The moped story reminded me of my own childhood "business" in the 2000's, where I bought Warhammer codexes and armybooks, made copies of them with my dad's workplace Xerox machine and sold them to my classmates. I never made much money because few of them could read advanced English, but it felt so good being a teenage hustler.
Another great old FPS with a metal name is Damage Incorporated (1997). You play as the leader of a squad of Marines (with excellent AI, far ahead of its time) and you kick the asses of Klansmen, Oklahoma city bomber-terrorists, separatist militias, Waco-esque cults, etc. You have to keep an eye on the health and mental health of your squadmates, they can become shell-shocked and unusable if they take too much damage, if they die you can lose them for the rest of the play-through, if you take them on missions against foes with strong ideological feelings, they can go berserk or turn traitor on you. The characters are all voice-acted (hilariously) by one guy, and I appreciate his caricatures of John Wayne and others. There are rules of engagement (don't fire unless fired upon) that your handler reiterates to you over the radio, and if you disobey he will harshly reprimand you because you gunned your way through a level of non-hostiles. It is the one and only game that I can think of that figured out that klansmen, facelessly evil, make perfect cannon-fodder videogame enemies.
@@thecandlemaker1329 In the fiction of the game, it isn't 'the klan', but an offshoot group calling themselves 'white paladins' who wear klan-looking robes who you get to mow down hordes of. I looked up some statistics, and from 1877 to 1950 the Klan was responsible for at least 3,959 murders of black people only (plenty of other groups they hated not included in this number). Al Qaeda, from 1993 to 2021, killed approx. 4104 people, the majority from the Sept. 11 attack. How many thousands of video games are there where you shoot at generic brown-skinned 'terrorists', how many thousands of games are there where you shoot at nazis, can you think of a country whose uniformed soldiers are not getting shot at in some videogame somewhere? No one should care about the 'feelings' of klansmen, they signed on to a terrorist group of their own free will. If national governments can't/ don't sue videogame makers for depicting their legitimate military servicemembers getting killed, I can't imagine what legal case the terrorist organization the klan could possibly have.
I’ve been going through a gamers rut. Been trying all sorts of games and couldn’t get into them. Beat this in about 5 hours. It is exactly what I needed
Thanks for another piece of gem! It's so impressive how they rebuilt the game in their own engine. If you mean this is a Metrovania FPS, I'm super interested in it now. Since you say it's criminally underrated, I'll have to remedy that by picking it up. There's so much hidden treasure in the 90s, and it's great to have these videos on record, because this type of gaming history is worth preserving.
I played Exhumed when it first came out on the Saturn. I'd never played anything like it, and I still have fond memories of it to this day. However, when I found my first collectible doll on the final level, my heart jumped for joy and sank at the same time. Without the internet, I poured months of my life in to that game just to complete my doll collection. Such happy memories!
Another great video, thank you very much for highlighting several games, thanks to your videos I discovered Darkwood, shadowman and I started trying the fatal frames series, they are a great inspiration
This video gave me an amazing concept that will never see the light of day: A crossover between Stargate (the movie) and the Brendan Fraser The Mummy movies using Powerslave as the soundtrack. Damn. Why did no one think of this back in the day? Imagine Kurt Russell, James Spader, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Oded Fehr, Arnold Vosloo (Imhotep), and the linchpin between the two movies Erick Avari, all coming together in this massive ensemble cast in a timeline/alternate dimension crossover! My heart is both excited and broken over what will never be.
Was on a ski trip with my family this week. Each evening after the cold slopes I dove deep into the warm dunes of Powerslave Exhumed on my Switch. Used to play this game to death on PS1 back in the day and this remastered return is such a cool addition. Love it 👍
I'm still watching the video, but I just wanted to say that I actually really like the humor w/ the editing like Dio and Ankha! It brings a really fun energy to the video!
Yes!!! I always called this game one of my favorite ps1 titles, it has so much to it, and yet it's so criminally underrated. I'm extra grateful for this remaster (same with shadowman), and thank you Ragnar for this video, hopefully more people try out this little gem
"I don't want to die , I'm a god, why can't I live ooooon. When the life giver dies, all around is laid waste. And in my last hour I'm a slave to the power of death."
Got it on ps5. After i could never finish my sega saturn copy back in the day. Amazing game. And im happy to say that the console Version is amazing as well. As there are no mainstream reviews out there i was uncertain if it got ported well.
Personally it's my favourite album although Seventh Son and Number of the Beast come damn close. (I'm so funny) In all seriousness - this channel has introduced me to so many great games. This one already looks extremely cool and I've only watched a snippet so far!
You think it's a coincidence? The game was named after the album, because its cover featured themes very similar to the game. Of course, that was back before Litigious Maiden sued indie developers for using a generic name similar to their band's name.
I remember playing the pc demo for Powerslave back in the Duke3D days and liked that it used the same engine technology and never seeing a full release for it. One thing that was fun was extracting the game’s art and using it in Duke. At one time I’d replaced the pistol in Duke with the AK from Redneck Rampage and the MG with the M60 from powerslave. That was the beauty of the build engine games was that it was so easy to move assets around between them.
Had this game on both Saturn and PS1 back in the 90s, and honestly had no idea how lucky i was to play them, as it was one of the first FPSs I had on both systems.
i remember playing this game when i was 7 ( I'm 30) so I'm ecstatic its been remastered, you won me over not just for the great review but the use of iron maiden
Another remastered version of a critically underrated classic retro FPS game. Keep the good work Nightdive Studios! I 100%ed the Steam achievements in PowerSlave Exhumed a few hours prior to writing this comment and boy was it fun yet frustrating at the same time! PowerSlave Exhumed is my game #26 to set foot on my Perfect Games list. Other Perfect Games of mine including fellow Nightdive ports of Quake and Blood: Fresh Supply. Nice video btw!
Great video. This remaster is not only the fusion of the best the Saturn and the PSX versions had to offer, but even the PC version had it's contributions as the remaster uses the higher resolution sprites from the PC version.
I was about to say "Boo, claiming the gods were just human is sooooo 900s to 1300s Christianity," (That's the actual burning times where feudal kings burned entire villages that didn't obey them for not being Christan enough and bragged about it so hard that we still have text examples of them stunting on each other by saying how many hundreds of people they burned in each village and how many villages.) But then it included the abrahamic lore as well and I went "hehhe" because that seemed fair enough.
Interesting to hear about. I remember getting a copy of Exhumed for free because a friend of the family had bought a bunch of warehouse stock and none of their kids had a Saturn. Was fun to place but some of the underwater stuff was a pain.
Aw yeah, a new Ragnar vid! I've never heard of this game, but I'm excited to go back and try it before checking out the remaster! The PS port getting blue scorpions instead of red spiders is a funny detail, I wonder if someone thought it would be more appropriate to the setting.
Thanks for the video. Great work as always!. The remaster would be perfect if it had an option for invert mouse, like every other fps have. This doesn't and so making it unplayable for me. Using invert since the release of Quake 1.
I have had a long week and when this video dropped I was a bit sad because I didn't have the time to watch it. Finally got around to it tonight and I nearly choked myself on my wine laughing at the Dio joke. Just the giggle I needed. And having given Blood a playthrough after being reminded of its exsistence, I see myself adding PowerSlave to my GoG library sometime in the near future! Thanks again, Ragnar!
Recently purchased & completed this phenomenal game & right now I'm kicking my ass for NOT having played this gem back when it 1st released back in 96!
Hi, first of all I love your videos, you're one of my favourite creators on RU-vid! Anyways, as a programmer who worked extensively with both the Doom Engine as well as with Build, I'd be interested to know where you heard that Build has "massively expanded capabilities for managing PC memory", because the Engine is really nothing more than a glorified renderer with collision detection, raytracing and asset loading functions. Similarly, what you say about its scripting abilities is pretty much completely untrue, stuff like that was added entirely by the different developers working with the engine, with each one adding completely different systems built separately and from ground up. I really don't want to accuse you of lying (for that those claims are far too unimportant), I'm just really interestet in where you have those informations from!
I used to own this on the Sega Saturn when I was younger and thought it was a great game then, though I knew it as just "Exhumed". I didn't even realize they had it on GOG as "PowerSlave Exhumed" until recently, so I picked it up and it's still a great game. :)
Thank you for this awesome video. I loved Exhumed on the Saturn back in the day. I bought it on a whim and was blown away the graphics, and the non-linear gameplay. Those developer dolls though, spent more hours tracking those down then playing the game normally. And that laser mase was a total nightmare for my younger self. You made it seem quite easy 😅
Long time viewer, just now watching this. I stumbled upon this game because of Ezra Dreisbach who was the lead designer of Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance and Champions of Norrath, but NOT Champions: Return to Arms and it really shows. He worked on this title and Duke Nukem 3D and now I have to play Powerslave on my PlayStation 😂 Love your videos, dude.
Wonderful video! Since you featured a clip from it, have you ever considered doing a retrospective on the Marathon trilogy? I'd love to see Hamish Sinclair and the community celebrated after all this time.
Hmm aye, the only time I've ever seen that game EVER was by the hand of an ol friend who kind of went crazy and disappeared (he was also the biggest Halo fan I ever met. No correlation). How's THAT for rare... 😅
Never heard of this game till I watched Civvi 11 video on it, then you come out with this video, of course I loved Civvis video but my god the editing and info in this video is just incredible!
Thank you. This was the last game of a game trilogy that got me into PC gaming that I couldn't find for years. The other two were Tomb Raider and Myst. Was able to get my hands on Tomb Raider and Myst in what must have been 1997 or 98. But couldn't find nor remember the title for this Egypt themed one.
I really hate when people call the DOOM/Build engines "2.5D". No, they are not "2.5D", they are still 3D, regardless of whether or not they had "true" room-over-room or other limitations. The geometry doesn't dissolve into some bizarro between-dimension just because they have to use 'teleports' to simulate room-over-room and the interior calculations of the game still represent all 3 dimensional axis. Besides that, all of the other games you mentioned that you wish had remasters *already have* fantastic sourceports. I'm not sure what you think this PowerSlave remaster is doing different, but just because it's called a "remaster" doesn't mean it isn't also still a sourceport. Sourceport isn't a dirty word and the open-source and modding community regularly release things that are just as competent and frequently better than what many "officially recognized" studios put out. I'm not saying Night Dive didn't do a great job here or that any of their other releases so far aren't also fantastic, but I just really don't like the subtext of your commentary that asserts that the other "sourceports" are somehow any less valid or well-realized.
I'm on a Powerslave kick and RU-vid recommended this video, and I gotta say this guy sounds suspiciously like audiobook narrator Jonathan Davis and it's soothingly authoritative
You have no idea how much I love the original game for the Saturn. In my opinion, a truly underappreciated masterpiece. Never thought it would see a remaster anyday
Holy crap! I bought this game like the second day it came out and its amazing! Its nice to see that the game is being talked about because it definitely deserves more attention in the classic shooter genre
Oh, I remember playing this back on the PS1 back in the day. Probably the first ever FPS I ever played. Didn't even realise there was a remaster out: guess I know what I'm trying next...
It was a blast to replay this game after so long, my only single complain is... some sprites should be remade in HD, and you should have the option to toggle them on and off.
Osiris and Set were brothers, however the battle was between Horus and Set. Osiris joins the afterworld to become a judge, making Horus the first and God of Pharaohs. Set damages Horus's eye.
Oh god, yes! Please remaster the Ultima Underworld games like this. I haven't been able to properly enjoy them in almost 30 years because modern me cannot play with those clunky controls like I used to.
Excellent video! Although, let's be real: the console versions and remastered version of Powerslave are the best 90s shooters ever conceived. Nothing came close back then and nothing still comes close even today. Sure, say that Metroid Prime does, but I honestly think that Powerslave is just that little more above it simply because it did what it did on platforms that even the top dogs of the FPS genre considered to be "impossible" for the time and didn't stumble even a tiny bit while doing it. It's a shame it's still criminally underrated even though the remaster is out now, but hopefully more people will play it now that it's infinitely more accessible.
Had never even heard about PowerSlave or its remaster before, thank you so much for bringing them to my attention^^ Also, the ending gag of repeatedly perishing in the background worked a bit to well, each "ugh" sound totally pulled me out of listening to you xD
Honestly if it wasn't for Civvie I wouldn't have ever played Blood, after I played blood I was so I love with retro style build engine type fps games. They're truly amazing and something magical.
I thought I hated FPS games(at least ones that weren't Destiny) But turns out I just a boom shooter guy. I've been playing every game Civvie and ThatTravGuy have convinced me to play and I love them. Gonna buy this NOW!
