Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath will have been on GOG for a year.

Yet, still no Munch's Oddysee in sight. Not that anybody cares anymore. The Oddboxx was available from GamersGate, Direct2Drive (RIP), and Steam ages before Stranger's Wrath even showed up here. So just to add insult to injury, anybody who bothered to pay a premium here to pick up the other three games on GOG have been left waiting forever to overpay for Munch's Oddysee.

Perhaps it will be Thursday's release, so you can release a newer/indie game without it being overshadowed by the simultaneous release of an older game. You know, since nobody will care. At this point, you may as well replace the separate releases with a $15 Oddboxx in the store, and replace any instances of Oddworld on anybody's shelve with a copy of the Oddboxx as a show of good faith, or at least put it 75% off for the launch week or something, considering the ridiculous delay and the number of times it's been discounted everywhere else, so your loyalest customers don't feel completely screwed. :/

I've heard rumors about Oddworld Inhabitants giving the ok and GOG holding the game back due to issues. I'd have to assume that isn't entirely true, considering that didn't prevent games like Torchlight from being released.

Frankly, there can't possibly be a good enough reason for Munch's Oddysee to have been delayed from being released here this long. It's a bad joke. It seems to be a trend for publishers to have a selection of their games released here without any more titles from them for ages. Extras are nice, and sometimes GOG is the only option for DRM-free (and often the only place to buy a game digitally, period... at least until another store gets the rights as well a few months later), but why would anybody want to buy an incomplete series here piecemeal at a higher price when they can get a complete collection for cheaper?

I might not have an interest in the Oddworld series on GOG personally, but GOG is still the only place offering DRM-free Hitman. Assuming Munch's Oddysee does come to GOG on Thursday, then if things keep up the way they are, I'm looking forward to getting the one Hitman game I'm actually interested in buying here (Blood Money) on the second Tuesday of next February, to celebrate the anniversary of Silent Assassin being added to the catalog. ¬_¬


Sorry for the negativity. I think GOG could use the criticism. Sure, maybe they have their reasons, and they can't exactly release whatever the hell they want whenever they want to, but releasing games people want before they lose interest in buying them here is kind of important, and having GOG staff recognize that they've more or less sat on this game and have left people (probably five by now) waiting for a year would be nice.

Again, Oddworld doesn't personally concern me, but it's a disturbing and unpredictable trend. By the time we have every Legacy of Kain game but Blood Omen on GOG, GamersGate could have put a DRM-free $20 Legacy of Kain compete collection on sale for 75% off months earlier. Who knows if we'll ever see another Epic (Mega)Games or Apogee/3D Realms title again. We're more liable to lose any one of the publishers here on GOG before that happens. :|


If they're having so much trouble getting Blood Money released here after the first two, it's no wonder they're mostly releasing indie titles. I'd like to imagine they already tried to release Omikron here, but couldn't agree to give Square a tenth of the profits or something.

GOG's priority is not games currently for sale on other digital PC platforms. At least it wasn't before. I got these on Steam, as did probably 90% of those interested because they weren't here and weren't expensive. Not a big priority here.

Very good post

GOG are just being slowpokes as usual, they have tons of Catching up to do in terms of releases with other DD services GOG's priority is releasing Good games here, both old and new, regardless whether they available on other DD services or not

Edit: Congrats on the 1000 rep :p

Isn't that what Skunk is talking about? If they'd have released Munch's Oddyssee a year ago, they wouldn't have to compete with the sales now.

Anyway, considering that GOG is able to release 3-4 indies at once per release day, there are really no other excuses for not releasing all games of a series than serious compatibility issues, license trouble or GOG trying to buy time because they can't keep up with their old games release schedule ...

Well, it doesn't stop other platforms from catching up with them a few weeks later, and if it's not their priority, why did they bother to add Stranger's Wrath in the first place? It certainly seems to be a priority now, though. At least when it comes to indies. How many new releases can you count that most people already picked up in indie bundles ages ago?

Whether or not Munch's Oddysee is a priority or not isn't really the point here. In fact, it's probably safe to call it least concern. GOG couldn't care less about releasing it except as "filler", because everybody already either bought it or got fed up with waiting and bought it elsewhere. I'm not actually asking for this game. I'm not the market for it. The market for it consists of a shrinking number of people who skipped it on Xbox, missed out on The Oddboxx sales, bought the other three on GOG and would rather wait to pick up the last one here, or just found out about Oddworld and want to wait to pick up Munch's Oddysee here... for some reason.

I'm questioning GOG's erratic release schedule, among other things.

I've seen blue posts talking about how exclusives are what they're really after many times. Maybe that has changed, but it makes sense. Even Stranger's Wrath came here months after Steam and likely sold very little. That's likely why Munch is a no-show.

We get more games added every week. It could happen tomorrow, or it might never be here.

There are plenty of decent games that aren't on GOG.

I think it's kind of unfair to compare GOG with all the other DD sites around as long as GOG a) insist on their titles to be DRM free, and b) spend time making sure they work on modern systems.

Of course, if you don't care about those two things, there's no reason to buy these games you want on GOG is there? Thus no point waiting for them to appear here either. Or complain about them not being here.

So I read through most of the post, went away, came back, and forgot most of it. So I'll just say what's on my mind.

1. GOG should be criticized to keep them on their toes (so to speak).

2. As always, I'd like to see more Good Old Games.

3. Oddworld is a classic series afaik, so it should get here. However, the title looks like it might be from that "iffy" period of 3D (late-90s/early 2000s), so there may indeed be compatility issues. Of course, I'm saying this without knowledge of the technology, something about Interstate 76, DK2, Gorky 17, blah...
EDIT: Wait, put on Steam in 2010? Sooo ... not for PC before?

4. Where's my Humongous Entertainment catalog?

I have the Steam version from the Oddboxx and I have played it through twice and I have had no crashes or compatibility errors.(running XP though..)

Also, for those of you interested, the Steam version isn't actually 'protected' by Steam, so you can run it with no problems without Steam in the background.

This must be why I haven't yet bought the Oddworld games from GOG.

Does this apply to all four games in the box, ie. they are completely DRM-free? In that case I might just as well get them from Steam. I think I have the first two games (Abe's Odyssee + Exodus) on retail CDs, though.

GOG's release schedule pisses me off, too...

I hope that GOG staff realizes that if some game sold poorly here, it's mostly because it was released too late, for too much.

That is probably why they don't release all those indies that have been in countless bundles before...

oh wait ..

Can't remember for the first two, but I definately know Stranger needs Steam i'm afraid... ;-(

Maybe that's why I talked about this perhaps changing, smart ass... ;)