Have a radioactive X-Mas: Fallout1, 2 and Tactics for free over on GOG

Hi, guys. Not spamming and am in no way affiliated with GOG but saw this on another nerdy site I frequent and know we've got some gamers here so thought some folks might be interested.
 
http://www.gog.com/ has Fallout 1, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics available for free download over the next day or so. I'd never heard of them so I held off until I checked it all out before posting. The site's pretty slick (much easier to use than Steam) and I scanned the downloads with avast and they were clean. Fallout 1 is working fine on my crummy laptop (haven't installed the others yet). You probably don't want to toss these on your DAW just to be safe and I certainly advise caution when downloading anything "free" but all seems on the up and up as far as I can tell. They just sell older games and stuff and this is some kind of promo freebie.
 
Here's their Wiki with some more deets on the site...
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com
 
You do have to create an account but you just have to give them an email (I created a burner just to try it out). Pretty sweet and they give you a bunch of other free games on signup too.
 
So yeah... this is indeed me Beepster (didn't get hacked or something). Just thought I'd give ya'll the heads up before the freebie ended.
 
Merry ho ho and happy new new and all that stuff. ;-)
 
 

Hi, mesh. I don't actually do a lot of gaming (little too busy with other stuff) but I do like me some CoD every now and again to blow of some steam (no pun intended). I had been hearing about Fallout for so long I figured it would be worth checking out. It's pretty cool but I actually thought it was a FPS. Works out better though because I don't really like playing FPS games on my lappy and I'm not keen on installing too much crud on my DAW I make an exception for CoD but I buy the discs for that series). This is working great and I don't have to attach my keyboard and trackball to play it. Maybe the later versions will.
 
But yeah... it's all checking out fine here and GOG seems like a pretty cool site. I actually prefer older games because I missed out on so much over the years of not gaming (I was a Nintendo kid but then I got into sex, beer and rock and roll) and they don't require a specially souped up rig to play.
 
Happy holidays!

I was curious and went to their site, but I don't see the titles you reference.  I just went to the Price dropdown and selected "Free."  They do have several titles listed there, but not those.  In fact, I just typed in "Fallout" into their search box and got no matches...

Thanks, Mesh. Yeah, PC stuff seems to be the way to go. No need to spend a buttload on consoles and subscriptions when I've got perfectly good computers to use and the titles are cheaper. Having the fancy controllers would be nice and I guess I could buy one for my PC but really I ain't spending money on that. Gear comes first for splurging type expenditures. As far as Steam... IDK, I found it to be kind of a pain what with the client and just the way it handles stuff.  I got the Everquest free thing through it just to check it out and it was quite the ordeal. This was a little quirky at first but once I figured it out I got the installers pretty painlessly. It'd be different if I was into the latest and greatest games but I just like to goof around every once in a while.
 
Hi, craig. It's a bit of fiddling around to to the right area. Like I was clicking on one thing that SHOULD have gotten things going but it asked me to log in then threw a 404 when I did. Then further down the page were some other buttons and they worked. Can't remember exactly what I did but eventually it made it into my "Cart", I pushed it through to checkout then the games were downloadable from the "my games" section. Not the greatest design but still easier than some other places.
 
BTW I saw something in their FAQ about IE not really being the greatest on the site, especially anything before IE9. They recommend Chrome or Firefox... just in case anyone runs into problems on IE.
 
Cheers.

That could be it.  I usually run IE9.

Fallout looks interesting so I'm downloading it (and all the "bonus" stuff) now.  Not sure when I'll get time to play it though!

sharke
Games are way too realistic for me now...I preferred them when they were set in surreal little worlds of flying penguins and giant fruit.

Er...  Those weren't real???

Long-time gamer here, but I haven't acquired a new one since 2004. What's the deal with STEAM? Is that some sort of cloud-based licensing thing?

STeam is a client that holds and enables one to rent games in the sense that you do not own the software and because of piracy you can only like rent the game even if buying the game in the store. The full game is probably not given on the DVDs with some of them being too large of a game (12Gb) and Steam holds the rest of the game to download, and the patches when they patch the games. A lot of producers of games now go through Steam (Valve to be exact) and if you even redo your computer and lose the games you can download them all that you have in your account from Steam. I am not using the Steam Cloud though because I prefer to have saved games on my computer and do not need Steam holding those to be cleared out of the cloud when I do not want them anymore.
Some people play games for achievements and to get them first but I just play a game for my own purposes. Plus if it is a multi-player game then there usually is a server for that with Steam to play multi-player.
 
Gone are the days when you bought a game with Secur-Rom or any copy protection and now you just rent the game and really do not own it, even if you bought it retail. A lot of people also do not like that and will not buy games anymore.
 
I re-installed (well at least try to install) some old games before all of that started happening, and some of them do work, and others I have on my XP computer so that will be that.
 
If I ever get any time to actually finish some games I have enough to last for quite awhile, and I do not play FPS games anyway. About the only game I played except for some sci-fi games like XCOM was Civilization in its various version forms over the years. I still have Civilization IV on my old computer and V according to some is just to far different and dumbed down to get into until the third expansion that just came out this year. Now Civilization IV did not go through Steam, you installed it like games of old, but V is done through Steam but at least they hold all the patches to games, but sometimes STeam can be wonky also according to some.
 
I only start up Steam when playing a game and instead of just one time, about once a week the player has to log into Steam or else the game will not play anymore, if playing single player in a game which all games have to be like verified and also the account to keep playing the game. That is why some people will not play those games anymore, and look for something else, but a lot of computer game producers are doing all the same thing, and Steam is better usually then others. Sim City new one the player has to be on-line to even play, and that seems to be fine with some players, and others like me will never buy the game ever.
 
If software goes that way, then it is only old software that I will use. Even keeping a backup of the game or software on the cloud may be fine, but to store my stuff on a cloud is nothing I am going to do.
 
Microsoft again, and others doing this stuff, and it is bad enough to think that now even today they think they own your computer, and other people are going to linux and that will be that. Enough is enough I guess.
 
But like I said I have old games still playable if worked through and some not, and DosBox for old XCOM games that still work on my XP computer and will work in Windows 7.
 
A lot of people never ripped off games maybe only some young people and others in foreign Countries that steal stuff (China wherever).
 

Oh, yeah. I guess that might be something that may turn people off. I think you can just toss these in your cart, do the checkout then dl them whenever you want if you do want them on your system right now.
 
And I'll tell ya this game moves a lot faster after reading the manual. lol
 
Started from scratch now that I know what's going on. I even have some bad ass lookin' dude following me now too to help me out.

I've done lots of the "online" type games (heck, I used to run the second-most popular game server on the West Coast once for Quake, Half-Life and Counter Strike), but I really actually prefer the single-player FPS type so I can take my time and lose myself in
the game for awhile.  In the single-player games you don't have opponents asking you questions all the time!
 
The only new game I've played in the last several years was Rage which I got in June and have played four times already.  My "1337 skillz" must still be good since I went through their final level on my first try without any saving and restoring (either that, or the last level was a bit lame - lol).  I've replayed many of the levels trying different weapons though, they've got some that just make me laugh over and over like a crossbow that can deliver a dynamite-tipped arrow from a LONG distance.  You shoot them and they panic, run around in a circle while cussing until they blow up.  Never gets old.  Hehe...
 
STILL waiting for Half-Life 3 though...