Gog's library seems to baffle me at times. I know it can't be easy to get the legal backing for every title every customer desires... but still.

I went and downloaded some older Doom games on Steam (which I've had for a while) after playing some Doom3 and long story short I got to thinking about Doom and Hexen and even Heretic... and how awesome it'd be to have them all again. So I searched and found em on Steam but decided I'd also check in on Gog as I'd much rather give them my money.

Sadly... nothing here... what gives?

ID and now ZeniMax Media who own ID have to give the okay, its not happened yet

this topic is all gloom and doom

Apart from maybe the price, there's no reason not to get the Steam versions. Given the myriad of Doom source ports, all you really need are the WAD files.

Nah Gloom was the ripoff released on the amiga

I'd wait for it to go on sale there. The data files do indeed work just fine with the source ports. Plus, a lot of the older games have their engine released as source code if you're wanting the authentic version without the DRM.

I thought Gloom was that Quake 2 mod?

This is Gloom.

Yeah, I checked Wikipedia to see if Aliasalpha was making it up, and no. Now I'm getting ready to watch a long play of it on Youtube. There was a Quake 2 mod called Gloom though, right?

I have no idea. If there was, I never heard of it. Which isn't to say that there wasn't. I was never into Quake 2 much.

This. I don't think there's a lot of reasons to go with the classic Doom engine. I'd grab the WADs (the map/campaign files) and use Skulltag or something like the Doomsday Engine, which are a lot more user friendly. If you're into keyboard-only controls, they'll let you do that too.

I never make stuff up!

Well except for the times I make stuff up but those don't count because I'm only making it up

Unfortunately, the very fact that Steam sells those games may imply we won't see them here. After all, why sell Doom/Doom II, for example, here, for $10 for everyone, when you can sell it for €10 for European users?

That's what they said about Activision.

That said, the Steam version is genuinely DRM free (like all the DOSbox games they sell, never mind the fact that all you really need is the WADs and a source port. Hmmm... Chocolate Doom...)

Have you thought about becoming a lawyer?