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What notable classics are GOG still missing?
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Seriously, it's painful more people don't get the chance to play these games.
Black and White
Rocket Jockeys
Star Trek Elite Force and Elite Force 2
Anything of Monoliths not already on the store - Condemned included
The Movies
Drakan Order of the Flame
Crimson Skies
Nocturne
Heavy Metal FAKK2
American McGees Alice
Trespasser
Stubbs The Zombie
Typing of the Dead
Quarantine and The Road Warrior
The Max Payne games
The LOTR - Battle for Middle Earth
Sanity: Aiken's Artifact
Tony Hawk 1 and 2
One Must Fall 2097
Rocket Jockeys
Star Trek Elite Force and Elite Force 2
Anything of Monoliths not already on the store - Condemned included
The Movies
Drakan Order of the Flame
Crimson Skies
Nocturne
Heavy Metal FAKK2
American McGees Alice
Trespasser
Stubbs The Zombie
Typing of the Dead
Quarantine and The Road Warrior
The Max Payne games
The LOTR - Battle for Middle Earth
Sanity: Aiken's Artifact
Tony Hawk 1 and 2
One Must Fall 2097
I would pay $50 right now for a digital copy of Maximum Pool that works out of the gate for modern operating systems and computers. Make it so, GOG.
No One Lives Forever 1/2 are the ones I never expect to see re-released. It's all well and good to see cryptic Twitter posts and photos of old promo posters Night Dive had printed in anticipation of legal agreements that never materialized, but given the rights history of those games I won't believe anything is brewing until I see an official announcement.
Cryo's Dune and Conspiracy/KGB. They're unusual and fascinating old school adventure games, and the latter has the novelty of being an early title with a big name actor (FMV Donald Sutherland provides hints to you on the CD version.)
I wouldn't call it a classic but I really liked Starlancer back in the day and would love to see it on GOG
Not sure if it's considered a classic, but Midtown Madness. My PC at the time couldn't run it and I doubt it would be easy to install in a modern system today.
Loads of Star Trek games, but especially the Armada and Elite Forces games.
Sadly the original licensing expired by Activision being dicks and trying to sue CBS, so I doubt they'll ever get relicensed.
Sadly the original licensing expired by Activision being dicks and trying to sue CBS, so I doubt they'll ever get relicensed.
I would love to see the rights to the Activision Star Trek games somehow worked out and get official digital versions of Bridge Commander, the Armada games, the Elite Force games, etc but sadly I think it's a pipe dream.
I keep hoping GOG will branch into early microcomputers but nope. I would spend SO MUCH MONEY building a C=64 and Amiga collection!
Lionhead was bought by Microsoft, so it's probably a question of EA and Microsoft working together.
A lot of Japanese ports from the 90s-00s. They are so forgotten people often don't even realize they were on PC half the time. Sega had been porting first party games from the Saturn, Capcom released Resident Evil 1-3, Konami ported some Metal Gear and Silent Hill titles.
Outside of that I'd love Blade Runner. It's the main PC game I'm still needing to hold onto that physical copy.
Outside of that I'd love Blade Runner. It's the main PC game I'm still needing to hold onto that physical copy.
Wow really? You have a link to this? I wonder how they'd manage to get it to work.
Wouldn't EA own the IP though? I mean that's how it is for most studios, they don't own their IP's the publisher usually does, especially back in those days.
It is typically the case that the publisher (i.e. sole/chief financier) owns the IP and/or game itself, but Black & White was wholly a Lionhead property back in the day, which, by extension, makes it a Microsoft property today:
That said, publishing contracts can add a wrinkle to things (e.g. EA still publishes Kingdoms of Amalur despite Nordic purchasing the IP last September), but as the B&W games were released almost two decades ago, the odds of this being an issue are slim at worst.
Yeah dude. Star Trek Armada 1 and 2. Elite Force 1 and 2. And theres this really solid 3rd person action game, Deep Space Nine - The Fallen. Like, a proper good action game, state of the art unreal engine implementation back in the day, benchmark type of stuff. Its like a 15-18 hour game, three full lenght campaigns for each of its three characters.
Well received game sporting an 80 score on mobygames https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/star-trek-deep-space-nine-the-fallen
Eurogamer gave it a 90 and said: "Playing through the game once is a pleasure in itself, but having the added bonus of two more characters to complete the game with gives astounding value for money. A solid storyline backed by hauntingly good graphics and sound, with entertaining combat and weaponry make this a hard game to put down. "
A nice hidden gem
Holy shit. I've been waiting for Albion to show up on GOG for years that I lost hope at one point.Albion is on GOG
Albion on GOG.com
www.gog.com
I hope you're talking about "Sid Meier's SimGolf". Because that's still one of the best games ever created.
On top of the Activision Star Trek games, I'd love to see Birth of the Federation back.
Even with the discs though I think a lot of the Activision games are difficult to get running on Windows 10, but they're too modern for DOSBox.
Along with Starship Creator 1 and 2.
Even with the discs though I think a lot of the Activision games are difficult to get running on Windows 10, but they're too modern for DOSBox.
Along with Starship Creator 1 and 2.
R6: Rogue Spear and expansions and R6: Raven Shield as well
Still missing Ghost Recon's expansions even though Steam has them
Most of Microsoft's older classics especially Mechwarrior series and Freelancer
Still missing Ghost Recon's expansions even though Steam has them
Most of Microsoft's older classics especially Mechwarrior series and Freelancer
Myth at least 1&2 can take or leave 3.
Sid Meier's SimGolf
I have physical for them, but would be nice to have them digitally as well in case something happens to the discs.
Sid Meier's SimGolf
I have physical for them, but would be nice to have them digitally as well in case something happens to the discs.
Microsoft has the IP via Lionhead, EA has the actual game/software. Microsoft doesn't want to put their games on GOG (clearly), so we are at a dead-end if it's even possible to get both Microsoft and EA to work together to get B&W out there.
Mechwarrior has a very complicated licensing issue, its not just MS involved in this process.
I would love to see the early NFS games on GOG.
Incorrect. I looked into it yesterday and it's pretty much Microsoft being in charge of the series since Mechwarrior and Mechcommander from 1998. This means that Microsoft holds the rights and the software of all of the following titles: Mechcommander 1, Mechcommander Gold, Mechwarrior 3, Mechwarrior 3: Pirate's Moon, Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance, Mechcommander 2, Mechwarrior 4: Black Knight, Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries. Yet none of these games are anywhere to be seen.
The only conundrum is Mechwarrior 1 and Mechwarrior 2 being developed by Activision, so this means that you would have to adjudicate between Microsoft and Activision in order to see a digital release of those games.
I feel like there's an entire generation of perfectly good games that have been forgotten there. Apparently Amiga licensing is a mess, with the rights owned by three different companies.
Cliff Johnson's been giving this away for free on his site for years. Admittedly it'd be nice if it was available through GoG for convenience's sake, but it's certainly out there!
Was released as freeware as part of the marketing for One Must Fall Battlegrounds, making it the only worthwhile thing about that sequel.
So if you want to have a giant robot fight, go right ahead. It's free now. But this is probably also why it's not on GOG.
The Legacy: Realm of Terror
Veil of Darkness
Dracula Unleashed
are some of the ones I'm waiting on...
Veil of Darkness
Dracula Unleashed
are some of the ones I'm waiting on...
You can download updated versions of NOLF1-2 on some fan website.
The idea was to force the IP holder to finally identify themselves but none have so yeah free updated NOLF.
The idea was to force the IP holder to finally identify themselves but none have so yeah free updated NOLF.
That sucks to hear. I think I need the story behind this. Do you have a link?