No One Lives Forever

What the FUCK?

How does it happen that no one knows who is the rights holder for No One Lives Forever?

There isn't a galactic Face Palm to match this one.

I never heard of this game until last week on a Neogaf thread where several people kept claiming how she was one of the best females in gaming. What is this game series about exactly?

It was a spy spoof FPS series. More of campy parody Bond, or Our Man Flint, rather then Austin Powers.

I didn't play too much of it, I do remember being in Morocco and listening to an enemy mook arguing with a local about buying a monkey. At one point, the mook says he wouldn't take the monkey if it were free, the vendor starts whining that he'd never give the monkey away for free because of his starving children, then the mook tells him to feed the monkey to his kids.

EDIT: Dude, where's the rest of my sentence.

edited 9th Apr '13 9:07:29 AM by Rotpar

I played this a lot, although I greatly prefer the second game. Cate Archer is a fun character, and the story is generally hilarious. One of the big draws is the ridiculous enemy chatter.

I should've gotten this game when I had the chance, but I wasn't hurting for FPS games at the time...

I far prefer the first game.

Huh. Sad. Do they know who owns Contract JACK?

Also

WTF does that mean? Did they... sternly talk to the IPs?

edited 9th Apr '13 11:31:50 AM by CobraPrime

You should have performed BETTER than that, NOLF! Your numbers where slightly below our expectations! And parodying something does not give you the permission to play the traditional cliches held by that genre straight! Now go into the upload directory and think about what you've done!

In any case it's good that Activision doesn't hold onto the rights. They've said outright they don't greenlight games with female protagonists anymore, as Sleeping Dogs can attest.

edited 9th Apr '13 12:19:04 PM by ShirowShirow

What.

B-but NOLF is awesome! And hilarious! And Cate Archer is a badass!

What.

This is the sole reason you don't see NOLF on GOG.

Speaking of Monolith, where the fuck is Tron Two Point Oh?

edited 9th Apr '13 12:33:24 PM by JAF1970

I have both No One Lives Forever games. Boy, those are fun times!

I remember how one issue of the magazine PC Gamer described NOLF as a game where you play as a male spy named Adam Church and the tone is deadly serious. Talk about What Could Have Been. I wonder if a third NOLF game will ever be made.

I also have Tron 2.0 and that is a fun one, too. I kinda wish they made a sequel to that.

If NOLF had a guy PC and was serious, it wouldn't be NOLF. It would be yet another gritty FPS.

Honestly, for a variety of reasons a new NOLF is just what the industry needs right now. Either that or Time Splitters. And that's being handled by the fans.

I never finished the first one. I believe I was somewhere in the Laser Hallway levels and I just got frustrated. I beat the second one. Contract JACK I tried, but just couldn't get into.

The laser hallway is easy - the last one you CHEAT at by going under the floor.

It was originally a guy who was James Bond with the Serial Numbers Filed Off. MGM / UA put a cease-and-desist and thus Cate Archer was born, as was the parody.

edited 10th Apr '13 8:21:22 AM by JAF1970

Oh, so that was the story! I wondered why they changed it so drastically during development. Oh, well, it just shows that Tropes Are Not Bad.

I don't know about you, but I think scenes 1 and 2 of "A Man Of Influence" are Nintendo Hard levels. First, you have to do a lot of sneaking around. Second, if you get spotted, it's almost as good as instant game over. Finally, you can't kill enemies in the first of the two levels, which means that you can only knock them out temporarily.

You know what the weird thing is about scene 1? It's how supposedly you're required to put everything back to the way it was after finding the model of the compound, but you can just go back to the start point and end the scene without any real penalty. I mean, why would the game give you objectives that you don't even need to complete? <Frown>

The game gives you experience points. They're more subtle than something like Deus Ex, but Cate does improve depending on what you do.

IIRC, not all objectives and items are accessible in the first playthrough. In particular, the early levels include a few cases where you need the belt buckle grapple and one where you need the minefield shades (although not really, because the minefield doesn't exist on the edges, meaning you can walk around them).

While I understand how much of a pain it was, I miss NOLF 1's insistence that Cate couldn't just drag the bodies off and needed the dissolving powder. Absolutely loved NOLF 2's dialog bits when the enemies dissolved the bodies themselves though. "Sorry, comrade. But I do not want to do paperwork."

And a year later comes the answer: Trademark filed and a re-release probably imminent

edited 2nd May '14 8:51:57 AM by LE0Night

Woohoo! I shall celebrate by buying the full set when they come out. Even Contract JACK; it may suck, but they deserve the extra revenue.

I have the opening theme burned in my brain.

But what about Tron 2.0? :'(

edited 2nd May '14 9:53:21 AM by AnotherGuy

Yussss

Now we should have a reboot. Personally I'd love a monolith one, but let us see.

I'll admit that I have mixed feelings on the first game. It had levels that were virtually impossible to do with complete stealth, I remember the mouths not moving at all during cutscenes, and while I liked the idea of having to ration out body-dissolving powder, it just made the stealth mechanics more annoying most of the time.

The second one was much more refined. Never really played Contract J.A.C.K.

:(