Had never even heard about PowerSlave or its remaster before, thank you so much for bringing them to my attention^^ Also, the ending gag of repeatedly perishing in the background worked a bit to well, each "ugh" sound totally pulled me out of listening to you xD
I’ve been going through a gamers rut. Been trying all sorts of games and couldn’t get into them. Beat this in about 5 hours. It is exactly what I needed
Another great old FPS with a metal name is Damage Incorporated (1997). You play as the leader of a squad of Marines (with excellent AI, far ahead of its time) and you kick the asses of Klansmen, Oklahoma city bomber-terrorists, separatist militias, Waco-esque cults, etc. You have to keep an eye on the health and mental health of your squadmates, they can become shell-shocked and unusable if they take too much damage, if they die you can lose them for the rest of the play-through, if you take them on missions against foes with strong ideological feelings, they can go berserk or turn traitor on you. The characters are all voice-acted (hilariously) by one guy, and I appreciate his caricatures of John Wayne and others. There are rules of engagement (don't fire unless fired upon) that your handler reiterates to you over the radio, and if you disobey he will harshly reprimand you because you gunned your way through a level of non-hostiles. It is the one and only game that I can think of that figured out that klansmen, facelessly evil, make perfect cannon-fodder videogame enemies.
@@thecandlemaker1329 In the fiction of the game, it isn't 'the klan', but an offshoot group calling themselves 'white paladins' who wear klan-looking robes who you get to mow down hordes of. I looked up some statistics, and from 1877 to 1950 the Klan was responsible for at least 3,959 murders of black people only (plenty of other groups they hated not included in this number). Al Qaeda, from 1993 to 2021, killed approx. 4104 people, the majority from the Sept. 11 attack. How many thousands of video games are there where you shoot at generic brown-skinned 'terrorists', how many thousands of games are there where you shoot at nazis, can you think of a country whose uniformed soldiers are not getting shot at in some videogame somewhere? No one should care about the 'feelings' of klansmen, they signed on to a terrorist group of their own free will. If national governments can't/ don't sue videogame makers for depicting their legitimate military servicemembers getting killed, I can't imagine what legal case the terrorist organization the klan could possibly have.
The moped story reminded me of my own childhood "business" in the 2000's, where I bought Warhammer codexes and armybooks, made copies of them with my dad's workplace Xerox machine and sold them to my classmates. I never made much money because few of them could read advanced English, but it felt so good being a teenage hustler.
Personally it's my favourite album although Seventh Son and Number of the Beast come damn close. (I'm so funny) In all seriousness - this channel has introduced me to so many great games. This one already looks extremely cool and I've only watched a snippet so far!
You think it's a coincidence? The game was named after the album, because its cover featured themes very similar to the game. Of course, that was back before Litigious Maiden sued indie developers for using a generic name similar to their band's name.
Thanks for another piece of gem! It's so impressive how they rebuilt the game in their own engine. If you mean this is a Metrovania FPS, I'm super interested in it now. Since you say it's criminally underrated, I'll have to remedy that by picking it up. There's so much hidden treasure in the 90s, and it's great to have these videos on record, because this type of gaming history is worth preserving.
Another great video, thank you very much for highlighting several games, thanks to your videos I discovered Darkwood, shadowman and I started trying the fatal frames series, they are a great inspiration
I'm still watching the video, but I just wanted to say that I actually really like the humor w/ the editing like Dio and Ankha! It brings a really fun energy to the video!
Got it on ps5. After i could never finish my sega saturn copy back in the day. Amazing game. And im happy to say that the console Version is amazing as well. As there are no mainstream reviews out there i was uncertain if it got ported well.
Yes!!! I always called this game one of my favorite ps1 titles, it has so much to it, and yet it's so criminally underrated. I'm extra grateful for this remaster (same with shadowman), and thank you Ragnar for this video, hopefully more people try out this little gem
Thanks for the video. Great work as always!. The remaster would be perfect if it had an option for invert mouse, like every other fps have. This doesn't and so making it unplayable for me. Using invert since the release of Quake 1.
"I don't want to die , I'm a god, why can't I live ooooon. When the life giver dies, all around is laid waste. And in my last hour I'm a slave to the power of death."
This video gave me an amazing concept that will never see the light of day: A crossover between Stargate (the movie) and the Brendan Fraser The Mummy movies using Powerslave as the soundtrack. Damn. Why did no one think of this back in the day? Imagine Kurt Russell, James Spader, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Oded Fehr, Arnold Vosloo (Imhotep), and the linchpin between the two movies Erick Avari, all coming together in this massive ensemble cast in a timeline/alternate dimension crossover! My heart is both excited and broken over what will never be.
I was about to say "Boo, claiming the gods were just human is sooooo 900s to 1300s Christianity," (That's the actual burning times where feudal kings burned entire villages that didn't obey them for not being Christan enough and bragged about it so hard that we still have text examples of them stunting on each other by saying how many hundreds of people they burned in each village and how many villages.) But then it included the abrahamic lore as well and I went "hehhe" because that seemed fair enough.
I really hate when people call the DOOM/Build engines "2.5D". No, they are not "2.5D", they are still 3D, regardless of whether or not they had "true" room-over-room or other limitations. The geometry doesn't dissolve into some bizarro between-dimension just because they have to use 'teleports' to simulate room-over-room and the interior calculations of the game still represent all 3 dimensional axis. Besides that, all of the other games you mentioned that you wish had remasters *already have* fantastic sourceports. I'm not sure what you think this PowerSlave remaster is doing different, but just because it's called a "remaster" doesn't mean it isn't also still a sourceport. Sourceport isn't a dirty word and the open-source and modding community regularly release things that are just as competent and frequently better than what many "officially recognized" studios put out. I'm not saying Night Dive didn't do a great job here or that any of their other releases so far aren't also fantastic, but I just really don't like the subtext of your commentary that asserts that the other "sourceports" are somehow any less valid or well-realized.
Was on a ski trip with my family this week. Each evening after the cold slopes I dove deep into the warm dunes of Powerslave Exhumed on my Switch. Used to play this game to death on PS1 back in the day and this remastered return is such a cool addition. Love it 👍
The only issue with the Saturn hardware was similar to the ps3 it was too complex. Shoddy and complex are vastly different one is Saturn and PS3 the other is The Atari Jaguar
Hi, first of all I love your videos, you're one of my favourite creators on UA-cam! Anyways, as a programmer who worked extensively with both the Doom Engine as well as with Build, I'd be interested to know where you heard that Build has "massively expanded capabilities for managing PC memory", because the Engine is really nothing more than a glorified renderer with collision detection, raytracing and asset loading functions. Similarly, what you say about its scripting abilities is pretty much completely untrue, stuff like that was added entirely by the different developers working with the engine, with each one adding completely different systems built separately and from ground up. I really don't want to accuse you of lying (for that those claims are far too unimportant), I'm just really interestet in where you have those informations from!
I played Exhumed when it first came out on the Saturn. I'd never played anything like it, and I still have fond memories of it to this day. However, when I found my first collectible doll on the final level, my heart jumped for joy and sank at the same time. Without the internet, I poured months of my life in to that game just to complete my doll collection. Such happy memories!
I thought I hated FPS games(at least ones that weren't Destiny) But turns out I just a boom shooter guy. I've been playing every game Civvie and ThatTravGuy have convinced me to play and I love them. Gonna buy this NOW!
Aw yeah, a new Ragnar vid! I've never heard of this game, but I'm excited to go back and try it before checking out the remaster! The PS port getting blue scorpions instead of red spiders is a funny detail, I wonder if someone thought it would be more appropriate to the setting.
I remember playing the pc demo for Powerslave back in the Duke3D days and liked that it used the same engine technology and never seeing a full release for it. One thing that was fun was extracting the game’s art and using it in Duke. At one time I’d replaced the pistol in Duke with the AK from Redneck Rampage and the MG with the M60 from powerslave. That was the beauty of the build engine games was that it was so easy to move assets around between them.
i remember playing this game when i was 7 ( I'm 30) so I'm ecstatic its been remastered, you won me over not just for the great review but the use of iron maiden
Great video. This remaster is not only the fusion of the best the Saturn and the PSX versions had to offer, but even the PC version had it's contributions as the remaster uses the higher resolution sprites from the PC version.
Interesting to hear about. I remember getting a copy of Exhumed for free because a friend of the family had bought a bunch of warehouse stock and none of their kids had a Saturn. Was fun to place but some of the underwater stuff was a pain.
It was a blast to replay this game after so long, my only single complain is... some sprites should be remade in HD, and you should have the option to toggle them on and off.
I truly love this game, and the version I have is for the PlayStation 1. I've played this game so many times I have finally completed it after so many years of owning it. The last boss is particularly tough to beat especially on a small area where you can fall off to your death. Very devilish of the game makers!! However I've noticed another difference between the PSX and PC/Saturn versions. In the PSX you only get 3 energy life ankhs while on the PC/Saturn version you get an extra two, making 5 ankhs in total!!! Very mean of the game makers once again. Why only 3?? I tried looking for more, but 3 is the max you can have I think. Now I've completed it I'm now searching for the Team dolls. Found 17 of 23 so far. I read that there's no message of reward for finding them all. Shame! All in all though, a classic FPS in my opinion. 😀👍
Had this game on both Saturn and PS1 back in the 90s, and honestly had no idea how lucky i was to play them, as it was one of the first FPSs I had on both systems.
Long time viewer, just now watching this. I stumbled upon this game because of Ezra Dreisbach who was the lead designer of Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance and Champions of Norrath, but NOT Champions: Return to Arms and it really shows. He worked on this title and Duke Nukem 3D and now I have to play Powerslave on my PlayStation 😂 Love your videos, dude.
Another remastered version of a critically underrated classic retro FPS game. Keep the good work Nightdive Studios! I 100%ed the Steam achievements in PowerSlave Exhumed a few hours prior to writing this comment and boy was it fun yet frustrating at the same time! PowerSlave Exhumed is my game #26 to set foot on my Perfect Games list. Other Perfect Games of mine including fellow Nightdive ports of Quake and Blood: Fresh Supply. Nice video btw!
DO STRIFE!!!! I love that title, and I played the crap out of the demo as a kid, and bought it on disc in 2002 when I found it in a gamestore in the sale pile! Forgot all about the game for 10 years, and one day in 2014, for some odd reason, I started thinking about the game again, and when I opened up Steam, BOOM, Strife: Veteran Edition! It’s still awesome, and I played it on Switch as well, and IF they release it on PS4, you can be damn sure I’m gonna buy it again!! It feels like nobody played the freaking game, until people slowly started talking about it after the remaster, and still, not that many seem to know it exists…! Shame…
I used to own this on the Sega Saturn when I was younger and thought it was a great game then, though I knew it as just "Exhumed". I didn't even realize they had it on GOG as "PowerSlave Exhumed" until recently, so I picked it up and it's still a great game. :)
Wish Nightdive Studios could remaster both Aliens Vs Predator 2 2001 and the No One Lives Forever games. Sucks that AVP2 isn't available for purchase on any gaming platforms.
Recently purchased & completed this phenomenal game & right now I'm kicking my ass for NOT having played this gem back when it 1st released back in 96!
Honestly if it wasn't for Civvie I wouldn't have ever played Blood, after I played blood I was so I love with retro style build engine type fps games. They're truly amazing and something magical.
Osiris and Set were brothers, however the battle was between Horus and Set. Osiris joins the afterworld to become a judge, making Horus the first and God of Pharaohs. Set damages Horus's eye.
I believe that it isn't at all a matter of auto-aim vertically, it's just more a natural limitation of those types of fake 3d engines. As far as the game is concerned there is no vertical axis, that's all merely an illusion the game is creating for the player. edit: HaHa, I love what you said about "boomer shooter". The entire "boomer" thing of just calling somewhat older or middle aged people boomers, just because that's what *we* called the generation of our parents. Like, it's fine as a joke meme for a little while, but it is utterly retarded to keep using it seriously, when there's already a term for these people, it's generation X and the first half or so of Generation Y that is actually being talked about. Can everyone please just use the actual names we already have? It feels vastly dismissive to keep saying boomer just because it sounds funny. Seriously it's time to stop.
I rushed to buy Powerslave, before you mentioned the discount code, when you mentioned Iron Maiden. Gotta snatch this game up before those _BOOMERS_ hear about it
I'm on a Powerslave kick and UA-cam recommended this video, and I gotta say this guy sounds suspiciously like audiobook narrator Jonathan Davis and it's soothingly authoritative
Please Ragnar, if the new videos of "forgotten gems" and "games from underground" don't work that much, please find sponsorship. I'd rather watch an ad than know that one of my top creator on youtube can't pay his rent or something. Apart from that great video as always.
Oh god, yes! Please remaster the Ultima Underworld games like this. I haven't been able to properly enjoy them in almost 30 years because modern me cannot play with those clunky controls like I used to.
Pretty sure the term "boomer shooter" is only ever used ironically. I mean it doesn't even make sense, most of the people who played these games back in the day would be technically considered millennials. I just assumed it was a joke term coined by Civvie11, a youtuber who I feel is at least partly responsible for a lot of the attention these old games have been getting recently.
hu, here i always throught "boomer shooter" was a specific subgenera of retro shooters... like i legit thought it was specifically thet brainless ones like serious sam or other arena based ones. youknow, all boom no puzzle
One game that needs preservation is Savage Quest. It's simply locked out of emulation due to security dongles and no other game plays or controls quite like it.
Didnt expect much from the game Count me gladly surprised Also please dont get my hopes up on neither a remaster for ultima underworld or no one lives forever, i beg you
Never heard of this game till I watched Civvi 11 video on it, then you come out with this video, of course I loved Civvis video but my god the editing and info in this video is just incredible!
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I love Ragnar's videos because they can be somber and serious, existential and deep while also being hilarious.
That's a great way to describe it awesome videos to have on when I play like rogue like games or anything that doesn't need all my focus
Had never even heard about PowerSlave or its remaster before, thank you so much for bringing them to my attention^^
Also, the ending gag of repeatedly perishing in the background worked a bit to well, each "ugh" sound totally pulled me out of listening to you xD
I would pay for a burguer time video. I could pay my colleage tuition from all the money i spent in the burguer time cabinet
Ngl , I thought this video refers to the Iron Maiden album, and the fact this game is ancient Egyptian-themed only strengthens that notion.
I just miss symphony of the night now.
God me too. Making this video and using the music in the background made me boot up the game just for the vibe again.
Finally, some good fucking content.
I will now forever have the image of Ragnar riding a moped while flying a pirate flag, bringing us the good word of the forgotten gems of the past!
I’ve been going through a gamers rut. Been trying all sorts of games and couldn’t get into them. Beat this in about 5 hours. It is exactly what I needed
Another great old FPS with a metal name is Damage Incorporated (1997). You play as the leader of a squad of Marines (with excellent AI, far ahead of its time) and you kick the asses of Klansmen, Oklahoma city bomber-terrorists, separatist militias, Waco-esque cults, etc.
You have to keep an eye on the health and mental health of your squadmates, they can become shell-shocked and unusable if they take too much damage, if they die you can lose them for the rest of the play-through, if you take them on missions against foes with strong ideological feelings, they can go berserk or turn traitor on you. The characters are all voice-acted (hilariously) by one guy, and I appreciate his caricatures of John Wayne and others.
There are rules of engagement (don't fire unless fired upon) that your handler reiterates to you over the radio, and if you disobey he will harshly reprimand you because you gunned your way through a level of non-hostiles.
It is the one and only game that I can think of that figured out that klansmen, facelessly evil, make perfect cannon-fodder videogame enemies.
It's a miracle they didn't get sued, seeing how the Klan is an actual organisation whose members might object to being shot at.
@@thecandlemaker1329 In the fiction of the game, it isn't 'the klan', but an offshoot group calling themselves 'white paladins' who wear klan-looking robes who you get to mow down hordes of.
I looked up some statistics, and from 1877 to 1950 the Klan was responsible for at least 3,959 murders of black people only (plenty of other groups they hated not included in this number). Al Qaeda, from 1993 to 2021, killed approx. 4104 people, the majority from the Sept. 11 attack.
How many thousands of video games are there where you shoot at generic brown-skinned 'terrorists', how many thousands of games are there where you shoot at nazis, can you think of a country whose uniformed soldiers are not getting shot at in some videogame somewhere?
No one should care about the 'feelings' of klansmen, they signed on to a terrorist group of their own free will. If national governments can't/ don't sue videogame makers for depicting their legitimate military servicemembers getting killed, I can't imagine what legal case the terrorist organization the klan could possibly have.
The moped story reminded me of my own childhood "business" in the 2000's, where I bought Warhammer codexes and armybooks, made copies of them with my dad's workplace Xerox machine and sold them to my classmates.
I never made much money because few of them could read advanced English, but it felt so good being a teenage hustler.
As an original dev on the game, your video is very impressive. Great attention to details large and small!
Personally it's my favourite album although Seventh Son and Number of the Beast come damn close. (I'm so funny)
In all seriousness - this channel has introduced me to so many great games. This one already looks extremely cool and I've only watched a snippet so far!
You think it's a coincidence? The game was named after the album, because its cover featured themes very similar to the game.
Of course, that was back before Litigious Maiden sued indie developers for using a generic name similar to their band's name.
Thanks for another piece of gem! It's so impressive how they rebuilt the game in their own engine. If you mean this is a Metrovania FPS, I'm super interested in it now. Since you say it's criminally underrated, I'll have to remedy that by picking it up. There's so much hidden treasure in the 90s, and it's great to have these videos on record, because this type of gaming history is worth preserving.
Another great video, thank you very much for highlighting several games, thanks to your videos I discovered Darkwood, shadowman and I started trying the fatal frames series, they are a great inspiration
Retro shooter makes it sound like a relic of its time.
Boomer shooter sounds like a blast. Pun intended.
I'm sticking with "boomer shooter."
I'm still watching the video, but I just wanted to say that I actually really like the humor w/ the editing like Dio and Ankha! It brings a really fun energy to the video!
I thought I was hallucinating Camel by Camel til Ankha appeared lol!
Got it on ps5. After i could never finish my sega saturn copy back in the day. Amazing game. And im happy to say that the console Version is amazing as well. As there are no mainstream reviews out there i was uncertain if it got ported well.
I send this video to some very religious relatives and after the first 45 seconds they hate me (even more). Thanks! Worth it! - btw, a great game!
Yes!!! I always called this game one of my favorite ps1 titles, it has so much to it, and yet it's so criminally underrated. I'm extra grateful for this remaster (same with shadowman), and thank you Ragnar for this video, hopefully more people try out this little gem
Thanks for the video. Great work as always!. The remaster would be perfect if it had an option for invert mouse, like every other fps have. This doesn't and so making it unplayable for me. Using invert since the release of Quake 1.
That really does feel like a strange oversight, esp. since controller allows for invert look.
It is. Supposingly they will fix it in the next update but this takes quite some time now.
@@Hoshi82 Maybe there could be a third party software to invert it
@@rumplstiltztinkerstein It will be fixed :) But dunno when. I can wait a bit more, since Elden Ring released today. :)
Invert Mouse just got patched in:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/1678430/view/6035392156524332679
"I don't want to die , I'm a god, why can't I live ooooon. When the life giver dies, all around is laid waste. And in my last hour I'm a slave to the power of death."
This video gave me an amazing concept that will never see the light of day: A crossover between Stargate (the movie) and the Brendan Fraser The Mummy movies using Powerslave as the soundtrack. Damn. Why did no one think of this back in the day? Imagine Kurt Russell, James Spader, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Oded Fehr, Arnold Vosloo (Imhotep), and the linchpin between the two movies Erick Avari, all coming together in this massive ensemble cast in a timeline/alternate dimension crossover!
My heart is both excited and broken over what will never be.
I was about to say "Boo, claiming the gods were just human is sooooo 900s to 1300s Christianity," (That's the actual burning times where feudal kings burned entire villages that didn't obey them for not being Christan enough and bragged about it so hard that we still have text examples of them stunting on each other by saying how many hundreds of people they burned in each village and how many villages.)
But then it included the abrahamic lore as well and I went "hehhe" because that seemed fair enough.
I really hate when people call the DOOM/Build engines "2.5D". No, they are not "2.5D", they are still 3D, regardless of whether or not they had "true" room-over-room or other limitations. The geometry doesn't dissolve into some bizarro between-dimension just because they have to use 'teleports' to simulate room-over-room and the interior calculations of the game still represent all 3 dimensional axis.
Besides that, all of the other games you mentioned that you wish had remasters *already have* fantastic sourceports. I'm not sure what you think this PowerSlave remaster is doing different, but just because it's called a "remaster" doesn't mean it isn't also still a sourceport. Sourceport isn't a dirty word and the open-source and modding community regularly release things that are just as competent and frequently better than what many "officially recognized" studios put out. I'm not saying Night Dive didn't do a great job here or that any of their other releases so far aren't also fantastic, but I just really don't like the subtext of your commentary that asserts that the other "sourceports" are somehow any less valid or well-realized.
Was on a ski trip with my family this week. Each evening after the cold slopes I dove deep into the warm dunes of Powerslave Exhumed on my Switch. Used to play this game to death on PS1 back in the day and this remastered return is such a cool addition. Love it 👍
The only issue with the Saturn hardware was similar to the ps3 it was too complex. Shoddy and complex are vastly different one is Saturn and PS3 the other is The Atari Jaguar
Hi, first of all I love your videos, you're one of my favourite creators on UA-cam! Anyways, as a programmer who worked extensively with both the Doom Engine as well as with Build, I'd be interested to know where you heard that Build has "massively expanded capabilities for managing PC memory", because the Engine is really nothing more than a glorified renderer with collision detection, raytracing and asset loading functions. Similarly, what you say about its scripting abilities is pretty much completely untrue, stuff like that was added entirely by the different developers working with the engine, with each one adding completely different systems built separately and from ground up.
I really don't want to accuse you of lying (for that those claims are far too unimportant), I'm just really interestet in where you have those informations from!
I played Exhumed when it first came out on the Saturn. I'd never played anything like it, and I still have fond memories of it to this day. However, when I found my first collectible doll on the final level, my heart jumped for joy and sank at the same time. Without the internet, I poured months of my life in to that game just to complete my doll collection. Such happy memories!
I thought I hated FPS games(at least ones that weren't Destiny) But turns out I just a boom shooter guy. I've been playing every game Civvie and ThatTravGuy have convinced me to play and I love them. Gonna buy this NOW!
I’m sorry did you say that the Tale of Osiris and Set gave rise to the Abrahamic Religions??? What are you smoking Rag.
Hey Ragnar, if you want me to play it, how about burning me a free copy? Hahaha (All jokes aside fantastic video!)
Thank you for covering this masterpiece! More people need to play it. Both this one and the painfully underappreciated DOS version.
These videos are always worth the wait!
"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful cheese pizza, just for me!"
Aw yeah, a new Ragnar vid! I've never heard of this game, but I'm excited to go back and try it before checking out the remaster!
The PS port getting blue scorpions instead of red spiders is a funny detail, I wonder if someone thought it would be more appropriate to the setting.
nah, back in the day Sony wanted ports from other systems to change/add things for the hell of it. Blue Scorpions are literally quota scorpions.
8:32 shout out to courage the cowardly dog. The man in gauze! The man in gauze!
JUSTICE FOR KYLE KATARN
Nice review and honestly If the Saturn here in the west was not Boned by Idiotic upper management at Sega of America it would be a lot more beloved.
Great video but I still won't stop using the term boomer shooter
1:20 gzdoom default settings. i'm not watching any more
a RagnarRox upload and the day gets better. we really need it in times like this
Nothing better than when Ragnar uploads it always makes me so happy.
Your work is just magnificent.
I remember playing the pc demo for Powerslave back in the Duke3D days and liked that it used the same engine technology and never seeing a full release for it. One thing that was fun was extracting the game’s art and using it in Duke. At one time I’d replaced the pistol in Duke with the AK from Redneck Rampage and the MG with the M60 from powerslave. That was the beauty of the build engine games was that it was so easy to move assets around between them.
5:29 holy crap that is beautiful.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Didn't knew about the game at all before this.
Tell me why I have to be a power slave…
A new Ragnar video? DON'T MIND IF I DO 😄
I have no idea how come you don't haven millions of subscribers. Every video you submit in this platform is stellar
Congratulations on getting past the "lasers" in the end ^^
...I would've ragequit halfway through that =P
i remember playing this game when i was 7 ( I'm 30) so I'm ecstatic its been remastered, you won me over not just for the great review but the use of iron maiden
Great video.
This remaster is not only the fusion of the best the Saturn and the PSX versions had to offer, but even the PC version had it's contributions as the remaster uses the higher resolution sprites from the PC version.
Interesting to hear about. I remember getting a copy of Exhumed for free because a friend of the family had bought a bunch of warehouse stock and none of their kids had a Saturn. Was fun to place but some of the underwater stuff was a pain.
It was a blast to replay this game after so long, my only single complain is... some sprites should be remade in HD, and you should have the option to toggle them on and off.
I truly love this game, and the version I have is for the PlayStation 1. I've played this game so many times I have finally completed it after so many years of owning it. The last boss is particularly tough to beat especially on a small area where you can fall off to your death. Very devilish of the game makers!!
However I've noticed another difference between the PSX and PC/Saturn versions. In the PSX you only get 3 energy life ankhs while on the PC/Saturn version you get an extra two, making 5 ankhs in total!!!
Very mean of the game makers once again. Why only 3??
I tried looking for more, but 3 is the max you can have I think.
Now I've completed it I'm now searching for the Team dolls. Found 17 of 23 so far. I read that there's no message of reward for finding them all. Shame!
All in all though, a classic FPS in my opinion. 😀👍
Had this game on both Saturn and PS1 back in the 90s, and honestly had no idea how lucky i was to play them, as it was one of the first FPSs I had on both systems.
Two amazing things in one package! Ragnar and a Nightdive remaster!
Long time viewer, just now watching this. I stumbled upon this game because of Ezra Dreisbach who was the lead designer of Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance and Champions of Norrath, but NOT Champions: Return to Arms and it really shows. He worked on this title and Duke Nukem 3D and now I have to play Powerslave on my PlayStation 😂 Love your videos, dude.
Another remastered version of a critically underrated classic retro FPS game. Keep the good work Nightdive Studios! I 100%ed the Steam achievements in PowerSlave Exhumed a few hours prior to writing this comment and boy was it fun yet frustrating at the same time! PowerSlave Exhumed is my game #26 to set foot on my Perfect Games list. Other Perfect Games of mine including fellow Nightdive ports of Quake and Blood: Fresh Supply. Nice video btw!
DO STRIFE!!!! I love that title, and I played the crap out of the demo as a kid, and bought it on disc in 2002 when I found it in a gamestore in the sale pile!
Forgot all about the game for 10 years, and one day in 2014, for some odd reason, I started thinking about the game again, and when I opened up Steam, BOOM, Strife: Veteran Edition! It’s still awesome, and I played it on Switch as well, and IF they release it on PS4, you can be damn sure I’m gonna buy it again!!
It feels like nobody played the freaking game, until people slowly started talking about it after the remaster, and still, not that many seem to know it exists…! Shame…
Ah yes the iron maiden game
Hah, nice little Space Between reference there
Still a boomer shoot
*Banned!*
I used to own this on the Sega Saturn when I was younger and thought it was a great game then, though I knew it as just "Exhumed". I didn't even realize they had it on GOG as "PowerSlave Exhumed" until recently, so I picked it up and it's still a great game. :)
Wish Nightdive Studios could remaster both Aliens Vs Predator 2 2001 and the No One Lives Forever games. Sucks that AVP2 isn't available for purchase on any gaming platforms.
Finally, youtuber speaks about PowerSlave, game of my childhood and it RagnarRox! Waiting for revival of Gems and Underground.
Finally, youtuber speaks about PowerSlave, game of my childhood and it RagnarRox! Waiting for revival of Gems and Underground.
Recently purchased & completed this phenomenal game & right now I'm kicking my ass for NOT having played this gem back when it 1st released back in 96!
What was the name of the Hillbilly doom game? That says "Yer stuff"
My brother and I bought pur first pc and that was the only game we had. Was epic.
Honestly if it wasn't for Civvie I wouldn't have ever played Blood, after I played blood I was so I love with retro style build engine type fps games. They're truly amazing and something magical.
Osiris and Set were brothers, however the battle was between Horus and Set. Osiris joins the afterworld to become a judge, making Horus the first and God of Pharaohs. Set damages Horus's eye.
I believe that it isn't at all a matter of auto-aim vertically, it's just more a natural limitation of those types of fake 3d engines. As far as the game is concerned there is no vertical axis, that's all merely an illusion the game is creating for the player.
edit: HaHa, I love what you said about "boomer shooter". The entire "boomer" thing of just calling somewhat older or middle aged people boomers, just because that's what *we* called the generation of our parents. Like, it's fine as a joke meme for a little while, but it is utterly retarded to keep using it seriously, when there's already a term for these people, it's generation X and the first half or so of Generation Y that is actually being talked about. Can everyone please just use the actual names we already have? It feels vastly dismissive to keep saying boomer just because it sounds funny. Seriously it's time to stop.
I rushed to buy Powerslave, before you mentioned the discount code, when you mentioned Iron Maiden. Gotta snatch this game up before those _BOOMERS_ hear about it
I disagree the PSX version is BETTER than PC version. I think both are pretty good game, giving the player a different experience.
I'm on a Powerslave kick and UA-cam recommended this video, and I gotta say this guy sounds suspiciously like audiobook narrator Jonathan Davis and it's soothingly authoritative
"Boomer Shooter is a small-brained, outdated phrase. Anyway, let me use the term 'PC Master Race' completely unironically."
Bruh.
Disliked because of what you said about abrahamic religions. Please do not spread misinformation with your ignorance please thank you
Please Ragnar, if the new videos of "forgotten gems" and "games from underground" don't work that much, please find sponsorship. I'd rather watch an ad than know that one of my top creator on youtube can't pay his rent or something.
Apart from that great video as always.
Oh god, yes! Please remaster the Ultima Underworld games like this. I haven't been able to properly enjoy them in almost 30 years because modern me cannot play with those clunky controls like I used to.
Hoping Caption Claw get a remastered,
and games like No One Lives Forever 1 and 2.
and Blood 2... yeah that one needs overhaul restored content port.
Pretty sure the term "boomer shooter" is only ever used ironically. I mean it doesn't even make sense, most of the people who played these games back in the day would be technically considered millennials. I just assumed it was a joke term coined by Civvie11, a youtuber who I feel is at least partly responsible for a lot of the attention these old games have been getting recently.
Your comments about Boomer Shooter remind me of TB's comments about Roguelike.
A fight he ultimately lost.
If anything deserve the Nightdive treatment next, it's one of the Jedi Engine games; Outlaws and SW: Dark Forces
hu, here i always throught "boomer shooter" was a specific subgenera of retro shooters... like i legit thought it was specifically thet brainless ones like serious sam or other arena based ones. youknow, all boom no puzzle
Talking about audience that puts a modicum of thrust on what you say, today a friend gifted me Death Trash, wich I wishlisted thanks to your video!
your best video yet..
a simply excellent presentation, bravo!
This game wont be perfect until someone mods Iron Maiden's *Powerslave* album into the game's OST.
One game that needs preservation is Savage Quest. It's simply locked out of emulation due to security dongles and no other game plays or controls quite like it.
_(Walter White making chemicals.gif)_
Nightdive Studios making some of the best remasters of all time.
Yup. A coalition of allied nations send you in on a mission to save the world. And they arm you with a knife. It's a classic. :)
Nobody's going to talk about the end credits? The 5 minutes of laser death? I literally cheered when you made it to the end.
Love your content bro, I was watching your forgotten gems videos and that reminded me of a certain game, #gemsuggestion The Neverhood.
Didnt expect much from the game
Count me gladly surprised
Also please dont get my hopes up on neither a remaster for ultima underworld or no one lives forever, i beg you
I need a god dammed CRYPT KILLER REMAKE.
well shit, Konami made that
HIT THE LEVER!!!
Never heard of this game till I watched Civvi 11 video on it, then you come out with this video, of course I loved Civvis video but my god the editing and info in this video is just incredible!
I remember looking for this game forever, though I never knew it was called PowerSlave outside of EU.
watching the credits rainbow laser "platforming" made me react the same way i would have if i was playing
28:33 I had this part playing in the background while gaming, and the death screams made me go "wtf, lol".
Did you just mention our LORD AND SAVIOR DIO BRANDO?!
*subscribing*
Oh shit!! I remember this one! Remaster? But why?
Oh Nightdive? Ahhh, that explains it!
This game is old as Scream
I hope that someday they remaster quake 2 because yquake 2 doesn't start on my computer because of an error I don't understand.