Buy it here, cowards: store.steampowered.com/app/2292260/STAR_WARS_Dark_Forces_Remaster/

Between the books and the games, the 90s was such a great time to be a Star Wars fan.

I tell you what, Nightdive has been one a roll with their remasters and even their System Shock remake. Damn good stuff.

If Nightdive ends up remastering the rest of the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games, I'll be a very happy boy

Anyone else thinks that a Republic Commando remaster with added co-op would be a great idea?

I really hope Nightdive gets the rights for The Darkness.

I literally got the email 18 minutes ago that this game was released on Steam and now I get to watch a review for a remaster I didn't know existed just a week ago. Just hope this is a sign that a Tie Fighter remaster is a possibility too.

@6:30 this! Exactly this! Watching the remastered footage I was thinking ''man, it just looks the same as it always did'' until you showed the quality of the original. Crazy how older graphics are remembered in higher quality than they actually were.

"Paves the way for Jedi Knight" I really hope so! One of my favorite star wars games

I remember playing the sewer level where dianoga (garbage squids) could pop up from sludge pools and attack was terrifying for younger me! *Great Star Wars game!*

I remember finding the strangest Easter egg in Dark Forces as a kid. On the snow planet (been too long so can't recall if it was Hoth or another snow planet), there is a spot you can crotch and get into a cave that outline Max's head on your map.

A remaster of the old Alien games would be sick. I'd buy that up any day.

This game being an extension of the films is a perfect description. It has endless homages but it genuinely feels like it takes place in the universe. A better time 😢

You didn't mention how almost every weapon has a secondary fire - the repeater fires all three barrels, the fusion cutter all four in a spread, etc. They were actually pretty useful, increasing damage per hit at the cost of increased ammo consumption. From memory the thermal detonartor also swapped between bouncing a few times or detonating on impact? Both really useful modes.

Played this as a kid over and over again. The replay value of games always was how fun they are to play and what they let you experience. So this game letting you run & gun like Doom through the Star Wars universe was all I needed to keep coming back. I still replay it occasionally, so this remaster is a no brainer for me.

I think Omikron: The Nomad Soul needs a overhaul remaster, like Shadow Man's HD remaster. Improve controls and gameplay, and restore the lost content. And able to play it in classic or modern style mode.

Now what they need to do is release a heavily remastered double package of Jedi Knight and Mysteries of the Sith! Those had the best atmosphere by far since Empire Strikes Back! Although some other remasters I'd also kill for: Dungeon Keeper 2 v1.7+, Vampire the Masquerade Redemption, Metal Fatigue, Revenant, Incubation, perhaps also: Ground Control + Dark Conspiracy, Need For Speed 4 High Stakes / Road Challange, Black & White series, Thief 1 & 2, Sacrifice

Aw man, I remember being a Star Wars fan once. It was great. Grew up playing all the good stuff... that was then, this is now. Edit. I am fixing to delete this comment if I continue to get replies hate-dumping on Star Wars, its fans, or those who just don't enjoy it anymore.

My parents were completely against buying me doom II so I got this instead. This brings back so many memories and I’m gonna grab this when I get home! I wasn’t even aware this was being remade, thanks for the video.

Beautiful timing after watching the FPS doco. Nice work in that, btw bruthaaa

While a lot of the weapons were projectile, each did have an alternate form of fire that gave a bit of variety. For example, the fusion cutter could fire all barrels at once & repeater gun could fire a cluster. Mines also gave variety. I seem to remember if you used mines when fighting the kell dragons, in certain places, it would blow them up to the ceiling where they would get stuck, presumably from the spines on their back.

This video was in my suggested feed and I was not expecting a RedLetterMedia shoutout. Well done 10/10. Might pick this up, only played Outcast + Academy.

The '90s and '00s star wars games were A+

Nightdive are doing fantastic work in reminding me that there is still hope and joy to be found in gaming! I'm looking forward to checking this out on my Steam Deck, and can't wait to see what they work on next! I'd love to see No One Lives Forever too...and TimeSplitters...and the other Jedi Knight games!

Loved this game. Remember getting it in 96’ from my local computer store in the UK (which also sold fishing tackle weirdly).

Please NightDive give us NOLF!

I played this with my dad so much back when I was a little kid!

It's awesome that how this game impacted not only in games, but in movies too. Didn't knew that the Dark Troopers even brought in the movies alone. It'll be nice of they bring Kyle Katarn makes his appearance in Star Wars spin off series/films.

18:11 - Same here, Man. Same here. Not sure If the Issue about the Rights was ever sorted out. Would absolutely love to see a rerelease of No One Lives Forever become available someday! Might pick up this Remaster If I ever get back Into Star Wars Games again, Lol. I really enjoyed the Jedi Knight Games and Jedi Academy was fun to mess round In. The first Star Wars Game I played, If I recall, was Episoder 1: Racer on My Uncle's PC back In 1999 when I was either 6 or 7 years old. He had one of those Racing Wheels and I had a blast playing It. Did pick It up on Steam some few years ago and might revisit It at some point If I ever get Into that Star Wars mood again.

Star Wars Dark Forces is still my personal official canon for how the rebels obtained the Death Star blueprints And that Rogue One is the bad fanfiction

oh shit, my friend is gonna love this!

I've never been into Star Wars much but played the hell out of Dark Forces back in the day. What a game!

Finally! A video from this channel that I did want to see. Thanks.

Did you notice that the pistol in Andor is a replica of the pistol in this game?

Holy shit they want $30 for this? I think I will just mod the original game...

One of my first FPS games love it! Played through it again a few years back.

Rogue One was a sham. Kyle Katarn is the real hero.

30 BUCKS FOR THIS IS CRAZY

I played this so much as a kid... It's the very first game I ever owned. I got stuck in the sewer level for like three months... And then the Groma's mines... Man it was tough. But I still love it. Thanks for the review, might give it a go later.

I admit I played through the game last time almost 7 years ago, but watching your video I was thinking "Okay, but when will you show footage of the remastered game?" up until you showed footage of the original, lol. It really looks like how I remember the game.

Cool but 30$? I dont think so..

Star Wars in the 90s was like an arrow of love in my chest, spreading feelings to this day. I'm thinking about generating a rendering of this magnificent work.

Got damn, that outro slaps so hard. I could watch that for hours

The fusion cutter and repeater have alternate fire which fire multiple projectiles at the same time. Detonators and mines also have alternate detonation modes.

I actually thought this video was done at the halfway point. Funny enough, I started watching this basically as I was waking up, you've done that before. Except this time I was completely taken off guard, thats good sh!t to me ! Totally would appreciate a Aliens Trilogy remaster, however.

Not employed but I did a lot of the ship models for the cutscenes. Knew about this game about a year before it was made public and that was a tough secret to keep!

Been waiting for this review mate!!!

God, this makes me pine for the old days. I loved this, dark forces 2 and the jedi outcast series. Kyle Katarn is such a badass.

Full Throttle!!! Thank You, I've been trying to remember the name of that game.

Its so easy to forget that games used to be really jagged and blurry, not being able to see much of anything. Compared to how sharp games are today. I hope Nightdive continues to make more excellent remasters.

3:57 good choice with the RLM clip

Happy to know my childhood Star Wars game finally got a remastered still have my ps1 disc till this day and happy to play once again 😎💯🙌🔥

I’ve never even played the original, but I really want to pick this up. That (remastered) old school style just ticks all the right nostalgia boxes for me, holy cow.

The Phase 1 dark trooper with it's vibroblade that could ignore your shields used to terrify me back in 1995 lol.

I played the hell out of this on PS1 back in the day. You nailed it in the review: the game really feels like a legit extension of the universe. So much fun in that game as long as you can take it for what it is.

I played a bunch of this today. Has a great time, the thought of them remastering the Jedi Knight games is almost too much. Those games are very special to me and to see a full remaster would make my year.

This was my first shooter game. My first time SEEING a shooter game was Wolfenstein 3D at a party where an older kid was playing it but my dad stopped me from watching cuz I was way too young. Fast forward later, and I remember finding the game case for Dark Forces in a stack of PS1 games my dad owned when I found this game. I was NOT good at it, but just running around shooting a blaster was all the fun I needed!

Blood 2 and Cybermage would be great to remaster

I really hope this will open up the possibility of seeing in the future a remaster of not only the rest of the Jedi Knight series, but also of Outlaws. I loved that game, and his soundtrack, as much as Dark Forces II back in the day 😊

Dark Forces also gets a throwback in Andor. Cassian uses a Bryar pistol, just like Katarn. First Dark Troopers, now the Bryar pistol. I'm hoping for Desann to feature next.

Thanks for bringing back some good memories.

The stormtroopers animation on this game it remind me the marathon remake on the 360. Did you did a video for that?

That's hilarious dude that Kingpin footage where that guy was getting stuck that s*** kept happening to me

"Anger is not the way of the jed-" lmao i remember that classic scene 😂😂

I just realized that whenever I see "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" I instinctively reach for the volume. dang

Jedi Academy was such a surprise at the time, considering the name makes it sound like a bunch of dull training missions or something. Especially since it was on the discount shelf for $5 at the time. Nope, has a decent story with Light and Dark paths, fine voice acting, multiple races to play as, and solid gameplay! I spent so much time Force Pushing dudes off ledges, since the game was very happy to include lots of places for them to fall, and slicing fools to pieces with that code that turned on dismemberment. Hell even that one mission where they took your lightsabre and made you go old-school FPS, had a part where you pilot an AT-ST! Looking forward to that remaster for sure.

Lmfao that clip at the beginning ahahaha!!

So glad this is out. Been wanting to play this game forever, and it looks like I’ve got just the way to play it now.

This looks awesome. Dark Forces was one of the earliest shooters that I manage to complete back in the day, and I replayed it more times than I can remember. I was so fond of it that I even tried getting it running again a few years ago on Win 10. Had to jump through so many hoops just to get it running... had forgotten about the lack of mouse control to change the gun aiming elevation etc and the pixelation just turned me off after the first couple of levels. I was resigned to thinking that this one would just be a distant fond memory. I don't ever purchase new games on release, preferring instead to wait until they come down in price, but I may just make an exception in this case. Cheers for the review and bringing it to my attention! Hopefully they will do a remake of Interstate 76 or Future Shock at some point.

I played this back in the old days, I remember turning up the screen brightness to see in the dark, there was a setting that messed with your shield and made it easier to play, but melee attacks would still shrewd your health.

I had this on PC back in the 90s. I still have the copy. I later got it on PSP.

I've been playing the OG Dark Forces on my Steam Deck with modern controls and it really holds up.

7:09 is where young me was going crazy trying to find out where I heard a similar melody. It’s close to the medals case music from DOS X-Wing, it bugged me the whole time on this mission…

I've re-reading Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy and man, the 90s were such a great time to be a Star Wars fan. Glad we're at least getting bits and pieces of that lore back.

I played this back in the day on my Mac. Excellent game!

Played this on psx way back when. Immersive game if you want to bask in classic star wars.

I absolutely loved this game. You really hit the nail on the head. Lucasarts was an absolute powerhouse in the 1990s.

The nostalgia is strong with this one.

The SoundBlaster version of the Star Wars theme takes me back.

No shit about No One Lives Forever, I wanna see the first and the second remastered by Nightdive.

So glad they did this one. Weirdly though I do think it sort of looks better at the lower resolution just because the walls don't feel as obviously flat as they are, but then you have the option to toggle the graphics.

It’s 9:55 am in Florida right now and Gman posting a new video means it’s time to make breakfast

Man, played this much when it came out, on a 486DX2/66 SB Pro and external Roland speakers. It was immersive gameplay for its time, to me atleast. Still have the original box and CD.

This is one of my favorite games and the first game I ever played. Early MSDOS Star Wars games were lit.

I been waiting for this remaster for a long time

This was one of the first video games I ever played on pc right behind Ice and Fire

It was pretty cool getting to see a Hutt Jedi at the beginning of the vid.

My childhood star wars games were the Pod Racers and Shadows of the Empire for the N64. If either of those manage to get a remaster I'll be happy

WOW what a blast form the past... my dad had this game and we used to play it all the time. Thought the graphics were amazing for the time.

Loved this game as a kid when it first came out. It was the first actual computer game with gameplay that my parents bought for me. I got the PS1 version on my PS3. Had no idea there was a remaster. Maybe I’ll actually be able to beat now. I never could as a little kid.

I mean, also there's a remastered soundtrack for Dark Forces. It was being used for the Jedi Academy DF mod in the late 2000s.

I had the ice glitch. Could barely move if I came to a stop on the ice without the cleats.

Dark Forces wasn't just on PC. It also released on the Playstation in 1996. I remember this well as my best friend had it for PC and I wanted to play it so badly. The only problem was I was mostly a console only game (I had a Saturn and Playstation). One day in 1996, I walked into an Electronics Boutique and to my immense surprise Dark Forces had released for the Playstation. I bought it that instant, went directly home, and played it until my fingers bled...it was that good. Well, I just got it again and in a few moments I will be going back in. The game is absolutely fantastic. It's also a first person shooter that released in 2024 that works as intended without a 400GB update and a year to fix.

This was my favourite game when I was 10 years old. I even had a huge poster in my room. I had no idea a remaster was being made.

Excited to play this one again! This has always been a favorite since I played it as a little kid so many years ago. I would definitely love to see them remaster Jedi Knight and Mysteries of The Sith. Those take some elbow grease to get running these days so they could use some tuning up. A Blood 2 remaster would be wild and I would get it. Even better? A TekWar remaster, haha.

I remember buying Dark Forces from my local game store on the day it released. Amazing to think that was nearly 30 years ago! Now I feel old...

Damn. You always show me the games i never knew they were making but want so bad

One of the best FPS ever my 2nd favourite ever after Doom 2. Can't wait to play this bought it as soon as it became available but stuck at work :(

17:03 I love the mighty boosh man

I had this on the PlayStation and played rubbish on it, but i loved it. Got me into this series of games featuring Kyle Katarn, the jedi Knight series, and the one i played the most was this one, and Jedi Knight 2 Jedi outcast and Jedi academy