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GOG Preservation Program Reveals

"Our friends at GOG are committing to maintaining classic games for future generations with the GOG Preservation Program. During the Future Games Show Spring Showcase, we were pleased to reveal a few more games coming to the program, including Silent Hill 4: The Room, Fallout 2, and many more. Head to GOG.com to find out more."

Does that mean you finally removed the remnant Securom files from F.E.A.R.?

I do like that you are adding change logs to the store pages of games that are in the program.

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This company is based in Poland... like right next door to Germany, like real close to Russia... I know damned well that Gothic 1 and Gothic 2 were and still are some of the most successful and well received games ever in that part of the world... yet nothing.

What the fuck is it about those games anyway??? It's hard to get them to run NOW, much less preserving them for the future. Why is that??? No one has ever explained that to me. Morrowind (released right after Gothic) loads up and plays with the Gog offline installers. Gothic... no effing way. Gothic 2?... maybe... if you're lucky.

It's like ALL the games from that time period (2000-2003) that I own (obviously can't comment on any games from that period I don't own) install and run fine. Modding them is an option, for better graphics, textures, some bug and/or QOL fixes, but not necessary. I have not been able to do this with Gothic 1 for at least the past 7 years.

Please, WHAT IS IT ABOUT GOTHIC that makes it not play nice on modern systems while games like Morrowind (a similar open world RPG released about the same time) has no such issue? What is it that every time I go to install it I have to go through hoops, and different hoops it seems every different time I install it, to get it to just run?

Considering your company and where it's located, The Witcher series should have been first games on the preservation list and GOTHIC SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE SECOND. WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?

I don't have much time left on this rock and if someone could just explain to me why even today Gog's offline Gothic installer (can't comment on the Galaxy version since I've never even installed Galaxy in my life, but I can tell you that Steam's Gothic also will NOT run when just downloaded and installed and hit play) will NOT install and run without extra hoops.

Your "preservation program" shouldn't exist. Because when you founded that was the basis of the whole company itself. Remember Good Old Games? Your entire catalogue should be the "preservation program." But at the very least, why the fuck is Gothic NOT on that list????????

Ultima 1-8 is in the preservation program..... but not Ultima 9.......... hmmmm......... :)

Does the legacy "Classic" variant of Fallout 2 receive the same GOG preservation program enhancements? That is, is the same work being done on the older versions that are no longer available on the storefront? Thanks.

can anything be done about the region-locking? I cannot even view the store page for Silent Hill 4, let alone buy it.

The updated version of Fallout 2 have issues and since I cannot send a report for the game without a system report (which is not needed in this case) I'll just just write it here - hopefully it will be seen.

In Galaxy the main executable is set to the wrong exe. Currently it is set to start from fallout.exe but this starts the classic version without the hi-res patch. The main executable should be Fallout2Launcher.exe while fallout.exe can be added as additional executable as "classic" (it used to be this way on the last patch).

There is also an issue with the updated version of sfall which comes with a hi-res mode that is enabled by default. When starting the game from the launcher there is always a message for conflict asking you to disable one of the 2 hi-res patches. The solution here would to disable the sfall hi-res mode so the game can run like it use to .Otherwise it may bring confusion to new players! The hi-res mode can be disabled from ddraw.ini by setting HiResMode=1 to 0(zero)

ZenGin unfortunately is just one of those engines...
Thumbs pressed both Gothic and Gothic II are not too far back in the pipeline. Wondered about that myself too. Nothing GoG can do about this particular matter, you'd need to take it up with the publisher - Konami, in this case.
Or just use a VPN.

Good question, would it need Bethesda's and Interplay's approval? just Bethesda's?.

There could be some legal hiccups with Gothic since they released a... remaster? recently on switch and with the upcoming remake

I can spot Freelancer at 3:00...Maybe it's coming soon? ;-)

DOS games minus wrapper in latest update original files?
Gog doesnt provide this.

Staff planning on having last known functioning OS state, for games such as Win10 optional offline download, while Win11 takes over?
Doesnt seem likely.

So...in short. We dont see gog staff actually preserving these games.

Is it possible? Yes. Do most gog supplied games have this potential already? Yes. Will staff apply these preservation efforts? Unlikely.

Ergo, its a silly gimic from the people that thought it would be a good idea to pretend to care.

Not everyone is going to 11, mate. You're just being negative to be negative. There's no point in your post.