I dunno if you'd like GTA5... But I own a CD Copy of GTA5, I can fully Install GTA5 from my CD no issues, but what GTA5 also offers, is I also have a Digital Download Option on the Rockstar Website... No matter which version I use, I get all the Latest Updates right there with the Game Install, so I don't have to worry about Long Installs... But with GTA5 what I like about it, is that I get an Option to Choose CD or Digital... & that is why I dunno if you'll like GTA5, or you might like it... I do not play GTA5 through STEAM, I play it through Social Club by Rockstar, but I also had Social Club so that I could like GTA5 on PC with my GTA5 on PS3, & that was mainly the only reason... & for the Cool Clubs, =D Final Fantasy VII Hi-Res PC Edition is a Remasterd PS1 Game made for PC it has MOD's It has 4 CD's, & still works even on Windows 10... =D Though, it's not HD, & does not have CHEATS... oO
I don't see steam going out of business for atleast next 10 years thats like playstation and xbox shuting down extremely low chance of it unless the apocalypse happens lol
Steam versus EPIC actually DOES matter....to those of us on Linux. GOG has Linux titles and lots of support for DOSBox and WINE. Steam has Proton and has caused order of magnitude levels of development pushing Linux gaming forward. EPIC has : "You're on Linux? Here's a big cup of go fuck yourself." Not only does EPIC not support Linux, it actively blocks developers from supporting it by locking them into exclusives on their platform. On Steam a game played via Proton counts as a LInux sale and reflects Linux user base numbers which are now growing thanks in large part to Valve's investment in the platform. EPIC is now in the way of Linux growing it's userbase when we were looking at matching or even surpassing Apple's numbers in around five years.
totally agree with u! as a sidenote, still waiting for a gog gnu + linux launcher.... :/ most requested thing for gog i think, but hey it's optional... and it's not like they throw a brick at u if u want to run the game on gnu + linux or the dev releases the game on gnu + linux, like epic does! gosh i hope vulkan and gnu + linux gaming takes off and hits critical mass, so we can get rid of the microsoft infestation in our game systems (at least mine still running win7... :/ )
the annoying part is also, that i can't imagine money being an issue AT ALL! for gog to create a gnu + linux launcher, they run a 30% cut platform (if i remember right) and they released massive hits on their own games site and they are almost the only option for DRM free games. so the question is why not spend that little money to give us a gnu + linux optional launcher? that's what i just don't get. it would like valve saying, they can't make halflife 3, because it would cost to much :D
start a fund for a company, to provide sth. they should provide and have enough money easily to provide.... eh not sth. i would suggest ever, gog could work with the community and run the whole launcher as libre software. i mean only the user has to be verified through logins to allow all the downloading and functions, so a libre software gnu + linux launcher for gog games, that would be sth. great. but other than that, if gog's incentive is to protect games from being lost and impossible to run an optional gnu + linux launcher should be high on their priority list, if they care at all... i mean at least since the spying cluster fuck, that is windows 10, they should have pushed for it and got it out of the door. i mean hell with microsoft going nuts as they are, u might end up seeing a big ad everytime u launch a gog game or steam game saying "this runs better and is available on the windows store", which uses the worst DRM in the world pretty much UWP. or they completely block any non uwp programs in the future like they already do with windows 10s (s stands for shit i'm pretty sure). that disconnect in gog's "mind" of "own your game, but don't worry if u don't own your operating system at all...." doesn't make any sense to me :/ also they have a macosx version, so they can clearly support multiple operating systems already, with apple of course throwing a lot more stones at developers, than gnu + linux does.
Very Honorable! GOG being DRM free and, as far as I know, launcher-free, is the absolute best thing for the PC gamer. Somehow people "grew to accept" Steam, which I find strange. Everyone hated Steam when it first came out, it was perceived as "holding your games ransom" back in the early 2000's. I personally had to keep my system ram usage really low, so my Windows XP startup ram usage was 64MB, running crap in the background would just tank my game.
You can usually download a modified executable to launch games without steam and its perfectly legal as long as you don't distribute it to friends or online. Some mod patches for games make it run without steam accidentally. a good example is the unofficial pc fix for vice city
Also If steam ever shut down they would either have to reimburse all of the players everything they ever bought or update every game to have no steam drm
Still hoping for the Day GOG brings back No One Lives Forever 1 and 2, Star Trek Elite Force I and II, Oni, Wolfenstein 2009, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow. All of those would be instant buys for me. Screw the Epic exclusives.
Any gamer should start with the older games like Mario, Zelda, Sonic, Megaman, those 2D sidescroller fighter jet games, those 2d RPG games, Vikings (a wonderful action game) ... I will add Cuphead despite it being a young game, it has that oldschool style. Any game developer should start with making games like that. Start in 2D, keep it simple, then expand what you have learned to the 3rd dimension. The gamer can learn what separates good gameplay from only show but little gameplay. It was easier back then to make good gameplay, simply because the games were easier in certain ways. Less degress of freedom makes it easier to be creative.
I use steam because it's easy. I use GOG for my favourite games, the ones you can play for years on end, or older games that were fun, they have also had a few exclusives I have bought as well. It's more for the fact that the games I get on GOG I will always have a hard copy of these favourite games.
I was reluctant at first to use GoG but realized the potential of the DRM free format as a guarantee my continued use of older titles. I didn't mind repurchasing titles I already owned on disk simply because of the difficulty of getting to work on newer hardware. I really like the connect feature on GoG. I've been able to increase my library to 100+ titles, compared to my 600+ on Steam (Humble Bundle Yeah).
🙂 chk their newsletters, they give games away periodically throughout the year, also go to their Free Game section, u can download 'Cayne' rite now 💿😍💿 Also the Summer Sale is approaching so have some money ready, just dont forget to download the games because if you dont hold it you dont own it ✌😏💿💿💿
I never knew GOG library was this awesome. I guess I have to start using this launcher now, since I haven't found anything interesting on Steam for a year. And it's CDPR!
🙂 yes, u dont even have to use their launcher, you get access to the game all by itself, its already precracked and ready to download and install, once downloaded u never need the internet ever, you can then deploy it to all ur computers in the house without internet as well, its a beautiful thing, its perfect for computers in a post apocalyptic senario 💿😍💿
To be fair, Steam has almost everything that Gog does, only all those titles are obscured by the big titles put on steam. But gog has fan patches and the like, so either way old games are better on gog
Bioshock is really one of those magical games ever made. It shows you how very good story, art direction, atmospheric design, memorable characters and sound combine all together in one packet can create something special. The spirit of this game is timeless...
I think I have over 500 GOG games :) They are indeed great, but I do notice that they have a lot of modern games recently and the DOS releases have slowed down heaps. I also wish that they would make available the original versions, so we can run them on Retro PCs, especially Windows 95/98 games are often broken because they hacked them to work on modern Windows. But all in all, great platform and I will keep buying from them.
I watched your video on how to “unhack” games to get them to run on Win98 before I started this channel. I really enjoyed the performance tuning videos you’ve done for games like Tomb Raider as well. Keep up the great work my friend :)
@@TheGoodOldGamer Ah yes, that was a while ago. The DOSBox games are the best, pretty much all can be made to work on a DOS PC, but often it's a bit of work. Like having to covert compressed audio files to WAV and then building a mixed mode CD image. Early windows games are much better worse, many just do not work using odd DLL files and cracked EXE files...
@@philscomputerlab I've found old windows games, as long as you can install them, seem to work well as long as you use nGlide or dgVoodoo2 (dgVoodoo is needed for AvP 2.) Dosbox works great, but I feel that most of the time Vsync doesn't work. As I mentioned in this video, a lot of games were meant to play at add framerates compared to modern monitors, and a stable VSync option is really needed. I suppose Freesync with LFC would work, but I haven't tested that myself.
😊 hes rite, thats why i always say to browse ebay every week and see what old school retail game discs are available, sometimes its the better option, plus its fun trying to figure out how to get them running on modern hardware, then making a Post on how u got it working 💿😍💿
@@MrSamadolfo Yes so true. I do have a few games on disc, like Half-Life and others. I just prefer the digital format for what I do, which is more testing games than actually playing them.
GOG best place to purchase games. Even games I have on Steam, I am purchasing them on GOG when they go on sale. That way they are my games! Like your plan to cover some of the older games. I will enjoy watching.
@@Malus1531 Yea that's right. The installers work on XP and higher, GOG Galaxy AFAIK stopped working on XP and maybe Vista, so 7 and higher. Maybe half of the GOG Windows 98 games, actually work on Windows 98, and pretty much all DOSBox games work on real DOS. But some games use Scumm VM and, like with 7th guest, they don't include the DOS version...
🙂 yes gog summer sale is approaching, so get ready, just remember to download the games because if u dont hold it you dont own it ✌😏💿💿💿 I recommend deploying Windows 7 32bit & 64bit on separate hard drives on the same desktop computer, some of the retail discs need 32bit to run the installer, maybe even to run the game 💿🙂💿
I recently discovered that you don't actually own the games that you "buy" from Steam, it's more like you're buying a license to play them. I started buying the games that I wanted from GOG and it's pretty neat that you can download the offline installers from the game and they don't depend on the GOG client, and also many games come with extras like ost, manuals, maps, etc that you can also download and have
Gaming since my first nintendo in 1989. Never gave GOG a shot until today and man... I felt like crying when i saw some of the games i grew up playing on my old 486 pc. Games that didnt run the best too. Police quest descent tie fighter commandos myst doom day of the tentacle etc. I have over 200 dollars worth of old games in my cart (38 games) plus arena and daggerfall are free! Im about to bite the bullet since I know Ill own them forever and Ill never have to just think of them as distant memories again. Im so damn grateful for this service.
Almost two years after this video's release and GOG is even better now: Control, Prey, Wolfenstein The New Order, Horizon Zero Dawn, Fallout New Vegas, The Outer Worlds, Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2, Metro Exodus, Pathologic 2, Bioshock Infinite, the list of more recent and all-time great games available through GOG goes on and on!!!
Keep meaning to check out GOG, this has just given me the kick in the butt I needed. Checking out some of those older titles seems like a good plan, cause I for one is fed up to the back teeyh with the BS we keep getting fed by most of the AAA companies lately.
I agree that GOG is definitely the best alternative to Steam and they do it right when it comes to competing with DRM free games and pro consumer policies, but GOG need to add Linux support for GOG Galaxy; Valve are way ahead on this front.
I just watched that video about GoG and I have to say WoW, being Polish it makes kind of proud of them :P looks like I will be moving to GoG from now on :)
Awesome video addressing my favorite games platform! I agree 100% that this is the closest we can get to the golden era of physical, big box gaming. Plus, I still love CD Projekt, I really don't care what the haters say. They're still among the most consumer-friendly companies in the industry and GOG is just outright my main games platform. If GOG were to start selling wallet cards in stores like Steam does, I'd literally ONLY shop on GOG unless a specific game wasn't on there. Long live GOG, long live DRM-free!
A game I love from GOG is Flatout. Its a funny but slightly challenging game and for those that have not played it you can just pick it up and play even if you only have few minutes to spare. I am looking forward to your upcoming videos on GOG.
Finally someone talks about GOG. Please also do a price comparison cus i know some games are more expensive on GOG than on steam but i still bought it on gog cus of the DRM free!
Yes, Man, I was just thinking I really should build my GOG library up oppose to STEAM, Uplay, origins ...etc. Yes, I really, really appreciate your technical analysis, but I think said this b4, one of the main reasons I came across your channel was because I was looking for reviews & suggestions for older & retro games since I didn't get to experience a lot of the older PC games when I was younger for various personal & family reasons & also occasionally i would have some sort of console. But Thanks for all the vids u have done so far & for which ever way u decided to move this channel. I appreciate the effort & quality.
I've 38 games from Gog and simply don't go anyway else. I get to keep the software I've downloaded without fear of being locked out should there be no authentication. Very happy to support them and I don't go near Steam etc
as a GOG user, I totally agree. P.S. I am a gamer since Atari 2600 and 80s... also, developing a Civ like video game in a retro style as a video game developer.
GOG is great, but I do wish they were a bit more supportive of Linux. I'd love to see them bring their GOG Galaxy launcher to Linux and implement Steam's Proton compatibility layer. Since Proton is open source, I'm sure Valve would not mind them using it to make Windows games available on GOG playable on Linux
@@snetmotnosrorb3946 I suppose. Thankfully games bought on GOG don't require the use of a launcher, so they work fine. But for modern releases there, the lack of a launcher means the user has to update the games manually
Recently played Star Wars Racer and Heroes 3 on GOG and I ended up having more fun with them than any game (sans Hollow Knight) I've played in a long time.
I was once watching one of my favorite Market Analysts, and he said: "The freemarket does work better than most realize in correcting for lazy companies. Ask yourself, what company was the most powerful in the world 100 years ago and still is? None. All companies fall eventually." He's right - doesn't matter the industry. No company stays on top forever, and most die within ~50 years. Food for thought when it comes to a 100% digital gaming world....
Quite inaccurate - even though I get the general idea of why he would say that. However, there are companies that truly ARE too big to fail. Think late 19th-early 20th century Steel + Oil. They are the Carnegies, Vanderbilts and Rotschilds of the world. Post-Versailles German inter-war economic miracle ? No such thing. Those companies are still around in more forms than you know. Anyways, this is video games, so yeah, it's pretty irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
@@gorana.37 And yet they aren't as powerful as Amazon, Google, or Facebook. They are still rich companies, but nowhere near the insane wealth they were at in the gilded age. Oh, and A LOT of those old Baron companies no longer exist. 100 years from now Amazon will likely still be a rich company, but some other company will be richer that didn't exist before.
1400 games on Steam. GOG is the only alternative I would recommend. To those saying, what if Steam goes down, well what if your CD breaks, get scratched, mold, etc. What if GOG goes down? How long will your HDD/SDD will last before you lose your games. Etc. Nothing last forever, and when it comes to digital content you will never own anything, because is digital.
And I just subscribed due to this video. GOG is the best. When ever I am feeling nostalgic, I install which ever game from GOG and away I go. Best game service by a mile imo. Screw EPIC.
I have 822 games on GOG.com. It's a solid platform Lots of game devs though don't put their games on the platform. I like indi games the most and I keep browsing the steam forums and am always asking a game I'm spying, asking "GOG version?" all the time.
I bought an X5650 workstation which came with 8GB ram, Windows 10, WD 500GB HDD.. For $150.. XFX RX 580 8GB =$120 Crucial 500GB SSD =$60 2x2GB DDR3 ECC=$15 Rosewill 600w PSU=$35 Arctic 120mm front fan=$7 So that's $387 in total, for a pc which runs absolutely everything at 1080p, Witcher 3 ultra at 70+ fps (4k 40-50fps), Apex Legends high at 90+, GTA 4 at 4k max 50fps, GTA 5 1080p smooth locked 60fps max settings. For some reason, the SSD made a massive difference in the frame rate for all games, not just load times. The Western Digital Blue HDD seems to run slow, but it could just be Windows 10, since I have a laptop version of the same drive running Windows 7 with no issue.
I shop with gog as much as possible because they're DRM free. I'm a truck driver without internet access and after a week or two without connecting I can't play games on steam. "Need to be connected to internet for initial start" even though it isn't my first time booting up the game and I've played it since updating. Gog just let's you play without any of that bullshit. I love CDPR they're a fucking amazing company that values their consumer base and I support them as much as I can. I hope GOG continues getting videos recognizing how great the platform is
i use to buy games on sale on both client,the only thing stick me on steam is my TV got steam APP and i can play with friends games like castle crasher on big screen,but all u said is true GOG is like u own something at least :P happy to find you sub now :)
Podracer is that its name? It wasn't a perfect game(the fan remake) but he/she can make it better. The idea was awesome. Idk about the original game tho. Looks to be worth a search
Looking at older games really is the key to a satisfying budget gaming experience. Old games generally play just great on potatoes. So if you're always playing games that are at least 2 or 3 years old, you get them all dirt cheap and your cheap budget PC will play them as well as the people who spent $3000+ on the latest gaming hardware when they were new. It's rare for me to pay more than $10-15 for a game and a lot of my "backlog" are just replacements for the disk versions that I picked up on sale for $1-5 each. So I could definitely see GoG being viable as the only game store you use. Personally I use Steam for everything, but I can see the appeal.
Made an account to get Beneath A Steel Sky for free, found another few free as well. Every so often they give a free gift! Started spending some many here and there - really great sales! These people are some of the few that are gamer-centered site. I’m happy to support them. Proud owner of 176 games.
I guess the steam version of fallout new Vegas uses 2gb of ram and you can download a mod to patch the game to use 4gb but gog’s version already uses 4gb or ram
Don't forget to mention Mods! Many mods make these older games look like next gen, or make it even more fun. Brutal Doom mod, Quake II XP Mod, The Quake I Darkplaces or Epsilon mods. And of course Reshade or Sweetfx, to give your games more color vibrance and detail! Sometimes Reshade puts these "Enhanced Editions" or "Remasters" to shame.
Huge fan of GOG. My personal "must have" games list includes Alpha Centuri, Stronghold, and Railroad Tycoon II. Alpha Centuri remains one of the best games of all time and Stronghold looks amazing with the HD upgrade. All hail GOG!!!
I like how i started looking for ways to play a child hood game i played on my grandmas computer (game was croc) to now looking into retro pc games in a matter of 30 minutes. Im noq going to be using gog instead of steam, because i dont have as good of internet access as most of the world, and this would help me out greatly. This seems to be a site based around the idea of archiving everything game related that is pretty much forgotten on the internet from a really cool era.
Just been looking through listening the GOG list while listening to you & noticed they have Bubsy & Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway, damn now i need to save more money
Too bad I ignored GoG for a long time and only cared about truly owning my games recently. 95% of my games are on steam, but now when I want a game, I always check to see if it's on GoG.
There can be only one, may it be McLeod, The Highlander. Sorry I had to do it when you put a line like, there can be only one well I'm going to go to Highlander, lol.
Thanks for pointing this out man, so many do not know about GoG. Its where I am starting to buy my games these days considering that 1) there is not a lot going on currently that makes me want to spend and 2) there are so many good experiences on that list of games just waiting to be discovered and or replayed and 3) the launcher mess going on. I do not want or need more launchers. With GoG you can install and not need the launcher again if you want. You can miss out on patches this way sometimes but hey its a completely DRM free way to basically own your game anymore.
GOG Connect - occasional free games from your steam account. Also have a look at the Brave Browser. Built-in privacy and adblocker which can pay content creators for views regardless of adverts :) I would post a referral link, but I imagine it would just be filtered out.
Some of us are (much) older than 20 years (i'm 30ish) and there's quite a lot of (old) games on GOG I never new of when they came out (fallout, system shock, Baldur's Gate (/D&D games), hexen/heretic, hitman, thief, Age of wonder, anno, deus ex, TES). Guess what games series I now have .... And almost 900 games on GOG (mix of new/old).
nice to hear what you said. i love older games. i buy many many games from GOG i have over 60+ games and 50+ more to buy. i find many games i never heard of it and it so good. they get a charm that new games dont have today
When I last went onto GOG a month or two ago my main search was for PowerSlide. I used to have a cd-rom of it but I have no clue where it vanished to over the years. Ahhh, the days of playing with others over Heat.net for a post-apocalyptic race. At least I still have the jewel case for it. :P Eventually, I'll get myself to buy something from there, $6.00 isn't too bad for a classic. Especially for something you actually get to keep. :)
🙂 subscribe to gog, they have a few games in their FREE section, plus they give away games temporarily but u have to be subscribed to the newsletter so u know when its free so u can login and add the game to ur library 💿😍💿
My best experience being in GOG.COM is that I can download the games on my android phone in the gym while I work out and then install the games at home (windows and Linux versions) since the gym has faster wifi internet, at home I only got up to 1mbps internet speed. Steam and GOG.COM should team up in the future. Nice video btw and more power.
Anyone else liked the good, old and somewhat underrated Metal Fatigue? Regarding GoG - what I somewhat miss are the social platform aspect of Steam - with the dedicated forums for each game holding quite a lot of nice info. Also, while I don't care about the achievements themselves, I do use the info they contain to, for example, explore new ways of playing something like a TW game - I usually develop a "best set of strategies" for me and tend to stick to them, while having to do something extra often results in finding something I simply wouldn't think about. Would be nice if due to pressure from Epis Store, Steam and GoG could some form of mutually beneficient partnership
@@Malus1531 Yeah, something along the line: What, Heroes Chronicles all chapters on sale? But I still have the CDs for it, but it's so cheap... Hahahaha
They are getting new and aaa games now. Gog is the only pro gamer platform offering drm free. No required online connections, no servers down, but with all of the advantages of steam with the galaxy client (the client is optional and not required, it gives the same features as steam like friends, acheivements, overlay, ect...). You buy it, you own it. As they are getting bigger theyre getting many of the new releases like horizon zero dawn. I highly recommend buying on gog first always, and possibly waiting a bit if you can until they release the game youre looking for there
I actually learnt to build pc's so I could afford to play HL2. I built this one in 2014, upgraded to rx 480 2016.. Now I cant see anything games wise worth changing it for.
You can play all old C&C games as well as some really cool mods and fan expansions at cncnet dot org. Works on all modern OSs including Mac and Linux. Welcome to our small but dedicated community :) In any case C&C Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert and Tiberian Sun are freeware since 2007, 2008 and 2010 respectively, so you can get them anywhere completely legal. You need a LAN patch by by Scorpio9a to make the OG versions work beyond XP, as they natively use the ancient IPX protocol. understorm dot net is gone, but there are mirrors and Wayback machine.
omg the Gothic series are in there. I really suggest you guys check it out. One of my favourite RPGs. In Europe it used to be quite a big deal in some countries. (PS: It's very hardcore)
GOG stands for "Good old Games", which means the site has many old games from the 1990s to early 2000s. Yet it has many games from present day. What gives? Maybe in the future when these games becomes old, it makes sense.
I ran across GOG looking for Diablo 1 and have wanted to learn info about the website before buying games on it. Thanks to this video I plan to hop over and "Return to the town of Tristram." Once more. The library of games is impresssive and if they all work on modern pc's then that makes me a very VERY happy gamer. I love steam... but I miss my classics.. or rather classics that dont take funnny methods to make work. If i can just go, buy Diablo, and then PLAY diablo.. then ill be happy.
There are so amazing games that don't require crazy hardware, but they do if you want to use a lot of mods. Like Skyrim that came out in 2011 and a lot of what you can think of it would run on. But if you add 50 mods and some of the REALLY demanding suddenly it is one of the most intensive games full stop. Minecraft is another great example. It can hectically run on the pi 4(look it up), but also if you have 30 or 40 mods it can be really intensive, but arguably really worth it. If you fall in love with mods for a certain game you will probably need more powerful hardware. But yes most great games have a fantastic base experience even if mods are available, but that doesn't mean its never a factor.
It needs support but support like this? No way. If that's the case i would never buy the game. That's anti consumer. Do you know what's GOG's problem? Not enough advertisement if there's in the first place.
to play devils advocate: gog STILL hasn't put out a gnu + linux version of their launcher, which people asked for for ages. however the launcher is optional of course. and the downsides of gog vs steam: gog version doesn't have most modding options, that are connected to steam. but that all is nothing for the price of actually owning the games and in many cases with new denuvo cancer actually gaining performance... as drm free versions run a bit better. or a lot better in some cases....
if i had a choice i think it would be gog... gog gives you substantially more control by having the game installer on your machine and not requiring a service app (steam) to run the game in single player
I think you should do video lik this, and your right GOG is great I own witcher 3. Bioshock is a fantastic game that stands the test of time but I only own that on steam I would buy it on gog though as well as well as both Witcher 1 and 2.
I'm still waiting for Gog to bring some genuine gaming classics like, Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, Atic Atac, Citadel and Hunchback, how old did you say some players are ? :-D This is a cool channel, thanks :-)
@The Good Old Gamer Chris, don't forget about games like Cuphead. It doesn't need much hardware, it is on GOG and it has that old school charm. Of course you could also play The Whicher 3, Metro and some other AAA games.
5:005:20 fun fact is that some steam games will run without steam by copying the folder some where else and running them from there exe file in the games folder without steam running! have you tried that before? cuz ive done that with alot of them and that ive even backed some up on flash drive ones that have no gog release!
Already a user, but have to admit I'm a bit disappointed with their crysis release. Warcraft 1 will probably play 1 hour to try it out of curiosity (too old and clunky to my taste). But warcraft2, oh boy I used to play as a 6yold and never could finish it. The difficulty curve felt a bit steep for my 6yold self and I knew no word in english. A rematch is in order I say.
thanks for moaster basher. i remember my friend letting me borrow a disk with demos on them. monster basher was one of them. super fun game i forgot all about it. also it had to first duke nukem. great game too
Hello, I know its been 4 years since video released. I do have one question, regarding the 'DRM' that if the company ever fell out of bussiness, won't be a problem, owning your game (which is great). But if they do, I guess the site won't work, thus you won't be able to download your game. So, does this mean, that games you had downloaded on your PC are the once saved, and the rest of your library which gone ? Meaning you would need to backup every game on HDD/SSD, so you would have backup plan, for such case(?)
Blood. There's Blood! I would love to se you play that, or at least talk about. Soldier of Fortune is running on the Quake engine. Since Valve locked out Windows XP, not even offering a rudimentary DRM function, I've ditched them. Since I've ditched Windows completely after 7 and gamed exclusively on PS3 2011-2016 I've not had much incentive to upgrade my PC. Then I felt like taking a break and catch up a bit on the PC. I bought more or less old games for XP. Thankfully I bought mostly physical, as I'm a bit of a collector as well as a bit of a prepper (don't want to be reliant on someone's server to access my games). They are dirt cheap second hand. Now that Steam screwed me over I'm never gonna game anything beyond that on PC again. I'll go full console and buy physical everytime possible.
I bought the original Warcraft 1 and 2 and I saw that you could purchase metal gear solid and metal gear solid 2 and the original mortal Kombat games and Diablo 1 and the first three Rayman games, and other games that I really wanted to play that weren't available on steam that are available here. Instant 10 out of 10 this is the greatest gameing platform ever.
Gog works for me. Never bought a game on Steam and never will. Gamer since 1999 and like owning my games.
I dunno if you'd like GTA5...
But I own a CD Copy of GTA5, I can fully Install GTA5 from my CD no issues,
but what GTA5 also offers, is I also have a Digital Download Option on the Rockstar Website...
No matter which version I use, I get all the Latest Updates right there with the Game Install,
so I don't have to worry about Long Installs... But with GTA5 what I like about it, is that I get an Option
to Choose CD or Digital...
& that is why I dunno if you'll like GTA5, or you might like it...
I do not play GTA5 through STEAM, I play it through Social Club by Rockstar, but I also had Social Club
so that I could like GTA5 on PC with my GTA5 on PS3, & that was mainly the only reason... & for the Cool Clubs, =D
Final Fantasy VII Hi-Res PC Edition is a Remasterd PS1 Game made for PC it has MOD's
It has 4 CD's, & still works even on Windows 10... =D Though, it's not HD, & does not have CHEATS... oO
gog almost only has retro games and indie games, Steam is great for the games that aren't on gog
@@ThePassingVoid nordic who are a decent dev are releasing games on gog when they come out.
I don't see steam going out of business for atleast next 10 years thats like playstation and xbox shuting down extremely low chance of it unless the apocalypse happens lol
Man I miss boxes and game manuals with pretty pictures... I'm old like that
Steam versus EPIC actually DOES matter....to those of us on Linux. GOG has Linux titles and lots of support for DOSBox and WINE. Steam has Proton and has caused order of magnitude levels of development pushing Linux gaming forward. EPIC has : "You're on Linux? Here's a big cup of go fuck yourself."
Not only does EPIC not support Linux, it actively blocks developers from supporting it by locking them into exclusives on their platform. On Steam a game played via Proton counts as a LInux sale and reflects Linux user base numbers which are now growing thanks in large part to Valve's investment in the platform. EPIC is now in the way of Linux growing it's userbase when we were looking at matching or even surpassing Apple's numbers in around five years.
totally agree with u!
as a sidenote, still waiting for a gog gnu + linux launcher.... :/
most requested thing for gog i think, but hey it's optional... and it's not like they throw a brick at u if u want to run the game on gnu + linux or the dev releases the game on gnu + linux, like epic does!
gosh i hope vulkan and gnu + linux gaming takes off and hits critical mass, so we can get rid of the microsoft infestation in our game systems (at least mine still running win7... :/ )
the annoying part is also, that i can't imagine money being an issue AT ALL! for gog to create a gnu + linux launcher, they run a 30% cut platform (if i remember right) and they released massive hits on their own games site and they are almost the only option for DRM free games.
so the question is why not spend that little money to give us a gnu + linux optional launcher?
that's what i just don't get.
it would like valve saying, they can't make halflife 3, because it would cost to much :D
start a fund for a company, to provide sth. they should provide and have enough money easily to provide....
eh not sth. i would suggest ever, gog could work with the community and run the whole launcher as libre software.
i mean only the user has to be verified through logins to allow all the downloading and functions, so a libre software gnu + linux launcher for gog games, that would be sth. great.
but other than that, if gog's incentive is to protect games from being lost and impossible to run an optional gnu + linux launcher should be high on their priority list, if they care at all...
i mean at least since the spying cluster fuck, that is windows 10, they should have pushed for it and got it out of the door.
i mean hell with microsoft going nuts as they are, u might end up seeing a big ad everytime u launch a gog game or steam game saying "this runs better and is available on the windows store", which uses the worst DRM in the world pretty much UWP.
or they completely block any non uwp programs in the future like they already do with windows 10s (s stands for shit i'm pretty sure).
that disconnect in gog's "mind" of "own your game, but don't worry if u don't own your operating system at all...." doesn't make any sense to me :/
also they have a macosx version, so they can clearly support multiple operating systems already, with apple of course throwing a lot more stones at developers, than gnu + linux does.
🙂 neat, i didnt know that
@Vercusgames ☺️ u mean like House Party
Very Honorable! GOG being DRM free and, as far as I know, launcher-free, is the absolute best thing for the PC gamer.
Somehow people "grew to accept" Steam, which I find strange. Everyone hated Steam when it first came out, it was perceived as "holding your games ransom" back in the early 2000's.
I personally had to keep my system ram usage really low, so my Windows XP startup ram usage was 64MB, running crap in the background would just tank my game.
You can usually download a modified executable to launch games without steam and its perfectly legal as long as you don't distribute it to friends or online. Some mod patches for games make it run without steam accidentally. a good example is the unofficial pc fix for vice city
Also If steam ever shut down they would either have to reimburse all of the players everything they ever bought or update every game to have no steam drm
@@Austin-bc1yh games that have sourceports can also run without steam being activated. Doom, Quake, and Hexen for instance.
Till this day I hate steam, LoL the lack of ISP resources.
Steam’s pretty good…
Preach, brother ! 558 games and counting on GOG, since 2008 !
Talk about a backlog
That's one a week!
233 games since 2016
120 games just bought in GoG in 2020. I seriously think I have an problem, but at least I get to keep my games.
I have around 100 since around December of 2019. That number is only gonna grow larger.
Still hoping for the Day GOG brings back No One Lives Forever 1 and 2, Star Trek Elite Force I and II, Oni, Wolfenstein 2009, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow. All of those would be instant buys for me. Screw the Epic exclusives.
Add in there the Max Payne trilogy, Mass Effect trilogy, Star Trek DS9 The Fallen, Black and White, etc... ;)
I was just about to post that about NOLF and Elite Force. I do have both NOLF on disk but havent tried to install them on win 10 yet.
@@ashdoglsu Do a Google search for "nolfrevival". Until an official release happens, it will have to do.
@@TheGoodOldGamer I was thinking of Black & White too.
Love your taste in video games. Excellent list.
Don't worry, there are still some
I'm one of them. :3
There are dozens of us! Dozens!!
Yes, half life changed how good I thought a game can get.
Any gamer should start with the older games like Mario, Zelda, Sonic, Megaman, those 2D sidescroller fighter jet games, those 2d RPG games, Vikings (a wonderful action game) ...
I will add Cuphead despite it being a young game, it has that oldschool style.
Any game developer should start with making games like that. Start in 2D, keep it simple, then expand what you have learned to the 3rd dimension. The gamer can learn what separates good gameplay from only show but little gameplay. It was easier back then to make good gameplay, simply because the games were easier in certain ways. Less degress of freedom makes it easier to be creative.
I like playing games that are older than me because they are actually fun. Plus I can just mod the game if I think the visuals are bad.
I use steam because it's easy.
I use GOG for my favourite games, the ones you can play for years on end, or older games that were fun, they have also had a few exclusives I have bought as well. It's more for the fact that the games I get on GOG I will always have a hard copy of these favourite games.
joined GOG in 2016. Already have 150 games. Gotta love those sales.
I was reluctant at first to use GoG but realized the potential of the DRM free format as a guarantee my continued use of older titles. I didn't mind repurchasing titles I already owned on disk simply because of the difficulty of getting to work on newer hardware. I really like the connect feature on GoG. I've been able to increase my library to 100+ titles, compared to my 600+ on Steam (Humble Bundle Yeah).
Signed up on GOG right away. Thanks for the tip. They have some of my most favs ever.
🙂 chk their newsletters, they give games away periodically throughout the year, also go to their Free Game section, u can download 'Cayne' rite now 💿😍💿 Also the Summer Sale is approaching so have some money ready, just dont forget to download the games because if you dont hold it you dont own it ✌😏💿💿💿
I never knew GOG library was this awesome. I guess I have to start using this launcher now, since I haven't found anything interesting on Steam for a year. And it's CDPR!
🙂 yes, u dont even have to use their launcher, you get access to the game all by itself, its already precracked and ready to download and install, once downloaded u never need the internet ever, you can then deploy it to all ur computers in the house without internet as well, its a beautiful thing, its perfect for computers in a post apocalyptic senario 💿😍💿
Here's a good documentary on GOG ua-cam.com/video/ffngZOB1U2A/v-deo.html
To be fair, Steam has almost everything that Gog does, only all those titles are obscured by the big titles put on steam. But gog has fan patches and the like, so either way old games are better on gog
Yet it doesn't have Dragon Ball Sparking Zero
Bioshock is really one of those magical games ever made.
It shows you how very good story, art direction, atmospheric design, memorable characters and sound combine all together in one packet can create something special.
The spirit of this game is timeless...
Last gen had quite a few games like that. Few and far between today.
I think I have over 500 GOG games :) They are indeed great, but I do notice that they have a lot of modern games recently and the DOS releases have slowed down heaps. I also wish that they would make available the original versions, so we can run them on Retro PCs, especially Windows 95/98 games are often broken because they hacked them to work on modern Windows. But all in all, great platform and I will keep buying from them.
I watched your video on how to “unhack” games to get them to run on Win98 before I started this channel. I really enjoyed the performance tuning videos you’ve done for games like Tomb Raider as well. Keep up the great work my friend :)
@@TheGoodOldGamer Ah yes, that was a while ago. The DOSBox games are the best, pretty much all can be made to work on a DOS PC, but often it's a bit of work. Like having to covert compressed audio files to WAV and then building a mixed mode CD image. Early windows games are much better worse, many just do not work using odd DLL files and cracked EXE files...
@@philscomputerlab I've found old windows games, as long as you can install them, seem to work well as long as you use nGlide or dgVoodoo2 (dgVoodoo is needed for AvP 2.) Dosbox works great, but I feel that most of the time Vsync doesn't work. As I mentioned in this video, a lot of games were meant to play at add framerates compared to modern monitors, and a stable VSync option is really needed. I suppose Freesync with LFC would work, but I haven't tested that myself.
😊 hes rite, thats why i always say to browse ebay every week and see what old school retail game discs are available, sometimes its the better option, plus its fun trying to figure out how to get them running on modern hardware, then making a Post on how u got it working 💿😍💿
@@MrSamadolfo Yes so true. I do have a few games on disc, like Half-Life and others. I just prefer the digital format for what I do, which is more testing games than actually playing them.
GOG best place to purchase games. Even games I have on Steam, I am purchasing them on GOG when they go on sale. That way they are my games! Like your plan to cover some of the older games. I will enjoy watching.
Same. When Steam stopped working on XP, it really hot home that one day it's all over.
Even a GOG game might not support a really old OS though right?
@@Malus1531 Yea that's right. The installers work on XP and higher, GOG Galaxy AFAIK stopped working on XP and maybe Vista, so 7 and higher. Maybe half of the GOG Windows 98 games, actually work on Windows 98, and pretty much all DOSBox games work on real DOS. But some games use Scumm VM and, like with 7th guest, they don't include the DOS version...
🙂 yes gog summer sale is approaching, so get ready, just remember to download the games because if u dont hold it you dont own it ✌😏💿💿💿
I recommend deploying Windows 7 32bit & 64bit on separate hard drives on the same desktop computer, some of the retail discs need 32bit to run the installer, maybe even to run the game 💿🙂💿
I wished more gaming companies used GOG. Because I really don't want to worry about losing all of my games.
I recently discovered that you don't actually own the games that you "buy" from Steam, it's more like you're buying a license to play them. I started buying the games that I wanted from GOG and it's pretty neat that you can download the offline installers from the game and they don't depend on the GOG client, and also many games come with extras like ost, manuals, maps, etc that you can also download and have
Gaming since my first nintendo in 1989. Never gave GOG a shot until today and man... I felt like crying when i saw some of the games i grew up playing on my old 486 pc. Games that didnt run the best too. Police quest descent tie fighter commandos myst doom day of the tentacle etc. I have over 200 dollars worth of old games in my cart (38 games) plus arena and daggerfall are free! Im about to bite the bullet since I know Ill own them forever and Ill never have to just think of them as distant memories again. Im so damn grateful for this service.
GoG is an awesome platform, it offers a lot of classics.
Impossible to count how many sleepless nights I have spent with Dune 2... Sweet memories from 1994... :)
✌😏 classic worm movie
Hope GOG will continue to exist in the future (this is because of some rumors :/) I'm owner of 124 titles there :)
🙂 download them all now just in case
@@MrSamadolfo how can i
@@Natsumi666 😊 you need alot of hard drives
ua-cam.com/video/ffngZOB1U2A/v-deo.html
Almost two years after this video's release and GOG is even better now: Control, Prey, Wolfenstein The New Order, Horizon Zero Dawn, Fallout New Vegas, The Outer Worlds, Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2, Metro Exodus, Pathologic 2, Bioshock Infinite, the list of more recent and all-time great games available through GOG goes on and on!!!
Prey is GOAT.
Keep meaning to check out GOG, this has just given me the kick in the butt I needed.
Checking out some of those older titles seems like a good plan, cause I for one is fed up to the back teeyh with the BS we keep getting fed by most of the AAA companies lately.
🙂 subscribe, then go to the FREE section and pu a couple of older games anytime u like
I agree that GOG is definitely the best alternative to Steam and they do it right when it comes to competing with DRM free games and pro consumer policies, but GOG need to add Linux support for GOG Galaxy; Valve are way ahead on this front.
I guess that's the price of freedom.
Just use the heroic launcher
I use Sude's tool for linux to get all gog installers locally
I love gog! It’s also cool that you can sync other platforms so that all of your other games bought on Steam, etc, can be shown in your gog library.
I just watched that video about GoG and I have to say WoW, being Polish it makes kind of proud of them :P looks like I will be moving to GoG from now on :)
🙂 yes they are good people, also Techland Dying Light good polanias too 😍
Awesome video addressing my favorite games platform! I agree 100% that this is the closest we can get to the golden era of physical, big box gaming. Plus, I still love CD Projekt, I really don't care what the haters say. They're still among the most consumer-friendly companies in the industry and GOG is just outright my main games platform. If GOG were to start selling wallet cards in stores like Steam does, I'd literally ONLY shop on GOG unless a specific game wasn't on there.
Long live GOG, long live DRM-free!
A game I love from GOG is Flatout. Its a funny but slightly challenging game and for those that have not played it you can just pick it up and play even if you only have few minutes to spare.
I am looking forward to your upcoming videos on GOG.
I’ll have to check it out :)
I buy SNK games at GOG. I grew with arcades.
Finally someone talks about GOG. Please also do a price comparison cus i know some games are more expensive on GOG than on steam but i still bought it on gog cus of the DRM free!
Yes, Man, I was just thinking I really should build my GOG library up oppose to STEAM, Uplay, origins ...etc.
Yes, I really, really appreciate your technical analysis, but I think said this b4, one of the main reasons I came across your channel was because I was looking for reviews & suggestions for older & retro games since I didn't get to experience a lot of the older PC games when I was younger for various personal & family reasons & also occasionally i would have some sort of console.
But Thanks for all the vids u have done so far & for which ever way u decided to move this channel. I appreciate the effort & quality.
🙂 yes hes weird, he cant seem to make up his mind if this is a retro channel, or a channel that hates on intel & invidia hardware 😊 lol
Evil Islands is a true classic, check it out, its like commandos + diablo mix. You can buy it on gog.
I've 38 games from Gog and simply don't go anyway else. I get to keep the software I've downloaded without fear of being locked out should there be no authentication. Very happy to support them and I don't go near Steam etc
as a GOG user, I totally agree.
P.S. I am a gamer since Atari 2600 and 80s...
also, developing a Civ like video game in a retro style as a video game developer.
GOG is my go-to for buying games for sure. Steam is still nice with features like big picture mode but nothing beats owning what you pay for 👍
Tie Fighter WAS the best flight sim out there. They so need to make a newer version of that and X-wing
I just revived Heroes of Might an Magic 4 and Diablo II with a friend recently. Really fun to play, makes me wanna have an HD edition of both games!
Total Annihilation. An RTS game from 1997 that still got an active modding community. :)
GOG is great, but I do wish they were a bit more supportive of Linux. I'd love to see them bring their GOG Galaxy launcher to Linux and implement Steam's Proton compatibility layer. Since Proton is open source, I'm sure Valve would not mind them using it to make Windows games available on GOG playable on Linux
I guess that's the price of freedom.
@@snetmotnosrorb3946 I suppose. Thankfully games bought on GOG don't require the use of a launcher, so they work fine. But for modern releases there, the lack of a launcher means the user has to update the games manually
Thanks for this video,
will be having a look to see what games they have
Recently played Star Wars Racer and Heroes 3 on GOG and I ended up having more fun with them than any game (sans Hollow Knight) I've played in a long time.
I was once watching one of my favorite Market Analysts, and he said: "The freemarket does work better than most realize in correcting for lazy companies. Ask yourself, what company was the most powerful in the world 100 years ago and still is? None. All companies fall eventually."
He's right - doesn't matter the industry. No company stays on top forever, and most die within ~50 years. Food for thought when it comes to a 100% digital gaming world....
Quite inaccurate - even though I get the general idea of why he would say that. However, there are companies that truly ARE too big to fail. Think late 19th-early 20th century Steel + Oil. They are the Carnegies, Vanderbilts and Rotschilds of the world. Post-Versailles German inter-war economic miracle ? No such thing. Those companies are still around in more forms than you know.
Anyways, this is video games, so yeah, it's pretty irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
@@gorana.37 And yet they aren't as powerful as Amazon, Google, or Facebook. They are still rich companies, but nowhere near the insane wealth they were at in the gilded age. Oh, and A LOT of those old Baron companies no longer exist.
100 years from now Amazon will likely still be a rich company, but some other company will be richer that didn't exist before.
🙂 yup, theres an incoming Recession, so yeah expect the Tech Bubble to pop soon, also lots of layoffs as well which has already started
@@MrSamadolfo aged badly. If anything, jobs at high tech companies are paying more than any other time, including inflation
@@tek1645 🙂 oh ok, thx for the heads up
1400 games on Steam. GOG is the only alternative I would recommend. To those saying, what if Steam goes down, well what if your CD breaks, get scratched, mold, etc. What if GOG goes down? How long will your HDD/SDD will last before you lose your games. Etc. Nothing last forever, and when it comes to digital content you will never own anything, because is digital.
And I just subscribed due to this video. GOG is the best. When ever I am feeling nostalgic, I install which ever game from GOG and away I go. Best game service by a mile imo. Screw EPIC.
I have 822 games on GOG.com.
It's a solid platform
Lots of game devs though don't put their games on the platform.
I like indi games the most and I keep browsing the steam forums and am always asking a game I'm spying, asking "GOG version?" all the time.
I bought an X5650 workstation which came with 8GB ram, Windows 10, WD 500GB HDD..
For $150..
XFX RX 580 8GB =$120
Crucial 500GB SSD =$60
2x2GB DDR3 ECC=$15
Rosewill 600w PSU=$35
Arctic 120mm front fan=$7
So that's $387 in total, for a pc which runs absolutely everything at 1080p, Witcher 3 ultra at 70+ fps (4k 40-50fps), Apex Legends high at 90+, GTA 4 at 4k max 50fps, GTA 5 1080p smooth locked 60fps max settings.
For some reason, the SSD made a massive difference in the frame rate for all games, not just load times.
The Western Digital Blue HDD seems to run slow, but it could just be Windows 10, since I have a laptop version of the same drive running Windows 7 with no issue.
Holy smokes, that's dirt cheap! You should get a bit better PSU though. Even second hand Seasonics are better than those budget ones.
You can get dying light on gog as well. Great game.
✌😏 Hell yeah! it should be $20 again this upcoming Summer Sale, for the Enhanced Edition bundled with The Following 💿😍💿
I shop with gog as much as possible because they're DRM free. I'm a truck driver without internet access and after a week or two without connecting I can't play games on steam. "Need to be connected to internet for initial start" even though it isn't my first time booting up the game and I've played it since updating.
Gog just let's you play without any of that bullshit. I love CDPR they're a fucking amazing company that values their consumer base and I support them as much as I can.
I hope GOG continues getting videos recognizing how great the platform is
i use to buy games on sale on both client,the only thing stick me on steam is my TV got steam APP and i can play with friends games like castle crasher on big screen,but all u said is true GOG is like u own something at least :P
happy to find you sub now :)
I found GOG last year when they got Star Wars Episode I Racer. It's a really nice game launcher.
star wars racer, i remember someone made a unreal engine 4 clone of it :)
star wars racer unreal engine 4
Podracer is that its name? It wasn't a perfect game(the fan remake) but he/she can make it better. The idea was awesome. Idk about the original game tho. Looks to be worth a search
Looking at older games really is the key to a satisfying budget gaming experience. Old games generally play just great on potatoes. So if you're always playing games that are at least 2 or 3 years old, you get them all dirt cheap and your cheap budget PC will play them as well as the people who spent $3000+ on the latest gaming hardware when they were new. It's rare for me to pay more than $10-15 for a game and a lot of my "backlog" are just replacements for the disk versions that I picked up on sale for $1-5 each. So I could definitely see GoG being viable as the only game store you use. Personally I use Steam for everything, but I can see the appeal.
Made an account to get Beneath A Steel Sky for free, found another few free as well. Every so often they give a free gift! Started spending some many here and there - really great sales! These people are some of the few that are gamer-centered site. I’m happy to support them. Proud owner of 176 games.
I guess the steam version of fallout new Vegas uses 2gb of ram and you can download a mod to patch the game to use 4gb but gog’s version already uses 4gb or ram
Don't forget to mention Mods! Many mods make these older games look like next gen, or make it even more fun. Brutal Doom mod, Quake II XP Mod, The Quake I Darkplaces or Epsilon mods. And of course Reshade or Sweetfx, to give your games more color vibrance and detail! Sometimes Reshade puts these "Enhanced Editions" or "Remasters" to shame.
✌😏 yup Stalker Mods
Huge fan of GOG. My personal "must have" games list includes Alpha Centuri, Stronghold, and Railroad Tycoon II. Alpha Centuri remains one of the best games of all time and Stronghold looks amazing with the HD upgrade. All hail GOG!!!
I still enjoy going back to my Heretic, Hexen, Descent 1, Descent 2, Quake 2, Quake 3, etc.
A few of my favorite titles of all time.
I like how i started looking for ways to play a child hood game i played on my grandmas computer (game was croc) to now looking into retro pc games in a matter of 30 minutes. Im noq going to be using gog instead of steam, because i dont have as good of internet access as most of the world, and this would help me out greatly. This seems to be a site based around the idea of archiving everything game related that is pretty much forgotten on the internet from a really cool era.
Just been looking through listening the GOG list while listening to you & noticed they have Bubsy & Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway, damn now i need to save more money
🙂 i have the pc retail disc, it works, its plug n play on Windows 7, so yeah get it ✌😏💿💿
Too bad I ignored GoG for a long time and only cared about truly owning my games recently. 95% of my games are on steam, but now when I want a game, I always check to see if it's on GoG.
That Soldier Of Fortune shotgun :)
There can be only one, may it be McLeod, The Highlander. Sorry I had to do it when you put a line like, there can be only one well I'm going to go to Highlander, lol.
Thanks for pointing this out man, so many do not know about GoG. Its where I am starting to buy my games these days considering that 1) there is not a lot going on currently that makes me want to spend and 2) there are so many good experiences on that list of games just waiting to be discovered and or replayed and 3) the launcher mess going on. I do not want or need more launchers. With GoG you can install and not need the launcher again if you want. You can miss out on patches this way sometimes but hey its a completely DRM free way to basically own your game anymore.
GOG Connect - occasional free games from your steam account.
Also have a look at the Brave Browser. Built-in privacy and adblocker which can pay content creators for views regardless of adverts :) I would post a referral link, but I imagine it would just be filtered out.
Some of us are (much) older than 20 years (i'm 30ish) and there's quite a lot of (old) games on GOG I never new of when they came out (fallout, system shock, Baldur's Gate (/D&D games), hexen/heretic, hitman, thief, Age of wonder, anno, deus ex, TES). Guess what games series I now have .... And almost 900 games on GOG (mix of new/old).
nice to hear what you said. i love older games. i buy many many games from GOG i have over 60+ games and 50+ more to buy. i find many games i never heard of it and it so good. they get a charm that new games dont have today
When I last went onto GOG a month or two ago my main search was for PowerSlide. I used to have a cd-rom of it but I have no clue where it vanished to over the years. Ahhh, the days of playing with others over Heat.net for a post-apocalyptic race. At least I still have the jewel case for it. :P
Eventually, I'll get myself to buy something from there, $6.00 isn't too bad for a classic. Especially for something you actually get to keep. :)
🙂 subscribe to gog, they have a few games in their FREE section, plus they give away games temporarily but u have to be subscribed to the newsletter so u know when its free so u can login and add the game to ur library 💿😍💿
My best experience being in GOG.COM is that I can download the games on my android phone in the gym while I work out and then install the games at home (windows and Linux versions) since the gym has faster wifi internet, at home I only got up to 1mbps internet speed. Steam and GOG.COM should team up in the future. Nice video btw and more power.
Lol if steam and gog teamed up. Gog wouldnt be free of drm anymore.
Anyone else liked the good, old and somewhat underrated Metal Fatigue?
Regarding GoG - what I somewhat miss are the social platform aspect of Steam - with the dedicated forums for each game holding quite a lot of nice info. Also, while I don't care about the achievements themselves, I do use the info they contain to, for example, explore new ways of playing something like a TW game - I usually develop a "best set of strategies" for me and tend to stick to them, while having to do something extra often results in finding something I simply wouldn't think about. Would be nice if due to pressure from Epis Store, Steam and GoG could some form of mutually beneficient partnership
GOG had the entire Incredible Machine series on it. Instant-buy, because for some reason, modern laptops don't have built in DISC DRIVES!
Spot on that backlog, I now have around 10k backlog spread around Steam, Epic, uPlay, Origins, etc... -_-"
Jesus. I've been trying to not buy anymore, have enough already to last many years, but sales are always tempting.
@@Malus1531 Yeah, something along the line: What, Heroes Chronicles all chapters on sale? But I still have the CDs for it, but it's so cheap... Hahahaha
They are getting new and aaa games now. Gog is the only pro gamer platform offering drm free. No required online connections, no servers down, but with all of the advantages of steam with the galaxy client (the client is optional and not required, it gives the same features as steam like friends, acheivements, overlay, ect...). You buy it, you own it. As they are getting bigger theyre getting many of the new releases like horizon zero dawn. I highly recommend buying on gog first always, and possibly waiting a bit if you can until they release the game youre looking for there
I actually learnt to build pc's so I could afford to play HL2. I built this one in 2014, upgraded to rx 480 2016.. Now I cant see anything games wise worth changing it for.
i miss Command and Conquer The Ultimate Collection on pc......we use tp play them on land party
I’d wager if Warcraft goes over well C&C will become a priority for them.
You can play all old C&C games as well as some really cool mods and
fan expansions at cncnet dot org. Works on all modern OSs including Mac and Linux. Welcome to our small but dedicated community :)
In any case C&C Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert and Tiberian Sun are
freeware since 2007, 2008 and 2010 respectively, so you can get them
anywhere completely legal. You need a LAN patch by by Scorpio9a to make the OG versions work beyond XP, as they natively use the ancient IPX protocol. understorm dot net is gone, but there are mirrors and Wayback machine.
I like this direction. Would like to hear more about your game server. how,why,the whole process.
To many old windows games listed on GOG as capable of running on windows 10 are unlikely to work!
omg the Gothic series are in there. I really suggest you guys check it out. One of my favourite RPGs. In Europe it used to be quite a big deal in some countries. (PS: It's very hardcore)
GOG stands for "Good old Games", which means the site has many old games from the 1990s to early 2000s. Yet it has many games from present day. What gives?
Maybe in the future when these games becomes old, it makes sense.
Can't wait to play cyberpunk 2077 in the year 2077
Or Top Gear 3000 in the year 3000.
Wait, that is an very old game.
omg Maniac Mansion, I had that game on the NES, and I wrote this before you mentioned it.
I ran across GOG looking for Diablo 1 and have wanted to learn info about the website before buying games on it.
Thanks to this video I plan to hop over and "Return to the town of Tristram." Once more.
The library of games is impresssive and if they all work on modern pc's then that makes me a very VERY happy gamer.
I love steam... but I miss my classics.. or rather classics that dont take funnny methods to make work.
If i can just go, buy Diablo, and then PLAY diablo.. then ill be happy.
There are so amazing games that don't require crazy hardware, but they do if you want to use a lot of mods. Like Skyrim that came out in 2011 and a lot of what you can think of it would run on. But if you add 50 mods and some of the REALLY demanding suddenly it is one of the most intensive games full stop. Minecraft is another great example. It can hectically run on the pi 4(look it up), but also if you have 30 or 40 mods it can be really intensive, but arguably really worth it. If you fall in love with mods for a certain game you will probably need more powerful hardware. But yes most great games have a fantastic base experience even if mods are available, but that doesn't mean its never a factor.
Cyberpunk should've been GOG exclusive on PC
WTF?
as much as i dont like exclusivity i actually agree with you, gog really needs support for what they are doing.
It needs support but support like this? No way. If that's the case i would never buy the game. That's anti consumer.
Do you know what's GOG's problem? Not enough advertisement if there's in the first place.
I am currently undergoing of re-buying my Steam library on GOG. DRM-free games are the future.
to play devils advocate:
gog STILL hasn't put out a gnu + linux version of their launcher, which people asked for for ages.
however the launcher is optional of course.
and the downsides of gog vs steam: gog version doesn't have most modding options, that are connected to steam.
but that all is nothing for the price of actually owning the games and in many cases with new denuvo cancer actually gaining performance... as drm free versions run a bit better.
or a lot better in some cases....
if i had a choice i think it would be gog... gog gives you substantially more control by having the game installer on your machine and not requiring a service app (steam) to run the game in single player
I think you should do video lik this, and your right GOG is great I own witcher 3. Bioshock is a fantastic game that stands the test of time but I only own that on steam I would buy it on gog though as well as well as both Witcher 1 and 2.
😍 yup $20 for the bundle Witcher 1 & 2 & 3 💿😍💿
I'm still waiting for Gog to bring some genuine gaming classics like, Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, Atic Atac, Citadel and Hunchback, how old did you say some players are ? :-D
This is a cool channel, thanks :-)
You clearly have absolutely no idea about those games, a quick google search may help you out.
www.bbcmicrogames.com/superior.html
You remind of Gorillaz studio tour.
@The Good Old Gamer
Chris, don't forget about games like Cuphead. It doesn't need much hardware, it is on GOG and it has that old school charm.
Of course you could also play The Whicher 3, Metro and some other AAA games.
5:00 5:20 fun fact is that some steam games will run without steam by copying the folder some where else and running them from there exe file in the games folder without steam running! have you tried that before? cuz ive done that with alot of them and that ive even backed some up on flash drive ones that have no gog release!
GOG actually doing great work and platform is also cleaner and nice looking🎉
Already a user, but have to admit I'm a bit disappointed with their crysis release. Warcraft 1 will probably play 1 hour to try it out of curiosity (too old and clunky to my taste). But warcraft2, oh boy I used to play as a 6yold and never could finish it. The difficulty curve felt a bit steep for my 6yold self and I knew no word in english. A rematch is in order I say.
Thanks to you I do check GOG often. I do wish / hope they get some newer games because I will not buy the same game twice unless have to.
Not to mention that some games just work that don't work as easily on Steam without workarounds. (Like Fallout 3 due to the windows live issues)
I like the gog games idea. Going to keep my eyes on the channel.
Well I know what i'm sticking with now thank you.
thanks for moaster basher. i remember my friend letting me borrow a disk with demos on them. monster basher was one of them. super fun game i forgot all about it. also it had to first duke nukem. great game too
Hello, I know its been 4 years since video released.
I do have one question, regarding the 'DRM' that if the company ever fell out of bussiness, won't be a problem, owning your game (which is great).
But if they do, I guess the site won't work, thus you won't be able to download your game. So, does this mean, that games you had downloaded on your PC are the once saved, and the rest of your library which gone ?
Meaning you would need to backup every game on HDD/SSD, so you would have backup plan, for such case(?)
Legacy of Kain: soul Reaver series
Mafia 1
Rune
Legacy of kain Blood OMEN 1 is one of the best games i have ever played !
Rune, now that brings back some memories....Only played the demo,but if it's cheap i might pick it up..
Hey Good, you said that you played through Soldier of Fortune, where is your stream of it?
Blood. There's Blood! I would love to se you play that, or at least talk about.
Soldier of Fortune is running on the Quake engine.
Since Valve locked out Windows XP, not even offering a rudimentary DRM function, I've ditched them. Since I've ditched Windows completely after 7 and gamed exclusively on PS3 2011-2016 I've not had much incentive to upgrade my PC. Then I felt like taking a break and catch up a bit on the PC. I bought more or less old games for XP. Thankfully I bought mostly physical, as I'm a bit of a collector as well as a bit of a prepper (don't want to be reliant on someone's server to access my games). They are dirt cheap second hand. Now that Steam screwed me over I'm never gonna game anything beyond that on PC again. I'll go full console and buy physical everytime possible.
Monster Bash! Jeez, that's a long time ago... Reminds me of Commander Keen and the original Duke Nukem platformers. I'm getting old...
I bought the original Warcraft 1 and 2 and I saw that you could purchase metal gear solid and metal gear solid 2 and the original mortal Kombat games and Diablo 1 and the first three Rayman games, and other games that I really wanted to play that weren't available on steam that are available here. Instant 10 out of 10 this is the greatest gameing platform ever.