Dune 1 is a very good game. The music, the story, the feeling... It also got a strategy element where you have to travel between caves that I cannot remember that I have seen in any other game. Dune 2 is more famous because its the first RTS, but im more fond of Dune 1 and have played it several times.

Dune 1 is a masterpiece and would most definitely fit the GOG Games catalogue!
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Well yes, all of the Dune games are a blast.

Dune 2, Dune 2000, Emperor Battle for Dune are all great.

A standalone installer would be particularly great for Emperor because of the stupid system requiring a separate play disc for each of the Dune Houses.

I believe at least Dune 2, 2000 and Emperor are all controlled by EA (via the purchase of Westwood)

Dune 1, and Frank Herberts Dune were both developed by Cryo, the remnants of which was eventually bought by Microids, which itself was bought out by 'Anuman Interactive', which was then purchased by French media company 'Média-Participations' 'Microids' had indicated they wanted to re-issue the original Cryo game content as downloadable games (which would fit with a GOG release)

Dune 1 was I think co produced with Virgin Interactive, which may complicate things since although their US business was sold out to EA in the Westwood deal, the remaining non-US rights were acquired by the French publisher Titus Software -- its name was changed to Avalon Interactive on July 1, 2003. Plus Titus spun off the Spanish Virgin Interactive business, so who knows whether the Spanish rights went with it, this became the 'Virgin Play' brand in Spain.

The Killer App here would be if GOG was able to secure the right to use the soundtrack for Dune 1, 'Spice Opera' by Exxos (Stéphane Picq and Philippe Ulrich.) The rights to this reside with EMI who purchased Virgin Records. Stephane Picq attempted for a long time to obtain the rights from Virgin so he could re-issue this with no luck.

So there, Dune 1 might be alittle complicated, but hey GOG I did your research, so get on it :-)

Rich

well they might release dune 2 and dune 2000 in the same purchase as they are the same game like broken sword

I would love to play Dune 2000 as it was my first rts and now that I have read the first book it would be so much better playing it now.

Dune 1 was often overshadowed by D2, and therefore ignored. It's an ambitious, fantastic game though, and everyone should try it.
Plus, listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1_9okQ0Go4
It doesn't get any better than that, really.

Well, the first novel will certainly give you the context for the conflict in the game. However, it also makes it painfully obvious that the developers took quite a few liberties with the setting and the technologies.

However, even the first game did that, but then it took its cue from the original movie which started the whole "let's invent new shit that wasn't in the books" thing. I've always hated the "weirding modules" with a passion. KGB was actually pretty good, as I recall.

Yeah, Dune 1 was an awesome game and superior to the second part although the 2 parts are from different genres. The first part was a mix of adventure and turn based strategy.

It would be great to see Emperor Battle for Dune on GOG, way too much disc swapping in that game. Having it all in one file would be much more comfortable.

Dune 1 & 2 would be awesome too, but I already have those and doubt I would buy them again if they appeared here.

Have only played Dune 2000 of the Dune games - but I loved it. Even had a playthrough a year or two ago. Would love to see it on GOG as it was a bit of a pain to get it working.

Slight bump... Would love to see the Dune series make an appearance on GoG, especially 1 and 2 :)

I sent a query to the offices of the 'Dune Partnership' asking if they could make the games available again and they only replied that the rights are 'currently unavailable'. And I recall the holders of Frank Herbert's estate expressing interest in re-releasing the games but saying that the rights situation was very messy.

Sad to see the quagmire of copyright is once again making things complicated. Hopefully it'll get sorted out.

I have read some years ago, that a new movie was planned, supervised by K.J. Anderson and B. Herbert.

Maybe they are searching the right moment to make it and (perhaps) a new game, like they did in 2001 with the Dune prequels' release with F.H.'s Dune and Emperor (Dune Generations delayed and cancelled, sadly :()

I miss dune. I like dune better than the game of thrones thing. Less crammed with events, more talky, slower, and with a more unique universe (even if also based on "borrowing" elements from history/geography). I miss that slower and more philosophical diplomacy warfare on arrakis...

Just needed to express this somewhere.