New "Good Old Games" LEGAL Download service

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-09-06 07:44pm

Nah it's not the African one, it's the Werewolf one. And there's no reason to play any of them other than 2 anyway; QfG3+ is stupid easy with a proper character and the first one is quite different in tone.

bozazz · Post by **bozazz** » 2008-09-06 08:51pm

you guys might be interested in gametap. They have a few interesting classic games that are free to download. The catch is a 15 second ad. I don't find it too annoying as I could often just go to the washroom or grab a bite to eat.

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2008-09-07 01:47pm

You don't know if they have Freespace Silent Threat or the old game Spycraft do you?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2008-09-07 02:28pm

Bounty wrote:
Enigma wrote:Would they have a XP\Vista compatible Klingon Academy?
Licensed games are always tricky to reissue, so I wouldn't count on it.

Klingon Academy was also, unfortunately, a very buggy game even under Windows 98. As much as I loved it, if I were in charge of a company guaranteeing compatibility for re-released old games, I wouldn't want to be the one to release Klingon Academy.

RogueIce wrote:If they have the Quest for Glory series (1 through V, including the VGA remake of 1) and the original Sam and Max game, I'll be impressed.

Otherwise, I'm largely meh.

I think the Quest for Glory games are supposed to all work pretty well with DOSBox.

starslayer · Post by **starslayer** » 2008-09-07 08:35pm

Jade Falcon wrote:You don't know if they have Freespace Silent Threat or the old game Spycraft do you?

Do you have FS2 and can you play the SCP? If so, go here and download the FSPort. IIRC, it has Silent Threat included. The team is also working on a complete revision of Silent Threat.

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2008-09-07 08:39pm

I have an old big box version of Freespace 2, and even one of Freespace, I was never able to track down Silent Threat though.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-09-07 09:05pm

Silent Threat:Reborn isn't out, they've been making it for fucking years, and Silent Thread was FUCKING AWFUL, 90s fanmade-mission stupidity full of bugs. You're not missing ANYTHING - this is why ST:R is totally remaking it, instead of just porting the existing missions as with Freespace 1.

Post by **weemadando** » 2008-09-12 04:50am

It has 1nsane.

IT HAS 1NSANE.

BEST. SITE. EVAH!!!!11!shift+one!11!

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2008-09-13 09:15am

No Guybrush Threepwood (yet), but they have Fallout, Descent, and Freespace.

I think I'm gonna like it here.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2008-09-13 09:54am

Molyneux wrote:No Guybrush Threepwood (yet), but they have Fallout, Descent, and Freespace.

I think I'm gonna like it here.

They don't have any adventure games

.

They also lack good old platformers, they have Earthwork Jim 3d for example, but not 1,2, or Raptor, Tyrian, Stargunner, etc'.

The "Free Interplay" deal looks nice, I may buy a game (not sure which) and take Freespace 2 as well. (Fuck the SCP, I want everything to work!

)

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2008-09-13 05:12pm

I'd really like them to have Spycraft, who remembers that game, that was pretty in depth for its time.

Adventure games though, it would be sweet if they had something like Sanitarium, Black Dahlia, or I Have no mouth and i must scream.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-09-13 05:20pm

Molyneux wrote:No Guybrush Threepwood (yet), but they have Fallout, Descent, and Freespace.

I think I'm gonna like it here.

The early Monkey Island games work on SCUMMvm. If you persist in not using it, and waiting for someone to charge you more for new hacked exes when a modern frontend exists, that's awesome.

I'm not buying any of this shit until someone who isn't retarded can discuss their updating quality. If they've done quick and dirty hackjobs that render the games incompatible with any mods from the period, then the service is useless, but if they have elegantly updated the source code to that'd be cool ... if extraordinarily unlikely.

If only there were people interested in this thread who weren't so dumb they think playing FS2 is 'better' than using the modern frontend, lol.

Actually, Flash tells me he's playing FO2 off his original CDs just fine in Vista; I'll have to break out mine when I get home as I had video issues under XP.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2008-09-13 05:21pm

Stark wrote: If only there were people interested in this thread who weren't so dumb they think playing FS2 is 'better' than using the modern frontend, lol.

Or are unaware of SCP installers.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-09-13 05:22pm

Let's be fair; it's not like the site is organised or well-laid out. That said, it's pretty hard to have SCP problems if you're not using the new content... in which case it looks exactly like FS2. So... he's an idiot.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2008-09-13 05:24pm

Stark wrote:Let's be fair; it's not like the site is organised or well-laid out. That said, it's pretty hard to have SCP problems if you're not using the new content... in which case it looks exactly like FS2. So... he's an idiot.

Here's the installer. I know I've posted the link multiple times in this forum.

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2008-09-13 05:28pm

Stark wrote:If only there were people interested in this thread who weren't so dumb they think playing FS2 is 'better' than using the modern frontend, lol.

Hell, I've still got my original Fallout, FO2, Planescape and Arcanum big box CD's. FO2 and Planescape both work fine on Vista, which made me laugh when I emailed EA about a problem with BF2, and they stated it was an 'old game'. When you can get games that are about 10 years old running on the newest OS that's not bad.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-09-13 05:34pm

Oh, really? Under XP I had that problem where the screen would go black until you moved the camera around - I don't remember if it was FO or FO2. I still have my old version too, but if it works fine under vista that's pretty awesome. Flash was RIGHT!

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2008-09-13 05:42pm

Stark wrote:Oh, really? Under XP I had that problem where the screen would go black until you moved the camera around - I don't remember if it was FO or FO2. I still have my old version too, but if it works fine under vista that's pretty awesome. Flash was RIGHT!

There was the occasional crash, but I've been playing it with the Killap mod.

Fallout I've heard does have Vista issues, but I haven't played it in a long time.

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2008-09-14 01:59am

Stark wrote:
Molyneux wrote:No Guybrush Threepwood (yet), but they have Fallout, Descent, and Freespace.

I think I'm gonna like it here.
The early Monkey Island games work on SCUMMvm. If you persist in not using it, and waiting for someone to charge you more for new hacked exes when a modern frontend exists, that's awesome.

For not the first time: is it legal for me to do that?

Post by **weemadando** » 2008-09-14 02:32am

Jade Falcon wrote:I'd really like them to have Spycraft, who remembers that game, that was pretty in depth for its time.

Adventure games though, it would be sweet if they had something like Sanitarium, Black Dahlia, or I Have no mouth and i must scream.

That'd be awesome. I'd love to have more people play Spycraft. Less with the handholding, more with the "oops, you made an incorrect assumption, back to square 1 for you!"

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-09-14 03:37am

Molyneux wrote:For not the first time: is it legal for me to do that?

You're freaking me out. You're honestly asking if it's legal to play a game you already own in the privacy of your own home?

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2008-09-14 10:04am

Stark wrote:
Molyneux wrote:For not the first time: is it legal for me to do that?
You're freaking me out. You're honestly asking if it's legal to play a game you already own in the privacy of your own home?

...no, I don't own any of the Monkey Island games. I never have. That's why I was hoping that GOG would start offering them.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-09-14 05:39pm

Oh I see. Well I'm just a dumbass then; I figured everyone in the world had owned them. It is certainly NOT legal to use SCUMMvm to play Lucasarts games you don't own.

It's kinda a shame actually; I'd almost buy them from someone like these guys and then use SCUMMvm anyway, just for the extra functionality.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2008-09-15 02:04am

Stark wrote:Oh I see. Well I'm just a dumbass then; I figured everyone in the world had owned them. It is certainly NOT legal to use SCUMMvm to play Lucasarts games you don't own.

It's kinda a shame actually; I'd almost buy them from someone like these guys and then use SCUMMvm anyway, just for the extra functionality.

Some of us were born too late to play games and to be able to walk around alone in 1992

. And lack those games in budget bins.
Monkey Island 3 (Curse) is awesome at least, but hell i'd KILL for a fully working, audio-visual copy of say, Simon the Sorceror 2 (Or an english speaking version of SS1), or the Discworld games

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2008-09-15 06:10pm

Discworld Noir is still relatively easy to get, but the first two games, not so much.