Yeah, dictators are known for promising good things after enduring “just a few months of pain,” as this pain becomes the signature of their rule.

I hope this was worth it for you, Americans.

I remember using it once, and I never got it to run with the GOG installers I had. It either tried to get the game from valve’s drm store, or attempted to download the game again from GOG. To be fair, it was a couple years back but it looked like it was a fundamental part of its design.

If this succeeds, loot boxes would vanish almost overnights, right? Bring it on.

It kinda feels like that for me.

Dangnabbit, I knew it! Thanks

I grew up with the Sega Genesis, PS1 and then PS2. The PS1 side had games that were more lively, less lonely than SM64. Compare the game to something like even the first Spyro the Dragon, and SM64 immediately feels empty. Add to that the overtly creepy level Big Boo’s Mansion, or the less creepy Hazy Maze Cave, or the surreal Wet Dry Town with the creepy cave music, the infinite stairs at the top of the castle, rooms that are huge but sport almost nothing except paintings, only a single big clock, a population of only one or two servants to the princess, levels like Lethal Lava Land which is just otherwise inhabitable platforms on top of a lava ocean - the game ends up feeling creepy whether the programmers lawyers at Ninten intended or not. How about the room with the Tiny Big Island paintings, one side is huge while the other side’s wall is within arm’s reach? Also Mario is always being recorded by the Lakitu cameraman, and you’re watching him through that lens.

Besides, creepypastas were all the rage during the 2010s, and the 3D Mario had just enough ingredients to make them work - the ultimate culmination of all this being the B31133 romhack. (Correct me if I got the numbers wrong).

I love this romhack, but it gets really creepy a lot of the time. Also no N64 emulators on Android can play the current version which is… fun. Would’ve loved to just pull the game out at any time of the day.

I wasn’t looking to revert the tab view, but still, I learned something new today and that matters. Thank you.

HECK YEAH

I hope Valve loses.

With that out of the way, I hope for the rest of the series to make it to GOG!

Hell on earth.

So, a park groundskeeper? Okay, that doesn’t sound too bad.

Alwa’s Awakening and Alwa’s Legacy, by Elden Pixels, a Swedish studio.

While you’re at it, buy from GOG, a Polish store that sells DRM-free games for PC.

But i always thought GOG’S refund policy is more generous

Not to mention it they had it way before steam ever heard of refunds.

I wonder if people ever homebrew’d it to circumvent it (idk if this is even legal)

People have! Homebrewing it for piracy is definitely not legal, but you can hack it like any other PSP (okay technically you can get original homebrew for it kinda but not really legally). But if you’re a law abiding citizen, you can’t buy new digital games for it.

I think the only non-NSFW/NSFW-adjacent Game GOG gave out was Postal 2

Postal 2 was one of the games in the bundle I mentioned. HuniePop was included IIRC along other games like Fetish Locator. It was given away just after the other two stores caved in.

I considered not responding to this for a bit. I’ll just cave in, if not for you then for everyone else in the room.

If you haven’t watched the video, GOG has been dabbling in genAI for two years now, thanks to their Head of Product, who unironically replied to a tweet that said something along the lines of “I made 30k USD with Instagram AI girls, here’s how you can do it.” (Also he really likes the Nazi called Musk). They’ve generated banners with questionable to outright sloppy quality as well as other images.

It’s not farfetched to assume the next step will be to “start using AI tools to revitalize old games or use AI code to make old games compatible to work on modern OSes.”

So the best time to get mad is now, not later.

IIRC Didnt Visa and Mastercard pressure them

If they did, then they caved to them despite their wealth and resources. Meanwhile GOG gave away a bundle full of NSFW games and they’re also served by Visa and MC. AFAIK only they and itch.io publicly shot themselves here.

Paid mods?

A long while ago, they thought it was an okay idea and they actually sold mods for a short while before taking it out due to backlash. Skyrim was one of the games to have paid mods. I heard a year or two ago they were reconsidering the idea but I don’t remember the details. On that note, their mod store is locked to their own versions of most games, meaning that if Skyrim still had workshop mods (free or paid), you likely wouldn’t be able to download them for the GOG version of the game. I’m sure if Epic did this, I’ll be hearing all sorts of bloody murder all day.

i heard a government pressured them to doing this,yeah that sucks though

IIRC that was Australia. But even their refund policy now is shit. Two hours after you click launch on a game? GOG back then had a 14 day money back guarantee, now extended to a full 30 days refund policy.

Yeah that sucks to,but for me its fine for F2P Video games and if its not P2W

Worth noting P2W is a direct result of the F2P model that Valve has popularized in full fat PC games. Minecraft’s first April Fool’s joke is a parody of the TF2 store, long before its Bedrock Edition had a similar store for itself. It’s not a stretch to say they planted the seeds for games like Star Wars Battlefront 2017 which had you grind for too long of a time just to play the iconic Darth Vader.

and used games well i think the digital switch killed it

The killing started very slowly with HL2, which was the first physical game to require using steam keys to even be able to play it. Selling your copy of HL2 with a used key means the other person can’t legally play it. This practice really sped up with 2011’s PC physical version of Skyrim which did the same, and at that time many more games did it. Before long, we started seeing discs that don’t even have the game files. Microsoft tried to track and limit used games for the X1 console, but backtracked due to backlash. Bethesda continued “innovating” with the Fallout 76 cardboard disc. Now the practice has bled over to current gen consoles.

i think for non-DRM Games you can Still own it on Steam???

There are very few of these games and the only way to know about them is a community-made spreadsheet compiled through trial and error. Unlike GOG, they’re not guaranteed to stay DRM-free - they can suddenly become DRM’d at any moment.

but today no one even owns a disc drive, steam just won on convenience

Few people own disc drives because of the constant attacks on physical media and ability to own things, especially games. It’s not that they “won on convenience,” but rather they “won” by making it so physical games slowly become just a more expensive one time redeem key for digital copies… which you can spend money on right now with Humble and the likes without moving an inch or waiting for the order to arrive. If it wasn’t for them, we would own more of our games.

They are responsible. They planted the seeds with HL2 as early as 2004. Then they essentially made it not only feasible but also popular to make the physical games of even third parties be just glorified one use digital codes, and all of this waaaaay before 2013’s Xbox One attempted to do similar things and got booed very hard.

Caving in to the anti-NSFW demands is “doing nothing”? Paid mods? Not offering refunds for more than a decade? Being one of the first to popularize loot boxes and with it “marketplaces” of items that don’t exist, where you aren’t even guaranteed the horse armor you want to buy? Literally destroying physical media, used games, and game ownership in one fell swoop so we have to rely on GOG to get the latter back in some form? Damn, their logo must really have the same memetic effects the Apple one has.

I hear of lgogdownloader. There’s plenty of projects like this. I second the notion to download all your stuff, or as much as you can now.