The 4k77 edition is taken from a 35mm print shown in theatres in 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1b47UP6ZGI

This is the best you can get... the big download (HD 38.1 GB/ 4K 73.3 GB) is totally worth it. Can't wait 'til Empire is finished!

Now that I think about it the OG version of Doom 3 is still on sale on Steam and even got a horizontal box art when Steam redecorated, so Bethesda at least acknowledge its existence. Maybe a memo about getting it on GOG is sitting in someone's file cabinet somewhere.

In contrast the OG version of Deus Ex 3 was removed from sale and never mentioned again.

Good to know, thanks.

But for those that don't work, it can be even more difficult to source the original files, due to many Abandonware sites no longer providing a game once it is officially available again, at GOG etc.

Once I started purchasing games at GOG, I tried to avoid pirate and abandonware sites. I figured that I had enough games, and not being at GOG, meant the provider did not want me to play their games, so stuff them. If a provider angers me though, well why ignore another alternative, especially if I actually own the game anyway.

Yes it is good when they do that. I certainly have quite a few games at GOG where an additional 32 bit version is provided. I wish all providers cared enough to do that.

And even though Quake Enhanced is not yet available at GOG, the Steam version at least, comes in 32 and 64 bit, the new two expansion packs excepted. When I say new expansions, the first has been available for a while, and I have a free 32 bit version of that, so not sure why that wasn't provided as well. I'm not sure if Epic provide any of it as 32 bit, but maybe it depends on whether you install on a 32 bit PC, which is what I did with the Steam version.
Yep, even if what they provide won't run out-of-the-box, as many can be tweaked to run well enough with DOSbox or ScummVM etc ... and who knows what the future may provide in smart emulators.

Yeah, maybe it's time to stop thinking about GoG as a sort of archive. It's never a good idea to trust companies.

Hell, they don't even let us play on old patches of frequently updated games, despite some people claiming that's the case.

Even if they don't let us have access to all older versions of a game, they should let us download offline installers of any version we can roll back to. You know they still have the installers. How else would we be able to roll back?

They have some sort of SVN archive.
The download works the same way for every version, no matter if it's the newest or the oldest one available.

It works basically this way:
Upload #0 Upload of the original version, files contained are A, B and C
Upload #1 a patch is applied, file B was changed, let's call it B1 from now one (even if the file keeps it's original name)
Upload #2 another patch is applied, D was added C was deleted

If you download and install #2, you get the files A, B1, D
If you 'roll back' (or download and install) #1, you get the files A, B1, C
If you 'roll back' (or download and install) #0, you get the files A, B, C

In addition of course they run some script that would set some registry settings or install runtimes.

No offline installer whatsoever is needed. If it was, Steam, Epic, Origin, Uplay, Microsoft XBox store and Rockstar would have a serious problem.

A installer is not some magic tool that brings the game to your hard disk. It's just a image of one of these uploads with the logic to unpack the files to your target directory.
If at one point they wanted to remove all previous versions, they would move the old files from #1 and #0 into #2 (if needed, the original B and C would not be included), removing the old restoration points.

Guys, do you know if there's a list about games with new versions\editions resulting worse than the original ones?
I can't keep multiple backups of every title, so it would be useful to know which extra copies to save or not.

I see a 10 part "Witcher 3 GOTY Classic" in my extras section, guess that's it?

Unfortunately they can't be downloaded.

Maybe that's just temporary?

Did you try this?

Change the language and download the main installer, not the one from the extras. You'll notice that the Complete Edition for other languages is version 1.31 and only has 10 files instead of 21.

Check picture in attachement.
Download "Offline backup installers" not "Extras".