Vainamoinen: A whole lot of these games go into AAA territory, and most leave the traditional point & click definition. There was no particular expectation that the new King's Quest would land here, at least not in its original episodic form. Square Enix has as of yet not released anything here that they had not bought up EA-style before. Concerning Virginia, it's probably indie enough and may eventually land here, only to suffer the Baldur's Gate expansion fate to get review bombed by people outraged that happens to have a black female protagonist.
So this may just be a mixture of GOG just not doing their work properly, AAA developers that don't usually publish on GOG anyway and indie developers not giving a damn about DRM free.
Let's hope there's a Halloween sale with some surprises down the line. :)
It was as an answer as how the market wasn't saturated. I have 63 games in my list already. I just put some of the more known ones, so they are obvioulsy more leant towards the AAA side of things.
GOG could probably have here heaven's hope, nelly cootalot, goetia and virginia easily. Sherlock Holmes is probably a matter of (long) time, as we don't have the previous one yet.
Danganronpa (+ the second one) and zero escape are japanese. So one never knows if it's up to them or because those are kind of visual novels.
Everyone's gone to the rapture is a walking simulator. We already have here A Machine For Pigs from The Chinese Room, but we never got Dear Esther, and there are always lots of haters toward the genre just because. So it might be them or the genre. We don't even have The Stanley Parable, and it got released drm-free in Humble a little while ago. And that's a walking simulator praised by even notorious haters like TB. Abzû and Virginia also fall into these category.
And King Quest is from The Odd Gentlemen; indie developers. It's published by Sierra, so it's maybe AA. And Sierra is from Activision right now, not Square Enix. I'm not expecting them to release it here any time soon, if at all, though. And I rather wait for all the episodes to be over.
Vainamoinen: Concerning Virginia, it's probably indie enough and may eventually land here, only to suffer the Baldur's Gate expansion fate to get review bombed by people outraged that happens to have a black female protagonist.
As for Virginia. Probably some of them would. And others by the fact that it is very short, linear and almost no interactive. For some games it's better to know the experience you are going into. Virginia it's a mute investigation game that some relate to a David Lynch movie.
But quoting Oscar from the adventuregamers forums:
"One of the best of the year, I thought. This is not another sleep-inducing “walking-simulator” like Rapture - it’s tightly directed, never boring and with meaning in every scene. It’s cinematic but it’s one to spend time carefully exploring and thinking about each scene, pen and pencil in hand. It actually really works better as a game than a movie for this reason. You will want to play it again once you’re done, and you should.
The best thing about it is its simplicity. I’m bored of all the outlandish, complicated quantum physics/time-travel end of the world scenarios in games."
