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tinyE: Again, you are leveling criticisms on games I'm willing you bet you haven't even played.
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sgtjackv: Ok, sorry, it's just that........ well......... I'm just triggered by the disturbing lack of classics. That's all. I just want GOG to have it's original purpose. It's like MTV, or TLC. They don't do what they were made to do anymore.
Using the entirely arbitrary criterion of "originally came out before 2010", these are the "classic" games released since the beginning of the year:

Pizza Tycoon
Pizza Tycoon 2
Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships
Ignition
Tachyon: The Fringe
Ceville (re-added to the catalogue after having been removed)
Lost Eden
Imperium Galactica II: Alliances
SWAT 4: Gold Edition
Constructor (re-added to the catalogue after having been removed)
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Caesar
Caesar II
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition (borderline case, as the original mod was from ca. 2008, while the first standalone commercial version released in 2012)
The Colonel's Bequest
The Dagger of Amon Ra
Hidden & Dangerous Action Pack
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
Army Men RTS
Delta Force
Delta Force 2
Delta Force: Land Warrior
Delta Force: Task Force Dagger
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down Platinum Pack
Delta Force Xtreme

Maybe you're not interested in/don't like these particular games, or you wish more were action shooters or whatever, but that's a seriously impressive run of "classics" for such a short timeframe, and would have been so even in any of GOG's early years.

You may also want to read my stock response for this type of thread.

And a parting tip: complaints that a site isn't like it used to be back in the day come off as more than a little silly when they come from a user account created the previous month. ;)

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rtcvb32: Last year wasn't it Gog released the Gold box & archive of D&D games?
2015.
Post edited April 06, 2017 by HunchBluntley
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HunchBluntley: And a parting tip: complaints that a site isn't like it used to be back in the day come off as more than a little silly when they come from a user account created the previous month. ;)
Maybe it's an alt account.
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HunchBluntley: And a parting tip: complaints that a site isn't like it used to be back in the day come off as more than a little silly when they come from a user account created the previous month. ;)
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Grargar: Maybe it's an alt account.
Maybe. Still goofy. :)
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sgtjackv: Look at the GOG homepage. Do you see any OLD games? BARELY! All the old games on GOG are like, from 2010!
GOG Has lost it's meaning!
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Lord_Kane: GOG hasnt meant good old games for a while, you are a bit late to the party
they formally rebranded to GOG (which means nothing) a bit ago.
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/looks_like_gog_is_still_good_old_games/post1
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Lord_Kane: GOG hasnt meant good old games for a while, you are a bit late to the party
they formally rebranded to GOG (which means nothing) a bit ago.
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koima57: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/looks_like_gog_is_still_good_old_games/post1
Oh I did not know about that.
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In the past month GOG brought out Swat 4 ,Emperor:Rise of the Middle Kingdom, the Laura Bow games from Sierra ,and the entire Delta Force series,and a few other Old Games.
Yes, I get a little tired of the constant Shovelware that GOG sells, but still, they bring out old games on a regular basis.
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sgtjackv: I mean, classics like Doom, or Bio Menace....
"classic".... hmmm....

" a work of art of recognized and established value."
"a thing which is memorable and a very good example of its kind."
"Very typical of its kind."
"serving as a standard of excellence : of recognized value"
"of the first or highest quality, class, or rank"
"serving as a standard, model, or guide"
"having a high quality or standard against which other things are judged"

none of these definitions have old or even age as qualifier....
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HunchBluntley: And a parting tip: complaints that a site isn't like it used to be back in the day come off as more than a little silly when they come from a user account created the previous month. ;)
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Grargar: Maybe it's an alt account.
Nope, I thought that GOG still stood for [bG]ood Old Games, and that they mostly sold old games, with a few new ones. Instead, it's the other way around. The fact the GOG now longer is an acronym for Good Old Games anymore is sad.
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HunchBluntley: Pizza Tycoon
Pizza Tycoon 2
Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships
Ignition
Tachyon: The Fringe
Ceville (re-added to the catalogue after having been removed)
Lost Eden
Imperium Galactica II: Alliances
SWAT 4: Gold Edition
Constructor (re-added to the catalogue after having been removed)
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Caesar
Caesar II
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition (borderline case, as the original mod was from ca. 2008, while the first standalone commercial version released in 2012)
The Colonel's Bequest
The Dagger of Amon Ra
Hidden & Dangerous Action Pack
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
Army Men RTS
Delta Force
Delta Force 2
Delta Force: Land Warrior
Delta Force: Task Force Dagger
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down Platinum Pack
Delta Force Xtreme
Wiat? These are all old games? I thought they were indies with retro graphics.
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sgtjackv: Instead, it's the other way around.
Quick rundown of the current 2017 releases (since I finally got off my ass and updated).
60 releases, 29 of them at least 10 years old, 19 of them pre-2K. Limited sample, but only year so far with a better 10+ year old percentage was 2011, which was an excellent year in percentages, even though it only had 85 releases total.
Old games are still coming, and more or less in the same frequency as they always did. Newer games are coming at a much higher frequency, but the end result is just more games in total.
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sgtjackv: Nope, I thought that GOG still stood for [bG]ood Old Games, and that they mostly sold old games, with a few new ones. Instead, it's the other way around. The fact the GOG now longer is an acronym for Good Old Games anymore is sad.
For what it's worth (a wooden nickle) it will always be Good Old Games to me, which is why I abbreviate it as gOg. I'm here for the old games, and enjoy the occasional new-ish title.
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Wishbone: Theme Hospital is not a classic now? I think you'll find plenty of people here who disagree!
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sgtjackv: Wait, the game's old? the thumbnail made it look like some horrible indie game from 2010.
You raise a good point though. What is it with all those old DOS games trying to look like pixellated retro indie games from 2010? It is pretty lame that in the early 1990s the games were trying to mimic the graphics style of horrible 2010 indie retro games. Where's the originality in that?

1990 games should look like 1990 games, not some 2010 cheap retro indie games with pixellated graphics.
Post edited April 07, 2017 by timppu
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sgtjackv: Nope, I thought that GOG still stood for [bG]ood Old Games, and that they mostly sold old games, with a few new ones. Instead, it's the other way around. The fact the GOG now longer is an acronym for Good Old Games anymore is sad.
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HereForTheBeer: For what it's worth (a wooden nickle) it will always be Good Old Games to me, which is why I abbreviate it as gOg. I'm here for the old games, and enjoy the occasional new-ish title.
Ditto. I abbreviate it goG. I'm here for the games, and enjoy the occiasional movie.