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This is my favourite topic
Posted August 08, 2025
A fair few of my 'stories' have a lot of spaces tacked onto the end, because they're just notes like 'This game has been renamed X, but there's currently no database entry for that'.
Posted August 08, 2025
Numbers of characters doesn't mean the review is good.
Posted August 08, 2025
To whoever has complained about the inclusion of console-only titles, you win/I've come around to your side. It's pretty annoying to search through all them.

Edit: Assuming GOG isn't planning on supporting emulation any time soon, and porting is out of the question. I'd love for the Digimon game with 82k votes to show up, but the PC release was only in Korea.
Post edited August 09, 2025 by tfishell
Posted August 09, 2025
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CarChris: These days I'm flipping through the pages of the Dreamlist, voting stuff. I'm at page 2824, going backwards. I'm amazed at how very few people's "stories" there are, adjacent to the entries, compared to the entries themselves (and also compared to the games' pages' reviews). I'm thinking this may be due to the "at least 160 characters" requirement, compared to no such requirement in games' reviews, leading me to think that most people can't write nowadays! They can't express themselves in coherent thoughts. Most people, all they write in reviews is stuff like "Gooooooooood" "Amaaaaaaaaazing" "-------------------", or just one sentence, which look like inarticulate cries.

Edit: It would be an excellent idea to implement a similar requirement to reviews too, something like 500-2000 characters reviews obligatorily. This would leave many "reviews" out.
GOG could pull a really funny one and implement Harper into the Dreamlist, having a minimal grammatical requirement for the posting of a story.

But I imagine they mostly want the activity. (So long as pubdevs don't notice, "Hey, this got 42069 votes in 3 hours, you running a promo?")

But I do think both the Review System and other places of text entry could do with a strengthening.
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tfishell: To whoever has complained about the inclusion of console-only titles, you win/I've come around to your side. It's pretty annoying to search through all them.
More fun: There's a few console SKUs floating in there, plus some nonexistant console games.

How do you feel about an (Old World) Mac exclusive? Escape Velocity was never ported and Rosetta I slammed shut years ago.
Post edited August 09, 2025 by dnovraD
Posted August 09, 2025
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drm-sck: Numbers of characters doesn't mean the review is good.
No, but too few does mean that it's bad (or more exactly that it's not even a review).
Posted August 09, 2025
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dnovraD: More fun: There's a few console SKUs floating in there, plus some nonexistant console games.

How do you feel about an (Old World) Mac exclusive? Escape Velocity was never ported and Rosetta I slammed shut years ago.
If I was in control of the Dreamlist, in general I guess I'd try to block games that I knew GOG couldn't get emulation rights for, and weren't currently ported and unlikely to be ported. But I also might simplify and just remove console-only games. I'm willing to have some level of flexibility. Even non-game software I might leave alone.
Post edited August 09, 2025 by tfishell
Posted August 09, 2025
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tfishell: If I was in control of the Dreamlist, in general I guess I'd try to block games that I knew GOG couldn't get emulation rights for, and weren't currently ported. But I also might simplify and just remove console-only games. I'm willing to have some level of flexibility. Even non-game software I might leave alone.
Oh, absolutely with you on the software part. There's at least 3 applications alone (After Dark, Holiday Lights, Dazzle, ActivChem) that I could think of alone to throw on the Dreamlist.
Post edited August 09, 2025 by dnovraD
Posted August 09, 2025
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dnovraD:
Thank you! I didn't know about Harper. Useful stuff for me too!
Posted August 09, 2025
I imagine that from GOG's point of view, setting up a dragnet is easier, and has a lower risk of error, than trying to predict what a GOG emulation strategy might look like some years from now.

Still, since even their current emulation project has yet to bear fruit, and it's therefore reasonable to want to focus on voting for native PC games, having to check external sites to find out about release platforms does get annoying.
Posted August 09, 2025
While voting for the new Mafia: The Old Country I saw that a lot of already released Mafia titles are present in the dreamlist.
Posted August 17, 2025
The following titles, which used to be mysteriously impossible to add, are now available for voting:

Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered
Dragon Quest III: HD-2D Remake
Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition

There's still no way to add AI2U, though. Or Gensei Suikoden Plus. Or Death by Scrolling.
Post edited August 17, 2025 by VanishedOne
Posted August 17, 2025
I wish a staff member was available to "complete" wishes. Jed seems too busy to respond. I'm sure it's been noticed by now, but we have stuff like Doom 3, Heretic, Carmageddon, and Severance Blades of Darkness that could easily be completed.
Post edited August 17, 2025 by tfishell
Posted August 21, 2025
Update: Yeah, but who asked?

And for that matter, what are these similar games even based on? How can it be claimed that GOG sells games similar to Armed & Delirious? What is being implied by saying there are games similar to Ancient Roman: Power of Dark Side; which is an infamous Kusoge (BAD) RPG?

Edit: I can't make a screenshot within the 500 kb limit for image uploads, but there's a new section, "Similar games on GOG" now on the Dreamlist, and it feels like a slap in the face feature. Here's your roasted chicory and carob "coffee" and "Mocha".
Post edited August 21, 2025 by dnovraD
Posted August 21, 2025
Here you go, screenshot. And no kidding about what are they based on.
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Posted August 24, 2025
A search for Injection π 23: No Name, No Number returns no results either, until the pi character is removed.
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