I don't think this has been posted here before, so I'll go ahead and do so, since I imagine many people here will be excited to hear it, if they have not already (the news is a couple of weeks old). There is a new site launching next month that will deal only in the digital distribution of older, classic PC games. Among the first titles to be available are Operation Flashpoint GOTY, Freespace 2, and the original Fallout series. I am very much looking forward to this, and am crossing my fingers that they make the System Shock series available, as I'm just a few years too young to have played through them back when they were available (and, admittedly, I hadn't heard of the series until a year or two ago).
New Digital Distribution site to specialize in older games
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Is this the site your are talking about?
http://www.gog.com/en/intro
I have Freespace 2, the Fallouts, MDK2, Sacrifice (hilarious game btw.) and Colin McRae 2005 (how is that an old game?) and I guess I could buy most of these games on CD too if I wanted to.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy a website pays a little attention to older games and I hope their business goes well enough to make the statement that state of the art graphics aren't everything and older titles can still amaze too, and maybe this will make games get supported longer too, but for me, personally, the site isn't much of an advantage.
EDIT: I just read they are updating the games that don't run on Win-XP upwards to be compatible with newer OSes. Now that's something!
http://www.gog.com/en/intro
I have Freespace 2, the Fallouts, MDK2, Sacrifice (hilarious game btw.) and Colin McRae 2005 (how is that an old game?) and I guess I could buy most of these games on CD too if I wanted to.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy a website pays a little attention to older games and I hope their business goes well enough to make the statement that state of the art graphics aren't everything and older titles can still amaze too, and maybe this will make games get supported longer too, but for me, personally, the site isn't much of an advantage.
EDIT: I just read they are updating the games that don't run on Win-XP upwards to be compatible with newer OSes. Now that's something!
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Saw this site earlier, and I'm most excited about Fallout Tactics, as I lost my old disks. That game was just plain awesome.
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Yes, and I can't believe how epically I failed by forgetting to post the link
.And while I get that you have all of the games, you have to remember that unless this company is run by morons, they'll be trying to acquire more games as they go along (and of course, they're updating the games to be compatible with new OSes. If they release a Vista-compatible Vietcong+Fist Alpha I will be VERY happy
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Nice. Hopefully they will add a lot of classics, both well-known and sleeper hits.
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Holy burning monkey fur, this came in like Phoenix Wright in the middle of japanese homicide case. My DVD-drive chew up my old original copy of Fallout 2. Thanks for the info!
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