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Posted June 29, 2017
Contains dark fantasy overtones.

<span class="bold">Tender Loving Care</span>, a psychological thriller about the dramatic repercussions of a family tragedy, is now available DRM-free on GOG.com with a 75% launch discount.

Dealing with the death of a child is no easy matter. The Overtons turn to Dr. Turner (2-time Oscar nominee John Hurt) who suggests they hire a live-in nurse. Seduction, dangerous fantasies, and dark secrets will start tearing them apart and you, as a curious observer, will get to explore and evaluate the drama while watching it unfold in high-quality FMV. Just careful not to let it get to you...

The 75% discount will last until July 06, 1PM UTC.

Watch the trailer.
Post edited July 03, 2017 by maladr0Id
Posted June 30, 2017
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I've made a quick tutorial for how to run it in Linux for whoever cares:
https://www.gog.com/forum/tender_loving_care/how_to_run_in_linux
Post edited June 30, 2017 by Klumpen0815
Posted June 30, 2017
So we get this but not Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, Mad Doc McCree, etc? :-/ Bring those titles here too GOG! B-)
Posted June 30, 2017
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Klumpen0815: I've made a quick tutorial for how to run it in Linux for whoever cares:
https://www.gog.com/forum/tender_loving_care/how_to_run_in_linux
Thanks, such thread is always the first thing I'm looking for in game's forum. Now I can finally make a clear decision if I want to buy/play the game (still hesitating).
Posted June 30, 2017
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MaridAudran: I am shocked to see this 20-year-old relic of 90s FMV adventure gaming hitting the digital shelves of GOG. Shockingly pleased that is. I spoke about wanting it on GOG more than once. I myself have very fond memories of it as a teenager (and not just because of the buxom blonde beauty of Beth Tegarden, however lo-res the video was from back in the day). Ambitious approach to a game for the time; Aftermath Media, the developer, bandied the term "interactive movie" about quite a bit. The narrative is mostly linear (the cost of all those FMV sequences adds up and they probably didn't want to waste them) though how you, the voyeur, answered a battery of psychological tests after each chapter influences the ultimate ending. Gameplay is very light, even for an adventure game. No puzzles or anything to solve--the takeaway in Tender Loving Care is the story, mood, exploring the environs and snooping in their private lives, the nuanced acting in veteran stage legend John Hurt (his co-stars are B-movie C-list actors), and the novelty of the psychological evaluations. Not for every taste; the writing and acting of the game is definitely not sophisticated (aside from Hurt) but I
enjoyed TLC despite its flaws and silly soap opera setups.
Great and spot on review (you should write one if you haven't yet)!

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MaridAudran: I still have the original CDs to this game I bought in a Software Etc. $1.75 is well worth the price of nostalgia and convenience in obtaining a DD copy of this game.
Since you (like me) own the CD version of the game it might interest you that I yesterday found out a way to let the videos run non interlaced full screen. I stumbled over a discussion with the person who created the directx wrapper dxwnd and he modified the wrapper to support non interlaced videos for the game "The 11th hour". Since both use the groovie engine I decided to test it on TLC as well and it seems to work (at least on Win7/64). All you have to do is

1) Unpack
2) Start the executable of the wrapper
3) Click on the entry "Tender Loving Care" (should be unchecked) and chose Edit->Modify from the main menu
4) Change the launch path to the executable of the game (Path will be the same afair) and click OK
5) Save your setting by chosing File->Save (so you won't have to do it again)
6) Right click with mouse on the now green checked entry Tender Loving Care and chose run.
7) Hope that it works ;)

You can download the modified wrapper here.
Posted June 30, 2017
john hurt, FMVs... insta bought. now i have a warm fuzzy feeling for the rest of the day
Posted June 30, 2017
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ReynardFox: So this barely interactive, tacky, pretentious, poorly conceived FMV game is alright to sell, but you reject Don Bluth's historically valuable ones?

Okay...
I don't think that's really up to GOG as Digital Leisure is kind of... Well protective of their profit margins.
Posted June 30, 2017
I loved this game. I don't think you can see the results of the questions. They are evident in the ending though. The game picks the ending that would affect you most on an emotional level, using the questions as a guide.

There's another game I also have in my DVD collection, called PoV (Point of View). It would be great if that one found its way here as well.
Posted June 30, 2017
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Orionos: I loved this game. I don't think you can see the results of the questions.
Earlier in the thread someone posted that the results are an option after the game ends, I believe.
Post edited June 30, 2017 by SpiderFighter
Posted June 30, 2017
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Klumpen0815: I've made a quick tutorial for how to run it in Linux for whoever cares:
https://www.gog.com/forum/tender_loving_care/how_to_run_in_linux
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ciemnogrodzianin: Thanks, such thread is always the first thing I'm looking for in game's forum. Now I can finally make a clear decision if I want to buy/play the game (still hesitating).
I'm in chapter four now and it works perfectly so far.

BTW: It's less crappy and less porny than I thought, actually quite interesting so far in spite of the extremely obvious/usual story.

I wasn't sure whether it's supposed to be "played" in one sitting since there is no hint of any save function whatsoever, but after clicking the X, I got asked whether I want to save the progress.
There isn't even any mention of that in the "help" area.
Posted July 01, 2017
Well, it used to be a DVD, before gaming consoles and players with hard drives. There was no saving, only pausing. My guess is they just built a little player around the original content.

I actually just dusted off my DVD's for both TLC and PoV. I suddenly feel like going through them again.
Posted July 01, 2017
Pardon me, but the GOG-version of TLC is terrible - the video quality is really bad. Please GOG, try to fix that, the game doesn't deserve such a bad re-release!
Posted July 01, 2017
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Klumpen0815: BTW: It's less crappy and less porny than I thought, actually quite interesting so far in spite of the extremely obvious/usual story.
Thanks. That was my second concern (being crappy and porny) :D
Posted July 01, 2017
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Posted July 01, 2017
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MarkoH01: *snip*
Glad you liked my thoughts. And thanks a lot MarkoH01; I will definitely try out that wrapper. I thought the 700 MB executable version that GOG hosts was pretty small for a game that originally shipped on four 800 MB CDs (or a 4.4 GB DVD) and hope that's due to compression issues and eliminating redundancy from the original release format.
Posted July 01, 2017
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GOG.com: snip
Replacing the current low-quality videos with the superior ripped ones from the DVD should be quite easy since the new "port" is just a browser interface which seems to be chrome based and is just playing videos stored in the game's folder.
Every second user here could do it, so I wonder why it's not sold that way.
Has anybody contacted the devs about it?

There are also users here who have the German DVD version btw, it would be nice if that could be added as well after the license shenanigans have been worked out.
Post edited July 01, 2017 by Klumpen0815
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