No One Lives Forever (NOLF) Revival Edition

(nolfrevival.tk)

38 points | by Lammy 9 hours ago

6 comments

  • skibz 20 minutes ago
    I feel compelled to say that NOLF is awesome, and it's also source-available:

    - 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.

  • swhitf 2 hours ago
    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!

    Also a blast from the past, the OMM review of NOLF: https://www.oldmanmurray.com/longreviews/751.html

  • magic_hamster 1 hour ago
    What a great game series. This really shows what an innovative and campy gaming industry we used to have. You don't see games like this anymore, especially not from big studios. Maybe in the indie scene - but mostly not in the same scope.
  • fmajid 1 hour ago
    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)!
  • michaelbuckbee 1 hour ago
    These games were great. They really pushed the style and creativity of first-person shooters forward with their level and mission design.
  • wvbdmp 2 hours 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.

    • AndrewDucker 2 hours ago
      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...

    • poisonwomb 14 minutes ago
      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
    • chneu 1 hour ago
      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.