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I hope it's Harvester because I've been waiting for it. I first saw it in a 90s gaming magazine about violent video games and it was accompanied with a picture of a guy getting an axe to the head. It was pseudo-famous at the time as sort of a Phantasmagoria-cranked-to-11 but I could never find it in stores. I've played a little and already and it's a bad game but it's one of those so-bad-it's-entertaining deals. I refuse to watch an LP, I must experience the depravity myself.
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al-azad posted:I hope it's Harvester because I've been waiting for it. I first saw it in a 90s gaming magazine about violent video games and it was accompanied with a picture of a guy getting an axe to the head. It was pseudo-famous at the time as sort of a Phantasmagoria-cranked-to-11 but I could never find it in stores. I've played a little and already and it's a bad game but it's one of those so-bad-it's-entertaining deals. I refuse to watch an LP, I must experience the depravity myself. I've watched an LP, you're in for something. And by something I mean a really akward live-action sex scene.
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Feb 28, 2014 21:10
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DotEmu 70% off sale: http://www.dotemu.com/en/pc-games/discounted Not bad. I think I'll finally pick up Majesty HD, since I'm tired of waiting for it to hit GOG.
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doctorfrog posted:DotEmu 70% off sale: http://www.dotemu.com/en/pc-games/discounted Shadowrun and that new adventure for it are on GOG now, but my cheapassness won't allow me to spend that much on them. I'll probably get them in July when they do their big "We're totally not parroting Steam" summer sale.
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Mar 1, 2014 04:25
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doctorfrog posted:DotEmu 70% off sale: http://www.dotemu.com/en/pc-games/discounted Does dotemu use any kind of DRM? Do I need to be connected to them in order to play my games?
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al-azad posted:I hope it's Harvester because I've been waiting for it. I first saw it in a 90s gaming magazine about violent video games and it was accompanied with a picture of a guy getting an axe to the head. It was pseudo-famous at the time as sort of a Phantasmagoria-cranked-to-11 but I could never find it in stores. I've played a little and already and it's a bad game but it's one of those so-bad-it's-entertaining deals. I refuse to watch an LP, I must experience the depravity myself. I'd rather have Darkseed II. At least Mark Morgan did the soundtrack.
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:I've watched an LP, you're in for something. And by something I mean a really akward live-action sex scene. You always were a kidder, Steve.
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Aratoeldar posted:Does dotemu use any kind of DRM? Do I need to be connected to them in order to play my games? I've never purchased anything from them but the game pages have a "DRM FREE CERTIFIED" above the buy button.
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Dotemu is the exact same thing as GOG, except less popular. vvv and GOG's Polish. I don't get your point. Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Mar 1, 2014 |
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Saoshyant posted:Dotemu is the exact same thing as GOG, except less popular. To be fair, they *are* French (said the Englishman)
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Saoshyant posted:Dotemu is the exact same thing as GOG, except less popular. Thank You. There are a bunch of games I'd love to get more but I will limit myself to 688i and Red Baron History. Aratoeldar fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Mar 3, 2014 |
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If Harvester's showing up, and I Have No Mouth... has already been snagged, it doesn't seem too unreasonable to expect DarkSeed I & II to appear later this year. Which other genuinely old games are people still hoping to see show up on GOG? Personally, I'd like to see the Discworld series, since that seems like something with a sizable enough fan-base to provide GOG with some reliable sales, and having them handle the wizardry to get Discworld Noir running would be a relief. The Nobunaga's Ambition series has at least fifteen entries, so that'd be another nice acquisition, and they could bundle them up like the Ultima series. Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession would fit well with all the other D&D titles, Toonstruck for some Christopher Lloyd point-and-click action, Shadow President and CyberJudas for being fantastically addictive, plus A Mind Forever Voyaging and Rob Swigart's Portal for some early narrative-experimentation games. And then all the Cthulhu-based/-inspired adventure games just to draw them out of obscurity, because they already added BloodNet. Has it ever been explained why the original Freedom Force isn't on GOG?
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I've always wanted to play the Discworld games ever since I played a demo of Discworld II on PSone in one of those old demo discs (I miss those by the way  )Also because I've the read the books long after and they're awesome.
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Saoshyant posted:vvv and GOG's Polish. I don't get your point. It's a "the English and French hate each other" joke.
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Darthemed posted:Which other genuinely old games are people still hoping to see show up on GOG? Basically everything from the 90's Lucasart's catalog.
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Kurtofan posted:I've always wanted to play the Discworld games ever since I played a demo of Discworld II on PSone in one of those old demo discs (I miss those by the way Discworld does really well at putting you into the books, the graphics were pretty good for it's era and the voicework was excellent with a really good cast but some of the puzzles were so difficult it really spoiled the whole thing for me. Maybe best played with a walkthrough to hand.
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Where are the Discworld games legally? I read on Wikipedia there was a court case between the dev and Psygnosis over the franchise. But at least Discworld Noir was published by GT Interactive, now Atari.
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Darthemed posted:Which other genuinely old games are people still hoping to see show up on GOG? Drakan: Order of the Flame is my personal pick. I have fond memories of clambering around its Tomb Raider era caverns and flying through the skies with my dragon buddy Arokh. The Westwood Blade Runner adventure game would be nice too.
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The Earthsiege/Starseige series.
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Blade runner. It had timing issues with modern cpus that make it so you always failed certain times events.
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Besides every LucasArts game and all the Mechwarrior games? Probably SimTower or Yoot Tower with the expansions we never got. Or A-Train.
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I think Shadow President would be fairly appropriate given current events. I would also like Star Saga. Cinemaware purchased the original publisher and they got folded into Cinemaware Marquee who publish Star Rangers so fingers crossed? al-azad fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Mar 2, 2014 |
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I'd like to see more EA backcatalog games. Like Chuck Yeager Advanced Flight Sim or Air Combat. Or the original almost Wasteland2, Fountain of Dreams. Dynamix games like Starsiege, Stellar 7, ArcticFox, Nova9.
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I would love to see "The lost files of Sherlock Holmes" on gog. If the 3DO version of the serrated scalpel with voice acting could be ported over that would be great. Are there any fan patches to get 'The Case of the Rose Tattoo' running on 64-bit machines?
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Darthemed posted:Which other genuinely old games are people still hoping to see show up on GOG? Still hoping for the entire Id Software back catalog (which will never happen because Bethesda/ZeniMax). I'd also like to see other old FPS titles because I have a dumb fascination with old FPS games regardless of their quality, such as Strife (the Doom engine FPS/RPG hybrid, not that new Dota-like or whatever it is), Killing Time, William Shatner's TekWar, Corridor 7: Alien Invasion, etc.
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uPen posted:Basically everything from the 90's Lucasart's catalog. I forgot a game that they might actually get, Sim Golf.
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doctorfrog posted:DotEmu 70% off sale: http://www.dotemu.com/en/pc-games/discounted Thank you for this, they have some rad rear end Sega bundles right now: Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Sonic The Hedgehog, Streets of Rage 2, Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master, Golden Axe 2, Comix Zone, Golden Axe, Wonder Boy III: Monster lair & Streets of Rage for $3: http://www.dotemu.com/en/download-game/5472/dotemu-exclusive-sega-genesis-community-bundle Shining Force, Shining Force II, Landstalker, Sword Of Vermilion, Shining In The Darkness, Light Crusader, Fatal Labyrinth, Phantasy Star II, Phantasy Star III, Phantasy Star IV & Beyond Oasis - The Story of Thor for $3: http://www.dotemu.com/en/download-game/5385/dotemu-exclusive-genesis-rpg-bundle
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The Dynamix back catalogue would be an instabuy for me. So many classic simulations Edit: the original turn based Warlords games. Even just 3 would be really great
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Darthemed posted:Which other genuinely old games are people still hoping to see show up on GOG? http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#order=votes_total
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Big Bottom posted:Discworld does really well at putting you into the books, the graphics were pretty good for it's era and the voicework was excellent with a really good cast but some of the puzzles were so difficult it really spoiled the whole thing for me. Maybe best played with a walkthrough to hand. Discworld Noir was great apart from Rob Brydon's voice for Lewton. I like Brydon a lot but there was something about how he voiced that character that I couldn't stand.
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I think it's a pretty safe bet we won't see any licensed games where the original ip holder is not the same as the publisher. So pretty much everything except Star Wars. Or are there any examples for this? You can't get any old mechwarrior, Star Trek, blade runner, etc. games. E: Maybe we will see disc world some day because the authors daughter is in the video game bussines.
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Eulisker posted:I think it's a pretty safe bet we won't see any licensed games where the original ip holder is not the same as the publisher. So pretty much everything except Star Wars. That's not necessarily the case. GOG got both the original game publisher (Interplay) and the IP holder (Hasbro) licensed to get the D&D games on the service. Mechwarrior is divided up by 3 or 4 different parties at this point so that's unlikely, but in the case of Star Trek games they already have contracts with Interplay, Atari, and Activision, who collectively produced pretty much all the major Star Trek games ever released. All they would need is a contract with CBS (Star Trek's current IP holder) to make that happen, so I wouldn't count it out.
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al-azad posted:
I remember this well... Wow, Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab have been doing DnD shtick for 15 years now?
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Part of me just wants GoG to become so successful and desperate to nab all manner of nifty older games that they hire a bunch of PI's and whatnot to track down the often one-man-bands, or at least tiny teams, from the Shareware days and shine a light on them anew to the masses with supremely cheesy fervor like Rafiki on Simba from the Lion King. Aleshar: The World of Ice was a cool game for instance---plus the eternal dream of a new resurgence sparking back some life, modding, fan patching, etc into the old ones as always. http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/aleshar-the-world-of-ice
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Eulisker posted:I think it's a pretty safe bet we won't see any licensed games where the original ip holder is not the same as the publisher. So pretty much everything except Star Wars. As for Discworld, the first game is eventually going to get a freeware release - as of around 2008, the developers of ScummVM have negotiated everything, and added support (based on the original source code) to their interpreter, but the trigger hasn't been pulled on an actual release yet for some unknown reason.
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Eulisker posted:You can't get any old mechwarrior, Star Trek, blade runner, etc. games.
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Hogburto posted:Mechwarrior 4 and 4: Mercenaries was released for free, though. If I could get a hold of it, how close is 4: Mercenaries to 2: Mercenaries? I liked 4 Mercenaries rather well. My understanding with the rights situation on them is that it's quite a mess to untangle. Activision has part of the rights. Microsoft has part of the rights. The IP holder has part of the rights. On top of that according to TET on the GOG forums the video codec used in the game was incorrectly licensed, so that adds ANOTHER layer to the whole mess. Don't expect to see it on GOG unless Night Dive pulls another rabbit out of their hat.
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A lot of good titles this page. Quite possibly at the top of my list is, as mentioned, Stone Prophet, Strahd's Possession and Menzoberranzan, which were all on the same engine. Menzo was the second PC game I ever owned, actually, and I was stuck on it for months and months (this was before the proliferation of the Internet) until I saw the strategy guide in a bin at Best Buy, which got me over the hump and I finished the game. Also, I had the Drakan demo and had a marvelous time with it, and would enjoy seeing it again. Also the Gold Box games, naturally. I've been lucky... I found two sites that specialise in "easy Abandonware" - by easy I mean that the games have been repacked into .exe files to run/install easily on modern systems. Now, I am fully aware that Abandonware is not an actual legal term or any such thing, but as far as I am concerned if a game is not actively for sale anywhere then it is fair game, and I refuse to apologise for that. I don't "pirate" the Might & Magic games because they are easily had for very reasonable prices on GOG. The same is true of the latter Wizardry games, but I won't bat an eye at downloading Wiz 1-5 since nobody sells them. I'm not going to mention the sites I patronise because of  , but I feel that my stance is perfectly reasonable. If anything, I think that GOG has shown that if you make good games, especially good games that people miss, easily available and user friendly at decent prices then people will buy them en masse and not pirate them.
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Darthemed posted:Which other genuinely old games are people still hoping to see show up on GOG? The Myth series by Bungie, The Janes Combat System games especially Longbow, and Wizards & Warriors by David W Bradley. Pacific General And Panzer General by SSI. The Gold box games by SSI. Aratoeldar fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Mar 3, 2014 |
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Aratoeldar posted:The Myth series by Bungie, The Janes Combat System games especially Longbow, and Wizards & Warriors by David W Bradley. Pacific General And Panzer General by SSI. The Gold box games by SSI. Wizards and Warriors, definitely. I got it to work, but it wasn't easy and I can't attest to the stability of it with any conviction. Any game where you have elephant-men wizards is a winner in my book.
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