Hey dudes,

Is there a list of newly released oldies for the site? When going through the New listing, it's hard to see if it's a retro title or an indie one. And I'm really only very invested in the old ones.

C

I don't think you get it.

Good old games was the old name of GoG before they also added new titles. Back then it was like a paid abandowarez site, where the focus of the site was selling long forgotten games.
They're still adding old titles now and then (Like Diablo 1) but I can't find any filter anywhere to track this easily and consistently. I created this thread because I was wondering if there's a filter I missed somewhere, or if there's a tracker website that keeps up with the info.

I'm not interested in any other games on GoG except for old titles.

Use scripts as GOG seems allergic to giving us useful filters.

or
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/where_is_the_option_to_filter_out_games_by_release_date/post2

Good god do we need a new thread like this every day? They can't create old games to release.

Still blows my mind a site known for bringing classics back to the modern market has no real filter to help search for such things

"Is GOG Connect Dead?"
"Why is game I'm playing but not mentioning in my post because Galaxy just dumps me into General discussion on the forums not working?"
"Wanna buy some shoes?"
"Looking for love beneath the drain of your bathtub?"

...and the list grows ever larger.

^Lol, this. Sure? Think they have their top men on it. ;-)

To be fair, as tiring as the same old threads are, so are people not properly reading the OPs and jumping to conclusions. This thread is not a rant, complaint or wishful thinking, it's a perfectly valid question about the functionality of the GOG website.

Sadly, I think there is no satisfying answer to it, since JMich stopped to track the good old releases, and while Mrkgnao's MaGog search engine would provide the relevant filters, it's currently in Legacy Mode, ignoring games added after 31/12/2017. :/

Actually Legacy Mode was changed in July to a moving cutoff date, staying about a year back, moved roughly month by month manually.

Yes, but old games will run out eventually, and not all new games are bad.....by shutting yourself to one period in time you are potentially missing out on quite a bit.

I used to be the same way to some extent then I removed the "my era is the best era" mindset as best I could and opened myself up to all the possibilities to be had.

(Although the post below is a workaround and seems to be functional, if you still desire such)
================== There ya go op....plenty of good old game goodness.

I do indeed get it, I am fully aware of the name change. GOG was never in any way and abandonwarez site. It has always been a site to legally buy games, and whilst the aim initially was to make older games run on more modern systems, those games that are not in legal hell (or would actually make some money) have been released. They changed their name because, to get more customers in and to keep releases going, they had to include newer titles as the available older ones were becoming difficult. The link I provided shows games by release date.
Again though, good, old, and game are all subjective. To some, and old game might be from 2000, for others it might be from the 1970s. Game is subjective as personally I don’t consider VNs to be games for example. Good is very subjective. So perhaps start by putting some criteria on what it is exactly you want, then you can have a look at these kind of pages for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1990_video_games

All I can tell from your post is that possibly you are talking about the 90s, and possibly isometric arpgs, if so:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_role-playing_video_games:_1990_to_1991

The complaints in the OP is not valid or reasonable at all.

The original poster says it's "hard" to know if a game is "retro" or not, but no, it actually isn't. All he has to do is look at the Release Date near the top of any game's store page, which lists when it was originally published. So the OP is complaining about a problem that either doesn't exist, or has already been solved.

And there is no such thing as a sensible way to define what an "old" game is or isn't.

And even if there was, then should GOG waste its money paying employees constantly to monitor its whole library in order manually to move games from the "new" to "old" category once formerly-new games become "old"?

Doing things like that would be a disaster akin to the 10th Anniversary "site re-design."

I'm pretty sure that the OP is quite reasonable here. All the OP wants (I assume) is a list that filters games by their original release date so that you can search for games originally released in the 80ies or 90ies. That really shouldn't be too hard for GOG to create such a list.