regret doing so. The patching process really is infuriating now that I’m spoiled by Steam…

The patching process in Steam is worse than GoG, you had to download almost the full game two times because the updates.

Inactiviste · 2011-09-27T02:24:37.000Z

Ok, so I’ll blame CD Projekt instead. :)

Paul_cze · 2011-09-27T02:34:12.000Z

Inactiviste:

I bought The Witcher 2 on GoG and sort of regret doing so. The patching process really is infuriating now that I’m spoiled by Steam…

yeah it is so hard to download one patch and run it…

(get off my lawn)

TurinTur · 2011-09-27T03:00:55.000Z

Inactiviste:

Ok, so I’ll blame CD Projekt instead. :)

Or you could blame Valve, it’s them who haven’t made a differential file patch system in Steam. ;)

wigglestick · 2011-09-27T05:04:42.000Z

MattKeil:

I am a jedi who joined GOG 1157 days ago.

I wonder how they generate the little titles? My profile page calls me a “bad bwai,” which makes me feel like I should be in the Jamaican gang from Predator 2.

tfernando · 2011-09-27T05:17:32.000Z

wigglestick:

I wonder how they generate the little titles? My profile page calls me a “bad bwai,” which makes me feel like I should be in the Jamaican gang from Predator 2.

It’s your gender from your account profile, rather than a title.

(961 days)

Tony_M · 2011-09-27T06:51:22.000Z

Robert Sharp:

I really wish Troika had held on and used that engine on a real module. I just can’t bring myself to play through the beginning of TOEE.

When you install Circle of 8, theres an optional combat focused quest (new location) that starts you can start at level 1. Its designed to give you roughly the same exp and rewards as doing all the fetch quests in Hommlet. So you can just ignore Hommlet completely and treat TOEE as a tactical turn based combat game (which is where it shines) right from the start.

Tony

Dan_Theman · 2011-09-27T07:42:48.000Z

To clarify for those who may need it, you will notice a new quest-giving NPC in the village that will get you over to that version.

BrianRubin · 2011-09-27T07:52:21.000Z

Well here’s an interesting new release:

B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th

GoG could use some more Microprose love, even if it isn’t one of their better titles.

Mysterio · 2011-09-27T08:21:41.000Z

Brian Rubin:

Well here’s an interesting new release:

B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th

GoG could use some more Microprose love, even if it isn’t one of their better titles.

I had a lot of fun with that game back in the day. Then again, the B-17 Flying Fortress (love that name!) has always fascinated me.

Papageno · 2011-09-27T08:48:26.000Z

Awesome, I loved that game!

scharmers · 2011-09-27T09:19:13.000Z

Now that GoG’s dropped a Microprose flight sim, I think they should drop Falcon 4 (which is another Atari/Hasbro-era MP sim, actually), so that the rivet counters could turn GoG’s forums into another Frugalsworld. :)

BrianRubin · 2011-09-27T09:21:09.000Z

Mysterio:

I had a lot of fun with that game back in the day. Then again, the B-17 Flying Fortress (love that name!) has always fascinated me.

It was fun, but honestly I liked the original more for some reason. Then again my favorite bomber sim was Megafortress.

scharmers:

Now that GoG’s dropped a Microprose flight sim, I think they should drop Falcon 4 (which is another Atari/Hasbro-era MP sim, actually), so that the rivet counters could turn GoG’s forums into another Frugalsworld. :)

Oh god please no…

RichVR · 2011-09-27T09:34:53.000Z

Anybody played Dambusters? I had that on my C 64. Fun game. You had to skip a spinning barrel shaped bomb into a dam. True story. I’d love to play it again.

scharmers · 2011-09-27T09:44:23.000Z

RichVR:

Anybody played Dambusters? I had that on my C 64. Fun game. You had to skip a spinning barrel shaped bomb into a dam. True story. I’d love to play it again.

Secret Weapons Over Normandy has some skip-bomb missions.

krise_madsen · 2011-09-27T12:45:18.000Z

RichVR:

Anybody played Dambusters? I had that on my C 64. Fun game. You had to skip a spinning barrel shaped bomb into a dam. True story. I’d love to play it again.

Yup. I remember it fondly. I also remember being really really bad at it.

RichVR · 2011-09-27T12:46:59.000Z

Yeah, me too. Jumping from station to station to set everything up. I don’t think I ever busted a dam. But I did enjoy trying.

Rachel_Brown · 2011-09-27T22:31:32.000Z

wigglestick:

I wonder how they generate the little titles?

tfernando:

It’s your gender from your account profile, rather than a title.

Huh? It’s a user selectable setting. What are you two smoking? Pass it around.