I dont normally post on forums or anything, but I wanted to take a second and say thanks to the folks at GoG and the community at large for supporting them. Over the last couple of years I have been able to recollect amazing versions of the games that gave me endless hours of joy as a kid. I currently have 83 games in my library, which I assume isn't that many compared to most folks, but I can't explain how happy I am to have access to these games and memories.

I just wanted to take a second and really say Thanks for all the hard work, it is appreciated greatly.

...also... Eric the Unready & Conan the Cimmerian please.

And links, for those who are too lazy to look it up themselves:

Eric the Unready: Wikipedia, Wishlist.
Conan the Cimmerian: Wishlist. I personally didn't realise this was the same as the well-known Barbarian.

what games?

I'm curious here, and I love to reminisce about this kind of stuff and find out how nostalgia hits people differently.

Glad to see someone mention a Legend Entertainment game. Most of their games were based on books, but Eric the Unready and Mission Critical, two great adventure games, were original IPs (as were a couple of their other games). I'm still hoping that someday we might see them.

yea i feel you.
GoG really is something refreshing even though nothing is really new here :p
all the drm nonsense is out of the way and we can enjoy the games just as we used to without endless patching and so on.^^

i was almost about to stop gaming in general years ago after going through the FPS era on the x360. last 2 years of its cycle were especially painful.

however i thought about games in general and that made me wonder how i got from PC and Nintendo to Cod and linear cinematic RPG's on the x360.
thats when it hit me and i started to give it another try

The nostalgia i feel about all the old RPGs that i played is wierd to explain.
the majority of games that i played on PC were pretty much just me alone and the game and yet it feels like im in company of my old friends and family while i play these games. i think most it is relieving a chapter of my life which is long gone.
im not just playing the game with some memories its also part of my past.

for example i remember playing Baldurs Gate 2 on a rainy week.
i didnt go to school for the week because i was "sick" and made myself comfortable with plenty of tea. didnt beat the game because it was way to complicated for my young self back then but i didnt gave up. also the story got me hooked and i came back some years later and beat it.
and i probably created more than 20 characters until i was satisfied. that alone took the first day of my week.^^
the feeling that everyone else was going to school on cold rainy days made the game a whole lot more enjoyable to me than it already was. i know its cruel

Gothic 1 and 2+addon were not really running well on my old Computer and the FPS were dropping really hard. reloarding after dying took literaly minutes. but i didnt give a damn about that because the game was way to interesting to stop playing.
going through the first minecrawler cave was like horror movie come true in the game itself. i think i was 11 when i played it. i was fascinated and disgusted by those creatures at the same time.

games that i love and played were:
Heroes of might & magic 3+4, Baldurs gate 1+2, vampire bloodlines, gothic 1+2, anno 1503 and more

aside from nostalgia. many old games do work better by being less overloaded with pointless loot and size of the world map.
gothic and baldurs gate are in general small games in terms of map size. but they still feel 100 times bigger to me than any modern open world game.
these games also dont spoil the fun of figuring stuff out on your own. and its even more of an acomplishment once ive figured it out.