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General discussionWinter Sale Special: claim the GIVEAWAY of Vambrace: Cold Soul(37 posts)(37 posts)
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Posted December 31, 2024
Winter Sale is leaving soon – but not without a bang!

To celebrate this jolly time and make it big into the new year, we have something special for you…

Enjoy Vambrace: Cold Soul – up for grabs for the next 72 hours!

Vambrace: Cold Soul is a story-driven roguelite set amidst a frozen landscape. Plan expeditions, then journey to the cursed city surface with your party. Wield unique powers, avoid traps, brave strange encounters, and survive deadly combat in this gothic fantasy adventure.

Check it out, claim the GIVEAWAY, and of course, enjoy last days of Winter Sale!
Posted January 01, 2025
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A giveaway of a game that hasn't been properly patched for years is a perfect way to end one of the most disappointing sales events in the site's history.
Posted January 01, 2025
Oh good, a roguelike full of furries. Yeah, I'm sure gonna subscribe to your "trusted partners" for that.
Posted January 01, 2025
Thanks for the freebie!
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Breja: Oh good, a roguelike full of furries. Yeah, I'm sure gonna subscribe to your "trusted partners" for that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrr_VVtyUA8 :P
Post edited January 01, 2025 by triock
Posted January 01, 2025
how sweet. thanks a lot!
Posted January 01, 2025
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viperfdl: According to the discussion in the thread to the new Vambrace game this game hasn't the latest patch from 2022. So I think I will just pass.
Thanks anyway.
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Ganni1987: I remember 2 years ago I tried reaching out to the devs/publisher regarding this. Nobody gave a damn and the game is still missing the latest patch.

Safe to say, not buying anything else from this publisher until the game is patched on par with the Steam version.
I tried to find information about what is going on with the updates and on steam I noticed people were asking about the 1.11 patch for GOG. There is an answer that the update was sent to the publisher and thats the end of it. What is strange though - Galaxy is still on 1.10 if I can trust gogdb but there is an offline installer as a patch - Patch (1.10 to 1.11) that was uploaded 2 months after the patch release on steam in 2020. Isn't that the latest version people are looking for? (Sadly only for the windows version. I don't see anything for linux and macos)
Post edited January 01, 2025 by Hirako__
Posted January 01, 2025
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triock: Thanks for the freebie!
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Breja: Oh good, a roguelike full of furries. Yeah, I'm sure gonna subscribe to your "trusted partners" for that.
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triock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrr_VVtyUA8 :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Posted January 01, 2025
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DNMR2K5: Thanks for the freebie, but I'm not surprised that it's yet another piece of **rogue shite, I wouldn't mind rogue shite if it did not have permadeath, as that guarantees that your gameplay is nothing but wasted effort and boring repetition…

Spend hours to build up your party ⇒ experience RNG designed to have a 90% chance to wipe your party no matter what you do ⇒ repeat the whole process all over again, very often in the same side quest needed to spend hours to build up your party ⇒ experience RNG designed to have a 90% chance to wipe your party no matter what you do ⇒ repeat the whole process all over again, very often in the same side quest needed to spend hours to build up your party ⇒ experience RNG designed to have a 90% chance to wipe your party no matter what you do ⇒ repeat the whole process all over again, very often in the same side quest needed to…

I despise rogue shite, it's a lazy way to develop a game as the RNG is 90% of the gameplay…

**(Not including hades and the like…)
No idea about this game, but it has both the roguelike and roguelite tags, which are basically mutually exclusive. If you have to start a new game from scratch every time you die with a clean slate (your 100th run will have the same conditions as the 1st one did), it's a rogue-like.

If there is meta progression (persistent upgrades between runs, using the currency you gathered in the run or any other upgrade mechanic), it's a rogue-lite.

What you described only applies to a like. Hades would be a lite, which is probably why you're fine with it.
Post edited January 01, 2025 by idbeholdME
Posted January 02, 2025
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DNMR2K5: **(Not including hades and the like…)
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Zoidberg: Why? Hades DOES HAVE roguish mechanisms.

I missed that and it does tickle my curiosity, I will try it, thanks!
Yes, it does, and they do it much differently as death doesn't mean a total wipe of progress… At least from my understanding.

I just despise wasted effort, and gambling with abusive RNG!

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idbeholdME: No idea about this game, but it has both the roguelike and roguelite tags, which are basically mutually exclusive. If you have to start a new game from scratch every time you die with a clean slate (your 100th run will have the same conditions as the 1st one did), it's a rogue-like.

If there is meta progression (persistent upgrades between runs, using the currency you gathered in the run or any other upgrade mechanic), it's a rogue-lite.

What you described only applies to a like. Hades would be a lite, which is probably why you're fine with it.
Thank you very much for the clarification!

I really love getting accurate info, even when it contradicts my own!
Post edited January 02, 2025 by DNMR2K5
Posted January 02, 2025
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Hirako__: Patch (1.10 to 1.11) that was uploaded 2 months after the patch release on steam in 2020. Isn't that the latest version people are looking for? (Sadly only for the windows version. I don't see anything for linux and macos)
No, that's actually 1.10b. The *real* 1.11 came two years later, but not on GOG.
Posted January 02, 2025
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idbeholdME: No idea about this game, but it has both the roguelike and roguelite tags, which are basically mutually exclusive.
What? Tags on GOG that don't make sense? I'm shocked! Shocked I say!


... shocked that isn't also tagged as an FPS or something like that.
Posted January 02, 2025
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Hirako__: I tried to find information about what is going on with the updates and on steam I noticed people were asking about the 1.11 patch for GOG. There is an answer that the update was sent to the publisher and thats the end of it. What is strange though - Galaxy is still on 1.10 if I can trust gogdb but there is an offline installer as a patch - Patch (1.10 to 1.11) that was uploaded 2 months after the patch release on steam in 2020. Isn't that the latest version people are looking for? (Sadly only for the windows version. I don't see anything for linux and macos)
I did the same mistake because i didn't paid attention of the release date on Steam :

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/904380?updates=true

Since the devs didn't provided a changelog past the v.1.09 & GOG messed up with the 1.10b installer + 1.11 patch : it was easy to be fooled. The 1.11 patch can't be installed above the main installer : it's probably a typo in the version number.
Post edited January 02, 2025 by DyNaer
Posted January 02, 2025
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DNMR2K5: Thanks for the freebie, but I'm not surprised that it's yet another piece of **rogue shite, I wouldn't mind rogue shite if it did not have permadeath, as that guarantees that your gameplay is nothing but wasted effort and boring repetition…

Spend hours to build up your party ⇒ experience RNG designed to have a 90% chance to wipe your party no matter what you do ⇒ repeat the whole process all over again, very often in the same side quest needed to spend hours to build up your party ⇒ experience RNG designed to have a 90% chance to wipe your party no matter what you do ⇒ repeat the whole process all over again, very often in the same side quest needed to spend hours to build up your party ⇒ experience RNG designed to have a 90% chance to wipe your party no matter what you do ⇒ repeat the whole process all over again, very often in the same side quest needed to…

I despise rogue shite, it's a lazy way to develop a game as the RNG is 90% of the gameplay…

**(Not including hades and the like…)
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idbeholdME: No idea about this game, but it has both the roguelike and roguelite tags, which are basically mutually exclusive. If you have to start a new game from scratch every time you die with a clean slate (your 100th run will have the same conditions as the 1st one did), it's a rogue-like.

If there is meta progression (persistent upgrades between runs, using the currency you gathered in the run or any other upgrade mechanic), it's a rogue-lite.

What you described only applies to a like. Hades would be a lite, which is probably why you're fine with it.
Let's not bother with terms like roguelike or roguelite, it doesn't matter that much and even people who care about it can't even get an accurate description/definition for it when they gather.

Let's keep at defining the game play like: run-based games with (most of them) or without (really rare, latest one seems to be "caves of qud") meta-based "progression".
Posted January 02, 2025
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Zoidberg: Let's not bother with terms like roguelike or roguelite, it doesn't matter that much and even people who care about it can't even get an accurate description/definition for it when they gather.

Let's keep at defining the game play like: run-based games with (most of them) or without (really rare, latest one seems to be "caves of qud") meta-based "progression".
Let's do bother anyway. It's a pretty clear difference and the terms were made specifically for that in respect to the game that introduced the genre in 1980 - Rogue. "Run based game with meta progression" really rolls off the tongue compared to rogue-lite.
Posted January 02, 2025
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Zoidberg: Let's not bother with terms like roguelike or roguelite, it doesn't matter that much and even people who care about it can't even get an accurate description/definition for it when they gather.

Let's keep at defining the game play like: run-based games with (most of them) or without (really rare, latest one seems to be "caves of qud") meta-based "progression".
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idbeholdME: Let's do bother anyway. It's a pretty clear difference and the terms were made specifically for that in respect to the game that introduced the genre in 1980 - Rogue. "Run based game with meta progression" really rolls off the tongue compared to rogue-lite.
The term "rogue-like" englobes even more stuff than "doom-like", I think the genre rogue-LITE is too big to be put in a box and the term rogue-LIKE too narrow.
Posted January 03, 2025
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GOG.com: Winter Sale is leaving soon – but not without a bang!
The Winter sale is coming to an end now, nothing will be added anymore. Unfortunately it was quite a disappointment for me.

There were no good discounts for games on my wishlist and we were missing several 90% discounts here which were available on Steam for games like Divinity: Original Sin EE, Grim Dawn, Spore or Creatura. I would have bought all of them, GOG! ;)

The Christmas calendar was a disappointment too. Only a single interesting offer for me, where I even missed the expiration time. I do not like short time offers and hidden discounts which are not available in the catalog, GOG. ;P

So far I've only bought a single game during this sale. Perhaps I'll add some last minute purchases to it, but even then I cannot remember any bigger sale on GOG with such a bad quote. Even the GOG freebies were games I either already had owned or I'm not much interested in.

By far the best were some good freebies from the Amazon Prime giveaway, which luckily saved the end of the year on GOG for me. :)
Post edited January 03, 2025 by eiii
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