Dark forces was a revolutionary game when it came out, with the first true 3d navigation in a first person shooter and the ability to shoot up and down and not just directly in front of you. Also first shooter to have jump and crouch.
you have to go through a character arc first. do a training montage. raise your fists towards the sky in a stormy rainy night and scream. eye of the tiger this shit.
to beat Anoat: you need to raise the level of sewer sludge enough that you can cross through the central area behind the second dial door into the hallway that has the pulsating lights. to do this: 1. activate the switch in the room behind sewer door #1, raising the level of sludge in the central room behind door #2 2. activate the switch in the room behind sewer door #2 raising the level of sludge in the central room behind door #2 a bit further 3. activate the switch in the room behind sewer door #3, then backtrack out of the room in which is the switch, go to the now unblocked door, and behind that door you'll find a room with another switch. activate that one, and the sludge level behind door #2 will reach the desired level, then return to the dial. 4. set the dial to open door #2, now you can progress to the hallway across the central sewer room (the hall with pulsating lighting) 5. continue as usual through that area. at the end you'll find moff rebus. congratulations, you win and stuff!
@@nybergsgarage I was older than that when I first played Dark Forces, but then again, I'd been playing video games since the mid to late 70s. Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 absolutely requires you to read the manual. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that reading the "Hints" section is required as well.
@@lurkerrekrul goodness, the late 70's. never had a chance to play any games of that vintage. but with the consoles having wood trim it must have been pretty fun.
@nybergsgarage It was. I personally liked the woodgrain trim. Back then, wood paneling was common and both my parents' and grandparents' living rooms had dark wood paneling, which always gave me a sort of warm, cozy feeling. However it wasn't the wood trim that made it unique and fun, it was being able to actually interact with a TV image, Prior to the first home game consoles, TV was 100% non-interactive. You just sat and watched a show or movie. Maybe some shows had live call-in moments, but that's about it. Suddenly, you had a device that let you control what was happening on the TV screen. It was like magic. I didn't have the earliest games, my first console was a Sears-branded Atari Video Pinball. It had seven built in games, with no ability to add more. I guess you could consider it an early plug-&-play system. It had a large knob for playing paddle games, and a button on either side for the pinball flippers. Two games were pinball with different tables, then the same two tables with a paddle instead of flippers, two variations of Breakout (bounce the ball up to knock out blocks), and a primitive basketball game with just the paddle and a horizontal line to represent the basket. Keep in mind that even the pinball tables were extremely simple with just thick lines and boxes to represent the bumpers and targets. The flippers were just two thick lines hanging straight down, and when you pressed the buttons, they instantly changed to being straight across, no animation, no timing your shots, no catching the ball. Still, it was extremely fun for the time. Next came a Coleco Telstar Combat, which was a green, two player tank game. It had four handles, two on each side, to control the tank treads, and a button to shoot. It never worked properly. The picture was always distorted. Then there was a Coleco Telstar Arcade, which was a large triangular console, which used metal-cased triangular cartridges that snapped in the center of it. One side had knobs for playing Pong games, One side had a steering wheel and shift lever for (2D) racing games, and one side had a lightgun, modeled after an old west revolver. Right off the bat, the pack-in cartridge never worked, so I never got to use the steering wheel. I had a second cartridge, so at least I could play some games, but after a month or two, the lightgun started to register hits no matter where it was pointed. Then one day, my grandfather came home (my grandparents lived right below us) with a Sears-branded Atari 2600. For a month or two, the only game we had was Air Sea Battle (either shoot up at the targets above you, or drop bombs on the targets below you). We played the hell out of that. I used to go downstairs before school to get in a couple games against him. Next he bought Combat, where you fight against each one with tanks and planes. We also loved that cartridge. He bought more games and it was exciting to see what new ideas each one had. Eventually I got an Atari 2600 of my own, as well as various games. One day I saw a commercial on TV for the Atari 2600 game Skiing by Activision. I was amazed, because up to that point, all Atari 2600 games had bee made by Atari. This opened the floodgates to third party developers. Atari tried to stop them, but they lost. Which makes it really curious that now, all console games have to be licensed by the parent company, since it was ruled perfectly legal for other companies to make games for someone else's console. From there, I got a Commodore 64 for Christmas and that opened up a whole new world: Piracy! I could now just copy games from others, and my game collection ballooned into the hundreds. The games will look primitive by today's standards, but back then it was miles ahead of the Atari, or even the Colecovision. I thought some of the games looked incredible. It also introduced me to the idea of going online, although back then it was using a modem to call BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems), which were usually run on similar computers connected to phone lines by average people. Eventually I got a Commodore Amiga, which was another huge leap forward in sound and graphics. Then, around 2000 I joined the Windows cult with a WIn98 Pentium 2. Mostly out of necessity as I could no longer access the text-only internet account I'd been using with the Amiga. Looking back, I still have fond memories of those early games and can still enjoy an occasional round of some of them. Combat is still good fun if you have a second player., as is Warlords And even to this day, new games are being written for these old systems. For the C64 especially, new stuff comes out on a regular basis. Not long ago, someone ported Super Mario Bros., the Sega Master System of Sonic the Hedgehog, virtually arcade perfect (within the hardware limits of the system) ports of BurgerTime, Tutankham, Bosconian, Galaga, and others. For the last three years, the same programmer has released a free Christmas themed puzzle game. And that's just the free stuff, there are plenty of larger games that are being sold commercially in physical form. Admittedly, they're small production runs, but still. Well, that's more than I originally intended to write, I hope it wasn't too boring. Anyway, without the primitive start in the 70s, we wouldn't have the video games that we do today. :)
Kyle Katarn is basically space Chuck Norris. This is the guy who took on the empire with only a blaster, and punched two dragons to death. Then he grew a beard, and became force sensitive, transforming into space Jesus.
The thing is that with more modern graphics it wouldn't be required because everything is far more recognisable. With ancient games like Dark Forces, most textures look the exact same so you lose your way easily. Games today that utilise more texture variation would be easier to play this way.
@lurkerrekrul I think they meant the general map design. Everything is essentially the same exact texture style other than the glowing lights. And even then, it doesn't point in the direction you're supposed to backtrack or anything. I'm not a fan of hand holdy games but I can see why people who've never played it would struggle a lot
@@murkadelic422 For me, even if the textures are the same, there was enough variety in the level design that I was able tell most of the areas apart. If it was all 90 degree corridors like Wolfenstein 3D, I'd find that confusing, but when you have stairs, curved rooms, elevators, etc, I can usually find my way through. You can also use the dead bodies as markers for what areas you've already been to. Also, in the sewer level, the creatures don't respawn, and there really aren't that many of them, so once you kill 2-3, that area is clear and safe to explore. The last time I played it, I first went through the sewers just killing the creatures so that I could explore in piece. I'll admit that level was a bit confusing, but I got through it. Jedi Knight had some large and complicated levels as well.
Watching this aged me so much lmao. I’m in my early 30s now and remember thinking this was the pinnacle of gaming. Also, having lived through map designs like this and Shadows of the Empire, I never want to hear anybody complain about yellow paint again.
"Some dad out their is having the time of his life right now re living this" literally just perfectly described what my dads doing right now, incredible
Part of these games was getting around and using the map, finding secret areas. Hope he gives it another try just to see him drop a brick in his pants when he sees a dark trooper coming straight at him. The KK games were pretty fun though
This was one of the first computer games I remember playing other than that one where you catch elves in a net and spell words and do math to find their treasure. This game used to have "Exit to DOS"
What makes you think he could actually finish any of them? They're all from the era where games didn't hold your hand, and the designers expected players to be able to figure things out.
The dark trooper were basically heavily armed and armored droids originally developed to someday substitute the human imperial soldier. Besides phase 0, that were human cyborg super soldiers, there were 3 different development stages going from phase 1 to 3. In this game and specifically this video we get to see the phase III dark trooper. But due to certain events the research data got destroyed and development never really finished. What I find interesting is that in the rise of the empire after the events of episode 3, the empire explicitly forgoes the use of battle droids. Since they turned into a symbol of oppression and fear during the clone wars and palpatine wanted to gain the favor of the people. So At the point and time that the game plays out they seemed confident enough to slowly try and replace their whole army with droids.
I played through it and tbh I was also confused/disoriented and in the first 3 levels or so I needed a guide, after that my 2005´er Brain adjusted and I was able to pull through. Also played Dark Forces 2 and the Old "Jedi" Games after, really solid Story
Wasn't quite a teen myself, but not far behind. I was 9 when this one came out and it is one of my favorite series of Star Wars games, up there with the X-Wing games.
Pretty cool to be giving this game some attention but it's pretty funny that Zanny plays this before Jedi outcast or Jedi Knight Academy lol. Both games he probably would enjoy
Your abort mission, you clear each sewer section, hitting the lever on each (‘I’ve been here before’, nope, light was red so lever needs to be pulled). Once all levers are pulled, it opens a new section to advance
I’m gen X (45) and played this in HS lol. For the time it was pretty epic. No waypoints, no yellow ledges, no restart at checkpoint. Was a rough life lol
the reason the door you interacted with did not work and then did work is because in between those two attempts, you restarted the hydroelectric power generator (the 'spinning the water' thing you mentioned) to succeed at this game requires looking at your surroundings, checking your objectives, and attempting to discover the manner in which you're intended to complete those objectives. in other words, it requires a bit of thinking.
This game is so fun! Freaking hard though without a walkthrough. First time players will have to use your noodle to figure out the puzzles. As a Star Wars fan, worth 30 dollars. I’m on a Star Wars binge of all the classics. Waiting for the battlefront collection, got dark forces, Star fighter, Jedi academy 1 and 2, bounty hunter, the pod racing games, and republic commando’s which is just call of duty Star Wars and it’s also extremely difficult. I have Knights of the old republic on PC so I’m gonna enjoy Star Wars till may the 4th. Then gonna watch all the movies not by Ryan Johnson. Also Zanny, this is fully remastered . In the options, you can flip to classic graphics, good luck playing that lol
Zanny doesn't know who Kyle is. Jesus, I thought he was a SW fan. He's like the Obi-Wan from before Obi-Wan was a thing, so cool and memey. I can understand if people don't enjoy dark forces nowadays as games these days are just go from point A to point B while bashing things, but I feel something was lost back then. The map designs, the creativity. No one puts that much effort anymore. The jedi knight series is more friendly compared to these earlier games, a fallen order done right.
This is the only Dark Forces/Jedi Knight game I haven't played. The cutscene are so weird. It's like a high quality version of the Zelda CDI cutscenes. I hope Zanny plays Dark Forces 2 if it's also remastered. The FMV cutscene are so hilarious at times.
This was the first computer game I ever owned. I had to play it in MS DOS and the sound didn't work. I also couldn't beat level 3... when I was 5 years old.
Me and a mate were stuck on that for literally months! No online walkthroughs back then, just continuous frustration and bloody minded determination not to let it beat you!
@@austinseven4720 I started playing it during the era of online walkthroughs, but had no internet access at home. it took a LONG time to push through. (eventually, pretty sure we used a walkthrough...)
16:49 so lore actually identifies that its not bad aim the troopers are at, but rather its a strategy to give their enemies a false sense of… was it security?
I don't think I'd be able to play that. This kind of camera movement tends to give me motion sickness. Same issue as with the pod racing level from Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga.
Dude i played this game so much when i was a kid! Around 99/2000 when i was 7 to 8 years old! Me and my cousin spent hours not knoing where to go nor what to do 😂😂😂 was amazing 😂 Love from brazil
hey zanny, i just wanted to recommend you to try out Turok & Turok 2 if you haven't played it already, very nostalgic & same style of gameplay but with dinosaurs & aliens😂 ive beaten the 1st one for my channel🤙🏻
