Comment by wvbdmp
9 months ago
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
Not just questionable - the rights to the game will either be with Monolith (now Warner Brothers) or with Fox Interactive (now Disney).
I hope that whoever set this site up has protected their identity...
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.
Kind of absurd, but I guess it might be because there are multiple rights involved, ie art and music, characters and gameplay and whatnot? It's not just one neat "NOLF IP" package?
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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.