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GOG's billboard in Times Square, NYC (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by PerfectDark@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Nice to see a platform like GOG becoming so proactive these last 12 or so months (or, more so than they were previously)

With so many new initiatives (or in the case of the Dreamlist!) - re-imagined ones!

Dino Crisis and the sequel weren't my kind of games, even being made specifically for modern hardware. I'm too young to have the nostalgia or patience for the so called 'tank controls' of the old days. But I still bought them to support the initiative. I'm just one of those poor fools waiting and hoping for a modern sleek remake, like the Resident Evil games were blessed with!

STILL, so nice to see this billboard in a prominent space! Nice work, GOG.

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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 47 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Given the things I'd like to see GOG investing in, it sounds irresponsible to buy Times Square ad space, but that's just a gut reaction that's not based on any real numbers.

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)

As a purely Linux user, I'm just glad Heroic is around so I have options to play with less problems. Heck, they even have an agreement with GOG themselves where they get a proceed of the purchases made on GOG through a special link, or via Heroic.

GOG has its issues, but as someone dedicated to DRM-free games, and games preservation, they are still my favorite lot to buy games from!

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm buying any game I can on GOG these days. Between being DRM-free and being pre-patched (sometimes with community patches) it's definitely the best platform, particularly if you like to buy older games/retro games occasionally.

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I'm the exception to gaming, I have maybe 20-ish games on Steam, but '000's on GOG. I've always had a thing for the underdog, maybe that's what made me focus on them from the start. I just love their platform, and their ethos. They'll never be a competitor to Steam or Epic Games, but I don't think they're trying to be any more.

I just love them!

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, same, for all of the same reasons as you. But it would be nice if they cleaned up their store page so it was better at conveying features, like Steam. Or if I didn't have to go to SteamDB to see what DirectX or Visual C++ runtime I need to install with winetricks.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As a side note, if you use Lutris it has install scripts for pretty much all GoG games, which will take care of adding the necessary libraries via winetricks and you can use them for game installation even when not using Lutris' support for direct dowload from GoG and instead installing from a local copy of the GoG offline installer for that game.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I've been buying obscure enough games that they didn't have Lutris scripts available, and the Heroic interface works better with controllers besides.

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I do so wish the GOGdb site acted in the same way as the Steam one did:

https://www.gogdb.org/

Instead, it runs in a different way making it far less helpful than, as you said, SteamDB!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

......what issues?

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Announcing they'd have native Linux support with a launcher and then never mentioning it again, hoping that everyone would forget?

That feels pretty awful to me, a Linux user. Obviously negated since we have such lovely work as Heroic (the dev of which is a personal friend), but it is the odd strange misstep like this which strikes me as being pretty sad.

Then we have developers never updating their games on GOG. Admittedly not a GOG problem, per se, but they could pressure these developers so that this kind of issue wouldn't persist. There are SO many games which do this, that the GOG forums have a dedicated thread for this very issue: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_treat_gog_customers_as_second_class_citizens_v2/page316/?search=second+class At the moment, there are 4,729 replies on that thread.

GOG Galaxy 2.0 is nigh-on-abandoned now, with constant problems. There's a slew of posts about it on all Reddit, their forum and on social media.

They have their issues. I adore them, but they have their issues.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Imagine people go to a part of NYC to be advertised to.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I despise adverts and see them as an attack on my eyes, especially irl.

That said it’s odd that I find the ones in Times Square or Piccadilly Circus (London) quite fascinating when near them. Kind of don’t mind them as they’re concentrated in those areas and well known for them. Just an interesting thought I had.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

It's a bit like a concrete vs random noise.

If you had to listen to a random rock song on high volume at random times in your videos, and having 100 of different songs screaming at you when you go about your day. You would find that annoying and disorderd.

On the other hand if you went to a rock concert or festival you would be fine with it and even expect that to happen.

I view this similar. Time Square and Piccalilli Circus are just festival grounds for adds.

[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Times square? Damn, I thought they were strapped for cash and barely profitable.

Good for them I suppose, but just remember that corps are not your friends. Even GOG is part of a stockmarket-listed entity that has fiduciary duties and can turn to crap in an instant. Keep your games offline and archived folks.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As a long time fan of Dino Crisis, an an avid hater of the REmakes for ditching the fixed cameras for generic, now over-copied over the shoulder camera, I am hoping Dino Crisis gets the "REmake treatment." It makes me smile to see it so prominently featured in this image.

Dino Crisis differed from Resident Evil in that it was not truly a Survival Horror game. Capcom knew this from the beginning, as it was marketed as "Panic Horror." In other words: "Action Horror." The perfect genre description for the REmake games starting with RE2.

Survival Horror requires de-emphasis on combat, actively encouraging the player to choose to NOT get in combat (through severe item scarcity or boring combat mechanics that feel unfun to engage with). A third person over the shoulder camera inherently emphasizes combat by making the player want to engage in combat because they feel like they have greater control, and it is more fun. This is why I always say RE1 already has a perfect remake and should be left out of the "REmake treatment." RE1 is purely Survival Horror, and was not intended to be like a "hollywood action movie" like RE2 and beyond. Dino Crisis, on the other hand, always leaned more into the action side, starting about midway through the original game, and then really almost getting silly in the sequel. Which is why an action camera like the REmakes have would be perfectly fitting to the action focus of the game.

We don't talk about Dino Crisis 3. It is unfortunate that the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center happened so close to the games development, as that was the single reason why the game was completely rewritten to take place in outer space. I mean, it was a tradgedy that should never have happened regardless, but still, you hopefully get what I mean.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Have you heard of Crow Country? Might scratch your itches!

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I have. I haven't had the time to play it yet, but it is on the list.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

It was pretty good! I hope you enjoy it when you do get to play! :)

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The first remake is better than any other game in the series I've played so far, and I've played most of the mainline games at this point. It's not the best because of its camera perspective, and I think it would be actively improved with an over the shoulder camera like the recent remakes.