• Codex@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I wish games just wouldn’t license music, or would attain a perpetual license that allows the work to remain whole and as intended. Can you imagine if your movie collection just auto-updated to change the soundtrack or add some new scenes in now and again? It’s fucking stupid what people put up with in games and software.

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      2 months ago

      Remember when games came on physically media and they couldn’t pull this crap even if they wanted to

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        2 months ago

        This is one of many reasons why I’ve been trying to buy physical PC games lately.

        I found a boxed copy of the GTA Trilogy recently. It was for Mac, and had probably been sitting on a shelf in some office supply store for 15 years. I don’t even have a Mac, but I bought it since I figured that, not only would it be the original, non-remade version, but it should (hopefully) have the original music as well.

        I haven’t opened it yet. I’ll probably post a thread here when I do. Maybe it’ll run in a virtual machine.

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      2 months ago

      Already happens on streaming, at least with TV. Watched a few episodes of House a while back and they changed the great Massive Attack theme to some generic sound-alike. Honestly put me off a rewatch more than some of the other parts of the show that didn’t age well.

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        2 months ago

        It’s actually a bit hit or miss, at least on Prime Video. Most episodes still have the Massive Attack Theme, but a few here and there (Mostly in S2 iirc) have the generic theme.

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    2 months ago

    Never heard of the guy. Was he the one that hid from the light and preferred the dark?

  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Buy the gog version and make a backup of the offline installer version. Turn off automatic updates if you have installed it via one of the game manager apps.