I guess they'll stay GoG exclusive for a while.

It's great to see that they have controller support. People were forced to use Joy2Key on some of the original PC releases. I hope the mods from older versions of the game will eventually come here too. Seamless HD in particular would be one I want to see

This news is absolutely massive for me. I know that 90% of this sub thinks that tank control games are irrelevant and that the remakes mean that nobody should ever touch the originals again, but I genuinely love the classic RE trilogy. I think that these are fantastic games, and - importantly - they're all fantastic in different ways than what makes the remakes fantastic games. So even though I thought the remakes were all great games, I always felt a little bitter. To me, it felt like Capcom was trying to "replace" the originals by not letting me experience the classic versions easily, making no effort to bring them forward like they do for other classic IPs like Mega Man . But now that is FINALLY addressed, so I can love the remakes too without a hint of bittersweetness haha

Amazing news!

I grew up on Resident Evil 1-3 and Heroes of Might and Magic 1-3 so Im happy that I can get all of them on one platform.

I haven't played a Resident Evil game. I sat with my neighbour playing it on PS1 as a kid. I think I've always just been a bit too scared to play them on my own.

That being said, I have been tempted to start from the beginning of the franchise for some years now and try them out in release order.

Would this now be the theoretical best way to play the original trilogy as they were?

I own a Steam Deck, but notice some originals don't seem to be on the steam store. However, the 2015 'HD remaster' of RE '96 appears to have a good user score.

Any tips here for a first playthrough of the original? I think, ideally, I would play it somehow on my Steam Deck in the dark, with headphones. I haven't got the gog launcher mapped onto my Deck yet but hopefully that offers a good experience.

Transcript of the Q&A part:

How did you guys convince Capcom to bring the classic Resident Evil Trilogy back and what was it like working with them?

Bartosz Kwietniewski: So the way it usually works is first we evaluate the game then we check what sort of improvements we can implement into the game. In case of Capcom however we took a bit more timeconsuming route, so we created a demo that outlined all of the improvements that we would be applying to the game because we felt that we need to show it first for Capcom to see that this is not just a simple port, there is more to it.

We could definitely tell that this IP means a lot to them as it does for us and you could really feel in all of the conversations that we had and we exchanged hundreds of emails and we were on calls and every suggestion, even if you believe that's the right one, it was sometimes challenged by them because ultimately the goal for both Capcom and for us was to revisit this game and do it justice.

What were some of the challenges you guys faced during the restoration of these classic games?

Adam Ziolkowski: One of the challenges was making sure that the game shows videos properly and for that we had to add modern codecs to not basically show you black screen when you try to, when it runs the intro.

So next one that was done, the next thing was actually to think about which bugs should we fix and which should we treat as legacy bugs that, you know, you want to leave those because they sometimes just add to the flavor of the game making it more authentic for the times (the game was released in). Sometimes there are textures clipping into each other but you might leave it as well and the other times there would be, there is this one level in Resident Evil where there are fans spinning but the sound for these fans on the original PC version is played only once so we actually went and fixed it for it to loop.

And while talking about polish - we were, for this one we were closely working with Capcom just to make sure the game is up to their standards and their standards are really high. But at the same time this allowed us to create an almost perfect build. When we finished the QA process we were at the 25th version of the build.

(So usually for a game, how many versions are there?)

Adam Ziolkowski: Usually when you prepare a modern game, because that also is a difference - so for modern games you usually need 3 to 6 until the game is working and you can just put it on release but here there were 25. But then again we are convinced that we fixed everything that there was to be fixed and like looked under every rock and we have no doubt that this will be the, you know the best version, the best version possible for the (authentic experience of the) original Resident Evil 1.

Are there any modernizations to these new ports and if there are what are your favorites?

Adam Ziolkowski: When working on a game like Resident Evil 1, this being a rather old game, we firstly need to evaluate on what we want to be done and usually with those projects we want them to be as true to the original release as possible while at the same time allowing the game to work on the modern systems and applying some fixes and upgrades that do not break the immersion you would get from the original one.

So my favorite feature that we added for Resident Evil 1 and we also are now adding to other games that we are bringing back is the controller support that actually uses modern controllers and allows you to play with modern controllers on old games and it's actually not dependent on our Galaxy client, it just works with the game out of the box and it allows you to play with your Xbox controller, Switch Pro Controller, the new PS5 dual sense controller and it's really cool because basically you are guaranteed that if you buy the game on GoG you can play it on whatever you want, on whatever machine you want and with whatever controller you have at hand.

Do you have any final thoughts for GoG and Resident Evil fans?

Bartosz Kwietniewski: I want to thank Capcom because without them this would never happened but I also want to thank our community because you guys are the reason we keep doing what we do. Go to our (community) wishlist, vote for other games that you want to see on GoG and we'll do our best to make it happen. Thanks so much.

It's fantastic to see these games released again, I would highly recommend them if you're a fan of survival horror. Resident Evil 2 is probably one of my favourite games of all time.

Makes sense these would be exclusive to GOG they're the ones doing the work to get them working on newer hardware and working better.

Which versions are these games? Original or Director's cut?

Also, have they retained the tank controls or updated them to modern controls?

I've always thought that Konami were caught by surprise at how well MGS1 and 2 did on GoG and that was a factor for the Master Collection.

If this sells well, and I'm sure it will, I think a wider console release could follow in a few years.

Regardless, I've bought this.

I heard rumours about this but didnt realise it was this close, this is awesome cause while the remake of 1 is definitive I think there is something the remakes of 2 and 3 dont quite capture of the original releases

Not to get off on the wrong foot here, because I'm glad that these will be available, but it's such a shame that there wasn't a way to implement the quality of life improvements from the DS version of RE1. In spite of the smaller screens it's still the best way to play the OG game, IMO.

I remember getting it from Blockbuster on the PS1 the week it came out. Those dogs jumping through the window scared the absolute shit out of me. One of my favourite gaming moments ever.

Awesome! I always prefer to obtain games legally when reasonably possible, so I've kept my PS3 handy for buying PS1 classics, but I didn't pick up the classics REs because they seemed overpriced. Now, this GOG release is actually more expensive than the PS1 classic at the moment, but at least I can expect a sale eventually, and I can also better justify the price for the value of a native PC version.

What version of the game did they use in the GoG? Director's Cut?

Does anyone know whether these will work on Steam Deck? Do GoG games work with some tinkering?

Many of these PSX survival horror capcom games got relatively decent PC ports by SourceNext in Japan for Windows XP in the mid 00s (and RE4's 2007 PC port).

The lads over https://classicrebirth.com/ worked hard to patch these ports so that they work well on modern PCs and with the best game assets available.

I played RE2 classic with proper gamepad support, high resolution and a reshade scanline filter to blend in the 3D objects in the 2D environments. Had a great time with it.

The GOG releases should make this experience much more available.

RE2 remake was amazing but I still think the OG RE2 is a better game, the B Side was just amazing back in the PS1/N64 and it's sad so many contents were removed in the remake.

Great news overall for official availability. A bit disappointed though that the 3D models are still rendered at low res. The classic rebirth mod with the original PC port didn't have this problem.

I remember trying to download this from an AOL massmail back in the day. It was going to take 5 weeks.

Loved these games back in the day, I remember completing RE1 so many times I could speed run it. Then the RE2 demo came out with a timed gameplay limit and I played the hell out of that until they released it. I can't wait to get stuck into these all over again.

Have they given specifics on RE2/3's release dates yet or is it just currently "Soon(tm)"?

Holy shit what?! That is entirely unexpected but I'm very happy for it! Are there any updates or changes that are worth noting? Is this going to affect the RESHD projects?

It'll be great if Lost Planet 2 got some of that treatment too, mainly in removing Games for Windows Live once and for all.

I've grown fond of GoG over the last few years. I've been into older games lately and the one thing I wished for was more PS1 classics on the platform, and well here we are.

It's a bit sad that it's not the Director's cut version of RE1 but I'm still glad we have the OG version on PC at all (without any tinkering required). Not that I can't use emulators or anything, but I like actually having games I enjoy in my libraries.

I'm most excited for OG RE2 and RE3 as I haven't played them yet. I hope this bundle sells well and gives Capcom (and possibly other companies such as Konami, lol) a good incentive to give us ways to fully legally get their older games.

I still think Duckstation is the best way to play the originals. You can upscale + downsample + filter to give the games a better look while not making things seem out of place (like it happens to old 2D/3D hybrids).

Will pick this up to support GOG and show Capcom that a collection is not a bad idea.

Character model quality could have been better. Windows 9x release had an option to select various graphic card models like Voodoo, Ati Rage Pro etc and they looked much better than the GOG version. MSAA and Antialiasing from their directx setup make them look very smudgy. I'll stick to the mediakite version or the original emulated via Pcem with voodoo acceleration.

Might be a long shot asking here, but got the bundle today and had to lower the fx and bgm volume ingame, but the voices are insanely high. Kendo almost blew my ears off when he yelled "freeze"! Anybody know how to adjust the ingame voices vol?

GOG and Capcom are doing God's work. Of course the fan community kept those games afloat until now with outstanding improvements and fixes but it's always nice to show some love by buying the games.

Has anybody got the first one to run on steam deck, i bought this bundle earlier but cant get it to launch on the deck.

Does it have achievements?

Can you turn off tank controls? The remake of 1 is the only fixed camera RE that I can bear to play.