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Posted June 25, 2012
Round 7: The winner never needed any divine intervention
Both Sacred Gold and Divine Divinity are amazing games and they equally deserve a place on your shelf. However, there can be only one victor, and Divine Divinity ascends to a 60% discount. Buy it for only $2.39 for the next 24 hours. Sacred Gold can be collected for $5.99.

Round 8: B-17 Flying Fortress vs Red Baron
In B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th you can test your skills as any of the ten crew members of the bomber: pilot, navigator, gunner, bombardier or even radio operator. Twenty-five WWII scenarios will put your aviation, shooting, and leadership skills to the test in this impressively detailed and historically accurate simulation.
In Red Baron Pack you play as either British, German, or French airpilot carryiong out various missions in the early years of the 20th Century. Red Baron, one of the best WWI plane simulators ever created, comes bundled with a mission builder and its fantastic sequel Red Baron 3D.

Bomber vs bi-plane--B-17 vs Red Baron--Vote now!

For each day between June 19 and July 5, two games will battle one on one and you will decide which title wins. VOTE NOW! Each Round of the Battle begins at 1 PM GMT (9 AM EST) and ends after 24 hours. After each round, the winner of the popular vote will be discounted 60% and the runner-up 40%, for the following 24 hours. Bookmark the Battle of the Games page, check back every day, vote, and buy amazing games 60% off during our summer Battle of the Games!
Posted June 25, 2012
In this series of choices, it's usually a matter of taking 60% off the more expensive one... That is, getting both for $7.59 instead of $8.38 -- because you wanna get both anyway :)
Posted June 25, 2012
Red Baron is awesome, my first flight sim. It's extremely varied gameplay-wise, you have a lot of kinds of missions, dogfights, hunting the zeppelin, escorting bombers, etc. And it has a very high educational value, because you can re-enact actual mssions from WW1, playing as various german, british and french pilots, and at the beginning of each mission you can read the bios of said pilots. A great game...
Posted June 25, 2012
Voted for Red Baron
Posted June 25, 2012
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CheeseshireCat: In this series of choices, it's usually a matter of taking 60% off the more expensive one... That is, getting both for $7.59 instead of $8.38 -- because you wanna get both anyway :)
Yes, that's a good strategy. My tactic is that I usually vote for whichever I do not already own, provided I'm interested in buying it. If I already own both of them or I'm not planning to buy any of the games, I just forgo my vote so people who plan to buy can decide the outcome themselves.
Posted June 25, 2012
B-17 for me.
Posted June 25, 2012
I am going to make a post for the flight sim fans :D

Its true that the genre is not to everyone's taste, but if your willing to learn the complexities and flight model, you can derive a lot of fun from them in a way you just cant get from other game types. There is suspense, action, tactics and that feeling you get when you pull off a great move to get on an enemy's six! Personally, I love em and both of these are worthy games. Oh, and Red Baron for the win! ;)
Posted June 25, 2012
I can not believe I haven't noticed Red Baron on GOG before this. Fantastic game I sincerelly hope it wins although the other one is pretty good too!
Posted June 25, 2012
Voted for Red Baron because reminds me of a Young Indiana Jones episode,the when he is fighting the red baron in his red biplane(or triplane cause it had 3 wings,dont know this things) :)
Posted June 25, 2012
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te_lanus: I used to spend hours playing Red Baron, my fav was to go balloon hunting
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Lifthrasil: *digs out the dusty old Flightstick and gets ready to take off in that old, red Fokker DR1*
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te_lanus: I liked the Fokker D.VII
Yes, the Fokker D.VII is the better plane, agreed. But nothing says 'Red Baron' like the Dr.1 :-)
Posted June 25, 2012
I am really enjoying these battle sales. I only found out about Gog a week or so ago. I voted for and bought "The Last Express", and voted for Jagged Alliance 2 and intended buying it before realizing it didn't work on Windows7/64... ahh well.

Voted for Divine Divinity and plan to pick it up (at that price it's a steal).

As to today? Both look like great games. B17 works on Win7, Red Baron does not... B17 for the win!

I like that they seem to (try) to pair up 'like' games so it is as close to apples vs. apples as they can get.
Posted June 25, 2012
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MaverickAvatar: voted for Jagged Alliance 2 and intended buying it before realizing it didn't work on Windows7/64... ahh well.
Why, why, why didn't you ask first? It's working perfectly, and without any serious trouble on win7, assuming it's installed outside of Program Files.
Time to prod the blues to fix the compatibility thingy again...
And are you sure Red Baron doesn't work, or are you going by the gamecard's compatibility?
Posted June 25, 2012
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MaverickAvatar: I am really enjoying these battle sales. I only found out about Gog a week or so ago. I voted for and bought "The Last Express", and voted for Jagged Alliance 2 and intended buying it before realizing it didn't work on Windows7/64... ahh well.
It works fine. Every game on here pretty much works fine on Win 7. At least that's what it seems to me, unless the game already had problems or its name is Interstate '76.

So far I've gotten AitD 1+2+3, Fahrenheit, Arx Fatalis and Last Express. If Red Baron Pack wins I'll consider getting both that and B-17.
Posted June 25, 2012
Yeah, it's typically best to just install all of GOG's game outside of Program Files. I hit the "Options" button in the installer and delete "Program Files(x86)\" from the path, resulting in installing everything to "C:\GOG.com\(game)"; except for a handful that don't allow a "." in the path, so those end up in "C:\GOGcom\(game)". Had I known about those latter ones in advance, I'd have deleted the ".com" as well.

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I'm not interested in either game, but as the comments seem to be unanimous in support of Red Baron, and it's the more expensive of the two, it's getting a vote from me anyway.
Posted June 25, 2012
Can you play these games with mouse + keyboard combo ?
Posted June 25, 2012
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MaverickAvatar: voted for Jagged Alliance 2 and intended buying it before realizing it didn't work on Windows7/64... ahh well.
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JMich: Why, why, why didn't you ask first? It's working perfectly, and without any serious trouble on win7, assuming it's installed outside of Program Files.
Time to prod the blues to fix the compatibility thingy again...
And are you sure Red Baron doesn't work, or are you going by the gamecard's compatibility?
Because the page for each game lists compatability. Some Show Windows 7 32/64, some don't. Seemed to me there was a reason for that. I didn't want to buy a game only to have it not work.

Also in the community voting area one of the highest votes is "Make more games compatible with Windows 7", so it seemed this was an issue. The above vote with no entry for Win7 where it exists elsewhere results in a no-buy for me.
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