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SubponticatePoster posted:I bought an external optical drive for like $15 so I could put all my CDs on my laptop. Maybe that'd work for you? I’ll look into it. I only have three USB ports but I think I can at least pull my mouse and just deal with the touchpad.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I’ll look into it. I only have three USB ports but I think I can at least pull my mouse and just deal with the touchpad. buy a usb hub too and viola....everything should work properly.
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macnbc posted:I really like how simple it makes things. I’m using a combination of built-in and community-made integration plugins and I’ve got Steam, GOG, Origin, Uplay, Humble store, Epic store, Twitch Prime games and PSN achievements all on one screen. Sounds good. So if I wanted to launch a game I bought on steam I'd need steam installed?
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You can download Rise of Legends here https://www.old-games.com/download/9845/rise-of-nations-rise-of Since the game likely doesnt play on Windows 10 and has been abandoned I dont see why there would be a problem sharing this.
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I said come in! posted:
It makes me feel ancient, seeing a game I got when it came out on the same kind of sites I used to download DOS games off of.
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Angry_Ed posted:Ah, yeah that would be a problem. It's still weird to me that computers don't have internal optical drives these days. I have one just to reinstall my OS as my external, USB one can't be read by the system until Windows is installed. Edit: I never knew that Rise of Legends existed until just now despite playing Rise of Nations quite a bit when it was released on CD and having the "Extended Edition" on Steam JustJeff88 fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Sep 29, 2019 |
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bessantj posted:Sounds good. So if I wanted to launch a game I bought on steam I'd need steam installed? Correct. It basically acts as a proxy for any game not native to GOG. You can tell it to install or play games but it'll be running the other launchers in the background to actually make that happen. I did see in a news article that some Steam games actually launch faster via GOG than Steam because apparently Galaxy has some magic where it launches only what Steam things are strictly necessary and not like the overlay or whatever, but I haven't tested or timed it myself. Lemon-Lime posted:No, they've refused several popular indie games in the past because they felt they didn't meet an arbitrary and unexplained notability threshold. They even changed their mind at the last minute for a couple of them after the press published stories about GOG refusing those games for "not being a good fit for the platform." This is the double-edged sword of having a curated storefront. People slag on Steam all the time for lacking an effective curation method and trying to outsource that to users all the time, while their storefront gets filled with low-effort trash. GOG does curate their selection themselves, but that means sometimes they make bad calls. macnbc fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Sep 29, 2019 |
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macnbc posted:This is the double-edged sword of having a curated storefront. People slag on Steam all the time for lacking an effective curation method and trying to outsource that to users all the time. GOG does curate their selection themselves, but that means sometimes they make bad calls. It is, but there are more choices than "allow absolutely everything, including achievement farming/asset flips/homophobic propaganda" and "only allow what the corporation thinks will make a profit." It's entirely possible to hire people whose responsibility it would be to keep the complete trash out while still allowing anyone to release games on Steam for free (no matter how poorly made, as long as they're an attempt to make a genuine video game), and Valve have both the means and the responsibility to do so. The real problem is they're so far up their own techbro asses that they think algorithms are the solution to everything, and they only care insofar as the discoverability problem is hurting their bottom line.
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Pyromancer posted:Pretty sure their main condition is for the game to be DRM-free, hardly mysterious bessantj posted:Sounds good. So if I wanted to launch a game I bought on steam I'd need steam installed?
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Might be a windows storefront/app thing. Its legitimate for gog not to want to sell a product that points customers away from their store.
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Cat Mattress posted:Yeah, but the MS guy said GOG had "specific rules" about "what other stores they can be available in", so if it's about DRM it's an extremely weaselly way to put it.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:The quote reads awkwardly grammatically, so the "other stores" bit could be about Epic and not GOG. Also GOG has had timed exclusives before, it's possible they want exclusivity if they're doing the work to make the game playable. I know that they did that with System Shock 2 and Wizardry 6-8, so there are probably others that I've forgotten.
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xiii is on gog now. Makes me very happy, though the original could be run standalone without the cds.
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XIII got relisted on gog again? Cool, it was delisted on GOG for around 3 or 4 years, I think. Some of the levels in XIII were really fun(bank level), other levels were annoying (wintertime forest map) to extremely bad(plain rock canyons map). Main dislike of XIII is how it stripped you of weapons for almost every location change.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:This is really making me wish they’d get Starlancer/Freelancer. Not as good as Freespace 2 but I have so much nostalgia for those games. I forgot about Freelancer. I'd kill for a source code release for this in the hopes there'd be source ports to other platforms.
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quantumfoam posted:XIII got relisted on gog again? Cool, it was delisted on GOG for around 3 or 4 years, I think. Most of them weren't too bad, but yeah I racked up loads of deaths in the canyons. Rocket launchers in tight spaces suuucks
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This may have slipped through some cracks so: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_ai_war_2_c417f AI War 2 is available DRM free on GOG. It's also available through gog connect until Nov 5th for anyone who already owns the game on Steam.
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Has anyone here played Pathway on GOG? I've had my eye on it since release, but it has very low user ratings. I normally don't put much stock into those, but they are worryingly low this time.
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JustJeff88 posted:Has anyone here played Pathway on GOG? I've had my eye on it since release, but it has very low user ratings. I normally don't put much stock into those, but they are worryingly low this time. Dunno if the update hit GOG yet but basically Pathway launched kinda bland and rough around the edges but the devs recently put out a huge patch that completely revitalized the game. Steam reviews went from Mixed to Very Positive, which is incredibly rare.
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For certain games, the GOG fanbase is pretty good about keeping tabs on patches, almost as a reflex: https://www.gog.com/forum/pathway/changelog/post13
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John Murdoch posted:Dunno if the update hit GOG yet but basically Pathway launched kinda bland and rough around the edges but the devs recently put out a huge patch that completely revitalized the game. Steam reviews went from Mixed to Very Positive, which is incredibly rare. I just checked on Steam; that is a hell of a turn-around. I think that it sold me on the game, though I'm still buying it on GOG. Also, I noticed that the Shenmue collection is 66% off on Steam thanks to my checking reviews for Pathway; double sold.
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I was just browsing deals for the weekend when I noticed that Warlords 1, 2 Deluxe, and 3 were all added this week  GoG now needs to get Dune 2 available for purchase so that I can relive my childhood DOS days 
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Aces High posted:I was just browsing deals for the weekend when I noticed that Warlords 1, 2 Deluxe, and 3 were all added this week Oh nice, thanks for the heads up on that. I actually remember checking for those games on GOG a few times over the years and always being disappointed that they weren't available. Here's a really good LP on Warlords 2 Deluxe from a while back, if you have archives.
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The first Warlords is a masterclass in game and AI design. You can wring so much game out of that one map.
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THE BAR posted:The first Warlords is a masterclass in game and AI design. You can wring so much game out of that one map. I can't speak for 1, but I know that I've owned 3 at some point because it looks way too familiar to be a coincidence.
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Warlords 2 was one of my favourite games going up. Age of Wonders series improved on it a lot but there is lots of gaming to get out of the trilogy.
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As awesome as it is that they have the deluxe version of War2, I wish they had the option of installing vanilla Warlords 2 as they changed the soundtrack for Deluxe and I actually prefer the original soundtrack
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I loved Warlords as a kid. I've only replayed it recently, and I love how to the point the faction descriptions are in the manual.quote:The Sirians (White)
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GOG got Stranglehold today. A third person shooter game from 2007, that was apparently created (?) by John Woo and it's main character is from his movie Hard Boiled (1992). I don't think I even remember this existing, but it doesn't look half bad. Also, as far as I can tell, it's only available (as a digital download) on GOG currently. https://www.gog.com/news/stranglehold_rediscover_the_gun_ballet_classic_from_the_legendary_john_woo AbstractNapper fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Nov 26, 2019 |
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Oh rad! Yeah, Stranglehold has never been available digitally before AFAIK. IIRC, it's got a little bit of jank to it, but if you liked any of the half-dozen shooters that aped from John Woo in the first place you'll probably like Stranglehold too.
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AbstractNapper posted:GOG got Stranglehold today. A third person shooter game from 2007, that was apparently created (?) by John Woo and it's main character is from his movie Hard Boiled (1992). I don't think I even remember this existing, but it doesn't look half bad. It's a canonical sequel to Hard Boiled featuring the same main character, where Woo had a producer role. It was stuck in licensing hell for years and kind of sucked to get working on Windows 10, so pretty cool that GOG finally picked it up, especially since I remember it being decent. e; for anyone interested, I picked it up. It runs fine on W10 though the PC port itself is very barebones (and always was). Widescreen is an aggressive vert- and the FOV is already super narrow by default, so I would recommend probably waiting to see if someone writes a FOV fixer for patch 1.1 (which is the version shipped by GOG and apparently not supported by the two existing Stranglehold FOV fixers). Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Nov 26, 2019 |
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My memory of Stranglehold is that it was very Max Payne-ish, with lots of unnecessary sliding around on catering carts and saving up magic bullet juice to sniper-shot dudes directly in the dick.
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It's a fun game. Yes, you can roll around on catering carts. It looks like this wasn't outsourced but rather done internally at Warner Bros, which is unusual - I would've expected this to be an Iron Galaxy or Night Dive thing.
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ErrEff posted:It's a fun game. Yes, you can roll around on catering carts. It was actually done by Midway before they folded, WB probably got the rights to it when they bought up Midway's IPs and so forth.
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AbstractNapper posted:GOG got Stranglehold today. A third person shooter game from 2007, that was apparently created (?) by John Woo and it's main character is from his movie Hard Boiled (1992). I don't think I even remember this existing, but it doesn't look half bad. I do remember reading about this in video game magazines back when it was coming out, and I remember being interested in it at the time. Plus it was only  so I figured what the hell. I'll just add it to the backlog of other video games I haven't played yet. 
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:My memory of Stranglehold is that it was very Max Payne-ish, with lots of unnecessary sliding around on catering carts and saving up magic bullet juice to sniper-shot dudes directly in the dick. The sliding around on carts is 100% necessary.
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Lemon-Lime posted:The sliding around on carts is 100% necessary. Yeah if you're not sliding around on carts and running along railings in a John Woo
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Angry_Ed posted:Yeah if you're not sliding around on carts and running along railings in a John Woo shooting my way through a hospital filled with criminals
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drkeiscool posted:shooting my way through a hospital filled with criminals Ah! I see you are an American.
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