What about Kings Quest VI which Jane Jensen was involved with?, wasn't that an improvement over previous entries in the series?

I remember it getting good reviews and the amiga version was very good.

If you have a thing for tactical shooters, SWAT 3 is a must-have. Shure, it looks a bit dated, especially compared to its more modern follow-up SWAT 4 (wich we hopefully see on GOG one day, too). But good game mechanics never get old. Just be aware that this is a slow-paced thinking man's game with mission briefing, planning phase and stuff, not a traditional action shooter.

Like I said: If you like tactical shooters and haven't played SWAT 3 yet, you really should catch up on it.

So, with Activision leaving DotEmu catalog after an all-inclusive sale due to expired contract, what are the odds of this being the last Activison sale here?

Hopefully, GOG secured a more lasting contract with Activision, and that's what I suspect, but it'd indeed be good to have an official word on it.

Finally bought Arcanum, which I always wanted, along with Vampire The Masquerade: Redemption, and Quest for Glory, my all time favourite old Sierra series.

Been thinking of getting the rest of the "Quest" series,especially King's Quest, but I find it rather weird for them to have a quite expensive price tag compared to other classics. I mean, $9.99 for the first 3 KQ games, which didn't include the official remake(s), and yet there are the enhanced remakes of these games available elsewhere for free. If anything, I think they should just packed the whole game in one pack, or at least combine the first 3 with 4+5+6 in one package, that's a better deal IMO. And the other Quest games packs also lack every versions released. With that, and the way they're packed and priced, is rather expensive to me, IMO.

Because of that, I just chose QFG only, since it's the only pack that, to my knowledge, includes every version of the games released (well, it didn't include HERO'S QUEST, which is the original title of the first EGA game, the exact same game with only different title, and that's it). I think I just hold on from getting the other Quest series for the time being. Besides, QFG blends point-and-click adventure with RPG quite brilliantly. Though I was introduced to the first ever P&C adventure game through King's Quest V (I played it briefly and only once in my school's computer lab way back in 1995), it was QFG IV that reintroduced me to the genre, and dare I say, it was the game that misled me in thinking RPG = P&C adventure. Oh, the memories. Plus, it was one of those games (and the only P&C adventure games, due to it's RPG nature) that enable us to import our saved characters to the next game. So yeah, among all Quest games offered, QFG 1-5 for me this time.

So, why is it that these rather old games being sold at $9.99 full price, whereas newer old game are being sold at a cheaper price ($5.99)? Just curious...

I've been waiting for Arcanum to go on sale!

Gotta write my paper (five pages about storytelling in a book we read for class), then I'll pick it up!

nice wee promo sadly already have all the ones i want.

Is there a point in picking up Zeus, if I want to get Pharaoh?
Are PQ 1-4 as full of weird puzzles as KQ and SQ, or will common sense usually carry one through?
Any severe issues in Vampire? Does it live up to "from medieval to modern" premise?

Police Quest aims at realism, with real policemen as consultants, and very mundane tasks (follow procedures closely, and in the right order, or else you'll brutall learn why they exist in the first place). This series has a weird educative flavor, like a window on police work, and an idealised version of it. They sometimes feel like police formation tools, teaching how, in theory, policemen are supposed to do everything. I remember them as pretty rigid, no-nonsense games. Interesting, vaguely tedious, and no, not extremely random. Unforgiving on their own way ("the manual SAYS you must ask the suspect to lie down, BEFORE getting the handcuffs, see, if you don't do it, she WILL KILL YOU"), which is the opposite of most other Quest games ("i don't care what the manual says, you didn't tie the hedgehog to the doorknob with the string that the plastic whale spat out when you hopped on it three times with the armour gloves on your feet, so she WILL KILL YOU"). No transition, roughly half of the game is set in the medieval times, the other half in the modern game, but you don't cross epochs in-between. So, depends on what you understood from the premise. Very cool game, though, even if a bit too much of a linear dungeon crawler to be a genuine RPG in my eyes.

I'd say yes. They are both good. I played those games in the following order: Caesar --> Pharaoh --> Zeus and I liked Zeus best with Pharaoh close second.

GOG pricing seems a little wonky at times, but I'm assuming it was in the contracts they had to sign to get the games people wanted here. Master of Orion 3, Gothic 3EE, Angel of Darkness, etc. for 10 bucks? Sweet mother of mercy.

However, in the cases of King's Quest, you're getting 2 or 3 games for 10 bucks; that's about 3 or 5 dollars per game. It may not be worth it to everyone, especially if it cuts into your food budget, but for those interested, it shouldn't be considered too expensive. (What are the Amazon prices?) One is welcome to play the free remakes and skip over these. You know, freedom of choice...

Yes, Quest for Glory package is probably the best deal. My thoughts on that are maybe Activision saw how popular the other Quest games were, and how reasonably well they were selling, and decided to allow GOG to sell the full QfG set for 10 bucks. (Presumably GOG had to do some contractual haggling...) But I'm just guessing.

If I had more dosh to cycle, I could buy the complete SQ Collection and the KQ 1-7 Pack for 10$ each on Steam and trade them with the sufferers here regularly. Sadly, I can't afford it.

Ah, I didn't even consider that Steam might be selling these. :-/ Well that's not fair, and I guess Activision was initially worried about the DRM-free-ness. Shame.

Not quite. It's the Russian discount that makes them $10 there.

Thanks! Seems worth a try for 60% off.