GnomeChimpsky
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Sin, System Shock 2. I thought Kingpin was Nightdive as well but apparently it's 3D Realms...
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Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster announced by Nightdive Studios. Coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Series S|X, Switch and PC (Steam)
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Scotty W
Gold Member
U know, it’s amazing. PC Gamer voted this the greatest game of all time back when it was new, but I don’t think a single person has mentioned it in over 20 years.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Laptop1991
Member
This ^^, The best game out of all 4 of them for me.
MiguelItUp
Member
I definitely have as I've wanted another Jedi Knight sequel for decades, lmao.
I'd be totally okay with them going in order, so Jedi Knight next, and then Jedi Outcast, etc. I still want a new Jedi Knight, but I highly doubt we'll ever get that.
RickMasters
Member
YES! I never got to play this back in the day. Can finally add it to my collection of vintage 90s fPS. Ive bought all the retro ports (turok, shadow warrior etc....still dipping into missions on quake 1 and 2 every now and again). hope they do the first and second unreal at some point. all the legendary 90s FPS need to be preserved and readily available on all platforms.
DownLikeBCPowder
Member
This is probably the first FPS I played. Maybe Rise of Triad.. I don't remember.
Yeah, a sequel to Jedi Knight sounds cool to me, but then I remember Jedi Academy exists and forget about wanting that. I don't like the direction they went with the games at all. I don't even know if there is much point in them remastering JK aside from trying to siphon money, there exists a nice remaster package out there already.
Yeah, a sequel to Jedi Knight sounds cool to me, but then I remember Jedi Academy exists and forget about wanting that. I don't like the direction they went with the games at all. I don't even know if there is much point in them remastering JK aside from trying to siphon money, there exists a nice remaster package out there already.
It is awesome. The multiplayer scene was awesome - amazing custom levels and mods.. loved that game for a long time. Just replayed it earlier this year. Classic game that feels so good and there's something about that old level design and architecture that looks so good to me.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Jedi Knight is Dark Forces II.
The series went:
Dark Forces
Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight
Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Jedi Academy
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
What’s with the bump? Is there a final release date or new trailer?
Dark Forces... First time I read of a remaster of the "doom killer".
Well was a great game of that time, but for the current time, it might be extremely short. It didn't have that many levels although I played it a long long time.
Well if they remaster this game, maybe they will also remaster other games of the Dark Forces engine. Yes, I mean you Outlaws & Jedi Knight
Well was a great game of that time, but for the current time, it might be extremely short. It didn't have that many levels although I played it a long long time.
Well if they remaster this game, maybe they will also remaster other games of the Dark Forces engine. Yes, I mean you Outlaws & Jedi Knight
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MiguelItUp
Member
Honestly, Kyle Katarn returning or bust. I feel like that's the biggest issue they had with Academy's campaign. They tried going the "create a jedi" route, which I can understand the appeal, but it definitely wasn't the strongest path of all the games.
The multiplayer in all the games always shined, and that's something I'd love to see in a new engine.
i rmemebr when this came out and my friend had a pentium pc that could run doom full screen at what seemed like more than 30 fps at the time and it blew my mind. he also was raving about this dark forces game he shoplifted. i rmemebr playing it and being pretty underwhelmed, at the time it seemed just like another doom clone to me, corridor 7 vibes.
that said i just read about this now and it's good news to see more older FPS getting this treatment. i'll play those game all day over the trash that passes as games today.
that said i just read about this now and it's good news to see more older FPS getting this treatment. i'll play those game all day over the trash that passes as games today.
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Scotty W
Gold Member
I only ever played the demo on an ancient PC, with keyboard only controls. I would be interested in playing today.
It could probably be argued that this was the last showing of the true Star Wars, before the prequels tarnished that image. The mystique never returned.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Yep. You're right. Not sure how I made that mistake! I'm going to correct that now.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
This is out next week (28th) and I really havent heard much in the way of previews etc
Really hope it doesnt turn out to be shit.
Really hope it doesnt turn out to be shit.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Oh don't say that, it's the one game I actually want..
After Tomb Raider turned out to be good, I have faith though. Nightdive have been pretty good getting these classics out.
I can't actually remember a duff one they did.
Stuart360
Member
There remasters have been great overall, BUT they did mess up the Blade Runner remaster and they seemed to abandon it pretty quickly too.
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Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
I knew there was one! Yeah, that one really pissed me of too, was really looking forward to it!
I'd forgot about that.
Back to gritted teeth it is.
Stuart360
Member
Nah this will be good bud, all their fps remasters have been top class.
Cant wait for this, mainly for controller support on PC.
hybrid_birth
Gold Member
Hopefully not a NoseDive in quality
Futaleufu
Member
Some of their early releases like D and 11th Hour are rough.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Aye I don't think there's one I haven't bought yet and i've enjoyed reliving them all, it's probably why I purged Bladerunner from my memory
I did try Dark Forces on the Steam Deck, with a tiny bit of tinkering it seems to work quite well with the controller
..I'm still buying the remaster though. Can't wait.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
I didn't know they'd redone them two, I'll have a look
Fake
Member
Rise of the Triad as well. The game is OK, but with a couple of bugs and more important, the game DON'T SAVE YOUR OPTIONS.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
I mentioned it just the other day. Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II would be awesome if they have the original shots the FMV was made from and can remaster them in 4K.
Scotty W
Gold Member
They almost definitely do. Lucas would never throw out anything.
On am unrelated note, I can’t find the Shadows of the Empire novel in the bookstore.
YeulEmeralda
Member
Hopefully they'll add controls for a Dualsense I can't do mouse and keyboard anymore.
Majormaxxx
Member
I think I read somewhere there's proper controller support including rumble.
I recently replayed it using the new Force engine. Played fantastic with freelook mouse.
But this should be even better.
Feel Like I'm On 42
Member
For real wtf is up with that
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
? I thought they did patch it up.
I played through all of their remasters so far aside from the System Shock ones and they are amazing. I like their presets (aside from distance fog indoors in Quake I/II, that I turn off… changes indoor lighting too much).
Dazraell
Member
This is what Respawn says on their job listings about this rumored Mandalorian game. I do think there is some potential in it, but obviously we will have to wait when they will show more
RAIDEN1
Member
Yeah but from what I heard when the news broke about it will be a linear shooter so we aren't talking an open free world like Halo Infinite, again a linear FPS is already covered by Dark Forces, it's a HUGE opportunity missed, (probably ranks up there with there never being a point-and-click Star Wars game that is the equivalent to Fate of Atlantis...)This is what Respawn says on their job listings about this rumored Mandalorian game. I do think there is some potential in it, but obviously we will have to wait when they will show more
Dazraell
Member
I think it has a lot of potential if we take a look at the current lineup of Star Wars games. 3rd person action-adventure game is covered by Jedi series, multiplayer FPS were covered by DICE's Battlefront games, space combat sim was covered by Squadrons, open world game will be covered by Ubisoft's Outlaws. They technically don't have a modern story-driven FPS game (unless we will count that awful Battlefront II campaign that is), so this gives them a certain space without repeating the same things from other games, especially that most of them were published by EA
This is just my opinion, but story-driven FPS inspired by Dark Forces and from the creators of Titanfall 2 campaign sounds very rad. And by the sound of it this might also be a bounty hunting game which immediately draws the image of that cancelled Prey 2 game and all of the fun possibilities of chasing targets and the like
And yeah, I agree about SW point'n'click game. I was always hoping for something like this or Telltale-styled adventure game with Clone Wars artstyle to happen
You don't understand why they would release a game that can run on potatoes on last gen systems which has a larger player base than current gen? When Current gen can also play last gen with zero problems?
mansoor1980
Gold Member
digdug2
Member
Exactly. Outside of maybe adding DualSense support, what would making this a PS5 game bring to the table? They can still patch in 120Hz mode for current gen, if they so desire.
Lucifers Beard
Member
What are you talking about? The game is probably older than you so doesn't exactly need a fucking powerhouse to run it.
Feel Like I'm On 42
Member
$30 is too much for this when we're gettking Quake for $10...way too much!
Beer Baelly
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Yeah, waiting on a discount
Badlucktroll
Member
First FPS i played on my families Mac. That shit was like $100.
