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Paul Barnett is an eccentric brit who was the lead designer on Warhammer Online and currently does some PR stuff with EA. Currently he's been tweeting about using DOSBOX to release old Origin games: "Talking to the dosbox people, so far they have been awesome, gives me hope for releasing old old origin product to the faithful!" If there's a change in leadership at GoG, and maybe a change in their DRM policy, this could be prompting EA to take part in the service. Or maybe they're finally going to open up their back catalog on Steam. Who knows.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Paul Barnett is an eccentric brit who was the lead designer on Warhammer Online and currently does some PR stuff with EA. Currently he's been tweeting about using DOSBOX to release old Origin games: "Talking to the dosbox people, so far they have been awesome, gives me hope for releasing old old origin product to the faithful!" The problem with GoG & Steam is that when an older title comes out on Steam, Valve doesn't bother to make sure that the game is actually playable/well-represented on modern systems. Maybe, if it is Valve acquiring GoG, they've learned their lesson.
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Sep 20, 2010 21:13
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Quest For Glory II posted:Replaced an incredibly stable, slickly-designed frontend client with a WEB 2.0 browser plugin that launches on every page of their website regardless of whether you're attempting to play a game or not, requiring you to kill each process. A plugin that attempts to de-encrypt executables but fails at least 50% of the time, and (until 6 months ago) didn't support 64-bit systems or Windows 7. Changing to a WEB 2.0 browser plug-in was really the number one thing that made me cancel my subscription. Everything else that came after it only justified my cancelling. It didn't help that even the most simple games would require far more effort to get working on any browser I had installed than was really necessary. Prior to the Metaboli acquisition, I mostly used it to play Neo Geo and arcade titles several times a week, with the occasional game of Zork: Grand Inquisitor and any random game that caught my interest. Now, I can't even play loving Burger Time without screwing around with the browser plug-ins that won't install half the time and I'd have to re-install ten seconds after.
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Sep 20, 2010 21:14
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Magnificent Quiver posted:The problem with GoG & Steam is that when an older title comes out on Steam, Valve doesn't bother to make sure that the game is actually playable/well-represented on modern systems. If it uses DOSBOX, it's going to be equally playable wherever you get it from. All DOS games on steam use DOSBOX, and are all perfectly playable on pretty much every OS.
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Would be funny if EA had bought them out, seeing as how they've been trying to get their hands on EAs back catalogue since they launched.
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Sep 20, 2010 21:16
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:If it uses DOSBOX, it's going to be equally playable wherever you get it from. Sorry, I wasn't talking about your example specifically. The dos games on Steam are fine, but games like Jedi Knight had serious issues that required some forum hunting to solve.
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Sep 20, 2010 21:17
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Orgone Accumulator posted:http://www.3drealms.com/towers/index.html Eh, it's a limited life download. I mean, better than nothing I guess, so I might pick it up, thanks. I'm just not sure if I can stomach sending George Broussard more poker money. I'm just happy I got Raptor: Call of the Shadows and the Creatures series before they went down.
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Sep 20, 2010 21:20
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Magnificent Quiver posted:Sorry, I wasn't talking about your example specifically. The dos games on Steam are fine, but games like Jedi Knight had serious issues that required some forum hunting to solve. Really? I had a crashing issues that resulting from going into the menu or checking the map (which you need to do to find some secret areas to get jedi points  ). Otherwise it wasn't too bad.What was the deal with Steam having the first Knights of the Old Republic, but not the second?
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Sep 20, 2010 21:22
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Wicker Man posted:Really? I had a crashing issues that resulting from going into the menu or checking the map (which you need to do to find some secret areas to get jedi points 3D support was completely busted unless you used a 3rd party patch, and even then it didn't really work right. It might've been an ATI-specific issue, though. Beyond Good and Evil also has horrible problems with modern computers that weren't entirely fixed by messing with the config utility.
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Sep 20, 2010 21:28
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GOG is dead. GOG remains dead. And we have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become pirates simply to appear worthy of it?
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Sep 20, 2010 21:28
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For those wondering how terrible GameTap has become, here's the new games list.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:For those wondering how terrible GameTap has become, here's the new games list. A lot of shovelware but a couple good games, seems like a good microcosm of the modern game industry as a whole.
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Sep 20, 2010 21:32
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A lot of those games have 2 at the end, when you wouldn't even expect a 1. But Smash Frenzy 4? How much Frenzy can you smash? I guess 4 so far.
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Sep 20, 2010 21:34
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:For those wondering how terrible GameTap has become, here's the new games list. They're migrating stuff from Metaboli, the company that now owns Gametap. And yes, they have a lot of shovelware. But in the past two months, Metaboli (EU) has given me Assassins Creed 2, Splinter Cell: Conviction and The Settlers 7 among others, and currently has the newest Prince of Persia game on their 'coming soon' screen. Tell me that ain't good. Oh, and they've confirmed that they're getting King's Bounty: Crossworlds soon, too.
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Sep 20, 2010 21:41
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Another feature that will be dearly missed: No 1 USD = 1€ bullshit.
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Mr.Hotkeys posted:Oh man, if GoG had Mystic Towers I would have bought that in a loving heartbeat. Just sayin'. Squiggle posted:Mystic Towers is, to this day, one of my favorite games ever. Well, I went to the official website: http://www.3drealms.com/towers/index.html And ordered it for $6. It's a one-time download ($3 more for a year's worth, but I just put it on my Dropbox and a CD). It comes as an .exe installer that also installs DOSBox with correct settings. If you want me to give you the settings from the pre-configured DOSBox, just tell me what to type. But for $6 I just didn't think it was worth it to screw around with it. Do note you can also download the shareware version. It might be the case that if you install that and then move your registered files in, it'll work. I'm assuming, of course, that they have the same DOSBox thing set up with the shareware version. edit: Oh yeah, there's no DRM, so it's basically GoG without the promise of downloading in the future (unless you pay extra).
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Achmed Jones posted:It comes as an .exe installer that also installs DOSBox with correct settings. If you want me to give you the settings from the pre-configured DOSBox, just tell me what to type. But for $6 I just didn't think it was worth it to screw around with it. How about you stop trying to make me buy games, rear end in a top hat. Have you seen my Steam games list? I don't need any more 
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It's too bad the Virtual Console has slowed to a trickle- Castlevania Bloodlines, Contra Hard Corps, and Twinkle Star Sprites would fill in the gap nicely. TSS and Sam & Max are the only games left that I'm super interested in playing. The only thing that's kept me in is having a lock on the old subscription rate... but at this point it's just wasted money anyway. (EDIT: talking about Gametap.) I expect GOG to come back as MAGOG.com - Mediocre And Good Old Games. Discount Viscount fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Sep 20, 2010 |
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Achmed Jones posted:Well, I went to the official website:  It looks like Solstice. I should check this game out, I had never heard of it before people started talking about it in this thread.
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Sep 20, 2010 21:50
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Discount Viscount posted:I expect GOG to come back as MAGOG.com - Mediocre And Good Old Games.  (seriously, I get the biblical reference, well done)
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Discount Viscount posted:It's too bad the Virtual Console has slowed to a trickle- Castlevania Bloodlines, Contra Hard Corps, and Twinkle Star Sprites would fill in the gap nicely. TSS and Sam & Max are the only games left that I'm super interested in playing. The only thing that's kept me in is having a lock on the old subscription rate... but at this point it's just wasted money anyway. Gametap introduced me Twinkle Star Sprites and it rules so much. I wish it did show up on VC. The last two games I bought on the VC were Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (TG-16/CD) and Space Harrier (arcade), and I have no idea how how long ago Space Harrier was released on the service.
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Crappy Jack posted:GOG is dead. GOG remains dead...  Photoshop 5's new content-aware fill feature is amazingly handy for... for defiling graves.
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Good Old Graves Dot Com.
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Dominic White posted:They're migrating stuff from Metaboli, the company that now owns Gametap. And they've been "migrating" games from Metaboli ever since the acquisition. One-two games per week, SOMETIMES. Guess how many of those games are legitimate retail games as opposed to casualware? You won't need your toes to count this one. quote:Gametap introduced me Twinkle Star Sprites and it rules so much. I wish it did show up on VC. The last two games I bought on the VC were Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (TG-16/CD) and Space Harrier (arcade), and I have no idea how how long ago Space Harrier was released on the service.
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I just realized, I had been wanting to buy Decent 1, 2 and 3 on GoG for the longest time but couldn't due to unemployment. I finally get a part time job and they pull this poo poo. ARGHHH
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Boondock Saint posted:I just realized, I had been wanting to buy Decent 1, 2 and 3 on GoG for the longest time but couldn't due to unemployment. I finally get a part time job and they pull this poo poo. ARGHHH I know, same here. It's painful.
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Quest For Glory II posted:And they've been "migrating" games from Metaboli ever since the acquisition. One-two games per week, SOMETIMES. Guess how many of those games are legitimate retail games as opposed to casualware? You won't need your toes to count this one. drat. Sucks to hear that that US version is so mismanaged, then. EU gets about 2-5 games a week. Usually one larger release and a few minor ones. Kinda underwhelming some weeks, but I reckon I get my moneys worth each month. To be fair, the fall of Gametap US began long before the takeover, though. They'd been on a downward slide, losing content and features for quite some time.
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Quest For Glory II posted:Sounds great. Wish I could play them. However, Gametap refuses to work properly on any of my computers, so I don't care about your anecdotal evidence, and based on the fact that the Gametap thread went from multiple posts per day to 1 post per month, neither does anyone else. I'm not exactly sure how Gametap will even exist in 5 years. Maybe Metaboli is a great service in Europe, but it is not in America. This. GameTap != Metaboli despite being owned by the same people. And this is from someone who defended GameTap up through the transition. Metaboli had their chance with it and failed.
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Robot Hobo posted:I just checked on their site: 863 games total I remember when GameTap got their 1,000th game. It looks like they've been working backwards since then.
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Lord_Pigeonbane posted:I remember when GameTap got their 1,000th game. It looks like they've been working backwards since then. The numbers back when were massively padded out by emulated stuff. Between console and DOS emulation, I'd say that probably added a good 400 games alone.
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So what exactly does the update tell us except for a date that we can have access returned to us for items we own? It's a sad state of affairs when I can torrent a game but cannot access a legally purchased copy of the same game.
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Dominic White posted:The numbers back when were massively padded out by emulated stuff. Between console and DOS emulation, I'd say that probably added a good 400 games alone.
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Industrial posted:It's a sad state of affairs when I can torrent a game but cannot access a legally purchased copy of the same game. Uh, commonplace activation/install-limited DRM has meant that pirating a game is easier than installing a legit copy of it for a few years now. You should probably just get used to it.
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Mug posted:Uh, commonplace activation/install-limited DRM has meant that pirating a game is easier than installing a legit copy of it for a few years now. You should probably just get used to it. I don't agree with that, DD services are the fastest and most convenient way to get a game downloaded and installed into a playable state. The obvious exception being when you are denied access to your products.
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Industrial posted:I don't agree with that, DD services are the fastest and most convenient way to get a game downloaded and installed into a playable state. The obvious exception being when you are denied access to your products. Yeah, I guess you're right, Steam is pretty easy to use. I guess I mean it's not uncommon for your off-the-shelf boxed copy of the game to be a pain in the arse to install.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:For those wondering how terrible GameTap has become, here's the new games list. Oh yeah, nothing like playing some king's bounty or mount and blade on Gametap. At least they have 3 decent games in that list, but I still can't believe Gametap hasn't gone under. Evil Fluffy fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Sep 21, 2010 |
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Industrial posted:So what exactly does the update tell us except for a date that we can have access returned to us for items we own? I don't think GOG was ever about stopping people from pirating games. It was about giving people a chance to say, "Yeah, if you made this game available did all the monkey work to make it run, I'd give you money instead of continuing to download these old DOS games" and also I guess strange European titles from the last few years. You can burn a copy of a movie or download the PPV before you can buy a movie legally, doesn't turn the movie industry in on itself. GOG is doing what they can (poor Polish PR aside) to keep giving you easy access to games. Except of course in this downtime, which they apologized for and told you would be fixed on Thursday. Unless you want them to build a cross out of old copies of Commander Keen and hang themselves on it, not much else they can do.
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AxeManiac posted:Unless you want them to build a cross out of old copies of Commander Keen and hang themselves on it, not much else they can do. Now I kinda want to see this just for the novelty of it.
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