LurkerLito: True lots of people didn't like the PR stunt and I wasn't really happy about it either. But still it was a excellent trial run for what to expect if it did happen. GoG clearly said something was up (even though it was a bad PR stunt half truth), then they said they would enable people to go download all their games they bought in a few days. Since all their games are DRM-Free once you downloaded it was yours to keep forever and could install and uninstall at your leisure even if their service was gone. Exactly what should be expected should an online distributor go out of business IMHO. Since I archive all my games locally as I buy them, even the PR stunt didn't bother me much. The only annoying thing about it for me was there would have been no other alternative to GoG where all games sold are DRM-Free. As for trust, I trust GoG more than any other online digital distributor on the planet today. Since I know once I buy it and download the product, I literally own it and can uninstall / install it at will.

If the same thing happened to any other system I guarantee you all your games would be lost. Even though Gabe has stated a while back that if Steam ever shutdown they'd come up with a solution to enable you to keep your games, I am certain he was only talking about Valve published games not any of the other ones that not only use Steam's DRM but some other third party variant.

GoG is the only place you could be certain that the games you bought are licenses you own. Steam games you rent or I believe the word they use is subscribed to. You don't buy a license to use the software you buy a subscription to play through steam, so if steam goes, they are completely without legal responsibility to provide a method for you to play the game without the steam service. Almost every other service is exactly the same in one way or another. Either you are dependent on them or if not on some activation server that might disappear in a few years with only some vague hope they will provide you a patch to run the game you bought without the activation server.

nijuu: What on earth are you talking about?

xa_chan: Good lord, instant preorder !!!

SoanoS: well, I believe the models are all rigged and animated with pre-set animations but I think the lighting is calculated real-time. I don't have full certainty of this but to me it would appear it is realtime.

Curunauth: Another Intellivision fan!! *highfive* :-)

I *loved* Treasure of Tarmin! I still remember the times I would leave the machine running (disconnected) overnight when I had a particularly promising game, hoping that it would not have frozen or reset when I came back to play the next day . . . losing my first midas book to a reset, losing countless characters to bombs . . . my first encounter with a glowing door . . . that glorious first Minotaur kill (and then finding that deep-level Wraiths still induce panic and mad button-mashing to try to avoid combat . . .)

Recently played a bit on an emulator, and apparently years of gaming have trained me well - it was a LOT easier than I remembered it being (no, I wasn't using savestates). It was still a blast though, and had some funny moments - I killed 3 Minotaurs in one 2x2 room in my second game (with one or two more on the same level!).

(Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain was pretty fun too, and a much quicker game. Certainly more panic-inducing - nothing like being low on health and ammo, then finding that all the rooms around the ominous monster sound have the dreaded twisty passages (or are blocked by the invincible blob), inching toward the target and then retreating in a blind panic, firing wildly and killing yourself with a reflected arrow - still, even the sound effects from either game are enough to send me on a nostalgia trip, even Cloudy Mountain's nightmarish "you're being devoured" sound.)

zoxdon: i have steam and GOG,, i like GOG better,,GOG is the way i went with it.and if need be ill buy again from Devs or steam, i realy dnt care one way or the other,,just want to play :)

Wealin: I went with GOG too. I've had times when Steam servers are down, "Game is currently unavailable" or if there is no internet at the moment I can't play any of my games...unless I save my password which I don't do.

tfishell: I suppose if GOG can bring new titles done in the style of the Good & the Old, that's something I can really get behind.