/v/ - Video Games

>As far as I know, the reigns have been handed off to a few dedicated fans of the game

This is the case with most games, Steam users are just so fucking retarded that they can't use the directory and either check the forums or Google it.

System Shock? Postal 1?

There's also weird shit like Rockstar going back to remove soundtrack stuff. There are a few games that aren't even up to the last official patch. I entirely gave up on them but end up back in that area to check forum stuff time to time.

>>14438084

> Rockstar going back to remove soundtrack stuff

>present tense

Wait wait wait. They're still going to do that to GTA VC and III? After all they did to SA?

I really don't care about SA. I mean the game's good but the radio music is forgettable except for a handful of them. The major concern is removing Flashback FM songs from the other games

>>14438101

Scott Pilgrim is impossible to find legit online anywhere because of music licensing issues. Jews gonna jew

>>14438101

They did it to VC a while ago. I think the license for 3 was different because it was mostly smaller artists/old songs.

>>14438101

I'm not sure, that would suck if they gut VC's soundtrack. Glad I have physical copies of them all.

>>14438132

I remember when they first did it to vice city and san andreas, valve removed the option in the steam client to "never update games" and updates are required, it just asks you when you want to install them.

Of course, the cuckster race didn't care.

>>14438049

I suppose System Shock is dwarfed by it's sequel in terms of popularity, but aren't they both still somewhat well known? Postal 1 can count as an outlier, though, with it being a side project of part-time developers.

>>14438019

I understood that anon

I'm just saying that those negative reviews many times come from literal retards that can's copy and paste a file that's on the forums up for grabs.

>>14438084

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>>14438132

Good thing you can add them all back and make SA not look like absoute dogshit again thanks to mods.

>>14438132

>I have physical copies of them all

Did it ever come in box form or was it jewel cased?

Anyone know any green steam themes that are updated, relatively timely? Most of the ones I found have been abandoned the minute steam updated and broke them.

And frankly, default steam is kind of ugly.

You deserve it if you buy old games, from Steam of all places.

I remember the Dungeon Siege 2 expansion creating super leveled enemies that take ages to die and kill you in 1 hit in random areas of early-mid game, apparently a glitch.

>>14438212

>Good thing you can add them all back and make SA not look like absoute dogshit again thanks to mods.

its still missing engine effects because they're just not present in the games code. Mods kinda just make it look really, really, really garish. Would rather keep it faithful to the developers vision.

>>14437995

this, nearly every steam user I know doesn't even know how to navigate their computer's filesystem

Right now the best place for older games is becoming Github and other code repositories. Tons of new engine reimplementations for classics that work on almost all platforms and allow for better graphics, easier modding, multiplayer and proper bug fixes.

After decades of getting nowhere with publishers thanks to legal issues or lack of interest fans have finaly realized that if they want their older games supported properly they have to do it themselves.

Buying it on Steam makes the least amount of sense as you're allowing them to modify or remove it from your library at any time for any reason.

>that ultimately make piracy the best possible choice for such titles

That isn't going to change anytime soon. In many cases it's the only choice.

>installing steam malware

>spending money renting 20 year old games

>spending money on games when it doesn't go to the original developers and instead goes to whichever kike bought the IP

>spending money on games at all

if you do any of these things you should reconsider your life choices

>>14439018

Daily reminder Valve was denied the legality of "it's rental software and you don't own it" literally everywhere but china and by forcing this meme you are not only eroding away the ability for people with actual resources to take them to task but are actually eroding the illegality and unenforcability of eulas.

>>14439018

Being this mad at people spending money you will never have.

>Dungeon siege 1 without expansions

Nigga, that expansion added like a good 10 hours to gameplay.

I'm pretty sure the Original Dungeon Siege with the expansion can be found somewhere on the internet for free.

And you can add mods to it. it was one of the most moddable games I played back then

>>14438504

Similar to one of the mods on the original Dungeon Siege that added a bunch of shit (and bigger inventories) but basically every crate you smash open gives millions of gold and really rare high levelled shit which would only have been acquired through tough dungeons on endgame multiplayer on the hardest difficulty.

It was pretty cool how in the original that if you played through the game on a harder difficulty you would actually get better loot in time. But the Dungeon Sieged revived mod broke the entire loot table

>>14437981

Isn't GOG what buyfags used for old games? I know pirating old shit can be a hassle if you rely on mostly-dead torrents.

>>14439969

I have the .iso files from a torrent I downloaded a while back. I just become allured of the Idea of not having it to stay there and take Hard disc space and just have it readily available via download so I can better organize my files. Every time I see it go on sale for less than a dollar, I remember it's problems, and just decide the hassle of it taking space in my HDD is better than having to re-enable the expansion every time I finish downloading it, and possibly have incompatibilities with mods if the file structure has been like such.

>>14439995

Yeah, but I don't like the idea of paying for already cracked games and pre-configured DOSbox emulators if I can't help it.

>>14439995

The terms GOG and pirating hassle do not match, it's a godsend for pirates.

Why would you pay for old games (and to ad to it, on Steam) when the original developers/companies most of the time gets nothing out of it?

If you want to pay for older games, at least use GOG, where they at least care that you can run them on modern OSes.

Or don't pay at all, and pirate them.

>>14441897

>If you want to pay for older games, at least use GOG, where they at least care that you can run them on modern OSes.

https://www.gog.com/mix/games_that_treat_gog_customers_as_second_class_citizens

I'm tired of GoG shills saying this.

A lot of companies releasing old games on Steam aren't even related to the company that originally developed or published them. They're just random publishers that bought the IP for cheap and released its games as barebones as possible for a quick buck. Also, just by checking the forums, you can see that the accounts marked as "developer" barely know anything about the game they just released. A shame, really.

>>14442445

>muh 'cheevos

>muh leaderboards

>muh localization

cut those from it and the list is shortened dramatically,the only valid ones are the complains about coop and missing level editor/expansion ones

>>14442544

good 'nough?

http://archive.is/hzqdv

>>14442763

Even if the data is 7 years old, the logic behind it makes sense; popular games get pirated the most and often its new releases by big name studios that are popular, and titles like that don't typically end up on GoG.

>>14459125

let it die anon, it's mostly nostalgia anyway

>>14459125

You've peaked my interest anon. But I could only find a game for mame, upload it to mega and I'll try to get it working on wine