I disagree, the VGA looked the best for me. The Amiga is close, but one has to go a notch down in graphics, I prefer the EGA low res for its charm. Not that the Amiga one didn't look great. I had much better audio on my Amiga 1200 running Monkey Island.
The VGA does look the best. Still it is impressive that the Amiga version looked that close while having only 1/8th of the colors. Great use of palettes and dithering, I wonder if halfbrite was used.
Sure, it has less colors, but the overall feel is better.
Consider the character sprites, they seem to be based on EGA, which was the original intent, and it shows. See also the scumm bar. There's some ugly shiny highlights in VGA which Amiga version doesn't have. The overall graphical language is simply better.
Whoever made these artistic decisions knew what they were doing.
Why use a crusty old linter when you can be AI-Native and 100x your load-bearing file formatting by orchestrating AI to do it? Do you want be left behind in the dust?
People focus too much on discs and cartridges, but too little on licensing and drm. The disc is meaningless if you cannot run it after drm servers died. Also, very often the game on the disc is unplayable because of lack of day-1 patch. Meanwhile you can burn games you bought from GOG on a cd and play it 10 years later without internet connection. So the physical vs digital discussion is completely irrelevant to the problem.
Even on GOG, it's usually illegal to re-sell games you bought to other people, if I understand correctly. It's a minor point since there's no technical barrier to resale, but that's one difference between physical games and DRM-free digital games.
There's a small number (~100?) of commercial games that also allow resale through Creative Commons licenses on itch.io. you can use filters like "assets-cc4-by-sa" plus "code-gpl3" to find games like that, but there's a lot of possible license combinations so it's difficult to see all games like that at once. I've also seen a couple of digital commercial games that allow resale but had some other restrictions (e.g. forbidding reverse engineering), from Humble Bundle, if I remember correctly, but in those cases I didn't know that was allowed until after I bought the game, so searching for games like that seems pretty difficult.
Maybe there are games on GOG that allow this too, but I don't know how I'd search for them.
Exactly the type of reason some people want literal physical discs. You don't own the data on the disc, but you own the physical disc and can resell it, totally legally and practically allowed. And the disc has anti-copy measures so it's really a transfer, not a copy.
It's relevant because most game publishers won't want to hand out a DRM-free copy. So it's either a digital one phoning home or a physical disc/cartridge that they assume most people won't reverse-engineer. GOG is an exception to the rule and doesn't have a wide game selection.
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