Old games are really hard to get. Either publishers dont care anymore (Lucasarts) or the games themselves are involved in legal clusterfucks over licensing (System Shock being the prime example). Oh, not to mention the compability problems with modern PCs (again System Shock 2 is a great example).

Actually System Shock's case is quite interesting. The trademark belongs to EA, but the rights to to develop the game belonged to Through Looking Glass (the studios that made Thief and System Shock 2, Ken Levine, the guy behind Bioshock, worked there at that time), but once they closed the rights were sold to Star Insurance Company. So, yeah, you would need both parties to agree to release the games. And this is not happening anytime soon. EA is showing good will in releasing their old games again (such as Syndicate, Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper, available in GOG), but Star Insurance Company is not.

If you want old games, check GOG or Dotemu. GOG is the best resource for digital old games. They have the whole DD collection there, such as Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment.

katana111 wrote: Baldurs Gate is getting a 2012 re-vamp, which I'm really looking forward to. I was thinking of other old games that could sell by the bucketload if they were brought up to date (who wants to play in 800x600 res on a £2k rig?). I would love to see Dungeon Master 1&2, Anachronox, MOH 1(the Normandy landings), System Shock 1& 2, and so many others brought up to date (what games would you like to see?). I think that the developers are missing a huge cash cow. What do you think, and why don't the devs do it? P.S Notice I'm not bitching for a change

sadly it's not up to developers to make games it's the publishers they provide the money and if they think they wouldn't get the money back or make a profit they wont bother, also the licensing rights for the games may now belong to a different publisher than the orgional one or no longer exist so it's not that simple.

While it's not "Dungeon Master" proper, give Legend of Grimrock a try. It has the same feeling as DM, including the very unforgiving combat.

One of the issues I would have with this is that it's the current trend with movies; can "they" not come up with better ideas and just recycle the old ones? A-Team, Total Recall, Jaws (at least this is a reshowing of the original, not a remake)...

It just seems a bit of a cop-out/creatively bankrupt.

Baldurs Gate is getting a 2012 re-vamp, which I'm really looking forward to. I was thinking of other old games that could sell by the bucketload if they were brought up to date (who wants to play in 800x600 res on a £2k rig?). I would love to see Dungeon Master 1&2, Anachronox, MOH 1(the Normandy landings), System Shock 1& 2, and so many others brought up to date (what games would you like to see?). I think that the developers are missing a huge cash cow. What do you think, and why don't the devs do it?

P.S Notice I'm not bitching for a change