omg... the universe will implode.
SOMEONE TROLL HURRY
old games teh worst
counter strike source ftw like lol...
There i just saved you all. you can thank me later.

We're a closed community now, not everyone has acces and old games are mostly played by intelligent beings... I'm wondering what will happen when this web becomes public. It would be nice to create a beta-hardcorers forum ... Or something like that :D
@th3flyboy: Nice list you got there :D Morrowind might be really nice, since you have to learn to depend on yourself in that game, no arrow brings you to your goal...
@damien: Planescape? I don't think someone younger would be able to fully understand and appreciate this game. I know I was playing it when I was... 10? Somwhere between 10-12, and I didn't enjoy it as much as now, when I am capable of understanding everything... Almost :D

let me rephrase what i said....
Hopefully we don't attract 4chan type behavior, is that better....

for what its worth, in the right mood / frame of mind, i love 4chan. i have a very morbid sense of humour and some of what goes on there hits it just right.
that being said, the amount of noise to signal is just monstrous.
i cant imagine that the forums here would go completely to **** once GOG goes live, tho. i mean, you'd still need a login to post here, yes?
or are they just going to throw the gates open?
because that would be about as bad as two ghostbusters crossing their streams.

Good topic, me being 17 I don't have kids but I would subject my kids to Doom II and all the other classic shooters. They would know the classics and not some cookie cutter crap. It is sad where most games are today compared to where they were when I was a kid, god I sound old... As far as what games I would toment them with? That is pretty easy, I would hand them a new game like Halo 3 and then let them play Doom II. Pure crap compared to gaming at it's best.

fenixp... good point about the age / appreciation / patience required by torment. it came out when i was 24, so you're definitely right about the age issue there. if it had existed when i was ten, i would still have liked it a lot, but i'd have missed so much. (probably would have skimmed most of the prose, too...)

Oh, Planescape: Torment is definitely on my wish list. I bought it when it was newish. I was 19 at the time, but the game didn't stick and I traded it off pretty soon. Now I'm really itching to play through it, mostly for the story.
To stay on topic:
I have a daughter, but luckily she's only 11 months old, so I don't have to worry about games for a while. What I do know is that I WILL keep her away from too mature content. To be honest, sexual content doesn't worry me very much as long as it's not completely over the top. Even graphical violence isn't that bad to me. I'm mostly opposed to IDEAS that require a mature mind to process. What I mean by that is for example games like GTA or Assassin's Creed and such (New games, I know. Be gentle.). If she wants to play games like that, I want her to be old enough to understand why the actions of the protagonists are often "wrong" and why they might be motivated to do such things.
In other words, an 8-year-old child might see Altair as being "really cool" and jumping on roofs and killing lots of people in a gory fashion "just because it's so cool" or something similarly misguided. I believe that when the kid is old enough to understand the plot and the motives of the characters, they are less easily confused or desensitized by the game.
Whoa. That came out longer than I intended. =)

I don't see this forum being invaded by trolls in the future... it's just not the kind of place they go to, right?
I mean, they probably just think "old games? what a stupid idea" and go away.
Hopefully.
But, let's hope this doesn't get TOO big... overly large forums ALWAYS have stupid people posting. I think that, if NASA had a huge forum with a lot of people, there would be trolling in there too.
I hope GOG.com gets big enough to make some good profit to keep the good games coming :) But without having a forum big enough to attract trolls.

i just discovered the "hide all posts with..." function, so i'm happy.

If I have to choose a game as a punishment for my kids, I'll say, Conquest Earth. I don't think he can beat MANUALLY removing the fog of war, inch my inch, using an air purifier.
Here's a look at the stinker. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/conquestearth/index.html

At work, I'm forever deleting games (SNES/MegaDrive roms mostly) from students accounts (K thru 12) then banning them for a week.
Thus, I think to introduce them to the older stuff, it has to be a certain kind of 'older stuff'.
Either my how they look graphically, or the ability to play small chunks now & then but not in the casual game way...
I'm open to Ideas here. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

I would prolly give my kid a "Syndicate", and tell him: "Look how much these guys were able to squze from a 16 colors pallete" :)

Well, imho, we shouldn't *bore* our children/nephews etc with old games. They will never fully understand our feelings, the games we show them will never be oh-so-cool to them. Their friends at schools will still be chatting about incoming Diablo III, not about the greatest cRPG of all times: the Betrayal at Krondor.
My point is: we may feel like after a pile of exstasy when playing Descent, but surely there is a new game, similiar to Descent, which those kids would always prefer. Let's just get over with it.

sm-: Note true. My nephew really wanted to play Fallout, System Shock 2, Freespace when he saw me playing them. It's not about boring or forcing, it's about showing what's interesting.

Kid: But I don't want to play this!
Parent: I don't care. I bought it, I downloaded it, it's stinks, and you're going to play it! It's about time you know what a great game looks like!