LGR - BioForge - DOS PC Game Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- If you've come for the fork you'll be SORELY disappointed! Origin's interactive movie sci-fi adventure game, featuring flutes.
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I love how much LGR knows, and has to know, to review these things. Culture, technology, science, history, economics, game design, game industry, etc, etc, and he just brings it altogether in a simple casual way that anyone can follow and understand without having to know any of that to fully appreciate the review. Just awesome.
Also the way he goes in and out of his Duke Nukem voice consciously and unconsciously.
Glad you're enjoying, thanks :)
After watching a bunch of his videos in a single sitting I feel like the Duke is slowly taking control.
I would thank you for being so specific. It’s like a nice Yelp review.
@@LGR did you ever playb lifeline ever for the ps2 it was microphone controlled scfi horror gsme and how old are you by the way
I will thank you for being thanked.
I love that short-lived 90s aesthetical style of the pre-rendered games.
I wish we got more of that. REmake was great.
"Be prepared to forgive a lot of awkwardness." is what I would say to girls before the start of any first date.
you just won the internet dude :D
"would say"
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same, probably
@ScopeDog I've never been on a date before, would much rather stay at home playing TF2
I'm surprised the modding community hasn't taken up the cause of fixing the bad stuff.
Ug... LOVED this game. I still sometimes yell "If you've come for the fork, you'll be sorely disappointed!". Great game.
Haha classic. I always loved how you beat the living daylights out of the other prisoner whilst telling him you should work together.
Beating a guy to death with his own arm... WOW!
+The Adequate Gamer I remember that feature in Planescape:Torment and Severance: Blade of Darkness, two opposite games (one have great combat, other have great story).
You could do that as a finishing move in Gears of War.
"Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!"
Quan chi wins.
FATALITY.
Stylish ;)
Man I loved this game. While I was waiting for it‘s release, I wrote a little diary from the perspective of the protagonist being transferred to the planet. :p
Lol, that's how we had to entertain ourselves back in the day!
Also known as the game with the best mouse cursor ever
***** Actually it would stretch whenever you hovered over something clickable.
Mario maker ain't got nothing on this
7years late but: The 7th Guest..
This is one of those games I have memories of as a child but could not for the life of me remember if it was true or not. Thank you LGR! Finally I am able to put a name to this game I watched my brother play so long ago. Your review are always awesome.
Man, it's hard to hate on these old PC titles. They may have been clunky as hell and looked like butt, but they had so much charm and atmosphere to them. Like Harvester. I SHOULD hate that game, any rational person should hate it...but I love it. It's just SO damn cheesy and insane, you can't help BUT love it!
Still waiting on a Tex Murphy overview, Clint...
Classics like Half Life, Deus Ex and System shock 2 are better today than many titles in recent years. And barely anything comes close in terms of charm.
That's me and Time Commando! I loved the game so much. Probably many more
Harvester has so much imagination and ambition.
@@jozinek876 - I was playing Deus Ex on Playstation 2 the other day. I spend more time playing older games then I do newer ones. The short answer is newer games are so dumbed down (in general0 to newer games.
Ah, Bioforge! This was my first CD-ROM game ever! Such fond memories... Love the world of this game.
VeZius wow. Huh. I wonder what mine was? Sam and Max Hit The Road, maybe?
I used to play the demo over and over, it was just the first room with the blue guy.
VeZius My first was Rebel Assault, came with my PC Creative CD-Rom/Sound blaster set.
@@crowsbridge Me too; it was a demo on one of those free discs you got back then with all computer magazines that generally had upwards of 50 game demos and shareware games. I thought it was so awesome that I did eventually get it, but it required the collective efforts of friends and family to complete, with a different person taking over when different abilities were required, e.g. the kidsd would usually do better at the combat/shooting sections whilst the older ones would be better at the more cerebral puzzles. With everyone having their own savegames and getting assistance when needed we eventually got one of us over the finishing line - which was something of an anti-climax, I have to say. We might just as well have been told we were "Captain John Smith" or "Zsa Zsa Gabor" at the end, there was no real revelation, no significance or meaning and enlightened us not at all. Still enjoyed it tremendously though, and had really hoped for the updated edition.
This definitely brings back many nostalgic gaming memories. PC gaming in the 90s was the best!
Say what you will, but the 90s Origin titles were just amazing in terms of immersion and creating atmosphere. I spent me whole youth wishing i could live in the Privateer universe.
Frick! That's a Laser Raptor. I thought they went extinct, thousands of years ago.
Futonrevolution Must be the Viking Age
+ 1 for the Morte av or whatever they are called.
This is one of my favorite games of all time. Probably in my top 10.
It was so deep and complex, beautifully designed and well-acted (mostly, it's a 90's game after all😏). Contained an amazing combination of multiple game-genres and innovative story telling, enhanced by very decent visuals and smooth movememnt.
Love it. Simply love it.
Dear LGR,
I really dig your channel.
Regards, Keen
I had had a BioForge Mousepad, with the coverart.
Even i did not liked the game, i used the mousepad for years, it just looked awesome. ^^
Honstly, this looks like a game that would really benift from a reboot. Vastly improve graphics, and just slightly tweak game play (keep it movement and combat slower compared to modern games, but not restricting like a modern horror.)
This looks like one of those 90's games where, yes there are faults, serious almost-downright-unplayable faults , but the good stuff is so, so good, and so unique, that you won't find it in any other game, so you keep coming back anyway.
my late dad bought me this game original pc cd back in the 90s in Poland. It cost him a fortune as the pirate game market was sky rocketing these days in Poland. Loved the game and loved my dad. Miss him.
It really was my first and last original game I´ve ever bought. It was a blast back with our first family p90 Computer. I remember that 1MB cost 70DM which would be around 50 Euros today. SO our first setup with 550MB HDD, 17" Eizo, HP 690C, QuadSpeed CD Rom and 16MB Ram along with a Pentium 90 was around 9.000 DM when I was 13. That´s mindblowing 6500 Euros today, with a technology that was obsolete almost 2 years later.
2:43 Great scream Lol!! Thanks for covering this game, loved it back in the day.
A Fork!
_"If you've come for the fork you'll be sorely disappointed!"_
Fork you!
@@noneofyourbeeswax01 "Return the fork, or I'll command it to destroy you!"
What the fork!?
A LOG book.
Wow this looks sickkk, can't believe I never heard of it before
I refer to it as "Security camera" style. Because the camera Is stationary like you're watching a store security camera.
More like Resident Evil with it's fixed camera angles and tank controls
More like Alone in the Dark, you youngsters!
Actually with this game you can see cameras littered around the halls and that's where the camera shifts to. The intended aesthetic seems to be that you were meant to see through the security cameras cameras
I work midnights pretty consistently, and I always watch your videos. But your soothingly deep voice always makes me sleepy.
Fuc- at the dos prompt made me laugh hard. Cool review as always, Clint. Brought me back memories.
I was specifically looking for this game review. Thanks for covering it! When I tried playing this as a kid, I found it too scary and didn’t really get anywhere lol
I've always wanted to play this one, but could never get it to run on the machine I had at the time. I completely forgot about this game since then, until now! Glad to finally see some footage of it. Great job as always, LGR.
Thanks again for this LGR (seen it first on Patreon) I am really glad you talk about the time bomb puzzle, I couldn't get past it as a kid and that happens very early in the game :(
I have fond memories of that game. That "AHHHGGG" sound when you walk into the cell bars really brought me back. must have heard that 20 times before i got out :)
RETURN THE FORK OR I WILL COMMAND IT TO DESTROY YOU!
Memories of this game:
The 3D graphics were amazing at the time. This was only 1 year after Alone in the Dark's triangle people, and 1 year before Resident Evil which it looked nearly as good as.
This was the first game I tried after upgrading from a basic 8-bit Soundblaster to a Soundblaser AWE 32 and the difference in music quality was minblowing, nearly as big a jump as going from PC speaker to a Soundblaster. The thing is, I initially upgraded to an Esoniq Soundscape but it wouldn't work with Bioforge so I traded it in for the AWE 32 which did work. Looking back, the Soundscape was actually the superior card, and Bioforge was one of the rare games that DIDN'T support it. So I missed out on a superior sound card just to play Bioforge and...I don't think it was really worth it.
The game combat was so slow and clunky and janky that often I couldn't tell if you were meant to beat enemies, bypass them, or had to use some puzzle to beat them. It was hard to tell if your blast was hurting the giant ED-209 mechs. The robo-raptor could only be stunned and you had to use a puzzle to kill him. The main "villain" alien could only be stunned and had to be disabled with a puzzle the first 2 times you fought him. The 3rd time you fight him, you're meant to finally kill him with punches but there's zero indication that this fight is any different and it takes SO LONG that you naturally conclude that you're meant to use a puzzle so you give up fighting and run around looking for a puzzle. Took me a whole week before I was completely surprised by him dropping dead after the 100th punch.
I remember trying to play the PC gamer demo for this. Died many times before finally rage-quitting. It was the Dark Souls of 1995.
Dude, you only had to get out of your cell, into the blue guy's cell to retrieve the fork - _"If you've come for the fork you'll be sorely disappointed!"_ - and use it to short-circuit the exit door, end of Demo! Mind you it's probably just as well you never played the full game, because believe me it gets insanely hard - you just saved yourself a lot of pain!
I love seeing your review this game. I used to play this until we've got to a point where my computer could not handle the processing power to play this game as it starts out simple but gets more complex. I later met the people who program this game because they are local coders. Really nice guys, they used to also run the software shop here in Gainesville Florida
Man, I played this game time after time. Brings back gooood memories :D Thanx for reviewing it! :)
The second I saw the jail cell the memories of this game came flooding back.
Lawsa mercy, this is a DEFINITE old favorite. Flawed, yet still brilliant. Loved the intro cutscene.
Gotta love the charm of those old games along with the sound blaster 4 operator FM sound.
A couple worthwhile weird/obscure 90s games you might wanna check out - ZPC and Blue Ice
Your voice is awesome. I'm not even into the games that much. But you narrate so well,that I just listen and meditate. Thank you!
The old-school PC music at the end got me more excited than anything. I love the soundblaster/adlib era PC tunes so much... Much like the graphics, the limited capabilities of the music made my brain fill in all the extras and it was amazing. Games nowadays rarely exercise that part of my mind.
20 years... I like when you review games from this period. Bioforge is one of those many titles I really wanted to play but I had amiga at the time and no money for a PC. I remeber it looked awesome and advanced in the magazines.
That was the first PC Game I bought for my first own computer when it came to shops in 1995. It did cost 129 Deutsche mark, supposed to be 129 Euro today. My AMD 486DX2-80 was close to the minimum hardware requierement and it took some time to load the game. But that time it was really awesome and it is still, till today one of the best games I ever played. It runs well in DOSBOX today on modern hardware, but you have to cycle down the Dosbox otherwise you will never be able to solve the reactor quest due to the time running out to fast. It was some kind of an early Half life. I even wrote to Origin back the days to get a copy of Bioforge Plus, but it never saw the liegt of day. I like your Videos pretty much. ;-)
This was one of the games I got with my first PC. I remember it being really tough, but I did complete it. Thanks for an interesting video.
this game is so rare, i plaed a demo from a pc gamer demo disc a long time ago. thanks for reviewing it.
It's always weird when I have very specific memories as a kid playing a game I cant remember the name of then, BOOM you show it. Thanks.
Bioforge is so freaking amazing! I feel like the game was held back by the industry standards in gameplay and technology. Really, if it was made later, it could have been the best cyber-horror third person person action adventure game. The beginnning was most promising, but the slow gameplay and clunky combat showed its ugly face, as soon as you escape the prison (not the cell, but the prison by using the chopped of arm).
This has been on my GOG wishlist for a while, I was always curious how it'd be. Thanks for the review!
Okay, important question:
Does the box or CD glow in the dark?!
***** Nope.
I was disappointed to find out you do not in fact construct illicit copies of biographies in this game! D:
I personally was disapointed with the overall lack of mad scientis style surgeries
littleNorwegians Heh, I thought it was about manufacturing tools out of biodegradable materials.
Liberated a jewel case version of this for $4aud on Friday. Always remember this nearly getting game of the year back in '95 - how time flies
I’ve dove into this game recently and I really love it
Yet another great video LGR! Keep at It!
The only thing that I remember of this game is the starting room and getting killed repeatedly by the nurse bot. I must've never figured out that puzzle and quit out of frustration. 28 years later, I know how to solve it. Thanks, LGR! 😂
Yep, just beat it a few times :-)
I remember playing this during some summer vacation. All day, all night. I even remember some terrible part, where you had to disable some kind of reactor from blowing up, and you really didn't have much time to spare. There was a bridge you had to get across first, ooooh... the memories...
I enjoyed the eerie ambiance last half of darkness reference, oh and the whole video.
I think you've sold me on purchasing this game dang it, you know how to exploit my precious nostalgia lol.
nice! I've been waiting for you to get around to this one.
Other games like these that i liked were Ecstatica 1 and 2, and Dark Earth, ever played those Clint?
Love this game as a kid, could never get far though..thanks for some sweet nostalgia.
Oh man, the 3D models walking around in a pre rendered screen that is just a image. The times, the times they are a changing. This was a leap in different tech, the atmo man the atmo of this game was incredible, CD-rom titles, loved it, never had the gear to play it proper though.
Holy crap that game looked amazing for a 1995 game, though.
Frank Sandqvist Oh yeah, it's crazy impressive for the time.
4:10 RIPTOR
I love the bass on the music. Gives me an advanced Sega Genesis vibe.
So glad I bought this game used back in the day.
-- If you've come for the fork, you'll be sorely disappointed!
-- I have no wish to harm you! (while beating the poor guy to death with his own severed hand)
I freaking loved this game! One of the first games that I played on my shiny new 486 DX4-100/8Mb/ computer back in 1995. I was blown away by the graphics, animations, complex sci-fi plot, dialogues during action gameplay like the one above (today it doesn't seem like a big deal, but back then voice acted dialogues were mostly presented in non-interactive scenes).
The only problem that I had with Bioforge was that it was too damn hard, even by 90's standards of adventure games (which were already quite high) and a lot of the times you had no idea what to do next. About halfway through I gave up and started using solution. Still, I was very impressed with the game and quite upset when I learned that Origin cancelled the sequel.
"I have no wish to harm you!"
If that was true why didn't you simply distract him for a while by offering him the meat you picked up earlier? Always it's "oh, let's just bash him to death with his own arm" these days, what happened to finesse? You can't just beat someone to death with their own arm as a solution to all life's problems you know!
I agree with you about the insane levels of difficulty though; made even harder by the mix of different types of problems requiring variously combat, FBS style shooting, time limited objective, physical and mental puzzles. The only way I got through it was to enlist family and friends to contribute (the younger ones usually being far better than me in combat), judiciously using savegames - playing was, rather unusually, therefore often a group effort and social event, which made it even more enjoyable for me.
This is totally a game I would play if it weren't for the controls. Prerendered backgrounds are the best.
Alone in the Dark style gameplay meets System Shock atmosphere, with a dash of The Terminator-inspired character designs?! This looks amazing!
This one really makes me miss big box pc games. I had that box sitting on my desk for years back in the mid 90s, one of the few pc games my dad bought for me.
I simply ADORED this game and finished it without a guide. Took forever, as a kid, but well worth it.
Also - boo for playing on easy combat. Hard makes every repeated move slower, forcing you to mix things up.
This game looks cool! Going on my GOG wishlist ASAP!
Dude, just buy it!
Purchased this not long after it released. Loved it SO much. So ahead of its time and the graphics blew me away not to mention the sound with the voices and such . For the time this was past cutting edge and into bleeding edge. I then lost it over the years but got a copy off ebay. Cant let it go :)
box art reminded me of the 3 fingered martian hand print at the end of Total Recall :-)
The game sort of looks like that too
I remember seeing the box for this game at computer stores back in 1995. It looked so cool, but my 386 DX-25 was far too slow to even attempt to play it. It looks like the sort of game that would have blown my mind, but would have been incredibly frustrating once I inevitably got stuck. I likely would have powered through the clunky controls, though, much like I powered through Star Control III and Outpost.
I loved this game. It was freaking hard, but really cool. It's sad that it never had a sequel. And I still have my box!
So glad you reviewed this!
Great video about great game!
I know a few games with similar stile and gameplay wich Id like to suggest for the future reviews: Martian Gothic, Dark Sun, Ecstatica 1 & 2
DonGeritch Yeah, would love to see LGR reviews for the Ecstatica games. Those games really deserve more late recognition and I'm sure LGR would present them more positively than PC Gamer or RPS (not sure which one) did a year or two ago. Particularly Ecstatica 1 is easily a game that broke new ground in many areas and remains unique in so many ways (aside from the obvious ellipsoid graphics).
Bit late to the party but man I loved this game when it first came out. I even loved the combat, I thought the way your opponent reacted to your hits, falling when hit in the head or doubling over when hit in the gut, was amazingly realistic. One of a very short list of games I was ever able to finish. Finished on a cliff hanger too if I remember rightly :(
Bioforge used to freak me out as a kid probably because I didn't know what body horror was back then.
Great video LGR, loved it!
Keep up the good shit LGR, great theatrical commentary, not the slightest monotone. This game also looks badass even from its hayday release date. Interactive movie games = lol, but this looks pretty interesting.
I saw you typing fuc- at the DOS prompt :-0
Also I am very disappointed at the lack of fork
One of my earliest PC games; still have it, still haven't played it. I remember having a go on a friend's PC and not being able to properly hear the speech. "If you've come f.... , you'll disappointed". Other early games I got from around the same time: Ecstatica, Desert Strike, Alone in The Dark, and Little Big Adventure (maybe known as Relentless in the US). Still got them all, too, and not one of them has been played...
I've still got this game, and it was the business. All it's quirks was taken for granted back then no matter how clunky. Would love to see a remake.
Dude, thank you for re-playing the first game I´ve ever bought. Well I couldn´t play from the first day as I had some IRQ problems...
Wow. That promo art is so fucking sick.
How brilliant it was. Part of my childhood. Great memories.
Missed this one. Looks great.
Does anyone know what happened to the `Collector's Edition` app on Android? And does anyone know what happened to the sequel for this game?
I used to love this and also Ecstatica... but they were both really hard!
Wow I’ve been trying to remember what this game was for years! It ran terribly on my PC back in the day but I still recall that damn starting prison scene.
Oh man the memories of BioForge... and trying to install it to work on my Tandy 1000 SX.... Uuugh, but so awesome. It was best of times it was the worst of times.
MAMECADE Video Game Reviews Oh man, that's a recipe for disappointment!
Great blast from the past. Cheers
I remember playing this on (my dad's) good 'ol Compaq brick of a laptop. Man, it was a fun game. Although the combat system could have used a bit more speed, I quite enjoyed the complexity of it. Having to choose quickly which move would be best at that point really added some strategy to it. If I could get it to run properly on anything modern, I would definitely play it again.
Gotta love that Death Scream!!! 2:43
ahh man i loved this game as a kid.. such a dark eerie world
seeing this review makes me hope you'll someday talk about Time Commando XD
I wrote a review of this game that pretty much sums it up like this:"The negatives far outweights the positives so I recommend it only if you're interested in an quite ambitious title or you're like me and love Origin Systems and must own every game of their collection"
If I had played that back in 95 it would have blown my mind! Then I would have been quickly frustrated by that clunky combat. The tank controls I think I could deal with like you did, big RE fan =P Great review good sir thanks again!
Did you know that the medic bay bed thingys (like the one you see in this video at around 8:15) are also featured in the Crusader series? Origin loved to hide small nods to their other series in their games.
I love to crack open a beer, light up a joint and listen to your soothing voice review old shit.
hell yeah brother
Dearest LGR. This game reminded me quite a bit of The Dig in ways that I don't really understand. Would you ever consider doing a review of it? It was one of my favorite games growing up.