Star Wars Dark Forces remaster from Nightdive Studios

[Ludwig von Eisenthal]

Seriously? I find that incredibly stupid. The one most important thing to make this game more accessible - especially for a "modern" audience - is the possibility to save the game.

"Modern audience" don't even know anymore how to manual save.

Dark Forces was a notable exception in PC gaming in the '90s in the fact that it didn't have manual saves. Probably this was made to pad the total lenght of the game. DF has only 14 levels, i.e. less than half the average number of levels in other FPSes from those years. As far as I remember the '97 sequel re-introduced saves.

Yeah, it was one of the few games to "feature" the lack of manual saves. That's why I ended "laimlameing" my way through the game at some point.

 

[Roguey]

Dark Forces was a notable exception in PC gaming in the '90s in the fact that it didn't have manual saves. Probably this was made to pad the total lenght of the game. DF has only 14 levels, i.e. less than half the average number of levels in other FPSes from those years. As far as I remember the '97 sequel re-introduced saves.

Number of levels doesn't matter, it's not any shorter than any other fps from that period. It was a design decision that would actually make the game a bit more forgiving (you respawn at a checkpoint with 100 life and shields and there are multiple checkpoints in any given level) if not for those levels with instakill platforming sections that can potentially sap all your lives and make you start over again.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Played about 3 levels of the remaster over the last couple of days. Originally tried the Force Engine source port but the save anywhere feature seemed too convenient and enabling of lowly save scummers like myself (an ongoing battle of a bad habit I'm trying desperately to break). Looks, runs and plays good, surprisingly well on a controller (but not ideal... it is, after all, an FPS). Don't see any reason to go back to the source engine ports if you can get this when on discount. I'm taking a break from playing this however because my pride only allows me to play on Hard, and trying to do that on a controller with No Save Anywhere is murder on the old balls of this ancient gamer. Playing Battlefront II Classic instead. However, I always wanted to play DF so I may come back to it, on Medium difficulty *walks away head down in shame*