The rating is correct, though. The 87 score you posted is for the XBawks version of the game, the PC version indeed has a 89 score. (Not that it really matters what Dorito-score the presstitutes assign to this game, they're all paid-for advertisements disguised as customer advice anyway)

A steep price and heavy regional pricing on top of it - I'm not going to support that strategy, Microsoft, even more with the delayed Linux version. Bring your Age of Empires game family to GOG and we can talk again...

Better grab the first Psychonauts game for now, which even comes with goodies included and a Linux version, before the 90% discount expires (in about 6 hours), when you do not already own it.

I did pick it up. Currently playing through the first one with a nice 4K mod and it's a wonderful game. I never finished it, so I am doing that now. Hope this lives up to the first one.

Tim Schafer, love the guy. Sock puppets, great show. Gators, pathetic loonies.

But for Double Fine's likely last day one release on GOG, the price tag is weak sauce as funk.

Ahhh. 2022 is another year for that I guess, particularly with such incredible - and reasonably priced - indie releases coming up.

Thanks, messed that one up. As you said, it doesn't change much.

Cheers, picked up the original. Didn't realise it was on sale and so well regarded.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-08-24-inside-the-mind-of-tim-schafer

And I quote: Also: Sorry your two choices are to subscribe or to pay up.

There are no other choices according to this guy.

Vaina, old buddy, old pal!

How's life treating you, old friend? Haven't seen you much round these parts lately, but deep down I knew if I were to invoke the spirit of Gamergate, you'll be swooping in here in no time. Like fucking clockwork! You're like the Candyman of the gog forum - speak the name of Gamergate three times and *BAM!* there's our boy Vaina!

The fact that even you think this thing is absurdly overpriced is just icing on the cake! All is forgiven, welcome back!

W-Wait... do I understand this right: What he's basically saying is that the 24000 suckers - err, I mean backers - who invested their money into this basically put up 4 million dollars for what is essentially a glossy advertisement for a Microsoft subscription service?

LOL

No achievements means the GOG customers will be treated like second-class customers. That's the reason we ask for parity of features with what Steam gets. Been here long enough to see devs not caring as much about their customers here. I would have bought this here even though I have Game Pass, but I'll wait until they promise platform parity.

So many devs don't need to milk their customers when they offer good games - especially none that also already got money from crowdfunding and a publisher.,, not even offering complete localisation... Sorry - but this price is unacceptable for me. I will keep waiting.

Several newer games also don't have achievements on GOG and according to at least one indie dev it is actually quite easy to implement/import them into GOG. So in most case the reason for devs not implementng them here is - they just don't care that much about GOG and their customers (of course they care about our money). I do understand that many GOGers don't care about achievements and some even do hate them but it does not change the fact that we will support devs that don't care that much about GOG since for them there is little to none reason not to offer such (optional!) features for those who want them.

"Inflation alert!" - PBS repeats.

Why so many complains about achievements? I play a game for the game, not the achievements... :-P I remember a time games didn't have achievements at all and they were still being sold by the millions.

I guess I'm old... *shrug*

I agree. I really have trouble caring whether a feature I have no interest in is in the game or not. I have trouble caring about comparisons to a platform that I don't care about either.

Actually, if they spent that development time on bug testing, I am glad that's where the effort went.

Old enough to remember highscore competitions in all sorts of magazines and Polaroids and floppy discs for a proof of the many glorious achievements? ;-)

I would agree if they actually would have to invent those achievements especially for GOG but they were already developed and only need to be imported into the GOG backend. It is not a matter of time but a matter of wanting to do any aditional work no matter how small.

Then why do they still have time to give Steam customers Achievements?

Why should "development time bug testing" be funded solely off the labor of GOG's customers, but not Steam's?

Why should GOG's customers be the ones who are using their hard-earned money to subsidize Steam's customers getting first-class treatment and additional features, features that are removed from the version that is sold to GOG's customers who financed them for the benefit of Steam's customers?

The very existence of such a scam would just be further reason to boycott the game.

I'll not be buying it on Steam nor GOG nor anywhere else, ever, unless & until they make this right by giving all customers on all platforms equal treatment.

And if everyone else did likewise, instead of diabolically "downvoting" and "low-rating" all posts like this one that call for equal treatment, then devs/publishers wouldn't be able to get away with shady, discriminatory crap like this.