I don't know if you already found this but the origin of the instant kill soap is one play tester for dusk found a bug where the soap bar did 9000 damage in response the devs "fixed" (buffed) it but making it do 1,000,000 damage "because it's funny"
DUSK had a lot of importance to me, but for a different reason. Up until 2-3 years ago, i only played stuff like mobile gacha games and occasionally Minecraft. Then one day i was watching videos about throwback shooters and the trailer for DUSK appeared in my feed. Some days later i bought the game and shook off the dust from my crappy 7 year old laptop computer to play it. I was instantly impressed, cuz i never saw a game like that. In a lot of ways, Dusk was my gateway to PC gaming, And it was what made me have interest in the fps genre. -edit cuz spelling mistakes
I like how there is a bar of soap in the final level, but you *_can't_* take it with you through the portal to final boss. I wonder if soap could kill Nyarlathotep if you were able to take it with you.
I mean, it deals 1 million damage, higher than any Boss' health in the game, so it could one shot him,but the same ending still plays, but lore wise, I think he restricted the soap because it really can kill Nyarlathotep
Don't often comment, but you deserve more subs, I just watched like three of your videos in a row and sat entertained and content through all of them. Keep up the good work, you're going places, I guarantee it.
I got all 30 achievements six days ago! Dusk is amazing! The mutual names of the enemies of the Mama and the twins are called Cowgirls which I can tell are modeled after the Iron Maidens from Quake 2. The bulky flamethrower dudes are called Welders which make me think of a cross between the Mancubi from Doom and the Enforcers from the original Quake. The Wendigos are a inspiration throwback from the pinky's and specters from Doom and the Fiends from the original Quake!
Hell yeah man WORTHY! Yeah the enemies are practically dripping references, I love them. I can't wait for this game to come to Switch so I have another excuse to review it 😂
I just finished this game, I’m extremely happy with DUSK, retro FPS shooters are not appreciated enough, I can’t wait to get onto Project Warlock. We need more throwbacks
binge watching ur stuff rn bc i cant sleep and holy shit you deserve so much more attention dude. every video of yours is solidly edited and written. you have million dollar quality with less than 1000 subs and ots bullshit. i hope you blow up soon dude ❤️ you deserve it. thank you for the great content!!
Dude that is that nicest comment I've ever gotten, thank you so much! The channel is still very young and growing steady and if awesome people like you are watching then I'm gonna keep pumping videos out. Also I hope you got some sleep, nothing worse than insomnia.
Have to say Kirk, nothing more engaging than hearing a fellow gamer who grew up about the same time period, talking about alllllll those games we fell in love with - somewhere in the depths of my icy heart, your enthusiasm and sincerity found a way to get a thaw going. Many thanks for covering this game man, and a bigger thank you for hoisting the flag of 90's shooters - you, sir, rock 👍🍻
I actually enjoy the battles because some of them are actually things you'd never see coming, most obviously Big John is the most unexpected, and downright out of place for me(I'm a newbie in the Quake like genre), but all the basic monsters turned bosses or vice versa serve the same experience as the ambush encounters for me I think it's like a homage to Quake when they introduce a strong enemy type at the end of each episode or level that you'll be encountering next time Edit: My favorite bods is the Guardian, it keeps you on your toes and you heart pumping as you time the Riveter right and dodge around corners, my favorite level is Erebus Reactor because it taught me the game's version of Bhopping, and I ended up syncing my movements to the music like in the trailer
Dusk has some really good horror moments that I love, I still remember being in the Cutty Caves and hearing the idle sounds of the Chainsaw guys, searched a bit but can't find them until I was able to follow the sound to a wall, crawled up close to verify the location of the sound with my headphones until BAM! The dudes burst out the wall, scared the hell out of me but I got a good chuckle out of it.
And let's not forget the music by Andrew Hulshult. It's so great. From silent ambient background to heavy and powerful guitar. I literally waiting for the ambushes just for the music to hit and it gave me such a big amount of *DOPAMINE.*
This looks like a mash-up of the original Alone in the Dark and Blood/Quake. Looks like something I could get into 😈 Cheers for the quality presentation and very easy listening 👍
I only heard of this game when Limited Run announced a physical version on pre-order last month. I immediately liked the classic blocky aspect to it and the horror theme that surrounds it is probably the games best selling point to me. Not enough games dive into the often underrated horror/Halloween themes, its one of the reasons I like older FPS games that center around that like Escape from Monster Manor and Killing Time. This game, however, looks 100x better than those two I mentioned even though the other two are still plenty of fun. The action is there, the horror theme takes center stage, the weapons look absolutely brutal and the best part? It takes absolutely 0% of itself seriously! A bar of soap is the most powerful "weapon" the game has for crying out loud, and its glorious! Needless to say, I pre-ordered the physical Switch version today alongside the new Quake remaster. I cannot wait to play this one, Dusk honestly is one of those old-school styled FPS games that's about as underrated as Shadow Warrior. If we're lucky, maybe Hexen will get a Switch port one of these days.
I played Doom 2016 right before playing this. I finished Doom and thought "wow, that was awesome" then I played DUSK and said "NOPE, THIS WAS AWESOME". New Blood is killing it, I was going to buy Doom Eternal when it was on sale a few weeks ago but then I saw Ultrakill was on sale too so I bought that instead and I don't regret it at all
Ultrakill is great, Dusk is great, but so are the Doom games. You should just buy everything lol. I am a fan of newblood and id, I love boomer shooters like Duke Nukem 3D and newer stuff like Hrot, just get everything and have a blast man! These games are all just different colors that make up a color spectrum of awesome.
Funny you should mention that! I’m planning on covering the Switch version when it drops this week. Very excited to play it. Thanks for watching Damien!
D.U.S.K. also draws some inspirado from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (at least the Facilities chapter). The flip ability might be an homage to 'PO'ed'. 2:26 Most games misidentify assault rifles as machine guns. This game misidentifies a machine gun as an assault rifle. Granted, you use it like an assault rifle, not a machine gun, but this isn't Red Orchestra 2. 8:42 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. influence 15:58 Reminiscent of the Nihilanth battle at the end of Half-Life.
11:49 this comment that you made is interesting because i remember listening to an interview with David and him saying that he remember Mist very fondly
"Unreal Tournament was my introduction to 1st Person Shooters" .....That is pretty fucking rad. Unreal Tournament was a fantastic game. I remember those had to be some of the best LAN parties ever. Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 Arena were some of the awesome shooters of the early 2000's. Wolfenstein 3D was my intro to FPS's but UT had some of my favorite memories.
funny enough unreal tournament was also my first shooter, also burned but by my uncle on cdr...and i agree that the buttery yet snappy gameplay in dusk (and ultrakill) is just like in these games and what i missed trying my hands on modern shooters
I'm on the older side, just turned 51 so the classic shooters are some of my favorites but my childhood goes back to the arcades and consoles like the Atari 2600 and Colecovision. That being said, Dusk is easily a top 10 shooter of all time and I loved this game so much. Being able to hop around, somersault in midair while dual wielding shotguns and blasting possessed blood spitting cows in the face while Andrew Hulshult's amazing sound track plays is simply fantastic.
"There's not much different between the goats, the chainsaw guys, and the scientists" - For starters, the goats have a ranged spitting attack. Secondly, the scientists cut your health in half.
I found having the most fun in the first episode. The later two were too intense and/or scary. I had to take an hour after each level to calm down and stretch.
The story behind the soap is actually not that deep but still pretty funny. If I remember correctly, David Szymanski mentioned in his dev playthrough of DUSK on New Blood's channel that after adding the soap's bubble effect, he wanted the soap to actually do something interesting since it now stood out compared to other objects, so he gave it a damage value of 1 million just for shits and giggles.
To everyone who wants something that's kinda like Dusk but just better; Play Brutal Doom, or Project Brutality. They have all these throwable objects scattered all over the map, and have an arsenal that's just as fun to use as Dusk's. And the enemy designs of these mods are so insanely good. Plus these mods add reloading to your weapons, which adds to the tactical aspect of it. And if you don't wanna replay the same old Doom map all over again, try a custom WAD in Brutal Doom, such as Alien Vendetta or Akeldama. Or even Hellbound, that's a really good Doom 2 WAD which works especially well in Brutal Doom.
You know, when I played DUSK I had the feel like soldiers and scientists have at least some other A.I. strategy than others. Let me explain, almost every time I damage scientist in cramped room, he runs behind a corner and catches me when I try to catch up with him. And soldiers... They just walk a little, I guess?
I have such a hard time figuring out if I liked dusk or amid evil more. Amid evil was definitely more my jam musically and visually, but I feel like the weapons and combat feel of dusk was more intense and enjoyable.
I don’t know if someone has already mentioned this but the Duke brothers are a multi-layered reference. They could be a reference to Doom, like you mentioned, but also the Dukes of hazard and also David Duke, one time Grand Wizard of the KKK. (KKK titles are hilarious, if you ever want a laugh go read the KKK wiki, the titles sound like something from a DND campaign.
I really didn't play many shooters in the 90s, actually I only played Doom, in PC, SNES and PSOne. I also played Heretic† and Doom II. I played a little bit of Quake (and the remaster recently) and Duke Nukem† and I think that's all. It's only recently when I have tried the genre seriously, both old and retro games (Doom 64, Blood†, Ziggurat†), as well as some modern releases (Doom 2016, Metro 1 and 2). I started playing Dusk some time ago but got destroyed in the very first room, I tried several times and I got the same results. I then changed difficulty (what the devs mistakenly call accessibility) to easier and I almost got wiped but managed to survive. Then I got stuck in the Guardian boss fight for months, even on the easiest difficulty. Am I stupid (I don't think so, I have finished all the aforementioned games in normal, except those marked with a dagger)? Is the game insanely hard? Or it's just I'm not used to WASD+Mouse? This video inspired me to try again and finally I killed the Guardian.
The goats also shoot extremely fast projectiles at you and are very frail making them an unique enemy and very different from the chainsaw guya and the scientists.
My only problem with DUSK is that it's not on Playstation or XBox. This ain't a problem for me since i don't have those, but a good friend of mine exclusively plays on Playstation, which means he can't experience this masterpiece for himself. I don't even know why it's not on those consoles, it has controller support and is coming to Switch.
While Dusk is definitely a good game, I don't see anything that makes it great. Quake had better levels and some more interesting enemies and it came out 20 years earlier. Gameplay wise, nothing really new here either.
As much as a love the Doom II super shotgun, there is a better weapon: the fully upgraded super shotgun from Doom (2016). You know I'm right! Also, am I the only one who loves the Water Temple? Seriously, if you hate it but have only played it on the original N64 version or it's direct ports, try it on the 3DS. The Iron Boots are now a C-button item instead of equipment. That and the floor you are on are always shown on the bottom screen.