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Get Arcanum, Pharaoh + Cleopatra, Vampire: The Masquerade, Quest for Glory as well as all the other "Quest" games, and more amazing Activision titles 60% off!

The days grow shorter, the weather gets nastier by the day, but as a trade-off, there's more time for gaming in the evenings. It's time to [url=http://www.gog.com/promo/activision_weekend_promo_081113]Activate Autumn, with a superb collection of 32 memorable titles. Oh, wait... that's wrong. What I meant was: 32 game boxes. Some of them contain more than just one game, so the actual number of discounted Activision titles amounts to impressive 55! And you can get them all 60% off until Tuesday November 12 at 4:59 AM GMT. Let's take a peek into some of the boxes!

Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magic Obscura summons the spirit of Fallout into a unique world where steampunk meets fantasy in a creative mixture of imagination and pure isometric RPG awesomness. In Arcanum, you get the absolute freedom to create any kind of character you want and pursue whatever quest you find the most fitting. If you're looking for a game that will drain dozens of hours of your free time and have $2.39 in digital loose change--here's your best pick!

Gabriel Knight, a tormented young writter, came to be a celebrity of the point-and-click adventure genre. The first game he stars in--subtitled "Sins of the Fathers"--features beautiful pixel-art graphics, over 7000 lines of fully-voiced dialog, and a dark story balancing on the verge of madness and occult. The game launched a successful and recognizable series that earned its place in the adventure games' hall of fame. Be sure to check the other two games that complete the trillogy: Gabriel Knight2: The Beast Within and Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned.

Quest for Glory 1-5 is an amazing collection of Sierra's innovative action-RPGs. Each of the five games can be played as a whole but you can also treat the series as one big adventure, as the character and his accumulated wealth can carry on from one game into another. Become a mage, a thief, or a knight and explore the five huge worlds, each based on a different culture and mythology, from Germanic fairy tales, through Arabian and Slavic folklore, right down to Greek myths. Experience the game that set many standards in the "new school" of computer RPG.

Those excellent games are but a tip of the iceberg of Activision awesomeness. There are dozens of other fantastic titles you can grab 60% off, so head out to Activate Autumn promo page and go nuts! Again, the promo lasts until Tuesday November 12 at 4:59 AM GMT. Don't miss out!
Quest for Glory 1-5 (3 and 4 especially) are just pure fun, its great to see all of them on sale.

I hope this will mean more people will try this excellent adventure/rpg series.
Post edited November 08, 2013 by DavidDragoon
It's a sign of some disease that I own all but 4 of these already, right?
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MarbleMunkey: It's a sign of some disease that I own all but 4 of these already, right?
Without a doubt, only cure is to also get the remaining four ;P
I'm taking Arcanum. I'm telling you, ONLY Arcanum! Nothing else!!! Damn you OCD and completionist syndrom.
Sierra classics sale...? Really GOG, why do you do this to me, money doesn't grow on trees, you know?
Nice, you own all games from this promo.
Have fun and don't forget to check out our next offer.

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Kinda hate it when I come here and see those words over and over again. On the other hand, backlog much?
Interstate '76 is a game I've been interested in for awhile, but looking through the game's forum it seems like there are a lot of problems, that may or may not be able to be solved through workarounds.

Is it still worth getting, or are there too many problems?
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Ophelium: Ah, I'm safe this time, though the Zork games do tempt me ever so slightly.
West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
Also Zork is on sale and you should buy it because Zork rules.
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Ophelium: Ah, I'm safe this time, though the Zork games do tempt me ever so slightly.
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kurokamui: West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
Also Zork is on sale and you should buy it because Zork rules.
"Your wallet has been eaten by a grue."
I couldn't pass up Quest for Glory 1-5. I played many of the old Sierra Adventure games growing up, but never had any of the Quest for Glory titles.
Darn wallet-eating grues...Oh, well. I've got plenty of Zork now.
That's one snazzy promo. I never did play Arcanum, and it's been ages since I played anything Zork-ish. Considering Arcanum runs just dandy in wineskin (or so I hear), and Zork is a DOSBox, there's really no excuse. This must be remedied! :D
I've finally played Zork: Grand Inquisitor a couple months ago, and it was great. The humor is fantastic and the puzzles are often funny, sometimes evil. Game's got charm and aged incredibly well, IMHO. As an adventure fan I was extremely pleased.

Now, I'm playing Gabriel Knight 2 which, arguably is a bit of a different beast from the first game in the series. Doesn't seem as dark and brooding. Mostly, because of the FMVs which are slightly campy. Still, really fun, though. It reminds me a lot of Grey Matter, a much later game by Jane Jensen. It's got the same attention to detail - the story and locations are researched really thoroughly. Plus, damn, I love playing a detective in adventure games.

In the current promo, I'm looking at Quest For Glory collection and Spycraft. Probably will get Spycraft, because it looks and reads like a game I will absolutely adore, but Quest of Glory promises a lot of cool stuff too.
Decisions, decisions. Backlog, backlog.
went in for betrayal at krondor. i guess it's about time i had a copy for my gog shelf.

i like the last sentence of the arcanum paragraph:

"If you're looking for a game that will drain dozens of hours of your free time and have $2.39 in digital loose change--here's your best pick!"

best pick? i agree.

arcanum and gabriel knight 2: the beast within are my two faves in the promo.
Post edited November 10, 2013 by Jonathanimal
We need GOG Pay What You Want promos.