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Posted June 29, 2017
Contains dark fantasy overtones.

<span class="bold">Tender Loving Care</span>, a psychological thriller about the dramatic repercussions of a family tragedy, is now available DRM-free on GOG.com with a 75% launch discount.

Dealing with the death of a child is no easy matter. The Overtons turn to Dr. Turner (2-time Oscar nominee John Hurt) who suggests they hire a live-in nurse. Seduction, dangerous fantasies, and dark secrets will start tearing them apart and you, as a curious observer, will get to explore and evaluate the drama while watching it unfold in high-quality FMV. Just careful not to let it get to you...

The 75% discount will last until July 06, 1PM UTC.

Watch the trailer.
Post edited July 03, 2017 by maladr0Id
Posted July 03, 2017
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eiii: I'm playing the game with Wine on Linux. There are two items in the game which do nothing for me and I'm curious if that's the same on Windows:

- The radio in the Master Bedroom does nothing.
- The dictaphone in Kathryn's Room also does nothing, even when I click on it. Only the red LED is switched on.

Are these items supposed to do something when you select them? Is there an audio file played when you select them on Windows, which maybe does not work when you play the game with Wine?
I played my CD version a bit and I can at least tell you that the dictaphone has audio played. Actually it ends with the sam,e adio cue she was talking on when you entered the room. So if there is nothing played in GOGs version it is a bug. Cannot tell you about the radio though because it's far too long when I first played it and recently I just played the beginning.
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eiii: I agree about the video quality, it really is bad, especially the artifacts and the blurring because of the high compression. But I like the white boxes, they help to avoid uselessly clicking around and not to miss anything.
Could you please make a screenshot of those white boxes? IN my CD version the mouse pointer simply is changing when hovering ober an interesting object (first it turns to a magnifying glass and in the closeup it turns to a different looking arrow to show you were to click).
Post edited July 03, 2017 by MarkoH01
Posted July 03, 2017
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MarkoH01: Could you please make a screenshot of those white boxes? IN my CD version the mouse pointer simply is changing when hovering ober an interesting object (first it turns to a magnifying glass and in the closeup it turns to a different looking arrow to show you were to click).
The white frames are permanent, the same thing with the yellow arrows. They removed the context-sensitive mouse-pointer and added this abomination.
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Post edited July 03, 2017 by Wolfram_von_Thal
Posted July 03, 2017
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Posted July 03, 2017
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MarkoH01: Could you please make a screenshot of those white boxes? IN my CD version the mouse pointer simply is changing when hovering ober an interesting object (first it turns to a magnifying glass and in the closeup it turns to a different looking arrow to show you were to click).
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Wolfram_von_Thal: The white frames are permanent, the same thing with the yellow arrows. They removed the context-sensitive mouse-pointer and added this abomination.
Yikes - this totally breaks tte immersion.
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Fairfox: Honest Lee, least of this game's problems.
Would you be so kind and tell us then what those big problems are you are talking about? I mean except the subobtimal (but still much better than CD) video quality and the white boxes I mean.
Post edited July 03, 2017 by MarkoH01
Posted July 04, 2017
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Fairfox: Sooo... this game sucks. What a shame.
Sucks less than Her Story then.
Posted July 04, 2017
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Fairfox: Sooo... this game sucks. What a shame.
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pferreira1983: Sucks less than Her Story then.
Her Story sucks? Imo: Great story - interesting narrative. Not much gameplay in it but the way this "game" works is also interesting.
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Posted July 04, 2017
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Posted July 04, 2017
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MarkoH01: Yikes - this totally breaks tte immersion.

Would you be so kind and tell us then what those big problems are you are talking about? I mean except the subobtimal (but still much better than CD) video quality and the white boxes I mean.
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Fairfox: O, I didnt mean Technical Lee (teh worst video compression aside); it's not porn buuut it's so cheesy erotic (I DID NOT WANT THIS. CAPS. Still, mah bad), Most Lee borin' plot, bad actin' (...for teh main), lousy writin' (/borin' plot x2), poor production values, clunky ol' gameplay (yah, I kno, but still!), odd aid omissions, etc. Crap game. I play so li'l nao this doesnt help me get back into gamin'!
You really did expect proper acting and a good production value in an 90 FMV game? I played them a lot but I cannot name one in which movie scenes are better than the onme in a B-movie. I guess you simply expect too much from this kind of games. If you want to see a good movie these are never alternatives - mostly because the devs had to pay the actors, the directing AND the game development itself.. so there is not enough money to do all of it good. So better stick to real movies if you want real quality here. For a FMV game of the 90s the acting is not that bad.
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Posted July 08, 2017
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MarkoH01: You really did expect proper acting and a good production value in an 90 FMV game? I played them a lot but I cannot name one in which movie scenes are better than the onme in a B-movie.
I wouldn't say acting today in games is any better as Her Story showed. It's not just limited to 90s FMV games.
Posted July 08, 2017
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MarkoH01: You really did expect proper acting and a good production value in an 90 FMV game? I played them a lot but I cannot name one in which movie scenes are better than the onme in a B-movie.
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pferreira1983: I wouldn't say acting today in games is any better as Her Story showed. It's not just limited to 90s FMV games.
I wasn't so much referring to the 90s but more to the FMV game genre in general (which happens to be most popular in the 90s). My main argument was that developing a game costs money and if you already spent most of the money on the game itself there probably is not enough left for good actors. btw: I liked the actress in Her Story - but that is a subjective thing :)
Posted July 10, 2017
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MarkoH01: I wasn't so much referring to the 90s but more to the FMV game genre in general (which happens to be most popular in the 90s). My main argument was that developing a game costs money and if you already spent most of the money on the game itself there probably is not enough left for good actors. btw: I liked the actress in Her Story - but that is a subjective thing :)
Okay I get what you mean.
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