Ah, thanks :)

The indie games of today will be the good old games of tomorrow.

Ten years from now, you'll be glad GOG decided to add indie games to the catalogue, so they're archived and have a place somewhere for future gamers.

Im all for GOG getting a bigger library to choose from. Especially if it is new and recent titles. Most of what I buy from GOG tends to lean toward the indie side (vs the old side) However, personally I can only speak for myself but I really REALLY hope GOG is more stringent with what they will sell compared to Steam, Desura and the litany of other indie vendors out there.

There are entirely too many indie games out there most of which would be better used as a tech demo to present to a bigger studio instead of trying to make a profit directly from it. It does not take long before all that "indie goodness" turns into a slog through a quagmire of practically indistinguishable repetition. I just do not see that being good for GOG, or the indie developers in the long run.

I know that, its also at GG....but i want it here
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that and many more good indie games ;-)

Haaha, what's a TET?! :D

(I know people can't possibly know it from the get-go, but it's still funny xD).

Not sure about both. Indie games are different from the conventional games, small and very often plattformers and quite often of poor quality. Maybe many of them will not become classics. I don't care much about them now.

I'm really more interested in somewhat older but popular games. The AA-AAA of yesteryear. That's what interests me most. If they never come to GOG I have to get them somewhere else.

I am mostly indifferent towards indies and much more interested in non-indies.

True, I'd agree that their should be a pretty high bar for the criteria so that there aren't numerous games which don't have anything to offer other than a name and the fact that they're developed by one indie studio or another; however, I think the quagmire of indistinguishable repetition really comes from derivative titles, like when some of the classics in the GOG catalog first came out they were followed closely by sometimes dozens of look-a-likes with shoddy quality. Sometimes a few that copied the original game's idea actually were good in and of themselves and in some cases improved upon the ideas. Still see this often today, but I think the real indistinguishable games are many of the top shelf publisher offerings today in that ModernShooterA, ModernShooterB, ModernShooterA-2 / DrivingGameA, DrivingGameB / MMOa, MMOb / RPGa, RPGb, RPGb-2 could oftentimes each be the same game with a different name and sometimes graphical improvements for the latest hardware, even if it hasn't gotten to the point of sports game with a year in the title. There seem to always be a few exceptions that offer something new or interesting whether it be story, comedy, novel game mechanic, hybrid combination of genres but for the most part it seems like almost all non-indie games lack imagination or creativity and while they may be fun to play for a time if you like that style won't be something you will want to come back to play again in a few years.

I think indie games don't have that issue, that while graphically many are not super impressive they are the games today that are exploring new ideas and game mechanics and hopefully the good ones will rise to the top and be classics in their own right in years ahead.

Really? I don't think you can qualify Torment - The Tides of Numenera, or Divinity Original Sin as platformers of poor quality. Though both can be probably qualified as "indies".

keeveek: Original Sin should come out this year I think, and Tides of Numenera in 2015. What was your point? Does it make them less indie or something? They were brought as examples which demonstrate that "indie" is a broad definition and is by no means limited to low quality platformers.

Other examples which already came out - Torchlight, Amnesia, Legend of Grimrock and etc. etc. They don't look low quality to me, and not platformers either.

I just wouldn't judge the games quality this long before release.

I expect them to be good, knowing their developers and what they demonstrated so far, especially the Divinity Original Sin. Surely, to really evaluate them we'll have to wait.

Example: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h64dENQZcY0

I don't know anything about Divinity Original Sin but The Tides of Numenera is hardly a Indie in my book. That's a small to medium size gaming company working on it. Don't get me wrong, I am delighted they are making the game but they are definitely not an indie.

Zafehouse Diaries and Cat Lady are examples of indie IMO.