I cannot understate how much truth is in the above statement.

Nah, Star Wars isn't sci-fi. It's not about technology or society, etc. It's about the characters. Star Wars is fantasy. The lasers, space ships, and all that are just trappings.

Besides, "A New Hope" is the best of the three. :-P

Nah it's a western in space. And I agree with the statement that The Empire Strikes Back is awesome.

I highly doubt it will be microsoft, or they will ever get their games. MS holds onto their stuff so much they probablly have the source code up gates ass.

Even their 360 games they stopped publishing on the pc because they will funnel them through the 360 because that means more people to pay for xbl, more people to buy their systems and more people to buy a new jacket for their avatar. Only one to come out for pc in a long time will be fable 3 and they keep holding it back to the point that when they do release it no one will care because they already got the 360 version.

Not to mention gog means nothing to MS, they are peons to be walked over and nothing else. MS really only swings for the fences, if they cant turn a couple hundred million from a deal they wont mess with it.

Releasing their games on gog would only be for the gamers and to be honest, they dont care about them unless a huge profit is guarnteed.


Ill drink to that.

Empire strikes back from a story, pacing, and directorial standpoint is almost the prime example of a good movie.

Even some of the minor scenes that had nothing to do with the plot or characters and was never mentioned again were fantastic. Like the scene inside the asteroid with the falcon when they hid from the empire and the giant monster they were inside. That was a classic scene everyone knows and was incredibly well done and yet it could have been left out because it no impact at all on the movie itself.

Funny thing is, empire strikes back is the one star wars movie lucas hated and despised because he had nothing to do with it. Lucas didnt direct it and lucas didnt write it but it was still the best out of the entire series. The one movie he didnt touch turned out to be the best one and thats why he hates it.

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E F'N A ... nuff said

Lets face it - any of the three out of those five is gonna be great ....

Agreed!

They didn't promise it's going to be 25 totally different games though, did they? And who knows if all these game will be really "good". ;)

If you take the Tomb Raider series (8 games), plus the Legacy of Kain series (3 games), plus the Thief series (3 games), plus the Hitman series (3 games), plus the Deus Ex series (2 games), plus the Final Fantasy titles (2 games), plus Anachronox, Project Eden, Revenant, Gangsters, Deathtrap Dungeon or whatever, you already have more than 25 "good" old games. I wouldn't rule them out so quickly.


Although ... if they really said "25 titles IN TESTING", I agree that sounds more like EA. :D


No doubt, the controls are Grim Fandango's weakness but they're not at all representative for the LucasArts adventures. Only the last two titles of fourteen top quality adventures (all without any direct relation to Star Wars) used that system while the earlier ones did favor mouse controls over keyboard, and I'd go as far as saying that more recent adventures like The Longest Journey owe a lot to them and their user-friendly interfaces and gameplay (which no other adventure I've played was ever able to surpass).

Thinking about this I am wondering more if Square/Enix (Eidos) is a real possibility for having 25 ready to go.

Tomb Raider alone comes out to 8 games. Deus Ex and Thief add another 5. Hitman adds 4, then you have the first Just Case and the PC ports of Final Fantasy VII and VIII. That's 20 titles right there and I didn't even have to google their catalog and am surely not mentioned a ton of titles.

So... I would guess EA or Eidos for this summer.

I would be happy the most with either one of them, Dont get me wrong but i do want the old star wars games from LA but i would rather play dues ex again and would love to get the hitman series on PC

I guess the fact that the majority of the EA games I'd want the most are not even mentioned on the OP's long list says something about their large catalogue of good old games. :D

I'd be happy with each of the Big Five to a certain degree but also depending on which 25 games we'd get from them. And while I'd be most enthusiastic about the EA games, with EA there's also the highest chance that my favored titles might not be among the 25 ... :-/ In that regard, SquareEnix would probably more reliable.

So whoever it is, I hope at least one of these games will come to GOG soon:

EA: American McGee's Alice, Nox, Relentless/Little Big Adventure, Ultima Underworld series, maybe System Shock series (I don't know anything about it but everyone else here seems to love it so I'm curious)

LucasArts: all the adventures, Outlaws with Add-On

SquareEnix: Legacy of Kain series, maybe Tomb Raider series, maybe FF

T2: Max Payne series

Microsoft: The Neverhood

It would also be cool to see the Oddworld series continued with the recent PC conversions that are already available on Steam, not sure who has the rights (Munch's Oddyssee was apparantly published by Microsoft, Stranger's Wrath by EA ...).
EDIT: Skip that last comment, apparently Oddworld Inhabitants already delivered them to GOG. Hurray! :)

I'll take your word for that. ;)

No problem :3