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Posted September 22, 2017
Find great games and historically low prices • 200+ deals up to -90%



UPDATE: The BIG DEAL Sale just got even bigger! New games have been added, including Battle Brothers (-35%), Cosmic Star Heroine (-35%), Serial Cleaner (-50%), Underrail (-60%), The Flame in the Flood (-60%), and Darkest Dungeon (-60%).
Make sure to pick your favorites before they go away - the sale ends September 25, 10PM UTC.



This is absolutely, definitely, positively a really very big deal! It only stands to reason, this is the BIG DEAL sale: find 200+ games up to 90% off and tons of historically low prices this week on GOG.com.

We're bringing out the big guns for this one with over fifty great games at historically low prices, including Little Nightmares (-40%), Galaxy of Pen and Paper (-15%), Tacoma (-20%), Aragami (-60%), Sudden Strike 4 (-25%), 80 Days (-66%), Obduction (-40%), Rebel Galaxy (-75%) and many more.

There are plenty other ways to get the most bang for your buck in the BIG DEAL sale:
• Browse great games you can get under $2, like Her Story (-75%), Aarklash Legacy (-90%), Lichdom Battlemage (-95%), Dustforce DX (-90%), or the Blackwell Bundle (-90%) and more.
• Check out more of our favorite offers 80% off or more on Prison Architect, DEX, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, Satellite Reign, Rogue Legacy, Expeditions: Conquistador and others!

The BIG DEAL sale runs until September 25, 10 PM UTC.
Posted September 19, 2017
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toshineon: Can the news be all classic Need for Speed games on GOG. Please.
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raz3rITA: Underground
Underground 2
Most Wanted

Is that too much to ask? :)
I'd absolutely love that. Plus maybe High Stakes and Porsche Unlimited, plus the now unattainable extra content they had on PC.
Posted September 19, 2017
I hope they have something really cool in store for us.
Posted September 19, 2017
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wonderfulillusion: It's just not possible. Even if you based the theoretical GOG OS on *nix, many games never supported that to begin with. Forget about trying to make thousands of existing games run on an entirely new operating system, and avoiding breaking any of them as you release updates. Every single game would have to be ported, which is not only timely and expensive, but in many cases the people who originally made the game have long since changed companies/retired. That's assuming you even have the original source code, and the permission from the developer/publisher, which would be required to port the game.

The alternative is emulation, but that comes with overhead and compatibility issues, and would still be massively costly to develop and test for literally thousands of games.

The hardware would need to support the demanding games available, making it extremely cost prohibitive for people who only want to play old games. As new games are released, the hardware would constantly be out of date, requiring upgrades to be able to play new games, at which point you can just build a PC. The attractiveness of consoles is based on two things: being plug and play, and games being developed explicitly for known hardware

If you have to build/upgrade it, it's not plug and play, and there is literally no reason to choose a console over a PC.

Since none of the existing games were designed for either the new console's hardware or software, the only other advantage of consoles is moot.

It's a nice idea, but you can already get as close as it will ever be possible to get by just purchasing a PC.
No entirely new OS or one that needs porting to. All existing GOG games would work as is. In other words it would be a specially licensed Microsoft OS ... probably feature limited. It only needs to support current GOG games, and would give developers a known platform to cater toward.

There is a reason Consoles came into existence ... PC's are flawed ... but of course, so are Consoles.

So both devices have their failings and benefits. PCs of course, are more powerful, more adaptable and therefore have better longevity. That said, a GOG Console does not need to support the latest envelope pushing game ... just all the others ... which no current Console does, or is ever likely to do.

GOG are kind of in a unique position, which makes the possibility of a GOG Console, feasible.

P.S. The current GOG system is pretty good. The best that's ever been in fact. Never have so many games been as supported as they currently are. There is still the fly-in-the-ointment though .... OS issues and PC hardware variability & driver issues.
Post edited September 19, 2017 by Timboli
Posted September 19, 2017
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JaguarWong: Just noticed that 'odd' in the announcement is in italics.

Free Oddworld game?
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Freezy.146: I think you're onto something. The original Oddworld was released on PS1 on 19th September 1997, exactly 20 years ago today.
Oh crap. That sounds very feasible.

There's nothing exciting about that at all. I know hype and all that, but even so, I will be bummed if that's the case. I'm not interested in that in the slightest.
Post edited September 19, 2017 by Nemesis44UK
Posted September 19, 2017
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Timboli: And that requires a hardware solution ... Game Console for PC Users.
Haha, i thought you said "console"!
Posted September 19, 2017
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Timboli: I am not a Console fan either. Despite my kids mastery of Xbox and beyond, the N64 console was the only one I had some joy with.

But the GOG Console would be something even PC Gamers would be happy to use ... the best of both worlds. In short it would be a special kind of Media PC, to enjoy the console benefits of a standardized system, but unlike current consoles, also upgradeable to support new PC games, through GOG releases. So no redundancy built in, and while support for a Controller or Joystick would be a given, so to would the PC Gamer's staple of Keyboard & Mouse ... perhaps in a special form to suit being on your lap.
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PenguinJim: That sounds amazing! Standardized systems, able to support games 20+ years old, but with upgradeable hardware, and support for controllers AND keyboard/mouse..!

GOG Console is a little clunky for a name, though. It's basically a computer, and it's for personal use - what if we just abbreviate that down to, say, "PC". It will take the gaming world by storm!
GOG-sole?
Posted September 19, 2017
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Timboli: No entirely new OS or one that needs porting to. All existing GOG games would work as is. In other words it would be a specially licensed Microsoft OS ... probably feature limited. It only needs to support current GOG games, and would give developers a known platform to cater toward.

There is a reason Consoles came into existence ... PC's are flawed ... but of course, so are Consoles.

So both devices have their failings and benefits. PCs of course, are more powerful, more adaptable and therefore have better longevity. That said, a GOG Console does not need to support the latest envelope pushing game ... just all the others ... which no current Console does, or is ever likely to do.

GOG are kind of in a unique position, which makes the possibility of a GOG Console, feasible.
Not all games work on any existing versions of Windows, no specially licensed version of Windows is going to make them automatically work. It still requires someone to sit down and test each and every game, and make changes to the code for many older games, and to constanrtly test them to make sure futute updates to the operating system don't break them. For changes you will need the source code, someone who understands it, and permission from the developer/publisher.

None of that fixes the cost of hardware; a game like Witcher 3 requires a massively better computer than say, Age of Wonders, but what if I don't want to play Witcher 3? And what happens when Witcher 4 comes out? And then Dishonored 3? And then Grand Theft Auto VI? Etc, etc. Now everyone needs to upgrade their existing hardware each time, in other words, a PC.

I respect the idea, but there is a reason it has not already been done.
Posted September 19, 2017
The only surprise I am seeng so far today is my roaming charges getting higher. Will anything happen or just another gimmick?
Posted September 19, 2017
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nightcraw1er.488: The only surprise I am seeng so far today is my roaming charges getting higher. Will anything happen or just another gimmick?
28 minutes more by my estimate
Posted September 19, 2017
I am hoping for more connect titles personally.
Posted September 19, 2017
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wonderfulillusion: Not all games work on any existing versions of Windows, no specially licensed version of Windows is going to make them automatically work. It still requires someone to sit down and test each and every game, and make changes to the code for many older games, and to constanrtly test them to make sure futute updates to the operating system don't break them. For changes you will need the source code, someone who understands it, and permission from the developer/publisher.
GOG are already doing all that, so it is not really an issue.

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wonderfulillusion: None of that fixes the cost of hardware; a game like Witcher 3 requires a massively better computer than say, Age of Wonders, but what if I don't want to play Witcher 3? And what happens when Witcher 4 comes out? And then Dishonored 3? And then Grand Theft Auto VI? Etc, etc. Now everyone needs to upgrade their existing hardware each time, in other words, a PC.
A GOG Console does not need to support the latest envelope pushing game ... just all the others ... which no current Console does, or is ever likely to do. Further to that ... while GOG does provide many newer games these days, it has always primarily been about older games, which no-one was really supporting until they came along.

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wonderfulillusion: I respect the idea, but there is a reason it has not already been done.
GOG are kind of in a unique position, which makes the possibility of a GOG Console, feasible.

Sorry if I repeated myself, but you seemed to miss the points. :)

P.S. Currently, GOG take a game and try to get it working on current OS, even MAC and Linux where possible. Making a Console that is essentially a PC, they adapt in the opposite direction. They make the hardware suitable for the variety of games being supported ... along with a good pairing of software. As many of us old gamers know, some PCs work better with games than others. So what you do, is improve upon one of those.
Post edited September 19, 2017 by Timboli
Posted September 19, 2017
It's the free oddworld mentioned earlier.

Head over to the front page and hover over the facebook like link at the top of the page. you'll see it mentioned in the tooltip url.

Broken link:

share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gog.com%2F&title=FREE%20Oddworld%3A%20Abe%27s%20Oddysee%25dot%25GOG.com

The twitter link is for just the sale.

Someone on staff appears to have messed up.
Post edited September 19, 2017 by drmike
Posted September 19, 2017
There is no version of Windows that will allow you to play all existing games on GOG, nor any hardware in existence that is guaranteed to work with every existing game on GOG. Every game would have to be tested, and fixed, by hand. Who is footing the bill for this? Who is giving GOG the source code, and the permission to make changes?

You can do literally everything you are suggesting by building a gaming PC and installing a dual boot of Windows 10 and your personal flavor of Linux. You can make it as cheap or expensive as you want, and it will run the games you want, at the resolutions you want, at the settings you want.

It will be cheaper, and upgradeable, and have all the functions of a normal PC. A GOG console is a solution in search of a problem that doesn't exist.
Posted September 19, 2017
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drmike: It's the free oddworld mentioned earlier.

Head over to the front page and hover over the facebook like link at the top of the page. you'll see it mentioned in the tooltip url.

Broken link:

share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gog.com%2F&title=FREE%20Oddworld%3A%20Abe%27s%20Oddysee%25dot%25GOG.com

The twitter link is for just the sale.

Someone on staff appears to have messed up.
well spotted
Posted September 19, 2017
Just a reminder that there was a Steam Machine, made to appeal to both PC and console gamers. It failed, GOG console would fail too and I don't believe GOG can afford failure of such magnitude.
Post edited September 19, 2017 by Bambusek
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