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[PC] Spec Ops: The Line $5.99 80% off (Was $29.99) @ GOG

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[PC] Spec Ops: The Line $5.99 80% off (Was $29.99) @ GOG
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nyteshaiid on 31/01/2024 - 19:53 gog.com (693 clicks)
Last edited 31/01/2024 - 19:55 by 1 other user

This game is being withdrawn from sale on digital stores. This game was shadow delisted from Steam yesterday, and has been slowly dropping off digital stores. It was up earlier on the Xbox 360 marketplace but has since been pulled. GOG seems to be the last one standing.

"Spec Ops: The Line will no longer be available on online storefronts, as several partnership licenses related to the game are expiring."

"Players who have purchased the game can still download and play the game uninterrupted. 2K would like to thank our community of players who have supported the game, and we look forward to bringing you more offerings from our label throughout this year and beyond."

Jump in quick if you want it. There are a few cd-key resellers still selling but expect markups.
Some may have gotten this as a GOG Freebie back in 2018; Or bought within a 2K Games Humble Bundle at some stage.

NOTE: Steam vs GOG. GOG does not have multiplayer.

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  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 31/01/2024 - 20:13
    +18

    The story. Oh boy
    *chefs kiss *

    • freefall101 on 31/01/2024 - 20:26
      +11

      white phosphorus kiss

    • gfjh567gh3 on 01/02/2024 - 23:17
      +1

      And the soundtrack!

  • jokingsplits on 31/01/2024 - 20:20
    +1

    We'll worth playing while you can. Great story

  • MrMcHairyHead on 31/01/2024 - 20:30

    Fantastic game. I might replay it soon.

  • Spun on 31/01/2024 - 20:31
    +10

    From back in a time when a good story actually mattered in a game. No $9.99 in-game outfits. No dancing when you shoot something. Solid writing and voice acting.

    • Jake T on 31/01/2024 - 21:54
      +8

      I agree the story is excellent, but there are thankfully still plenty of examples of this. The Last of Us is incredible storytelling, Baldur’s Gate 3 is a character and world-building masterclass, and I’ve heard nothing but great things about Alan Wake 2.

      • Spun on 01/02/2024 - 05:50
        +3

        Yep, agreed. Thankfully the art isn't dead… yet. Cyberpunk and Ghost of Tsushima are another 2 recent examples.

  • Nekad on 31/01/2024 - 21:19

    Who says I survived…

  • Bimbobob on 31/01/2024 - 21:22

    Great story and soundtrack. I played it about 4 or 5 years in a row every xmas holidays back in the day when it first came out.

    Such an underrated game

  • dvddirect on 31/01/2024 - 21:30

    Great game!

  • Raynes on 31/01/2024 - 21:31
    +8

    Everyone always talks about how good the story is, but I found it absurd the way the protagonists grapple with the consequences of their actions in the cutscenes - immediately after killing 50 odd dudes during gameplay

    • straustea on 31/01/2024 - 22:01
      +1

      For context, this game came out at the height of modern shooters like Cod MW2. So seeing a game tackle themes of the consequences of war was mind-blowing at the time, but most people today come into this game knowing that the story is about that so it loses it's surprise.

      • Gyr on 01/02/2024 - 11:12
        +2

        MW2 has "No Russian" where you play as a CIA agent helping Russian ultra nationalist terrorists conduct a false flag terror attack to provide a justification for starting starting world war 3, ostensibly to gain their trust, but later you find out that CIA deliberately blew your cover because a group of US generals wanted to start world war 3 so that they could seize power. It's so much more nuanced than Spec Ops, which just wants to beat the player over the head that killing is bad, and playing games where you kill people is bad, but people like it because the MW2 story went over their heads.

        • Agret on 01/02/2024 - 15:57

          The COD4 / MW2 / MW3 trilogy is the best war focused fps campaign story IMHO it's like a Tom Clancy novel.

          Battlefield 1 has a bunch of good short stories though, even an Australian one :) the intro sequence where every time you die it doesn't restart and you just become another soldier is pretty damn cool too.

        • WinstonWithAY on 01/02/2024 - 23:43

          except it doesnt even make any sense because theres clearly camera footage of makarov doing the shooting and yet russia still starts ww3 over it.

    • OZKap on 31/01/2024 - 22:15

      The difference being that the 50 odd dudes

      SPOILERS:

      ||shoot first/would attack you as soon as they see you. I can still remember almost shooting some lady running with her baby clutched to her chest because she ran towards me as the tension was building towards a firefight. And of course bombing civilians with white phosphorus.||

    • corgi-runner on 01/02/2024 - 07:26

      That’s video games for ya! lol

  • bigbadboogieman on 31/01/2024 - 23:30
    +1

    I have a physical copy on Xbox 360 👨‍🍳💋

    • burns13 on 01/02/2024 - 11:59

      A great case for keeping physical media.

  • mj7312 on 01/02/2024 - 01:26
    +4

    It seems to have gone already. I can't see it.

    • TruckTrespass on 01/02/2024 - 01:44

      Yeah, damn

    • WhyAmICommenting on 01/02/2024 - 03:24

      Thanks, reported as expired.

    • nyteshaiid on 01/02/2024 - 06:23
      +2

      Thanks for the heads up all. Marked expired.

    • corgi-runner on 01/02/2024 - 07:26
      +3

      Luckily GOG games are easy enough to find if you really want to.

  • TruckTrespass on 01/02/2024 - 01:53
    +1

    Humble still have it up right now, but full price for a Steam key

  • Loopholio on 01/02/2024 - 02:14

    I have played this game. I don't remember which platform I bought it from. Good game.

    It might be worth a second playthrough.

  • EitherWayUp on 01/02/2024 - 07:31
    +8

    All digital future hey

    • WhyAmICommenting on 01/02/2024 - 09:42
      +4

      Back to the seas time maybe

      • EitherWayUp on 01/02/2024 - 10:18
        +3

        If they want people to go sailing again they are certainly making it compelling.

  • Deadalready on 01/02/2024 - 13:50
    +1

    Great story, deeply flawed gameplay.

    Very on rails gameplay, rough shooting mechanics, constantly losing all your weapons like every single mission, it felt like a lack of options and choice in general.

    • Agret on 01/02/2024 - 16:01
      +1

      Yep the developer are a well known shovelware company that pump out bad to mediocre games, this one is just well known as they tried to put a spin on the story for it. I wouldn't say the writing is particularly good either.

    • Raynes on 01/02/2024 - 17:13

      I remember the enemy NPCs were pretty dumb too

    • gfjh567gh3 on 01/02/2024 - 23:22

      I think the game play worked.
      It was meant to be a cover shooter, and you were meant to grind forward, and down (as you descend into the levels of hell)
      I prefer this to a "game movie" where you have a 15 minute cut scene or a "follow the character and listen to an unskippable cliche profound conversation"

      • Deadalready on 02/02/2024 - 01:17
        +1

        There's plenty of games that combine great story AND gameplay. The Last of Us, Metal Gear Solid 3/5, The Witcher 3, and Dead Space immediately come to mind.

        I thought Spec Ops had a good story, there were plenty of small touches that worked real well (the White Phosphorous part stunned me), but I really struggled with the gameplay… it really marred the experience overall.

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