Dear GOG,

Thank you for all of your efforts. You have successfully recreated the golden era of PC gaming.

First and foremost is the anti DRM mentality, I live in a very remote area where internet connectivity is very poor and very expensive. I recently went through an extremely frustrating exercise after buying a new game and finding that I couldn't play it without doing a 60 Gb download. After exhausting every other avenue I ended up paying someone in the city to download a pirate copy for me because I couldn't possibly run the disks I'd paid for legally. I now use them as drinks coasters next to the barbecue.

Another issue is my computer security, the only real way you can guarantee this is to never let Windows access the internet so I dual boot Windows and Linux. Windows doesn't even get the drivers for lan card or wireless, it's an isolated system for game playing. If I want to go on the net or do some serious work I use Linux. DosBox also runs in Linux so I will be trying that out as well.

And that brings me to my final point which I think is where you got your name – Good Old Games. One of my favourite games of all time (not on your list yet but I'm hopeful) was Shogun Total War and it just doesn't play nicely on modern graphics cards so I tried Shogun II and ran in to the DRM nightmare. Once I got through that I discovered that the new game is crap, much better graphics but hardly any game. In the original game Japan is broken up into 40 or 50 different regions and there's a different battle map for each of them, in the new game there's only 2 different battle maps so you end up playing the same battles over and over until you get too bored to be bothered finishing the game.

Thank You GOG.

Andrew.

Yep. Its great to see beloved classic games made playable once again :D

Thanks for the replies SalarShushan and CharlesGrey.

I must admit that my profile doesn't really match the modern average user, but I'm a crotchety old fart and I want the world to go back to how it used to be.

The only multi-player system I ever liked was the setup that came with the first Age of Empires and we all had dial up modems. So you'd start the game, phone a mate and tell him to start his game, then tell AoE your mate's phone number and it would connect directly to his computer through the phone lines. Do war with no outside interference and no lag from over-burdened servers. No advertising, no DRM, no corporate self gratification, just give it a phone number and do war.

I have been spoiled. The newer ways just take all the fun out of it. A bit like all this Facebook and Twitter stuff, if you really want to meet new friends and pursue new interests why don't you just go down to the local pub or football club and introduce yourself? Ah, it's a different world now.

I'll just crawl back in to my box.

Cheers,

Andrew.

Your not alone, I totally agree with all you say. Although I would add that serial cable Doom was OK for a while as well, and then we all went down the pub.