Now is the perfect time to try something different. Good Old Games (GOG), is holding their holiday sale and Steam will be doing their mega sell probably starting next week. So if you have ever been interested in trying pc gaming now is the time to give it a go.
I know I know, the biggest complaint about PC gaming is cost. It cost so much to game since you have to upgrade your pc every few months (which Is bs but we are not getting into that argument tonight). Well fret not, this is where GOG comes in. GOG sells old games that are worth playing, hence their name. Right now you can pick up about 200 games that will run fine on a netbook with no tweaking whatsoever and all for under $10 each. Hows that for expensive? When you buy a game from GOG you download an executable (EXE) and just double click on it and follow the prompts, 9/10 times it will autoconfigure everything for you. Simple and inexpensive, we have moved up in the world.
However being that this is digital distribution I know a lot of you are hesitant to jump on board. Physical copies are superior no one here is debating that. My thoughts on this are simply that spending $3 to get a copy of Rise of the Triad that installs without me playing around with it for two hours is well worth it. Or if you were an early adopter of Unreal Tournament 2004, like I was those five cd installs get tedious, isnt $6 worth it to not do that anymore?
There are other advantages to GOG. They strip the original DRM from the games and release them DRM free. So games that I would not have bought previously Broken Sword 3 came with Starforce (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starforce), are now purchase worthy. Also, though this is frowned upon by some, if you bought a multiplayer game, say Unreal Tournament 2004, you could install it on multiple computers and play with/against them. And if that wasnt enough they will even GIVE you games. They have several free to download aslong as you have an account games Tyrian 2000 was added to that list today.
So if any of that sounds interesting to you, head on over to
www.gog.com and give a company that does Digital Distribution for old games right.
Personally, I am picking up copies of:
Raptor
Baldurs Gate 1 my copy is scratched
Baldurs Gate 2
Rise of the Triad
Serious Sam 1
Serious Sam 2
Neverwinter Nights Diamond Those half a dozen cds get to stay on the shelf now
Total Annihilation
Planescape Torment I figure its about time I play the game everyone keeps telling me is one of the best ever created.
Thats almost a years worth of gaming for well under $40.
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Personally, I am picking up copies of:
Raptor
That's the upward-scrolling shoot-em-up that's reminiscent of Xevious, is it not? I managed to get to the ninth level on that one. And for some reason, I always listened to my Toto's Greatest Hits CD while playing it...
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That it is. And your combination with Toto is both funny and awesome. I appreciate that juxtaposition.
I also realize now that for some reason alot of my punctuation did not translate into the post - which is just odd and makes it difficult to read.
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I have actually been doing some PC gaming as of late.
If you want to always play the newest best releases it seems like that is when PC gaming gets more on the expensive side with new hardware costs but game prices for PC games seem to always be lower, sometimes drastically so, so it is kind of a wash.
Thanks for the heads up but i don't think i'll be grabbing anything :-/
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Nothing like "[missing] the rains down in Africa" while a hellstorm of bullets are flying at ya.
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@singlebanana:I got more pumped-up with Rosanna, Hold the Line, and Live for Today.
And don't get me started on I Won't Hold You Back...
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