4702

I never got into RA1 back in the day, but I loved RA2 hard core.

4703

RA1 is one of my favorite games of all time. Not the best, but definitely one of my favorites, horrid pathfinding and all.

4704

Lands or Lore will be an instant buy for me. I LOVED that series.

4705

Never played the Lands of Lore games, but I always heard they were great.

4706

I played Guardians of Destiny from the LoL series. The game certainly entertained.

4707

Starflight and the rest of the Wing Commanders are all I require. Although I wouldn’t mind some of the old Need for Speeds. The PC versions of those were insanely ahead of their console equivalents.

4708

CRUSADER!!!

YESSSSSSSSSS

I hope it still has the cheezy FMV.

4709

“Weasel’s here with the gear!”

4710

Anyone interested in Crusader: No Remorse should pick it up as soon as its available. I re-played, and finally finished, it about two years ago and it was still tons of fun. The controls were as awkward as I remembered them being in 1995, but the graphics hold up very well and the FMV is charmingly cheesy.

As for having issues getting it running, I used DOSBOX with my original CD to play it and didn’t have any issues (after making a couple simple tweaks).

4711

Having never purchased/played a game through GoG, what’s the difference between just downloading an abandonware copy of the game (I own and still have the disks/boxes for many of these games) and setting it up via DosBox myself? Is there any?

I’m sure I’m not the first person who has asked what the point is of spending more money on games I already own that I could get running through DosBox myself. :)

4712

The end result would be functionally equivalent; with the DOS games, GoG doesn’t have any special code magic or custom patching that they’ve added themselves (as far as I know, anyway), they just provide a pre-configured DOSBox environment. You’d essentially be paying GoG for taking care of the hassle of installation and configuration, but you could spend the time to do it yourself, too.

4713

What Fugitive says, and of course, if you like that kind of stuff, a digital version of your game that…ahem, never goes away

4714

And you help support and keep GOG alive.

4715

And you’d be in compliance with U.S. and international copyright law, if you’re into that sort of thing.

I just bought the Ultima Underworld package. I never played much UU, but it’s pretty clear I was missing out. Even with the archaic controls and interface, these games are a blast.

4716

Also, GoG tends to bundle a whole lot of neat stuff in that abandonware sites may not. Like cluebooks and things.

4717

As the others said, it’s the ease of use you pay for. But you get more of that than you appear to believe. GOG games are obviously not abandonware, and no self respecting abandonware site makes them available. So best case, you’ll have to waste a ton of time backing up old diskettes & CDs. Trust me, it’s enough of a pain in the ass that we’ve basically tossed everything and re-bought/-buy from GOG.

4718

Plus, and its certainly a pipe-dream, but it would be nice to think someone is seeing how many thousands of folks are downloading paid for copies of an old game and thinking “hmm … maybe we should remake this classic…*”

*and remaking it RIGHT, goddammit.

4719

I loved Lands of Lore at the time, but I think its best left in the memory. Not sure the gameplay would hold up these days. Maybe I’m wrong, given GOGs bargain prices it will be cheap and easy to find out.

Also: I think GOG has invalidated the whole idea of “abandonware”.

4720

Man, Sacrifice really needs a good sequel.

4721

Please, please, please all things Ultima 7. RPS got me all excited by using an image of The Guardian from U7 and I was a little let down to find it was only Ultima Underworld being released (for now). Nothing against UU - I never played it back in the day so I don’t have that warm nostalgia for it.