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chaosapiant posted:It's a bit murkier than that. Steam versions of some older games do include a pre-configured Dosbox package for a lot of them, and some other minor tweaks here and there. So Steam does do a bit of legwork on getting games to run. But in general, yea, GOG is the way too go on these old games. Valve does absolutely nothing and what work is done is entirely up to individual publishers, unlike GOG whose engineering team tend to work on compatibility issues when needed.
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Also GOG employs human beings to help you if you can't get your game working and give you some tech support.
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Gog has good support forums it seems like too. Though in fairness , the issues they run across are probably more homogenized or something. Steam support forums tend to have too many threads leading to nowhere, in my experience.
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Lemon-Lime posted:Valve does absolutely nothing and what work is done is entirely up to individual publishers, unlike GOG whose engineering team tend to work on compatibility issues when needed. Yeah, that's why I'm always wary of buying older games on Steam, because I'm never certain if they're gonna work. In this case, I think it was just I bought Deathtrap Dungeon for cheap on Humble Bundle, and I just never got around to playing it until now. The other nice thing is that GOG has a far more lenient return policy than Steam. I've not returned anything on GOG (I have on Steam), but they seem to offer more support. For future reference, is there a thread or like a Discord server for troubleshooting old PC games?
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Max Wilco posted:The other nice thing is that GOG has a far more lenient return policy than Steam. I've not returned anything on GOG (I have on Steam), but they seem to offer more support.
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Max Wilco posted:For future reference, is there a thread or like a Discord server for troubleshooting old PC games?  in the Retro Games subforum.I have been thinking of making a thread there for general purpose PC game fixing, though. Maybe I'll write one up over the weekend.
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The Kins posted:
Then one! If we redirect people having issues on various threads to it can catch some steam 
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chaosapiant posted:It's a bit murkier than that. Steam versions of some older games do include a pre-configured Dosbox package for a lot of them, and some other minor tweaks here and there. So Steam does do a bit of legwork on getting games to run. But in general, yea, GOG is the way too go on these old games. Often if Steam has old games properly configured, it's literally because they re-released on GOG first, got the appropriate love and care as part of that, and then it was all just carried over to Steam as-is.
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Lazyhound posted:You can’t return anything on GOG unless it straight-up doesn’t work and support can’t troubleshoot it for you. edit: unofficially, you might be able to beg and get your $ back for not-in-development/finished games if there's evidence you never downloaded them. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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Guillermus posted:Then
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doctorfrog posted:Except for in-development games, which have an unconditional 14-day return policy. When I bought shovel knight it didn't work, so I emailed them and got a refund. I tried the exe out of curiosity a few weeks later and it worked so I emailed them and the devs said to keep it, don't worry. Bought a copy for a friend and rebought the game because they were so chill about it.
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Got Obra Dinn in the last sale. Does anyone know if you can revisit scenes after you leave? Otherwise I'll have to enter shoe hell now.
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genericnick posted:Got Obra Dinn in the last sale. Does anyone know if you can revisit scenes after you leave? Otherwise I'll have to enter shoe hell now. Yes. The only point of no return is getting back on the boat waiting on the starboard side (and even then you get another shot to get the perfect ending). Edit: I'm guessing I misunderstood the question, but oh well. Troutpack fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Jan 10, 2020 |
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genericnick posted:Got Obra Dinn in the last sale. Does anyone know if you can revisit scenes after you leave? Otherwise I'll have to enter shoe hell now. Jesus I finished the game and had zero idea the spoilered part was a thing until I googled it
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:Jesus I finished the game and had zero idea the spoilered part was a thing until I googled it In the end I had to look up the ship's steward. I feel pretty dumb. Deleting my shoe pix now. genericnick fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jan 11, 2020 |
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So, has anyone played Insomnia: the Ark? https://www.gog.com/game/insomnia_the_ark Is it worth a look if I´m hankering for a sci-fi RPG and have no problem with reasonable levels of jank?
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Sylphosaurus posted:So, has anyone played Insomnia: the Ark? https://www.gog.com/game/insomnia_the_ark
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Sylphosaurus posted:Is it worth a look if I´m hankering for a sci-fi RPG and have no problem with reasonable levels of jank? How much does the RPG factor count? https://www.gog.com/game/terminator_resistance It's basically Fallout in Terminator. There's that civvie vid if you want to take a look, there are dialogues and skill points and crafting and some Bioware-ish ridiculous romance bits, and it actually seems more fun than the Beth games.
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Cat Mattress posted:How much does the RPG factor count? It’s great in that Homefront Revolution way where it’s pretty janky (but to a tolerable extent) and way more fun than it has any right to be.
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GOG got the surge 2, wish I could've gotten it DRM free instead of getting on steam at release 
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ilmucche posted:GOG got the surge 2, wish I could've gotten it DRM free instead of getting on steam at release You can always double dip when it's on sale.
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If you have GOG Galaxy 1.2 installed already, will installing GOG Galaxy 2.0 overwrite 1.2 without messing with your game installs or anything?
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It overwrites 1.2 but you shouldn't have to re-download anything. Installs should be fine but there are some things like launching game with command line parameters that aren't implemented yet.
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I got OG Deus Ex for a dollar and it has gog achievements lol
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I tried to get into that game but it was ugly and kinda plodded along tbh
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I mean, it's 20 years old. Even though the System Shock games are pretty linear they take some time as well
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Statutory Ape posted:I tried to get into that game but it was ugly and kinda plodded along tbh What a shame.
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Statutory Ape posted:I tried to get into that game but it was ugly and kinda plodded along tbh "Oh my god, JC, it plods" "it plods?!"
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"Plod with the Plod"
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Songbearer posted:What a shame. I was gonna go on a big old rant about why I disagree with their opinion, but yeah 
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Kikkoman posted:I got OG Deus Ex for a dollar and it has gog achievements lol Does it run on Mac
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Statutory Ape posted:I tried to get into that game but it was ugly and kinda plodded along tbh Do you have a single fact to back that up?
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In all honesty at this point Deus Ex is only praised by a bunch of pretentious old men still playing "the best game in the world", but the world left them behind long ago.
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Statutory Ape posted:I tried to get into that game but it was ugly and kinda plodded along tbh The first level is weird, because it’s a great level... when you know what you’re doing. It took me a while for it to click but once I was into the game I was into it.
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Man, I played the original Deus Ex after coming from Human Revolution (Deus Ex 3) and wanting to know more about this crazy series, it was sometime in 2012 or so. Sure it felt old and clunky, but goddamn, what a game. The fact something that was more than a decade old felt so fresh and fun amazed me. The atmosphere just kept me going with the story and characters being just the cherry on top. It's nearly eight years later and I still think I'd enjoy playing it again given the chance, even with every new advance that has come in gaming since. I never ended up playing the sequel with it being so divisive, but still want to give it a go at some point.
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yeah same situation same end result, except i did end up playing invisible war its not nearly as timeless because the story is kinda bad and they made the whole game a lot more streamlined in terms of mechanics it doesnt stick out from all of the other fps games of the era, why play that when you could play red faction 2 or timesplitters or etc etc
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Kanfy posted:In all honesty at this point Deus Ex is only praised by a bunch of pretentious old men still playing "the best game in the world", but the world left them behind long ago. Old men are the future.
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