/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4843929
Ultima Collection
The Indiana Jone's Point and Click collection thing
Shadow Warrior Redux
and a bunch of non retro stuff.

>>4843929
Who the fuck pays for old games?

Explain GOG to me.

>>4843950

They're like 50 cents.

>>4843950
People who can't download fan patches themselves and will pay someone to do it for them.

>>4843956
Good old games

>>4843956

DRM-free versions of old games on a market platform similar to steam. Most games come bundled with extras like the soundtrack and artbooks. It has a client too.

>>4843956
Giving money to jewish polacks for abandonware.

Avoid at all costs, but this goes without saying for any digital distrubtion service.

>>4843960
These are mostly PC games, though, right?

>>4843929
>Morrowind Complete, comes with Daggerfall and Arena for $7
Am I Jewing myself with this site? Never played these, hear good things about Morrowind in particular.

>>4843975
Morrowind is pretty fun once you patch the bugs and glitches out.

To be fair, some of the bugs and glitches are entertaining to mess around with, as well.

Wing commander
Master of orion
Starflight

Then I cried when I realized I have given money to EA

>>4843950
Convenience. Install and it just werks; emulator settings and what-have-yous already done for you.

>>4843956
Like Steam, but without semitic shenanigans like DRM and needing to be online to play offline games, etc.

>>4843958
>>4843982
But you can get the exact same GOG installers for free from goodolddownloads.

I got HoMM3 and 5, Homeworld, SWAT 4, and Age of Wonders 2. Plus some newer not /vr/ games. Nice to see piratefags living up to their vegan tier status of being obnoxious faggots in a thread they have no reason to post in.

>>4843979
Vanilla Morrowind was a fun experience. I remember there was a cursed cuirass that would reduce one of your armor skills to 0 (forget which), but was bugged so you couldn't get rid of the curse. Was rough since that was the armor type I was using and had to switch it up and eat shit for a while. Also dropping some random artifact you found in the middle of nowhere because a bonewalker fucked your strength and then ten hours later you get a quest to retrieve it but now it's randomly in the middle of nowhere but somehow you manage to find it again.

>>4843962
Fuck off, GOG is great, it's not just "abandonware" and they stick to their proposed ethics and purpose.

>>4843987
But you can not be a filthy kike and actually support good business practices that benefits everyone.

>>4844010
Why even respond to them? If they don't get any (you)s they'll shit up another a thread for validation rather than this one.

>>4843975

Been playing Daggerfall for 6 hours blind. It’s definitely worth the $7

>>4843950

OP here. I pirated a lot of these beforehand and bought them since I legit like GoG’s client. I’m also tired of old pirated games breaking on me.KOTOR was the only game that was a bitch to configure.

>>4844010
>Fuck off, GOG is great,
Yeah, I fucking love paying for shit I don't really own, bro!
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>and they stick to their proposed ethics and purpose.
Yeah like going back on their promises regarding Witcher 3.

Eat shit you CDProjekt shill.

>>4844026
Interesting. So you must have a GOG client downloaded? How is this different from Steam?

>>4844038

You don’t need a client to download your games.

>>4844041
You don't need GOG to download 20-year-old games either.

>>4843929
nothing so far, my backlog is too overwhelming

>>4844067
>You don't need GOG to download 20-year-old games either.

That's the point, stupid.

>>4844041
>"your" games
good 1, lad

>>4844071
Your point is to not use GOG at all? Alrighty then.

>>4844026
>>4844072
There's nothing stopping you from making a backup and owning it permanently, dipshits. It's more secure that relying on one single physical medium. Of course GOG probably won't be around forever, neither will be whatever you'll buy in a store.

"Technically" you don't own any software. But with a game you bought on GOG, you only don't own it if you don't want to. You can make infinite backups.

Should I complete my Ultima collection by buying 8 and 9? They're less than a dollar each.

The only retro games I bought were
- Star Wars Episode 1 Racer (1999)
- Maniac Mansion (1987) (already had it through DOTT but whatever, it's not like 1,69€ is anything)
- Full Throttle Remastered (1995/2017) which is kinda stretching it...

The game I'm actually playing is Xanadu Next, which is essentially Falcom's Diablo clone. But that's not retro.

>>4844445

Is it any good? I’ve been itching for a new diablo clone

>>4843929
the good Ultimas, the good Gothics, Arx Fatalis, Descent 1+2, Albion, the good Master of Orions.
wait why do i have Ultima 4 in my library twice, how did that happen

>>4844038
no, there is a client but it is completely unnecessary; the games all come in DRM-less self extracting zip form as well. plus there is the added bonus that you know your money isn't going to help support fucking steam, which is nice.

>>4843969
No, they're xbox 360 games. What the fuck do you think, dumbass?

>>4843950
People who aren't insufferable poorfag thieves, usually.

>>4843929
Might & Magic 1-9
Alpha Centauri

>>4844705
Enjoy always being poorer than me because I don't squander my capital on 0's and 1's, poorcuck.

>>4843950
Fuck off Pablo

>>4844712
The words of thieves are meaningless.

>>4843929
https://www.gog.com/game/majesty_gold_hd (thanks sseth)
https://www.gog.com/game/dd_stronghold_kingdom_simulator been eyeing this one for a long time
https://www.gog.com/game/praetorians RTS made by the same devs as the god damn Commandos series, plus there's no resource management, just talking over villages in order to conscript dudes into an ever growing army

just enough to get sunless sea for free, too

>>4844673
Dunno, I've never used GOG. That's why I was asking. If it's just PC games, though, I don't think I'll find anything I'm interested in.

How am I looking guys?

>>4845147
Cont.

>>4845147
Too many not retros.

>>4845170
There's a lot of retro PC stuff I missed, since I never had a strong PC and my gaming memories comes from handhelds. As such, going about GOG is like exploring a strange, ancient land with strange and different customs and conventions. I grabbed a set of games I knew were well known, but ended up gravitating to indies and SNK games, since I know those the best.

NonVR? Mirrors Edge. Thinking if I should get Beyond Good and Evil

>>4844285
I really love 8, a lot of people hate it but the atmosphere and pure sense of dread is unlike others in the series.
9 is trash though, don't bother.

one of the rare examples of 1) where reddit is better than 4chan and 2) where moderation is actually useful: this shill thread would be appropriately deleted

Nothing. I'm not a retard who pays for digital bits

>>4844543
It's pretty good thus far. It started out simple but it's gotten layers as I've progressed. It can get confusing in the dungeons and what not as the camera is sometimes rotated in a funny way. One thing I didn't even realize that normal attack can only be used when you're very near the enemy. Skills you can spam from a distance.

It seems the game operates on the classic town hub system, where you occasionally find new ways to get back to town.

The skill system is interesting as every skill and spell has its own use meter. This means you'll want to get as many sills as possible and you'll be switching them as you get deeper into the dungeons.

I also noticed I was actually getting worried about whether I should venture deeper or get back into town to save. Save points are few and far between. If you die, you can choose to lose half the money and some potions, or load.
You can put your money in a stash so you don't lose any, but I haven't gotten so much that I'd ever had a giant surplus of it. There's always healing potions, weapons, armor and skills to buy.

A good waste of time, really.

>>4845124
You could have just gone on the site and looked, you know.

>>4843950
It's nice and simple. Download and everything is ready to go. Some old games require weird libraries and dependenciess and special configurations and shit. GOG requires you to click install and then you double click the icon on your desktop to play.
Also GOG is pretty cheap. and you get bonus content with the game purchase sometimes.

>>4844817
>In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the lawful owner of it.

Notice the last 8 words there. Stop using basic English words incorrectly and go back to school.

>>4845726
Pretty defensive and upset for somebody who isn't a thief

>>4845760
>lol, u mad??

Reminder than pirating has been a part of 4chan since forever and most did you buy x threads are made by paid shills therefore you shouldn't fall for their schemes.

>>4845726
>>4845813
I wonder why Pirates are so sensitive about being called a "thief". They tend to give off an uncaring and self assured attitude generally, even in this thread where they bluntly reprimand people for buying games, but as soon as the "T" word is mentioned, they get irritable and start picking apart definitions and playing the lawyer to justify themselves.

It's like taking things that don't belong to them and was not given to them isn't the noble, heroic and sensible act they play it up as.

>>4845813
>paid shills therefore you shouldn't fall for their schemes.
nobody cares about your weeb retro gaming bbs

>>4845837
Oh the irony.

>>4845851
Sure you don't mr Shekelstein.

>>4845876
>not supporting the biggest drm-free, retro-friendly vidya james site

some might call you deplorable

>>4845813

>shills for buying games

In case you didn’t know, anything not spent on food and shelter is a frivolity. The fact that people like you are so assblasted over a thread not made for you (everyone knows that you can just pirate old games) tells us that you’re all projecting some form of insecurity.

>>4845837
>>4845879
>he gets booty-blasted when somebody doesn't pay for a 20 year-old video game

>>4845898

I literally don’t give a shit. I spend as much as I spent on these games on lunch over 3 days. You’re the only one here trying to actually convince me that spending money that’s mine to spend on stuff that I like is bad.

>>4845907
Yes I am absolutely convinced you don't give a shit after filling up half this thread with your angry posts. Shalom.

>>4845797
Says the guy who is clearly mad, oh well enjoy suffering in hell forever

>>4845813
stupid goyim keep bumping the thread though, maybe you should figure out how the hide button works if you're this upset

>>4843929
In this thread: normalfags getting trolled by pirates.

>>4845916
>oh well enjoy suffering in hell forever
Is this what they call the hard sell?

>>4845917
If this thread is trolling then trolling really is a lost art. Do you have no respect for the skill of humorously rusing people? Or are you on of those brain-dead morons who think just saying "I'm being ironic" gives you a shield to be stupid?

They need to put 4chan behind a $0.10 paywall so we can get rid of all these poorfag pirates that ruin every thread screeching about how stupid it is to buy things when stealing is so much easier.

>>4846116
>Good goy, keep buying the products I advertise her... wait nooooo, why wouldn't you fall for my schemee, aaaaaaaaaah

>>4846123
Yeah, screeching poorfaggotry exactly like that. Thank you.

>>4846116
also we should have upboats and be forced to upload our ids like the jannies, to be parsed by an ai and only accepted if a large percentage of hebe dna is detected

>>4846147
Yeah, that's the exact kind of pisspants samefaggotry I was referring to. Perfectly illustrated, thanks.

>>4846085
>If this thread is trolling then trolling really is a lost art.
It most definitely is.

>Do you have no respect ...
Why ask me? I only made an observation. It's just the same old antagonistic "let's see if I can get him now!!" shitposting that has become prevalent on this board. Would've reported it otherwise but I'm afraid the janitor doesn't give a damn anymore and neither do the mods (I'm also tired of doing that shit all the time, let someone else do their contribution already).

>>4846116
Go ahead and do it, that would just drive more people to superior 8ch.

I grabbed FAR: Lone Sails and FoxTail, getting Sunless Sea and RiME for "free"

FAR was nice and atmospheric but i'm a huge steam engine/locomotive nerd so that really helped carry it, the game was short and almost a walking simulator.

FoxTail is a cute little point and click adventure, I think made by a russian team though the translation is pretty damn good. I played about three hours and then it crashed and lacks an autosave feature so i'll pick that one up another day.

Sunless Sea is Sunless sea, i'm more excited about the development of skies instead.

RiME was great, I played through it in one long sitting and enjoyed it thoroughly all the way through. I've never seen such fucking amazing BRObots that can't talk in any other game. Genuinely enjoyed this, starts out overly cute I agree but the tone doesn't stay there for too long.

>>4846163
Oh shit sorry guys, didn't realise I was looking at /vr/ because I was distracted in another tab. Sorry!

>>4843950
People who aren't going to hell.

>>4843962
Doesnt abandonware mean that its been abandoned and isnt sold anywhere? What are you on about

>>4845147
I got sunless sea too. Immeadetly uninstalled it, because it BLUE SCREEN(!!!) my windows 7 PC. THere aren'T many games that manage to BLUE SCREEN my pc...

>paying for old games
>PLAYING OLD GAMES

why the fuck would you? they're all trash lmao

>>4844712
> $300
> capital

>>4845837
>I wonder why Pirates are so sensitive about being called a "thief"
Thief doesn't bother me. It's just an insult, it's not like it's entirely unfair to assume a bragging pirate is also a thief. "Stealing" is the word that bothers me, particularly given that high-profile corporate advertising campaigns specifically tried to sell the concept that piracy equals stealing. It just doesn't. Words have meanings and using the wrong meanings on purpose because it favors your agenda just ruins language and makes everyone dumber.

>>4843929
maybe i'm just a retard but i can rarely ever get these games to work properly without fucking my laptop's display despite using pcgamingwiki.com as a means to patch them.

>>4845147
People shit on Dust but I really got sucked into it. Even more amazing that it was developed mainly by one person.

>>4845916
>kill the heathen, just don't steal from them
Religion is weird.

Contrary to popular belief, piracy isn't free and being the uploader that handles the site is a thankless job.

>>4844010
>>4845879
>filthy kike
>not supporting biggest, drm-free, retro-friendly
The pirate sites are drm-free with a larger selection. It's not their fault everyone takes free shit from them, doesn't give anything back and then acts like they're virtuous. Especially you guys who'll keep pretending you never pirated anything to look good on a shitty image board.

>>4844130
>"Technically" you don't own any software.
You do in the EU. You can sell any digital shit you buy.

>>4848035
>People shit on Dust
It has a 10/10 score on Steam. They don't shit on Dust.

I had Magic Carpet 1&2 and Tex Murphy 1&2 in my cart but I forget to ever checkout RIP

>>4851561
Tex Murphy 2 is impossible to play but TM2 (Martian Memorandum) is surprisingly comfy