Command & Conquer – The Ultimate Collection
SimCity 3000 Unlimited
Populous
Populous 2: Trials of the Olympic Gods
Populous: The Beginning
Dungeon Keeper Gold
Dungeon Keeper 2
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack
The Saboteur
All of these were already on GOG.
Buy them there instead.
Maybe if they ever bother to implement a Linux client and start investing in Linux gaming like Valve has.
Well, most of these run on Dosbox and you can download DRM free installer packages directly from their website, so there’s that.
But the Linux gaming crowd here keeps telling me how well Lutris and Heroic are supposed to work when I explain to them that I use a Windows handheld while my Steam Deck is gathering dust, so I’ll point them to this next time instead of just telling them those don’t quite do it for me.
All joking aside, yeah, I’d love GOG having a better client overall, including a Linux port, but the quality of the packages and the lack of DRM easily trump that, so still buy these on GOG.
It may work great, but that store has given me significantly less for my money than Valve has.
For me the investment in a top tier Linux experience is worth the risk of maybe someday (if there’s even DRM in the steam version of these very old games – probably not) I won’t be able to play something I purchased. Which is also true of GOG unless you’re downloading and backing up every game you’ve bought from them.
I don’t tend to play my older video games much at all anyways, so yeah for me the store experience is way more significant than “does this game have DRM?”
Now when it comes to music (ideally movies and shows would also fall into this category but that’s not happening anytime soon)… I agree with you 100% DRM free is very important to me there but that’s a completely different beast.
There are open source clients like Heroic that download and install GOG games.
I’m more bothered about getting a good deal and DRM free than whether they have a Linux client.
I like Steam but I’m not using them exclusively just because they have a Linux client and Proton.
https://social.packetloss.gg/comment/1390533
See my other reply
Worth noting that (at least for Red Alert 2) , they aren’t requiring you install whatever their launcher is.
I instantly picked up SimCity 3000 there, it’s literally the first computer game I’ve ever played! It was practically free and runs well. Might grab the C&C collection too, I didn’t play those back in the day.
I didn’t spend much time on Sim City 4 and didn’t get the reboot after the reviews were so bad, but I always felt Sim City 3000 was the best one. Maybe a few things I liked better in Sim City 2000, but as an overall game I’d go with 3000.
Yay, another chance to give EA money. Let me jump right on that.
Nice to see the saboteur in there, never got to finish it due to the red ring of death on the 360 🍾 (pour one out). I hate EA but its good that people have a chance to play these old titles.
If it’s the same build that’s on Origin, it takes a little work to get controllers working. Hopefully it arriving on Steam will alleviate some of that with community profiles!
I still revisit this game every few years. It’s so damn good. It’d be cool to see Mercenaries 2 join Steam as well (with Steamplay!!! I can dream, right?).
