“To no one’s surprise, which feels surprisingly good.” I don’t know what to do with that sentence.

"That's Nightdive's MO but it shouldn't be taken for granted" Absolutely, the work and talent that goes into these projects is incredible and no one does it better than Nightdive. Please support them and appreciate them because as always in the game industry, there might be a day where that changes.

I look forward to running around in circles trying to find the button to press that I missed.

Fun memories playing this title on my Mac Performa 575, in my first apartment back in 1995. This and Marathon were my go-to’s.

Nightdive Studios has made another incredible remaster in Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster. I 100%ed it's achievements this morning of the day when this video came out and of me writing this comment. The game is the newest of my 38 Perfect Games on Steam that I rock as of the moment of writing this comment! Nice review GamingBolt.

This was the first game I played ever on the original playstation with my Dad. It was worth every penny in my book just for the nostalgia

As a big Star Wars fan, this was my main PC game during my high school years. I played it from start to finish more times than I can count. Every turn and enemy location basically memorized to this day, LOL.

Which platform(s) was played for this review? Did you notice any judder while playing?

I remember learning the basics of learning how to use DOS on my parents Windows 97 computer just to play games (including this) by the son of a close family friend. I remember eventually reaching a level a long way into the game and getting stuck for weeks before giving up on the game. I'm generally good at puzzles so this game always haunted me as I never beat it. Glad to hear that specific aspect wasn't just hard for me even though I hadn't even begun my adolescence before giving up

I cannot wait to play this again. I played this on the original PlayStation back when it came out in 1997 the same year as Duke 3-D on the PlayStation

the enemies feel snappier than they did even , I get hit more often than i remember (on the old PowerPC, PC, and MacBook laptop from back in the day and DOS Box stuff) on Hard. Feels like things have been really been smoothed and I appreciate if the hard difficulty has been made more difficult than it was (it felt very very easy for me when I was playing it last time, getting gunned down fair and square in the 2nd stage by troopers and officers felt refreshing).

I got the game and it was pretty fun even though I feel lost. But I did get the platinum.

Hope they do jedi knight 1

On steam I give it a 20 out of 10 solely for the fact that old custom levels the community made for the original work on the remaster too. For console: A solid 10 out of 10 for basically being a modernized version of the game controls wise and not compromising the visuals. Do I think we should've had something like Halo 2 Anniversary? Yes, definitely, absolutely. However this is the exact game a remember, and honestly, it's nice to have an old school shooter on my Switch and Series X. No hand holding just "Get the job done, good luck have fun!"

I own this on ps1 & cant wait wait to get this on my ps5 soon 🔥

A great remaster of Dark Forces, The only thing missing is no manual save feature. Dark Forces should never have been called a Doom clone, it wasn't one at all. having a jump button, an actual story, mission objectives and not just the usual get from A to B made the game nothing like Doom.

Anyone else having trouble with the door not opening towards the end of mission 12?

I hope they add brightness/gamma toggle in a future update. I find certain levels, partially the first two are way to dark to the point of being nearly impossible to see things.

Dark forces is such a great game in my opinion 😊

Mixing between voiceover and the gameplay audio seems off. Gameplay seems way too loud.

I bought it and love it! Very fun especially with it being my first time playing it.

Wait till a sale. 30 is too high.

Thank you for the review.

Please fire whoever was in charge of the audio levels between the commentary and the actual gameplay. The latter is WAY TOO LOUD.

I first played this when I was a kid on PlayStation had fun.

nice!!! those old times........ 🙌🔥🙏🏻

The maze aspect of this game was very frustrating when I was 11 years old. It was one of my favorites though.

Is the game easy or at least fair?

would love to play this again, ill have a random moment when playing a online FPS, and ill say the iconic "You're not authorized to be here!" to this day 😂, it's such a core memory when i played it on the ps1 was a kid.

Still love my ps1 version

Nice i use to play this all the time as a kid never did beat it tho

This game DOES NOT let up. Many level restarts.

A Blast from the past🎉

Please do Jedi Knight next! 🙏

I would have liked improved lighting in these environments

Looks like you're not playing at 72Hz or 144Hz. You should watch the Digital Foundry analysis / review of the game.

I never played this as a kid, but this has GOT to be a BUILD engine game like Duke3d and Shadow Warrior right? The aesthetic is almost unmistakable

How hard is this game on easy? I remember playing this back in the day and struggled 😂

One point of contention here. Kyle was never part of the Canon.

What's great about this, is Nightdive apparently remasters more than just one game in a series. So I won't be too surprised to see Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight 1 and Mysteries of the Sith get the remaster treatment at some point. Dark Forces 2 was the pinnacle of Star Wars games for me in the 90's, when we were surrounded by games like Rebel Assault 2, Rogue Squadron, the Super Star Wars trilogy, Shadow of the Empire, and more.

Night Dive yay, Aspyr nay!

PLEASE keep the audio volume between the talking and gameplay segments in your videos consistent!

I don't count Disney star wars cannon.

I bought this and I enjoy it thoroughly. It is a good remaster. 👍

Pew pew pewpewpewpewpew

They're out of their damn minds with that price lol.

I like Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster

As Jim Royle would say. Remastered my Ar5e.

Does this still have auto-aim? At times in this video, it doesn't look like it as shots go right past an enemy, but since it's the E11 Blaster, that could just be normal misses. Auto-aim was the one thing I hated about the original game. I hated not being able to shoot the explosive cannister next to an enemy because the auto-aim would insist on targeting the enemy first. Or not being able to shoot at the enemies I want, because something else is closer. Other than that, I would have been OK if they had replaced the sprites with (optional) 3D models. Nothing too high-res, just ones like in the sequel, Jedi Knight.

The game is much louder than the voice.

Man they are just bringing back all the good old star wars game.

Lol making it understandable why storm troopers missed so frequently

Kyle katarn.

May 4th it will be on sale. Im playing too many games right now

Shit, just emulate this game.

Disney doesnt deserve to make a dime off of Legends

“Excellent modernising work”? Are we sure about that? Because it’s been adapted to widescreen, high resolution and game pad controls and nothing else. I would say that is the very bare minimum. The barest minimum. Given what now qualifies as a remaster I’m out. I’ll have remakes or nothing. And this is right next door to nothing. “Much more detailed” is oven to some objectivity and I’d say they repainted it just enough so it doesn’t look like lego. Which it would’ve if they’d left it. Once again, that’s not optional for a “remaster”. Did you play the original side-by side with this? The repaint could be an algorithm that’s been curated by a human. Say 78% algorithm and 22% human correction. Remastering has gotten pretty darned easy lately looking at this.

maybe feature the game with mouse and keyboard instead of a peasant controller so the aiming doesn't look so piss poor jank

"to bad hes not a part of the official cannon right!?" Why do you allow a billion dollar company to tell you what's cannon and what's not....

Screw the Disney canon, Dark Forces is way better than Rogue One

I'd pay 5$.

30$ isnt that much if you have a job

I feel like these Star Wars remasters are personally attacking my wallet by coming out so close together.

30 bucks tho???

More like good thing Kyle Katarn is safe from the official canon, because Disney canon sucks!

So, they reskinned a Doom reskin and called it a pay day...

Should be a $5 game 🥱

It looks alot like doom

Such a rip off price. I'd be ashamed to advertise this game

It was too expensive. for $15, it would have been fair...

It is way over priced for what it is.

Skip this and spend your money on star wars battlefront collection!!!!!😂

Sounds like a low effort remaster

BAD REMASTER! No manual save, game breaker because this game does not work with ''game resume'' on Series X! Bad decision devs made not adding it. Also, on SX I get what looks and feels like 30fps. I know what 60fps looks and feels like, and this ain't it.

Hmmmm… only showing gameplay from the first 3 levels and judging by the number of enemies on screen he is playing on easy mode… come on man!!! How about a real review!

Who the fq asked for this

Horrible game! How can anyone that played the original Doom games even like this game!