Back to the classics
Posted in Video Games on October 28th, 2008
So gog.com went into open beta today, and if you haven’t checked it out already you absolutely should. It’s a video games vendor in the vein of Steam or Stardock, but for older games that we “hardcore*” gamers like to call “classics.”
I first heard about Gog from Shamus Young (over at www.shamusyoung.com) while he was particularly upset about DRM on today’s games. Gog’s most exciting feature to me is that you’re getting all of the games 100% DRM free. You pay them for the download (almost always under 10 dollars) and you get the game in its entirely, with no DRM to speak of.
Also, most of the games have been “updated” to work in Vista and XP. No longer do I have to install my copy of Wing Commander and realize that since the games frame rate was tied to my clock speed, it’s running at a gajillion** frames per second.
Now excuse me while I go remember why the original Fallout was such an awesome game.
*note: I’m a hardcore gamer like Budwiser is a “hardcore” beer…
**that’s a one with a bazillion zeros after it.