Stalker! Fucking finally! These games coming to gog was (unofficially) confirmed late last year, so it's amazing to actually see it happen. Hopefully, they'll release all three games in one go.

What legal quagmire would that be?

Twice now the forum has eaten my reply so I'll make this quick (and maybe a little unordered).

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 development put on hold due to the dev team abandoning ship and setting up Vostok games. Potential problems due to code and other elements of S2 project / who owns it etc - not definate though.
An independent team began project "Stalker online" - utilising the IP without permission.
Deep Silver alleged to still owe money from distribution.
Nov 2012 sees the death of Boris Strugatsky - who wrote Roadside Picnic with his brother Arkady. Tarkovsky's film Stalker was inspired by / loosely based upon it. They wrote a nother story based upon that. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was broadly inspired by all of these and Boris Strugatsky (perhaps Arkady too) wrote further work based upon the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe. After his death, Deep Silver aquire the rights to make a game based upon / inspired by Roadside Picnic. They dispute this, claiming they have purchased the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. IP. Legal hell ensues.
Further legal action may have also been brought up regarding this by GSC (not confirmed).

Theres a load more too of course -but thats the quick version.

Edit: and for all I know a lot of this has been cleard up now - but it was certainly the case not too long ago.

Enigmatic Hints have never been exclusively about old games. There have been Enigmatic Hints for both Flatout 2 and Goodbye Deponia. (and probably more that I can't currently remember)

STALKER seems a safe bet, they can release them all separately for $9.99 a piece to help with the X games released per week quota.
And they're being sold everywhere so I doubt there are that many legal problems with releasing the old ones.

This is good news - wondering what kind of extras are gonna be there, hoping for sth cool.

Now just bring me VTM Bloodlines...

Would be great if it is Stalker great game with loads of atmosphere.

I'm really sure it's STALKER. It's not a "classic" by my terms because 2007 doesn't feel that long ago to me, but with 4000 votes on the wishlist it's highly desired by people here.

I always expected that they would be released separately here like they are everywhere else, but $9.99 for each is about okay.
I am torn between buying them all on day one (I already own them all at least twice. Disk based then DRMed with Targes on GG) or wait a little while and hope for a 50% deal... first world problems.

I'm definitely waiting for a good sale, I also have most of them twice already and to be honest DRM doesn't bother me as much as it does most people here.
With a nice 60%+ sale I might also get a copy for a 'friend' who's been on the fence for a long time.. probably not though, I don't like him that much. :P

"Classic" is a wildly subjective notion, and I think they may have used it to describe newer games than 2007.

I think it could be either Nocturne of Blair Witch.

That small video is very similar to the intro on Nocturne with the way the Police are dressed on the Nocturne intro, same kind of era with the Military uniforms, it has a very similar vibe to it.

Then you have Blair Witch, this was done by Human Head Studios who also done RUNE which is available on GOG already

I feel like they added the Geiger specifically to steer it toward STALKER though.

Either way, we will find out.

Is it bad of me to say that I would almost prefer Nocturne since I have all of my STALKER discs lying around?

Not bad - Nocturne would be killer as I assume you can't get it anywhere else, where as STALKER has obviously been on Steam and elsewhere for years now.

But STALKER makes FAR more sense. We knew it was coming, and the hint really pointed to it.

Yeah, I can't justify paying very much to buy these again. I have all three on Steam, but I would love to have them DRM-free...
But unless they have some of the greatest bonus content of all time included, I wouldn't pay more than $5 for the trilogy just to have extra DRM-free copies.
I'm not saying the games aren't worth much - these are some of my favorite games of all time, and are definitely worth full price. Extra copies just aren't a priority for me.