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General discussionStar Wars: Dark Forces 25 Year Retrospective(34 posts)(34 posts)
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Posted April 20, 2020
Time flies when you're having fun.
Posted April 20, 2020
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Mortius1: Secondary fire, look up, strafe, move backwards, look to the left - all at the same time. This is something I take for granted with mouselook + WASD, yet the default key bindings for dark forces require something like five hands. (Mouse, Z, <, down arrow, page down)
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morolf: You can easily change most of the key bindings in the setup file though, to get an almost modern movement scheme (WASD movement, looking sidewards by moving the mouse). The only thing I didn't get to work was looking up and down with the mouse, used arrow keys for that. Default settings would have been unplayable for me.
I didn't think to look under "sound settings" for control configuration.

Looking through the readme raised further control questions. Did people really play FPS games with a joystick back then?
Posted April 20, 2020
Dark Forces was great. The only fault was the save system, but at least the enemies stayed dead if you died and still had lives left. But it made certain platforming sections very bothersome, losing one of your precious lives just because of a slightly mispositioned jump etc.

I also really liked the main villain, General Rom Mohc and the Dark Troopers were a menacing enemy, showing the Empire as the capable and menacing power it was supposed to be.

The series is also responsible for introducing one of my favorite Star Wars weapons - Stouker Concussion Rifle.

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It should also be noted Dark Forces 1 is banned in Germany for some strange reason. Have no idea why.

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timppu: I recall I did play this game back when it was released, but it must have been some demo version because the starting level is not what I recall it to be (somehow I recall there should have been a "hologram" made of pixels of some planet or maybe it was the Death Star, rotating there on the first level...
The first mission is actually Kyle Katarn stealing the Death Star plans and handing them over to the rebellion. So yes, that was indeed the Death Star.
Post edited April 20, 2020 by idbeholdME
Posted April 20, 2020
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idbeholdME: It should also be noted Dark Forces 1 is banned in Germany for some strange reason. Have no idea why.
It's from a time when all first person shooters were "auto-banned" (blacklisted) in Germany.

But now, after 25 years, it should get removed from the blacklist.
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