Pick up Beyond Good & Evil for $4

[Delusibeta]

Good Old Games has the game up at $3,50 as a single game (30% discount from the base price), completely DRM free.
If you take the rest of their Ubisoft Catalogue too you get a 50% discount on the entire set including Beyond Good & Evil.

Correction: it's actually $7 on it's own, and $5 per game if you buy the Complete Ubi GOG Catalogue (which is $85 dollars in total if you haven't bought a game from the selection). I have no idea where you got that figure from.

 

[Azhrarn-101]

Good Old Games has the game up at $3,50 as a single game (30% discount from the base price), completely DRM free.
If you take the rest of their Ubisoft Catalogue too you get a 50% discount on the entire set including Beyond Good & Evil.

Correction: it's actually $7 on it's own, and $5 per game if you buy the Complete Ubi GOG Catalogue (which is $85 dollars in total if you haven't bought a game from the selection). I have no idea where you got that figure from.

I assumed the figures posted on the site were without the discount, apparently they are not. My mistake. =)

 

[DrScoobs]

does anyone know if this game is drm free?

 

[Azhrarn-101]

The PC version is glitchy, buggy and downright unplayable on 90% of rigs made after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Save yourself the $4.

Which is where the Good Old Games version comes in, as it's tested and fully functional up to and including Vista 64 (W7 isn't tested, but probably works fine).

Have you tried it personally? If it's really bug free then $4 is a hell of a deal.

There are some issues reported on the support forums for Good Old Game (not the site linked in the article, but a different one, offering the game for 1 dollar more). They make a few modifications to games (or supply dosbox with older games) to allow them to run on newer OS.
Their fixes aren't perfect, but generally work well.

I have the game myself from GOG, and haven't really encountered any issues.
But different hardware could do different things, so it's never certain.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

Great story? Wonderful plot? "Take pictures of the secret aliens so people will know they're bad"?

I liked BG&E, but I don't understand the loving gushing it receives.

maybe because it's original in it's own graphic style, and the storyline is a little different than most, and it has this freeroam liberty to do stuff apart from the main game, and the characters are well impersonated, and there's not so much violence than most games nowadays, and and and...

That's all true. I especially liked the wildlife photography sub-quest that took most of the game to complete. The setting was pretty interesting and obviously represented a lot of work. Jade was a likable protaginist aside from the fact that "Jade" is an incrediably cliche name for a fictional Asian female.

But I didn't think the story was much to talk about and that it didn't amount to the truly great game that its reputation paints it as. In fact, I was left feeling that the really nice setting had been underutilized.

about that last part you said, i couldn't agree more, they could have done so much more, it just felt a little empty at parts... but that would have required more money than they could afford at the time no?

maybe that's why it's taking long for BG&E 2 to appear... i hope so.

 

[The Lawn]

does anyone know if this game is drm free?

From the looks of it you get a key, and you can use that key as many times as you want on as many machines as you want.

Lets hope it works... and even if it doesn't that won't be the worst 4 bucks I've ever spent.

*wanders off mumbling bad things about tf2 crates*

 

[Dendio]

Thank you for the info good sir! Purchased and looking forward to playing this gem. $4.00 is a steal!