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Posted May 26, 2015
Telling tales of Telltale titles.

A time of more DRM-free Telltale games is upon us. We signed the deal, and we're set to unleash a torrent of past and future games from the award-winning adventure game developer! All of the games will premiere with full GOG Galaxy support, that includes Achievements and other goodness like one-click installation, auto-updating, game time tracking and more!




The first of our new Telltale releases is available today: <span class="bold">Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series at 40% off during launch, right on schedule for the worldwide premiere of Episode 4: Sons of Winter.

<span class="bold">Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series is your chance to not just watch or read about the pathological madness, but to experience and play it out with your own personal touch. This Telltale Game series tells the story of an all-new House of Forrester located somewhere in the north reaches of Westeros. As the War of Five Kings rages, your family is caught in the maelstrom of warfare, revenge, intrigue and horror, in a struggle not to win… but to survive. <span class="bold">Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series is a brand new side-story that bumps into familiar characters, and weaves across events known from the TV series which echo across the entire known world. The release discount will last until May 30, 12:59 pm GMT.




Soon, we'll tell more Telltale tales with The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, and all seasons of The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series. Stay tuned!
Posted May 26, 2015
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skeletonbow: None of GOG's games have a non-optional Galaxy Client install. The games that support Galaxy features may come with the Galaxy DLL because they have Galaxy support built into them and that requires the library to exist for the executable to start the same way every other DLL library works. That's how dynamically linked software works, the DLLs for all features linked into the executable must be present for the dynamic linker to resolve the symbols in the executable whether or not those symbols get used at runtime.

So you can expect every game that has Galaxy support to come with these libraries because that is how software works. The features that the libraries implement are of course optional and you don't need to use them or care about them, nor care about Galaxy client.

It appears currently that if a game is installed with Galaxy client, that the installation script that Galaxy runs post-install will create desktop shortcuts that launch the game through Galaxy client. This appears to be based on the assumption that if someone installed the game with Galaxy they presumably want the Galaxy functionality enabled by default, so the launcher sets it to launch via Galaxy. It's a sensible default to have, but there are people that do not want the shortcut to depend on Galaxy either, so they will hopefully make this configurable in Galaxy to be able to make the shortcuts default to launching without Galaxy in the future as well.

People are free to curse and swear of course about galaxy DLLs being installed that they don't want, but that just illustrates lack of understanding about how dynamic linking works and is really nitpicking IMHO of a very trivial meaningless non-issue, one which is very highly unlikely to change ever because it is the only technically feasible way to do it.

Ultimately though if it bothers people - quite simply do not buy games from GOG. Problem solved.
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nightcraw1er.488: So to sum up, the answer is yes. I am fully aware of how dlls work. As a customer of a long time, with a lot of games from here I do believe I am entitled to an opinion, that being that I don't want any of the (needless in my opinion) client software on my machine. Apparently some people want this site to turn into some sort of facebook trash and anyone disagreeing with this is told to go elsewhere, most helpful.
But thanks for the information, telltale games are on my list to ignore.
The installers aren't bundled with Galaxy anymore if that is what your asking, or so I've read... can't confirm though. So while they may have some parts of Galaxy (like .dll files) so Galaxy can recognize them they don't install parts of the client anymore apparently.

Just to be clear every GOG game will have the .dll files, these do absolutely nothing without galaxy, simply to help those who use Galaxy install there games via standalone installers and are only a couple of files, if one is going to complain about them... then they should just stop gaming, because games by design have crap they really don't need.
Post edited May 26, 2015 by BKGaming
Posted May 26, 2015
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VampiroAlhazred: What is the bug in Sam & Max Save the World?
http://www.gog.com/forum/sam_and_max_series/sybil_doesnt_appear_spoiler
Posted May 26, 2015
Invisible post... what fun.
Posted May 26, 2015
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BKGaming: The installers aren't bundled with Galaxy anymore if that is what your asking, or so I've read... can't confirm though. So while they may have some parts of Galaxy (like .dll files) so Galaxy can recognize them they don't install parts of the client anymore apparently.
Plenty of confirmation, both from and from [url=http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post8117]Judas.
Posted May 26, 2015
The Walking Dead?!

EEEEEEEEEEE!
Posted May 26, 2015
What's the big deal with galaxy support on single player "adventure" games?
Posted May 26, 2015
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BKGaming: The installers aren't bundled with Galaxy anymore if that is what your asking, or so I've read... can't confirm though. So while they may have some parts of Galaxy (like .dll files) so Galaxy can recognize them they don't install parts of the client anymore apparently.
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Grargar: Plenty of confirmation, both from and from [url=http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post8117]Judas.
Yea I was pretty sure it was confirmed, I just never confirmed it myself... thanks for the links though. :)
Posted May 26, 2015
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Post edited May 26, 2015 by NoxTM
Posted May 26, 2015
Will they be Galaxy exclusives like Double Dragon or are they available without Galaxy as well?
Posted May 26, 2015
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VampiroAlhazred: What is the bug in Sam & Max Save the World?
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DoctorGOGgles: http://www.gog.com/forum/sam_and_max_series/sybil_doesnt_appear_spoiler
Thanks for the link, DoctorGOGgles.
I hope Telltale fixes it now.
Posted May 26, 2015
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BKGaming: The installers aren't bundled with Galaxy anymore if that is what your asking, or so I've read... can't confirm though. So while they may have some parts of Galaxy (like .dll files) so Galaxy can recognize them they don't install parts of the client anymore apparently.
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Grargar: Plenty of confirmation, both from and from [url=http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post8117]Judas.
Thanks for that info. Is there a fixed naming for the additional files, would be interested to know if these were removed whether the game would run at all.
Posted May 26, 2015
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P1na: What's the big deal with galaxy support on single player "adventure" games?
Achievements? :P
Posted May 26, 2015
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Klumpen0815: Will they be Galaxy exclusives like Double Dragon or are they available without Galaxy as well?
Double Dragon Trilogy is not Galaxy-exclusive (only the online multiplayer is).
Posted May 26, 2015
THIS CHOICE WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES!
Posted May 26, 2015
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Grargar: Plenty of confirmation, both from and from [url=http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post8117]Judas.
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nightcraw1er.488: Thanks for that info. Is there a fixed naming for the additional files, would be interested to know if these were removed whether the game would run at all.
They should run just fine, again haven't tried it, but but they literally do nothing without Galaxy. Your honestly fussing over something superficial though, I can probably find a butch of games that have other crap installed on GOG that they game would play just fine without or has a .dll you would not want but the games need.

For instance the Saints Row 3 has a "steam_api.dll" file, this is likely needed to make the game function without Steam... because the game is basically the Steam copy, minus Steam. I would imagine this keeps the game thinking Steam is installed when it really isn't or perhaps it was just left in.

This will be more common as Steam games with Steam DRM come here though...
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