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Yeah, that's nice and it gives me a chance to finally play Dungeon Keeper and Privateer and eventually Alpha Centauri* and all**... but, well, it's kind of sad in a way to see all of these old games, which were made by then-famous former companies that were all absorbed and then murdered by EA, and now EA is getting 100% of the credit for the games as though they, themselves, were the ones who made them. Then again, that's better than these games not ever being released again and simply having EA sit on them forever, I guess.
But, no System Shock? That's dumb. That should have been one of the first to be released, in my opinion.
* - Here's a story about my one and only experience with Alpha Centauri, at least until now. I bought this game from K-Mart many years ago. When I got home and opened the box, there was nothing in it aside from the documentation. No disc or anything. I'd only paid like 4 or 5 dollars for it, and had no immediate way to get back to K-Mart that day (and figured at the time that they wouldn't have believed me even if I had brought it back), so... that's it. Until now, I never got a chance to actually play the game itself.
** - Already have Crusader and the Ultima Underworld games. (I've never heard of this Magic Carpet game before now, though.) It makes me wonder if I ever got a hankering to replay those games again, particularly Ultima Underworld 1 and 2, if wouldn't just be easier to rebuy them (for what would be the the third time now in the case of the Underworld games, as I own them both separately and as part of the Ultimate RPG Archives, which I bought years and years ago, well before it was the ridiculous price of $150), rather than trying to get my incredibly old copies to try to run on Windows 7. But then, all GOG will likely do is just include a pre-configured copy of DOSBox anyway, so not sure if it'd actually be worth the bother to pay even the relative pittance of $5.99 or however much to get them yet again, aside from simply not having to monkey with all the DOSBox settings myself (not that it would be all that difficult or anything).
Yeah, that's nice and it gives me a chance to finally play Dungeon Keeper and Privateer and eventually Alpha Centauri* and all**... but, well, it's kind of sad in a way to see all of these old games, which were made by then-famous former companies that were all absorbed and then murdered by EA, and now EA is getting 100% of the credit for the games as though they, themselves, were the ones who made them. Then again, that's better than these games not ever being released again and simply having EA sit on them forever, I guess.
But, no System Shock? That's dumb. That should have been one of the first to be released, in my opinion.
* - Here's a story about my one and only experience with Alpha Centauri, at least until now. I bought this game from K-Mart many years ago. When I got home and opened the box, there was nothing in it aside from the documentation. No disc or anything. I'd only paid like 4 or 5 dollars for it, and had no immediate way to get back to K-Mart that day (and figured at the time that they wouldn't have believed me even if I had brought it back), so... that's it. Until now, I never got a chance to actually play the game itself.
** - Already have Crusader and the Ultima Underworld games. (I've never heard of this Magic Carpet game before now, though.) It makes me wonder if I ever got a hankering to replay those games again, particularly Ultima Underworld 1 and 2, if wouldn't just be easier to rebuy them (for what would be the the third time now in the case of the Underworld games, as I own them both separately and as part of the Ultimate RPG Archives, which I bought years and years ago, well before it was the ridiculous price of $150), rather than trying to get my incredibly old copies to try to run on Windows 7. But then, all GOG will likely do is just include a pre-configured copy of DOSBox anyway, so not sure if it'd actually be worth the bother to pay even the relative pittance of $5.99 or however much to get them yet again, aside from simply not having to monkey with all the DOSBox settings myself (not that it would be all that difficult or anything).
