Original discs > player/fan uploaded rips >>>>>>>>>GOG>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>[...] pile of shit>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>[...]
PCGamingWiki should be your first stop always. Not only it will point to fixes if the game needs it, you get information about DRM, EAX support, DirectX version, etc. All very handy when trying to run old games on newer OS.
GoG: >easy access to manuals > can download installers and back them up yourself, yours forever >storefront not cluttered with metric tonnes of jankshit >committed to modern compatibility
Steam: >mandatory bloatware launcher >gaben can decide you're not allowed to play your games anymore, for any reason, at any time >spammed with ads every time you want to play your game > :-0 TRADING CARDS OMG
idk OP, they both have their pros and cons, whatever you prefer
with ads every time you want to play your game
What does this mean? I've never seen an ad on steam and I've been using it since September 2003. Your pc must be pretty shit if steam feels like bloatware.
Straight up falsehood, unless you don't know what an ad is. It's literally the first thing that steam shows you when you open it up.
And you could take your dad's wiener out your mouth, but it's not going to stop him climbing into your bed at night
1 year ago
Anonymous
You're just mad you were too moronic to figure it out. People turned it off like a decade ago and forgot about it.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>it's OK to be cucked if I don't see the dick going into my wife!!
1 year ago
Anonymous
they aren't secretly running some adware bitcoin mining operation in the background moron. Once you turn it off it's gone for good.
1 year ago
Anonymous
The entire platform is an ad for other games? Or have you not realised this yet
1 year ago
Anonymous
>there's ads on steam >that's a lie >no its not, here is proof >ahh no but you can turn them off that means there was never any ads there I win u suck
You will never not be factually incorrect. There is ads on steam. You are wrong.
🙂
you are really gay
1 year ago
Anonymous
Try to do an effort in showing yourself a little less assblasted for being proved wrong.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>there's ads on steam >that's a lie >no its not, here is proof >ahh no but you can turn them off that means there was never any ads there I win u suck
You will never not be factually incorrect. There is ads on steam. You are wrong.
🙂
1 year ago
Anonymous
this is getting sad dude. Do you also browse the internet without an adblock and then complain about ads everywhere?
1 year ago
Anonymous
There is still ads on steam. There always was ads on steam, and you will always be provably wrong. Cope seethe dilate etc
1 year ago
Anonymous
You're conflating advertisements with a storefront. Do you also complain about "ads" when entering a physical store?
Simply disable the opening ads and gaben won't bother you. Anything after that and it's just a result of you browsing their storefront.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Glad to see you admit I was correct all along, steam has ads, and forces you to install a storefront to play their games.
Apology accepted
1 year ago
Anonymous
>force
You can use a custom version of the client that disables the store completely. How new are you?
1 year ago
Anonymous
Nowhere did I say or imply Steam has ads, because the only instance can in fact be disabled.
At no point was an apology made, nor will it ever be. Learn how to use their store and stop your current course of action, because it is foolish. You're trying really hard to be right about a fallacy. Just accept you learned something new, do it, and move on.
I understand its hard to be wrong at times, that's why I appreciate you stepping up and admitting that yes, I was right, steam has ads, forces you to Install a storefront, or violate the eula, and that you learned that things still exist even if you can't see them.
I hope you take this period of time to reflect on what you learned from me and be a better Internet citizen
1 year ago
Anonymous
>choose to install Steam willingly >willingly leave the opening ads on >browse a literal store full of products out of your own free will >only to go "STOP SHOWING YOUR PRODUCTS TO MEEEEEE"
titanium grade autism
1 year ago
Anonymous
>steam has ads
that can be disabled with 2 clicks, making your point invalid. >forces you to Install a storefront, or violate the eula
You can disable the store on the original version of the steam client itself too you moron. All you have to do is enable the console and enter 1 command max. Using steam skins or custom clients isn't against the eula either, I've read it and they allow you to make certain changes within the guidelines.
1 year ago
Anonymous
NTA, but just hold that L and try to shitpost less in the future. Saves you from having to go through these stupid exchanges.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Nowhere did I say or imply Steam has ads, because the only instance can in fact be disabled.
At no point was an apology made, nor will it ever be. Learn how to use their store and stop your current course of action, because it is foolish. You're trying really hard to be right about a fallacy. Just accept you learned something new, do it, and move on.
Everyone says this, and yes it's true, but question: how does Valve go under? They aren't working on many games these days, they aren't spending a lot of money beyond the overhead of keeping steam running, and they get like a 30% cut on every store sold on their front. How is the company gonna die? Serious question here.
The only scenario I can see where steam shuts down is something like OS have evolved beyond 64bit and steam can't adapt so they have to make Steam 2 and migrate all the content to that. Even in a scenario where a nuke hits Valve HQ, steam has servers and maintenance facilities in more than one country.
>how does Valve go under?
Microsoft starts demanding a cut of everything sold on windows, and all publishers decide to just put their games on the MS store instead of Steam. No one would want to give microsoft 30% and then valve another 30% on top of that. Steam would be "boycotted" by all third-parties.
with ads every time you want to play your game
What does this mean? I've never seen an ad on steam and I've been using it since September 2003. Your pc must be pretty shit if steam feels like bloatware.
Depends on the game. Some are better on the other platform.
GOG installers don't play nicely with older Windows and some of their patches break compatibility. Steam versions sometimes have patches too and there's even a few old retro vidya on Steam with added Steamworks DRM on them.
There's a couple games that are absolutely worth picking up Steam. Extreme G2 has the soundtracks to the entire series included. Rollercoaster Tycoon has a very nice DRM-free installer included in the game folder.
Another store worth considering is the Humble Store which has a few weird DRM-free exclusives not available elsewhere.
Frick Steam, I don't have to patch every game I BOUGHT to make it work on Win7 (not even 10). Not a single win98/XP game sold on this godawful platform works right out of the box. People shit on Virtual Console and Switch Online for sloppy emulation but I rarely see anyone mention classic PC games on Steam. This is honestly unnacteptable. I remember when I straight up just gave up trying to launch Gothic 1. This is literally a 'money stolen' situation
CD Projekt Red are deceitful bastards who lied to the public to promote their game, withheld copies of what they knew was a broken experience from reviewers, forced their staff to undergo crunch, bootlicker the CCP by taking down content on gog that Winnie the Pooh finds offensive…. Don’t support them.
>he didnt turn off the opening ads on stream
aw man, aw man
it's been so long since I did I had actually completely forgotten about that
do yourself a favor and turn it off. don't say gaben never gave you the option
If you have to buy them, GOG staff usually make sure they're patched up (unofficial patches also) and running on best (or mostly best) ScummVM and DOSBox settings.
GOG usually gives you the DOS version with remasters to use with source ports when available.
along sometimes with goodies such as wallpapers and soundtracks.
They tend to work better on gog copies since sometimes the steam ones just get dropped on the store with 0 compatability for modern PCs. That's where all the memes about Mystery of the Druids started with no one having played it, because no one could get the steam release running.
Until GOG invests more in Linux compatibility for galaxy, or Minigalaxy is a bit more polished, Steam for me. I don't really feel like fricking around with setting up Lutris, and much of my old games are drm free anyway.
https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
Anyone shitting on steam nowadays are dumb Epic gays.
I say GoG
Archive for clean isos + PCGW for manual fixes and patches.
Neither.
Yes.
https://mega.nz/folder/3t8nzSIS#947kyMN6Z80f8HS7q2XlqA
Whoever the underdog is, because they can't frick you over (yet).
>buying retro games
Original discs > player/fan uploaded rips >>>>>>>>>GOG>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
pile of shit>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>Original discs
have fun bricking your pc with starforce and securom drms lmao
Damn, thanks for the reminder. Do you know if any of the pc games on archive warn about this?
PCGamingWiki should be your first stop always. Not only it will point to fixes if the game needs it, you get information about DRM, EAX support, DirectX version, etc. All very handy when trying to run old games on newer OS.
>taking his bait with face value
>puts no-cd.exe in the game directory
your move assface
GoG:
>easy access to manuals
> can download installers and back them up yourself, yours forever
>storefront not cluttered with metric tonnes of jankshit
>committed to modern compatibility
Steam:
>mandatory bloatware launcher
>gaben can decide you're not allowed to play your games anymore, for any reason, at any time
>spammed with ads every time you want to play your game
> :-0 TRADING CARDS OMG
idk OP, they both have their pros and cons, whatever you prefer
>Steam
How are trading cards a BAD thing? You can ignore them.
Also the second to last is a complete lie.
If steam goes bust tomorrow your games are gone. Cry harder.
>offline mode
so it's fricking nothing!
> I own nothing, and I am happy
Straight up falsehood, unless you don't know what an ad is. It's literally the first thing that steam shows you when you open it up.
you can turn it off in your settings noob
And you could take your dad's wiener out your mouth, but it's not going to stop him climbing into your bed at night
You're just mad you were too moronic to figure it out. People turned it off like a decade ago and forgot about it.
>it's OK to be cucked if I don't see the dick going into my wife!!
they aren't secretly running some adware bitcoin mining operation in the background moron. Once you turn it off it's gone for good.
The entire platform is an ad for other games? Or have you not realised this yet
you are really gay
Try to do an effort in showing yourself a little less assblasted for being proved wrong.
>there's ads on steam
>that's a lie
>no its not, here is proof
>ahh no but you can turn them off that means there was never any ads there I win u suck
You will never not be factually incorrect. There is ads on steam. You are wrong.
🙂
this is getting sad dude. Do you also browse the internet without an adblock and then complain about ads everywhere?
There is still ads on steam. There always was ads on steam, and you will always be provably wrong. Cope seethe dilate etc
You're conflating advertisements with a storefront. Do you also complain about "ads" when entering a physical store?
Simply disable the opening ads and gaben won't bother you. Anything after that and it's just a result of you browsing their storefront.
Glad to see you admit I was correct all along, steam has ads, and forces you to install a storefront to play their games.
Apology accepted
>force
You can use a custom version of the client that disables the store completely. How new are you?
I understand its hard to be wrong at times, that's why I appreciate you stepping up and admitting that yes, I was right, steam has ads, forces you to Install a storefront, or violate the eula, and that you learned that things still exist even if you can't see them.
I hope you take this period of time to reflect on what you learned from me and be a better Internet citizen
>choose to install Steam willingly
>willingly leave the opening ads on
>browse a literal store full of products out of your own free will
>only to go "STOP SHOWING YOUR PRODUCTS TO MEEEEEE"
titanium grade autism
>steam has ads
that can be disabled with 2 clicks, making your point invalid.
>forces you to Install a storefront, or violate the eula
You can disable the store on the original version of the steam client itself too you moron. All you have to do is enable the console and enter 1 command max. Using steam skins or custom clients isn't against the eula either, I've read it and they allow you to make certain changes within the guidelines.
NTA, but just hold that L and try to shitpost less in the future. Saves you from having to go through these stupid exchanges.
Nowhere did I say or imply Steam has ads, because the only instance can in fact be disabled.
At no point was an apology made, nor will it ever be. Learn how to use their store and stop your current course of action, because it is foolish. You're trying really hard to be right about a fallacy. Just accept you learned something new, do it, and move on.
2-3 clicks max to disable it completely btw
You've been saying this since 2004.
>b-b-but if it does you cant play
And? Did it die yet 19 years later? No? Shut the frick up then, moron
Everyone says this, and yes it's true, but question: how does Valve go under? They aren't working on many games these days, they aren't spending a lot of money beyond the overhead of keeping steam running, and they get like a 30% cut on every store sold on their front. How is the company gonna die? Serious question here.
The only scenario I can see where steam shuts down is something like OS have evolved beyond 64bit and steam can't adapt so they have to make Steam 2 and migrate all the content to that. Even in a scenario where a nuke hits Valve HQ, steam has servers and maintenance facilities in more than one country.
>how does Valve go under?
Microsoft starts demanding a cut of everything sold on windows, and all publishers decide to just put their games on the MS store instead of Steam. No one would want to give microsoft 30% and then valve another 30% on top of that. Steam would be "boycotted" by all third-parties.
with ads every time you want to play your game
What does this mean? I've never seen an ad on steam and I've been using it since September 2003. Your pc must be pretty shit if steam feels like bloatware.
That's what I meant with the second to last point being a lie.
Sure but in offline mode you can't install games.
Epic Store
>Epic Store
>buying games
>buying retro games
>GOG or Steam for retro games /vr/?
Piratebay. The most cheap retro games, I tell ya.
Neither.
you can google gog installers and avoid the slow crawl that is internet archive though
>downloading directly
>not using torrents or download managers
disappointing
>torrents
yeah, I don't care/am not smart enough to learn how to not get my computer raped by that shit
Depends on the game. Some are better on the other platform.
GOG installers don't play nicely with older Windows and some of their patches break compatibility. Steam versions sometimes have patches too and there's even a few old retro vidya on Steam with added Steamworks DRM on them.
There's a couple games that are absolutely worth picking up Steam. Extreme G2 has the soundtracks to the entire series included. Rollercoaster Tycoon has a very nice DRM-free installer included in the game folder.
Another store worth considering is the Humble Store which has a few weird DRM-free exclusives not available elsewhere.
Frick Steam, I don't have to patch every game I BOUGHT to make it work on Win7 (not even 10). Not a single win98/XP game sold on this godawful platform works right out of the box. People shit on Virtual Console and Switch Online for sloppy emulation but I rarely see anyone mention classic PC games on Steam. This is honestly unnacteptable. I remember when I straight up just gave up trying to launch Gothic 1. This is literally a 'money stolen' situation
get free games from gog and then use steam for the controller support
Frick both of them, they both have 0 principles.
GoG was cool when they bothered to rerelease old games instead of selling whatever indie garbage.
Steam.
CD Projekt Red are deceitful bastards who lied to the public to promote their game, withheld copies of what they knew was a broken experience from reviewers, forced their staff to undergo crunch, bootlicker the CCP by taking down content on gog that Winnie the Pooh finds offensive…. Don’t support them.
gog because steam doesnt even work on older windowses and requires "online" literal drm spyware. frick that shit
There's a patched steam pre WinXP, I think.....
>he didnt turn off the opening ads on stream
aw man, aw man
it's been so long since I did I had actually completely forgotten about that
do yourself a favor and turn it off. don't say gaben never gave you the option
If you have to buy them, GOG staff usually make sure they're patched up (unofficial patches also) and running on best (or mostly best) ScummVM and DOSBox settings.
Steam doesn't have that type of curation.
Still,
>buying abandonware
Unironically what fricking ads are you talking about on Steam? Show me on a screenshot.
Epic has no games
archive.org
GoG because they have a better selection of retro titles and don't force you to use their launcher.
Also they have an official console-tan
https://www.magipack.games/
How trustworthy is Magipacks? I've heard mixed opinions on them. Some people swear by them, but I've also heard accusations of Malware and shit.
None, just pirate
Or buy physical
GOG usually gives you the DOS version with remasters to use with source ports when available.
along sometimes with goodies such as wallpapers and soundtracks.
GOG. GOG's stuff is also easy to pirate since it doesn't have any DRM or require you to use a launcher.
They tend to work better on gog copies since sometimes the steam ones just get dropped on the store with 0 compatability for modern PCs. That's where all the memes about Mystery of the Druids started with no one having played it, because no one could get the steam release running.
GOG. Frick Steam, I don't want to make Gabe Newell any fatter than he already is.
Definitely GOG because no DRM and you can play offline. You should scour abandonware sites first though.
The correct answer is eXoDOS
Until GOG invests more in Linux compatibility for galaxy, or Minigalaxy is a bit more polished, Steam for me. I don't really feel like fricking around with setting up Lutris, and much of my old games are drm free anyway.
https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
Anyone shitting on steam nowadays are dumb Epic gays.
How DARE they point out the shortcomings of your mommy brand. They must be fans of unrelated game launcher.
You homosexuals always complain about shit like Steam being a monopoly.
Whatever has the game cheaper. Then you can add the game to steam or to gog galaxy.