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CiDeRmAn · 06-07-2023 11:11am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120792019#Comment_120792019

This is my similar pleasure from that era, Coldwinter on the PS2, I don't believe it ever got a release on the PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XgOUYQiGsA

Cordell · 06-07-2023 12:47pm

No One Lives Forever games, while good, are not that good to be worth chasing and untangling their IP mess. And if there is some appetite for this kind of style and atmosphere then totally new IP can be developed - and for that we got Deathloop.

johnny_ultimate · 06-07-2023 1:02pm

Couldn’t disagree more with that. Quality doesn’t come into it: no significant or well-regarded game should be caught in IP limbo, and nobody should be happy when that’s the case. Everyone benefits when as many games as possible are as easy to play as possible. If a PC game isn’t readily available on Steam or GOG, then it’s a real shame and far from ideal. For preservation alone, everyone needs to strive for games to be as easily accessible as possible, and things like the Quake re-releases show how much an old game can benefit from the effort to do a proper update for modern machines.

That said, went digging around for NOLF1 after reading the conversation here and thankfully fans have done a great job updating it for modern machines. Played through the first hour and despite some predictable weirdness with resolutions and the like it’s thankfully perfectly usable. I’m all for fan-driven updates and releases when the companies involved are happy to just let it die otherwise. Still, the best possible outcome would be if Nightdive succeeded in their efforts and managed to untangle the rights to give the two games the treatment they deserve.

Cordell · 06-07-2023 1:25pm

I don't disagree and certainly I'm not happy but it is what it is. The IP owners won't do anything about it, and that includes not even bothering to search their archives, and that's the reason Nightdive gave up - no one ~~lives~~ will finance a game with unclear IP situation

Retr0gamer · 06-07-2023 3:13pm

I kind of found deathloop pretty bad. Felt like it only got good response because it was the first ps5 game worth playing but it's not that good.

pixelburp · 06-07-2023 4:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120812911#Comment_120812911

Here's a Kotaku article diving into the rights issue... I'd not hold my breath tbh cos it sounds more trouble than its worth at this stage.

Never loved NOLF2 as much; always felt a much more muted, less imaginative game - which I always ascribed to how the first game basically had about 3 games' worth of set pieces in it already...

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/04/the-sad-story-behind-a-dead-pc-game-that-cant-come-back/

johnny_ultimate · 06-07-2023 4:30pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813975#Comment_120813975

I've no doubt at all it's complicated, and kudos to Night Dive for their valiant efforts to get it over the line. No doubt they tried as hard as they could.

But I'm never satisfied with seeing any work of art disappear due to stupid corporate wrangling and red tape. You see it with films too - it's a travesty major works like The Heartbreak Kid (1972) aren't available due to rights issues.

But given we've seen previous 'impossible' re-releases like the old Lucasarts point n click games unexpectedly emerge from rights hell, we can only hold out hope that NOLF will be liberated too. In the meantime, fans and piracy are keeping the games playable, so that's something at least.

CptMonkey · 06-07-2023 7:08pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813651#Comment_120813651

I hated deathloop. Played about 15hours and gave up. Couldn't be bothered

Potential-Monke · 06-07-2023 7:55pm

Yeah, Deathloop didn't do it for me either. Just got bored quickly. Think I had about 10 hours. Looking back on Arkanes catalogue, I've only really liked the first Dishonored.

Penn · 06-07-2023 9:12pm

I liked a lot of Deathloop, but once you realise there's only one way to kill all the targets in one day, the game just becomes fairly formulaic. And the power to link nearby targets and then just shoot one in the head so they all die (particularly with the stealth nailgun), there's f*ck all point doing anything other than that.

If there were maybe 3 or 4 ways to take everyone out in one day, like manipulating them in other ways early in the day to group them in different ways in the evening, that would have been more interesting.

The Julianna thing was a bit of fun though. I did like that.

Cordell · 07-07-2023 11:33am

All this talk about Deathloop makes me want to play it again :)

SuperBowserWorld · 07-07-2023 2:19pm

Amazon Prime Gaming.

What is it ? Is it PC only ?

Looks like a terrible mobile game store front. In fact all these digital stores are beginning to look like so much tat.

I just can't handle the stack 'em high, as much as you can eat approach to anything.

A shoebox full of Switch AAA physical games. That's enough gaming for me at this stage. 😁

RedXIV · 07-07-2023 3:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120818353#Comment_120818353

Had it for years, occasionally think to claim free games while on twitch, never played one of them. Some old skool gems in there to be fair like metal slug, snk and samurai showdown but I've got so many platforms for playing games on, I just never think of it

Grumpypants · 07-07-2023 7:05pm

If you have prime you get a bunch of free stuff. From free games to in game content.

I got Prey recently and it was a code for gog.com so that was nice.

Have got some in game content for playstation games too.

Might be worth a bit more if Luna launches here and they include some cloud games.

Jordan 199 · 08-07-2023 1:57pm

Don't **** with the Ballas baby! We go out in a blaze! Dopes the lot of them.

wotzgoingon · 08-07-2023 1:59pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120821926#Comment_120821926

San Andreas?

Jordan 199 · 08-07-2023 2:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120821932#Comment_120821932

Yes, and GTA V and GTA Online.

Zero-Cool · 08-07-2023 4:45pm

EA UFC 5 full reveal this September.

https://twitter.com/EASPORTSUFC/status/1677694262723354626?t=PHsVj8g4VfV8if4MorGYOQ&s=19

martyos121 · 08-07-2023 5:15pm

What I hope for: everything they got rid of from UFC 3.

What we’ll actually get: fighters doing TikTok dances.

Zero-Cool · 08-07-2023 7:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120822617#Comment_120822617

Yeah, my expectations are in the bin unfortunately.

J. Marston · 09-07-2023 8:35pm

Early thoughts on FF7R as an FF virgin. I like the gameplay a lot. I know the original was turn based but this is doing it for me. More specifically, Tifa. I just pick her in every fight. The punches and kicks feel way better than the sword. A game with an expanded, polished moveset like that would be good.

The story and characters; it's aggressively anime but I knew that going in. I don't mind anime in small doses.

Will definitely stick with it.

RedXIV · 10-07-2023 10:14am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120827253#Comment_120827253

Looking forward to seeing how you get on. If the combat is doing it for you, I'd recommend jumping from FF7R to FF16 if you get the itch to continue the franchise. It feels fast paced in the combat as well.

Jordan 199 · 10-07-2023 12:13pm

Everybody's Golf is a lovely game.

Zero-Cool · 12-07-2023 9:33am

NoClip doc making of Immortality. They say at the start it's spoiler heavy so I'm not gonna watch it just yet as I want to play it first. Got a new phone so will try the Netflix Android version of it (ugh). Sounds very interesting though so I'd say this will be a good doc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ov00DFQ5gg

CatInABox · 12-07-2023 4:00pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120840332#Comment_120840332

Not sure you could get spoilers for that game? I've played it for hours and still don't know what's going on 🤣

In all seriousness, it is a good game, or experience, and yes, there's a couple of twists, so yeah, it's worth going in blind.

wotzgoingon · 14-07-2023 7:25pm

@Retr0gamer(just picked you as in your username retro gamer, so you may have played it) and anyone else did you ever play Rayman 3. I started it a long time ago, like really long ago but I finished Rayman Origins earlier this year and then Rayman legend too so I said I will go back to the Xbox arcade game Rayman 3 HD. Man it is difficult. As in simple things like camera going against you and other simple platforming that should be easy but are difficult. Swing from one thing to another and he doesn't grab on so a simple climb turns out to be an ordeal.

I may fight through it. I looked up the game length and I'd say I'm halfway through it.(I think anyway it's a long time since I last played it. The save said 2015)

Retr0gamer · 14-07-2023 10:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852300#Comment_120852300

Rayman 3 is a pretty decent 3D platformer for the time but it's from a time when they hadn't quite got camera controls nailed. Of you can get used to it there's a very good game there.

Rayman games do have a reputation for being a bit difficult.

wotzgoingon · 15-07-2023 12:30am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120853027#Comment_120853027

I have been playing it all night and it is good but pretty difficult. Camera is annoying lack of health pickups and no constant saving like in new games. I just called it a night there as I was pretty far through a level and died and had to start the level from the beginning and to say it was difficult is an understatement.

Retr0gamer · 15-07-2023 1:27am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120853237#Comment_120853237

If you think 3 is bad, the original game is absolutely brutal. One of the most gorgeous 2D games ever but also so insanely tough.

We kind of had a lot of very tough 3D platformers around the time of Rayman 3. Mario sunshine was a contemporary as was Jak and daxter 2 a game I will always say was totally ruined by it's obnoxious difficulty. There's a lot of revisionist history about that game at the moment with naughty dog now being a top tier dev and seemingly being not too difficult to people that are familiar palying the game but going in cold, Jak 2 is **** miserable.

SuperBowserWorld · 17-07-2023 5:38pm

Alleluia ... Good news ... Plus this will annoy some people for no actual reason 😁

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/07/handheld-consoles-will-need-easily-switchable-batteries-by-2027-says-new-eu-regulation

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