"Good Old Games"

Paul_cze · 2009-10-02T09:28:02.000Z

They are working on Project Fedora, aren’t they?

Creole_Ned · 2009-10-02T09:38:34.000Z

All Tex Murphy games are 30% off this weekend.

malkav11 · 2009-10-02T10:10:22.000Z

Creole Ned:

All Tex Murphy games are 30% off this weekend.

I wish I had known that was going to happen before I bought them all earlier this week. ;P

Kunikos · 2009-10-02T14:00:22.000Z

If GoG had any of the other Black Isle games, I would buy BG1+TosC, IWD:HoW, and IWD2. I’m guessing a lot of people would repurchase Torment and BG2 if they were offered as well. I was going to replay BG1 with BG1Tutu in the BG2 engine and then bring that character through BG2 with the Gibberlings 3 patches/mods. Also I wanted to replay Icewind Dale with the IWD NPC project that has new companions with full banters and such.

Royal_Fool · 2009-10-02T14:10:50.000Z

Creole Ned:

All Tex Murphy games are 30% off this weekend.

Great, I still hadn’t bought Overseer. Now I have!

pyjamarama · 2009-10-02T14:16:10.000Z

Kunikos:

If GoG had any of the other Black Isle games, I would buy BG1+TosC, IWD:HoW, and IWD2. I’m guessing a lot of people would repurchase Torment and BG2 if they were offered as well. I was going to replay BG1 with BG1Tutu in the BG2 engine and then bring that character through BG2 with the Gibberlings 3 patches/mods. Also I wanted to replay Icewind Dale with the IWD NPC project that has new companions with full banters and such.

Unfortunately all this games appear to be in licensing hell. I mean they apparently don’t even know who to ask for Torment http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/09/28/who-owns-planescape-torment/

antifood · 2009-10-06T06:37:55.000Z

Commandos 1 was released today. Full game with expansion for $5.99

zengonzo · 2009-10-06T06:51:39.000Z

Oh, fucking brilliant!

Bring on Commandos 2!

antifood · 2009-10-06T06:56:34.000Z

I only played the demo, I think I will have to pick up the full game.

For some reason, I now have it stuck in my head that we are going to see Wizardry soon. It must be due to this thread. So now I am waiting for a game that may never be (re)released. That’s one way to save money!

intruder · 2009-10-06T08:27:52.000Z

OMG!

Please tell me it works on Dual-Core processors unlike the original and the Steam versions that run way too fast (missing CPU limiter)!

If so I will cry of joy! :)

Tom_Ohle · 2009-10-06T08:29:38.000Z

intruder:

OMG!

Please tell me it works on Dual-Core processors unlike the original and the Steam versions that run way too fast (missing CPU limiter)!

If so I will cry of joy! :)

Someone asked this on the forums – specifically about whether it would run normally (not fast) on Vista 64. Answer from our tech guys was “yes.”

Kunikos · 2009-10-06T15:58:50.000Z

pyjamarama:

Unfortunately all this games appear to be in licensing hell. I mean they apparently don’t even know who to ask for Torment http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/09/28/who-owns-planescape-torment/

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=ca5qk4tjbbrk4g8kc7i0un1k&page=1

On the bright side, it appears that CD Projekt (the folks who run GoG) recently published a new Polish boxed edition of PST, so hopefully they’ll get everything cleared up soon

What?!?

Incidentally, their game catalog also shows all of the Baldur’s Gate AND Icewind Dale games localized to Polish

flyinj · 2009-10-06T16:06:41.000Z

Good news and bad news:

The good news is, GOG will be releasing all Black Isle RPGs all in the same day!

The bad news is:

They’re all in Polish due to licensing problems

Kunikos · 2009-10-06T16:09:36.000Z

Did CD Projekt license them all from Sierra prior to the Blizzard/Vivendi Activision merger which apparently resulted in the old Interplay / Black Isle IPs flying off to who knows where?

pyjamarama · 2009-10-07T03:47:51.000Z

If this realease is a result of a new licensing agreemente for the polish market it would mean that they know who to ask for it, but probably the original agreeamnet included re- releases for the Polish market.
The world would be a better place, for gamers, if abandonware was actually a reality and after 10 years without support everyone could share their existing copy in a type o creative commons license were it stated that it could no be sold.

marxeil · 2009-10-07T04:54:30.000Z

flyinj:

Good news and bad news:

The good news is, GOG will be releasing all Black Isle RPGs all in the same day!

The bad news is:

They’re all in Polish due to licensing problems

Heh, I though this was a joke. I wonder if the polish text can be replaced with the original text.

Disconnected · 2009-10-07T05:53:35.000Z

pyjamarama:

The world would be a better place, for gamers, if abandonware was actually a reality and after 10 years without support everyone could share their existing copy in a type o creative commons license were it stated that it could no be sold.

I agree, but there would have to be some sort of exemption so services like GOG can exist. Because finding complete copies of old games and making them run well is time consuming and mind numbing. The option to pay someone 6-10$ to handle the boring stuff is a very, very nice one.

pyjamarama · 2009-10-07T06:12:33.000Z

Disconnected:

I agree, but there would have to be some sort of exemption so services like GOG can exist. Because finding complete copies of old games and making them run well is time consuming and mind numbing. The option to pay someone 6-10$ to handle the boring stuff is a very, very nice one.

Yes that would be nice, they could for example charge for service or installer support, the same way Linux distros charge for support.

Tom_Ohle · 2009-10-07T06:55:36.000Z

pyjamarama:

Unfortunately all this games appear to be in licensing hell. I mean they apparently don’t even know who to ask for Torment http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/09/28/who-owns-planescape-torment/

Ah, well, you never really know, right? :)

red_guy · 2009-10-07T08:19:30.000Z

Tom Ohle:

Ah, well, you never really know, right? :)

Color me intrigued.