Come on, they don't even have Splinter Cell 1.

While cartoony platformers can get boring after some time, little indie gems (today's Knock Knock for example) compensate it :)

Where is No One Lives Forever!

Give these indies a few years. Whether they are good (or even games, in some instances) is up to you, but they will certainly become old with age.

Most things do. :P

Not really, no. Sometimes there are classic games that I find super interesting (e.g. Shadow Man), and sometimes there are classic games that don't interest me at all (e.g. Re-volt). Sometimes there are indie games that really interest me (both today's releases, and I hope that it's not the Wednesday games, when we normally don't have a release at all, that caused the OP to make this thread), other times I find the indie releases totally uninteresting (both Monday's releases). I've never noticed much correlation between whether a game is old and whether a game is interesting to me.

Also, I suspect that the alternative to all these indie releases is no releases, or fifth-tier games that have been justly forgotten by the gaming community.

I'm at the point where I have the sense that publishers like Ubisoft, EA and Activision simply use GOG as a place to prevent gamers who only buy DRM-free from buying used copies of the games. It's basically damage limitation - they can't force buyers to buy new when there is a superior DRM-free alternative from which they cannot profit. All of the games that they have released on here were already DRM-free in the past, so the fact that they are DRM-free now is really nothing spectacular.

With games like HoMM 6, Assassin's Creed 2 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution, gamers have no alternative but to buy with DRM. Used copies are useless and buyers are essentially forced to buy them new and go through UPlay, Origin and Steam.

I know there are a handful of games which have seen DRM-free releases following DRM exclusivity (Alan Wake + American Nightmare, Brütal Legend, Stranger's Wrath) but these are for the most part self-published indie titles (Riddick, Two Worlds 1 & 2 and Far Cry had DRM upon retail release, but they could still be bought secondhand), but for the most part, the major publishers will have no interest in publishing games DRM-free when there is no other alternative.

I very much doubt we'll ever see many of the games you listed there. CoD 1 & 2 perhaps, maybe even Dead Space, Prototype and Mirror's Edge, but certainly not the Modern Warfare series, later Assassin's Creed games or Deus Ex: HR.

Did they actually use the word 'promise?'

I find that gamers like to fling that word around when they're not getting what they want.

Nope, i am not getting tired. It doesn't matter to me if its an old game or a new one as long as it makes fun to play it and its DRM-Free. Some of these indie games are the future "classics" that the new generation of gamer will remember.
I'm more concerned about the "classic" games GOG released in the last months. Old is not equal to classic. Thats said i still have high hopes to see many of real good old games coming to this site.

hey, dude, it's Wednesday, nothing should have been released today :o) if I should choose between nothing released and something released, I take the latter ;)

Yes and no. I don't play the indie games much (I've bought a few and they're sitting in the backlog for the most part) so I can't speak as to the overall quality, length, replayability, etc. But if a bunch of profitable DRM-free releases from independent designers means that it convinces more of the larger publishers to start going DRM-free, then I say "Bring on the indies!"

But not to the exclusion of gOLDgs.

f*cked if Activision know!
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/04/08/no-one-lives-forever-lives-in-licensing-limbo/
I suspect Sanity: Aitken's Artifact and a couple of other Monolith / Fox things have disappeared down the same hole too!

+1

It's a debate we already had. Unfortunately, last time, someone felt he/she had to use harsh words against those not incensing the apparent current preminence of indie games amongst releases. And Judas reminded us that GOG hadn't forgotten their roots...

As for me, I'm not " tired" of those indies. But only a few of them actually interest me. I haven't bought any of the latest 30 releases yet. I will probably eventually buy 4 or 5 of them. Only one of those is a recent game ( Cognition) . I would for sure prefer to see more older games being released, but it's a matter of taste eventually.

Screw the debate, how does Potzato make those groovy degree symbols?