Yes but more that that, not just old games should be on GoG, all offline games should be on GoG.
Pretty much all DRM free games are on GoG no matter the age.
Exactly. Don’t need DRM unless multiplayer.
Multiplayer games also don’t need DRM
I would say it’s essential for multiplayer games with servers because I wouldn’t want to host my games for free if I were a business and P2P connectivity is more hackable.
What? P2P is more hackable? Hacking just one central server is more difficult than hacking multiple P2P clients that check each other? That seems like strange reasoning. This really depends on the implementation, sure you can make it insecure, but you can also make it more secure.
And why wouldn’t you want to host your own games when you want to play them together with others?
Hosting your own games also gives you much more power over it, you can mod it more easily etc.
IMO game developers of multiplayer games should also have to release dedicated servers to anyone that buys their game, so that they are still able to play the game, even if the game developer shuts the servers down, or their country is embargoed by the country where the game developer is located.
Depends on what you’re doing but yes because with p2p you don’t go through a server to implement a mod and you can break the game with less consequences.
For example it’s way easier to mod Space Marine 2 than Marvel Rivals, even though you can mod Rivals, because the server is required for spotting cheaters and banning them in more serious or competitive settings. Hence why Rivals players can mod skins in with some effort, but are liable to be ip banned if they use an aimbot in comp.
You are inverting the logic there, all games on GoG are DRM free, but not all DRM free games are on GoG.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I’m glad no new Elder Scrolls game is coming out. With the enshittification of Bethesda, the announcement of TES6 coming out would just hype everyone only for it to be a buggy, microtransaction-filled trashcan. See Starfield.
I’m more hyped for Skyblivion than for TES6.
I’m looking forward to checking out the re-make that’s about to drop of one of my old favorite games. Lunar: Silver Star Story. I still have my PS1 version.
They’re remaking Lunar?
I hope they remaster Wings (the intro song).
I kind of used the wrong word, really. They aren’t doing so much as they did with FF7. It’s more like just a re-master. It’ll run in wide-screen, have some qol improvements for inventory, upscale graphics, lots of music, audio, and cutscene improvements, and some other little stuff, as well as retro mode that will make it all look and sound and appear just like it was 30 years ago.
I’ve been waiting for its release for like 6 months, but it actually drops just next week on ps4/ps5, pc, switch, and xbone.
Even though I’ve been waiting, I’m not sure if I’ll get it next week right away or not. They’re releasing physical copies on amazon for $55, but the digital copy is still $50. I’m a PC gamer, so I’ll probably wait until that price gap is bigger if I’m only going to have a digital copy.
Also, it’s Lunar 1 and 2 bundled together, so two classics.
If I had a dog that was born in 2011 I would call him old.
I personally think games age faster than dogs ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Let’s put it like this- Skyrim is as old now as Final Fantasy VII was when it came out. If you had asked me then if Final Fantasy VII was an old game when Skyrim came out, I’d have said yeah.
When I was really getting into PC gaming in 2003 a game from 14 years before would have been released in 1989. Yes, I’d say that was old!
I don’t like how time works.
Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim was 9 years TOTAL. (2002, 2006, 2011)
Hell the first Elder Scrolls game Arena is only 17 years before Skyrim.
Damn, there might be as much time between V and VI as between I and V.
What the fuck? Yes. Yes we fucking are. MAKE ANOTHER ELDER SCROLLS GAME, YOU ASSBAGS!
It is gonna suck.
It’s gonna be shitty, expensive, AND buggy.
Look forward to the disappointment or just accept that late stage capitalism has ruined all of our lives and everything that we enjoyed, and it’s only going to get worse.
That’s how every TES game was: shitty, expensive and buggy. With zero bugs fixed after a decade since the release. Bethesda is extremely consistent, I’ll give them that.
The horrible thing is that it doesn’t have to suck.
Take Gamebryo, make Skyrim in a new map, new quests, scale it up for modern hardware a little, hire some voice actors and sell it. They could give everyone exactly what they expect.
They just won’t. Everything has to be some grandiose overhaul for the sake of bullshit when it comes to Todd Howard and Microsoft.
That’s amazing! It’s one of the few games that I feel like replaying every few years. Some of the others are Mario 3, doom 1 and 2.
There are others but I can’t think of them off the top of my head at the moment.
- Kotor
- Chrono Trigger
- Ocarina of Time / Twilight Princess / Wind Waker
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
- Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage
- Crash Bandicoot: Warped
- F-Zero GX
- Halo CE / Halo 3 / Halo: Reach
- Paper Mario: the Thousand-Year Door
- Journey
That’s a good list for sure oot and alttp and halo 1 for me. I’m surprised you skipped Halo 2. I never really liked that one as much as the others but people really seem to love it.
It IS an old game.
Thanks to the innovation and progress happening in Bethesda, it’s also a new game!
Skyrim is older now than Half Life 1 was when Skyrim first released.
I’m not old, you’re old!
Skyrim is older now than Tetris was when Half Life 1 first released.
:(
I’m playing Neverwinter Nights right now T_T
I thought AOL took down the server
I mean the Bioware RPG.
I’ve got an unid’ed +3 tri to trade if they ever bring it back up :>
Nothing wrong with that, and you have the sequel to look forward to!
Come on, it came out 11/11/11, that was like 3 years ago right?
Oh my sweet
summerwinterchildgeezer.
It is an old game, technically it was an old game when it was released
If they ship it without DRM, they could label literally anything an “Old Game” and that’d be fine by me.
It’s from 2011, of course it’s old.
I mean it’s a 14 year old game isn’t it?
It’s impossible for it to be old. They keep releasing it, making it new every time. Just last week, they announced that it will be released on my toaster this summer.
Old? It’s still getting major releases! 😉
