12-07-2008, 10:32 PM
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Wonder if anyone's seen this yet...
http://www.gog.com/en/intro
http://www.shacknews.com/featuredart...?id=914&page=2 Personally...I'll be in heaven once this site kicks off. |
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13-07-2008, 01:21 AM
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It doesn't sound like they have covered all their bases. Selling old games without any game documentation does not make sense.
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13-07-2008, 05:38 AM
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Read the article closer. Many old games won't have any documentation since there's nothing to do about it. Gone is gone. If they can they will perhaps make their own version instead.
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13-07-2008, 07:44 AM
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It sounds like they're trying to take an Itunes approach to gaming. If everything is legit and legal, I give them credit for thinking outside the box to some extent.
However, I question how much success they will have with this. Many of the bigger manufacturers are going to have problems with DRM free. Not to mention that they will likely want to hold on to the bigger franchises in case they want to do compilations. I'm also curious as to how many companies are going to let the GOG folks mess with their games to make them XP friendlier. It seems like all around there will be a lot of legal red tape. On the customer front, it could be nice to have a game that is ready to play and a download away. Though a lot of older games can be bought used from ebay or half.com for under $5, so I would hope that most would carry the lower price point (if the vendors have a say, I'm expecting they will be closer to the $10 mark) |
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13-07-2008, 10:26 AM
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hmm i don't know, does it concern the dos titles? it's a different platform. the dude in the interview said that they aim for vista compatibility,an ultimate support and stuff like that.
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13-07-2008, 12:10 PM
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Xp and Vista support would be cool for old games...but I'm a bit suspicious.
Let's wait and see what happens.
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13-07-2008, 12:29 PM
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They always can go the steam way, and include dosbox or such for dosgames.
Because honnestly, recode all those ol'dosgames to get sound support and other NT likes noncompatible thingies, that will be the day. Also: most of the modern monitors can't even display properly the low res screen outputs directly.
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13-07-2008, 12:32 PM
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I signed up for the beta!
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13-07-2008, 12:45 PM
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Oh oh oh !!
Did you have to give personal info? Carefull friend, someone is going to steal your identity! 
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13-07-2008, 12:50 PM
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Interesting, but I'm more than a little doubtful of their claims regarding recoding the games.
For starters, they'd need the source code. Which might be a major problem with some older titles. Quote:
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