STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995)

Controls are extremely archaic, and I've played System Shock Enhanced which has the most intimidating hud of any retro game (particularly FPS) I've ever seen. Would really benefit this game to get an enhanced edition where we could configure and map our own controls. I couldn't get used to the controls the entire time I played the game and I have just beaten it. The other issue is the physics seem partially broken on my computer or something and this seems to be a fairly common issue for modern PCs when I read up on a guide to the ice level. The ice level I could barely move at all without the cleats to normalize steps on ice and the player character speed when moving forward isn't normal speed when pressing forward from what I saw of others' gameplay. I move noticeably slower which sounds like a super obvious, but the reason I hadn't noticed till pretty late into the game is everything is normal speed and this only really effects the platform sections of the game. I had to cheat to progress pass the platforming in a reasonable time in an early level but later levels of the game are just near or outright impossible to platform at my slightly slower speed. There's probably an unofficial patch to fix this game breaking bug I encountered, but if you just wanted to plug and play like me with this game. Just beware of these things and be prepared to use cheats if you aren't going to try to trouble shoot and patch it on your own time.

Dark Forces remains as good as when it was released. Using the Force Engine port along GOG's DF version makes for quite the enjoyable experience -- higher resolutions, true 3D view, quick options menu, quick saves and a bit of eye candy. The only downside in DF is that it ends.

it's obviously mainly due to nostalgia, but the plot still works fine after all

Haven't played this game back when it came out. I was exhausted by modern games so i bought this one and i'm having so much fun. Really great game.

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