Is there a single moment in this where you lose health or shields? I want to know what the visual effects are. I think it flashes green when you lose shields as well as when you gain them but red when you lose health. Can you confirm? I'm making a game really inspired by this for 2D on mobile and want to emulate some of the effects as I remember them being effective
One of the coolest Star Wars games. Not only it's a great FPS, it also introduced the best Stormtrooper variant the Dark Trooper, now canon in The Mandalorian.
YES!!! This game was one of the first true fps games of our time. This and Doom. Spent hours on this game back in the early 90s. Anyone remember Full Throttle?
It`s always Doom or Duke Nuk'em 3D what got praised and get's attention, but Star Wars: Dark Forces was as great as the other 90's top fps games and played very often at LAN partys. It shouldn`t be forgotten.
@@peterknutsen3070 I always preferred Heretic over Hexen 1 or 2. Other games i played often were Chasm: The Rift, Blood, Shadow Warrior and Redneck Rampage, William Shatner's Tekwar and Witchaven 2.
Imperial Enemies: *"Stop Rebel scum!"* *"You're not authorized in this area!"* *"Surrender immediately!"* *"Set blasters on full!"* *"There he is stop him!"* *"Blast him!"* *"Halt!"* I love all the added flavor and the excellent sound design in this game. The sounds of the guns and effects are awesome, the voice chatter and sounds from enemies are great, the final boss has an actual personality to them and you can hear their overconfident laugh during the final battle to try giving you the nervous jitters in your chest, Kyle Katarn has a great voice actor, and we even get to see Kyle Katarn tell Jabba the Hutt to go fuck himself even with the looming threat of being fed to ferocious Kell Dragons. Just all around brilliant. Many other aspects of the game are great too. We see familiar faces such as Mon Mothma, Crix Madine, Jabba the Hutt, Darth Vader, and even a brief cameo from Boba Fett as a boss. We see events tying Kyle Katarn to events and themes of the original trilogy movies, and its great. Dark Troopers would even make an appearance in later LucasArts games, such as Star Wars: Rebellion, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, and Star Wars: Battlefront (the original one). As far as I'm concerned, Dark Forces is a canon story in the Star Wars universe. In my opinion from a gameplay perspective it outclasses more popular FPS games of its time like Doom and Duke Nukem, which are more just about playing a badass of different flavors with some mindless run and gun type gameplay making a bloody mess of enemies. And there's nothing wrong with games like those, but Dark Forces is definitely a much better challenge, is more engaging with strategy and decision making to complete the missions, and is more interesting to decide what weapons to use with the 3D nature behind the level design of many levels (tossing thermal detonators down to a lower elevation for example). And Mission 05 Gromas Mines probably had the scariest enemy I have ever encountered with the Phase 1 Dark Trooper at the end, scarier than Doom, Dead Space, System Shock 2, or games labeled as being in the horror genre.
Games like this and half-life really need a comeback. Not just about shooting, but also exploration and some basic puzzle solving and traversal. Love em.
Haha me too...used to hide just I could listen to the music on repeat for hours. Then I finally recorded it on cassette just so I could have it on the go. Still have the demo disc with Full Throttle.
This and Rebel Assault were the first two games my dad and I played and beat together. They also helped introduce me to Star Wars before I first watched the first three movies back in the 90s. I’ve been fan since then.
@@jaybae6510 My dad beat X-Wing Alliance. If that were to be the best one out of those 4 games I listed it’s because you could fly the Millennium Falcon.
Back then i have a second hand PC very cheap but it was a pentium 60 mhz, i was lucky to add a great Guillemot sound card that have extended rom feature that can use sample and general MIDI Roland sc88 in real time, i use it mainly to make my own music with cakewalk midi, but for game it was a real plus, dark forces was one of my first PC Game an amazing one.
DOS OST is the best! I love this game, Steam finally fixed the sequel so I'm playing that for the first time now. They just don't make them like this anymore.
It's Roland's official Soundcanvas VST plugin - just configure DosBox MIDI to use Windows sound system, then captured with desktop capture software. Configuring the VST plugin is a bit of a pain; have to install LoopMidi and do some config work.
Your Video helped me a lot completing this game. When i was stuck i watched your Walkthrough. :D I played it with DarkXL, which unfortunately has some bugs, but although its an cool game.
Thanks for the upload, this brings back a lot of memories 😊 anyways, i have a question to you & for anyone who sees this comment too, I’ve been trying to find this specific FPS game i believed was released in the 90s too, so the game is kinda similar to these one but the enemies are all robots & machines & whenever you die on the game like falling or getting shot to death your character shouts with a very agonizing pain, like it will startle you every time. hoping to get answers because i’ve been trying to find that game for awhile.
@@ITSAHARDNUGLIFE just checked it, but i don’t think it is the game that i’m looking for because i don’t remember being like on a space shuttle shooting enemies. Thanks anyway.
@@ITSAHARDNUGLIFE just found it few weeks ago, it’s called Rebel Moon Rising. Now i’m on the hunt for that dying sound effect of the Game can’t seem to find it on net 😂
I would love some tips on capturing footage of dark forces/ darkxl, I’d love to use the footage in my own videos but whenever I attempt to use OBS to record the screen messes up. Any tips?
I used DosBox Daum SVN to play and capture the video - it has built-in recording (although you'll need something which can work with the Zip Motion Block codec)
This us really good gameplay I always thought after this game I would be a star 🌟 wars fan but I guess not I guess back in the 90s growing up it wasn't brought up as much only the start kids were really interested are you still into 🌟 wars now
I modified the controls using the game's setup tool. I rebound movement to WASD and changed the S an D to strafe left/right instead of turning. The game supports horizontal mouse-look, so I used that for aiming, but it can't do vertical aiming, so I had to use the default page-up/page-up keys for those.
Played this game along time ago and the stormtrooper blaster rifle was a good weapon but even the imperial repeater gun and the concussion rifle were better
Imagine the intelligence officers reporting this back to Palpatine. What is the Emperor to make of this? One dude basically single handily and systematically destroys the Dark Trooper project and wipes out all said Dark Troopers in his way like they are nothing. Imperial research bases and detention facilities made a mockery of. Half the galaxies criminal underworld wiped off the map. Dude waltzes into the centre of Imperial Intelligence on freaking Coruscant and calmly walks out with the plans. Ices Boba Fett. Not even a Jedi mind you! A large part of the Imperial military just gunned down, with no discrimination between human and droid alike. Guns down everyone on board the Arc Hammer terminator style including the general running the project - blows the place to smithereens. Unconfirmed but troubling reports that on rare occasion this lone rebel commando is finally gunned down, only to resurrect and continue his killing spree. To top it off, uncovers all of Palpatine's secret stashes, hidden items and weapon caches. You would just surrender at this point. KYLE KATARN - THE IMPERIAL SLAYER.
trying to find the weapons of DF for the memories.... find a blaster rifel addict who must use the same (albeit coolest) weapon through the entire game!
I guess it's possible to go up a level and fall down the gap between the platforms so you land on top of it. I didn't even notice it was there (and it's not classified as a secret) - probably not worth the risk, unless you're already low on lives.
All Missions: 4:52 Secret Base 17:57 Talay Tak Base 32:06 Anoat City 48:19 Research Facility 1:14:02 Gromas Mines 1:34:36 Imperial Detention Center 2:00:03 Ramsees Hed 2:26:07 Robotics Facility 2:37:50 Nar Shaddaa 3:04:16 Jabba's Ship 3:35:29 Imperial City 3:59:47 Fuel Station 4:18:51 The Executor 4:35:10 The Arc Hammer
Re-upload to correct missing footage from mission 4 - thanks to the eagle-eyed viewer who noticed :)
Is there a single moment in this where you lose health or shields? I want to know what the visual effects are. I think it flashes green when you lose shields as well as when you gain them but red when you lose health. Can you confirm? I'm making a game really inspired by this for 2D on mobile and want to emulate some of the effects as I remember them being effective
this game with alien isolation graphics would be cool loved this game in my young teen age
@@JetBlackJester 2:50:57
One of the coolest Star Wars games.
Not only it's a great FPS, it also introduced the best Stormtrooper variant the Dark Trooper, now canon in The Mandalorian.
YES!!! This game was one of the first true fps games of our time. This and Doom. Spent hours on this game back in the early 90s. Anyone remember Full Throttle?
An absolute classic! Loved this back in the day, spend many hours playing this on my old 486.
It`s always Doom or Duke Nuk'em 3D what got praised and get's attention, but Star Wars: Dark Forces was as great as the other 90's top fps games and played very often at LAN partys. It shouldn`t be forgotten.
Also Heretic, a fantasy genre version of Doom.
Or Hexen. More of a puzzle game but great atmosphere in places, and 3 character classes to choose from.
@@peterknutsen3070 I always preferred Heretic over Hexen 1 or 2. Other games i played often were Chasm: The Rift, Blood, Shadow Warrior and Redneck Rampage, William Shatner's Tekwar and Witchaven 2.
And now, dusk
No multiplayer in this classic.
Also don't forget Outlaws, made by the same company.
Imperial Enemies:
*"Stop Rebel scum!"*
*"You're not authorized in this area!"*
*"Surrender immediately!"*
*"Set blasters on full!"*
*"There he is stop him!"*
*"Blast him!"*
*"Halt!"*
I love all the added flavor and the excellent sound design in this game. The sounds of the guns and effects are awesome, the voice chatter and sounds from enemies are great, the final boss has an actual personality to them and you can hear their overconfident laugh during the final battle to try giving you the nervous jitters in your chest, Kyle Katarn has a great voice actor, and we even get to see Kyle Katarn tell Jabba the Hutt to go fuck himself even with the looming threat of being fed to ferocious Kell Dragons. Just all around brilliant.
Many other aspects of the game are great too. We see familiar faces such as Mon Mothma, Crix Madine, Jabba the Hutt, Darth Vader, and even a brief cameo from Boba Fett as a boss. We see events tying Kyle Katarn to events and themes of the original trilogy movies, and its great. Dark Troopers would even make an appearance in later LucasArts games, such as Star Wars: Rebellion, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, and Star Wars: Battlefront (the original one). As far as I'm concerned, Dark Forces is a canon story in the Star Wars universe.
In my opinion from a gameplay perspective it outclasses more popular FPS games of its time like Doom and Duke Nukem, which are more just about playing a badass of different flavors with some mindless run and gun type gameplay making a bloody mess of enemies. And there's nothing wrong with games like those, but Dark Forces is definitely a much better challenge, is more engaging with strategy and decision making to complete the missions, and is more interesting to decide what weapons to use with the 3D nature behind the level design of many levels (tossing thermal detonators down to a lower elevation for example). And Mission 05 Gromas Mines probably had the scariest enemy I have ever encountered with the Phase 1 Dark Trooper at the end, scarier than Doom, Dead Space, System Shock 2, or games labeled as being in the horror genre.
You nailed it dude! The phase 1 dark trooper always scared the sh*t out of me as a kid lol
Games like this and half-life really need a comeback. Not just about shooting, but also exploration and some basic puzzle solving and traversal. Love em.
Came for the nostalgia, was not disappointed. Just had this playing in the background sometimes
man 25 years later i still think sometimes about how much i hated those damn sewer monsters
Haha me too...used to hide just I could listen to the music on repeat for hours. Then I finally recorded it on cassette just so I could have it on the go. Still have the demo disc with Full Throttle.
😂
Dianoga, you mean lol
Never heard of this Doom-like Star Wars game before... really good job in showing it to us!
It's a part of the Dark Forces - Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy series.
its classic!
"Doom-like Star Wars game.... *facepalm*
@@RearAdmiralTootToot They used to call fps games "doom clones" back in the day
have you been living under a rock???
This and Rebel Assault were the first two games my dad and I played and beat together. They also helped introduce me to Star Wars before I first watched the first three movies back in the 90s. I’ve been fan since then.
dude did you ever play xwing?
@@jaybae6510 That, TIE Fighter, X-Wing vs Fighter, and X-Wing Alliance.
@@patrickwilson1459 man those were the golden days lol
@@jaybae6510 My dad beat X-Wing Alliance. If that were to be the best one out of those 4 games I listed it’s because you could fly the Millennium Falcon.
@@patrickwilson1459 lol i loved that one too. always got stuck in the mines as a kid though
there was the best sound devices based on true FM modulation creating amazing gaming atmosphere
Daaaamn the excitement when i bought this game back then :) My first CD game lol.
Those little droids pottering about on the floor made it so immersive.
Remember having the demo of this way back and played it on repeat till I fit got the game...it was epic back then
Games like this were the real starting path to how the story was told! Once Disney got their hands on it they destroyed the whole Kyle Katarn route
Agreed, this is what R1 should have been with Kyle being main protag of sequel trilogy.
Waaa waaa waaaa 😭😭😭😭
😐
Yeah? Well, disney doesn't matter this will always be the true story!
There’s always Rebel Moon
Back then i have a second hand PC very cheap but it was a pentium 60 mhz, i was lucky to add a great Guillemot sound card that have extended rom feature that can use sample and general MIDI Roland sc88 in real time, i use it mainly to make my own music with cakewalk midi, but for game it was a real plus, dark forces was one of my first PC Game an amazing one.
Damn what a great game. My former roommate and I spent weeks trying to finish this game on an ancient Compaq Presario!
I remember playing this when i was a kid & thinking how cool it was that the dead bodies didn't disappear
I loved this game. Thanks for uploading.
Glad you enjoyed it
this brings back memories on the old family PC. I saw this game at the PC game shelf in Walmart for like 5$. This was a gem in its time.
I love that you can tell how scared he is of the sewer monsters, just starts panicking every time 😆😂🤣
this game was so hard and easy to get lost in, never could beat it
Loved this..played it through a few times ...great sounds and level design for the time....
Remember always playing this game when I was 13. Good times
It always amuses me how your starting weapon is immediately replaced after the first enemy is killed.
Katarn: So there I was just blasting.......
God I love dark forces. This game feels Star Warsy as fk
We played this to death. Looking back its a slightly uprated version of doom but great memories.
Thanks for the upload! God. I feel like I am back at home with my parents, mum bringing me regular cups of tea and life is good
Wow could you record the midis on the roland sc55 and upload that? I can never get them to play on my sound canvas emulator
Debe usar la original sin emulacion
I remember buying this in 1995 and had just bought Full Throttle a month prior
Full throttle was amazing
And now we get remaster coming soon! I bet you didn't expect a resurgence of this upload 3 years later.
I was psyched to see the Dark Trooper finally make it to canon with the final episode of the Mandalorian.
DOS OST is the best! I love this game, Steam finally fixed the sequel so I'm playing that for the first time now. They just don't make them like this anymore.
How did you get the Roland SC-55 to work? It sounds really good for Dark Forces and I want to try it out.
It's Roland's official Soundcanvas VST plugin - just configure DosBox MIDI to use Windows sound system, then captured with desktop capture software.
Configuring the VST plugin is a bit of a pain; have to install LoopMidi and do some config work.
Al82: Retrogaming & Computing Thanks. I’ll go try that out then.
Your Video helped me a lot completing this game. When i was stuck i watched your Walkthrough. :D I played it with DarkXL, which unfortunately has some bugs, but although its an cool game.
Glad I could help!
Thanks for the upload, this brings back a lot of memories 😊 anyways, i have a question to you & for anyone who sees this comment too, I’ve been trying to find this specific FPS game i believed was released in the 90s too, so the game is kinda similar to these one but the enemies are all robots & machines & whenever you die on the game like falling or getting shot to death your character shouts with a very agonizing pain, like it will startle you every time. hoping to get answers because i’ve been trying to find that game for awhile.
Maybe that game Descent?
@@ITSAHARDNUGLIFE just checked it, but i don’t think it is the game that i’m looking for because i don’t remember being like on a space shuttle shooting enemies. Thanks anyway.
@@ITSAHARDNUGLIFE just found it few weeks ago, it’s called Rebel Moon Rising. Now i’m on the hunt for that dying sound effect of the Game can’t seem to find it on net 😂
How did you get it to run so smoothly? Mine ran like garbo when through steam
I would love some tips on capturing footage of dark forces/ darkxl, I’d love to use the footage in my own videos but whenever I attempt to use OBS to record the screen messes up. Any tips?
I used DosBox Daum SVN to play and capture the video - it has built-in recording (although you'll need something which can work with the Zip Motion Block codec)
Do you have star wars rougue squadron for pc? That was my favorite game as a kid
Back when the Star Wars franchise was on BETTER hands.
My uncle favorite game lol
This us really good gameplay I always thought after this game I would be a star 🌟 wars fan but I guess not I guess back in the 90s growing up it wasn't brought up as much only the start kids were really interested are you still into 🌟 wars now
Are you using the default mouse and keyboard control scheme? Or were you able to find a way to change the keymapping?
I modified the controls using the game's setup tool. I rebound movement to WASD and changed the S an D to strafe left/right instead of turning.
The game supports horizontal mouse-look, so I used that for aiming, but it can't do vertical aiming, so I had to use the default page-up/page-up keys for those.
I never played this game. How good is it compared to Doom, Heretic, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood?
Played this game along time ago and the stormtrooper blaster rifle was a good weapon but even the imperial repeater gun and the concussion rifle were better
Imagine the intelligence officers reporting this back to Palpatine. What is the Emperor to make of this? One dude basically single handily and systematically destroys the Dark Trooper project and wipes out all said Dark Troopers in his way like they are nothing. Imperial research bases and detention facilities made a mockery of. Half the galaxies criminal underworld wiped off the map. Dude waltzes into the centre of Imperial Intelligence on freaking Coruscant and calmly walks out with the plans. Ices Boba Fett. Not even a Jedi mind you! A large part of the Imperial military just gunned down, with no discrimination between human and droid alike. Guns down everyone on board the Arc Hammer terminator style including the general running the project - blows the place to smithereens. Unconfirmed but troubling reports that on rare occasion this lone rebel commando is finally gunned down, only to resurrect and continue his killing spree. To top it off, uncovers all of Palpatine's secret stashes, hidden items and weapon caches. You would just surrender at this point. KYLE KATARN - THE IMPERIAL SLAYER.
1:19:29 me in every fps game ever
Great nostalgia. Thx
Big like dropped 👍 Old Nerd supporting
This game is like what would happen if you took Star Wars, Doom, Duke Nukem, and Wolfenstein and put them all in a blender.
3:59:20 tbagging boba fett - priceless
Starwars...Doom?
Can U Use A Xbox Series Control For This Control 🕹️ On Any PC For This Game
Was this the Steam or GoG version?
trying to find the weapons of DF for the memories.... find a blaster rifel addict who must use the same (albeit coolest) weapon through the entire game!
Unlike the rebels in Rogue One, Kyle Katarn was able to steal the Death Star plans BY HIMSELF! And on top of that, he SURVIVED!
Agreed, finally, I thought it was just me and my family who had this problem with rouge one.
Please record the midi music and upload!
I was never able to run this game with my sh*tty computer back in the day.
the sewer level was full of shit
I LIKE DOS GAMES !
40:53 Dianoga number 3, 4 or 5 down!
a very epic engine vs doom yet they said this game was a doom clone
1:02:15 how do i aim to shoot that red button?
You have to bind keys to look up and down - I think they're page up/page down
Remaster is coming
How do you open inventory?
At 4:52:19 there are floating extra lives and revives in the air to the right, does anyone know how to get them?
I guess it's possible to go up a level and fall down the gap between the platforms so you land on top of it. I didn't even notice it was there (and it's not classified as a secret) - probably not worth the risk, unless you're already low on lives.
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays you cant get up there, its like you have to nade-jump to get them but its really hard. :S
Dukeman: The First Forces (XBOX) Longplay 100% Gems & Shields
All Missions:
4:52 Secret Base
17:57 Talay Tak Base
32:06 Anoat City
48:19 Research Facility
1:14:02 Gromas Mines
1:34:36 Imperial Detention Center
2:00:03 Ramsees Hed
2:26:07 Robotics Facility
2:37:50 Nar Shaddaa
3:04:16 Jabba's Ship
3:35:29 Imperial City
3:59:47 Fuel Station
4:18:51 The Executor
4:35:10 The Arc Hammer
2:46:44
Whuuuut…
6:58❤
8:03❤
Can i get a .........REEE-MAKE lol
The jumps are annoying on this game xd
3:14:58 😂
Doom reskinned to look like starwars?
No - this was an actual game developed by LucasArts using their own engine; it just looks like Doom
Star wars meets DOOM
Hmm
Die jedi 🙂
Pp