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Offline idolminds

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Impulse to get THQ catalog
« on: Sunday, October 05, 2008, 04:32:36 PM »
Woo!

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Big news this week is that Impulse will be carrying THQ's back catalog of games!  That's right, soon you'll be able to get Supreme Commander, Titan Quest, Dawn of War, Company of Heroes and more!  These titles will be added over the coming weeks, and we can't wait.  Gamers have been waiting for many of these titles to come to Impulse for months, and now we have them.  In fact, we will begin packaging and testing out the first THQ games next week!

Of course, there's always more coming.  Here are a few titles that we have in the pipeline

    * THQ Catalog!!!!
          o Company of Heroes
          o Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
          o Frontlines: Fuel of War
          o Full Spectrum Warrior
          o Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
          o Juiced 2: Hot IMport Nights
          o MX vs ATV Unleashed
          o Red Faction
          o Red Faction II
          o STALKER: Shadows of Chernobyl
          o Supreme Commander
          o Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
          o Titan Quest
          o Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
          o Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War
          o Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
          o Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War: Soulstorm
    * Gothic III
    * The Guild 2
    * The Guild 2: Pirates of the European Seas
    * And more!
Go go, Stardock!

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Re: Impulse to get THQ catalog
« Reply #1 on: Sunday, October 05, 2008, 04:36:13 PM »
Awesome!

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Re: Impulse to get THQ catalog
« Reply #2 on: Sunday, October 05, 2008, 04:38:52 PM »
Awesome to the MAX!

Que will be very pleased!

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Re: Impulse to get THQ catalog
« Reply #3 on: Sunday, October 05, 2008, 05:07:58 PM »
Well, if I do try FSW: Original and end up liking it, at least I know FSW: Ten Hammers will now be easy to find. :) Ain't seen that one in stores for the PC in forever.

Hmmmm....I have the original Red Faction, but never got RF2.

Cool @ Supreme Commander games joining the club. Chris Taylor and GPG must've done a good job in trying to convince THQ to bring them over, since Taylor is having Demigod published by Stardock.

Hmmm...never tried Juiced 2....

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I think when retail outlet sales drop out on a game and it's no longer selling at $40-50 and/or when the price drops on a game to say the Bargain Bin prices ($20 or less), you might see more of those games join something like Stardock without any DRM -- you know, basically when it doesn't matter too much about what DRM is protecting the game anymore. Publishers want to find another avenue to make some money, dammit -- and they're gonna find every avenue they can to make a buck, hitting up gamers who missed out on buying the game back when it was top dollar.

The only reason games cost $40-60 and have DRM around them is because publishers think people are going to pirate them, when they cost top dollar -- which sure, will happen. But, by the time a company's back-catalogue gets released for a game series on something free of DRM like GOG or Stardock's Impulse, people will likely go buy it. $20 or less is plenty of reason to buy an older game -- especially if there's no DRM, especially if it's good handful of patches behind a game, and especially if it's still getting official support from a company.

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Re: Impulse to get THQ catalog
« Reply #4 on: Sunday, October 05, 2008, 06:22:22 PM »
See, I knew that Impulse would become a fierce competitor for Steam.  I just had no idea it would be so soon.

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Re: Impulse to get THQ catalog
« Reply #5 on: Sunday, October 05, 2008, 06:51:28 PM »
I sincerely hope the trend continues.  And that reminds me, I have to go back to working on my joke song for the GWJ podcast.  Anyone who listens regularly will get the title: Wardock.

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Re: Impulse to get THQ catalog
« Reply #6 on: Sunday, October 05, 2008, 07:09:59 PM »
That's one hell of a line-up.

Sup Com + expansion are highly regarded RTS's.

COH + COH: OF are very highly regarded RTS.
So are those Dawn of War games.

TQ + TQ: Immortal Throne rocks.
STALKER: Shadow is very good.

Gothic 3 just really needs much shorter load times, more bugs stomped out of it, and some performance fixes...

Impulse got some pretty good titles there...
And that ain't all of THQ's list, just some of them, too...
Can't wait to see whatelse is coming to Impulse.