Daikatana Comes to GOG.com [View all]
Marshall Lemon | 8 February 2013 7:21 am
The infamous shooter that tarnished John Romero's reputation can now be sucked down on Windows 8.
Before Duke Nukem Forever, there was Daikatana. The brainchild of John Romero and Ion Storm, Daikatana was supposed to be the next big thing in PC gaming. Three years after its planned release, gamers finally sat down to discover out-of-date graphics, incompetent AI companions, and artificially limited level saves. Coupled with a marketing campaign that promised to make us John Romero's bitch, the game found itself reviled even by fans of Romero's work. Now the infamous PC shooter has found a home with GOG.com, where today's gamers can decide for themselves whether Daikatana was a misunderstood gem, or honestly deserves all the hatred heaped upon it.
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It's not a terrible move by GOG, since they probably were able to secure the right to sell it for practically nothing. But I think they got the price point wrong. Apparently they're selling it at $5,99, which I think is much too high. By all accounts the game is as bad as everybody says (having watched some of a Let's Play on YouTube I would agree), so they can only sell it to people who buy it out of sheer morbid curiosity or the ones who want to be able to say they own one of the worst games ever. And to do that I think they should have set the price at $0,99 - $1,99.
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