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[tessspoon]

I just wish they would put dreamfall on gog...

That would be great, haven't played it in years...

[wilco64256]

You can actually still get the free demo from the www.dreamfall.com website.  After playing through that I now remember how my one beef with the game was the really quirky interface.  Still a great game, but the setup is just kind of annoying at times.

[dark-daventry]

The first game is great so far, but I've heard good and bad things about Dreamfall. Like combat. I don't want combat in my adventure games... In any case, I'll probably end up buying Dreamfall, but just not yet. I've got to take advantage of gog's huge sale. I just wish the King's Quest games were on sale at gog. I think the packs are overpriced, honestly. Ten bucks is a little steep for me when it comes to those games. They're great games, don't get me wrong, but I just feel the pack should be cheaper. like 5 bucks. That's more appetizing to me, so to speak. And I truly hope gog continues to update it's library for a long time. There's still a lot of games I want to see on it...

[wilco64256]

Honestly there never should have been combat in Dreamfall.  I found what combat there was (there is VERY little overall) to be extremely simple and annoying more than anything.

[Lambonius]

Honestly there never should have been combat in Dreamfall.  I found what combat there was (there is VERY little overall) to be extremely simple and annoying more than anything.

I can't help but think of Mask of Eternity with this statement, as that's generally how I felt about the combat in that game.  I didn't mind the fact that it was there, I just wish it had been deeper and better executed.  It's interesting to read developer interviews where they said that they purposefully made the combat easy and shallow so that it wouldn't be too drastically intrusive, but actually, it's the shallowness that makes it so monotonous--just click click click click dead, rinse, repeat--what an odd bit of reasoning.  Anyway, sorry to steer off topic for a sec. 

[KatieHal]

I actually own Dreamfall, and I never got very far into it at all, I think largely because the controls were really awkward.

[dark-daventry]

I can usually get used to most control schemes pretty quickly, so that's not a problem for me. But combat in adventure games, to me, makes it an action adventure game more than an adventure game. But perhaps that's just me. But in any event, I do plan on buying Dreamfall regardless. I'm only in chapter 5 of The Longest Journey, so I'm not at the point of being done with it yet, but Dreamfall would be the next logical game for me to buy. If only it were on gog. Interwbz, here I come!

[wilco64256]

They now have a combo pack with Police Quest 1 - 4 for 9.99 as well.

[MusicallyInspired]

Only the remake is included, however, which is strange seeing as all other Quest collection come with the AGI originals rather than the remakes...so it's the exact same collection as the one on Direct2Drive and it's $10 cheaper.

[dark-daventry]

They also added The Zork collection. I'm still waiting for Quest for Glory to be added to the site. I'm amazed it hasn't happened yet. The same goes for Leisure Suit Larry, Torrin's Passage and Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist. I hope they add those games soon. After all, they've been adding a lot of Activision owned games lately, so hopefully they'll put those up...

[colin]

They also added The Zork collection. I'm still waiting for Quest for Glory to be added to the site. I'm amazed it hasn't happened yet. The same goes for Leisure Suit Larry, Torrin's Passage and Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist. I hope they add those games soon. After all, they've been adding a lot of Activision owned games lately, so hopefully they'll put those up...

I really hope that freddy pharkus comes out on the gog site because it is one game of the sierrra games I have
not played.

[dark-daventry]

They also added The Zork collection. I'm still waiting for Quest for Glory to be added to the site. I'm amazed it hasn't happened yet. The same goes for Leisure Suit Larry, Torrin's Passage and Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist. I hope they add those games soon. After all, they've been adding a lot of Activision owned games lately, so hopefully they'll put those up...

I really hope that freddy pharkus comes out on the gog site because it is one game of the sierrra games I have
not played.

The only sierra games I've played are KQ, SQ and that's about it (and I mean that in terms of all the way through, for the entire series). I've played a bits and pieces of PQ, LSL and Black Cauldron. Not much else. I'd like to see Sierra's entire catalog added eventually. It's so rich with properties!

[writerlove]

I'd like to see Freddy Pharkas added as well. I remember not being allowed to play it when I was younger!

[dark-daventry]

I'd like to see Freddy Pharkas added as well. I remember not being allowed to play it when I was younger!

Really? I thought it was family friendly... I obviously don't know much about it

[MusicallyInspired]

It is.

[FFL2and3rocks]

Except for that scene with Freddy and Sadie. 

It's not as explicit as Leisure Suit Larry but there's still plenty of adult humor.

[dark-daventry]

Except for that scene with Freddy and Sadie. 

It's not as explicit as Leisure Suit Larry but there's still plenty of adult humor.

I like adult humor If gog ever does add Freddy Pharkas, I'll have to download it and give it a try.

[Enchantermon]

So GoG has been throwing out teasers leading up to a big reveal tomorrow afternoon (EST). The past ones have been:

What game made you dream of the stars?
What game made you ride with the outlaws?
What game made you fear your past?
What game made you go to the underworld?
What game made monsters fear you?

I don't know if these are all referring to the same game or several games from the same catalog or what. However, the one that was put up today caught my eye:

What game made you feel like a hero?

If they've secured the Quest for Glory catalog, I think I might die from happiness. ^_^
The live stream announcement starts with CD Projekt at 12:00 pm EST. GoG hits the stage at 1:00 pm EST. Stoked!

[dark-daventry]

So GoG has been throwing out teasers leading up to a big reveal tomorrow afternoon (EST). The past ones have been:

What game made you dream of the stars?
What game made you ride with the outlaws?
What game made you fear your past?
What game made you go to the underworld?
What game made monsters fear you?

I don't know if these are all referring to the same game or several games from the same catalog or what. However, the one that was put up today caught my eye:

What game made you feel like a hero?

If they've secured the Quest for Glory catalog, I think I might die from happiness. ^_^
The live stream announcement starts with CD Projekt at 12:00 pm EST. GoG hits the stage at 1:00 pm EST. Stoked!

I'm hoping to The Mask of Eternity that they got the QfG rights. I haven't played those games yet, and I've been dying to do so. If they can add the entire QfG catalog, I'll be buying them all. We'll find out tomorrow what the game is... I'm hoping it's all different games, that way we'd be getting more games, but I know not to get my hopes up like that.

[Enchantermon]

I don't know if this is related to the questions or not, but GoG has released a new 3-pack series that I've been hoping for a long time that they would get. Alone in the Dark 1, 2 and 3 are now on GoG! Also included is the promo game Jack in the Dark! Awesome!

EDIT: No longer spoiler tagged, because it apparently wasn't related to the hints they've been throwing out. Also, I just missed all but the last few minutes of the GoG portion of the conference because they started half an hour before they were scheduled to.

But the good news is that they've signed, for certain, either Take 2, EA, LucasArts, Microsoft or Square Enix and will be releasing 25 games from whichever publisher it is at the beginning of the summer! And two more of those five publishers will hopefully be signed by fall! So excited!