STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster

Star Wars: Dark Forces is one of my favorite games; it's the 90s shooter that got me into Doom. DF is an amazing game, with amazing graphics (within the context of the time of course), amazing gameplay, and it's not just a Doom clone but really innnovated to be superior to Doom in many ways. It has an actual campaign, with fleshed out characters (better than the Disney movies) voice-acting, pre-rendered cutscenes, etc. that feels like a new Star Wars movie, at the time the first since ROTJ. The engine can handle rooms over rooms, jumping, crouching, looking up/down; all in all much more complex level design. And this was in 1995, so well before Duke Nukem 3D, and only a year after Doom II. It's a perfect game as it is and does not need a remaster. Even for Playstation players they could have simply re-released an emulated version of the PS1 port for PS4 & 5. Here you pay $30 for a game that's $0.99 on sale usually, in order to get a.i.-upscaled sprites/textures and re-done cutscenes that change the vibe of them from pseudo live-action to feeling more like an anime or cartoon. However, perhaps more importantly, you lose the classic controls. Part of the charm of this game is precisely the fact that it has early FPS controls different from most modern FPS games. I like using mouse to move and right click to run. Yes it's a little unusual, but it's easy to get used to and the game feels nice with the set-up. You do have to use buttons to look up/down (no free look), BUT the game isn't really meant to look good with freelook anyway. You get weird texture warping doing that. I don't even recommend the free Force Engine you can download online. Just play the DOS version. Just go into your config file first "C:\GOG Galaxy\Games\Star Wars - Dark Forces" open up dosbox_DF.conf, set aspect = false, scaler = none, fullresolution = original, output = openglnb If you prefer other midi than OPL3, download virtualmidisynth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MZnZQO7rJk

Yes they don't show you game examples. That's because it looks pixely messa from the original. There are lots of walkthroughs on Youtube search STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster. This is basically old Doom like engine in a Star Wars settings and it still looks like an old Doom engine and totally not worth the very high asking price. Let this one rest in piece. KOTOR is so much better.

I think 29 USD/EUR for a 30 y old game is unacceptable :)

What's the point of this remastered and the price of 30$? Is better to buy the 1995 classic version and mod it with Force Engine to get the same thing.

Ignore them. If you have the funds to get it then get it. Loved the original when it came out and this remaster is no different. Plus it helps later down the line to play on modern machines. Nightdive is doing great work bringing these old titles to life and supporting the software. Kudos to them. Will be purchasing more from them. Don't forget to look at their remake of the original System Shock as well!