I mean, NOLF was way ahead of its time. A parody that also was a really good game. Like, a parody that was not sarcastic or ironic. It is hard to describe.
Personally I would trust a fan-made work distributed through MediaFire and MEGA (and there is nothing wrong with these services!) more than some corporate re-release riddled with DRM and “““analytics””” (the word we've collectively agreed to pretend doesn't mean “spying” lol)
Tron 2.0 was great, and another game that has been lost to time. I got the Steam version working with a hack many years ago, but I doubt it would still work. That's another one that could use the same treatment as this version of NOLF!
Eh, LithTech was fairly impressive for the time, but I wouldn't necessarily call it good. It is incredibly fragile. I've been working on creating a library of games that works on modern platforms. LithTech games have taken at least 3-4 times longer because of frequent crashing.
I haven't seen a .tk domain in probably 20 years. It was super popular with young gamers during the early 00s due to the free domain. What a blast from the past!
Hilarious, hilarious game. Nightdive Studios, known for remastering old games such as System Shock, Doom 64, and Turok, tried their hardest to get the rights to the game, but apparently nobody knows who owns it! https://kotaku.com/the-sad-story-behind-a-dead-pc-game-that-...
NOLF2 was hilarious. The samurai sword fiht in a trailer park while a hurricane blows through it! The fight against French mimes toting machine guns (Ah, ze pain is unbearable)!
I own both games on disc and played part of the first one a couple of years ago on Windows 10. Absolutely stellar game, I’ve always meant to finish one of these days and get to the sequel…
IIRC it did indeed require some fiddling with config files and maybe even community patches to get a wide aspect ratio to work, and weapon viewmodels would still end up stretched.
Highly recommend giving these games a shot!
The legality of this seems questionable, though? The site itself doesn’t appear to acknowledge anything related to that.
My understanding of this is that no one will actually confess to owning the IP, so this project also serves the purpose of baiting someone to actually come forward and submit a takedown notice as that would presumably reveal who owns it
There's an issue with the rights to the No One Lives Forever games which is why it hasn't re-appeared on Steam (et al). Nightdive Studios tried to get the rights to republish it but couldn't nail down between these parties who actually had the rights to the game and could authorize this.
If the owner of the IP doesn't enforce their ownership of the IP then there isn't much to do about it. This is pretty common in the "abandonware" gaming community. Lots of old games are technically piracy but nobody cares.
Readit News
- https://web.archive.org/web/20020217233624/http://pc.ign.com...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20010720053220/http://noonelives...
- https://github.com/osgcc/no-one-lives-forever
- https://github.com/haekb/nolf1-modernizer
Please be careful using a release distributed on a site without TLS and links to other certain well-known file sharing sites.
Personally I would trust a fan-made work distributed through MediaFire and MEGA (and there is nothing wrong with these services!) more than some corporate re-release riddled with DRM and “““analytics””” (the word we've collectively agreed to pretend doesn't mean “spying” lol)
It started with Shogo, but also No One Lives Forever, Tron 2.0 and F.E.A.R. left deep impressions.
What stood out was the combination of their well-done 3D engine with world building and art direction.
It wasn't the same from game to game, each game had their very distinct feel, and always interesting.
And I think few shooters have as good enemy AI as the goal-oriented[1] ones in F.E.A.R. (sadly not used in the sequels)
Good times, good times...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_Productions
[2]: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/building-the-ai-of-f-e-...
I played it again some years ago but it was flaky, so yeah some TLC would be great.
Also a blast from the past, the OMM review of NOLF: https://www.oldmanmurray.com/longreviews/751.html
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https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/game/the-operative-no-one-live...
IIRC it did indeed require some fiddling with config files and maybe even community patches to get a wide aspect ratio to work, and weapon viewmodels would still end up stretched.
Highly recommend giving these games a shot!
The legality of this seems questionable, though? The site itself doesn’t appear to acknowledge anything related to that.
I hope that whoever set this site up has protected their identity...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wry0IKvcjF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22CbAsfAV6M