Point taken, but I think what he/she means is the shift away from LAN and towards proprietary WAN servers. I can take a copy of Duke 3D and play it with friends over a LAN even today. You can forget playing Starcraft 2 in years to come though (assuming that Blizzard doesn't patch in LAN support at a later date, although I have heard of efforts to provide third-party LAN support).

I wanna read an old comic, I gotta pay some cash, and do some work, and reading it is it's own reward... Yet some how theft is the choice to some when it comes to video games.. Kind of sad


So keeping around an old system is to much trouble to play a great game? Funny how the new tech trend is something that is really not any better than a 10 year old peice of hardware.. I swear half the time i read specs on new things it reads like a 10 year old PC gamer dream system.. Plus a few modern shaders..

Welcome to the future.. It's Y2k all over again..


But so many games i'm still playing from 20 years ago,, I'll most likely be playing 20 years from now atleast from time to time. single player, and stratagey are what PC games have always been about for a good portion of users, and will continue to be long past what the cool kids are doing..

Just wait, an I-pad will be soo 2012.. 10 years from now.. I-who???

There is a fine line between making a service preserving classics, and just trying to sell you the same games many times.

I find it telling that e.g. Sony removed the PS2 backwards compatibility from PS3. I first didn't quite understand why they'd do that... until they started re-releasing their older Playstation titles on PSN. Figures, they'd like to see me buy the games I already have on CDs and DVDs (and for others, download the games from them instead of buying the original game from EBay).

It is telling there has been quite a few HD remakes lately, especially on consoles. But that is good news to those who have no access to the original (physical) game but would like to play them, but that is not a valid reason to drop the backwards compatibility.

GOG to the rescue!

I play much more old games than new games. For PC games, i have hardly a choice since my computer is older than 10 years and new games wont run on it. I could play new games on my xbox360, but the last three games i bought for it are FIFA12, FIFA11 and FIFA10 and you can guess what will be the next game. But i still buy a ps2 game from time to time, and for pc games i have gog.
Maybe it is some kind of nostalgia, but i am not really into new games, i tried top games like GTAIV, Fallout3 or Assasins Creed but i stoped playing them after a couple of hours and never touched them again.
But i still replay some old strategy games like Age of Empires 2 or StarCraft 1 or SSX or Timespliiters on the ps2. But those only in multiplayer. I usually don't replay singelplayer games, but i try some old ones, i didn't know so far.
But i don't play games that are 20 years old. Those games are even older than the first ones i played.

Of course, "we" don't. Noone's forcing you to take a stand, if you're indifferent towards the issue. It mostly concerns collectors and people with an interest in preserving gaming history, as well as those who don't have a lot of time to play their games right here right now.

I don't read into the future - for all I know we could all be dead by tomorrow, but does that keep us from accumulating money and possession? Apparantly not. Anyway, I can positively say that it might take a lifetime to play through all the games I've collected and I can't judge yet which ones of these I will indeed want to play through and when. And I know that in the past several games have rested unplayed on my shelves for years before I finally got to play and enjoy them. If the idea of people still being interested in games 10 or 20 years after their release was so absurd, I guess GOG would be out of business by now.

I don't like to replay RPGs either, and back in the days I could have resold them after my playthrough. Now that I don't have that right and opportunity anymore with digital releases, you think I might just as well also give up the hope of playing my games wherever and whenever I want to, and still pay the same price for them? That doesn't sit well with me, but to each their own.

HArd to say. Most of them won't be compatible with modern systems. But I still play almost every month some sessions with Age of empires 1.

Starcraft 2 and WoW, most likely... but hoping it won't take Blizzard 10 years to create a sequel... again.

I have a list called Games To Finish in OneNote... slowly clearing it, 30-50 games left in it, I think. I don't think I'll play any of those games anytime soon, let alone in 10 years or so.

Probably none, because I'll be dead.

StarCraft 2, maybe with the expansion if they release it so early.

Are you 70 years old or suffering from a terminal disease?

I ask because I'm not sure if this was irony or meant genuinely. I have a 75-year-old neighbour playing Oblivion on his son's old PS3.

Man there are a lot of games that I will probably be playing in 10 - 20 years. The mains ones will probably be Half-Life series because of mods, X-com series, Age of Wonders, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, S.P.A.Z, Fallout series, Blood, Duke Nukem 3D and Binding of Issac. There are still a ton more games I can list but these are really my main ones.

WinBox!

DosBox existed and was widely used well before GOG was so established.

I disagree. "Backwards gaming" seems to be the new hype. Even consoles/handhelds now have the ability to purchase and play old games.

Actually, I only disagree "half way", as in, yes we can't play them natively, but "virtual consoles" et al will remain.

It would be awesome, but I haven't heard that anybody worked on, for example, windows 98 emulation, and some games doesn't work even on XP.
And I would have to buy them again? No. freakin. way.