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Good Old Games dot com

BigBadMickBigBadMick
edited January 2012 in Chit chat
Anybody got any games off the Good Old Games website?

www.gog.com

Yesterday I got Planescape: Torment ($10 or ?6.48), Fallout ($6 or ?3.88) and Postal 2 ($10 or ?6.48). All of the games run great on my windows 7 pc and, best of all, there's no annoying disc whine/disc swopping involved.

Planescape: Torment is pretty good. Seriously considering getting Baldur's Gate next. Also got Sim City 2000 on my short list.

All the games seem to be either $10 or $6 (i.e. ?6.48 or ?3.88). Pretty reasonable for some good old games.
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  • MrCheeseMrCheese
    edited January 2012
    Hey up Mr BadMick, good to see you around again!
  • TurkwelTurkwel
    edited January 2012
    Got Far Cry off them in the Christmas Sale for $5.99. It's 7 years old but on my Quad Core Phenom and GT430 card I can ramp all the settings up to maximum and it looks and plays like a dream. That's the good thing with GOG, you can get top quality games that a few years ago would have needed hefty hardware to run with a decent framerate and play them the way they were supposed to be played.
  • ZagrebZagreb
    edited January 2012
    Oh loads. In the past month or so I've bought Stronghold, The Last Express, MDK, Magic Carpet, Populous II and Master of Magic. It's a wonderful site doing wonderful work.
  • WoodyWoody
    edited January 2012
    BigBadMick wrote: »
    Yesterday I got Planescape: Torment ($10 or ?6.48), Fallout ($6 or ?3.88) and Postal 2 ($10 or ?6.48). All of the games run great on my windows 7 pc and, best of all, there's no annoying disc whine/disc swopping involved.

    Looks like you just missed their sale by a week or so then! ;)
  • BigBadMickBigBadMick
    edited January 2012
    MrCheese:
    Thanks! :)

    Woody:
    How much were the games when the sale was on?
  • WookieeWookiee
    edited January 2012
    cheers, might have a looksee at that
  • WoodyWoody
    edited January 2012
    BigBadMick wrote: »
    Woody:
    How much were the games when the sale was on?

    Virtually everything was half price until 2nd Jan.
    http://www.gog.com/en/news/gog_com_holiday_sale_begins
  • BigBadMickBigBadMick
    edited January 2012
    Gutted I missed that sale! :)
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited January 2012
    You can get every game on that site for nowt if you really want them :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • TurkwelTurkwel
    edited January 2012
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    You can get every game on that site for nowt if you really want them :D
    No doubt you can download pirated originals of these games from all sorts of places...but just try getting some of the earlier games to run on a modern Windows OS. I bought Redneck Rampage off GOG even though I own a boxed original of the game just so that I could play it again, something not possible with the now outdated, DRM protected and non-XP compliant CD original.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited January 2012
    I dunno a lot of dodgy downloads come with patches and fixes now.

    I'm pretty sure I got Redneck Rampage running on this pile of crap a few years back, and this has XP on it.

    Can't get Resident Evil or Panzer Dragoon to run properly though.
    Every night is curry night!
  • BigBadMickBigBadMick
    edited January 2012
    Redneck Rampage is on my shortlist of games to get next from Good Old Games, along with Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2, Freespace 1 & 2, Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 and Icewind Dale.
  • WoodyWoody
    edited January 2012
    Watch out for the odd free one they throw in now and again for short periods too. Since September they've done Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar, Broken Sword: Director's Cut + The Original Game, and Empire Earth: Gold Edition as free, short term giveaways.
  • TurkwelTurkwel
    edited January 2012
    I believe the general excuse in pirating GOG supplied games is the same as used to be used for ?1.99 Spectrum budget games - "since the cost is so low then no one is really losing out are they?" Of course this is similar to the reason given for ripping off high priced games - "I wouldn't have bought it at that price anyway so it's not like they've lost a sale." In having a search around to see what the prevailing feeling is\was about ripping off GOG games I notice that there's a lot of anti-piracy feeling from even those involved in the piracy 'scene' themselves. The best(!) reason I have come across for justification of this is along the lines of "well..the games are crap and they're charging money for them so they deserve to be pirated to teach them a lesson."

    I think I could have saved myself ?3.80 and downloaded a pirated 2.5GB copy of Far Cry off somewhere or other if I looked for it, but with GOG I know I'm going to be getting a DRM\Trojan\Virus free product that is pretty much guaranteed to work on my setup and comes with a full support structure in case of problems. When I click on that icon I'd prefer the game to start rather than my MBR be overwritten - wouldn't you?
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