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Brace yourselves, winter is coming. Outside, it is getting more and more inclement.

GOG.com is here to help you find things to do with an awesome Weekend Promo. Grab eight 1C Publishing titles for a flat 60% off until Monday. That means that no matter how many games you buy, you get the maximum discount!


King’s Bounty: The Legend is an RPG/Turn based strategy game, set in a fantasy world of knights, mages, and savage monsters. Castle management adds a simple but enjoyable managerial layer to the addictive turn based gameplay we all know and love. Just the fix you need for the bland, cold days ahead only for $3.99!

The UFO franchise brings you a gameplay experience that is familiar and eXtra COMpelling, a turn based strategy game with an extraterrestrial setting. The UFO series revives that deep-seated terror, the fear of an enemy that is unknown and coming to our planet from the depths of space to bring a apocalypse of fury, destruction, and abductions. Pick up UFO: Aftermath for $2.39, or get Afterlight or Aftershock for $3.99!

Star Wolves is an innovative Sci-Fi title, combining the depth, customization, and the feel of progress of a RPG with the vast, immersive world of a space sandbox. The setting is in the distant future where in order to tackle the piracy threat, humanity has legalized the institution of head-hunters. You’re one of them, armed with an small laser gun and a couple of ships; your goal is to get big and unravel the non-linear storyline of Star Wolves. Grab it now at 60% off for a mere $3.99.

Fantasy Wars is a full fledged turn-based strategy game, featuring three different races with customizable, upgradeable units for an army building extravaganza. Terrain can give you a tactical advantage--or condemn you to your ultimate doom. Easy to pick up, hard to master, this is the philosophy of Fantasy Wars, now only $3.99.

Space Rangers 1 and 2 are an unique blend of 4X, RPG, managerial strategy, and action. How does this cocktail of Sci-Fi themed gameplay turn out? Explore a gigantic galaxy,pursue a variety of missions, customize your spaceships to your heart’s content, and revel in the true freedom of what you’ll pursue. Be a pirate, villain, or hero. Be a merchant or an explorer. It’s all up to you. Grab both of the Space Rangers games for $3.99 each until Monday!

Remember, if you live in the States, this is your last weekend to get some gaming before the family invades for Thanksgiving. Party hard while you can with classics from GOG!
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I've just returned home and I see all is on a good way (gj Firek).

Anyway, give me a few minutes and I post my info in KB's topic to not overspam this one.
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spindown: I hear that Fantasy Wars gets hard as hell later on, making it almost impossible to beat. Is that true?
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TheEnigmaticT: That would make it like Fantasy General, then. :P
I did beat Fantasy General, back in the day when I could get it to run!
Not yet beaten Fantasy Wars....
and not in multilingual...again....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Good enough for me, I'm terrible at any stragety game but I enjoy them for some reason. I'll get it wishlisted, thanks!
And I had my hopes up for a deal like the one at Gamers Gate. Wah, wah, grumble,grumble, ahh well. I've got a couple of games in this promo already, and I think I'll pass on the rest. Never mind. Cheers anyways GOG.
Great timing on this promo. I'm away from my primary computer while I visit family for Thanksgiving, so was debating whether to grab the GOG version of King's Bounty for easy use on my laptop or to just make due with my disc version; this promo made it an easy choice. Grabbed SR2 while I was at it as well, as that's been on my wishlist for a while.
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El_Caz: ... do I really need Space Rangers 1? It doesn't seem like I'm continuing anything, so I could start fresh on the sequel.
Any answers on this one? I have SR2:Reboot but I haven't started it yet.
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El_Caz: ... do I really need Space Rangers 1? It doesn't seem like I'm continuing anything, so I could start fresh on the sequel.
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BoxOfSnoo: Any answers on this one? I have SR2:Reboot but I haven't started it yet.
Start playing it for gods sake, that game is <3

From what I know there's no real loss skipping one.
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El_Caz: ... do I really need Space Rangers 1? It doesn't seem like I'm continuing anything, so I could start fresh on the sequel.
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BoxOfSnoo: Any answers on this one? I have SR2:Reboot but I haven't started it yet.
I've asked this a few times before. Basically, what SR1 has that's not in SR2 are it's own text adventures. If that's a major factor for you, play SR1 first.
Picked up King's Bounty in a heartbeat. Played that game for uhm, free, but it totally deserves full price even. My second game along Heroes III on GoG, yay!
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El_Caz: ... do I really need Space Rangers 1? It doesn't seem like I'm continuing anything, so I could start fresh on the sequel.
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BoxOfSnoo: Any answers on this one? I have SR2:Reboot but I haven't started it yet.
You can just skip Space Rangers if you have the second game - the latter is everything that the first game had and more, including a number of additions that make it much more convenient. Regarding text adventures - SR2 also has them, but different ones than in the first game.
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spindown: I hear that Fantasy Wars gets hard as hell later on, making it almost impossible to beat. Is that true?
Just do NOT play on normal!!! The orc campaign got me even on easy.
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spindown: I hear that Fantasy Wars gets hard as hell later on, making it almost impossible to beat. Is that true?
I had no problem at all finishing it.

The important thing to remember is that a manually-upgraded unit (i.e. one that has gained experience and has risen from level 0 (up to level 5) and later changed to a more advanced unit type) is a LOT better than a new unit that you can buy between missions. So the trick is not to let too many of your units die in the early missions so that by the later ones they have all reached level 4-5 and can carry their extra-skills onto their new unit type.

I highly recoomend Fantasy Wars and King's Bounty: The Legend.
I need some opinion here. Due to tight budget i can only afford 1 game. Which one do you think offer better overall experience? Star Wolves or Space Rangers 2?

It's for my little brother actually. He love sci-fi RTS like C&C and space RTS which has big mothership / battleship like Homeworld and Sins of Solar Empire.
Post edited November 20, 2011 by wormholewizards
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wormholewizards: I need some opinion here. Due to tight budget i can only afford 1 game. Which one do you think offer better overall experience? Star Wolves or Space Rangers 2?

It's for my little brother actually. He love sci-fi RTS like C&C and space RTS which has big mothership / battleship like Homeworld and Sins of Solar Empire.
Although I absolutely love SR2, it's nothing like Homeworld of Sins so I wouldn't buy it for him based on that. You really only own one ship in that game, with a few possible companion ships if you recruit them but it's really all about you. And no 'motherships' and the like.

It's really more like Star Control or Elite than a space RTS. (there's some RTS minigame on the planets every now and then though, however they're *tough* and pretty simplistic compared to standard RTS games)

I <3 Space Rangers 2 but don't expect it to be anything like those games.