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Posted September 07, 2020
Things tend to be much clearer to see and more fun to play when seen from up above. That’s why the latest Weekly Sale on GOG.COM is dedicated to titles featuring an isometric point of view with discounts reaching up to 80% off.

Here are a few of the best examples:

Tower of Time (-50%) is a dynamic dungeon crawler with an innovative battle system. Enter the mysterious Tower of Time and experience the incredible adventures that lie within!

Warhammer: Chaosbane (-65%) is an epic action-adventure game with 5 playable characters and swarms of ferocious enemies to slay, burn and obliterate.

Lumo (-80%) is a classic platformer game with a modern twist for gamers young and old alike. Explore over 400 rooms across 4 unique zones with all kinds of secrets to uncover.

Check other discounted titles with the isometric view. This Weekly Sale on GOG.COM will last until 14th September 2020, 1 PM UTC.
Posted September 07, 2020
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ciemnogrodzianin: "the finest selection of games with an axonometric projection in which the three coordinate axes appear equally foreshortened and the angle between any two of them is 120 degrees".
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toxicTom: Amazing title... :-)
Now I think it may be a solution for the problem raised during the last weekly sale, when there were some complaints about the sale's title being not specific enough ;)
Posted September 07, 2020
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plagren: Well, it's clear that no one at GOG has the faintest idea what "isometric" means.
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ciemnogrodzianin: What do you mean? These games look quite isometric to me, to be honest. I've even checked the Wikipedia:
Isometric video game graphics are graphics employed in video games and pixel art which angle the viewpoint to reveal facets of the environment that would not be visible from a top-down perspective or side view, thereby producing a three-dimensional effect. Despite the name, isometric computer graphics are not necessarily truly isometric—i.e., the x, y, and z axes are not necessarily oriented 120° to each other. Instead, a variety of angles occur; some form of parallel projection, such as dimetric projection with a 2:1 pixel ratio, is the most common. The terms "3/4 perspective", "2.5D", and "pseudo-3D" are also sometimes used, although these terms can possess slightly different meanings in other contexts.
Isometric isn't just 3D from above. Sure angles don't have to be 120° but two of them usually are. The defining characteristics are still that no matter the angle the sides are equally depicted for equal lengths. There's also no depth perspective. Many of these titles seem to defy that.

It's clear GOG doesn't know what terms mean and simply pick stuff to go with sales to make up a theme.


With that said I'd recommend Eschalon for anybody wanting to buy. Still haven't finished the 2nd and 3rd but the first one is free to try. Also Avernum is a pretty engaging series but beyond that Spiderweb's formula gets a bit repetitive.
Posted September 07, 2020
I dont know. With how absolutely overwhelmed GOGs total library is with isometric games pretty sure they have a pretty good idea what they are.

There are far too many isometric games on GOG. I can understand the old classics but this rash of new isometric games has seen a lot of mediocre and outright bad games added here which makes absolutely no sense.
Posted September 07, 2020
GoG seems to know its shit most of the time
Posted September 08, 2020
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toxicTom: Amazing title... :-)
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ciemnogrodzianin: Now I think it may be a solution for the problem raised during the last weekly sale, when there were some complaints about the sale's title being not specific enough ;)
If GOG decided to address all complaints in here, they would need A LOT of time. People seem to complain a lot these days, even when there's no reason to do it...
Posted September 12, 2020
sorry , wrong thread
Post edited September 12, 2020 by i_hope_you_rot
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