For creating and following through with an obviously brilliant idea.


In a world where most of the modern day games I play are crap, and are infact glitchier than games from the 90s and early 2000s I find myself wanting to play old games, which I know are going to be good, and I know the experience that I am going to be getting.

In multiple ways I have been disappointed by modern day games. One way is their lack of quality, because I have a regular xbox360 and don't play games on the PC(at the cost of having to constantly update my software) I seem to get stuck with the beta/earliest possible release version of the game I get.

I have ran into so many mindwrackingly painful glitches in Left 4 Dead 2 that I can't even list them all because there have been that many, but mainly things which made me quit playing where glitches like this: Once, I was just about to finish the level Dark Carnival, and I tried to take my pills, but for no reason whatsoever my character would not respond to my button press, and only tried to take the pills when I tried to take out my weapon and give up on the pills. Conveniently, right before my character ingested the pain pills he recieved the blow that downed him and the idiot bots refused to focus long enough to get me up. Other glitches I have experienced include items disappearing, aswell as the same monstor I have just killed spawning over and over again right after the last one(and in the same place.)


A nasty glitch I encountered while playing Red Dead Redemption: Once, I had killed an entire gang of outlaws except for their leader. I tried to pick up the leader, and my character instead picked up nothing. He couldn't shoot or take medicine because he "had something in his hands" yet he could not put down that nothing in his hands because there was nothing to put down. So he was frozen in the position of carrying an outlaw on your shoulder(even though there was nothing there) til' he died.


Fuck modern day games. I don't even want to tell you about the last few abortions I thought were going to be military games. Even games which used to offer real-time combat like Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon, the modern installments of these titles(namely vegas, advanced warfighter) are scripted and the same situations happen every single mission, you loose the same men, and/or your men can't die.(You know, because it's scripted that they get captured another 8 times later on, because that "adds to the story.")

The sin of the gaming world is that games have become bad, and old games(which were actually good) have become impossible to buy.... Until the glory of GOG.

Thank you GOG for resurrecting my interest in video games all together. Playing old games has inspired my to pursue my passion; I want to someday develop video games. Hopefully, by using the style of older games, I might be able to make a game even someone as picky as I would enjoy. Thank you again, gog!!!

I think they've found a great formula here. Low price, a focus on the better titles, slowly breaking down the resistance of the major publishers, and working with the IP holders to try to expand the add-ons. There are a couple minor quibbles here and there (sometimes not getting all of the manuals, for instance), but to me they're pretty small compared to what you get for your $2.50 - $10.

For myself, the last new game was purchased around 2003. Then GOG came along and I've since picked up about 30 titles in the last two years, including several I already have on the shelf. Only one download was unplayable, and that was "solved" by finding a really cheap retail copy with an expansion that fixed the problem. At the prices we pay for these A-list classics, it didn't bother me a bit to have one non-functional title out of that 30.

Keep doing what you're doing, GOG. I'm here for the long haul. Now, can you please get the following games... ; )

GOG rocks, plain and simple. Great way to remember old titles or bring them to a new audience.

I think I subconsciously knew modern gaming would suck so I didn't start playing any of these classics until now so that I would have something to turn to

and the gaming deities knew I would need a place to buy said classics so they made GOG

You're a coward, you know that ? This is the polar opposite of trolling: you carefully pick a place to voice strong opinions at, ensuring that your view will be accepted.

Well, guess what - it's not going to work as long as I'm around to cut such hateful bs short.

OP just got called out

whoa dang

To counteract Vestin's hate, I would just like to say I like these kinds of posts. Most newcomers to the forum just demand GOG add a certain game. Some people just want to come in and say thank you. I like that.

It's the sort of thing that makes me appreciate this community

I completey agree with Swizzle. I only intended to thank GOG for giving me games like Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, Rise of the Triad, Blake Stone: Aliens of gold(which I am loving by the way) Blake Stone 2: Planet Strike, Blood 2: The Chosen, Cannon Fodder, Ghost Recon, and Rainbow Six at dirt cheap prices. It seems like I can hardly get my mom to spend money on me anymore these days, and because all these games were at such a freakishly fair price, I scored massively.

Agreed. I never played a single adventure game as a kid and then I got a GOG account and played Beneath a Steel Sky. I soon bought Broken Sword and now I'm hooked. I've bought many more games this past month than usual and yet I haven't spent a fraction of the money. So I'm grateful to GOG for introducing people to me to the classics. DRM free!!

Actually sir, doesn't the quote of mine you used kind of beg to differ? Actually, if you have ever read my "Advanced(MUCH more sophisticated) Doom ranks" on gamefaqs Doom2: Hell on Earth board, you would know that I occasionally post controversial topics not everyone agrees with. Now, in that topic there is some misinformation which I take credit for as being false, but at the end of the day the biggest arguement was about Chaingunners. They argue Mini-Boss status should be based on HP, however I personally feel the title of Mini-boss falls to any enemy who is one of the deadliest in the game.

Well... If you really care that much about my pungent reply from half a year ago, I retract my statement. I guess I should've simply said that I think you were "preaching to the choir", narrowing down the issue to a single occurrence and abstaining from hot-headed ad personam... for which I apologize.