Starlancer
Edit: I still have the discs but, y'know. Hellbender won't install on modern Windows.
Edit: I still have the discs but, y'know. Hellbender won't install on modern Windows.
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What are some "lost" PC games - besides the No One Lives Forever series, that have not had digital re-releases yet?
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Of those not mentioned here, I'd say Magic & Mayhem (and its pseudo-sequel), Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy, Soldiers of Anarchy, and Bedlam (and Bedlam 2).
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That's interesting because 3D Realms' own site says that the Duke Nukem titles as unavailable, while others are either free downloads or on Steam/GOG. It's also why the 3D Realms Anthology is gone - it included Duke Nukem games. That Zoom site even says that 3D Realms is the publisher, while it should be Gearbox if they chose to release them again.
Hopefully nobody tells Randy Pitchford about this!
Quick +1s to MechWarrior 2, Combat Flight Simulator 1+2, and Black and White.
My big ones in this category were the earlier Blizzard classics like Diablo 1, WarCraft 1+2, but those are on GoG now.
The real and best answer is a game very few people have heard of, much less played, but which is the best 2D RTS ever made. I am of course talking about Strifeshadow. The site is still up at Ethermoon.com if you want to see more.
- Very much in the vein of StarCraft, Designed by Tom Cadwell (Blizzard, Riot)
- Indie game ahead of its time that might have lived if digital distribution had existed.
- Resource model designed to encourage constant low level conflict rather than single large army battles.
- Engagement model that let battles play out much more tactically, with melee units holding a front line.
- Three unique races.
- Editor that let you just go in and not only build maps but define your own tilesets, units, spells, entire races.
- Nice soundtrack sort of in the WarCraft 2 mold, simplistic but atmospheric.
- And the true death knell of the game: multiplayer only.
My big ones in this category were the earlier Blizzard classics like Diablo 1, WarCraft 1+2, but those are on GoG now.
The real and best answer is a game very few people have heard of, much less played, but which is the best 2D RTS ever made. I am of course talking about Strifeshadow. The site is still up at Ethermoon.com if you want to see more.
- Very much in the vein of StarCraft, Designed by Tom Cadwell (Blizzard, Riot)
- Indie game ahead of its time that might have lived if digital distribution had existed.
- Resource model designed to encourage constant low level conflict rather than single large army battles.
- Engagement model that let battles play out much more tactically, with melee units holding a front line.
- Three unique races.
- Editor that let you just go in and not only build maps but define your own tilesets, units, spells, entire races.
- Nice soundtrack sort of in the WarCraft 2 mold, simplistic but atmospheric.
- And the true death knell of the game: multiplayer only.
Wow, were they added recently? i remember looking not to long ago and couldn't find them.
On sale too, which is great.
i would instabuy that game. damn i loved it back then. even if my computer did ran it like crap
Battle for Middle Earth 1 and 2, what I'd give to play those again. Also the original Zoo Tycoon game with dinosaur expansion. I'd straight up buy all of these at $60 no questions asked if given the opportunity to do so.
Alien Vs Predator 2, stuck in limbo due to rights issues. Franchise rights belong to Fox, but Sierra published it, unlike the first game which was published by Fox themselves.
Wolfenstein 2009
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All the EA Harry Potter games and also NFS games older than Undercover.
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All the EA Harry Potter games and also NFS games older than Undercover.
I bought them in 2016 so probably not (unless they were delisted for some reason).
Reading this thread makes it clear a pretty big unexplored territory for GOG is older Japanese PC games, specifically Windows versions of Japanese games from the late 90's and early 00's. I imagine the main problem is CDProjekt being able to talk the publishers into it. Konami would be a tough one. First there's establishing links with Japanese publishers in and of itself, and then convincing them to sell those games DRM-free.
There are some Japanese games on GOG but they seem to be specific cases with certain publishers: Nihon Falcom's recent PC ports and remasters, SNK's emulated arcade games (emulated console games are a whole other conversation), etc. It'd be a whole other step for CDProjekt to convince the likes of Konami to let it release MGS and Silent Hill. I remember back in the day Ben Judd tried to get Capcom to put the old Windows version of Mega Man X on GOG (I think old Windows SFII is up there).
There are some Japanese games on GOG but they seem to be specific cases with certain publishers: Nihon Falcom's recent PC ports and remasters, SNK's emulated arcade games (emulated console games are a whole other conversation), etc. It'd be a whole other step for CDProjekt to convince the likes of Konami to let it release MGS and Silent Hill. I remember back in the day Ben Judd tried to get Capcom to put the old Windows version of Mega Man X on GOG (I think old Windows SFII is up there).
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Is there anything special or unique about the PC version of Megaman X that I can't just experience in the Megaman X Legacy Collection? My experience with most console to PC ports at the time was that they did pretty half assed jobs at doing them.
VP hurts. My son played it to death and is now a teenaged PC gamer - he asked if it was available on PC the other day ....
Richard Burns Rally seems an obvious one. Some would say the Dirt Rally games have succeeded it but I don't think everyone holds that opinion. The Flight Unlimited games too.
F22: Air Dominance Fighterdoesn't even have a PCGamingWiki page let alone a digital re-release. Having a copy of it myself I should probably make the effort to change the former. 🤔
Edit: oh wait, F22:ADF does have a PCGW page!
F22: Air Dominance Fighter
Edit: oh wait, F22:ADF does have a PCGW page!
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Not only does Nocturne need a digital release
but oh gordie howe almighty it needs a remake ala RE2
A setting like Nocturne should get more love tbqh
but oh gordie howe almighty it needs a remake ala RE2
A setting like Nocturne should get more love tbqh
Prey 2006
Stubbs the Zombie
Manhunt 2
The Wheelman
Tony Hawk's American wasteland
Guitar Hero 3
Stubbs the Zombie
Manhunt 2
The Wheelman
Tony Hawk's American wasteland
Guitar Hero 3
What's sad (and I brought this up earlier) is how nothing has really ever surpassed Yoot Tower.
-Project Highrise is entirely too clinical and not fun to play (even on consoles).
-Mad Tower Tycoon is a strong work in progress but it's hamstrung by limited building utility options for late game advancement.
-Even The Tower SP on Game Boy Advance doesn't give you the same function and scope as the first two games.
So hopefully Saito sees the trend here and decides to either reissue The Tower 2 or just go all in on The Tower 3 for PC and consoles.
Kind of a shame too, runs amazing on toasters. The Ultimate Edition has some issues, would be nice to have both available.
Which version of this game had stardock on it, slayer of disk drives?
Came here to post this. I bought Typing of the Dead PC for my mum and she did not appreciate it! I blame Mavis Beacon.
I remember playing TOTD on her PC and it having a bunch of serious typing teaching modes not present on the Dreamcast version. It's really sad that they didn't make this available.
And pretty much every other classic LEGO game....
Wow I never played Rock Raiders but the first two were mindblowing back in the day, yeah :D
They have already been listed but are significant to me:
Blood Omen : Legacy of Kain
Exhumed/Powerslave
Blood Omen : Legacy of Kain
Exhumed/Powerslave
They'll never do it, and I get why, but I still think it'd be neat if Steam had a native roll back patch feature
Starlancer
Freelancer
Only two that come to mind. Most everything else I wanted came out on GoG.
Freelancer
Only two that come to mind. Most everything else I wanted came out on GoG.
A bunch of Sega's 1994-2006 PC output has completely vanished, and people will bring up stuff that had a following or console presence (like House of the Dead or Daytona or even arcade ports like Virtual On) or was a victim of licensing like Outrun 2006, but there's a whole lot of other esoteric stuff they did that was mostly PC only, oftentimes under the SegaSoft brand.
Lose Your Marbles - a pit drop puzzle game, sort of based on Puyo Puyo but with a different board layout and perspective. It wasn't bad, but I dunno if I'd go with "better than Tetris". This was all in house, so nothing's really stopping this from resurfacing that I know of.
The Space Bar! A brilliant point and click adventure by Steve Meretzky from Infocom. It had a long development cycle though and in the end, was so ignored by the public that Meretzky gave up on adventure games. He works on phone stuff now. This is likely a publishing rights situation, since Rocket Science Games was also involved, but it deserves to have another chance.
Obsidian. Like The Space Bar (and Rocket Jockey), it was a Rocket Science project that was a collaboration/adoption with SegaSoft. There was a lot of marketing out there for what turned out to be a niche FMV adventure game rooted in cryptic futurism - I barely watched TV and I remember seeing ad spots for it in early 1997 on prime time cable.
I was going to mention Emperor of the Fading Suns here, but the still-active developers have it on their webiste (along with Machiavellii/Merchant Prince, another favorite).
As far as Japanese imports, Sega on PC was even more curious.
ENEMY ZERO. Think of it as D 1.5 - since it's connected to the D series via the lead character Laura. No telling about the rights situation, due to Kenji Eno's death. If it's under the purview of From Yellow To Orange, Nightdive might be able to pick this up for a re-release, and maybe even work out logistics for a first ever PC release for D2, since it was only ever on Dreamcast.
YooT Tower! An improvement in every possible way over SimTower. I still have the game installed from disc on my computer and still load it up every few months, since it's never really been surpassed, by Yoot Saito himself or by any of the spiritual successors.
Hundred Swords - SmileBit does real time strategy. An interesting but clumsy take on Warcraft, and also originally made for Dreamcast. With updates and a reissue though it would probably get a following. Also I really don't know how Activision got the publishing rights in the US, but they probably don't have them anymore.
I was going to come into this topic and speak the gospel of the old Bungie catalog, but it looks people have that covered. Not only that but there are some damn good suggestions in here.
PSA! IIII
GOG just added a bunch of old games!
Submarine Titans
Arabian Nights
Also:
Ask and ye shall receive:
Hexplore (someone just mentioned that yesterday)
The Legacy: Realm of terror
Time gate: knight's Chase
DethKarz
Epic
Inferno
GOG just added a bunch of old games!
Submarine Titans
Arabian Nights
Also:
Fun mix of isometric action hack'n slash with Lost Vikings like puzzles
Ask and ye shall receive:
Hexplore (someone just mentioned that yesterday)
The Legacy: Realm of terror
Time gate: knight's Chase
DethKarz
Epic
Inferno
I didn't expect to see either of these titles come up, or Nocturne either, but these 3, along with the NOLF games are my top 'please release them digitally!!!11!!!!!' titles.
Drakan, despite getting a ps2-only sequel has a thriving modding community keeping the game alive. I would do despicable things for a proper re-release or pc sequel. If Lara can get a modern series, surely Rynn and flying dragon battles should be able to as well.
Honourable mentions to Elite Force 1 and 2, AvsP2 and Klingon Honor Guard as other titles that I can remember off hand v that I want digitally
