Payday: The Heist (2011)
Genres:Shooter
Themes:Action
Game modes:Single player, Co-operative, Multiplayer
Story:Payday: The Heist is an action filled first person shooter that lets players take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”. Load out with an array of weaponry and equipment. Navigate six high-stake heists with three other live or A.I. Co-Op partners in crime.Show more
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Despite me only discovering this game less than a decade ago, I can see the polish this game has. It's a tough as nails PvE game where you and your buddies push through waves of cops to get what you want, wether it be diamonds, a panic room full of cash, printing plates for printing money or codes from a government employee to steal money from the IRS. The game's upgrade trees allows people to specialize at certain things like healing, speeding up objectives or spraying bullets. Not to mention the various interactions the crew has with the mastermind Bain is top-notch.
PAYDAY: The Heist is a cult classic cooperative first-person shooter that deserves preservation and a DRM-free release on GOG. Originally launched in 2011, it laid the foundation for the entire PAYDAY series, offering thrilling heist scenarios, teamwork-focused gameplay, and intense shootouts that felt straight out of a crime film.
What sets PAYDAY: The Heist apart is its unique mission design, with each level playing out like a cinematic bank robbery, hostage situation, or jailbreak. Every mission has a different objective and often features random elements, keeping the experience fresh and replayable. Its emphasis on co-op teamwork, fast-paced action, and satisfying progression systems made it stand out in an era flooded with generic shooters.
Releasing it on GOG would give a new generation of players the chance to experience this underrated gem, free of modern online DRM restrictions. It would also allow longtime fans to replay it easily on modern systems, supported with GOG’s compatibility tools and optional offline play. The game has historical significance in the evolution of co-op shooters and helped shape the popularity of titles like PAYDAY 2 and Left 4 Dead.
Bringing PAYDAY: The Heist to GOG would not only preserve a key part of multiplayer FPS history, but also revive a community that still holds this game in high regard. It’s time this heist classic got the respect it deserves—with a proper home on GOG.
FreelancerEight hundred years prior to the start of our story, bitter conflict divided all of mankind. A handful of colonists struck out on their own to begin anew - far away from the Earth and its turmoil. Several ships were launched with enough equipment and supplies to give the hundreds onboard a fighting chance - but since the area around far-off Sirius had never been surveyed, no one really knew what to expect. What they found was a new frontier of free-flowing natural resources, unexplored territories, great wonders and lurking dangers. Each ship, representing the clusters of people and their earthly place of origin, settled into different parts of the galaxy pre-selected by their ship-board computer to give them the best chance of survival.
Life was hard in the beginning, but over the 800 years the different colonies prospered and expanded their territories, claiming more and more systems for their own. Survival and propagation eventually led to growth and profit as each of the colonies developed specialties and fostered commerce. As the colonies grew and time passed their connections with their roots on Earth dwindled and they lost their memories of the conflicts of the past. Soon their attention was dominated by new, more immediate conflicts. Feelings of lost ancestral connection spurred anachronism in the look of the great cities, and created a somewhat distorted image of each colony's cultural heritage. In the ever-expanding outer edge of the territories, frontier lawlessness prevailed.
The Houses: Each shipboard colony that left Earth carried some memory of its origins in its name. The Liberty carried Americans, The Bretonia flew from The United Kingdom and surrounding territory, The Kusari from Asia, and the Rheinland launched with Germanic cargo.
As each ship settled and colonies began to expand, they knew little about each other and their advancing development. Finally, little by little, the individual colonies found each other and began to set up trade routes to link their systems for commerce and solidarity.
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