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Posted May 20, 2013
Cogito ergo goblinum sum.

Gobliiins Pack, a collection of three whimsical puzzle-oriented point-and-click adventures, full of unique charm and humor, challenging stages, colorful pixel graphics, and memorable characters, is available 60% off today on GOG.com. That's only $2.39 for the next 24 hours!

Me has name Grisfald. Me goblin historian. You me forgive, me not talk human good. You talk goblin? No? Extra-big shame! Me talk slow, so you slow human understand. Goblinkind history fascinating. We have many many heroes. Goblin heroes small but do big things. Battle bad bad wizards and big extra-bad demons. go on epic quests see the world. World dangerous. Full of big monsters and nasties. Little goblin have to be extra-smart or he will be goblin-pulp. Human understand? Goblin all extra-smart or extra-dead. Goblin heroes never dead and have great victory. Not bam-bam slash-slash victory. A thinkie-think victory. Alright, sometimes goblin hero punch some nastie in the noggin, but mostly thinkie-think. Human learn goblin history now and get smarter so human better thinkie-think. Maybe even human learn speak goblin. Maybe not if human dumb. Human is dumb or extra-smart? Human go now and see!

Gobliiins Pack bundles the first three games in the series of one of the most remarkable adventure series in existance. Each of the games takes us into the strange, funny, wonderful, and sometimes scary land inhabited by goblins and other fantastic creatures. All of them tell a story of a fantastic quest full of magic and humor, that takes us through many puzzle-packed stages. In order to progress you need to solve the imaginative puzzles on a given stage, and each time it proves to be both challenging and entertaining. The great comedic sense, charming graphics, colorful setting, and tons of funny little scenes will make you fall in love in this fantastic series!

Visit the wonderful land of goblins and get cracking on some of the most challenging and original puzzles in the history of adventure games in Gobliiins Pack, for only $2.39. The offer lasts until Tuesday, May 21, at 9:59AM GMT.
Posted May 20, 2013
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PMIK: Watching your elves get killed in the most random ways is half the fun.
I remember when my cousin and I first discovered Gobliiins 1. Whenever we entered a new screen We would save, then try every possible way we could think of getting our characters killed. That would eventually lead us to solve the screen's puzzle as well. After we tired of those deaths we would load, solve the puzzle and proceed to a new screen. By the time we entered the third screen we were hooked. We had to continue until the end.

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gandalf.nho: Looks interesting, but I don't like hard games
Goblins 1 isn't hard. Give it a try.
Goblins2 is hard as nails and I probably would never finish it without a walkthrough, tho.
Goblins 3 is moderate, but it has a few spots where it can get you stuck. This game innovates with a hint system where you can ask for hints a limited number of times. If it isn't enough... well that's why gamefaqs exists. :)
Posted May 20, 2013
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tinyE: I have NEVR heard of these. I also am not one for hard games but is it frustratingly hard? Abe's Exodus is hard but you can keep going back and working at it until you get it right so it's doable. If on the other hand I have to keep starting from scratch if I die halfway through a game, that's a different matter.

Anyone know anything about this?

Also I think that box shot should be advertised as a bunch of us hanging out at a GOG get together, but that's for another thread. :P
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Leroux: The puzzles are usually restricted to a few screens only, so to my knowledge there is no serious backtracking or having to start over. In the first Gobliiins, you can die IIRC, but you don't lose much progress by dying as the game is split into very short levels/screen( sequence)s and uses passwords to access them (you may want to write them down though).

The focus of the games is on puzzles, not action, and the gameplay is mostly trial and error adventure gaming, clicking here and there and seeing what happens (often bad stuff with funny animations, until you get it right), so the only frustrating part would be if you really hate this approach or if you get stuck because you don't know what to do. There are one or two screens when timing becomes important, but they're not frustratingly hard, as far as I recall.
Thanks. This normally isn't my genre but it just looks like something I could have fun with when I'm just kicking back.
Posted May 20, 2013
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tinyE: I have NEVR heard of these. I also am not one for hard games but is it frustratingly hard? Abe's Exodus is hard but you can keep going back and working at it until you get it right so it's doable. If on the other hand I have to keep starting from scratch if I die halfway through a game, that's a different matter.

Anyone know anything about this?

Also I think that box shot should be advertised as a bunch of us hanging out at a GOG get together, but that's for another thread. :P
What Leroux said. (Except I don't remember a password system, I thought we used save games. Whatever.)
Anyway, you lose very little time when you die on Goblins 1. On the other two games you don't have a life bar anymore, so even failed actions don't kill you and all that remains is your character cursing at the player for the pain he's gone through.
Posted May 20, 2013
Aww, this was my first purchase here, and the main reason I created an account at GOG to begin with. I believe these games were also the very first point-and-click adventure games I've ever played. Nice to see them on sale.
Posted May 20, 2013
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Telika: WARNING : THIS IS THE FULLY CENSORED VERSION, GOG-ENDORSED OPPRESSION WILL RUIN YOUR WHOLE EXPERIENCE.
What are the differences? Can it be patched out like Fallout?
Post edited May 20, 2013 by Shaolin_sKunk
Posted May 20, 2013
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Telika: WARNING : THIS IS THE FULLY CENSORED VERSION, GOG-ENDORSED OPPRESSION WILL RUIN YOUR WHOLE EXPERIENCE.
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Shaolin_sKunk: What are the differences? Can it be patched out like Fallout?
1. Goblin tits.
2. Yes (though I don't remember how, ask around).
Posted May 20, 2013
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Starmaker: 1. Goblin tits.
2. Yes (though I don't remember how, ask around).
Ehhh... Not worth it, thanks though.
Posted May 20, 2013
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Shaolin_sKunk: What are the differences? Can it be patched out like Fallout?
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Starmaker: 1. Goblin tits.
2. Yes (though I don't remember how, ask around).
Sooo, this is a DotEmu title. Is there any anger being pushed upon them?
Posted May 20, 2013
Never ever heard about this game. Seems like a cute kiddie adventure game from way back when.
Posted May 20, 2013
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Buenro-games: Never ever heard about this game. Seems like a cute kiddie adventure game from way back when.
That may be a misleading impression. The game is pretty brutal, difficulty-wise, and the humour can be a bit rough if I remember well.

Also : goblin tits.

Actually, let's put it this way : it's one of the 2 or 3 only games that even GOG, who sells carmageddon and postal, DOESN'T DARE TO OFFER IN ITS UNCENSORED VERSION. DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU THINK !?
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Posted May 20, 2013
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Buenro-games: Never ever heard about this game. Seems like a cute kiddie adventure game from way back when.
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Telika: That may be a misleading impression. The game is pretty brutal, difficulty-wise, and the humour can be a bit rough if I remember well.

Also : goblin tits.

Actually, let's put it this way : it's one of the 2 or 3 only games that even GOG, who sells carmageddon and postal, DOESN'T DARE TO OFFER IN ITS UNCENSORED VERSION. DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU THINK !?
Wow, I was totally fooled by this one. Seems so cutsie on those still images in the press release. Yikes.
Posted May 20, 2013
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Telika: That may be a misleading impression. The game is pretty brutal, difficulty-wise, and the humour can be a bit rough if I remember well.

Also : goblin tits.

Actually, let's put it this way : it's one of the 2 or 3 only games that even GOG, who sells carmageddon and postal, DOESN'T DARE TO OFFER IN ITS UNCENSORED VERSION. DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU THINK !?
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Buenro-games: Wow, I was totally fooled by this one. Seems so cutsie on those still images in the press release. Yikes.
(actually, before you buy, i'm exaggerating a bit myself. but without being real hardcore and gruesome, it's still not really a kiddie game. i don't remember precisely the jokes contents, and their levels of political uncorrectness - it was still far from sam&max, and my gripe with censorship is more about how it's a meaningless detail -futile to censor- rather than an important content element... but i wouldn't classify it as a kiddie game. do ask some other people's opinions on that...)
Posted May 20, 2013
Honest truth, I can live without nudity in games. So the censored version of Gobliiins is fine as it does not ruin the game itself, though it hardly makes it child friendly anyway.
Posted May 20, 2013
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011284mm: Honest truth, I can live without nudity in games. So the censored version of Gobliiins is fine as it does not ruin the game itself, though it hardly makes it child friendly anyway.
It's that foot in the door thing, when you become cool with some sort of censorship that seems small, just tiny, then some more crap can be piled on top.

I'd rather there be none of that censorship, no matter what insignificant detail gets censored out. Or at least 2 versions should become available - the original and the cut version for whoever deems it to be more appropriate.
Posted May 20, 2013
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Telika: Actually, let's put it this way : it's one of the 2 or 3 only games that even GOG, who sells carmageddon and postal, DOESN'T DARE TO OFFER IN ITS UNCENSORED VERSION. DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU THINK !?
Are you sure it doesn't have to do with rights' issues? It may not be worth the time and money to try to make sure that bringing the uncensored version here doesn't give anyone room to sue GOG (however silly that would be). We already have boobies here with Leisure Suit Larry, Fahrenheit (I assume), and probably others.

I'd talk to DotEmu about this, mate. Afaik, GOG is simply selling what they've provided.
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