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Posted June 28, 2012
Behind the simple visuals lies a complex and mature RPG series.

Geneforge 1-5, an RPG series for die-hard fans of the genre, is available for only $9.99--that’s 33% off--for the next 7 days.

Geneforge is a series that will satisfy anyone who’s looking for a fantastic RPG experience, because it’s a game centred around what a great RPG is: creating your own character, making decisions that really matter, and forging your own destiny. And the choices you make matter. They influence the whole world, your next steps, and the final outcome of the game. A deep multi-layered storyline, nonlinearity, quests exclusive to the side you pick, a world without black-and-white morals--rarely will you find a game like this and rarely will it be bundled with goodies in a DRM-free package for only $9.99.

The world of Geneforge is a strange one--it’s part fantasy, part sci-fi, and part post-apocalyptic, where magic, cloning, and mutants create something fresh and surprising, especially for gamers tired by fights between the Elves and Zombies and Jedis and Reapers. The player plays as a Shaper, magician with a power of shaping new life out of nothing. However, some of the Shapers’ creations, treated merely as tools, gained consciousness and decided to rebel against their masters. Will you support the rebels, kill the mutants, or maybe find a compromise?

Geneforge 1-5, five games with an amazing immersive story arc, original ideas, and a premise to shape the world as you wish, are available 33% off on GOG.com until Thursday, July 5 at 6:59 AM EDT.
Posted June 28, 2012
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kodeen: Exile is $25 shareware. Without registering, you can play the first
half of the game at full functionality, and believe me, that's a LOT of game.
Upon registration, you get a code that lets you into the second half
of the game, a printed out instruction manual, and a command reference card.
Plus, you have made it possible for a full-time Mac game programmer to
continue making software for our favorite platform.
Personally, I'm hoping that with the boost to their sales through GOG and Steam, they'll just let the Exile series go for free and let Avernum do the selling--they're the same games, after all, just on different caliber engines.
Posted June 29, 2012
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kodeen: Exile is $25 shareware. Without registering, you can play the first
half of the game at full functionality, and believe me, that's a LOT of game.
Upon registration, you get a code that lets you into the second half
of the game, a printed out instruction manual, and a command reference card.
Plus, you have made it possible for a full-time Mac game programmer to
continue making software for our favorite platform.
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NotJabba: Personally, I'm hoping that with the boost to their sales through GOG and Steam, they'll just let the Exile series go for free and let Avernum do the selling--they're the same games, after all, just on different caliber engines.
Well this would be nice if they could also get them to work on 64 bit OSs.(The installers/game EXEs are 16 bit, afaik, and won't run on 64 bit OSs.)
Posted June 29, 2012
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doady: I love old-school graphics - low-res 2D and pixels are not inferior to hi-res 3D and polygons - just a different style, like watercolour vs oil painting or something. I consider the aesthetics of the game (graphics, music, etc) to be important for all games, 2D or 3D, old-school or new-school.

That said, aesthetically, the Avernum games really do look hideous, judging from the screens. It's just grotesque, worse than other old-school games I've been recently playing like Ultima IV and Super Meat Boy. Just really, really bad, unbearable. I can only hope that the music is much better.

Geneforge is a significant improvment though - the graphics are at least bearable, though still a bit problematic. I'd get these games for sure if my PC gaming backlog wasn't so large. Sale is until the 5th, so I might cave in anyways.

The graphics of Avadon do look great though, the game truly looks aesthetically pleasing. If this were on GOG, I'd probably get it for sure.
I can understand, to an extent, someone saying the Avernum/Exile/Geneforge games have 'primitive' graphics or even 'not attractive' (from the standpoint of comparison with modern 3D graphics and such) but I cannot for the life of me understand your conclusions here. I mean yeah taste is subjective and most of the games I play are considered 'hideous' by most gamers I know (tiled, top-down, 2D pixel graphics and the like) but I am honestly perplexed by how you get to 'hideous'? Especially if you think Avadon looks "great"?! Doesn't Avadon just reuse a bunch of the Avernum & Geneforge graphics with a few new ones (I may well be wrong about this to some extent or the other since I don't like Avadon and refuse to play it)?
I mean is it the palette or...what?
Posted June 29, 2012
hey look... another release with native mac ports that gog has ignored. fantastic...
Posted June 29, 2012
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htown1980: hey look... another release with native mac ports that gog has ignored. fantastic...
I wonder if you bought the games here and told Jeff if he would send you Mac versions. Just a thought.
Posted June 29, 2012
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htown1980: hey look... another release with native mac ports that gog has ignored. fantastic...
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GameRager: I wonder if you bought the games here and told Jeff if he would send you Mac versions. Just a thought.
The spiderweb people seem nice and they probably would. it just sucks for me that gog (which i love) refuses to sell mac games - which totally doesn't make sense to me given that so many gogs work so well on macs.

in summary:

:(
Posted June 29, 2012
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htown1980: hey look... another release with native mac ports that gog has ignored. fantastic...
According to the official site for these games, Geneforge 4 and 5 will run natively on Intel based Macs...

http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforge5/index.html

http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforge4/index.html
Posted June 29, 2012
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GameRager: I wonder if you bought the games here and told Jeff if he would send you Mac versions. Just a thought.
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htown1980: The spiderweb people seem nice and they probably would. it just sucks for me that gog (which i love) refuses to sell mac games - which totally doesn't make sense to me given that so many gogs work so well on macs.

in summary:

:(
Well they'd possibly need to negotiate for them with some of the more subborn publishers here......and even the more fair ones might want extra money if GOG releases Mac/Linux versions. (Or maybe they'd have to provide support for Mac users and before doing that they'd need to see if paying people to provide mac game version support wiuld be worth the number of mac customers they'd get.)

I don't know all the reasons, though...i'm just throwing out some possible ones.
Posted June 29, 2012
Crap. Already got these on steam. Oh well. While I haven't gotten deep into any of them, I get the impression that these are all incredibly solid, well made games that also happen to have zero production values and recycle a lot of the same assets in each one. So thus, definitely worth checking out.
Posted June 29, 2012
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htown1980: The spiderweb people seem nice and they probably would. it just sucks for me that gog (which i love) refuses to sell mac games - which totally doesn't make sense to me given that so many gogs work so well on macs.

in summary:

:(
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GameRager: Well they'd possibly need to negotiate for them with some of the more subborn publishers here......and even the more fair ones might want extra money if GOG releases Mac/Linux versions. (Or maybe they'd have to provide support for Mac users and before doing that they'd need to see if paying people to provide mac game version support wiuld be worth the number of mac customers they'd get.)

I don't know all the reasons, though...i'm just throwing out some possible ones.
I'm sure they have their reasons. I think the big issue is offering support for mac users. I still want though... want! want! want!
Posted June 29, 2012
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htown1980: I'm sure they have their reasons. I think the big issue is offering support for mac users. I still want though... want! want! want!
Yeah, these games are like crack to classic RPG fans.

(A tip: If you play through, go through all major towns in whatever game you play before picking a faction, as once you pick a faction to side with[If any.) it changes what some of the NPCs in some towns say to the hero or how they react to him.)
Posted June 29, 2012
Just bought this series, and I am glad Spiderweb software is on board with gog. I just hope we see their other series here soon, although I already have the Avernum games DRM-free from different indie bundles, I have yet to get #2 and #3, so it would be nice to see the first Avernum trilogy on gog.
Posted June 29, 2012
Excellent release GOG! All old-school RPG'ers who haven't created their own little monsters, now is your time, Geneforge is all types of good fun. Thank you GOG for getting Spiderweb here, can't wait for all his others too. :)
Posted June 29, 2012
Can anyone tell me if the savegames from the demos will work with the GOG version?
Posted June 29, 2012
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Leroux: Can anyone tell me if the savegames from the demos will work with the GOG version?
Should. You might need to find and move them though.
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