Popular Post Suminya Posted August 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 23, 2023 (edited) Quote Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster has been brought to life by the team at Nightdive Studios, fully remastered through its proprietary KEX engine, allowing the game to run on modern gaming devices at up to 4K resolution at 120 frames per second. New and returning players will enjoy Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster‘s upgraded gameplay, high-resolution textures, enhanced lighting and rendering, and support for gamepads. The original 1995 Star Wars: Dark Forces raised the bar for first-person shooter games, offering players a significant degree of movement and interactivity, a large selection of items and power-ups, and engaging environments. In the first Star Wars first-person shooter video game, players assume the role of Kyle Katarn, a defector of the Galactic Empire turned mercenary for hire. Katarn joins the Rebel Alliance’s covert operations division tasked with infiltrating the Galactic Empire, where he discovers the secret Dark Trooper Project. The development of this powerful new series of Imperial battle droids and power-armored stormtroopers stands to strengthen the Empire’s grip on the galaxy unless Katarn and the Rebel Alliance intervene. Key Features: - All fourteen original levels, featuring Star Wars worlds and capital ships. - Use your ability to jump, duck, and crawl to solve puzzles and defeat enemies. - Your Personal Digital Assistant provides you with in game information such including map, inventory, and mission briefing. - Engaging first-person ground combat featuring ten weapons and twenty types of enemies. - Up to 4K resolution / 120 frames per second visuals. - Advanced 3D rendering enables updated lighting and atmospheric effects. - Modern gamepad support adds a new weapon wheel, and rumble. - Controller Support—vibration and gyro controls. - A variety of power-ups are made available to the player, including health, shields, weapons, and ammunition. - For combat, the player may use fists, explosive landmines and thermal detonators, as well as blasters and other ranged weapons. - Includes immersive environmental puzzles and mazes. Edited October 24, 2023 by Suminya 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infected Elite Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Wow i remember playing this on like windows 95 as a kid lmao. If it goes on sale I'd pick it up because i don't recall ever finishing the game. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majob Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Doom: Star Wars edition. I'm all the way on board 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntingFever Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 30 minutes ago, Infected Elite said: Wow i remember playing this on like windows 95 as a kid lmao. If it goes on sale I'd pick it up because i don't recall ever finishing the game. lol. Same here. I got to this one level early on but couldn't for the life of me figure out how to finish it so I gave up and uninstalled it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infected Elite Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 14 minutes ago, HuntingFever said: Same here. I got to this one level early on but couldn't for the life of me figure out how to finish it so I gave up and uninstalled it. was it this one? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntingFever Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Infected Elite said: was it this one? lol Maybe but it's so long ago, I can't remember exactly what level it was. Edited August 23, 2023 by HuntingFever Update. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukiukimidnite Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 I don't really like Star Wars anymore, but I used to LOVE this game! I totally forgot it even existed until just now. I'll definitely get this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redgrave Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Nice to see it's getting a remaster and that it looks decent. Plus it will be cool to play as best boy Kyle Katarn again. Now I'm just waiting for The Force Unleashed remasters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conor Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Cool. Hopefully the sequel gets a remaster as well so the entire series will be playable on modern hardware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Chipotle Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Looks really good, kudos for keeping old school fps games alive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dangisuckatgamin Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 This game just looks super familiar to me. I must have seen my cousin who was an old school computer gamer around the time this released play it. I wasn't quite old enough when it released to fully be able to play it with any skill, but it's super cool they keep bringing back these classics. A lot of them have held in terms of gameplay at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Yeah this looks super familiar to me too. However, while I've never been a PC gamer...I'm old enough to where we were getting computers in some class rooms starting in my middle school years and was considered this amazing thing at the time. In 8th grade, we had a class where the teacher just didn't do anything and just let us play on the computers (those old multicolored iMacs)...and thats where I discovered some PC classics like your Doom's, Quakes and Wolfensteins and several others...this might have been one of them. So they were never anything I put extensive time into, but it was enough to experience them before I went home to my PS1 lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentSmiz Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Christ, this takes me back... Dark Forces was one of the games that came with my PS1 when I got it on my 8th birthday. Was never any good at the game and only ever played it with the cheats before trading it in. I'm up for giving it another go at some point so I'll keep an eye on this. Do appreciate the work that Nightdive Studios does though in terms of video game preservation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkin Head Cthulhu Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 On 8/23/2023 at 6:02 PM, Redgrave said: Now I'm just waiting for The Force Unleashed remasters. At least the first game but included all the of the "Original Trilogy" What If's. I never played this game since it is in first person, give us a Third person option and I might buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASMODAIOS344 Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 On 8/24/2023 at 1:02 AM, Redgrave said: Now I'm just waiting for The Force Unleashed remasters. Sadly after the acquisition by Disney many projects of LucasArts were cancelled among them The Force Unleashed 3 now for a remaster of the other games you never know with Disney. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redgrave Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 46 minutes ago, Void said: At least the first game but included all the of the "Original Trilogy" What If's. I never played this game since it is in first person, give us a Third person option and I might buy it. I would take both of them even if The Force Unleashed II isn't as good. Granted, it was rushed. Just now, ASMODAIOS344 said: Sadly after the acquisition by Disney many projects of LucasArts were cancelled among them The Force Unleashed 3 now for a remaster of the other games you never know with Disney. They did port the Wii version (I believe that's the one) to the Switch so I would hope they would port the PS3/360 version to PS4/5. Plus we also got Republic Commando which was originally only an Xbox and PC game. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkin Head Cthulhu Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 13 hours ago, Redgrave said: I would take both of them even if The Force Unleashed II isn't as good. Granted, it was rushed. They did port the Wii version (I believe that's the one) to the Switch so I would hope they would port the PS3/360 version to PS4/5. Plus we also got Republic Commando which was originally only an Xbox and PC game. True on both counts and Force Unleashed 2 did have the Maulkiller Skin as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-E-U-S-X Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 A Star Wars: Rouge Squadron remaster would be also nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honor_Hand Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Pretty cool. Nightdive is really killing it with all these excellent remasters of classic FPS games. This one alongside that Turok 3 remaster will be going into my shopping cart for sure in the future. Didn't get the chance to play this one as much as I would have liked to when I was younger, but the fact that's pretty much Star Wars DOOM sells it to me. Here's hoping they bring the sequel as well. I'd be more than happy to play through Kyle Katarn's original FPS adventures whenever they come out. @Copanele Yo, here's where the Jedi Knight spawned comes from. Not sure if you remember Kyle in the games that would come after in that franchise? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copanele Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 1 hour ago, Honor_Hand said: Pretty cool. Nightdive is really killing it with all these excellent remasters of classic FPS games. This one alongside that Turok 3 remaster will be going into my shopping cart for sure in the future. Didn't get the chance to play this one as much as I would have liked to when I was younger, but the fact that's pretty much Star Wars DOOM sells it to me. Here's hoping they bring the sequel as well. I'd be more than happy to play through Kyle Katarn's original FPS adventures whenever they come out. @Copanele Yo, here's where the Jedi Knight spawned comes from. Not sure if you remember Kyle in the games that would come after in that franchise? Hah ACTUALLY I played both Dark Forces with Kyle Katarn, one of the best Star Wars characters ever made (before the whole "extended universe is non canon crap 😂 )granted, I haven't finished them, but I am more than eager to play them! So glad that I waited on playing Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy, now I can pop them all in order! All I am waiting for now is for Nightdive to inevitably release Dark Forces 2! I miss the old live record cutscenes with sassy Kyle Katarn, the actor, and the first person lightsaber duels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boni_Neto Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 This is great, I hope they also remaster Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. Granted, all the Jedi Knight franchise is better played on the PC, but I just love this series. Dark Forces II was one of the first games I've played on PC, and it was just a demo that came on a CD-Rom full of other demos. Nostalgia abounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadiantFlamberge Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 I've started playing this on PC lately using The Force Engine and love it. "Star Wars: A New Doom" Now I should probably hold off until this comes out. No more fussing around with source ports. The remaster is to have a new area in it also. Another couple games I'd like to see remastered are SW Trilogy Arcade (Sega) and SW Battle Pod (Bandai Namco). BP might be especially good on PSVR2. It lets you play as Darth Vader after finishing the main story (non-canon, but it sure is fun). Spoiler As Darth Vader, you witness the Death Star going kaboom from the cockpit of your TIE Fighter. After a report from the Imperial Commander, you face off against a Rebel squadron and pursue Han Solo, trying to destroy the Millenium Falcon. Finally, the Rebels have a super laser core and you need to intercept it. Bless you Nightdive. I'll be double dipping (PS5 and PC). Glad to hear about Turok 3 as well... and I sure wouldn't mind Turok Evolution later on. The existing PC port of TE is not very good, with broken lighting and missing effects. TE drops the hub mission structure of past Turoks, being more like Quake 1 or Unreal in its progression. It also adds a few airborne levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suminya Posted October 24, 2023 Author Share Posted October 24, 2023 (edited) Star Wars: Dark Forces Remastered will launch on February 28, 2024 - exactly 29 years after the original PC version. Source: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-dark-forces-remaster-launches-exactly-29-years-after-the-original/1100-6518595/ Edited February 14 by Suminya 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Chipotle Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 Didnt play this back in the day, waiting for the digital price/preorder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntingFever Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 (edited) The XB1 List is now live but it looks to be mostly story related, with the world's laziest tiles : https://www.exophase.com/game/star-wars-dark-forces-remaster-xbox/achievements/ Edited February 10 by HuntingFever Fixed typo. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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