Has anyone else played Gish? What would you people think of having Gish here on GOG. Steam sells it for 10$ and the publishers would certainly be delighted to make a deal with gog.com.
And please, spare us the "not and old game" disussion.

yes i love indie games

Yeah, if only GOG would change into an alternative place to sell indie games as well. Indie games aren't represented a lot (other than Manifesto), so GOG should step in and hawk games that would otherwise have gone unnoticed.

I played it, No sir I don't like it.

Perhaps when it's a bit older to fit the basic point of the site. But I too, don't really like it all that much. I picked it up ages ago for dirt cheap during a weekend deal on Steam. It's alright, until you need to jump. But that just gets annoying, real fast.

While I didn't think much of Gish either I do love me some indie titles. Would be nice to see some on GoG certainly.
Although come to think of it that might put them into competition with steam, which could end up being bad for GoG.

many people disagree with my belief that GOG does not compete with Steam, they say because they carry some of the same games (i.e. I got arx fatalis off of steam and not GOG, despite GOG having a neat patch, it was price motivated). I still don't think of them as direct competitors because the content is different. I have UT2k4 via Steam and via GOG because I like what both services have to offer.
But they are very different services, that may provide the same games, but I don't consider them to be in a direct competition.

I think when i said 'put them more into competition' I simply meant; 'put them into competition with'. So with the current service GoG offers, I agree.
But I think if indy games started popping up on here that are also on steam (like eets and tank universal as some examples that I've previously bought on steam) then valve might start to feel a bit threatened.
This could actually be partly because I mainly use steam to get indy titles it brings to my attention more then anything else.
Think I'll go edit that other post.

Bought it on steam. It was quite fun for half an hour. Then I did not touch it again.
I recall thinking "You really need a gamepad for that one".

all the shooters on steam require one, they may have keyboard and mouse support, but don't kid yourself.
I have almost bought bullet candy a number of times, but because of that, I have decided against it. It's not really a hassle to connect a game pad and set up the buttons, but at my house, with my kids, anything that isn't the computer itself, apparently my boys decide is a toy for them.

Gish is a shooter? More of a platformer, I'd say. I mean... you can't shoot ;)

I would rather have gog.com focus on the older games rather than the indies. The indies you can either get from Steam or from their own website. The older games are a pain in the neck to find unless you crawl through the seediest depths of "abandonware" sites....and I am not willing to do that.

The thing about Bullet Candy is that it encourages you to commit suicide. Fine by me, not fine by Jack Thompson.

Okay. I got it.
I agree completely. If you want to buy indies, no one's stopping you. But GOG should fulfill its manifesto and none other.

The point is who but some suburban mom-type who thinks that the world gets better if you just keep your eyes closed long enough really gives a damn about Jack Thompson and the likes of him. These are games. Nothing more. Nothing less. Kids used to play cops and robbers and the cop would inevitably shoot the robber. Now they play Doom. Same thing.
Anybody who can not distinguish between reality and fiction enough to see games as what they really are is already a potential candidate for the insane asylum, because even if you keep him away from games, something will set him off. Maybe it will take a few years longer. But the result will be the same.

Again, a sister site could be the solution. But let's save this for later and work on the old games for now.