I want you to enjoy playing it, it's so fun...:) And hilarious! I don't want to ruin any moments for you, but there will be a point, where you're fighting with a samurai sword, in a house and you just need to take a moment, sit back and enjoy the "WTF?!" of the whole thing.

NOLF is proof positive that drugs aren't all bad;)
There's games that came out for Win 98 that I couldn't get to run on Win 98, it's all a crapshoot, really, that's why I love GOG so much. Win 7 is the best bet we've had in a long time for the best compatibility and I have to admit I love it. I'm actually hoping Win 8 ends up knocking it out of the park in the same way, eventually, obviously not at launch.
Dark Reign is one of those games I never could install on any OS. That GOG had problems getting it stable is not a surprise to me, the surprise is that it runs for any significant fraction of gamers at all.

Nolf 2.

Dammit, I had a sneaking suspicion I might have been mentioning a moment from the second one (which, as sequels go, was glorious). Be it known that NOLF also contains moments every bit as drug induced and awesome:)

Yes. Quite literally, in fact (did i hear a goat?).

I am ashamed somehow that I now want to dig NOLF/NOLF2 out and replay them instead of engaging in my 100s of USD worth of newly purchased games...

Well, I do think that NOLF hasn't been outdone yet, so it kinda makes sense.

The gameplay is awesome, the design is awesome, the setting is awesome, the music is awesome, the dialogues are awesome, the levels are awesome (yes, that level was in that game, and THAT level too was in that game, and THAT level was in that game aswell), the dialogues are awesome, the dialogues are awesome, also the dialogues are hilarious (games that make me laugh out loud are rare) and the dialogues are clever (full of comments on so many things, from the latest james bond movie title song to criminal sociology to philosophical debates about responsability and freedom of will).

My only gripe is the plot, more precisely, the ending twist, more precisely, some of the ending twists (as there are like 5 or 6 of them in one scene). I think that some characters would have been more fun without it.

Also, it takes place in a very old-fashionned sexist era, and you play a female spy, and you earn bonus points by being smooth and polite and NOT answering with the violently deserved, scathing retorts that appear in the dialogue options. I find this "okay wasn't the most clever thing to answer there but BOY did it feel good" aspect very satifsying.

Also, it's a spy story. It has secret codephrases to recognise agents. These are impressively classy. Also, it's got three bored women. Also... okay, it's got many things.

Seriously, people should try to find that game (this goes for gog too). NOLF2 is good too, but I like it a bit less, because it's more contrasted - more goofy parts, in alternance with more serious parts. NOLF1 is more even in tone, with the perfect mix of tension and humour. And... I have to rerererereplay it too.

I really like the levels in this game. It's so refreshing to not have just a straight corridor to go through.
Only played a couple of missions so far, but overall it feels great.

And regarding compatibility, on the back of the game one of the listed OSes is XP. So I didn't worry much about not being able to run it. Usually the XP compatibility mode in Win 7 is very good, so even if the game would have given me any trouble it would have been easy to fix. But there were no troubles. It really does run without any issues.

Well, Dark Reign is certainly weird one. On my laptop it worked without any problems, on my desktop I have to disable explorer.exe in order to avoid color corruption and get the "no CD found" error occasionally - in both cases I used the same version of Windows 7 with GeForce acceleration.

This is odd. It installs just fine on Windows 8 x64 and the game starts up and gets to the menu. By the time I am able to click to start a new game it causes my computer to reboot. Wonder if this is a Windows 8 problem with my current hardware since I haven't tried any other games yet.

Hmm. A "Hyper Transport sync flood error". The plot thickens.