LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th

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• ytsedude@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That sucks! Those are two amazing games. Sorry to hear that the co-founders are feuding…

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• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How good are these games? Are they worth buying before the delisting just to have them?

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  • SolarPunker@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Limbo is a great game, Inside is a fucking masterpiece.

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  • ageek@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I played both, loved them but I understand it’s not for everyone, especially the creepy atmosphere.

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The creepy/dark atmosphere is actually the thing that appeals to me about them! It’s the platforming and puzzles I am worried about.

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  • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Having played both, the answer is definitely yes. They’re not particularly long, but really solid

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  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I haven’t played inside, but limbo is absolutely fantastic.

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    • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Inside was better than Limbo for me, if that helps. Limbo was cool, but Inside had crazy atmospheric storytelling.

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Both look really cool, but I am really not a big platformer guy so I’m unsure. Inside is 90% off on GOG though so might pick it up for a dollar and a half. Limbo is full price and even though it’s just $10 I don’t know that I’d like it enough. How hard is the platforming and the puzzles?

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  • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I really enjoyed them, but I wouldn’t say there’s any replayablility there. I enjoy the dark atmosphere and a lot of the fun for me was just the discovery and seeing what sort of creepy stuff coming next. Once the games were finished I didn’t feel the urge to play them again.

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  • TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People love them. They’ve talked about them for years. They show up on best indie game lists and the like.

    I find them incredibly boring.

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  • stphven@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Limbo is the archetypal “scared little guy in big scary world dark artsy platform-puzzle indy game”. Personally I found it overrated. Nice enough art style, but nothing of substance - extremely basic gameplay, no plot. Just a series of scary monsters killing you until you trial-and-error your way to the next section.

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• RiQuY@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is difference between any platform like itch or GOG if they will also delist games? Game preservation my ass, piracy is the true preservation.

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  • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    GOG and itch’s approach to preservation is always gonna be limited by legality, you can’t keep a game on your platform if the publisher requests its delisting; ofc piracy isn’t constrained by this, so it’s inherently better at preservation

    at least, since the games on there don’t have DRM, once you have them you keep them (and with GOG, you can also download offline installers that you can reuse on any computer you want). they make piracy way easier in that way, because pirates don’t even need to repack

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Delisted just means it’s no longer for sale, not that you can’t play it.

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  • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not having DRM is better for piracy. So in a way they’re helping “true preservation” more than other platforms that allow DRM.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s DRM free. Just practice good backups man. No need to jump to piracy.

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    • Noggog@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What about the next generation of kids that want to play old classics? If it’s just people that have private personal backups, then it’ll eventually die with them and be lost forever to time.

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    GoG is very much about the marketing of game preservation. That said, to my knowledge, they (like Steam) don’t remove it from your account. Just from the store. So if you bought it, you can still play it.

    GoG is a bit better in that their DRM model only requires you to authenticate to download, not reinstall. So you can theoretically archive all of your purchases if you have way more storage than you should. But it also is horrible at surfacing when an installer has an update so… mostly this is only viable for truly dead games.

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    • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah I don’t think GOG has removed delisted games from users libraries.

      Unfortunately it did happen to Oxenfree on itch instead of letting people who could it retain access to keep downloading it after it is delisted. pcgamer.com/…/another-reminder-that-your-digital-…

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  • TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lol, should they just keep the games up? See if any blood hungry lawyers notice? (Piracy is probably the best way to preserve though, I will agree on that.)

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