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Bitmap Brothers' Gods. It was amazingly deep and full of strategy for what's basically a platformer, enemies and secrets were plentiful and bosses were awe-inspiring.
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Lone3wolf: Caeser III. Fun little RTS

Also Pharaoh with the Cleopatra expansion, Zeus with Poseidon expansion, and Pharaoh. I have no wish to ever seeing Caesar IV or Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile again though.
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LLJKTechnogeek: The problem with those titles is that, while their original publisher (Interplay) already sells previous games on GOG, they no longer own the rights to make D&D games (Hasbro having granted them to Infogrames/Atari).

Atari does seem to have the right to sell the old Interplay D&D games though. So if Atari were to sign up to GOG, their catalogue could be brought here. Although that's a pretty distant hope as Atari aren't even on Steam.
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iGaboru: Bitmap Brothers' Gods. It was amazingly deep and full of strategy for what's basically a platformer, enemies and secrets were plentiful and bosses were awe-inspiring.

I still remember the theme tune to that game. Bitmap Brothers belong here. No question. I'd also like to see Speedball 2 on here. Which was one of the few sports games I've really enjoyed.
Post edited September 22, 2009 by Navagon
The Bitmap Brothers have a lot to offer GOG, Gods is one example but there was also Xenon, Speedball, Cadaver, Magic Pockets, Z and the excellent The Chaos Engine.
Touble is I remember their PC versions being lousy compared to the Amiga and ST ones especially with the soundtracks. Maybe GOG can make a WinUAE packager and get the Amiga versions like they use Dosbox for other games?
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Delixe: The Bitmap Brothers have a lot to offer GOG, Gods is one example but there was also Xenon, Speedball, Cadaver, Magic Pockets, Z and the excellent The Chaos Engine.
Touble is I remember their PC versions being lousy compared to the Amiga and ST ones especially with the soundtracks. Maybe GOG can make a WinUAE packager and get the Amiga versions like they use Dosbox for other games?

Oh shit. Yeah, I completely forgot about The Chaos Engine. I remember the Amiga version. It pretty much wiped the floor with everything else. A classic.
I wonder if GOG can get the sound & music from the Amiga version and replace the DOS version's with it?
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Navagon: I wonder if GOG can get the sound & music from the Amiga version and replace the DOS version's with it?

I kinda like the idea of an Amiga emulator though. Think of all the Amiga classics that can be brought over. You have all the Bitmaps, Cinemaware, Team 17 and Psygnosis games. AFAIK the emulator WinUAE is free but GOG would need to negotiate with whoever owns Amiga/Commodore (Is it still Gateway?) for the rights to the Kickstart ROMS.
I'd love to see...
Land of the Dead - Road to Fiddler's Green "I need a good old zombie killin game, and halloween is rolling around, it would be perfect timing. The game is aging but my lust for zombie killing sprees is still young, and this is my favorite one"
Someone also mentioned Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Obscura "I borrowed this game off of a friend a long time ago and I really liked it. Didn't have it long enough to get through it, but I loved rummaging through the trash to find parts for making mechanical spiders and other weaponry, I'd really like to see it through"
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Delixe: I kinda like the idea of an Amiga emulator though. Think of all the Amiga classics that can be brought over. You have all the Bitmaps, Cinemaware, Team 17 and Psygnosis games. AFAIK the emulator WinUAE is free but GOG would need to negotiate with whoever owns Amiga/Commodore (Is it still Gateway?) for the rights to the Kickstart ROMS.

Emulators certainly offer greater potential to expand GOG. Naturally, we can't go off into console territory. But Amiga and ST games should be doable. GOG managed to negotiate the use of the DOSbox and SCUMMvm emulators, so I don't see why it's out of the question.
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FoxbodyMustang: Land of the Dead - Road to Fiddler's Green

Land of the Dead, to put it mildly, didn't exactly receive the most flattering of praise on release. There are definitely better zombie games out there.
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FoxbodyMustang: Someone also mentioned Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Obscura

It's a good game and one that belongs here without a doubt. That said, I've got no clue what GOG would make of the rest of Trokia's catalogue. There are some real diamonds in the rough in there. Diamonds. But really bloody rough.
Post edited September 22, 2009 by Navagon
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Navagon: Emulators certainly offer greater potential to expand GOG. Naturally, we can't go off into console territory. But Amiga and ST games should be doable. GOG managed to negotiate the use of the DOSbox and SCUMMvm emulators, so I don't see why it's out of the question.

Well I am certainly not expecting Console emulation on GOG as I realise they are focussed on the PC platform. It all depends on the age old argument was an Amiga or ST a computer or a console? There are strong arguments on both sides but given ST's use in Music production and the Amiga's well known Graphics capability I always go with the Computer side.
To me it all depends on how far back GOG want to go when talking about Good Old Games as once you reach 1991 and before, the PC was really rather poor in its games capabilities and the Amiga and ST had the better looking and more importantly sounding games.
The other issue is cost. As you pointed out before would people pay $5.99 for The Chaos Engine? A handfull at most I would wager. However if all the Bitmap Brothers games were included in a package deal including a WinUAE packager for $9.99 then I think we have a winner.
system shock 2.
It is really hard to get working so putting it on here would let people play it without having to know much about computers .
and its awesome.
C&C Tiberium Sun................ YUSS
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Delixe: Well I am certainly not expecting Console emulation on GOG as I realise they are focussed on the PC platform. It all depends on the age old argument was an Amiga or ST a computer or a console? There are strong arguments on both sides but given ST's use in Music production and the Amiga's well known Graphics capability I always go with the Computer side.

I'd say that the primary difference is that with the consoles all the games are licensed by the console manufacturer. So even if there are other versions of that game, the version produced for that particular console is at least partly the property of the console manufacturer.
There doesn't seem to be much information on the licensing. But it's not something you see on any Commodore system. I don't know about Atari.
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Delixe: The other issue is cost. As you pointed out before would people pay $5.99 for The Chaos Engine? A handfull at most I would wager. However if all the Bitmap Brothers games were included in a package deal including a WinUAE packager for $9.99 then I think we have a winner.

Yeah, bundles are the way to go. I can certainly understand them not wanting to go cheaper than $6 (even if I think there should be flexibility between the $6 and $10 price points).
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Krogoth: system shock 2.
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Kirbyface: C&C Tiberium Sun................ YUSS

Two EA games. EA would be one hell of an achievement for GOG. Especially seeing how they're barely interested in putting their back catalogue to use or using digital distribution at all.
Post edited September 23, 2009 by Navagon
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Delixe: Well I am certainly not expecting Console emulation on GOG as I realise they are focussed on the PC platform. It all depends on the age old argument was an Amiga or ST a computer or a console? There are strong arguments on both sides but given ST's use in Music production and the Amiga's well known Graphics capability I always go with the Computer side.
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Navagon: I'd say that the primary difference is that with the consoles all the games are licensed by the console manufacturer. So even if there are other versions of that game, the version produced for that particular console is at least partly the property of the console manufacturer.
There doesn't seem to be much information on the licensing. But it's not something you see on any Commodore system. I don't know about Atari.

I'd say it's most certainly a computer, the trouble is still wether the licensing is restricted to that type of hardware though, and of course the license of selling an emulator for the platform complete with a ROM/BIOS/whatever file.
I'd guess this is also one of the reasons GOG isn't making the dosbox/scummvm games available as zip files for non-windows users (apart from the extra work of giving official support for the platforms), the games are only licensed for windows/dos.
Holy hell. EA on GoG, now that would be something very good.
SimCity!
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GoliathSK: Holy hell. EA on GoG, now that would be something very good.
SimCity!

Why does half of me cheer that thought, yet the other half shudder uncontrollably? :P