Video Game Preservation Recap | 2024

[@Accursed_Farms]

Thanks for mentioning the European Citizen's Initiative to stop games being destroyed!

[@Siwkann]

Hey I'm marathonaly watching all your Game Dungeon videos since a couple days ago. It's great fun. It's like when I discovered AVGN like 15 years ago. I've been knowing you for a couple days from this although I saw your European petition video time ago, but it was a video by Tech Tangents kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4u8qmyBr6uHaNk what convinced me to check your content. So thanks for the entertainment and I hope to see more Game Dungeon reviews. I like your talks about preservation and DRM free too.

[@cheater00]

Hi, I'm one of the Official ECI Organizers behind SKG. If anyone has any questions, reply here and I'll answer it all! Thanks to GOG for the promotion!

[@StinkoBrownTV]

Do you have any suggestions on how to better promote the initiative (specially to older audiences)? I really want SKG to become a reality but the numbers right now aren't looking super positive and I would love to know how to pump them up.

[@cheater00]

@@StinkoBrownTV Great question, and by far it's one of the top things that affect SKG. It depends on the population and the country you're in, but in general, the main way I've found that helps people understand why something is important is to show them a facet of it that's important to *them*. Tell them about shutdowns of every day items, like cars, coffee machines, or medical implants. That is, stuff that IS relevant to them. There are currently two SKG discords, one new one run by Ross's discord admins and another one run by some of the ECI organizers that's been around for a while. The 2nd one has a lot of news items catalogued away in a forum called "news-items" where you can learn about such cases in order to figure out how to talk to people from the general public about shutdowns. I can't post links since they'll probably get automodded, but you can find it with google, it has a white-on-blue icon. There are many informational resources in there that can help you prepare for conversations like these.

[@TequilaCT]

Thank you for bringing back so many classics. Blessed be everyone at GOG

[@SootyliciousArt]

Games = Art. Preservation is so important!

[@Borman18]

Thank you for watching, everyone!

[@SlickOnTop]

Vote with your wallet, folks! Support these pro consumer endeavors!

[@Lyvarious]

The barely works as well as you think. Usually you need civil action, litigation, etc, in order to force an industry to change.

[@therealmrglanet2127]

Vote with your votes! Stop Killing Games! m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXa5c5yEarh-q6M

[@juli8952]

Magnificent job of preserving classic games, in this way young people will understand classic games and from this the developers can make continuations of these gems 👌

[@Truly12p]

So glad to see Ross' campaign mentioned within all these efforts. Also, I think the remasters of Soul Reaver were a pivotal moment for last year. The LoK franchise has been a textbook example of hidden gems in the medium, stuck in Limbo for so long... Only until recently!

[@SussyBaka_irl]

Thank you to everyone who appeared within this video, cause you are doing what most in this industry cannot fathom

[@angelbarrios426]

Thanks to all of you for your efforts to preserve videogames 👏😉.

[@AstronautDown]

Everyone mentioned here, as well as many, many others in small collectives or even individually, are doung very important work! Preservation is crucial, thank you all.

[@noskillir1sh918]

I would love to see Heretic II re-released on GOG someday.

[@deprofundis442]

Big time my friend.

[@Trialwolf]

Hope you expand this preservation program as there are still a lot of games that are in limbo due to rights issues, or have been made free by there original owners but now are just forgotten. Also hope you are working to bring in more publishers as admit-tingly you do need more current games to help build your market base. Games I would like to see you try to preserve would be the No One Lives Forever series, Traffic Department 2192, Lemmings, and the Moraff games so more people can discover this fun classic dungeon crawling series.

[@revenile]

NOLF is somewhat the holy grail of games preservation at this point. We all hope it can be done. Night Dive tried a few years ago to re-release them, but due to the copyright hell the games are in, were unable to get the rights, as at least WB wanted a substantial payment just to look through their paper record to see if they even owned the rights to their portion of the IP anymore.

[@zelbeton4457]

respect for what youre doing🫡

[@koosa6289]

Silent Hill 2 and 3 have to be preserved, I'm counting on you GOG! Also please try to bring back Riddick games, such great titles (especially Butcher Bay).

[@agamaz5650]

yup, but tbh emulating them on pcsx2 + 60 fps patch is the way to go

[@agamaz5650]

Silent Hill 3 would really benefit from a remaster like The Thing got, so it can run at 240 fps, the textures still hold up well, and polygon count and sound did not age a second. But tbh I am grateful there is a 60 fps patch that works perfectly on PCSX2

[@winniethewhor]

Hey GOG! You guys might want to consider making 3D scans of the original merchandise like the game boxes and convert them into 3D models for people to use. You could then potentially monetize the physical items in storage.

[@thatsreallyamoon]

Keep up the good work!

[@thehighwaygoddesssss]

I HOPE YALL SUCCEEEEED IM A GOG MAIN

[@IVIaximus12]

I would love to see Dino Crisis 1 and 2 hit GOG :)

[@Tuthrick]

Thank you GOG for everything that you do to preserve the old classics, and for shout-out to Ross's campaign to stop killing games. I wish if it was possible to restore and add the original Baldur's Gate (1998) to the preservation program.

[@Kaspeyskis.]

Thank you for enormous effort. Keep up with a good work. You guys are the best in this industry. Splinter Cell 2 Pandora Tomorrow would bee cool to have on GOG.

[@Azuris190]

Really nice Video, a big Thanks to all the Participants!

[@akira1228]

Thank you GOG for your awesome job :) I think Operating Systems and Libraries as dependencies also should be preserved, but how to tell that to such a big fish like Microsoft?

[@coltonsmorong]

Love GoG, slowly have been building up my library for the past few years. Along with the game preservation, your team just need to do a bit of work with the search bar, if you have a pause while typing it goes a bit wonky. Otherwise I am a satisfied customer!

[@rd-um4sp]

Thank you all involved in this initiative!

[@theunwantedson]

you guys are doing godly works,thank you guys saving games that we grew up with

[@aluinie]

Thank you for all your hard work.

[@pishbot]

GOG's preservation efforts are vital for ensuring that classic games remain accessible, playable, and appreciated, thereby contributing significantly to the preservation of digital culture. Please consider reviving Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair. This unique blend of action-adventure gameplay and stunning visuals deserves to be preserved as a part of gaming history. Its charm and innovative design still resonate with fans of classic gaming. 💟

[@Vet1Michael]

GOG is King!! I've been a member of GOG for ages - I actually found GOG by downloading Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, and have stayed ever since to accumulate now hundreds of games, some I may never play, but which all mean something to me and to the zeitgeist of the times they were created in. As an American, I am ashamed - but not surprised - that Congress was worried about future profits of a maybe attempt to rerelease old titles commercially MORE than in preserving history and culture for everyone.

[@AmuroIsPrettyCool]

We need Dino Crisis next on GOG!

[@MrJakson112]

Dude, ask nicely they are just humans

[@raysgarage2351]

well done to all you guys & thankyou for your hard work & dedication . Bravo , 👋

[@BrunoFonsecaPT]

Thanks for working on the preservation of games, even against dumb comercial interests. This is one of the main reasons I keep purchasing games in GOG. Keep up the great work!

[@No-vq1iv]

They only started that recently, Zoom has been doing it for decades, and with their entire catalogue, not just a handful of titles.

[@la912]

Thanks guys!

[@eltonbormes]

Outstanding work!

[@hetfield144]

GOG BLESS THOSE GUYS!!

[@Hot_Devil777]

original Silent Hill 2 when

[@Edek_Zgredek800]

Original PC Silent Hill 2 is a rip of PS2 version. Just like GTA3, VC and more games. There were times when games on PS2 DVD were ripped to fit on couple of PC CDs. Modification Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition recovers cut content from PS2 version and add a lot of QoL improvements and fixes.

[@TheMaxxy911]

It was truly wonderful to see the original Resident Evils on GOG, and in the Preservation Program no less. I'd love to see the rest of the RE series added, but the game I most want on GOG is Gearhead Garage, one of Lucas Pope's first commercial projects.

[@LarixusSnydes]

A shout out to Ross Scott who put a lot of time and effort into Stop Killing Games.

[@tkeus991]

Any chance we can get Warhammer Space Marine 2 on GOG ?

[@jefferson_santana]

Muito boa esta proposta. 😊

[@deciSTEVE]

This was a REALLY good watch.

[@JoeDouglas]

This is such a great movement! Hopefully Night Dive will be able to do a remake/master of the original Deus Ex. That game deserves to be experienced by all who missed it the first time!

[@yeahhbuddy3932]

ALIEN TRILOGY, ALIEN RESURRECTION, AVP GAMES.

[@Unethrorpe]

Y'all are great; I hope you never stop.

[@KChurros]

So exciting, so much explore!

[@Augustus_Imperator]

Fantastic, thank you

[@victorjamesc.viqueira8522]

This is cool, thanks for the good work.

[@MURDIRK]

Hope more games get added soon! One of the reasons I bought some recent games on gog was because of this new program 👍

[@theindieseeker]

GoG, Great and Good Old Games.

[@The_real_Marcoman]

Good job GOG. 👍

[@goncalopereiraandrade]

Hi GOG, Congratulations and many thanks for your amazing work. I would love you to revive all the Silent Hill old videogames not only 4 ahaha I also loved if you could revive old videogames from Sony like Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter, Crash Bandicoot from the PS1, PS2, and PS3 times to PC. I love you GOG ❤❤❤❤

[@13Carrey1]

Thank you for your work!!!! Also some wishes i would like to see again: America - No Peace beyond the Line + Add-on, WET (From Artificial Mind and Movement published by Bethesda), Red Ninja End of Honor, Ninja Blade and maybe Bullet Witch and Black & White and not forget Starcraft 1 on gog! :)

[@umartdagnir]

Thank you for what you are doing guys. o7

[@doclouis4236]

GOG needs to revive more Capcom games like God Hand.

[@nairocamilo]

Funny seeing Embracer group in anything positive. Didn't know they had an archiving initiative

[@AmineDiva]

G❤G lives on evermore

[@GamesDelta]

Nice collection behind you! How much for that Dungeon Keeper? 😅

[@aydropunk]

Thank you so much for everything GOG :) I dream about the Silent Hill trilogy every day :)

[@Randelia]

Preserve & Protect! BONUS POINTS for standing up to Blizzard - I bought Warcraft 1&2 from GOG before Blizzard pulled the plug. ❤

[@yogurtfluff1]

I would love to be able to get hold of Highway Hunter on GOG

[@AR-np4rh]

Through these initiatives, I'm hoping games like Myth, Oni, Heavy Gear, DRAKAN, and Tenchu can be saved. And those are just from the top of my head! There's so much out there being left behind. It's really saddening! 😢

[@OverlordZephyros]

u guys are heroes ...

[@Drejzer]

Can you imagine if Disney decided to destroy every copy of every Star Wars movie in existence? That's what is happening now, but with games. On a side note, any opinions on Stop Killing Games initiative? Edit 8:22, yes SKG was mentioned, so there's that

[@low_expectations4636]

Dino Crisis Dilogy please :с

[@amankumarjha4530]

Please introduce regional pricing in India so we india can buy games from GOG as well. We all really want to buy games from GOG but the huge price difference between steam and gog in india makes me force to buy from steam. I like steam and i have 160+ games on gog but those are from prime gaming and only 2 games i bought from gog. So please introduce regional pricing in india i believe there will be huge jump in games sales on gog from india when they do regional pricing in India.

[@SgtPowerWeiner]

Fuckin love GOG! Wish you guys had better steam deck support. I don't mind going through Heroic, but my friends refuse to try GOG without a more streamlined and official solution

[@thomasally9946]

Any chance of resurrecting Sword Coast Legends as I would love a gog version of the game - Almost forgot I loved the gold box dungeons and drragons games and would love to see pool of radiance: ruins of myth drannor fixed up and added to gog.

[@Gabriel-bt6er]

Jest szansa na dodawanie spolszczenia do gier? Pytam np o Fallout 3 który miał dubbing a obecnie w żadnej dystrybucji cyfrowej nie ma nawet napisów po polsku.

[@dadadiogenes]

ive been buying from gog a long time. would love to play magic candle trilogy and bloodstone

[@xandowsk]

God bless you!

[@Aquanjitsu]

I love this!

[@backlogpanic]

More convenient console ROMs on GOG? If a game on the platform includes the file, could it also be a Goodie/Extra by default? I wonder if game-ROMs sold with a commercial emulator could be done in the future for older console games more broadly, not unlike what is already done with PC games with DOSbox & ScummVM.

[@rezaman2080]

What about games that are still not available to buy legit online, due to being in copyright limbo purgatory etc., such as No One Lives Forever, Discworld, Orion Burger...? 🥺🌌 Plz GOG, save those precious gems too 🙏🏻✨🍀

[@TheAleatoryFramesz]

🥰🥰🥰

[@whyyash]

Make gog compatible with Linux and it will thrive. It will also be beneficial for preservation

[@jonakuzir357]

I would like to see unreleased and lost games

[@Crazedgamer16]

I wish I could buy all my games from gog.

[@demonprincess5634]

hell yeah gamer for life

[@PLightstar]

It's an impossible task, but would love a remaster or re-release of older Bungie games like Myth 2 and ONI.

[@poximano1160]

Legends

[@davidpalmer5967]

They keeping Preservation to the Underground and not doing it Publicly and Legally as it Should be

[@micketm3]

Hardcopies release pls. . even on demand 😁 👍🏻 Love GOG 😊 pls. don't let CDPR go woke 😣

[@markuzxela]

🤩❤💻

[@Davi-Sanclat]

Loyal platform

[@No-vq1iv]

Like you preserved Warcraft 1&2?

[@Witchling86]

Activision and Microsoft is to blame for that.

[@No-vq1iv]

@@Witchling86 And GOG.

[@chronyk743]

Aliens vs Predator 2 please.

[@Lyvarious]

the frustration I feel when I hear about court rulings for software and it's nearly always about money and how the publishers want their pound of flesh.. like we know that all of the excuses are just that: excuses. EA, Activision, etc, none of them care about any of the talking points that the publicize to the masses, they're just salty that they can't profit off of no work whatsoever. Something like 99.99%, or maybe even higher, of the games that have been released are simply just not worth paying money for once the original platform is no longer supported, just make the damn thing accessible via public libraries and conservation/archive efforts. Really hoping the initiative in the EU not only gains traction but becomes a snowball to force publishers to do what the title of the action states "stop killing games" I would have a riot if I could play the crappy Alone in the Dark remake that had like 3 different versions, depending on the platform, where the car chase mission was nearly impossible sometimes thanks to RNG just being a pain. The only reason I can't is because my PC version requires online authentication to activate on install, I could circumvent that but I should never have had to in the first place and we're entering into sketchy territory to even try. Who knows if Windows 10/11 would even allow the game to run without further hotfixing. This isn't getting into how there have been four separate games called "Alone in the Dark" and have nothing to do with each other.

[@Siwkann]

ALLOW BOUND BY LOVE BY KAGURA GAMES TO BE SOLD IN GOG. If you pretend to preserve games, you can't decide what should be preserved.

[@khalidwaleed2362]

heroes

[@jotarokujo5543]

The simpsons hit and run

[@Archangel96]

i buy most of my games on gog so lets say 1 game is on both steam and gog i will 100% buy it on Gog because you actully own it unlike steam, you dont own your games on steam

[@Witchling86]

Embracer has caused so much shit when they overspent their money, bought more studios they could handle and later shut them down. like idiots. Their archive is a good thing. But at the same time they are a bad company and bad for gaming.

[@tatesmasterace]

put more games on the god dam store , barely any developer nowadays want to put their games in that store come on cdproject red do better

[@rookiethecat2227]

well, gog's main rule is DRM free games, which is publishers dont approve thats why gog doesnt have that much new games blame the publishers not these guys

[@agamaz5650]

@@rookiethecat2227 especially fucking rockstar, they used fanmade cracks to remove the DRM, Manhunt is still broken on Steam, without Manhunt fixer you cannot even finish the first level

[@Mortarah]

There's also the case of the parent company (CDP) not investing anything into GOG, so it's all run on tight budget. And yeah, the sister company (CDPR) apparently doesn't even care about GOG anymore - they even embraced DRM.

[@LarixusSnydes]

Sure. Now where did I put my magic wand? Seriously, this is hard work. First: Finding and convincing original rights holders and strike a deal with them that does not break the bank. Second: Tweak the settings and maybe write some extra middleware to make it work on modern systems. Third: Lots of other things. Fourth: Release and last, but certainly not least: Fifth: Maintain the release and keep it working while Operating Systems and Hardware progress. I have the utmost respect for the teams that come together to be able to eventually release an old relic of the past and maintain it.

[@BattlewarPenguin]

Brace yourself and answer me. 'The Witcher remake studio says it plans to "remove" the parts of the original game that "are simply bad, outdated, or unnecessarily convoluted' Why you lie about game preservation? You cannot preserve The Witcher, your flagship franchise, how will you even preserve other games?

[@Yep_Just_Him]

Give us sleeping dogs for free, I beg you, make this happen GoG And a small tip. Please revive Iron Storm, so if the owners own original iron storm they get world War zero as a free upgrade.

[@ppavankumar2903]

Bruh 😐

[@agamaz5650]

tbh I would love the OG Sleeping Dogs, much better than the Definitive version imo

[@Aguriasu]

C'mon now, Sleeping dogs has been discounted to like $2

[@Aguriasu]

​@@agamaz5650Yup, I hate how they butchered the original lightning and even has some minor bugs with the clothes they didn't even bothered to fix

[@trackah123]

Very cool video GOG 🕹💾

[@speakqwerty]

Keep up the good work!