Good Old Games

[Humodour]

So to celebrate my first pay check of my new job finally coming in, I finally bought some games on GOG (the DRM-free, download as many times as you want factor was really enticing). Some of them I've played before, most of them are new.

 

I bought:

Spellforce

The Longest Journey

Beyond Good and Evil

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Incoming + Incoming Forces (hmm I should probably pick up Descent)

Far Cry

Jagged Alliance 2

Sacrifice

 

What else do you suggest I buy off there? What the are epics you'd buy from there?

Edited October 14, 2009 by Krezack

[Pidesco]

Settlers 2, Gothic 2 and and Disciples 2 are all good options and of the gold variety.

[Majek]

All of Jagged Alliance series. Freespace. All of Shiny games.

[PastramiX]

Descent 1&2

PoP: SoT

[SteveThaiBinh]

The Broken Sword games are great, if you liked The Longest Journey.

 

Simon the Sorceror 1 & 2 are also good, but don't bother with 3.

[Humanoid]

Headliners for me, but stuff everyone would already have anyway (and excluding previously mentioned titles):

HoMM3

IL-2 Sturmovik

 

And the miscellaneous pile:

Beneath A Steel Sky

Capitalism

Pro Pinball (I'm bored with the free Windows one)

Seven Kingdoms (can't remember if the sequel was any good)

Lords of Magic

Republic

Oddworld

and er... Battle Chess?

[Deadly_Nightshade]

Fallout

Fallout 2

Fallout Tactics

Lionheart

[Majek]

Beneath A Steel Sky is free, but only means you have to have either way. :D

[Tel Aviv]

I bought SHOGO: MAD for nostalgia. I love you, Monolith.

[Purkake]

Let's see:

 

Ground Control

Commandos

Giants: Citizen Kabuto

 

I also liked Gorky 17(Odium) and Septerra Core back in the day(but I don't know if you'd like them).

 

EDIT: The Incredible Machine games were also pretty cool, if you like that kind of puzzle games. Good choices, btw.

Edited October 14, 2009 by Purkake

[mrmud]

All of Jagged Alliance series. Freespace. All of Shiny games.

This (2 obviously)

[Morgoth]

How about you play first your bought games, before you buy new stuff?

[Purkake]

Better safe than sorry. Also no DRM means that you can happily download them and burn them on discs or whatever.

[Humodour]

How about you play first your bought games, before you buy new stuff?

 

What kind of advice is that dude? I'm a gamer. In fact my degree at university is game design. Gaming is my thing. I will be playing games for decades to come. If a game is available and I have the money, it makes sense to buy it, regardless of when I plan to play it. Thanks anyway.

 

Besides, the Australian dollar is extremely high against the USD right now. And while it will probably even hit parity soon, it's high enough right now that I'd rather buy now than risk forgetting to buy them and only remembering again when the USD is worth 2 AUD.

 

As for everyone else, cheers guys, I'll take a look at them all. I'll definitely add Giants to my list. Didn't know it was on there. It will also be good to have digital copies of Fallout.

Edited October 15, 2009 by Krezack

[Bos_hybrid]

Gothic 2 and Freespace 2. This is of course assuming you don't have them already.

[Sannom]

Question : aren't the two Freespace given for free by the original developper? I remember it surprised many people that GOG would sell those games, because they were already given away by the original rights owner...

[Majek]

No? The source code was released but i don't know about whole games. So only the engine but not the game data. Like Quake or Doom.

Edited October 15, 2009 by Majek

[Mamoulian War]

No? The source code was released but i don't know about whole games. So only the engine but not the game data. Like Quake or Doom.

 

yes you are correct... Game is not available for free, only the source code, and with it billions of mods...

[Purkake]

Also when you get it from GOG, they guarantee that it will actually work on Vista, Windows 7 etc.

[Nihilus5078]

I know a good old game. Dig Dug.

[Purkake]

I know a good old game. Dig Dug.

 

For some reason this reminds me of the Video Game Pitch Meeting(1979).

[Gorth]

Dig Dug was a great game... on the C64

 

Didn't know it existed on other platforms.

[Rostere]

I remember Incoming had a good soundtrack. Do you also get the soundtrack when you buy the game on GOG?

[Purkake]

Check the game profiles, each of them has at least some extra stuff(sountracks, wallpapers, manuals, etc.)

 

Incoming only has the manual apparently.

Edited October 15, 2009 by Purkake

[Deadly_Nightshade]

Do you also get the soundtrack when you buy the game on GOG?

 

Most of the time, yes.