FORSAKEN: Six Degrees of Late '90s FPS Freedom
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2018
- FPS games with 6DoF movement, or Descent-likes, aren't everyone's cup of tea. But if you like your tea with tons of colored lights, drum and bass music, and ample '90s absurdity? Forsaken delivers.
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Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Science kills mankind
Shooty and the Beams
And it keeps... on... _happening!_
portal and whiplash
yet ironic to my mind
how all the cheetahs thrived
Such a usable game...
A friends computer tended crash when he played Forsaken. He wasn't really the most technically inclined person, so he called on his friends to help him. So we were a couple of guys who pulled his machine appart and checked it out. Turned out it overheated because he was breeding dust bunnies in the CPU heatsink. Once we've euthanised the dust bunnies I installed a heat monitoring utility and configured it to warn by playing some audio files. These were files we pulled from the Forsaken CD. The first warning was just something about the heat being on or something like that. When it got seriously hot it played a file used when one of the opponents dies. As I remember he screamed "I hate you!" as his thingus went up in flames, and the CPU monitor would play this over and over until either the CPU hit critical heat or it cooled down. To make sure my friend wouldn't miss it I ran that through an audio editor, raising the volume as high as possible without clipping. Finally when the CPU temperature got to critical levels it screamed "Game over man. Game over..." and I think it shut down the machine, though I'm not entirely sure about that.
Naturally we didn't tell him about this monitor program, or what it would do. I mean, what would be the fun in that? So task completed I just had to sit back and wait for the call...
Some time later, weeks or months, I don't really remember, he called and the first thing he said was "My computer hates me..."
That is in a single word "Hilarious". You gave me my laugh for the day for sure!
I used to crash when playing this game, my brain
For a couple months in 1998, you couldn't turn on Cartoon Network or Comedy Central without hearing "The Future is Forsaken." That ad was everywhere.
That comment brings back so many memories. I also remember the ads for that Bruce Willis game that had the tagline "Praise the lord and pass the ammunition" It was an Activision game. Think it was called Apocalypse.
@@12ealDealOfficial wow. Activision was pretty much making and publishing cod games before cod was even a thing, huh?
Can’t wait to try that trick of writing a game name on CD :-)
me too but it might make your cd reader spit out ink
Wonder if it works with unreleased games too
Careful I hear it creates shitty creepy pastas
Man, some of those early 3D games in the 90s had such a cool aesthetic. Maybe they aren't particularly pretty to modern eyes but they just had so much charme.
Triple M maybe it's nostalgy, but I love the slightly blurry textures and colored dynamic lighting
Ndlanding Ah oui, charme et nostalgie sont comme de l'eau tiède pour les jambes 😄
Triple M Right! I just recently discovered Slave Zero, and it reminds me of that same, cool aesthetic.
YES. Very techno and dark hallways, not grey, brown, black and sad, just the illuminated hidden rooms and buildings is such an atmosphere. Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, though from 2000, nails this exquisitely.
@@TheCivildecay I hate blurry textures. They make old games look even older.
The benchmark feature is why I use this game quite often on older machines :)
I'll now use this game now to benchmark my retro machines. Phil could you perhaps do a video or list here games from the 90's and early 2000's that feature a benchmark option.
Got a man crush on LGR there Phil? Mmm Mmm I think so...
Who would not want a 3 three way with clint phil and the 8 bit guy i say
I LOVED this game! Total random purchase back in the day (I was bored waiting for Half-life to finally get released) and the only one (of very many regrettable purchases - HMV was on my way home from work) but absolutely loved it! I had a full surround system and sub plugged into my 400mhz dell and the thump of the weapons was just amazing - even more so than the rail gun in Quake 2. With this for the action and effects, Podracer for the speed and (when it eventually came out) Half-life for the brains and narrative, I had everything I could want from 90's gaming. Oh and Combat flight sim, and outcast, and jediknight and mysteries of the sith, and quake 2-3, and.... you know I think I kept HMV in business in 98-2000.
Hope they got a bad ebay review
I'm always ready for something excessively late 90's
RIP Clint's beard - lost but not forgotten.
Bluehawk2008 forsaken, but not forgotten...
“Don’t Forsake Forsaken.” We all knew it was coming, and yet I was still not prepared.
I remember playing this on the N64 a lot when I was a child, I'm very tempted to get the remaster on PC now given Nightdive has been making a lot of amazing work with their remasters.
Yeah, same here. I totally forgot this game existed when the news of the remaster brought me flashback to my childhood.
Same here, I got the remastered version and it's totally worth it
And now the system shock remake, dudes are on a roll.
This video was a joy to watch! The game usually wouldn't be my genre, but your enthusiasm for it is just plain refreshing. I wish more review videos were like this!
Thank you!
Ah, memories. I remember my family and I playing the N64 port. My dad always picked "Low-kay-Sah-nah!"
And yeah, killer soundtrack. Underrated music from an underrated time.
Looks very unreal engine with those alpha effects and coloured lighting!
BuzzaB77 something like Expendable game
This game was my childhood! I spent most of my days playing PS games with my cousin. But this is by far the one we most played! The gameplay is fantastic, the music a masterpiece and our active imagination crafted the most beautiful storylines and challenges!
I didn't even watch the video yet, but I'm so excited! I fricking L O V E this game!
Why are women so evil
The Remaster just came out days ago. so nice video I might try it
Your old school game reviews are always spot on. Usually my favorite selection. Great stuff!
Man do I remember ads for this being everywhere, maybe one day I’ll finally get around to playing it. Looks fun
I couldn't get away from the ads either, but they just didn't work on me. I enjoyed the review though the PC version does look slick. PSX, which I would have bought/rented not so much.
Drink a Beer and Play a Game. it's alright. music's really rad
A local tech enthusiasts club made an arcade cabinet from spare PC parts and arcade joysticks/buttons, and it had Forsaken on it. It's... pretty hard to control, but hey, playing this game on a standup cabinet was wierd in a good way.
This is insane. I felt the urge to bust out forsaken 64 this morning and so I did. An hour later this video gets uploaded. WHAT IS HAPPENING
Wow the levels are even more interesting than the recently released 'Descent Underground'. Thanks for showcasing.
Check out Overload. It was released more recently and was developed by the same team who did the original games. It's way way better than Descent: Underground and stays true to what made Descent great in the first place.
I agree Overload is way better than D:U.
I played this game in the late 90s, bit the only fps that caught my attention back in 98 was Shogo, I still remember that game 20 years later.
I have the Amiga version of Shogo. :-)
One of the rarer titles in my collection. Was only a few hundred made (which is a coincidence 'cos there's probably only a few hundred Amigas upgraded enough to run it).
I remember playing that! Thanks for covering this! I love those 90s sci-fi games! You’re awesome!
Thanks for covering this game. Man I had almost forgotten playing this back in the day. I absolutely loved this game. Played it soooo much. Totally going to pick up the remastered version from your link. Thanks!
I love this game, and yeah that soundtrack is just epic
You should check out the track of the 64 version as well. It's pretty neat.
Sucks about getting ripped on the sealed copy. I hate when that happens
That happened to me with a sealed copy of Resident Evil Nemesis for the PSX. The Wal-Mart wouldn't even refund my money because I could've removed the CD at home and tried to get a refund on the empty CD case. They told me I should have looked before I left the checkout line.
So the next time I bought groceries there, I held up the checkout line for a half hour while I opened every box at the counter to make sure I was getting 28 ounces of Cheerios, 30 Gorton fish fillets, etc. "No, you wouldn't refund my game because I didn't check it at the counter, so I am going to check EVERYTHING at the counter before I leave."
(They finally got the point and gave me a refund for the game.)
Happened to me with a Sonic Youth CD. I'm still a little pissed about that. So yeah, it's believable.
It happened to me when I bought 'the orange box' way back when - it contained the disk, but not the steam key.
Thankfully the shop wasn't difficult about it, and I guess this was happening to them a lot since the person at the desk didn't seem surprised.
SpearM75503
haha what a story mahrk
How does that even happen? Could someone crafty slip the CD out without breaking the seal? Did less-advanced factories sometimes fail to get the CD in?
Loved the pop up text mentioning the hardware you were using! Great addition to your videos please keep doing that!
Love to see a video of Decent FreeSpace. One of my all time favorite games. Love the videos man. Keep it up!
Watching LGR since the BEARD days. It feels like it was yesterday! :)
You know you're in for a good time when it opens with "In a world where..."
I love the comedy in your videos, keep it up LGR!
Just wanted to say that I have Forsaken: The Music playing on Spotify right now, thanks to you.
Good stuff to groove along to in the background while I work.
2:17 Holy shit, Spaceorb 360. Speaking of "I forgot that was a thing." That would be SUCH great Oddware material, although I have a suspicion they're probably rare and expensive these days.
Heh, I have one of these in one of my gaming junk drawers, waiting for me to try out (found it at a local thrift for 90 cents awhile ago). And just looked on Ebay, and you weren't kidding: I saw three on there, and the two singles were going for $49.99 and $59.99 used with no driver!
I saw it and thought to myself, "If LGR hasn't done a video on this yet, he needs to."
Apparently there was a PLAYSTATION version of that controller. (Obviously, this game was one of like five things it was compatible with.)
Spaceorb 360s are valuable? Damn, I need to dig mine out...
Need calendar scans for research purposes, please.
maladjusted manual research to be sure
Model's name is Donna Decianni
I still have this game, Forsaken with that exact cover... Very nostalgic... Thank you for the memories...
I've watched so many of your videos that your voice has become synonymous with my 90's nostalgia.
"in a world where science has stepped beyond the realms of humanity", well, that happened ... smartphones took over and replaced everything. Just waiting for sentient robots to rise and Earth to be destroyed. I remember playing the demo of this game on Playstation back in the day, and playing it quite a lot. Nowadays I play the N64 version on an emulator.
I didn't know the remaster came out, I was so confused on why several people I follow were putting up retro reviews of this game. Still have no clue what the cover has to do with the game itself. It reminds of the late 90's horror movie craze post scream when all horror movie posters and cover boxes looked like G.Q. Photo shoots and had nothing to do with the content of the movie.
You may wish the cover had something to do with the game, but when you mix boobs, heart tattoos, and the late 1990s, you get Trespasser.
SimonCallahan that cover always confused the shit out of me.
In their defense, there is almost no good way to advertise this game. A picture of a ship shooting bullets would look identical to the covers of 500 other games. Each of them forgettable.
12:20 awesome closing line warning.
"naturally the best way to do this is to pilot hoverbikes and listen to 90s drum and bass"
finally someone's talking sense
I've been binging this so hard since it came out on GOG. I still love this box art... It's so weird and dumb and wonderful. I'd kill for a big box version of it.
I forgot this game existed until the released the remastered version but I immediately remembered it once I saw the box art, even though I never actually played the game.
I loved this game! Awesome to see a review on it.
My god, while I love the video itself, I wanna *thank you* for a different reason entirely - I distinctly remembered playing this game as a kid and loving it to bits, but I was completely unable to recall its name and it was driving me insane. And by coincidence, you upload a video on it! Finally, I can revisit it.
There is just something about low poly 3d at high framerates. Bet it's even prettier at 75hz.
I wish the cover wasn't so removed from the game... I def remember it but had no idea it was a descent style shooter. Maybe I would have played it!
Indeed I remember when it came out....wan't impressed with the cover art, if I only knew....I loved Decent I would have picked forsaken in a heart beat.
Thanks for the video! The one thing you missed out on testing (or, at least, mentioning) is the Aureal A3D support. I remember playing this in college dorms with another guy across the hall, and he was frustrated in MP because I'd always be able to find him so quickly thanks to the spectacular 3D audio support.
Thank you for making this video. I was actually thinking about this game a while back but couldn't remember the name. Thank you for reminding me of this gem
For some reason I always thought Forsaken was a survival horror game based on the cover lol
I can’t believe someone resealed an empty game box and sold it to you! I HATE scammers!
I barely play videogames and these reviews are fascinating and entertaining. You, sir, have a gift for this!
I thank you so very much Clint, thanks that you do LGR and entertain all of us, thanks for your hard work and effort, I really appreciate it, thanks.
I played the PS1 version to death, The ps1 disk had a light printing on the surface that said 'Abandon All Hope'.
How could anyone forget shadow man? Some things cant be unseen. Hiya Clint..another great vid!
Yeah, Shadowman was pretty cool at that time. And I love how their incorporated him into that calendar - keeping the theme of shirtless people with orange hue all along:)
Unfortunately, unlike Deus Ex, Forsaken, P.O.D., Unreal, and other games of that era, Shadowman has not aged well. Not the PC version, anyway. Like Khanemis says, it was cool *at the time* but the last time I tried to play it, I played maybe 15 minutes and haven't touched it again.
Hasn't aged well? What do you mean? The controls? The graphics? Because Shadowman is just such an awesome fucking game. Nailed it with the atmosphere.
maybe we are all talking about different ports.... the n64 version is one of the most entertainingly bad games of all time.. like avgn bad
yes but even so bad its fun to play with friends now funny how any game on the 64 had bad controls with 80 buttons :)
Mate you are very articulate. I just love your commentary. Good up the good work 👍
Yes!
you need to review Descent :)
I do.
Dxx-rebirth is the source port for both 1 and 2
Especially now that D:U and Overload are either coming or out.
Review Descent and Overload.
I didn't know you were Caddicarus in 2012!
Great Review! I remember those magazine ads too!
Classic, got the game with my first video graphics card back then -- great review LGR~
Ah man, I had the N64 version of this, fuckin' loved it. Thanks for the nostalgia feels :D EDIT: Wow, and Extreme-G too! Knew they felt like they had some family resemblance.
Wooooo
WrecklessEating love your channel 😍
1997 E3 in Atlanta, I'll never forget the look on Mike Kulas' (Original Co Dev of Descent) face at when we walked in and saw Forsaken being played ... "THAT'S OUR GAME!"
Great video dude. I love forsaken.
This used to be amazing playing this with friends via local multiplayer :)
Oh yes, quite an enjoyable game; of course, I've yet to get the chance to play the game on PC...
Your beard and Duke nukem is what kept me coming back all them years ago. And well...I'm please I stuck around!! Thanks Clint
Hell yeah I remember this one, and it was awesome with multiplayer over LAN with friends in the high school computer lab.
True story : never be able to play forsaken or descent more than a few minutes, I want to puke and I got a strong weird headache. It takes 20 minutes to come back to normal after that. Some games are the same effect sometimes (especially FPS), but it was really worse on forsaken and descent.
That's due to the narrow field of view and being too close to your monitor. If you can, try sitting further away... at least three feet. I used to have the exact same problem with any game that didn't have large outdoor areas. (For example, Unreal was fine; Doom gave me motion sickness.)
Never made me sick but I had to play descent after my family had gone to bed: if anyone was awake I would look up from a level to find half my family standing in the door of the office taking bets on when I'd fall off the office chair ducking and weaving in pace with the game. Probably did the same with forsaken but I'd moved out by that time.
Just woke up and see this was uploaded 16 minutes ago. So this is what it's like having a morning wood.
Leo Stephan if you have morning wood paneling for more than four hours, see your doctor. Or carpenter.
Gross...
Thank you! Always wanted to play this game
Thanks for reviewing this. I was one of the artists working on the PC version. The only game I worked on where the whole team spent their lunch hour 'testing' the LAN multiplayer. We didn't really want the singleplayer mode. The multiplayer mode was more or less complete but management were adamant that that nobody would buy a multiplayer only game so the dev team was expanded and we bolted on a single player campaign which made the whole development period longer than it should have been. Then just before Forsaken was released, multiplayer-only Quake 3 come out and cleaned up.
*sees name of the game and video title*
IS THAT A DREAM THEATER REFERENCE???
Rodrigo Silva same
Probably not, Systematic Chaos came out in 2007, so about ten years after the game
This game was/is still sooooo good
There's something that really freaks me out about late 90's stuff, anything really from films to games to tv. I was old enough at the time (aged about 5-9) to remember this stuff fairly well yet young enough that it all seems kind of alien to me. The fact that I was around to remember this stuff just makes me feel super old!
All right, now this is some good LGR. Very good video.
WAS and still is a great game.....N64 was my first try at it and was awesome...but Shadowman was waaaaaay better
I miss that beard
insanely calming an bringing back memories. would love to see a review of "Desktop Destroyer"
Aaaah so much memories... i love descent like games!
I see Forsaken.... I click
Do a Shadow Man video... urm man
Thank you Clint, very cool!
What a great freaking video. Totally omitted this gem of a Descent clone. Very clever graphic wise. Gotta play that soon.
Anyone else think the cover model was Kate Winslet when he showed the first shot of the front?
I always thought it was. Only with the last year or so did I find out otherwise.
Descent or nothing!
Clint, you've done it again. First was the 3D graphics demo that you control a fly in (of course I forgot the name again), and now Re-Volt. Another game I played the crap out of when I was a kid but could never find any info on years later.
Had so much fun with this game on the N64! I remember this game was often used to showcase the Voodoo 2 graphics card aswel. Would sometimes be bundled with it too.
PC version really does look weird. I've only played the N64 version
better, the word you're looking for is "better" ;)
I miss the "Greetings!" In the beginning. If this happens again, I might have to unsubscribe!
Awesome thanks for the great work Sir
Well this is strange. Just 3 days ago I remembered the sexy magazine ads this game used back in the 90s and looked it up again. I loved those days. Then I see this video in my watch stuff and think its because I looked all that old stuff up. But nope its a new LGR video! How weird . 1998 was an AMAZING year both in pc gaming and in my life. Ill always cherish it.
Nice video Clint with a lot of info. I never got past the sexy cool ads and never knew what the game was or looked like. Im actually surprised its a Decent type game and that is looks pretty sweet. In those days it would have been amazing. Its like they threw all the 3D VooDoo lights at it.
LGR I would personally like to THANK YOU for showing me a game that I could never remember for the life of me as a teen to adult now. I got this game today because of you.
Gotta love the classics!
Yay! An actual game retrospective. My favourite.
Man i still remember playing Forsaken on my playstation one with my friends in deathmatch mode. Good times indeed.
Late 90's drum & bass. Delicious.
Man seeing that box art instantly took me back 20 years... and did anyone else get an unreal vibe from this? Maybe its the sound score, or the cool lighting and industrial setting.
Oh man, we had this when I was a kid but I could never get into the brain space to beat it. 100% checking out the remaster!
That was such an awesome game back then . I played it daily and never got tired of it . The action was so fast and constant and yet not overwhelming or repetitive . Thank LGR for the memories .