Hello all, I'm rather new here!

I didn't see a big 'introductions' thread anywhere, so I guess this as a stand-alone is okay to post?

I've been a reader on the GOG forums for such a long time now, but I never got involved (until very recently). It reminds me so heavily of the 'older internet'...forums were a big part of my internet world when I grew up and I love seeing it still alive here! I check the new posts and replies every day, and I really enjoy it here.


I love GOG, and the DRM-free gaming. I haven't used a gaming PC since like 1997 or so, so picking up a Steam Deck and using Heroic Games Launcher is how I play ALL my GOG games (and Amazon, and Epic), and its such an easy thing to do when using that (I love how achievements are logged when using it!)

I'm playing Prey right now (2017's version!), and it's an absolute pleasure to play through. Next up might be Control.

I love Linux, and FOSS in general (just got a new Android phone and setting things up with f-droid is such a great time!), I collect retro consoles, and vinyl, and I live on a tiny tiny island off the coast of Australia with my cat :)
The recent Twitter dramas, and reddit dramas, they've left me shutting those down and looking for a new place to chat gaming, and I think the GOG forum might just be it?!



Also, I still have no idea how to reply with a quote (when I do it stays sitting there processing forever (maybe it's my browser?)

It's nice to be here, hopefully this post is okay!

If you want to quote someone (and maybe you edit that person's quote), make sure that you don't accidentally delete a bracket.
Every opening bracket needs a closing counterpart.

Hi! And welcome!
DRM-free games and a (mostly) very friendly gaming community. That's a great combination! :-D Try to keep the hierarchical tag structure intact. The forum software is old-school too and doesn't like any loose ends. There's drama on Twitter and reddit? Since when? What did I miss? xD

The forms here can get a little crazy sometimes, but 90% of the people are here to help. We have a lot of very knowledgeable Linux users and knowledgeable users on GOG in general.

I'm also casual console and even physical PC game collector. But it's more for my personal self, which I usually only collect games I like or think look interesting.

Rethink that, unless you're just tired of pleasure and want to take a break from it :D

My issues with Control aside, welcome aboard. Many really cool users sadly departed over the years, so we can use all the help we can get.

Thanks for the welcome!! It's nice here. REALLY reminds me of the 'older' internet, before the ads and bots and regulations...it was a fun Wild West back in the 1990's. and at least the format here reminds me of it. I've been sad seeing how few forums remain these days! BUT, so nice to be here!

Reddit's drama (for me anyway!) is their new idea that they will not allow a moderator to make their sub private, or NSFW without now asking a Reddit staff member to okay it for them. This has...some nonsense reason for why, but it is clearly to stop any further 'protests' (like the 3rd Party App Protest over a year ago now).
The fact they won't allow someone who runs their own sub to decide how to do it? That makes me mad.

Twitter has recently made their A.I. scan everything on there. Absolutely everything. All the artists who upload art? It's now 'taken'. A week or so back there was a huge exodus of users (predominately video game programmers and artists) who moved over to Bluesky to make accounts there. Which is only a good thing. Oh I played through Control on my Series X when it relaunched (?), and before that my One X! And...looking forward to investigating the world again. I'm a huge fan of Twin Peaks, and Stephen King, and Brutalist architecture...and Remedy. So this one was a huge win for me. It's been some years now, so I'm excited to try it again.

What issues did you have with it? The map took me a long time to get used to, but even then...I just love the atmosphere of the game.

Where do you think the users went? I'm relatively new to the 'newer' PC gaming world, I really just don't like Steam too much. Things 'feel' right to me on this platform! Most of my collection is Nintendo and Sega consoles, the original Playstation, I love the 1990's era of gaming. It makes me nostalgic!

Hello.

I've found that the games I really like are those from the 1980s and early 11990s. It's in the later 1990s where things went off the rails as far as I'm concerned. (In particular, I ended up not liking either Final Fantasy 7 or Baldur's Gate, despite liking earlier games in the genre.)

Just yesterday, I added x dot com to my phone browser's adblock, as I haven't considered that site (formerly known as twitter) to be safe since the takeover.

While I do sometimes play some more modern indies (though nearly always of genres that were common back in the old days), I'm actually currently looking into replaying Ultima 3, which is an old game that I understand well at that point, to the point where I can consider it a comfort game.

I Am New Additionally. Welcome! Control Looks Very Nice. I Play Some Of This Game And Liked It. May Finish The Game Some Day But Work Always Beckons. So So So So Sad. What Is That Picture of For Your Avatar As Well? A Ghosty?

Welcome

Thanks!

Feels like 'home' here already!

I notice a LOT of community 'games', which, I guess if you're into them is fine but for me the games and the platform are key. I guess I'll see, as time goes how the feeling is here.

Might just be a sign of the internet in general these days, I remember long ago usenet tended to (sometimes) have a more positive, community-minded approach to subjects, but it has been maybe decades since I have been on it, so who knows.

And thanks for the welcome! I guess Control can be a divisive one! But to me it is...maybe top 3 or top 5 games ever. I just love how Remedy make their games, I really wish we got to see more of them on GOG. Clearly no chance though: Alan Wake 2 is funded by Epic, and Quantum Break was funded by Microsoft...so not really sure what COULD be there to come to GOG.

Regardless, try it out and let me know how you enjoy it!

My Avatar is from Bioshock, another of my favourite games! I recently re-played it with Bioshock: Remastered (via Heroic Games Launcher on my Steam Deck) and had a absolutely great time doing so. The setting and time-period of it are top-notch to me.

I'm looking forward to getting Bioshock: Infinite when its on sale on GOG next :)

Let's just say if you ever decide to make a thread about anything other than games on GENERAL DISCUSSION, you'll eventually get responses like "This a forum for gaming" or "how dare you bring up anything with DRM" or if you're unlucky, thinly veiled bigotry.

I've actually encountered bigotry that wasn't even thinly veiled; it was out in the open and very obvious (and was also not at all related to the thread topic).

Fortunately, such posts do get deleted when reported, but in one case the method I'd used previously to report didn't work. I made a thread about it, which did end up getting a lot of posts (including some posting out another major type of bigotry with the posts the other user made), and the other user did end up getting banned, but it was still annoying.

(Also, there was a time in the past when this forum was basically unmoderated; that, fortunately, is no longer the case.)

Those were some dasrk days. They're Bruno. We don't talk about them.