Joseph_Grey:

Joseph_Grey:

blueGretsch: Last year alone they released lots of good old games:
BloodRayne: Terminal Cut

Starkrun: Between 2000 and 2009 there are Pentium 4 games in the catalog.

Joseph_Grey: Simply put, the 90s was an age of creativity, not marketing, they had to finish a game and sell it whole, no eternal Alphas, no newcomers saying 'we can make money doing this! Do what you did again! Put it on loop!' vision, imagination... You know, like Morrowind... Its old, clunky, but it has soul, because the people who dreamt it up had vision, they were constrained by technology, thats the only reason it was limited. Skyrim on the other hand... 'Make it stupid simpletons!!! ~Todd Howard trying to copy paste what people loved about the older titles...

Joseph_Grey: What the h*ll? I came here expecting things in league with Ceasar 3, Stronghold 2, Lords of the Realm 2, Fragile Allegiance, Total Annihilation, COMMAND AND CONQUER!!!

Narushima: Sort by oldest, Einstein: https://www.gog.com/games?page=1&sort=release_asc
Kids these days, you really have to tell them everything. In my day, we knew how to use a website!
(See, it's easy being a condescending prick)

Starkrun: For unique games i would say:
ELEX

Gearmos: You can't find a higher quantity/quality of old games in any other shop. It's as simple as that.

And while it is true that they no longer sell only old games, having a shop with good, more modern games is still good for users. And for GOG, because selling only old games could have ended up stagnating the shop.

fr33kSh0w2012: Yes I do and I'm 37 In the year 2000 I was 17 (and in much better shape because of my age back then) do you have a problem with that considering I was born in 1983

blueGretsch: Last year alone they released lots of good old games: Freedom Fighters, Silverfall Complete, Machiavelli the Prince, Les Manley Bundle, Return of the Phantom, Timequest, Last Rites, Battle Engine Aquila, BloodRayne: Terminal Cut, Powerslave, Bloodwych, TrickStyle, Alien Earth, The Dark Heart of Uukrul, Emperor of the Fading Suns, Ankh 2 & 3, Super Huey III, Crystal Caves HD, METAL GEAR SOLID 1 & 2, METAL GEAR, Konami Collector's Series: Castlevania & Contra, Panzer Dragoon, Drakensang, Deadly Dozen Pacific Theater, Cyclemania, HeXen collection, Zephyr, Planet's Edge: The Point of no Return, A Vampyre Story, and so on. Sure, few of them are strategy games, but I'd say GOG adds quite a lot of new old games to their store.

PixelBoy: That game is less than two months old, even though the cutoff point for old is undefined, I think that is simply too new. Strictly speaking it is last year's release though, so I guess from a certain point of view it is already one year old.

Darvond: You know what, every time I read your posts, I had a strong urge to go grab a newspaper, roll it up, and give you disciplining.

Your posts are filled with such useless utter embellishment & misstatement that I'm surprised you can figure to wear clothes; given that you must constantly question your state of being.

There are enough old games here that if you played every game from Akalabeth to Rayman 3, you would be occupied for a considerable time.

If you're wondering why games from a certain era are missing, look no further than Interstate 76. It runs better in Wine than GOG's targeted systems and has been a hairy nightmare for most customers.

With Glide, Voodoo 3D, and other graphical APIs being black box deep magic that most people aren't even willing to try and investigate, that neatly clears out a whole subset of games. Leaving OpenGL, DirectX, and Software Rendering.

OpenGL is mostly fine, DirectX has slowly been pulling compatability out for older things, and Software rendering was never stable in the first place.

Now mix that with the fresh hell that was coding for systems in the 1990s. So you've got a broad spectrum of targets. Win32x, NT, hybrid coding and other things. Some people were still making 16 bit installer stubs way late into the game. So not only do you have graphical APIs that are MIA, but dependencies, and just simple parts of the kernel along other hooks that do not exist any longer.

Imagine being told to go to a building that was demolished 5 years ago, pick up a form that stopped being printed 10 years ago, and instructed to fill the form in a dead language, and to submit it to an association that closed shop 15 years ago.

And that's not even starting on the barest edge of the hell that is licensing these games again.

Sports games with licensed likenesses? Forget it. Music made by a recording label instead of in house? Yeah, that's not happening. Actual cars? Nope. Sponsorships/appearance of actual products? A tricky minefield.

I'm sure there's people who'd love to play the Papyrus Design Group's Nascar Racing series again, but the effort it'd take to strip all the branding out would not be worth it, since then it'd no longer be NASCAR. Doyle Crumplehat The Third drifting around the Dayton 321 track in his Gourd stock car just doesn't have the same ring.

And sure, you could suggest, just "Go into the assets and scrub those", but Please, this isn't Frogger. The tools to do such things are often lost to time, or proprietary secrets locked in some disused closet if the drives containing them weren't smashed at a recyclers. And that's even if the hardware required to run them anymore even still exists. Do you know where I can get my hands on an SGI Graphics Workstation running Irix with the specific environmental variables installed to make Mario?

It can get that specific.

And then there's ownership.

DO you know who owns the rights to Re-Volt? It isn't WeGo Interactive. They're dead as far as I can tell. What happened when the company went bust? Do you want to try and track down financial records in South Korean?

Or how about this? Who currently owns Commander Keen? So let's see, it isn't in the hands of 3D Realms or ID. The original creator doesn't own it either. Bethesda put out that awful insult of a game on mobile, BUT WAIT Bethesda Softworks are a subsidiary of Zenimax Media, which itself has been purchased by Microsoft, but that agreement may include the shedding of dead properties.

So you can quickly see how complicated it can get.

Dark_art_: FTFYDark_art_: There are plenty of good games made in the 2010's, did you consider you may be looking at the wrong titles? If you want some recomendations, just ask politely
Nothing wrong with liking old stuff though.

Narushima: Sort by oldest, Einstein: https://www.gog.com/games?page=1&sort=release_asc
Kids these days, you really have to tell them everything. In my day, we knew how to use a website!
(See, it's easy being a condescending prick)

Orkhepaj: he just sounds like an old whineo , i would ignore :P

Joseph_Grey: Again, I come into an ice cream shop titled 'all about strawberries' and here you are, telling me that strawberries are bad... But somehow im abusive? Somehow not just accepting anything else is wrong? I dont respect you, because you cant use sense... I dont want shit filled micro transactions, I want a complete game, that was made with heart, with creativity, not a cheap copy of that...

PixelBoy: That game is less than two months old, even though the cutoff point for old is undefined, I think that is simply too new. Strictly speaking it is last year's release though, so I guess from a certain point of view it is already one year old.