A nice sale on Good Old Games

[Hesten]

As you might have noticed, GOG went out of beta last week, with a (imo very idiotic) media stunt, but are to be forgiving for adding Baldurs Gate (+ Tales of the Sword Coast) and Planescape Torment to their growing list of great games.
And to top it off, they got a weekend sale so cheap that even the most diehardy pirate should consider buying some instead 50% off 10 popular games, when the price is already at 10$ or lower.

Im ending up owning 7 of the games for sale now, had 3 of them already

So if you want some good games, pop over and see if some of your childhood favorites are on sale...and if not, get Psychonauts, at 4.99 you are out of excuses to not buy it

http://www.gog.com/en/promo/community_favourites

[Dregor Thule]

GOG was down recently for an unknown reason. I'm curious how that affected games purchased via the service, was there any troubles?

[Hesten]

GOG was down recently for an unknown reason. I'm curious how that affected games purchased via the service, was there any troubles?

Not exactly unknown reasons, it was the "bad" pr stunt i mntioned . They wanted out of beta, and did a week of "gog is shutting down from its current state", and scared everyone, lost a LOT of good will on that stunt.
Then came out of beta, and put out Baldurs Gate

As for how it affect games, noone could get their games while they were down (they were upgrading their webservers and infrastructure for almost a week), but since there are no DRM in their games, anyone who had their games down could of course still play So have the games on a DVD for yourself, and youll never have trouble, like you would if Steam goes down

[Dregor Thule]

You can play Steam games offline, they just have to be activated once.

[Hesten]

You can play Steam games offline, they just have to be activated once.

Yeah, but youre fucked if you want to install them again . Not so with GOG, IF you remembered to download them as you should do

[Bagar-]

Freespace 2 is still one of my favorite games of all time. It's $5.99! Check it out!

It's a first-person space fighter that, for when it was released, still has graphics that aren't hideous and gameplay that is fucking amazing. I reinstall and replay it about once every 3 months, and I've owned it for like 10 years now.

[Dakanaf]

Freespace 2 is still one of my favorite games of all time. It's $5.99! Check it out!

It's a first-person space fighter that, for when it was released, still has graphics that aren't hideous and gameplay that is fucking amazing. I reinstall and replay it about once every 3 months, and I've owned it for like 10 years now.

This.

[Aardor]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeSpace_ ... de_Project

Updated with better shaders/textures, and free. Some cool mostly unfinished mods, but still full game and fs1.