Comments on: Good. Old. Games.

By: DragonIV

DragonIV — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:39:55 +0000

Another GOG user checking in–have grabbed a number of games from here, and honestly, I don’t care if I previously owned them–the low price makes it a no brainer to pick it up, mostly for the ease of installation and and management. Add to it that I can go back and play many games I never got around to back then, and color me thrilled.

So far, every game I’ve bought has played without a hitch in both 32 and 64bit versions of XP Pro.

By: GamerDad

GamerDad — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:37:07 +0000

My god, I actually reviewed most of those games. Are you sure they/re OLD? I mean, Seven Cities of Gold is old, right? But 10… yeah… okay… I’m old.

By: James

James — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:11:09 +0000

Like everybody else commenting, I have the “own it” problem. However, there are a lot of *other* games from back around the same time which I pirated, I’m ashamed to say. At the time, I was a high school (and later college) kid on a very limited income, and it was (relatively) easy to do, so I got copies of a lot of things, some of which I never even really got to spend any time on. So if GOG keeps adding titles from the same era, and stuff I pirated once upon a time comes up, I’ll try to pick it up legit and maybe I can make up a little for my previous transgressions by supporting the good guys.

By: Mike Anderson

Mike Anderson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:59:23 +0000

I would be interested in how the installs work for that collection!

As for GameTap, the whole ‘you must be online’ thing has greatly reduced my usage of the service.

By: Simon Windmill

Simon Windmill — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:29:39 +0000

Not to take anything away from GOG – they’re great – but GameTap actually has the Fallout collection (1,2,Tactics) for DRM-free purchase for cheaper than GOG’s total price. No idea how the releases compare, but options are good, right?

And if you’re a GameTap subscriber, the games are already available to you. And if you’re not a subscriber, the first game can be played for free.

I also realize I’m preaching to the choir here Mike, but thought others should know.

By: Syraxith

Syraxith — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:09:57 +0000

Fallout 2, brings back sweet memories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G9JZ353_Vo

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:27:42 +0000

I’ll have to check this out. I believe my family is getting me Fallout 3 for my birthday. I’d love to check out 1 & 2 as I’ve never played them.

By: Mike Anderson

Mike Anderson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:26:59 +0000

Arcanum is tough to find now, I hope that GoG can get that one … and the other Troika stuff as well. I would snap those up in a second, despite having the disks. I hate using disk images but in terms of space (an issue on a netbook) and just general principal.

By: Rich Neves

Rich Neves — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:02:49 +0000

I face the same dilemma you do in that almost all the games I would want on GOG I already own. I don’t have the issue of playing on a laptop/notebook/netbook so there is no incentive there, and I recently replayed Fallout 1 & 2 from my original CDs. That said, I am going to support them at some point because I think what they are doing is actually very important to the gaming industry, I just need to find a game I want (and have the time to play).

You mentioned Arcanum, I use to have that and never finished it. Can’t find the discs so I can’t play it now. Perhaps GOG will get that, I would buy that from them.