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Firebert posted:And the Crusader games! I want those on GoG so bad. I concur. I'm tired of them being hard to impossible to get running since Win98. For a short while I was running them via VPC on a 1GB HD image with my original Win95 CD installed on that. DosBox probably works with them, but I'd actually repurchase them for ~$5 if they were at least semi-native to Windows. On a side note I never could get far in No Regret. The first 2 levels were so goddamn huge compared to any in the first game that I always got lost, confused, killed and finally frustrated to boredom. I'm not a dumb teenager anymore though, though I fear the work required getting any 90s Origin gaming working in a modern OS.
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beef express posted:If they ever get Origin I am going to be so skint. Off the top of my head, Bad Blood, Space Rogue, Strike Commander, Ultima series, Martian Dreams, Wing Commander series... goddamn, I can't remember a stinker they did (Ascension didn't happen!). Man, that's the truth. I played all those games when I was like 12 and seeing them for sale again would make me feel like GoG personally constructed a nostalgia bomb tailored just for me and mailed it straight to my doorstep. I'd buy those games so fast...
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Andrigaar posted:On a side note I never could get far in No Regret. The first 2 levels were so goddamn huge compared to any in the first game that I always got lost, confused, killed and finally frustrated to boredom. I'm not a dumb teenager anymore though, though I fear the work required getting any 90s Origin gaming working in a modern OS. I was the same way, lol I don't even remember getting past the first level and I completed the original. It's one of the main reasons I want to see it fixed for XP/Vista - so I can actually play the sequel.
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DotEmu's broadened their library, now with the Broken Swords, one game called Atlantis, or something like that, and most importantly: ABUSE. For free, but then again, wasn't Abuse freeware anyway? Also, anyone knows why both gog and dotemu have Broken Sword 2 and 3, but not 1?
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Luisfe posted:Also, anyone knows why both gog and dotemu have Broken Sword 2 and 3, but not 1?
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Luisfe posted:DotEmu's broadened their library, now with the Broken Swords, one game called Atlantis, or something like that, and most importantly: ABUSE. For free, but then again, wasn't Abuse freeware anyway? The source code and the shareware content are in the public domain, but the full game has never been free.
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Threep posted:I'm pretty sure it's because 1 was recently remade for DS/Wii/iPhone.
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beef express posted:Wing Commander series. This series was why I wanted to get a PC when I was a kid. I'm still mad they haven't made any recently. And no, there is nothing on the XBLA that even mentions Wing Commander so just shut up.
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This is pretty horrible lately, I like when they focus on games I can't get running properly or have trouble finding, not lovely games you can find at the 99 cent store that work fine but nobody liked. They should make up with us by releasing Crusader and getting all the bullfrog games. And introducing a 2.99 price point for rear end old dos games.
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Man, this is proof that one "oh, poo poo" ruins a hundred "good jobs." Outcast - gently caress yes Master of Orion 1 and 2 - You're the loving best! Blood - Marry me! Master of Magic - Have my children, you can't go wrong!! Blood II - Okay, what the gently caress? Master of Orion 3 - *sound of shotgun racking* Empire Earth III - *sound of shotgun firing* I like how they quickly covered up Empire Earth III by reducing the price of another game. Watch their weekend deal be something ridiculous like every title 50% off.
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Someone mentioned contract obligations, and I am pretty sure thats where this comes from. Or, they get the rights to everything in a series and just say "gently caress it" and release everything. Either way, its really hard to complain about them releasing too many games for under $10, right? The last 30 days or so they have been on a mighty tear, so I can forgive the crap that is at the tail end.
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May 6, 2010 20:21
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al-azad posted:Man, this is proof that one "oh, poo poo" ruins a hundred "good jobs." Don't forget that horrible sniper game too, each horrible game is taking away a spot of a good one!!!
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AxeManiac posted:Don't forget that horrible sniper game too, each horrible game is taking away a spot of a good one!!!
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AxeManiac posted:They should make up with us by releasing Crusader and getting all the bullfrog games. I'd really like to see Magic Carpet 1 & 2 go up...
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AxeManiac posted:And introducing a 2.99 price point for rear end old dos games. I would support this like a madman. I wouldn't pay $6 for an Infocom game, especially when most of them are freely available one way or another, and I'm just a casual fan, but I'd put up $3 for a GOG-packaged copy of A Mind Forever Voyaging.
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I'm pretty sure their prices are purely based on bandwidth. The bigger games are $10, smaller ones at $6. Are there any exceptions to this?
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^^ Another world is 144MB and $10, while Arcanum is 1GB and $6.
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I was just looking through my stash of old, old games to try and find Caesar II (which isn't on GoG sadly) and man it's been too long since I've seen some of those games. Several times I caught myself thinking "Wait, I actually own that game? Wow..." One of the real gems of old gaming I found was SimCity Enhanced, which I'd love to get on GoG (but I'm not sure why, I got the CD right here). It was just regular old SimCity with better graphics, but it had video advisers like Civ II, except better, and they'd pop up whenever something wasn't right. Sometimes you'd also get short videos depicting your sim's lives, and news reports when disasters struck (and randomly at other times). I just checked YouTube, and someone awesome actually uploaded some of the vids (though sadly not the main one I was looking for). Time for a stroll down memory lane! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JoA9JnBTtw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esi5bRgH3jk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y7FsRpk-lY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfouzLxyWyc AG3 fucked around with this message at 22:50 on May 6, 2010 |
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Anyone have any idea why they don't seem to have the rights to the Quest for Glory series? Seems like they'd be bundled up with all of the Space Quest/Kings Quest stuff, but for some reason QFG never got an XP compatible rerelease like the other serieses did. I still have my old QFG Anthology and QFG5 discs, but getting them to run on each successive version of Windows requires jumping through more and more hoops.
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May 6, 2010 22:50
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Cantaloupe posted:^^ Good call.
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AG3 posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JoA9JnBTtw For a moment I thought this was J. K. Simmons.
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You guys need to remember that the contractual magic that GoG weaves comes with hooks. I think someone else said this before but I doubt a publisher wants to hear, "We'll take this and this and this, but this is poo poo take it back." Consider all these duds the real price we pay for them pulling down some of the most awesome and truly Good Old Games in history.
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Overwined posted:You guys need to remember that the contractual magic that GoG weaves comes with hooks. I think someone else said this before but I doubt a publisher wants to hear, "We'll take this and this and this, but this is poo poo take it back." Consider all these duds the real price we pay for them pulling down some of the most awesome and truly Good Old Games in history. It's not even a price, really. We as consumers are not inconvenienced in the slightest by bad games being sold alongside the good ones.
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Cool Hand Leukemia posted:It's not even a price, really. We as consumers are not inconvenienced in the slightest by bad games being sold alongside the good ones. Yup. And let me state for the record that I am in no way affiliated with GoG. I'm just an old guy that can really only stand to play the games of his youth. You little fuckers can have your bloom and your tanks shooting at helicopters. FOOEY I say.
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Well, some of them cause horrible flashbacks. I do remember saving up for 5 or 6 weeks, running to babbages, and coming home with a box full of poo poo.
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Overwined posted:Yup. And let me state for the record that I am in no way affiliated with GoG. I'm just an old guy that can really only stand to play the games of his youth. You little fuckers can have your bloom and your tanks shooting at helicopters. FOOEY I say. Sometimes I wonder why I keep buying new video games when I just end up playing the same handful over and over again.
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Cantaloupe posted:^^ edit: Hell, Advent Rising is 4 gigs but 6 bux. Zat fucked around with this message at 00:47 on May 7, 2010 |
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Lockback posted:Well, some of them cause horrible flashbacks. I do remember saving up for 5 or 6 weeks, running to babbages, and coming home with a box full of poo poo. Ahhh, Babbages. I remember slowly making my way to the back of the store on every single trip in their final years buying PC Games in their glorious big boxes..most of the time at very good prices, like when I found Freespace 2 brand new for $14.99 when it was beginning to be OMG RARE on eBay. Sold it a couple years later for $75.  Ninja Edit: Also remember buying Myth: The Total Codex for $14.99 and saving up money from my first job to buy The Age of Empires Collector's Edition the week it came out when it was in an enormous box for $59.99. Was worth every penny.
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Cool Hand Leukemia posted:Sometimes I wonder why I keep buying new video games when I just end up playing the same handful over and over again. That's an easy one. It's because every next game you buy just might be the one. The game you fall in love with that turns out to be so good that you to forsake all others, or at the very least forget about them for a long, long time because you don't need them anymore because this new game is just that awesome! This does happen every once in a while though, so it's not completely false hope.
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GreatGreen posted:That's an easy one. It's because every next game you buy just might be the one. The game you fall in love with that turns out to be so good that you to forsake all others, or at the very least forget about them for a long, long time because you don't need them anymore because this new game is just that awesome! Are you talking about all my past girlfriends?
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Overwined posted:Yup. And let me state for the record that I am in no way affiliated with GoG. I'm just an old guy that can really only stand to play the games of his youth. You little fuckers can have your bloom and your tanks shooting at helicopters. FOOEY I say. But the games back in the day were tanks shooting at helicopters.
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al-azad posted:But the games back in the day were tanks shooting at helicopters. I don't know what games you're playing, but you obviously don't have the same taste as I do  Unless, of course, you're talking about all the way back to this, but even then I don't remember a tank shooting a plane.
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Cool Hand Leukemia posted:It's not even a price, really. We as consumers are not inconvenienced in the slightest by bad games being sold alongside the good ones. Emotional Damage man. I come in here and know it's new release day, see a bunch of posts and expect people to be talking about some amazing gem of a game and I see Empire Earth 3 or whatever, it's kind of like, drat, drat... just drat.
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Oops, I bought Panzer Elite from Gamersgate and they don't have the manual, but GOG does. If anyone's got it from gog would they be willing to throw it my way?
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This site is great, I love these classic games. Thanks for the thread. Also enjoyed typing "m" on the gender dropdown and getting "Missy". 
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Looking through my PC Game list, I realized some FPS games I would really like to see on here:
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Holy poo poo, if GOG could get Soldier of Fortune 1 & 2 for $9.99 I'd snatch that up so quick. Same with Thief 1 & 2, Turok, XIII, etc... Good list IMO. I've always wanted to try that Requiem game. Stabbing people: FOR CHRIST!
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May 7, 2010 04:25
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I never knew Turok 1 and 2 came out for the PC.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:I never knew Turok 1 and 2 came out for the PC. If I recall right the PC port of 2 ran like poo poo when it came out and still is a little unstable.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:I never knew Turok 1 and 2 came out for the PC. Indeed.  I used to have physical copies of both all those years ago.Gah, I forgot about Condemed: Criminal Origins too. That game was awesome. And it's another Monolith game.
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