Game News GOG Winter Sale: Herve gives Bethesda one last middle finger, gives out Fallout Trilogy for free

[DragoFireheart]

Oh yeah, I forgot about Edios.

Fuck those cunts, I hope they die in a fire and I'm not even a thief fan.

 

[Servo]

Eidos Montreal deserves at least a little credit for DX:HR.

 

[DragoFireheart]

Eidos Montreal deserves at least a little credit for DX:HR.

I guess I could care less.

 

[Morality Games]

Is there any other game developer more hated than Bethesda?

Hatred on the Codex is seasonal (like everywhere on the Internet).

 

[Athelas]

I still can't believe how anyone at Interplay ever thought it was a good idea to go in business with a guy who looks like this. He looks like he could molest your children by enticing them with candy and shitty console RPG's.

 

[Lockkaliber]

Bethesda is shittiest dev of the year every year for raping Fallout. No shitty dragon age or mass effect game can top what Bethesda did to Fallout.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

Bethesda is shittiest dev of the year every year for raping Fallout. No shitty dragon age or mass effect game can top what Bethesda did to Fallout.

But they also made New Vegas happen, which evens out their karma a little bit.

 

[Volourn]

No. Because Karma doesn't exist. idiot.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

"No. Because Karma doesn't exist. idiot."

Neither does a good BiowarEA RPG

 

[ColCol]

I love Herve, just look at him, he is like the epitome of a greasy scumbag.

 

[Jaesun]

Bethesda is shittiest dev of the year every year for raping Fallout. No shitty dragon age or mass effect game can top what Bethesda did to Fallout.

But they also approached Obsidian to do a turn based 2D Fallout Game, which evens out their karma a little bit.

I fix for you. (This has not happened... BUT if it did....)

 

[Severian Silk]

This is how rumors start, Jaesun.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

It be a great rumor though. Instead of every gaming site salivating over Bethesda's upcoming 3D dump (Fallout 4), the media would have to spin a 2D turn-based game in a positive light, so as not to piss off everyone's favorite game company.

 

[Kron]

Guess it's time to play Fallout again!

 

[hexer]

Hehe http://af.gog.com/news/free_games_fallout_fallout_2_and_fallout_tactics?as=1649904300

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[Modron]

Bethesda is shittiest dev of the year every year for raping Fallout. No shitty dragon age or mass effect game can top what Bethesda did to Fallout.

But they also made New Vegas happen, which evens out their karma a little bit.

If you think Bethesda has any kind of karma, just go and look how Zenimax has been acquiring(/trying to) development studios. Offer money for a game then at x milestone withhold the money until said developer is in dire straights then when they are desperate buy them with a lowball offer. Done it to one studio and tried it on another. Pretty much worse than EA gobbling up studios least they had the decency to rape studios after they have paid for them instead of before and after.

 

[Zero Credibility]

Man, this is some quality fucking trolling. I registered on GOG to grab this (and I'll need an account anyway when those kickstarters start delivering),

 

[thesheeep]

No wonder their servers broke down.

This story is even covered on spiegel.de, which is a very well known German magazine (equivalent to Times or Mirror). And definitely not a gaming site.
I'm not saying the servers break down because of some German site, but if they cover it, other non-gaming sites probably do so, too.

 

[Kem0sabe]

GOG is awesome, the only thing i wish they had was an automated patching and downloading system for their games, merely as an option for who wanted it, something like steam (at a basic level) but without the DRM on top.

 

[thesheeep]

I actually prefer if games manage their own patching via their own launcher.
No game platform like GOG or Steam can offer a patching solution that fits all games, so devs would actually save some time by developing a solution that will work on all their distributions. Plus, a launcher can help with various other things.

 

[skyst]

Funny that this happened about a week after finally convincing a friend to give the original Fallout games a try since he paid I think $5 for the 3 games on Steam and was bitching about them being free now. But he just finished F2, dumping 40-45 hours into it and sent me a screen of his level 27 character sheet - even wiped out Vault City because "fuck Lynette". So there is hope.

 

[A user named cat]

Can't believe we don't have a Herve smiley, what a face. Time to rectify that.

 

[belated]

Arx Fatalis has been on GOG since long before Arkane was Zenimaxed, so maybe Arkane put something in the contract when that happened so Bethesda couldn't remove it from GOG? Anyway, I think I've only seen it on sale once on GOG, during the summer sale last year (when they had those duels).

 

[Creamy Muffin]

Thanks for the heads up. Managed to grab them. Even though I have the white label dvd case on a shelf right next to me.

 

[jiujitsu]

I just gifted them to myself. No problems doing that haha.