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Posted October 02, 2013
Dark mysteries of the Irish shores.
Montague's Mount, a chilling trip to a dark Irish coastal island in search of your memories, sanity, and meaning, is available for pre-order 10% off on GOG.com. That's only $8.99, until the game is released on Wednesday, October 9.
[url=http://www.gog.com/game/montagues_mount][/url]Montague's Mount is an atmospheric first-person perspective horror game, that draws its thrills not from cheap tricks but ambiance and narrative. If you played Dear Esther and thought it could use some traditional narrative and more interactivity, here's what you bargained for. The game presents an intriguing and haunting narrative through the protagonist's comments (voiced by Derek Riddell), notes, and pieces of text. It's worth noting, that Montague's Mount might be the first game to extensively use the Gaeilge language, native to Ireland. With lots of intriguing puzzles, immersive gameplay, and chilling atmosphere, this title is a must have for all mystery and horror fans. The game supports English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian, and Portuguese, and runs on both Windows and Mac OS X.
Let the dark and damp atmosphere of the Irish coastal countryside overwhelm and mystify you in Montague's Mount. Preorder the game now, for only $8.99. The 10% off discount offer lasts until the game is released, on Wednesday, October 8.
Posted October 08, 2013
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Roman5: I'm just going to wait until the episodes are over and the full game is released here
There are no episodes.
Posted October 08, 2013
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Roman5: I'm just going to wait until the episodes are over and the full game is released here
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Psyringe: There are no episodes.
ah, I see, thanks for clarifying this
Posted October 08, 2013
I just watched the trailer and then read the actual text and got momentarily confused.

Watching the trailer I though it was great that they had a scottish person doing the speaking. Then I read the "Dark mysteries of the Irish shores." and was scratching my head thinking that I was sure it was a Scottish and not Irish accent, but looking up Derek Riddell I see he is Scottish. Im curious to see why they have a Scot in it, and not a native Irish man.

Also pleased to see Gaeilge (I'm used to seeing that as Gaelic, but then I'm from Northern Ireland :) ) being used in the game.
Posted October 08, 2013
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tarasis: I just watched the trailer and then read the actual text and got momentarily confused.

Watching the trailer I though it was great that they had a scottish person doing the speaking. Then I read the "Dark mysteries of the Irish shores." and was scratching my head thinking that I was sure it was a Scottish and not Irish accent, but looking up Derek Riddell I see he is Scottish. Im curious to see why they have a Scot in it, and not a native Irish man.

Also pleased to see Gaeilge (I'm used to seeing that as Gaelic, but then I'm from Northern Ireland :) ) being used in the game.
Heheh reminds me when they cast an Australian to play Wolverine, a Canadian.

The game intrigued me though. I wonder if it's more "BOO!" kind of game or more like "Dreaded feeling" kind of game.
Post edited October 08, 2013 by RedRagan
Posted October 09, 2013
The download is available now. :)
Posted October 09, 2013
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tarasis: I just watched the trailer and then read the actual text and got momentarily confused.

Watching the trailer I though it was great that they had a scottish person doing the speaking. Then I read the "Dark mysteries of the Irish shores." and was scratching my head thinking that I was sure it was a Scottish and not Irish accent, but looking up Derek Riddell I see he is Scottish. Im curious to see why they have a Scot in it, and not a native Irish man.

Also pleased to see Gaeilge (I'm used to seeing that as Gaelic, but then I'm from Northern Ireland :) ) being used in the game.
You probably know this, but if not, Gaeilge is the irish word for the irish language :)
Posted October 09, 2013
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tarasis: I just watched the trailer and then read the actual text and got momentarily confused.

Watching the trailer I though it was great that they had a scottish person doing the speaking. Then I read the "Dark mysteries of the Irish shores." and was scratching my head thinking that I was sure it was a Scottish and not Irish accent, but looking up Derek Riddell I see he is Scottish. Im curious to see why they have a Scot in it, and not a native Irish man.

Also pleased to see Gaeilge (I'm used to seeing that as Gaelic, but then I'm from Northern Ireland :) ) being used in the game.
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F1ach: You probably know this, but if not, Gaeilge is the irish word for the irish language :)
I did, but I'm grateful you took the time to point it out :)
Posted October 10, 2013
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HypersomniacLive: There was an Indiegogo campaign for Montague's Mount's Episode 1 about a year ago. According to that campaign, the complete game would consists of three episodes.
So, is today's release only Episode 1 or was the whole episodic planning dropped in the meantime?
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TurnipSlayerr: It's the latter. This is the full game.
@TurnipSlayerr: After having played through the entire game, I'm very sorry, but I have to point out that the information you provided is not correct. The game is not complete. The story does not come to a conclusion. It stops right in the middle, and then there's a outro with the very clear message "Concluding in 'Liberation', out on PC (etc.) soon".

I'm not going to make a fuss over this, but I do feel a bit disappointed and let down now. I wouldn't have started playing the game if I had known that it simply stops in the middle.

Most of all, though, I feel bad towards the other fellow Goglodytes who had reservations about the completeness of this game, and whom I told, based on your information, that the game was complete. The thought that someone might have spent money based on the misinformation I spread, is not pleasant. :(
Posted October 10, 2013
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IAmSinistar: Thanks for the clarification. More likely to buy if I know it's not going to be abandoned by the devs halfway, or languish in development limbo.
Unfortunately that information turned out to be incorrect, see above. :(

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Psyringe: There are no episodes.
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Roman5: ah, I see, thanks for clarifying this
My apologies - contrary to what I said earlier, the game is _not_ complete. See my post above for clarification. Apparently the game is still only one episode of a bigger project, but the developer decided to drop the "Episode 1" from the title and give episode 2 a different name. Which is arguable worse than producing an episodic game and at least being frank about it.

Sorry for spreading misinformation. :(
Post edited October 10, 2013 by Psyringe
Posted October 10, 2013
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TurnipSlayerr: It's the latter. This is the full game.
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Psyringe: @TurnipSlayerr: After having played through the entire game, I'm very sorry, but I have to point out that the information you provided is not correct. The game is not complete. The story does not come to a conclusion. It stops right in the middle, and then there's a outro with the very clear message "Concluding in 'Liberation', out on PC (etc.) soon".

I'm not going to make a fuss over this, but I do feel a bit disappointed and let down now. I wouldn't have started playing the game if I had known that it simply stops in the middle.

Most of all, though, I feel bad towards the other fellow Goglodytes who had reservations about the completeness of this game, and whom I told, based on your information, that the game was complete. The thought that someone might have spent money based on the misinformation I spread, is not pleasant. :(
If this is indeed the case then I apologise. We were convinced that the episodic plans had changed and this was a full standalone game. Of course, with any game it is possible that the developer will continue the series. Personally I have not played the game and so I can't comment on how complete the experience is, only that I'd been told it was a full game.

I'm really sorry that you're disappointed and that you feel bad about spreading this information. All I can say is that if other people are equally disappointed in the game, the responsibility for this certainly does not lie with you.
Posted October 10, 2013
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Psyringe: @TurnipSlayerr: After having played through the entire game, I'm very sorry, but I have to point out that the information you provided is not correct. The game is not complete. The story does not come to a conclusion. It stops right in the middle, and then there's a outro with the very clear message "Concluding in 'Liberation', out on PC (etc.) soon".

I'm not going to make a fuss over this, but I do feel a bit disappointed and let down now. I wouldn't have started playing the game if I had known that it simply stops in the middle.

Most of all, though, I feel bad towards the other fellow Goglodytes who had reservations about the completeness of this game, and whom I told, based on your information, that the game was complete. The thought that someone might have spent money based on the misinformation I spread, is not pleasant. :(
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TurnipSlayerr: If this is indeed the case then I apologise. We were convinced that the episodic plans had changed and this was a full standalone game. Of course, with any game it is possible that the developer will continue the series. Personally I have not played the game and so I can't comment on how complete the experience is, only that I'd been told it was a full game.

I'm really sorry that you're disappointed and that you feel bad about spreading this information. All I can say is that if other people are equally disappointed in the game, the responsibility for this certainly does not lie with you.
I have no problems with this being an "Episodic" game

What I do have problems with is spreading misinformation, if this is the first episode then just add the subtitle or info to the gamecard "Episode 1"

So that people will know, otherwise, GOG is tricking people into thinking they are purchasing a full product when they are not
Posted October 10, 2013
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TurnipSlayerr: It's the latter. This is the full game.
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Psyringe: @TurnipSlayerr: After having played through the entire game, I'm very sorry, but I have to point out that the information you provided is not correct. The game is not complete. The story does not come to a conclusion. It stops right in the middle, and then there's a outro with the very clear message "Concluding in 'Liberation', out on PC (etc.) soon".

I'm not going to make a fuss over this, but I do feel a bit disappointed and let down now. I wouldn't have started playing the game if I had known that it simply stops in the middle.

Most of all, though, I feel bad towards the other fellow Goglodytes who had reservations about the completeness of this game, and whom I told, based on your information, that the game was complete. The thought that someone might have spent money based on the misinformation I spread, is not pleasant. :(
That's darn disappointing, I hate episodic games and avoid them like the plague until the series is complete, so thanks for getting back to us on this Psyringe, I was going to buy it next week.
Cheers :)
Posted October 10, 2013
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TurnipSlayerr: I'm really sorry that you're disappointed and that you feel bad about spreading this information. All I can say is that if other people are equally disappointed in the game, the responsibility for this certainly does not lie with you.
I always thought gog was good with checking games prior to release but if it's been brought out without it even being played to completion or without knowing that it ends like this then that's some pretty poor work communicating with the developers and testing the game.
Posted October 10, 2013
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TurnipSlayerr: If this is indeed the case then I apologise. We were convinced that the episodic plans had changed and this was a full standalone game. Of course, with any game it is possible that the developer will continue the series. Personally I have not played the game and so I can't comment on how complete the experience is, only that I'd been told it was a full game.

I'm really sorry that you're disappointed and that you feel bad about spreading this information. All I can say is that if other people are equally disappointed in the game, the responsibility for this certainly does not lie with you.
Apology accepted. While I _am_ disappointed, and _do_ think that customers should be informed about the incompleteness prior to the purchase, I'm also seeing this fairly relaxed. GOG does more testing and QA than most other shops in the business, and if a game slipped through on grounds of incorrect information, I'd chalk that up under "crap happens".

However, if you were really told that the game was complete, then I would suggest backtracking this information and how exactly it managed to slip through. Because after playing it to the "end", I honestly can't see how somebody _could_ see it as complete. A test of the game would have revealed the following:

1. The outro of the game explicitly states "Concluding in 'Liberation', out soon" - meaning the game itself states that the story isn't concluded yet, and that you need to play the next installment to get this conclusion.

2. You never find out what happened on the island. You find out the fate of one single person (though not the reasons for it), and the narrator literally tells you: "I must find out what happened. I must go to Montague's Mount" right before the game tells you that you need to buy another product to actually do that.

3. The game is titled "Montague's Mount", but you never actually go there. You need to buy the next game for that. The teaser text on GOG (which is identical to that from the Steam Greenlight page) ends with the question: "What is that building on top of Montague’s Mount?", but the building doesn't even appear in this allegedly complete game.

4. The main character has three family members - they are mentioned in the narrative and in the voice acting. You find out about the fate of one of the three, but to understand what happened, the game tells you that you need to unravel the fate of the other two as well. Of course, for this, you need to buy "Liberation".

5. The game provides about 5 hours of playtime, most of which is spent walking around very slowly and looking for clues. I cannot fathom that this is a complete game that was previously intended to be split into 3 separate episodes. Surely the developer didn't plan to release 3 episodes with 90 minutes playtime each, and a maximum of 2 puzzles per episode?

6. You never even really find out who you are, or why you ended up washed upon the beach at the beginning of the game. The game starts three story arcs: Who are you? What happened on this island? What happened to your family? And none of them receives closure.

If you were told that the game was "complete", then I would suggest asking these questions to the person who told you that. I can also provide more details if desired (I tried to keep this post spoiler-free).
Post edited October 10, 2013 by Psyringe
Posted October 10, 2013
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IAmSinistar: Thanks for the clarification. More likely to buy if I know it's not going to be abandoned by the devs halfway, or languish in development limbo.
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Psyringe: Unfortunately that information turned out to be incorrect, see above. :(
Thank your for the update Psyringe, and for the very thorough information you provided. I, and hopefully others who have this game on their wishlist, will now defer until GOG reveals how they are proceeding in this light.
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