merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

Probably the best indie Bundle in I don't know how long and all games are mac/pc/unix friendly:

https://www.humblebundle.com/humble-indie-bundle-18

$1 - Ziggurat, Windward, Steamworld Heist
$7 - Beholden, Goat Simulator GOATY, Kentucky Route Zero complete
$12 - Owlboy

More games coming.

Dang, they sold 11k of these things in like an hour

ziggurat owns

oh maybe worth it for kentucky route zero alone

Didn't realize Owlboy got a Mac/Linux release earlier in the year; will probably buy just for that
KRZ is in the backlog from... years ago :(

prob not all episodes tho!

wow, they never finished episode V? good god. might as well continue not to not play it!

"55 items from your Steam wishlist are on sale"

ffs

haaaa just got a similar email. only 2 of the games on my list are over 50% off, most between 20 and 50%. Sales ain't what they used to be :/

bummer for gog that they do literally the same discounts on the games they share with steam a week earlier and no one cares :(

even those retro releases that used to be on gog only eventually make their way to steam pretty quickly now, which was their unique selling point imo (besides DRM-free)

i just think it's funny how people shit themselves over the steam sale when such a huge amount of those deals were already available. the power of brand loyalty i guess. unless the appeal of steam sales really is just getting recent AAA games for cheap?

anyway i want to play RE4 for the first time, should i buy it cheap on steam or not cheap on ps3/wii u? it *feels* like it's supposed to be a console game

i bought my sister's wii u because i wanted to catch up with all the nintendo games i've missed since the n64 and it feels wrong to play a gamecube classic on pc

zeebo joke

ha...?

the current re4 port is supposed to be good, if you have a controller to use i'd just get it on PC

i don't know if you're joking but i actually do have a dream in the back of mind to buy an old Wii/Wii U since i haven't played Nintendo games since GameCube. and i hate the idea of emulating them

no joke (except the funny zeebo joke) i guess BOTW craze has made me want to play every zelda ever and they're all on wii u, and then i started thinking about all the metroid primes and marios i've never played

not the same as playing on a GC controller (and everything is still nintendo expensive) but it's scratching an itch

only the first metroid prime is essential fwiw

and I would say Killer7 but I'm a psycho. yeah like Viewtiful Joe there's a PS2 port, but that's the "real" version. but that'll probably never make it to the eShop because Capcom wants to forget that whole era it seems (pours out a cold one for PN 03)

Killer7 is great. Hopefully a PC port is in the cards since they did The Silver Case recently.

didn't think about that possibility, hope it comes true. definitely in my top 5 for the decade/console generation. hell Bayonetta 1 got a PC port finally

oh shit i need bayonetta too

https://www.humblebundle.com/care-package
limited availability mega sale
$30 or more for starbound, herstory, stardew valley, darkest dungeon, duck game, minecraft telltale, pony island, van helsing, arma gold, shadowrun, psychonauts, machinarium, magicka, kholat, lots more

Yup. I have almost all of these games, but I like that it's 100% to charity and will buy immediately

bought that b/c I just got a Steam Link w/ that super cheap deal and haven't played any of these

I've never used Gog before, but they have a Winter sale right now, and I got an account just to pick up Grim Fandango for FREE.
I loved this game when it came out and played it through a number of times. Wasn't tempted to buy the remaster though, as I've not had all that great an experience revisited adventure games that I played a lot in the 90s all that much. I remember them /too/ well, I guess. Still, this might be new enough that I didn't compulsively replay it the way my friends and I did with Day of the Tentacle.

Browsing GOG is weird—just the idea that someone might be willing to pay 10 bucks for Jazz Jackrabbit in 2017.
I'm half-tempted to buy "Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet" now. I remember liking its atmosphere, but not really getting anywhere with it. My English might still have been too poor to understand everything, but the top review on Gog does start off by saying "This game is very hard. I often found it unclear what needed to be done to progress."

Also, I should probably try The Dig once. It's the only Lucasfilm/Lucasarts adventure game I never played. I don't know if it just seemed too serious, or if I just never had the chance. I also never got to the end of the incredibly weird Zak McKracken. I do recall becoming a seagull at one point, and that the game came with a newspaper with articles like "Two-headed squirrel attacks two campers at once!"

Welp, this went off the rails. Go get Grim Fandango!

GOG is still worth supporting as a)they still seem to be the first to get new remasters/ports of classic stuff to work again before it eventually hits Steam months later, b)their general philosophy is good and c)Steam could really use a little competition

i like the dig a lot. good atmosphere. reminds me of infocom's starcross-- lots of glyphs. when i was a kid i even read the novelization.

i usually buy from gog given the choice.

it def lacks the lucasarts tone, but so does loom actually.

yeah, the dig often gets overlooked but it’s pretty good, and hints at a direction other adventure games didn’t really follow up on - def worth giving it a try

puzzle and atmospherewise it was closer to something like riven than it was to the house style. but with nicely animated+voiced puppet theater instead of amateur fmv. (riven is a masterpiece tho.)

jazz jackrabbit was pirated on the forums of every bbs i dialed into in the 90s

am i the only ilxor who spent a lot of time playing bbs doors games? iirc there are maybe some tradewars players maybe. i should really start a thread.

i had tradewars and a bunch of other doors on my bbs

Legend of the red dragon, the local college's VAX jam

Also apparently a lot less obscure than I'd always thought!

the bbs's i was most commonly on had lord, p:teos, tradewars, sometimes majormud. i loved finding a bbs that had a ton of expansions for lord setup bc all these games were moved limited iirc. maybe not majormud which was more of a conventional mud but on a bbs.

Thanks oystein. Been meaning to get around to GF since forever ago

re: Gog support, yeah, I've never given digital purchases much of a thought. When I got back into games three years ago, I just got steam and bought a buncha stuff, and since then I've pretty much uncritically bought everything there. The DRM question isn't important to me, I admit, but I certainly see the value of DRM-free softare. I didn't realize GOG actively worked to not only keep old games available, but also to make them playable on newer hardware. That's certainly worth supporting!

Loom and The Dig really do stand in the Lucasarts adventure catalog as their odd attempts at trying something other than comedy. The Indy games were somewhere between. I never liked Loom, but am glad to hear some of you repping for The Dig. Just bought it, so now I have an adventure game for some of the quiet days during the holiday.

i have a decent pile of Gog games, like their business model and I've used them for older stuff when the price is right just to save some of the hassle of trying to get things to run properly thru Dosbox

okay I have a steam key going to anyone who wants it for :

Warhammer: Vermintide Dwarf Helmet DLC

I could just put the link here and whoever clicks it first I guess. Or is that bad form?

there's a thread for that: First Come, First Served: A Thread for Offering Duplicate Games from Bundle Sales as Gifts

somewhat decent bundle here. it has gabriel knight 1 remastered and the latest deponia game. under $8.

https://www.indiegala.com/point-and-click-definitive-bundle

yup, i got a bundle copy through forum dudes. at Happy Hour prices it's ~$2

"strategy bundle" looks great

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/strategy-bundle

Might go Tier 3 for Tooth and Tail

But I probably shouldn't considering my massive backlog, including X-COM 1.5 and 2

Tooth and Tail is great - anthropomorphic animals waging marxist class warfare RTS

(maybe great is selling it too high - but it's def worth a play - and endless space 2 comes in the same tier!)

Too many games, as usual. Any cheap standouts on Steam for the Summer sale?