Posted April 03, 2015
Let me tell you how I go about this (caution, angry rambling ahead).
I bought all Sierra games (and 390 other games) on gog ONLY to support their cause in preserving old games and to show my interest in Sierra games and other old games. I want gog to see that people buy this stuff, so they should bring not only more of it, but also improve LACKING quality of existing content.
I know that throwing money in people that you know are doing a lousy job is the worst way to teach them a lesson, but they are the only people who are doing this sort of thing at all. Which only shows how unready consumers are to buy retro stuff.
Unfortunately most old games on gog are treated like shit. gog don't care, Activision doesn't care, buyers kind of care, but not too much. So I just dl the stuff I need, use innoextract to see how gog went about their next shitty compilation of whatever they found on the net or got from activision, laugh a little and just play dld stuff in scummvm, dosbox or whatever I feel like at the moment.
For example, I dled all available versions of KQ5 which are supported by scummvm and found out that I enjoy the mac version the most, because it has prettier icons, no extra walk icon and the music sounds nicer on my setup and it has no voice acting which I dislike quite a lot.
The next thing I did I downloaded a high res copy of user manual and put it in my smartphone. Then I found a text version of it in case I feel like staring at some ascii art in sublime text instead.
It was lovingly typed by hand by some fellow nerd (cudos to you my dear friend), also helps when you need to use cmd+f to actually f_ing find things you NEED (kq4s spells is a great example).
To finish it up, I downloaded a FANTASTIC fan soundtrack compilation recorded from a real MT-32 and post processed into an oblivion, loaded it up in itunes and had hours of musically induced fun!
Real. Premium Quality. Nerdy. Content. Shit. + Awesome Bonuses lovingly created for you by people as pathetic as you are (love you guys). All free on the internet.
So why in the world would I suffer through
-gog's crappy talkie versions, which they or activision or I don't care who prefer to put out instead of floppies
-idiotic bonus content - like, a couple sizes of a wallpaper they screengrabbed off of a scan of an old box as well as the f___ing avatars which are cropped shitty heads of characters from aforementioned wallpapers (serious bonus content business shit)
-their stupidest approach to compiling manuals (looks like the responsible person hired a monkey for this job, the manuals are the worst for so many games), pages are different sizes, differing page orientation, pages missing, manual for a random release of the game, preferring the worst of cause, most just stuff you can get on replacement docs, but only if you are really lazy
-wrapping of games in boxer or dated versions of scummvm, saves and configs stored n weird places
-remakes and hd updates of games, all of them sucking big time (wasteland, chaos engine to name the few, i bought too much of this shit, could have so many sandwiches instead :( ).
???
Hours and hours of enjoyable gaming and accompanying activities are just few clicks away from you without all this bullshit if you search the web. All info and files are out there. Just make sure you back it up in case you want to revisit this nerdiest of experiences in future or share it with others.
The problem here is that people who put this out sell games without playing and experiencing them. It's sad that gog is the only option we have and this option turned from a cool idea into a crap corporate sales pitch ridden shenanigans type of thing with support guys always ending their statements with smiley faces and telling that they are not too technical and that the responsibility is not theirs.
I don't discourage you to pay, I encourage you to play smart.
Happy gaming, lads.
I bought all Sierra games (and 390 other games) on gog ONLY to support their cause in preserving old games and to show my interest in Sierra games and other old games. I want gog to see that people buy this stuff, so they should bring not only more of it, but also improve LACKING quality of existing content.
I know that throwing money in people that you know are doing a lousy job is the worst way to teach them a lesson, but they are the only people who are doing this sort of thing at all. Which only shows how unready consumers are to buy retro stuff.
Unfortunately most old games on gog are treated like shit. gog don't care, Activision doesn't care, buyers kind of care, but not too much. So I just dl the stuff I need, use innoextract to see how gog went about their next shitty compilation of whatever they found on the net or got from activision, laugh a little and just play dld stuff in scummvm, dosbox or whatever I feel like at the moment.
For example, I dled all available versions of KQ5 which are supported by scummvm and found out that I enjoy the mac version the most, because it has prettier icons, no extra walk icon and the music sounds nicer on my setup and it has no voice acting which I dislike quite a lot.
The next thing I did I downloaded a high res copy of user manual and put it in my smartphone. Then I found a text version of it in case I feel like staring at some ascii art in sublime text instead.
It was lovingly typed by hand by some fellow nerd (cudos to you my dear friend), also helps when you need to use cmd+f to actually f_ing find things you NEED (kq4s spells is a great example).
To finish it up, I downloaded a FANTASTIC fan soundtrack compilation recorded from a real MT-32 and post processed into an oblivion, loaded it up in itunes and had hours of musically induced fun!
Real. Premium Quality. Nerdy. Content. Shit. + Awesome Bonuses lovingly created for you by people as pathetic as you are (love you guys). All free on the internet.
So why in the world would I suffer through
-gog's crappy talkie versions, which they or activision or I don't care who prefer to put out instead of floppies
-idiotic bonus content - like, a couple sizes of a wallpaper they screengrabbed off of a scan of an old box as well as the f___ing avatars which are cropped shitty heads of characters from aforementioned wallpapers (serious bonus content business shit)
-their stupidest approach to compiling manuals (looks like the responsible person hired a monkey for this job, the manuals are the worst for so many games), pages are different sizes, differing page orientation, pages missing, manual for a random release of the game, preferring the worst of cause, most just stuff you can get on replacement docs, but only if you are really lazy
-wrapping of games in boxer or dated versions of scummvm, saves and configs stored n weird places
-remakes and hd updates of games, all of them sucking big time (wasteland, chaos engine to name the few, i bought too much of this shit, could have so many sandwiches instead :( ).
???
Hours and hours of enjoyable gaming and accompanying activities are just few clicks away from you without all this bullshit if you search the web. All info and files are out there. Just make sure you back it up in case you want to revisit this nerdiest of experiences in future or share it with others.
The problem here is that people who put this out sell games without playing and experiencing them. It's sad that gog is the only option we have and this option turned from a cool idea into a crap corporate sales pitch ridden shenanigans type of thing with support guys always ending their statements with smiley faces and telling that they are not too technical and that the responsibility is not theirs.
I don't discourage you to pay, I encourage you to play smart.
Happy gaming, lads.
Post edited April 03, 2015 by l3l3l5l
