Posted January 24, 2012
high rated
By making so many great old games available that we'll never have to upgrade our computers again (except maybe hard-drive space)!
Seriously, I know this website gets plenty of accolades already, but I just had to tip in my two cents and say that you guys are doing an amazing job. This website has got the golden age of gaming, especially for an RPG/TBS fan such as myself. While everyone's got their favourite games that have yet to be added (for me, it's the big one, Lucasarts, as well as some more city-builders (Pharoah, SC3K, Zeus, etc)), there's still enough gaming goodness here to keep me enthralled for, well, the rest of my life, really. Looking at my GOG games, I've realized that from enthralling stories like Planescape: Torment, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Longest Journey, to the more open-ended gameplay of Fallout 1+2 and Arcanum, to the traditional RPG goodness of Icewind Dale and M&M, to awesome strategy titles like Empire Earth, Tropico, Disciples, and Seven Kingdoms, my games bought of GOG alone could easily tie up the rest of my spare time.
That's not even counting other games offered by GOG which I already own, like Age of Wonders, HoMM, Baldur's Gate, SMAC, and others.
What I've discovered through this website is that so much of older gaming isn't about nostalgia. I've had this opportunity to immerse myself in games which I'd never tried before, and discovered a wealth of depth and adventure that I simply haven't been finding in more modern endeavours. To me, these aren't just Good Old Games, they're Greatest Computer Games. I find it simply amazing that I can play Fallout for the first time nearly fifteen years after its release and still be swept away with it, moreso than I was with Fallout 3 even (which I played first BTW). The vision of old games, what they were able to do when they didn't have to worry about mass-marketing or an eight-figure graphics budget, just astounds me.
There's a lot of things that make GOG great on top of this, most notably the DRM-free guarantee, but I wanted to really compliment GOG on what they've done here. No site is perfect and there are obviously parts of GOG that need to be improved, and it can be easier for designers to focus on the negative feedback while ignoring the positive. But if this post encourages one member of GOG's staff in what they're doing, or if it lights another spark under one GOG user's passion for old games, then I'm happy.
So I'm sorry if this is a pointless post, but I've realized recently that too many good things suffer because those who love them think their appreciation will be assumed and so don't bother to express it. So this is my way of saying:
GOG, you've got my support. Thanks for all your hard work.
Seriously, I know this website gets plenty of accolades already, but I just had to tip in my two cents and say that you guys are doing an amazing job. This website has got the golden age of gaming, especially for an RPG/TBS fan such as myself. While everyone's got their favourite games that have yet to be added (for me, it's the big one, Lucasarts, as well as some more city-builders (Pharoah, SC3K, Zeus, etc)), there's still enough gaming goodness here to keep me enthralled for, well, the rest of my life, really. Looking at my GOG games, I've realized that from enthralling stories like Planescape: Torment, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Longest Journey, to the more open-ended gameplay of Fallout 1+2 and Arcanum, to the traditional RPG goodness of Icewind Dale and M&M, to awesome strategy titles like Empire Earth, Tropico, Disciples, and Seven Kingdoms, my games bought of GOG alone could easily tie up the rest of my spare time.
That's not even counting other games offered by GOG which I already own, like Age of Wonders, HoMM, Baldur's Gate, SMAC, and others.
What I've discovered through this website is that so much of older gaming isn't about nostalgia. I've had this opportunity to immerse myself in games which I'd never tried before, and discovered a wealth of depth and adventure that I simply haven't been finding in more modern endeavours. To me, these aren't just Good Old Games, they're Greatest Computer Games. I find it simply amazing that I can play Fallout for the first time nearly fifteen years after its release and still be swept away with it, moreso than I was with Fallout 3 even (which I played first BTW). The vision of old games, what they were able to do when they didn't have to worry about mass-marketing or an eight-figure graphics budget, just astounds me.
There's a lot of things that make GOG great on top of this, most notably the DRM-free guarantee, but I wanted to really compliment GOG on what they've done here. No site is perfect and there are obviously parts of GOG that need to be improved, and it can be easier for designers to focus on the negative feedback while ignoring the positive. But if this post encourages one member of GOG's staff in what they're doing, or if it lights another spark under one GOG user's passion for old games, then I'm happy.
So I'm sorry if this is a pointless post, but I've realized recently that too many good things suffer because those who love them think their appreciation will be assumed and so don't bother to express it. So this is my way of saying:
GOG, you've got my support. Thanks for all your hard work.
