Posted June 11, 2013

RS1978
hero in tights
Registered: Feb 2010
From Germany

damien
Queen: The eYe
Registered: Nov 2008
From Canada

_ChaosFox_
Zero fox given.
Registered: Nov 2008
From Germany

Bad Hair Day
Find me in STEAM OT
Registered: Dec 2012
From Other
Posted June 11, 2013
Great game, one of my all time faves, but it doesn't fit the hints at all.

JMich
A Horrible Human Person. If you need me, chat.
Registered: Apr 2011
From Greece

Bad Hair Day
Find me in STEAM OT
Registered: Dec 2012
From Other

_ChaosFox_
Zero fox given.
Registered: Nov 2008
From Germany
Posted June 11, 2013
Just to categorise the games you've listed there:
Barry_Woodward: The Godfather: The Game / The Godfather II
Fade To Black
Road Rash
Black & White / Black & White 2 These are encumbered with licence problems. As far as I can tell, EA's licence to use the Godfather property has expired, and I doubt we'll ever see it released again anywhere. As far as I know, Black and White isn't owned by EA, it's owned by Lionhead, which in turn is owned by Microsoft, and we all know what those fuckers are like with DRM. Road Rash has problems with the music licensing.
Likelihood? Roughly zero.
Barry_Woodward: Dead Space
Dragon Age: Origins / Dragon Age II
Mass Effect / Mass Effect 2 / Mass Effect 3
Mirror's Edge
Bulletstorm
Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Collection
Crysis 2 / Crysis 3 / Crysis: Warhead These are all EA's own properties, and to the best of my knowledge all unencumbered, but at the same time, all of these have been released with DRM, and to date, no EA title that formerly had DRM has been released here. Will it change? Possibly and hopefully.
In the case of Crysis, Crysis 1 had been released DRM-free, and obviously all of the Command and Conquer games except Red Alert 3 and C&C 4 were DRM-free.
Likelihood: Around the 50% mark.
Barry_Woodward: Genewars
The Neverhood
Powermonger
Privateer 2: The Darkening
SimCity a.k.a. Micropolis / SimCity 3000 / SimCity 4
Theme Park / Theme Park World / Theme Park Inc / Theme Aquarium
Wing Commander V: Prophecy
Crysis / Again, these are all held by EA, and all of them have been released free of DRM, which means that EA is likely to be very open to re-releasing these DRM-free. As mentioned above, the earlier C&C titles were all DRM-free, which includes them in this list, as well as Crysis 1.
Likelihood: 90%

Fade To Black
Road Rash
Black & White / Black & White 2
Likelihood? Roughly zero.

Dragon Age: Origins / Dragon Age II
Mass Effect / Mass Effect 2 / Mass Effect 3
Mirror's Edge
Bulletstorm
Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Collection
Crysis 2 / Crysis 3 / Crysis: Warhead
In the case of Crysis, Crysis 1 had been released DRM-free, and obviously all of the Command and Conquer games except Red Alert 3 and C&C 4 were DRM-free.
Likelihood: Around the 50% mark.

The Neverhood
Powermonger
Privateer 2: The Darkening
SimCity a.k.a. Micropolis / SimCity 3000 / SimCity 4
Theme Park / Theme Park World / Theme Park Inc / Theme Aquarium
Wing Commander V: Prophecy
Crysis /
Likelihood: 90%

SLP2000
Registered: Dec 2009
From Poland

tfishell
Remorse: The List, if you like FPS psych horror
Registered: Oct 2010
From United States
Posted June 11, 2013
Finally, an explanation! I wondered what, aside from possible compatibility issues, was keeping it back from here. I actually made a thread about this last week or so and nobody was really sure what was going on...

Kristian
New User
Registered: Sep 2008
From Faroe Islands
Posted June 11, 2013
Lionhead(and hence MS) owns the Black & White IP it self. But EA was the retail publisher and they may well have sufficient rights to release them here. Just as 3D Realms had sufficient rights to release Terminal Velocity here, even though I do believe Terminal Reality owns the IP on that.

VABlitz
Desert Ranger
Registered: Jul 2012
From United States
Posted June 11, 2013
Well, with the reveal of Jade Empire, it looks like my credit card will be safe until at least Thursday. It may be a good game, but it's not on my list of day 1 purchases.

gibbeynator
New User
Registered: Dec 2008
From Canada
Posted June 11, 2013


Kristian
New User
Registered: Sep 2008
From Faroe Islands
Posted June 11, 2013

