Like old(ish) computer games? Gog.com's holiday sale blew my mind!!!

[Din Of Win]

I've had a gog.com account for a while now. I had an urge to play the Baldur's Gate games back when Dragon Age: Origins came out... but since then i haven't really been playing video games much.

Then there was Skyrim!

But, now i've been commuting a lot more thanks to a recent move, so i've been wanting to play stuff on my laptop to pass time.

So, i went back to gog.com. As a direct result of Skyrim's landscape; i wanted to play the Icewind Dale games again. So i went to gog, and the first thing i saw was their holiday sale... i then proceeded to nostalgia followed by the purchasing of a bunch of stuff!

My commutes are now 1000% less boring.

for about $40 i picked up:

-Icewind Dale 1 and 2
-Planescape: Torment
-The Temple of Elemental Evil
-Dragonshard
-Arcanum of Steamworks and Magic Obscura
-Divine Divinity
-Nox


...and my okay-back-in-2008 laptop can play them all flawlessly!

[onosson]

Ah, TOEE .... the first D&D module we played back in jr. high school pre-computers in the 80s, pen and paper!

The PC version was pretty awesome for its time, I recall.

[Din Of Win]

Originally Posted by onosson

Ah, TOEE .... the first D&D module we played back in jr. high school pre-computers in the 80s, pen and paper!

The PC version was pretty awesome for its time, I recall.

Totally!!!

One of the few PC D&D games, IIRC, that use 3.5 rules.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Nice one.

I'm looking forward to the Steam sale ruining my bank account again this year . . . (so, slightly newer games).

But on the note of older games, giving Half Life a run through, as I do every now and again, classssss game

[Din Of Win]

I have a Steam account too... i just can't run the newer stuff! haha. But from them i have some classics... Fallout 1 & 2, Deus Ex, Half Life 1 & 2 (i can just baaaarely play 2), Freedom Force, Plants vs Zombies... and most recently (like 2 weeks ago) i picked up Terraria when that was on sale.

[MX21]

I discovered GOG last month and got the Serious Sam games and NeverWinter Nights Diamond edition. I'm just getting back into some gaming but don't want to have to buy a high-powered, state-of-the-art, obsolute-in-6-months gaming PC to play the latest games. Games a few years old were pretty good and work fine on my not-too-expensive laptop.
Another advantage is that they load in a few seconds, so it's easy to jump on and play a few minutes when I get a chance. And the price is right.

I'll have to go check out the sale. Any suggestions? I'd like to find some good multiplayer FPS co-op games. I've got Descent II and Quake II. Also some point-click mystery stuff would be interesting. My daughter is coming home from college for a month and likes multiplayer Age of Mythology, so if they have some good RTS games, I might have to try those too.

[Din Of Win]

Originally Posted by MX21

I discovered GOG last month and got the Serious Sam games and NeverWinter Nights Diamond edition. I'm just getting back into some gaming but don't want to have to buy a high-powered, state-of-the-art, obsolute-in-6-months gaming PC to play the latest games. Games a few years old were pretty good and work fine on my not-too-expensive laptop.
Another advantage is that they load in a few seconds, so it's easy to jump on and play a few minutes when I get a chance. And the price is right.

I'll have to go check out the sale. Any suggestions? I'd like to find some good multiplayer FPS co-op games. I've got Descent II and Quake II. Also some point-click mystery stuff would be interesting. My daughter is coming home from college for a month and likes multiplayer Age of Mythology, so if they have some good RTS games, I might have to try those too.

I'm not a HUGE fan of FPS games... but even my shoddy laptop can play the relatively new Team Fortress 2. Gog.com has a few of the Unreal games as well... both 99 and 2k4 are my faves... super fast paced and a lot of fun!

There are a TON of point-and-click adventures on there... shoot, just for signing up (which is free) you get: Beneath a Steel Sky, Teenagent, Dragonsphere and Lure of the Temptress... all for free! (As well as Ultima IV (an RPG) and Tyrian2000 (a shmup)). But yeah, gog has one of the best collection of point and clicks... most are in the $4.99 range.... which is now $2.49 for the holiday sale.

I do love RTS games! But i could seriously JUST play the original Starcraft and Warcraft 3 (and the expansion) forever. But yeah, they have games like the Spellforce series, Warlords Battlecry 3, and on the non-fantasy side... the Jagged Alliance series is awesome, especially Jagged Alliance 2.

[mrpackerguy]

One word.

Wolfenstein

[Turock]

This will keep you busy for quite a while and it's free.
Retro Uprising - Arcade

[Din Of Win]

Originally Posted by Turock

This will keep you busy for quite a while and it's free.
Retro Uprising - Arcade

Woah!

[MX21]

Anyone have good recommendations for a game from GOG that would be a good multiplayer cooperative with a little less violence than some of the FPS games? I'm not talking rainbows, unicorns and butterflies, but still something a bit less than blowing each other up in splatters of blood.

[Selta]

Shattered Steel is fun. Alpha Centauri is too.

[Actium]

Get an SNES emulator on your laptop. Too many classic games to list on that.

[MX21]

Shattered Steel might work. We don't mind blowing up robots and spaceships and such.

We also have tried Descent II. I really like it, but when you play with people that don't know the maps, they spend most of their time lost in the mines.

[Selta]

Originally Posted by MX21

Shattered Steel might work. We don't mind blowing up robots and spaceships and such.

We also have tried Descent II. I really like it, but when you play with people that don't know the maps, they spend most of their time lost in the mines.

All three of the Descent games are great, but the maps can be confusing. It does get boring when you spend time going around in circles and not able to do things that you want to do :P

[MX21]

Originally Posted by Actium

Get an SNES emulator on your laptop. Too many classic games to list on that.

Thanks. I've got emulator stuff on my laptop, however:

1) my kids are 21st century and think the old simple arcade games are lame.

2) we really want multiplayer coop over LAN rather than all on one screen.