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Up to 85% off the best schoolnight companions: Mount & Blade: Warband, Inquisitor, Hocus Pocus, Stronghold Crusader HD, and more!



You know what comes after school, right? Plenty of chilly <span class="bold">School Nights</span> full of homework, online chatting with that hot new classmate, and videogames! Some of them are here to help relieve the stress, some might let you apply all this newly acquired knowledge, and some will challenge your logical thinking and time management skills. But they are all perfectly good reasons to keep alt-tabbing away from school projects, and they are going for up to 85% off!

The Inquisitor is no knight in shining armor because their tortured, bleeding world has no room for heroics. It is a place of strife, misery, lost souls, and unforgiving yet rewarding old-school sensibilities, that will challenge both your role-playing skills and your wits.

With its massive battles punctuated by moments of brutal physicality and its addictive sandbox gameplay that lets players build their own story, Mount & Blade: Warband arguably stands among the most immersive medieval simulators to ever fight for our affections.

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vanchann: It's a matter of personal taste.
It's fun for a sort time, as your characters die and you explore new character traits. After the first hour has passed though, it has been frustrating for me. It's almost impossible to finish a castle even after hours, since Grim Reaper at the castle's gate takes all your not already spent money away, making progress too slow (there is an upgrade for this, but still you'll loose up to 50% of your gold).

Definitely I cannot recommend this game to anyone. It's one of the few purchases I've regretted.
Thank you very much.

Until friday, it will try to read all the reviews on the GOG.com game page, maybe watch some videos ...
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skeletonbow: Warband seems to be the most popular game in the series however unlike everyone else's apparent flawless experience with the game, despite the game engine being roughly identical all around - the game runs like a snail on my computer despite the fact I have an AMDFX8350 4GHz with 32GB of RAM and a 2GB video card (Radeon HD7850). I can run Witcher 3 at a faster frame rate than Warband on this thing and my GPU is below-spec for Witcher 3. In addition, the game has numerous graphical glitches which appear to be specific to people using AMD GPUs, including some crashes to desktop.
Huh, that's strange. I played Warband at its highest settings without any issues on my rig. I played with a AMD A8-5600K 3.6 Ghz, 8 gigs of RAM, and a 1GB HD 7850. I even remember playing a custom skirmish and setting the slider to the highest number of units. I had the fps-counter active and never saw it drop under 60. I haven't played the game with my new card yet (Radeon RX 470 4GB), but it's more than double the power of my old card, so it should work well. I never saw any graphical errors or crashes either. I have the Steam-version, and I played at 1680x1050. You have a 1600p-panel or something though, right? :)
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skeletonbow: Warband seems to be the most popular game in the series however unlike everyone else's apparent flawless experience with the game, despite the game engine being roughly identical all around - the game runs like a snail on my computer despite the fact I have an AMDFX8350 4GHz with 32GB of RAM and a 2GB video card (Radeon HD7850). I can run Witcher 3 at a faster frame rate than Warband on this thing and my GPU is below-spec for Witcher 3. In addition, the game has numerous graphical glitches which appear to be specific to people using AMD GPUs, including some crashes to desktop.
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Random_Coffee: Huh, that's strange. I played Warband at its highest settings without any issues on my rig. I played with a AMD A8-5600K 3.6 Ghz, 8 gigs of RAM, and a 1GB HD 7850. I even remember playing a custom skirmish and setting the slider to the highest number of units. I had the fps-counter active and never saw it drop under 60. I haven't played the game with my new card yet (Radeon RX 470 4GB), but it's more than double the power of my old card, so it should work well. I never saw any graphical errors or crashes either. I have the Steam-version, and I played at 1680x1050. You have a 1600p-panel or something though, right? :)
Yeah, 2560x1600. I had to lower it down to 1920x1200 or lower and kill various 3D settings either to improve performance, or to get rid of graphic glitches on-map or in-game on certain maps, as well as prevent crash-to-desktop. Lots of people experience it so I fortunately found tips on how to get it to work, but still it sucked because I couldn't play it full tilt like I should be able to. Fire & Sword which is newer seems to run fine maxed out oddly enough. I find it really puzzling because you'd think the most popular game of the franchise would be well tested and they'd work hard to iron the glitches out.

It's been a while since I tried it, I'm going to install Warband right now and see how it runs.
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vanchann:
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opIgra: Thank you very much.

Until friday, it will try to read all the reviews on the GOG.com game page, maybe watch some videos ...
You're welcome.

The official page provides links for the game's demo. You could check that too.
Inquisitor and Rune are both fine games, but I finally got Bombshell Deluxe, for such a nice discount it would be pity to let it go :)
Post edited October 04, 2016 by Tarhiel
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vanchann: It's a matter of personal taste.
It's fun for a sort time, as your characters die and you explore new character traits. After the first hour has passed though, it has been frustrating for me. It's almost impossible to finish a castle even after hours, since Grim Reaper at the castle's gate takes all your not already spent money away, making progress too slow (there is an upgrade for this, but still you'll loose up to 50% of your gold).

Definitely I cannot recommend this game to anyone. It's one of the few purchases I've regretted.
I'm glad I just played the demo, I could not stand 5 minutes of gameplay. Really if you want a platformer look elsewhere (Shovelknight is a favourite of mine). Rogue Legacy is just stiff, boring and uncontrollable. It's a mess. Sadly many indie games have cool ideas to sell but no substance behind it. This game is one of those.
Post edited October 04, 2016 by Cecco
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hyperagathon: In any case, Staging certainly fixes that bug, and fits under the "newer versions" disclaimer.
Staging is not a "newer version" of Wine, it's a different branch.

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JudasIscariot: Arch already has Wine-Staging 1.9.19 at the moment but yeah, any recent Wine Staging version should work for Inquisitor :)
So it still does not run properly with vanilla Wine?
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hyperagathon: In any case, Staging certainly fixes that bug, and fits under the "newer versions" disclaimer.
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eiii: Staging is not a "newer version" of Wine, it's a different branch.

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JudasIscariot: Arch already has Wine-Staging 1.9.19 at the moment but yeah, any recent Wine Staging version should work for Inquisitor :)
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eiii: So it still does not run properly with vanilla Wine?
The patchset is still staged so probably not.
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JudasIscariot: The patchset is still staged so probably not.
That's what I'm afraid of too as the bug still isn't marked as fixed.

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drealmer7: (oh and it's easier on MEDIUM difficulty than it is on EASY!)
Any explanation why Inquisitor is easier on medium difficulty?
Post edited October 04, 2016 by eiii
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JudasIscariot: The patchset is still staged so probably not.
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eiii: That's what I'm afraid of too as the bug still isn't marked as fixed.
As long as you can easily switch between Wine and Wine-Staging, this shouldn't be too much of a problem :)
I'm surprised to see people saying such bad things about Rogue Legacy. I bought it a few years ago and I loved it. I'm not sure how many hours I put into it but I did eventually beat it. I consider it one of the best platformers I've played in the last few years. Though, I have recently become even more enamored with 20XX, which I don't think is on GOG (sadly).
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opIgra: I will buy them too. But right now I am hesitating if Rogue Legacy is worth to get or not.
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Cecco: there is a windows demo
http://www.cellardoorgames.com/roguelegacy/
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opIgra: Thank you very much.

Until friday, it will try to read all the reviews on the GOG.com game page, maybe watch some videos ...
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vanchann: You're welcome.

The official page provides links for the game's demo. You could check that too.
Ah, thanks! Will check it out :)
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MWink: I'm surprised to see people saying such bad things about Rogue Legacy. I bought it a few years ago and I loved it. I'm not sure how many hours I put into it but I did eventually beat it. I consider it one of the best platformers I've played in the last few years. Though, I have recently become even more enamored with 20XX, which I don't think is on GOG (sadly).
I second this, it's a great game. Tough as hell, but fun.
I think you probably need to have the roguelike mind set that dieing is fun and part of the process to really enjoy it but I'm not generally a fan of platformers or bullet hell games (which I think it shares some DNA with) yet I had a blast with this.