Thanks to Trav for joining me on this one - it's been a video we've had in the works for about a year now, but stuff just kept getting in the way for each of us. I'm glad to finally share the result with you! Make sure to subscribe to Trav too, if you're not already: th-cam.com/channels/zmECGDexdpx2FxNoRy8-_w.html
Interesting, I managed to snag a Mint copy of Exhumed (the EU/AUS release of Powerslave) for $50 on eBay as soon as I saw the Digital Foundry video on it and went onto eBay straight after 🤷♂️ btw Night Dive Studios did a GREAT job Remastering and Combining the good aspects of both the PS1 and Sega Saturn Versions as Powerslave Exhumed and released like 3 days ago, it is available for like $20 on PS4/PS5, Xbone/XsX, Switch & PC
Facts of the universe: > These cutscenes look like adult films (Thank you Trav, I couldn't put my finger on why I thought they felt weird) > Doom Eternal easy mode is the hardest game I've ever played, and it's not close
Thank you for this review! Underrated game that flew under the radar somehow. Still holds up incredibly well to this day! The cringey cheap cutscenes are even charming and endearing as a throwback to that era.
Down the road I definitely want to give the series a proper look, I missed the prime Resistance era during the PS3 days because I don't think I got my PS3 until 2011 or so! First I've gotta figure out how to get some custom servers going...
A fun little fact here: My face was a common sight in the first like...five "seasons" of TGB! Not every video had my mug on it, but most of them did until COVID, when my set and everything wasn't easily accessible for every video. As the videos got more involved, I got less and less interested doing all the work setting up to film like 2 obligatory minutes of live footage, setting up a different microphone and everything, having to sync the video and audio afterwards - and on top of that it all took so much longer because I'd try to script my live lines and take forever to actually get a good take. Now I'm a lot better about nailing it in a couple takes (partly because I don't script the live anymore, I just let it flow), but unless there's a really good reason for me to be on camera, it's just more work than it's usually worth, at least until I have a dedicated set area where I can just leave my equipment all set up and ready to go!
Aside from the cringy cut scenes, this game is amazing and I have so many memories of this game on the PS1. I really wish they could remaster this game, as it was one of the most underrated games on the PS1.
I actually remember this game! A friend of my uncle's rented it once, but that was back when I had just discovered Tomb Raider. Those first two TR games owned my life for awhile, but I still checked out the back of the Disruptor box to see what it was all about and seen a grizzly bear that just looked cheesy to me at the time. Also, Cathrine Hardwick may have directed the first Twilight, but I choose to remember her for directing the movie Thirteen, an indy film that was pretty fantastic as well as quite depressing. Great video!
As someone with no experience with Insomniac's games (not even Spyro really despite owning Reignited), I loved seeing you be able to take a look at their first game and see so many effects of it in their later work despite hopping several genres. You very clearly know all of these games inside and out.
Insomniac may be working on other things but now that I know about this game, I can't help but wonder what this game would look like if they took a crack at a remaster or a sequel. I'm fairly confident it won't happen, but I can dream :v
Great video! I recently played through Disruptor myself, but I have no experience with the Doom series - so it was cool to hear about how Disruptor compared to other Doom clones. Would definitely be keen to hear what you guys think of Resistance or even Fuse!
Fuse is definitely gonna get its time in the limelight one day down the road, because the whole OverStrike saga needs to be highlighted and remembered by more people!
@@TheGoldenBolt You can say that again - a collaboration between Insomniac and EA is bound to have an interesting story behind it. I've subscribed, so I'll definitely be watching when the day does arrive!
Personally, this is a game I've also been looking for to add to my collection, even if it's only to have the first Insomniac game, as I own just about all the rest
"The other, better Doom 3." *ooh, spicy take.* Side tangent, but personally, I'm on the fence about that one. It made adjustments that - while fan requested - undermined the core design philosophy of the title. The gun flashlight in particular, but I believe there were others I'm forgetting. I only played the classic. The core balancing I would have preferred to adjust were the imps and melee mutants that were almost guaranteed to hit you. Maybe tighten the spread of the shotgun a bit. It usually works fine since you're in claustrophobic environments mainly using it against enemies you get close to in the first place, but the inconsistency of the damage does get annoying at times - a blow only softened by making the plasma gun of all weapons the workhorse of the game instead.
This game is the best fps on the PS1. Its way ahead of its Time. Its like a early Bioshock game. Its one of the first games that has a dynamic Soundtrack and not only a set of the usual weapons but also special abilities you can use in combat. Its very cinematic and diverse in level design and presentation. Calling it a Doom clone is almost like calling Doom a Wolfenstein Clone.
Disruptor was a fun game, but it could really use better enemy variety. You usually fight 2-3 enemy types on every level, some are even reskinned. They had pretty cool weapon designs though. The ammo was scarce af so you could rarely use them to full potential... But the psionics were awesome!
Disruptor was the first first person game I tried. I thought it was great. I still think it is pretty fun. I bought it after reading a review of it in a magazine. After Disruptor, I bought the PS1 version of Doom and Final Doom. I thought they were pretty great.
Here I am finding your channel, enjoying amazing Metroid and Sonic videos...only for you to have one about one of the best games EVER! ... well, I enjoyed the hell out of it as a kid.
The level geometry looks like a Saturn game ported over to the Playstation. Which shouldn't be too surprising, since 3DO's graphics hardware is fundamentally similar to Saturn's VDP1. Both VDP1 and 3DO were blitters with sprite-scaling capability. The key difference to Playstation is not only that Playstation has triangles, but that you can freely place the texture on the polygons, so not every poly has to use the whole texture. So there is a lot of "interesting" texture warping in this game - independent of affine warp, induced by the hardware - that for example where there's a round door or opening, the world textures wrap around that. However because it's all quads, they can also use quad-splitting on the Playstation to correct the affine drift on near textures at least somewhat. When you say "elevators open behind you" the illustrative footage at 14:00 is funny, because it's you turning around and away from where the elevator will open... this doesn't need any rotating platform or anything, but maybe better visual clues or something. This was always the case in Doom because the map must make sense when seen top down with no overlapping parts. Even when you lack such constraint, this was actually considered good design at the time, especially if the game was going to have automap - and this one does. Turning was pretty tedious back then before the mouse and analogue stick controls too. Of course on the next elevator you show, the elevator uses the same door that you came through in when it arrives, so i understand the confusion. The only positive thing about the 3DO is that it's a failure? Well unlike Jaguar, it's not an engineering trainwreck, though it's not as powerful as Saturn or as elegant as Playstation.
The elevator clip was the easiest one to show off the issue: That was only level 5 I believe and I was already trained to turn around for the exit because elevators had been all over the place prior! As for the 3DO prod at the end, I mean that more in the sense that had the 3DO been even _slightly_ more successful, Insomniac develops the game for that platform and potentially shuts down after just one game - meaning we never get Spyro, Ratchet, Resistance, Spider-Man, etc.
I bought Disruptor when it first dropped because I am and will forever be an FPS junkie. I too have played every type of Doom WAD and game you can think of...However, I do not see Disruptor as a Doom clone. It was far to inventive for that. It definitely didn't look like it came from Doom's engine either. It was far too clean for that and this was long before the many mods that attempt to bring the original Doom and Doom 2 up to modern standards. Not even Doomsday Kickstarter is that old. Great video.
Difficulty aside, I think with the cheats to give you a leg up in the less-than-fun sections, this is worth grabbing if you can find a copy for around $20 or so. Complete copies usually hit $40-60 it looks like nowadays, so I can't recommend it at that unless you really want to collect it!
I've always been fascinated by this game and how everyone seems to think Spyro 1 is the beginning of Insomniacs long history, glad I managed to snag a local Australian Copy in Mint Condition FINALLY about a year or two ago... Another great, overlooked Doom Clone FPS was Exhumed or Powerslave (depending on Region, Exhumed here in Aus) and it's an AWESOME game that is kinda Metroid Prime but years earlier, with Upgrades/Abilities you obtain as you progress (like longer/higher jumping etc.) which you can then go back to a previous Level to find a different Exit to a new string of Levels etc. etc. it's slightly different on PlayStation and Sega Saturn (and most say the Saturn Version is superior but who the hell has one of those 🤣) but the PC Version is just meh and was built off the Build Engine from memory (and is more of a straight up Shooter as opposed to a Metroid Prime style "First Person Adventure" so skip that, I believe a fan project has brought the PS1 Version over to PC so go with that 👍)
I didn’t find the prison level to be that hard. I beat it on my first go, even though I dropped to 1% health at one point. It did go on for far too long. I didn’t use any cheats, but I did use the save states at times.
Thankfully despite being pretty rare, the game isn't super expensive physically...at least compared to other rare PS1 titles. I got my copy for $40, but since then it's jumped a bit closer to $50 for a complete copy!
I used to play this game a lot at maybe 5 or 6 years old and I can't even say it was THAT hard, I only remember dying a few times at that weird psionic brain-themed level with no weapons and the last mission, which was more annoying than hard with those shitheads spawning behind you all the time. I would just say the difficulty mostly depends on your ability and will to dodge and constantly generate psi for the better abilities
This game's weapons, checkpoint system and weapon/psionics dynamic really does feel like a prototype to RaC 1 (the third thing being the weapon/gadget dynamic) The art style despite being more "realistic" still has that insomniac style bleeding through.
Thanks to Trav for joining me on this one - it's been a video we've had in the works for about a year now, but stuff just kept getting in the way for each of us. I'm glad to finally share the result with you! Make sure to subscribe to Trav too, if you're not already: th-cam.com/channels/zmECGDexdpx2FxNoRy8-_w.html
Jake Curtis (Disruptor Guy) for PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale 2
I’m glad someone is talking about this game. I’m still trying to get my hands on a physical copy of Disruptor and Powerslave.
Powerslave is one I remember reading about way back when, but I haven't seen a copy floating around in the past either. Maybe one day!
Interesting, I managed to snag a Mint copy of Exhumed (the EU/AUS release of Powerslave) for $50 on eBay as soon as I saw the Digital Foundry video on it and went onto eBay straight after 🤷♂️ btw Night Dive Studios did a GREAT job Remastering and Combining the good aspects of both the PS1 and Sega Saturn Versions as Powerslave Exhumed and released like 3 days ago, it is available for like $20 on PS4/PS5, Xbone/XsX, Switch & PC
Cough emulation cough
The most powerful collaboration. Only second to Spyro and Skylanders
Trav is now part of The Golden Bolt Cinematic Universe. I'm sorry.
Facts of the universe:
> These cutscenes look like adult films (Thank you Trav, I couldn't put my finger on why I thought they felt weird)
> Doom Eternal easy mode is the hardest game I've ever played, and it's not close
I'm excited for you to play classic Doom one day.
You must be new to FMV
Thank you for this review!
Underrated game that flew under the radar somehow. Still holds up incredibly well to this day!
The cringey cheap cutscenes are even charming and endearing as a throwback to that era.
Would love to see you talk about Resistance, especially 2.
Have been watching your stuff for a while now, love it.
- Just some guy from Germany
Down the road I definitely want to give the series a proper look, I missed the prime Resistance era during the PS3 days because I don't think I got my PS3 until 2011 or so! First I've gotta figure out how to get some custom servers going...
Thank you for doing a video on Disruptor, I still have my original copy from the 90s, it still works
I never would have expected a connection to Ratchet and Clank or Spyro/Skylanders to freaking Twilight, but here we are.
It's criminal how low this video performed! TH-cam laws are unfair, thanks for covering this game I learned a lot of things as an Insomniac fan!
My brother and I had Disruptor on the PS when we were kids and I loved it!
Where it alł started !!!!
one of my fav games as a kid and never knew it was made by the same people that made spyro and ratchet. thanks for makin a vid on this forgotten gem
holy gods the golden bolt face reveal! keep doing what youre doing man
A fun little fact here: My face was a common sight in the first like...five "seasons" of TGB! Not every video had my mug on it, but most of them did until COVID, when my set and everything wasn't easily accessible for every video. As the videos got more involved, I got less and less interested doing all the work setting up to film like 2 obligatory minutes of live footage, setting up a different microphone and everything, having to sync the video and audio afterwards - and on top of that it all took so much longer because I'd try to script my live lines and take forever to actually get a good take.
Now I'm a lot better about nailing it in a couple takes (partly because I don't script the live anymore, I just let it flow), but unless there's a really good reason for me to be on camera, it's just more work than it's usually worth, at least until I have a dedicated set area where I can just leave my equipment all set up and ready to go!
Aside from the cringy cut scenes, this game is amazing and I have so many memories of this game on the PS1. I really wish they could remaster this game, as it was one of the most underrated games on the PS1.
The cutscenes feel like if total recall was made with a budget of 50 dollars
I actually remember this game! A friend of my uncle's rented it once, but that was back when I had just discovered Tomb Raider. Those first two TR games owned my life for awhile, but I still checked out the back of the Disruptor box to see what it was all about and seen a grizzly bear that just looked cheesy to me at the time. Also, Cathrine Hardwick may have directed the first Twilight, but I choose to remember her for directing the movie Thirteen, an indy film that was pretty fantastic as well as quite depressing. Great video!
Thanks for taking the time to produce this video, subscribed. 👍🏻
As someone with no experience with Insomniac's games (not even Spyro really despite owning Reignited), I loved seeing you be able to take a look at their first game and see so many effects of it in their later work despite hopping several genres. You very clearly know all of these games inside and out.
That evolution is only gonna get more fun to explore in the coming weeks, that's for sure...
I calling this “Trav’s Law”. If you make a video about a FPS, Trav will be there 50% of the time
Yeah, no that checks out.
golden bolt how do i shapeshift into all the playable characters from doom clones in real life?
Insomniac may be working on other things but now that I know about this game, I can't help but wonder what this game would look like if they took a crack at a remaster or a sequel. I'm fairly confident it won't happen, but I can dream :v
Great video! I recently played through Disruptor myself, but I have no experience with the Doom series - so it was cool to hear about how Disruptor compared to other Doom clones. Would definitely be keen to hear what you guys think of Resistance or even Fuse!
Fuse is definitely gonna get its time in the limelight one day down the road, because the whole OverStrike saga needs to be highlighted and remembered by more people!
@@TheGoldenBolt You can say that again - a collaboration between Insomniac and EA is bound to have an interesting story behind it. I've subscribed, so I'll definitely be watching when the day does arrive!
Personally, this is a game I've also been looking for to add to my collection, even if it's only to have the first Insomniac game, as I own just about all the rest
It’s amazing! Holds up so well
I never forgot as that game was my childhood
I still have the cheats memorized for this game. Also you published this on my B-day and this was my very first and at least top 5 ps1 games
"The other, better Doom 3."
*ooh, spicy take.* Side tangent, but personally, I'm on the fence about that one. It made adjustments that - while fan requested - undermined the core design philosophy of the title. The gun flashlight in particular, but I believe there were others I'm forgetting. I only played the classic.
The core balancing I would have preferred to adjust were the imps and melee mutants that were almost guaranteed to hit you. Maybe tighten the spread of the shotgun a bit. It usually works fine since you're in claustrophobic environments mainly using it against enemies you get close to in the first place, but the inconsistency of the damage does get annoying at times - a blow only softened by making the plasma gun of all weapons the workhorse of the game instead.
Did... did you show a picture of Dana Carvey when you first mentioned Mark Cerny?
Tell me they're not the same person, I dare you.
@@TheGoldenBolt I would love to, but I've never seen then in the same place at the same time.
Thanks for the video, will definitely be look looking for an original copy after seeing your review
It reminds me a bit of Eradicator which was another almost forgotten FPS from the same era.
This game is the best fps on the PS1. Its way ahead of its Time. Its like a early Bioshock game. Its one of the first games that has a dynamic Soundtrack and not only a set of the usual weapons but also special abilities you can use in combat. Its very cinematic and diverse in level design and presentation. Calling it a Doom clone is almost like calling Doom a Wolfenstein Clone.
I never had a chance to play Resistance and I would love a The Golden Bolt style recap
Disruptor was a fun game, but it could really use better enemy variety. You usually fight 2-3 enemy types on every level, some are even reskinned.
They had pretty cool weapon designs though. The ammo was scarce af so you could rarely use them to full potential... But the psionics were awesome!
Disruptor was the first first person game I tried. I thought it was great. I still think it is pretty fun. I bought it after reading a review of it in a magazine. After Disruptor, I bought the PS1 version of Doom and Final Doom. I thought they were pretty great.
I still have this game
Nightdive should remaster this
Here I am finding your channel, enjoying amazing Metroid and Sonic videos...only for you to have one about one of the best games EVER! ... well, I enjoyed the hell out of it as a kid.
I still pop this in my ps3 ever now and then and do a playthrough.
The level geometry looks like a Saturn game ported over to the Playstation. Which shouldn't be too surprising, since 3DO's graphics hardware is fundamentally similar to Saturn's VDP1.
Both VDP1 and 3DO were blitters with sprite-scaling capability. The key difference to Playstation is not only that Playstation has triangles, but that you can freely place the texture on the polygons, so not every poly has to use the whole texture. So there is a lot of "interesting" texture warping in this game - independent of affine warp, induced by the hardware - that for example where there's a round door or opening, the world textures wrap around that. However because it's all quads, they can also use quad-splitting on the Playstation to correct the affine drift on near textures at least somewhat.
When you say "elevators open behind you" the illustrative footage at 14:00 is funny, because it's you turning around and away from where the elevator will open... this doesn't need any rotating platform or anything, but maybe better visual clues or something. This was always the case in Doom because the map must make sense when seen top down with no overlapping parts. Even when you lack such constraint, this was actually considered good design at the time, especially if the game was going to have automap - and this one does. Turning was pretty tedious back then before the mouse and analogue stick controls too. Of course on the next elevator you show, the elevator uses the same door that you came through in when it arrives, so i understand the confusion.
The only positive thing about the 3DO is that it's a failure? Well unlike Jaguar, it's not an engineering trainwreck, though it's not as powerful as Saturn or as elegant as Playstation.
The elevator clip was the easiest one to show off the issue: That was only level 5 I believe and I was already trained to turn around for the exit because elevators had been all over the place prior! As for the 3DO prod at the end, I mean that more in the sense that had the 3DO been even _slightly_ more successful, Insomniac develops the game for that platform and potentially shuts down after just one game - meaning we never get Spyro, Ratchet, Resistance, Spider-Man, etc.
Este juego me marcó una época... nunca lo olvidaré
I bought Disruptor when it first dropped because I am and will forever be an FPS junkie. I too have played every type of Doom WAD and game you can think of...However, I do not see Disruptor as a Doom clone. It was far to inventive for that. It definitely didn't look like it came from Doom's engine either. It was far too clean for that and this was long before the many mods that attempt to bring the original Doom and Doom 2 up to modern standards. Not even Doomsday Kickstarter is that old. Great video.
The fact that trav guy still hasnt reviewed R&C really makes me sad
He truly is the master of disguise!
Disruptor, starring Van Damme!
Damn this looks cool!
Sucks about the bs difficulty and annoying hurdles, otherwise I'd be tempted to track this down.
Difficulty aside, I think with the cheats to give you a leg up in the less-than-fun sections, this is worth grabbing if you can find a copy for around $20 or so. Complete copies usually hit $40-60 it looks like nowadays, so I can't recommend it at that unless you really want to collect it!
I've always been fascinated by this game and how everyone seems to think Spyro 1 is the beginning of Insomniacs long history, glad I managed to snag a local Australian Copy in Mint Condition FINALLY about a year or two ago... Another great, overlooked Doom Clone FPS was Exhumed or Powerslave (depending on Region, Exhumed here in Aus) and it's an AWESOME game that is kinda Metroid Prime but years earlier, with Upgrades/Abilities you obtain as you progress (like longer/higher jumping etc.) which you can then go back to a previous Level to find a different Exit to a new string of Levels etc. etc. it's slightly different on PlayStation and Sega Saturn (and most say the Saturn Version is superior but who the hell has one of those 🤣) but the PC Version is just meh and was built off the Build Engine from memory (and is more of a straight up Shooter as opposed to a Metroid Prime style "First Person Adventure" so skip that, I believe a fan project has brought the PS1 Version over to PC so go with that 👍)
You should see the recent trailer from night dive studios
@@SouperSoup057 Don't tell me...
@@SouperSoup057 ...Dude HYPE... Waiting for that PS4/PS5 Version though 😭
I didn’t find the prison level to be that hard. I beat it on my first go, even though I dropped to 1% health at one point. It did go on for far too long. I didn’t use any cheats, but I did use the save states at times.
i still want to try this game out one day
Thankfully despite being pretty rare, the game isn't super expensive physically...at least compared to other rare PS1 titles. I got my copy for $40, but since then it's jumped a bit closer to $50 for a complete copy!
@@TheGoldenBolt i see thanks for the heads up
I feel personally attacked here btw.
That's fair
I used to play this game a lot at maybe 5 or 6 years old and I can't even say it was THAT hard, I only remember dying a few times at that weird psionic brain-themed level with no weapons and the last mission, which was more annoying than hard with those shitheads spawning behind you all the time. I would just say the difficulty mostly depends on your ability and will to dodge and constantly generate psi for the better abilities
I would be resistant to a resistance video.
I think one day either way it's gonna happen, but it'll probably be when clunky PS3 aesthetics start to come back around as appealing online!
Lovely video as always!
Was that not a photo of Dana Carvey?
This games fun only real negative I have are the jump and the controls are a bit hard to get used to
This game's weapons, checkpoint system and weapon/psionics dynamic really does feel like a prototype to RaC 1 (the third thing being the weapon/gadget dynamic)
The art style despite being more "realistic" still has that insomniac style bleeding through.
Please do the resistance series
@3:40 That's Dana Carvey, tho
Before Spyro, Ratchet & Clank, Resistance and Spider-Man
No. R&C started in the PS2.
Suddenly I hear Greg Miller lol.
>calls doom 3 bfg edition better
Eternal Doom Eternal
It doesn't look anything like the Id tech 1 engine
More like the Build Engine, which powered Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, and Star Wars: Dark Forces.
@@CarbyGuuGuu Not even then
Meow