GOG Preservation Program expands with Devil May Cry HD Collection, Devil May Cry 4 and more classics
GOG have announced an expansion of their GOG Preservation Program again, to keep classic retro games running nicely with a bunch more games added.
With this news GOG have announced that both the Devil May Cry HD Collection and Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition are now available on their store and come as part of the Preservation Program.
On top of that these titles also join the Preservation Program:
Source: GOG
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M@GOid a day ago
One wishes someday GOG will be able to sell No One Lives Forever 1 & 2. Some years ago they tried and the shareholders were too lazy to even respond to their proposal.
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More capcom games on gog the better imo, especially when they had started randomly adding drm to some of their older titles on steam
Hope we get DMC5 on gog too, just picked up HD collection as wasn't a big fan of 4, with dmc3 being my favourite and first one I ever played :)
I know what I'm going to be playing today
Hope we get DMC5 on gog too, just picked up HD collection as wasn't a big fan of 4, with dmc3 being my favourite and first one I ever played :)
I know what I'm going to be playing today
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Phlebiac a day ago
In case anyone is confused about what "preservation" means to GOG, have a look at Leisure Suit Larry on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/231910/Leisure_Suit_Larry_in_the_Land_of_the_Lounge_Lizards_Reloaded/
I'm not sure why it was de-listed on Steam, but note how there are MacOS and Linux versions. Now look at it on GOG:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/leisure_suit_larry_reloaded
Only the Windows version is available. Maybe because they made some nice improvements in it, that they didn't want to do on the other platforms? Well, no, they didn't actually do anything but testing:
What improvements we made to this game:
Validated stability.
Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11.
So "preservation" in this case means dropping already existing platform support. At least they package DOSBox for Linux for others, like Castles and Tex Murphy...
Last edited by Phlebiac on 19 Jun 2025 at 5:54 am UTC
https://store.steampowered.com/app/231910/Leisure_Suit_Larry_in_the_Land_of_the_Lounge_Lizards_Reloaded/
I'm not sure why it was de-listed on Steam, but note how there are MacOS and Linux versions. Now look at it on GOG:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/leisure_suit_larry_reloaded
Only the Windows version is available. Maybe because they made some nice improvements in it, that they didn't want to do on the other platforms? Well, no, they didn't actually do anything but testing:
What improvements we made to this game:
Validated stability.
Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11.
So "preservation" in this case means dropping already existing platform support. At least they package DOSBox for Linux for others, like Castles and Tex Murphy...
Last edited by Phlebiac on 19 Jun 2025 at 5:54 am UTC
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poiuz 23 hours ago
So "preservation" in this case means dropping already existing platform support. At least they package DOSBox for Linux for others, like Castles and Tex Murphy...Sometimes there are simply no words:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/leisure_suit_larry
https://www.gog.com/en/game/leisure_suit_larry_reloaded
There was never a Linux or macOS release of Reloaded:
January 5, 2016 Verified owner
Although there is a native Linux port, it is still not available here on GoG for some reason, just like many other existing Linux ports of games sold here.
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Varies from game to game
'F.E.A.R platinum' for instance had some changes made
"Update (20 March 2025)
Limited FPS to 60 (configurable), ensuring smoother performance.
Fixed duplicated FileTasks, resolving potential conflicts.
Validated stability.
Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11."
Where as some like the one you mention, they seem to just load the game up on W10/11 and say "yup, that works ok"
Their total disregard for linux is a big shame though, even the native linux games they do sell, some of them can have missing libs and stuff where as on Steam they include a set of commonly used libs.
So it some ways I'm not too bothered about native linux games on gog when they don't maintain them anyway
'F.E.A.R platinum' for instance had some changes made
"Update (20 March 2025)
Limited FPS to 60 (configurable), ensuring smoother performance.
Fixed duplicated FileTasks, resolving potential conflicts.
Validated stability.
Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11."
Where as some like the one you mention, they seem to just load the game up on W10/11 and say "yup, that works ok"
Their total disregard for linux is a big shame though, even the native linux games they do sell, some of them can have missing libs and stuff where as on Steam they include a set of commonly used libs.
So it some ways I'm not too bothered about native linux games on gog when they don't maintain them anyway
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