"The best version of this game you can buy on any PC platform" is a HUGE technicality. What this is is a very old release of these games in a collection that had shoddy emulation and a subpar port to PC back in 2002. GOG fixed up this specific release to solve compatibility issues with current Windows, but not anything else, you get a better experience out of either emulating them yourself or buying Castlevania/Contra Anniversary Collection on Steam, which are much better done collections by M2 and include more games from each respective series overall.

The GOG Preservation Program is a marketing stunt, when they do well it's great (See Alpha Protocol, Resident Evil and Dino Crisis) but most games simply get wrappers to solve basic incompatibilities and then get slapped with the label to make them more appealing on the store. I suggest practicing caution with their Preservation Program releases and looking into if other stores or platforms you have on hand don't have better options, which you can easily find for Castlevania and Contra on any current console or PC through Steam thanks to the anniversary collections I already mentioned.

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This game just keeps growing, I got so much out of my $2 lol.

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If Nightdive gets to do Cold Fear like they did The Thing that'd be a real treat. The other games here have good ideas to iterate on too if Atari ever felt like giving them to a studio interested in making new entries.

Ubisoft must be desperate for money though, but better for us if their IP is distributed.

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The pattern of showing pre-alpha footage where the game is clearly still in the direct port to KEX phase without any remastering done for the trailers in this and Dark Forces makes me think Disney is rushing them hard with this. I wonder what the turnaround was with DF and how long they have to finish the remaster work here, they didn't even get time to extend some sprites to 16:9 for this trailer.

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I don't know what to write beyond just Thank You. Many of us appreciate how you run this site without selling out.

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Same recycled moral panic, I'm shocked anyone older than gen alpha would be surprised by such a development.

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If you're wondering why Dave Oshry is here, the developer has joined NewBlood's upcoming Fallout-like RPG as an artist.

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Think about how you would feel if games with guns or blood had to be removed because suddenly PayPal or Mastercard didn't like them. This is dangerous.

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This has gone into my wishlist, but if there's a chance...

If I can pick homebrew then my favorite NES game is Alwa's Awakening. If not, I'll take Blaster Master as well.

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This shows potential for an official Linux RPG Maker in the future, that's very exciting! I'm also glad to see more Godot based engines, the industry needs the giants to have at least a little less control over everything.

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