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Well here's my money Activision, you better more games on GOG now.
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Veib posted:I hope this means Warcraft 1 & 2 are also on their way because those three games have never been digitally available as Blizzard's own old games store starts from Starcraft.
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Mar 7, 2019 15:50
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Have Warcraft 1 and 2 ever been available digitally before? Because if not that's a really good get.
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Mar 7, 2019 15:53
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1103659078595809280
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Lucinice posted:Have Warcraft 1 and 2 ever been available digitally before? Because if not that's a really good get.
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Mar 7, 2019 15:58
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so GOG probably isnt going out of business soon like some people were thinking lol
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Mar 7, 2019 16:06
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Minor caveat to be aware of; quote:The GOG-enhanced version offers several quality of life additions, including minor audio fixes, up-scaling support for resolution and refresh rate control, and compatibility fixes. Please note that this version cannot connect to Battle.net and only supports multiplayer via LAN and P2P connection.
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Mar 7, 2019 16:15
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Freaky, I thought about Diablo a couple of days ago, wondering if it was available digitally. The atmosphere of this game is so good.
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Mar 7, 2019 16:58
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FRESH MEAT! *casts Firewall* UUH-UUH-UUH-UUH-UUH-UUH-UUH *Butcher dies* I think the Diablo demo was just 3 floors, but I played the poo poo out of it.
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Mar 7, 2019 17:56
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The mail from GoG says it includes both the original version with Battle.net support or the upgraded-version with win10 compatibility but only singleplayer mode, pretty nifty.
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Mar 7, 2019 18:01
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Sweet!! Now if they could get Hellfire as well (I don't care that it wasn't an amazing expansion, that game was fun) then we will be set. I kinda wish I could show proof of my copies currently in my possession so I don't have to pay again
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Mar 7, 2019 18:02
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Aces High posted:Sweet!! Now if they could get Hellfire as well (I don't care that it wasn't an amazing expansion, that game was fun) then we will be set. Youre paying for permanent digital access in ~the cloud~ if gog offered this service they would make a lot less money. Especially for games without cd keys
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Mar 7, 2019 18:07
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Aces High posted:Sweet!! Now if they could get Hellfire as well (I don't care that it wasn't an amazing expansion, that game was fun) then we will be set.
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Mar 7, 2019 19:17
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The lack of mac support makes me sad, especially since until Overwatch Blizzard was one of the most reliable mac game devs. 
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Mar 7, 2019 19:41
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The Kins posted:Blizzard's blog post says "We have no plans to bring Diablo: Hellfire to GOG.COM at this time", and given it was developed by a third party I doubt it'll ever be exhumed. It was developed by Synergistic systems, which was acquired by Sierra, which in turn was acquired by Activision, so it's not outside the realm of possibility. But they might not have the source code or whatever.
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Mar 7, 2019 19:45
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Blizzard's old titles being available is huge. It's almost a crime that Diablo, Warcraft 1 and 2 weren't available through legal means given how good both were.
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xarph posted:The lack of mac support makes me sad, especially since until Overwatch Blizzard was one of the most reliable mac game devs. There were some pretty good games on old mac os systems which makes me sad because there's really no way to play them outside of a virtual installation.
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Mar 7, 2019 20:03
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I was gonna say "what about Blackthorne" but apparently you can download it as freeware if you make a battle.net account.
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Mar 7, 2019 22:07
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Cat Mattress posted:I was gonna say "what about Blackthorne" but apparently you can download it as freeware if you make a battle.net account.
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Mar 7, 2019 23:29
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whhaaaaatt!! How on Earth did GoG manage to pry these out of the Blizzard vault?
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Cat Mattress posted:I was gonna say "what about Blackthorne" but apparently you can download it as freeware if you make a battle.net account. Blackthorne, The Lost Vikings, and an extremely butchered version of Rock 'n Roll Racing, a game that never had a PC version so it's a modified SNES ROM running on ZSNES with the music removed and replaced by a looping MP3 that starts on boot-up and never stops. Also I believe StarCraft Anthology is free now (the non-Remastered version) Mercury Crusader fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Mar 8, 2019 |
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Mar 8, 2019 02:33
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OhFunny posted:whhaaaaatt!!
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Mar 8, 2019 02:33
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OhFunny posted:whhaaaaatt!! Positive karma. Positive karma from refusing to engage with Cleveland "Cleve" Blakemore at any level.
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Cat Mattress posted:I was gonna say "what about Blackthorne" but apparently you can download it as freeware if you make a battle.net account. Yeah, you can get Blackthorne and Lost Vikings as freeware through Battle.net, but Diablo and Warcraft 1 & 2 were never offered through official channels until now. Only way I was able to get Diablo 1 digitally was through  Hm, I guess that means I should delete it now... Veib posted:Holy poo poo I played through Diablo 1 for the first time roughly two-to-three years ago, but when I played it, I used a mod called Belzebub. It adds a bunch of quality-of-life features from Diablo 2, like TAB-key highlighting of items, spacious storage chests (one character specific and one that lets you trade items between characters), and difficulty levels. In addition, it also adds a ton of new content. The Barbarian, Necromancer, and Assassin classes are added (they just use palette swaps/voice-pitched versions of the Fighter/Rogue/Wizard). There's also a slew of new quests, most (if not all) of which are based off quests that were cut from the original game (the townsfolk all have dialog pertaining to them). It also changes up some of the regular quests as well. The trade-off, though, is that while a lot of the new content is interesting, it's also not optional. The QoL changes are nice, but there's no way you can choose to play with just those alone. That might not sound like a issue, and it really isn't, but it would be nice if there was an option. I also got the impression that the new content is meant to be more difficult than the standalone game. The biggest one is probably the restoration of the Map of the Stars. EDIT: There's also another mod by the same team called Tchernobog, that offers multiplayer, but I never tried it. In both cases, the work on the mods seems to have stopped. There's another mod called The Hell 2, which I don't know much about, but apparently it also adds in some QoL features as well. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Mar 8, 2019 |
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I realised that GOG was utterly clever bollocks when they brought back System Shock 2. Since then, I have ceased to underestimate their ability to pry any game from the lost annals of history and companies that don't give enough of a gently caress to sell their work, but will sue your clangers to a wall if you download their work for free. I'm not a betting man but, if I were, I would put money on them eventually unearthing the NOFL games.Max Wilco posted:I played through Diablo 1 for the first time roughly two-to-three years ago, but when I played it, I used a mod called Belzebub. It adds a bunch of quality-of-life features from Diablo 2, like TAB-key highlighting of items, spacious storage chests (one character specific and one that lets you trade items between characters), and difficulty levels. This looks glorious, thank you.
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GOG didn’t though, that was mostly Nightdive that put the effort into tracking down and buying out all the IP holders for System Shock
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Party Plane Jones posted:GOG didn’t though, that was mostly Nightdive that put the effort into tracking down and buying out all the IP holders for System Shock And they were unfortantel defeated in their quest for NOLF. No one is sure who owns the rights and the companies that might want to get paid before they even bother to check.
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Party Plane Jones posted:GOG didn’t though, that was mostly Nightdive that put the effort into tracking down and buying out all the IP holders for System Shock I would have to presume that GOG had some major part to play as they had unique rights to tell SS2 for some months after release. Steam had to wait 4-6 months, I believe, before they had the game as well. I have to assume that this was a concession made to GOG for their help as Nightdive would naturally have wanted to be on Steam from day one as they would be exposed to many more customers. Skwirl posted:And they were unfortantel defeated in their quest for NOLF. No one is sure who owns the rights and the companies that might want to get paid before they even bother to check. I'm very sad to hear this, but I will unapologetically play so-called "pirated" versions in the mean time. The fact that it is somehow illegal to play a game freely distributed when nobody cares enough to find out who owns it, much less sell it, is bullshit; the fact the people who aren't corporate stooges and their lawyers agree with this practice is even more rubbish.
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I think the only thing I really want from a Diablo mod is one that allows you to do LAN playing and you can still do the single player quests, as opposed to only having King Leoric to contend with until Lazarus and Diablo. That or one that enables the Hell and Nightmare difficulties to actually encourage either new game+ or just more challenging new games. I say this because I have a few friends interested in the game but they're more inclined to try it out first with someone who is very familiar with it, and it's kind of hard to show off what makes the game so memorable (The Butcher, for example) when that content isn't available through online play
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Will that sweet Lord of the Rings RTS game based on the movies ever be re-released and patched
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Aces High posted:I think the only thing I really want from a Diablo mod is one that allows you to do LAN playing and you can still do the single player quests, as opposed to only having King Leoric to contend with until Lazarus and Diablo. That or one that enables the Hell and Nightmare difficulties to actually encourage either new game+ or just more challenging new games. I'm not sure, but I think the Tchernobog mod I linked does that. Both it and The Hell 2 mod have multiplayer outside of BattleNet, but I can't confirm they enable all the quests in multiplayer.
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Buller posted:Will that sweet Lord of the Rings RTS game based on the movies ever be re-released and patched There's nothing worse than licensed games. Since it's based on the movies, GOG would need to deal with 1. the developers, 2. the original publishers, 3. the movies' rightholders, and of course 4. the Tolkien estate. And the latter two will want absurd royalties in exchange for granting the license, because they have no idea what the market value of an old game is. They'll just figure that new games are worth 60 bucks, so they'll want something like 15 bucks per sale, plus several millions up front. Same reason why we'll never see the old Terminator or Dune or whatever games.
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The Tolkien estate no longer gives a poo poo about maintaining the purity of JRR's creative version (since Christopher Tolkien retired), so odds are 50/50 that they'd either demand way too much money or just okay it because any non-zero amount of money is better than no money.
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Mar 9, 2019 19:17
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Here I am waiting for Black and White 1 or 2 
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I think the big DOS missing white whale is Ascendancy.
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Cat Mattress posted:There's nothing worse than licensed games. Since it's based on the movies, GOG would need to deal with 1. the developers, 2. the original publishers, 3. the movies' rightholders, and of course 4. the Tolkien estate. And the latter two will want absurd royalties in exchange for granting the license, because they have no idea what the market value of an old game is. They'll just figure that new games are worth 60 bucks, so they'll want something like 15 bucks per sale, plus several millions up front. I still have my Battle for Middle Earth 2 + Witch King discs but I would rebuy it on GOG for certain. That's probably the last PC game discs I own. I'd also like them to get some more older Star Trek games, like Bridge Commander
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Cat Mattress posted:Same reason why we'll never see the old Terminator or Dune or whatever games. wait, really? is that why we can't get Dune 2 except through abandonia or wherever?
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Aces High posted:wait, really? is that why we can't get Dune 2 except through abandonia or wherever? Yes, Herbert Limited Partnership is notorious for being jerkasses about licenses. They won't give anyone a license if it's to rerelease an old game (video or otherwise; there was a Dune boardgame that couldn't be rereleased because of that, so FFG rethemed it as "Rex: Fall of an Empire" with all Dune references scrubbed off).
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Buller posted:Will that sweet Lord of the Rings RTS game based on the movies ever be re-released and patched Away all Goats posted:Here I am waiting for Black and White 1 or 2 Since we're listing early-mid 2000s EA games i wanna add The Godfather to the request pile, that game owned
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