Category: Musings

Just me thinking on things.

GOG launches a game preservation program

It sure is interesting times. However, jaded as I am when it comes to this industry, I can’t help to think this is being made in response to the Steam/DRM/ownership debacle as some kind of business opportunity. Regardless, it’s a good initiative, with their mission consisting of making sure the old classics work forever and ever. To be a little crass, perhaps, but shouldn’t that be a thing already for GOG? Once again, not trying to be negative here, seeing as this is a good thing. Yet, I can’t help myself to ask these questions.

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You will own nothing [DRM Hell]

Thanks to a new California law, as far as I understand, Steam is now required to present the games for sale as a license purchase in California. Instead of having it say, you are buying the game. Now, this is not news to me, considering the games you buy on Steam, and other digital stores are firmly locked to your account. Meaning you have no ownership over the product, with no means to sell it to someone else.

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Ragdoll effects forever!

Ragdolls, the one game-enchanting aspect of any game, often regardless of genre. For me, the fun started all the way back in the original Hitman: Codename 47, when I noticed you could drag the dead bodies around. I spent hours dumping my victims into the sewers (we all float down here). Since then, it has of course lost some of the shine, as it has become standard in games (you would hope, at least). Some do it poorly, and some do it great, but as long as it is there, it improves the game experience.

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