Capcom was initially towards GOG’s request so as to add the unique PC variations of Resident Evil 1, 2 and three to its retailer, in response to a GOG govt.
The unique 1996 PC model of Resident Evil was added to GOG in June 2024, adopted by the unique PC variations of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3.
All three re-releases have been up to date to make sure full compatibility with Home windows 10 and 11, and acquired new rendering choices and varied different trendy fixes corresponding to help for contemporary controllers, improved cutscene timing, an improved video participant, an improved DirectX recreation renderer and modes like 4th Survivor, Tofu and Mercenaries unlocked from the beginning.
Nevertheless, in response to a brand new interview with The Sport Enterprise, GOG‘s senior enterprise improvement supervisor Marcin Paczynski says Capcom was initially towards the thought, and was extra keen on getting gamers to check out the trendy remakes of every recreation.
“Capcom have been like, ‘we now have all of these remakes. It’s already the superior expertise to these video games’,” recalled Paczynski, who says he was one of many GOG members who led the undertaking.
“They didn’t actually see the worth in bringing again the vanilla variations. It took loads of convincing that there’s an viewers that has loads of reminiscences about these video games, and would like to expertise precisely the identical recreation once more. Fortunately, we have been in a position to persuade them.”
Paczynski says the response to the re-releases proved that GOG’s argument was appropriate, and that there’s nonetheless a want to play the unique video games as they have been initially offered on the time.
“After we launched [Resident Evil] on GOG, the reception was completely phenomenal,” he mentioned. “We have now 94% constructive opinions on GOG for all of them. And that was additionally mirrored within the gross sales.
“It proved that there’s an viewers for this. The classical variations, the variations all of us bear in mind from our childhood, they nonetheless maintain loads of worth.”
Seemingly gained over, Capcom then gave the nod for GOG re-releases of the unique PC ports of Dino Disaster and Dino Disaster 2, which have been added to the shop in January 2025.
All 5 video games are a part of GOG’s Preservation Program, a scheme introduced final November which is designed to make sure that basic video games stay playable on trendy techniques ceaselessly, even after their builders have stopped supporting them.
Paczynski estimated that there can be round 350 video games within the Preservation Program by the tip of 2025, saying: “The hope is sooner or later, when you find yourself fascinated by shopping for a 10-year-old recreation, the very first thing that you just’ll test is that if it’s out there within the Program.”
