I still remember hanging around the mission complete screen in the first game to take in the amazing model of the Moldy Crow. What a game!
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Noah Caldwell-Gervais | A Thorough Look at Star Wars: Dark Forces / Jedi Knight
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I still remember hanging around the mission complete screen in the first game to take in the amazing model of the Moldy Crow. What a game!
Love Jedi Knight/MOTS and Outcast. Still have super fond memories of all those games, using cheat codes to change (the pointy) lightsaber colors and whatnot. Outcasts' online was crazy good and was my first real foray into online gaming - all those clan tournaments on the Bespin platform...it was cool too because you didn't even have to fight or anything if you didn't want to. A lot of days it was basically just a big 3D chatroom where you could meet and chat with all sorts of people. *wistful sigh*
Well damn I know what imma be doing tonight. Love Noah's content. It's funny because just a month or two ago I watched all the cutscenes from this series and genuinely wondered why this was a huge deal for SW fans so it'll be good to get some context and analysis.
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I played an insane number of hours of Jedi Knight online as a kid. Shit was amazing. All the skin packs, and maps, and then the glow saber... everything was magic back then.
Same, was the first game that I got heavily into modding. Also one of the first games I played that used "3d acceleration". I remember being stunned seeing how much crisper textures looked after I got a 3dfx card.
I played so many custom maps, and this was at a time where full 3d shooters still felt relatively new so literally any map felt like being incredibly immersed in the SW universe.
The map design conventions of Quake and Doom levels were very much alive in Jedi Knight too, so many hidden nooks and crannies to discover. Exploration was so much fun as a result. I spent an inordinate amount of time just on the Nar Shaddaa spaceport mp map, which had a ton of secret passages. I had a ridiculous amount of fun just camping on this elevated platform that overlooked the main thoroughfare of the map firing off concussion rifle rounds at anyone below.
If there was ever a game I wish got the AAA remake treatment it'd be DF II.
I'll have to watch this.
Dark Forces was one of the biggest surprises I had in recent times. I had played it a few times but only the first few levels. Then I decided to commit and realized this was an extremely well crafted FPS. Especially considering how old it is.
Dark Forces was one of the biggest surprises I had in recent times. I had played it a few times but only the first few levels. Then I decided to commit and realized this was an extremely well crafted FPS. Especially considering how old it is.
Sad but understandable that that the scope of the video completely leaves out the multiplayer portion. Was a major part of the Jedi Knight experience to me and they put a lot of effort into it. JK1 was one of the first games I ever played online using a Microsoft multiplayer service with browser lobbies. JK1/Mysteries of the Sith had several interesting multiplayer maps with unique assets nowhere to be seen in the single player portion, including set pieces based on the films.
Jedi Outcast also feels like its visuals have aged particularly well and scales beautifully to HD resolutions much like Metroid Prime does. The one thing that sticks out is the character self-shadows you can see during the cutscenes that look really sharp and angular in HD. The technology is kind of fascinating since this was before the modern implementation of dynamic shadow maps, and it's not something I remember seeing in Quake 3 so it must have been something added later to the idtech iteration Raven used.
Jedi Outcast also feels like its visuals have aged particularly well and scales beautifully to HD resolutions much like Metroid Prime does. The one thing that sticks out is the character self-shadows you can see during the cutscenes that look really sharp and angular in HD. The technology is kind of fascinating since this was before the modern implementation of dynamic shadow maps, and it's not something I remember seeing in Quake 3 so it must have been something added later to the idtech iteration Raven used.
Such a special series. My entry into the series was Jedi Knight and I remember it being such an amazing experience. It was my earliest memory of getting really deep into a PC game and it was incomparable to anything out there on the Playstation or N64. Definitely one of the games that solidified me as a PC gamer. And truly nothing could capture the Star Wars experience like it did.
Noah's video is great. In retrospect, there definitely is a lot of jank in Jedi Knight, and I"m sure time has not been so kind to it. But I really also like his closing sentiment in regards to star wars fans.
Noah's video is great. In retrospect, there definitely is a lot of jank in Jedi Knight, and I"m sure time has not been so kind to it. But I really also like his closing sentiment in regards to star wars fans.
These games are legitimately a huge amount of fun, and some great references in there to both the films and the Expanded Universe. Probably my fave Star Wars games outside of Knights of the Old Republic.
The Force Engine ·
theforceengine.github.io
Jedi Knight Remastered mod
Hello Welcome to the page! This mod seeks to create an installer for Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II JKGFXMOD or OpenJKDF2, the Jedi Knight Neural Upscale Texture Pack and the Enhancement Mod for JkGfxMod. The mods are meant to be used all to together...
Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith Remastered mod
Welcome to Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith Remastered 2.0! This installation file will install the JKGFXMOD the Mysteries of the Sith Neural Upscale Texture Pack, and the Enhancement Mod for JkGfxMod (MotS Edition) 0.50 all together in a...
The Force Engine is not released yet, unfortunately, but I recently played through the two remastered mods and they work really well.
