More Lucasarts on GOG. They’re delving further into the archives of Star Wars games, including Jedi Knight, the Quake-era sequel to Dark Forces where Lucasarts decided our hero really should have a lightsabre. There’s a bunch more I’m not greatly personally familiar with – Rebellion is Master-of-Orion style strategy. Republic Commando looks like some sort of tactical first-person shooter. Starfighter has you flying around in one of those Naboo fighters from Phantom Menace, I have absolutely no idea if it’s any good.
No sign of more adventures, except for that forthcoming Grim Fandango remake I mentioned last time. I think the titles still not available on gog or steam are:
- Zak Mckracken
- Maniac Mansion
- Day of the Tentacle
- Full Throttle
- Curse of Monkey Island
- Escape from Monkey Island
DotT is my personal priority, with its cartoony style, offbeat humour and lovably quirky protagonists. That said, I’d love to revisit the biker-themed Full Throttle also.
Meanwhile, there are a few we can buy on steam but not yet GOG:
- Loom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- The Dig
I mention this because GOG is our preferred source for oldies, due to their no-DRM policy. Also, GOG are pretty good for including extras with their games, including older versions. So with Loom they could sell the VGA remake (with digitised speech but rewritten dialogue to fit on a CD) and bundle with it the EGA original, which is lacking from the Steam Release.
If it sounds like I’m sounding like an entitled nerd here by demanding more, I should reiterate I was happy just to see Lucasarts on GOG at all. I have good faith that the GOG guys are keen to have the entire back catelogue for sale. It’s probably a just matter of persuading Disney execs and lawyers to approve the sale of these old games – and maybe they’re keener to sign off on Star Wars stuff since that ties into the forthcoming new trilogy.
I can’t wait for The Dig and Indiana Jones to be released on GOG! I’m mainly hesitant to buying games from Steam because they just don’t play smoothly from Steam’s pre-configured DosBox settings. Almost every game I bought needs to be copied to my own DosBox directory and needs to be loaded with some custom settings and tweaks.
Games bought on GOG on the other hand always work like a charm without having to search the internet for fixes.
January 29, 2015 @ 10:30 pm
Hey Muaddib! How’s it going?
I agree with your point about Steam releases of DOS games, based on my own (limited) experience. They don’t even use the latest version of DOSBox, and you have to bugger around for ages sorting them out and getting them to work properly.
That said, I usually like to do some tinkering with the GOG versions too.
February 8, 2015 @ 1:09 pm