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[Ulfarr]

It's been more than a decade (it's been that long.. damn  )  since I last played Gothic 2 and I don't remember any specifics about the dialogs/voice over, sorry.

Gothic 1 on the other hand, that I played it again about two years ago. Translation wise it's ok. I don't remember spotting anything wrong and I definitely didn't have any problems with missing any dialog/info on the story or any of the quest. I guess that's as good as any translation can be. About the english* voice over, I 'd say it's pretty decent in general and sometimes quite memorable like intro cinematic, Diego's dialogs, the whatever-his-name guard with the infamous "welcome to the colony" and some of the banter the npcs say when you pass by them to name a few. There are some instances where certain antagonistic npcs sound a bit too cartoonish but it's still within the general tone of the game so it doesn't really distract.

*which as far as I'm aware, is not considered as good as the german one by the wider gothic community

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[Ulfarr]

Hilarious and yet surprisingly deep at times. Despite all that mockery, the muggings and the beatings you had to endure the game still respected your character's "life" and in turn it expected from you to respect their "lives" too. Of all the games I have played, gothic 1* is the only one that really delivered on the "murder is bad, don't go mindlessly killing people" part. And not by blocking plot development but by giving both the player and the npcs the chance to end combat before killing each other when possible.

[Gabeux]

In November's Humble Bundly Monthly, Crash Trilogy and Spyro Trilogy is in for 12 USD (rather than whatever crazy price for them is in Steam atm).
I played the hell out of these games as a kid and seemed like a great opportunity to grab them. As always, paying for the monthly bundle early gives you the keys for the currently unlocked games.

It also has Call of Duty WWII.

In time: I also +1 anything Gothic related! I bought Elex recently but it's hard bring forth the courage to launch it after all the review beating it took.

[heydude6]

In November's Humble Bundly Monthly, Crash Trilogy and Spyro Trilogy is in for 12 USD (rather than whatever crazy price for them is in Steam atm).
I played the hell out of these games as a kid and seemed like a great opportunity to grab them. As always, paying for the monthly bundle early gives you the keys for the currently unlocked games.

It also has Call of Duty WWII.

In time: I also +1 anything Gothic related! I bought Elex recently but it's hard bring forth the courage to launch it after all the review beating it took.

So I'm a bit confused about this. I got into humble monthly last month to get Battletech. I didn't cancel my subscription, so why can't I download these games yet?

[Gabeux]

I didn't cancel my subscription, so why can't I download these games yet?

Humble Monthly is a bit counterintuitive. The TL;DR is that you have to go to your subscription and "Pay Now" to unlock this month's bundle.
The full explanation would be: You have to manually "pay early" to get access (unlock the download and/or keys) to the 'early game reveals' of a Bundle. Otherwise it will wait to bill you sometime late in the month (around the 25th, can't remember exactly), which will unlock those first few revealed games, and the rest of them are revealed/unlocked in the first friday of each month. Since you subscribed last month, it's waiting for your input or for the end of the month before billing you and granting the goodies.
I believe it's done like that so subscribers have a huge window to decide whether to cancel subscription or pause-a-month. I paused on the Battletech month since I already got it and played very little, still. 

[Ulfarr]

Freespace 2 is free on gog.com for the next ... 40 hours.

Follow up on this, I guess.

 I just got an email from GOG about some kind of "newsletter exclusive discount" on X4: Foundations because I have either Descent Freespace Battle Pack or Freespace 2 on my account. I might be overly suspicious but the "Please be sure to finish your purchase before leaving the checkout page, otherwise your code will expire" line doesn't sit well with me.

[Jopax]

That sounds like you've added the thing to your cart while it's on discount and they're reminding you that unless you checkout while the thing is valid it'll revert to it's old price eventually. Happened to me before, where I'd forget I added something to buy and come back a few days later to realise the thing is no longer on sale but still in my cart. Steam has something similar too I think, a pop-up or something on the checkout to remind you that you're now paying full-price for things.

[Ulfarr]

I wasn’t clear enough, sorry. It was in the email itself.

[aristabulus]

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 I just got an email from GOG about some kind of "newsletter exclusive discount" on X4: Foundations because I have either Descent Freespace Battle Pack or Freespace 2 on my account. I might be overly suspicious but the "Please be sure to finish your purchase before leaving the checkout page, otherwise your code will expire" line doesn't sit well with me.

I also grabbed the Freespace 2 freebie, and received no such email.  The exhortation to buy before the code expires does seem quite phishy.

If/when you investigate, navigate manually to GOG and poke around; don't click anything in the email.

[Teneb]

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 I just got an email from GOG about some kind of "newsletter exclusive discount" on X4: Foundations because I have either Descent Freespace Battle Pack or Freespace 2 on my account. I might be overly suspicious but the "Please be sure to finish your purchase before leaving the checkout page, otherwise your code will expire" line doesn't sit well with me.

I also grabbed the Freespace 2 freebie, and received no such email.  The exhortation to buy before the code expires does seem quite phishy.

If/when you investigate, navigate manually to GOG and poke around; don't click anything in the email.

AFAIK GOG doesn't even use discount codes, so looks like a scam.

[Madman198237]

Go to the e-mail, and click "reply". If the e-mail address in the "To:" section is the same as GOG's/the one that the original e-mail APPEARS to have come from, proceed to investigate their site as suggested by the others. If the e-mail is NOT the same one normally used by GOG, it's a scam and you should probably ban that e-mail address forever.

[Niveras]

Double check the links inside the email by hovering over them, too. Don't actually click them, though.

Sometimes "from" can be spoofed and will reply legitimately, the scams expect you to click on links within the email. The domain within the link might include appropriate words but are nigh-on gibberish (like us.bay12forums.ghjjjkk.west.com).

[Ulfarr]

GOG does have a "redeem discount/game code" feature so there is that. Trying to use the code directly at GOG's site instead of following any email links (as advised by someone on GOG's forum in an unrealated thread) to check if it's a legit code is not an option because the email doesn't reveal any code, not without clicking on some link, at least.

The email adress (newsletter@ email2. gog. com) seems to be legit or at least one that is used commonly. A quick google search didn't really showed up anything apart from people saying they get too many emails. Looking back at older emails from GOG they did use the "get it now or you'll lose the offer rhetoric" before, so aggressive marketing?

While looking at GOG's forum I found (only) one reference to X4:Foundations having a (30%) discount code. The post's wording is similar to the email's (stressing how it's the biggest discount so far) but it's from a very long time user offering the code to whoever wants it. However  I can't view their forum profile (returns a 404 error). Another user who supposedly took the code from the first one hasn't followed up about having any problems.