Great, but I already got all of them for PC. Except Blood Omen 1, which I only own for the psx. Terrible loading times. Gimme the PC version of Blood Omen 1, nao!

Don't tell them that, some of us actually like Blood Omen 2..

+1 for a future Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain release.

Legacy of Kain is one of my favorite franchises of all time. The story did get a little too convoluted toward the end however. There was way too much time travel and there was a game that just didn't fit in the overall story at all.

Was that Blood Omen 2?

Yes Blood Omen 2 was made by a different team within Crystal Dynamics, it sport unique visuals (borrowed from canceled Chakan reboot game)

The storyline contained characters that shouldn't have been alive.

However the next entry Defiance melds the game into the fold by making it an altered timeline of events.

It's actually one of the more fun games to actually play. And compared to games outside the series is actually above average game. Its just a black sheep that die hard fans of the series have a hard time forgiving it's faults. There are a few of us though that love it.

Oh, I played every game in the series. Even Blood Omen 2. But by the time Defiance came out, I was really confused.

flip a coin enough times and eventually it will land on its edge.

Well, first of all Blood Omen is one of those cases where things weren't that simple. Blood Omen was published by Activision (unlike the sequels) and developed by two different teams and as far as I know there was some legal dispute between Silicon Knights and Crystal Dynamics at some point. Anyhow, I don't know if this isn't one of those cases where one company has all the rights to the franchise but not to the content of the first game or something.

But it's also quite imaginable that this is simply one of those games that are too much of a technical challenge, especially since it's from the era when many developers were still uncomfortable developing native Windows games (GOG even admitted that these games are the hardest ones to tweak in an interview). I've spent a lot of time trying to make Blood Omen work on a fast PC with Windows XP but even once the performance was kinda right the game behaved in a weird way. For example it wouldn't ever let the save screen show up and I would occasionally be unable to move although all the animations, dialogue and music were playing. Even shortly after release the game would often change between running too fast and too slow on a machine having like 133 Mhz. And even upon consulting with other LoK fans on a German fan community we couldn't find any good tweaks. GOG would have to do some serious magic to make this game run properly on quad core machines with Windows 7.

Wasn't there a dos version of Blood Omen? Pretty sure the demo I played of it way back when was in DOS but that's going back a long time. I bought & completed it on Playstation.

Thanks GOG

My thoughts exactly. Blood Omen 2 wasn't quite as good as any other game in the series but actually it wasn't bad either, despite having its own weird style and somewhat awkward controls (especially in combat...omfg...). And personally I wasn't that confused. Sure, that one guy making an appearance after having seen his decapitation in the first game was kinda surprising but forgivable, considering all the chaos involving time travel and so on. It only occurred to me much later that the developers revealed that BO2 is taking place in an alternate universe that doesn't lead up to the events in the Soul Reaver series.

Btw, I also didn't know that they created this game using content from another cancelled project. Kinda explains some stuff.

I got it working on my current windows 7 64 bit rig, really well by following this

First using your game use this installer:
[url=http://home.comcast.net/~heavyweights/games/kain/index.htm]http://home.comcast.net/~heavyweights/games/kain/index.htm[/url]

Then download the large 293mb bink converter "Bink-support for BO1 (Video-Patch)" which will allow everything to play fine. Get that here:

http://www.nosgothica.org/index.php?id=files_eng

After these two things the game should run on Windows 7 just fine. The only oddity I saw was a odd line across the cursor on the main menu screen that doesn't really effect anything. Other than that it was working flawlessly.

I had once already checked the whole CD for some kind of DOS setup and I'm quite confident that it was Windows only - at least the retail release I bought (and PC release was in August 1997, after all - most games from this time war already native Windows stuff). It also required DirectX, so it wasn't one of those "Windows games" that were actually running in DOS mode. But well, I guess I'll take another look at the CD's content and possible new fixes from the community. I'm wondering if anything happened since I last checked.
Dang! That's funny. I remember visiting this page but I'm rather positive that last time I checked the patch didn't cover all the issues I'm encountering - the new description covers the stuff (they refer to it as "strangely" while I call it "weirdly" but I'll just assume that we're talking about the same stuff :D). Awesome. Okay, so GOG shouldn't have much of a hard time making this gem run on modern systems after all, at least once the patch's developers agree on using it in GOG's release.

Look GOG released Might and Magic 9, Masters of Orion 3, and a few other not very cared for games and I'm sure I that there going to release Ultima 9 down the road so it's a good sign that Blood omen 2 will be here as well.