I still have nightmares with that racing scene..

Heh talking about mafia 1 right?
Last time i played it,kinda took me 1 hour to beat the racing part. It really isn't that easy,but usually letting go of the gas when turning helps a lot also brakes usage.

yeah, mafia was a great narrative experience with an awesome sense of place, but god, the racing bit plus pretty much most of the actually gameplay drove me bonkers. that said, if it comes i will buy.

This

Ubisoft moved that one in the "Don't open till Christmas 2099" box together with XIII :/.But that would be a damn fine rerelease indeed.Cheers

Yeah, that one.
If I'm not wrong, I think there were also some shortcuts along the way. And a patch was released later which decreased the difficulty.

If it's really Mafia, then I feel a little guilty. I didn't want to ruin the fun for you all. Fun is my main motivation in participating here, it's not about the free game. GOG owes me nothing, I wouldn't mind if they give the freebie to someone else. ;)

Yes, there was one great shortcut which helped a lot! A found it out of dispair after about two hours if trying to beat that race. If only i had Internet back then... :(

The Enigmatic Hint stays or one day you'll wake up to find in bed with you a head of the equine persuasion.

You have absolutely no reason to feel guilty. You made an educated guess, pre-SCPM posting, and that's totally what this thread is about!

Your fault being... ?
You made a guess, as anyone in this thread could, and that guess may (or may not... hypothetically :-D) be the correct one, so? Even if you looked up the list from SCPM's thread, there was no guarantee that the game in question even was there (we remember that even after being "revealed" some of those games took quite a while to get here). If you did guess the game outright - well, these things happen, congratulations will be in order as soon as it's confirmed.
Unless, of course, you're secretly a GOG employee or work at EA and obtained that info on Mafia through your personal connections in which case shame on you. :-P
(Juuuuust in case, the last paragraph was a joke.)

No, I didn't. I went straight to the community wishlist, that's all.

So why feel guilty then? You're good, have fun. :-)

Okay, people can yell at me for taking what might have been a joking post too seriously, but something immediately came to mind when I read this.

If GOG is still wondering why things have soured between the community-at-large (or at least, took a turn for the worse) over the past few years, this is one of the signs as to why.

The point, IMHO, of the Enigmatic Hints was never to correctly guess what games were coming, nor was it to try to undermine GOG's policy of secrecy. It was an opportunity for the company and the community to communicate with each other in a fun, amusing, and engaging way. Each side could engage with the other, without the community feeling as if we were shouting fruitlessly at a wall. We actually felt we were talking to people in the company in a way that actually felt like what we said was being listened to and acknowledged, even if it only mattered in the trivial context of wild speculation about a game release.

If SCPM posting his suggestions (about what he thinks is coming out) is enough to make you want to take your ball and go home then I'm afraid you simply don't understand what made the Enigmatic Hints thread a fun and lively place for discussion about GOG. And perhaps, it also means that you simply don't understand the point of even having a GOG community in the first place.

Very good points too.