jamyskis: It depends on what makes the game hard. Some games are hard because they require complex logical thinking, strategic prowess or fast reactions.

SoF 2 was hard for no other reason than you had to remember where the enemies were and where the scripted events occurred.

To be honest, SoF wasn't much different in that regard. The Challenging difficulty mode in SoF was only really possible because I knew where every enemy jumped out, opened doors or hid behind cover.

SCPM: I suspect this could be part of the issue, another part was that they used the likeness of John Mullins (which could be why Soldier of Fortune 3 is available but not 1 and 2). I'm going to look into this a little deeper, as I really want these games here (thankfully I still have physical copies).

Strijkbout: From what I remember there was actually some cooperation between the magazine and the game when it was marketed.
On the other hand gog doesn't have a single game made by Raven, and since they were/are in bed with ID which is now Bethesda it wouldn't surprise me if that's where the shoe mangles the foot.

grimwerk: My first and only experience with this game was coming home to find my younger brother gleefully slashing away at a corpse with his kbar. After several minutes of this, the corpse was still responding to the the slashing-- new wounds were opening, etc. I'd been exposed (happily) to a DOOM level of violence, but this level of purposeless defacement left me queasy. I wondered who decided that players should be able to convincingly hack up a corpse 15 minutes after it's dead.

Strijkbout: Byproduct of the gaming engine.
More worrying is your brother, does he also mutilate pets?

SCPM: Hrm, Soldier of Fortune: Payback isn't showing up on the (U.S.) Steam catalog for me anymore.

I did ask one Raven Software employee about bringing their games to GOG, and he replied that if they could do so, it would only be properties not based on any other license or property (which I took to mean no SoF 1+2).

Kristian: What does that leave though? That UE3 game they did that was a new IP?

grimwerk: Nope. But when playing Resident Evil 4, he attacked the cows, and I thought, "Why would you do that?"

SCPM: They have a number of titles that, as far as I can tell, are not based on any other company's IP such as Shadowcaster, Black Crypt, Cyclones, Necrodome, Mageslayer, and Take No Prisoners. I would hope he also meant Heretic and Hexen, as all the titles in those series were developed by Raven, but I'm not so sure. You can try contacting any Raven employee here:
http://ravensoft.com/culture/our-people/

Crosmando: I remember ShadowCaster, weird game. But it would be owned by EA as it was published by Origin Systems