Thank goodness.

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Quoting: BrokattI don't see what's so controversial with this? GOG's Game Preservation program is not a money maker (who could have guessed) and they are asking for donations to keep it strong. That doesn't mean GOG's going out of business. They can close down Game Preservation tomorrow, go back to being a regular DRM-free game store and be just fine.

Now would it be better if a foundation did the game preservation? Maybe but GOG have the distribution and the knowledge to actually make the games run. They are more than just an archive were you can download an .EXE file.

Older games are being lost to time. Now is not the time to look a gift horse in the mouth.

I agree. I feel like people are struggling to see any gray areas in things anymore; it’s just black and white—good and evil—regarding everything. I’m guilty of that too in many circumstances, but I feel like GOG genuinely cares about game preservation and is doing their best to ensure that as many games as possible are available to play, just like any other game, for the foreseeable future. That costs money because there is a ton of work that needs to be done, just to handle all the legal issues alone, let alone packaging these games and making them work on modern systems. I am completely fine with this as long as they continue to show consistent efforts in preserving more and more games. I'd love for them to release a documentary about what goes into the actual process of game preservation, so people could see whats truly involved.

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They better stick to that part about letting people disable that stuff. If they try to force it, especially if they force it on the browsers that use Firefox as a base, like Zen (Which is what I use), then I don't know what I'm going to do because I absolutely do not want to go back to a chromium based browser.

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It's really sad. I've come across some really great games over the years that seemingly no one noticed or played. Not going to lie, I wish we could go back to something resembling the Steam Greenlight days, where games had to voted on to be able to be on the store. It would just need some tweaking to make sure it wasn't exploitable by shady developers. I feel it would really help cut down on the thousands of legitimately bad, low-effort-made games that flood the store daily. It frustrates me that so many good games get overlooked by most because it's not an established property. It's the same issue I have with Hollywood. The majority of stuff that doesn't have a known franchise attached to it gets ignored. Sure there are always exceptions, but those feel rare in comparison.

I don't review games or anything else generally. I'm not good at articulating my thoughts and feelings about something in a way that I believe would be helpful to anyone, and I don't want to simply say that I liked or didn't like a game, because I don't feel that is truly helpful.

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I really wish all remasters would be given to Nightdive. No one comes anywhere close to their quality. Aspyr, of all developers, doing remasters is nuts. They were exclusively known for porting games to Mac all the way back to the 1990s. I don't know when they started doing projects like this.

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Quoting: LinasThe style was fine. Also, you can just play the original, if you prefer that. Some people just need to complain about everything.

It works out though sometimes. Like with the hideous Sonic the Hedgehog from the original trailer for the first movie. If people hadn't created a stink they wouldn't have fixed it. In this case I'm with the people who didn't like how it looked.

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Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: Tethys84I went to Nexusmods to see what mods there were for Stellar Blade, as I do for most games I buy... Big mistake... just gross.

I mean, what did you expect? I'm not really surprised. ^^

Fair point.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismProject Zomboid is a guilty pleasure of a game.

It's a bummer the saves are broken, I wish I had a huge chunk of time to sink into this game, I played 3-5 player and it's a lot of fun.

I accidently woke up an entire concrete building and had to do donuts in reverse for so long to clear the area of the uhm zomboidlings ;P

Why do you consider it an guilty pleasure? I don't see what there could possibly be to feel guilty about.

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OMG YES!! Best early xmas present ever!

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Finally!! Been waiting for this for forever now. Great news!

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