It's pretty good, about 5 hours worth. The exploration parts are okay (about 4 hours), but the epic boss fights are where the meat and most fun is. Great boss design, very challenging, but fair and fun. You can clearly see the learning curve with each boss and each time you will progress more and more till you finally beat it.

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Quoting: Shmerl@Solitary: Their Linux support is good, they actually react to bug reports if they can do anything about it. But you aren't from their core audience (DRM-free users). So you see "support" as replicating features you use in Steam and that for GOG isn't a priority as I said (for Linux).

I see support as releasing games and features they normally offer to others. While DRM-free was always their main sell point, but by itself it only makes GOG an additional service, not a comparable force. But you are right, I am not a DRM-free zealot, I trust Steam enough to buy games there (only games I would not buy are Denuvo covered and always online deals). Steam did not became a main moving force just out of nothing. Valve had big user base (CS, HL), trust, timing and good idea... not just anyone could have done it. So to me, distrusting Steam seems petty at best and by that logic, GOG really does not offer much, because if the games are DRM free, they are DRM free on Steam too and if they are not, then they aren't and won't ever be on GOG anyway + there is few developer studios that ignore GOG altogether (like the amazing Croteam)

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: SolitaryThat could work if GOG Galaxy worked on Linux...

I'd argue Galaxy is only marginally useful for current GOG users, who come to GOG to buy DRM-free games. But to gain more used to DRM Steam users, Galaxy can help. I suppose GOG don't see Linux Steam users as a major point of focus. I.e. DRM-free Linux users are already using GOG, and Steam Linux users are just a small percentage of all Steam users. So I think it's just a matter of priority. Kind of annoying for Steam Linux users I suppose, but can make sense from GOG's priority perspectives.

To me GOG is almost dead, their Linux support is mostly talk and no show, while even the talk is almost nonexistent (like no official stance on the Witcher 3 port)... it feels like they are waiting for the Linux base to grow while not fully supporting it, because the Linux base is too small. It's chicken/egg problem, where GOG expects eggs to spawn from the air.

Sure, they do not have Valve's resources, but they also don't do much else to differ themselves... like open communications. I said it many times, Linux users are usually okay with delays, but one thing they can't stand and that's no communications (and no, "we are working on it", is not real communications) - I think this comes from the open source world, where release dates move around, but you always know why that happened and what is current situation to make your own judgment.

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Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: SalvatosAs it is I'm just likely to forget I own a given game on GOG.

I think GOG implemented the 'Connect' program precisely to counteract this. They're trying to help people consolidate more of their libraries on their service, so as to put a dent in Steam's enormous advantage in offering the convenience of a single launcher / single library / single account / single store.

That could work if GOG Galaxy worked on Linux...

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There is only one Mandate of Heaven and it's Might & Magic!

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Quoting: rea987

Quoting: SolitaryI am somewhat confident that you do not have Snarks during first encounter with BlackOps.

As I have pointed out I have cheated to let snarks eat them. But, if I am not mistaken there was a some sort of storage section that player encounters Black Ops just before Lambda Core; it should be bm_c3a2a of Lambda Core. That's a pretty late game that player should be holding almost whole arsenal.

Yes, you are correct. Second encounter is in the warehouse before Lambda Core and you have basically entire arsenal with the exception of gluon gun, which you actually acquire very soon after.

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InstaBuy, Operation Flashpoint is still the best of the entire series and I mean it, and not just for any nostalgic values either... the game design and mechanics works beautifully here, it is perfectly balanced and knows its weaknesses. The newer games are too complex and ambitious for their own sake and the game engine lags behind even though they are trying to modernize it.

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Quoting: rea987

Quoting: Mountain ManDo you have snarks by that point in the hands game? I can't remember.

Me neither. During my initial playthrough, I killed them with grenade launcher; that was the most solid way to stop them. Following playthroughs, I simply cheated, spawned the weapons I like and let snarks to eat them... :P

I am somewhat confident that you do not have Snarks during first encounter with BlackOps.

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Crouch-jumping, old nemesis of filthy casuals :P

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Quoting: BeamboomNot to be a debbie downer but... Is it made with Flash? Couldn't this just as well have been a browser game?

How did you come up with the idea they use Flash? I think they are using multiplatform engine Godot.

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