Pemalite said:
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JinxRake said:
Most of the games you BOUGHT on the PC a few years back will not run properly on your current architecture. I'm 100% confident that if I go and pull out my all time favorite game from my library, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2, and install it on my Windows XP PC, it won't run it -as it's already happened- and I would have to resort to internet hacks or tips. I cannot take that game to Valve and shove it under their noses and demand they give me an online copy that works with my current PC -or GoG, whoever's selling the thing now-. They would laugh at me. The developers or the publishers that put it out even more so.
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Actually. It depends on the game whether it will work or not.
Grab StarCraft, released in 1998, Runs on Windows XP/7/8 just fine.
Master of Orion 2, released in 1995, runs on XP/7/8 just fine.
In-fact there is a gaming store known as "Good Old Games" which grabs games that are a decade or two old and sells them and they all work fine on Windows XP/7/8. - Seriously, hit it up. gog.com, they even patch the games if they have issues and for a couple of bucks for some DRM free retro gaming, who can complain? :)
Another option is to use a Virtual machine and install Windows 98 or Windows NT and go from there, unlike the consoles and other platforms you actually have options of playing your old games just fine, regardless of it's age.
Or, you know, you could build a "Retro" gaming machine for next to nothing, I built one a couple of years ago with an Athlon XP 3000+, 1gb of ram, 2x 3dfx Voodoo 2's in SLI and a Radeon 9200 for 2D all running Windows 98SE.
You forget how awesome it was running glide games back from "way back then". :)
My main desktop though, every game I've wanted to play from the last few decades has run fine without any dramas (I can list them if you so wish.), so please don't spread such FUD.
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Black and White - does NOT run just fine on windows XP / 7;
Unreal 2 , Unreal Tournament - do NOT run just fine on windows XP / 7;
Deus Ex - does NOT run just fine on current PCs;
The list can continue.
And if you paid a bit of attention, you would have seen the point. I did mention Good old Games - GoG - there and I am more than aware that you can get any of the old games running today...with some effort and community support. Fact remains that almost no publisher has ever future proofed their game against tech that at the time of the release wasn't even heard of. As you said, gog will patch the game...for a fee. It's not the original publisher or developer that's doing that, it's a third party that's now carrying that game.
Thing of the matter is that even on the PC, which is the freest of all the main platforms, you cannot be sure now that a game will run as well on a new configuration a few years down the line, which was the point I was trying to convey. And nobody will assure you of that, nobody will give you money back if your STAR BLAZE MEGA PC with WinLux 12 is incapable of running a game that was assured to work on Windows 7 and 8.
You even went on my point by saying that if all else fails, you can get a Retro Machine for your gaming needs for next to nothing. A PS3, at the time of the PS4, will cost next to nothing eventually and you can always get one of them to play what's not supported on your current gen console.
Please read more carefully next time. We're not all dunces you know :).
