I'm not saying Zomb's Lair and the Collection chamber have windows 11 compatable compilations ready to download and run with controls and graphics configured of both PC Terminator games but im strongly hinting at it 👀
8:44 im not overly familiar with programming or how difficult implementing certain features is. However, the earliest game I had seen doing the "scope showing a miniature version of what you're aiming at" was Halo CE. So f*****' cool seeing a 90s game pull it off
The Terminator: Future Shock is unique in being a genuinely good Terminator game and the first Polygonal 3D FPS game. It also laid the groundwork for the mouse and keyboard configurations that titles like Quake would popularise. And yes, it's a genuine blast to go through. You can even play it with a 640x480 resolution in the sequel, SkyNET (also recommended alongside Terminator: Resistance by Teyon, another good Terminator FPS that doubles as a prequel to the original film). It's so much fun to lose yourself in the post-Judgement Day war torn world of 2015 LA.
This was my first FPS game and first Bethesda game I played as a kid. My brothers and I were so blown away by the levels, the atmosphere and the dark story telling and missions. It’s such a gripping game. The death camp, satellite nodes, killing bishop and the TDTS complex missions were so memorable. One of my brothers was so determined to finish this game that he kept a notebook next to our computer to jot down the objectives, briefing and tactical notes and anything else that might help him through the levels. Like you mentioned its sad this game has been lost to time and doesn’t have any recognition to it. Maybe one day someone will complete that unity version of it just like Daggerfall was.
While not mechanically similar, the recent Terminator Resistance games really nail the future war feel and integrate into the plot of the foret two (so, only canonical imo) movies perfectly.
I loved this as a teenager in the 90s.. felt like you could go anywhere compared to the linear fps titles I was playing.. it most of ran from 20 to 25fps on my 486 but i loved it. I wouldn't mind playing this again.. be awesome if nightdive remastered it
As I’ve come to appreciate the Japanese PC market of the 80s to late 90s, it is truly saddening to find a vastly lacking amount of info on the games themselves, let alone the tech that powers them. There have been many times where I’ve tried to find info about a game that I enjoy, but found absolutely nothing whatsoever. It is the main motivation for why I’ve done TCRF research: If no one is going to dig deep into the stuff I like, then I will have to learn how to instead. Looking forward to possibly working with you on the research again in the future!
So cool to see the ways this has bled into modern Bethesda. I really loved resistance but man this would have blown my mind in 1995. I think I prefer the cutscenes in this version I have a lot of love for FMV in skynet but I really like the art in future shock.
Let's get some lore out of the way: Ruby Ranger Future Ranger Spartan Ranger Ruby Nukem Ranger Freeman and, of course....Randy Ranger Will there be more? COULD there be more? And what strange portent does their inclusion in this timeline hold???
I played those first 3 Terminator games. The first one had a great splash page about how you doomed mankind if you were killed by the terminator. IIRC, you could also play as the terminator.
I used to be a huge Terminator fan - still am, to some extent, I guess - and I really wanted to play this game when I was a kid. But it kept crashing so frequently that I eventually just gave up on it. It was nice getting to experience the game's story through your review, after all these years. Thank you!
So, i want to weigh in on the idea of "Laser vs Phased" (though it should've been just called Plasma =V ) weapons, and how the game really drops the ball on that. To begin with, it is mostly out of a reference from the first Terminator in the gun store. "Phased Plasma Rifle in the 40 Watt range", is a line that *could* be thought of as a joke but the Terminator was being 100% dead serious. And this seems to be the go-to type of weapon for all the Terminators and Skynet forces. After all they have that iconic "blue/purple" color in pretty much all of the movies. So why have Lasers at all? I think this is meant to be the round-about way that humans are making their own versions. Where they are trying to copy and iterate on the versions used by Skynet. The difference (or at least what i THINK is supposed to be the difference) is that Lasers are a lower power and fire slower and the Phased Plasma weapons are meant to be higher power and extremely rapid. I think a lot of it either comes down to botched code or a really REALLY jank/patchwork engine, but obviously the normal Laser has a better edge for the player. So it would be a "do you want faster fire rate and higher damage, but nearly miss a lot of the shots? or slow fire rate and low damage, but you become a sniping god?" situation. Now the reason why this doesn't work so much as seen is because there isn't a hell of a lot of spread with the phased plasma weapons. So it just feels like a very *slight* upgrade in comparison due to both of them pretty much having the same firing range. In short the Phased Plasma weapons should've been a better "multi-purpose" type weapon where as the Laser weapons should have been "precision" type weapons. But due to how things were made that didn't quite come to pass.
I'll tell you what bugs me; laser weapons are depicted as firing slow moving pulses of light, whereas bullet weapons are instant hitscan weapons. A bullet travelling at mid-high hundreds of meters per second hits a target before a laser pulse travelling at the actual universal speed limit.
@@atomicpunch1990 Well... we don't know that for suuuure... could'a just been Robert Patrick as a police officer. But yes, your point is well made, friend.
Terminator resistance i would say is the best terminator game so far. Also if you want to feel like a real Resistance fighter play it on the hardest difficulty....you are a human not a terminator. Edit: a tip with explosives in Future shock games aim for the ground under the terminators avoid direct hits as clipping is really bad.
Todd Howard's bad reputation stems from Bethesda constantly lying to it's customers with Fallout 76 and their continual release of buggy and broken games while exploiting them as much as possible and not fixing nor acknowledging their problems. Todd being the face of Bethesda causes a lot of the hate to be directed in his direction.
INTERESTING. See I hear a lot of grief from gamers about Bethesda, which is something I don't really get. Yeah, Fallout 76 was a rough go, and deserves the poking. But Skyrim, Fallout 4, they definitely have their glitches but I never really saw anything game breaking, especially considering how expansive and liveable those worlds are.
16:00 You need to learn the difference between Energy and Matter. Lasers are light particles, and thus energy. Plasma is matter superheated to the point of molecular instability, and becoming ionized gas.... and thus actually carries more energy (and thus power) than a laser. The trade off is that lasers have ridiculous range, where as plasma's range is usually cripplingly short... unless somehow contained within a field to prevent lost of charge & maintain coherence.
Go to myabandonware, download the files you need, and run it through DOSbox. You're gonna have to utilize actual DOS prompts and might need to look up some help, but otherwise it runs real smooth!
@@RubyRangerr Oh phew, you're one of the good guys. Even back in the 90s, I got the "this is medieval doom and it sucks" flak from everyone I tried to preach the holy sacrement of Hexen's greatness too. It was the first Doom Engine game I was exposed to so I just loved what it was without comparison. I loved the "open world" hub system, the multiple player classes, and the n64 port was at least able to put in couch co-op where "doom 64" failed to do so, and also unlike doom 64 wasn't an entirely different set of maps. Of course getting it on PC with LAN play was far superior to that but I'm like, the only kid that figured out how to do that in the mid 90s (and appletalk was surprisingly way more stable than what we have to put up with in gzdoom and zandronum multiplayer now). I'll admit, Shadow Wood is where most people either gave up or got a guide, and I'm in the latter group, but at the time reading guide books made it more... fun? Remember back when we had things like the Earthbound player's guide and Nintendo Power, as opposed to just looking stuff up on gamefaqs. I kind've wish I could erase my memory of it all so I can play it again un-spoiled with a couple co-op buddies. It was way ahead of its time, and maybe still even ahead of our time since gaming is currently in the "open world" and "class based battle royal" bandwagons and and some DND/RPing subcultures but it's taking too long for anybody after Raven to think "what if we take these things and....." without making an MMO that's too ambitious for its own good.
This channel is very (proudly) woke. Ranger's built a safe, wholesome space for everyone. Slurs and phobic aversions need not apply. Except thalassophobia. That one's OK.
This was huge for us kids, i remember playing it in 1995 as a teen as was blown away that you could drive a car. IN A FIRST PERSON SHOOTER! IN 3D!!!!
6:22 nice. i greatly appreciate doing deep dives and preserving arcane information like this
Maan, thank you for all the time and effort you put into this video. Great retrospective for a great game.
The best way to start the week; thanks for the awsome and well-executed content. Greetings from Finland!
Northern brother.
I'm not saying Zomb's Lair and the Collection chamber have windows 11 compatable compilations ready to download and run with controls and graphics configured of both PC Terminator games but im strongly hinting at it 👀
ORLY 👀
OK, these Future Ranger background stories are getting to the point where I want five seasons and a movie.
8:44 im not overly familiar with programming or how difficult implementing certain features is. However, the earliest game I had seen doing the "scope showing a miniature version of what you're aiming at" was Halo CE. So f*****' cool seeing a 90s game pull it off
Ain't it though???
The Terminator: Future Shock is unique in being a genuinely good Terminator game and the first Polygonal 3D FPS game. It also laid the groundwork for the mouse and keyboard configurations that titles like Quake would popularise.
And yes, it's a genuine blast to go through. You can even play it with a 640x480 resolution in the sequel, SkyNET (also recommended alongside Terminator: Resistance by Teyon, another good Terminator FPS that doubles as a prequel to the original film). It's so much fun to lose yourself in the post-Judgement Day war torn world of 2015 LA.
This was my first FPS game and first Bethesda game I played as a kid. My brothers and I were so blown away by the levels, the atmosphere and the dark story telling and missions. It’s such a gripping game. The death camp, satellite nodes, killing bishop and the TDTS complex missions were so memorable. One of my brothers was so determined to finish this game that he kept a notebook next to our computer to jot down the objectives, briefing and tactical notes and anything else that might help him through the levels. Like you mentioned its sad this game has been lost to time and doesn’t have any recognition to it. Maybe one day someone will complete that unity version of it just like Daggerfall was.
Would absolutely LOVE to see a Unity version. Future Shock truly does deserve more love.
While not mechanically similar, the recent Terminator Resistance games really nail the future war feel and integrate into the plot of the foret two (so, only canonical imo) movies perfectly.
03:48 Also, huge congrats on getting Todd "Fancy Shoes" Howard on your channel.
I couldn't tell if the pitch-shifting I did came out disrespectful or spot on. Glad to see it felt spot on.
@@RubyRangerr
You know what? Todd seems like a pretty good sport. I think he'd be fine with it.
This was the first game I played through to the end.
I loved this as a teenager in the 90s.. felt like you could go anywhere compared to the linear fps titles I was playing.. it most of ran from 20 to 25fps on my 486 but i loved it. I wouldn't mind playing this again.. be awesome if nightdive remastered it
Both Terminator Future Shock and Skynet were revolutionary games for Bethesda when they came out.
Wash day tomorrow - nothing clean right 🤖
As I’ve come to appreciate the Japanese PC market of the 80s to late 90s, it is truly saddening to find a vastly lacking amount of info on the games themselves, let alone the tech that powers them. There have been many times where I’ve tried to find info about a game that I enjoy, but found absolutely nothing whatsoever. It is the main motivation for why I’ve done TCRF research: If no one is going to dig deep into the stuff I like, then I will have to learn how to instead.
Looking forward to possibly working with you on the research again in the future!
So cool to see the ways this has bled into modern Bethesda. I really loved resistance but man this would have blown my mind in 1995.
I think I prefer the cutscenes in this version I have a lot of love for FMV in skynet but I really like the art in future shock.
Who's *YOUR* favourite Rangerverse character, dear viewer?
Ruby Duke? Ruby Chief? Ruby Freeman? Future Ranger? Future-Future Ranger?
Let's get some lore out of the way:
Ruby Ranger
Future Ranger
Spartan Ranger
Ruby Nukem
Ranger Freeman
and, of course....Randy Ranger
Will there be more? COULD there be more? And what strange portent does their inclusion in this timeline hold???
@@RubyRangerr
Dude, I'm psyched.
...
Honestly. I'm not kidding. Genuinely looking forward to how it develops!
I played those first 3 Terminator games. The first one had a great splash page about how you doomed mankind if you were killed by the terminator. IIRC, you could also play as the terminator.
YOOOOOOOOO that's dope 👀
Gone but the technical aspect of this game shouldn`t be forgotten
I used to be a huge Terminator fan - still am, to some extent, I guess - and I really wanted to play this game when I was a kid. But it kept crashing so frequently that I eventually just gave up on it. It was nice getting to experience the game's story through your review, after all these years. Thank you!
My pleasure! Thank you so much!
HOLY MOLY
1996 had a cool and largely forgotten FPS named Eradicator. Would love to see you do a video on that one.
So, i want to weigh in on the idea of "Laser vs Phased" (though it should've been just called Plasma =V ) weapons, and how the game really drops the ball on that. To begin with, it is mostly out of a reference from the first Terminator in the gun store. "Phased Plasma Rifle in the 40 Watt range", is a line that *could* be thought of as a joke but the Terminator was being 100% dead serious. And this seems to be the go-to type of weapon for all the Terminators and Skynet forces. After all they have that iconic "blue/purple" color in pretty much all of the movies. So why have Lasers at all? I think this is meant to be the round-about way that humans are making their own versions. Where they are trying to copy and iterate on the versions used by Skynet. The difference (or at least what i THINK is supposed to be the difference) is that Lasers are a lower power and fire slower and the Phased Plasma weapons are meant to be higher power and extremely rapid. I think a lot of it either comes down to botched code or a really REALLY jank/patchwork engine, but obviously the normal Laser has a better edge for the player. So it would be a "do you want faster fire rate and higher damage, but nearly miss a lot of the shots? or slow fire rate and low damage, but you become a sniping god?" situation. Now the reason why this doesn't work so much as seen is because there isn't a hell of a lot of spread with the phased plasma weapons. So it just feels like a very *slight* upgrade in comparison due to both of them pretty much having the same firing range.
In short the Phased Plasma weapons should've been a better "multi-purpose" type weapon where as the Laser weapons should have been "precision" type weapons. But due to how things were made that didn't quite come to pass.
Now THIS is the kind of deep dive that I am here for!
I'll tell you what bugs me; laser weapons are depicted as firing slow moving pulses of light, whereas bullet weapons are instant hitscan weapons.
A bullet travelling at mid-high hundreds of meters per second hits a target before a laser pulse travelling at the actual universal speed limit.
That intro 🤣👌 Great play on the old YT tropes!
I bought this and thought it was super cool. It had loads of atmosphere.
Love the aesthetics of this game
When Fallout Three came out, people called it "Oblivion with Guns". Now I see that Morrowind is "Skynet - without guns" and the cycle seems complete.
this is such a great comparison.
The thumbnail terminator looks like a really frosty killer😂
Great work man
Never heard of this, this looks like a great game! definelty checking it out later
Iced a guy, to cone a phrase
Last youtube reference maker
Well.. the quote is tangentially related to Terminator I suppose...
I will allow it.
@@AndrewD8Red T 1000 does appear in the Last Action Hero
@@atomicpunch1990
Well... we don't know that for suuuure... could'a just been Robert Patrick as a police officer.
But yes, your point is well made, friend.
@@AndrewD8Redlet off some steam Bennet!
You saved yourself some serious physics buggery with Skynet. A one foot fall can kill you instantly.
Oh sweet jesus. Glad I didn't have to deal with THAT
You feed my brain with entertainment, I feed the algorithm with a like and a comment! Win-win if you ask me.
Terminator resistance i would say is the best terminator game so far. Also if you want to feel like a real Resistance fighter play it on the hardest difficulty....you are a human not a terminator.
Edit: a tip with explosives in Future shock games aim for the ground under the terminators avoid direct hits as clipping is really bad.
collection chambers version has an amazing compilation
Really? I'll have to check it out!
we need a remaster!
Only smart people can really understand Ruby Ranger lore.
P.S. only shit this game looks awesome. I would love a source port/fan patch of some kind.
Thing is there is a fan patch. I know because i installed it at the same time this video was uploaded.
ORLY 👀 WHERE CAN I FIND THIS
Your journalism holding similar level of mr john or civvie11. Good job.
Todd Howard's bad reputation stems from Bethesda constantly lying to it's customers with Fallout 76 and their continual release of buggy and broken games while exploiting them as much as possible and not fixing nor acknowledging their problems. Todd being the face of Bethesda causes a lot of the hate to be directed in his direction.
INTERESTING. See I hear a lot of grief from gamers about Bethesda, which is something I don't really get. Yeah, Fallout 76 was a rough go, and deserves the poking. But Skyrim, Fallout 4, they definitely have their glitches but I never really saw anything game breaking, especially considering how expansive and liveable those worlds are.
can someone help the game wont start watched a few things dos is just weird would appreciate it alot the only version i can get to work is the demo
The most scary thing about this game is that you don't make more save files! ;-p
I LIVE ON THE EDGE!
@@RubyRangerr you sure do! Really enjoying the videos. Takes me back man!
16:00 You need to learn the difference between Energy and Matter. Lasers are light particles, and thus energy. Plasma is matter superheated to the point of molecular instability, and becoming ionized gas.... and thus actually carries more energy (and thus power) than a laser. The trade off is that lasers have ridiculous range, where as plasma's range is usually cripplingly short... unless somehow contained within a field to prevent lost of charge & maintain coherence.
How can I play this?
Go to myabandonware, download the files you need, and run it through DOSbox. You're gonna have to utilize actual DOS prompts and might need to look up some help, but otherwise it runs real smooth!
Is the next game hexen? Pllleeeeeasse consult with me before you do hexen. It's my favorite game
Not yet. But it's coming soon. Hexen is my favorite Doom engine game, so rest assured, I've got this one on LOCK. 💪
@@RubyRangerr Oh phew, you're one of the good guys. Even back in the 90s, I got the "this is medieval doom and it sucks" flak from everyone I tried to preach the holy sacrement of Hexen's greatness too.
It was the first Doom Engine game I was exposed to so I just loved what it was without comparison. I loved the "open world" hub system, the multiple player classes, and the n64 port was at least able to put in couch co-op where "doom 64" failed to do so, and also unlike doom 64 wasn't an entirely different set of maps. Of course getting it on PC with LAN play was far superior to that but I'm like, the only kid that figured out how to do that in the mid 90s (and appletalk was surprisingly way more stable than what we have to put up with in gzdoom and zandronum multiplayer now).
I'll admit, Shadow Wood is where most people either gave up or got a guide, and I'm in the latter group, but at the time reading guide books made it more... fun? Remember back when we had things like the Earthbound player's guide and Nintendo Power, as opposed to just looking stuff up on gamefaqs. I kind've wish I could erase my memory of it all so I can play it again un-spoiled with a couple co-op buddies.
It was way ahead of its time, and maybe still even ahead of our time since gaming is currently in the "open world" and "class based battle royal" bandwagons and and some DND/RPing subcultures but it's taking too long for anybody after Raven to think "what if we take these things and....." without making an MMO that's too ambitious for its own good.
bethesda is incredible:
they have all this technology and resources at their disposal
and their idea of good game design is lameduke 🤔
aaaah the times before it became Retardesda
We don't use the R word around these parts, chum.
@@RubyRangerr lol Really , why not?
@@frozenflame8319 because it's a fucking slur and incredibly disrespectful
@@RubyRangerrlmao it blows my mind there's still people who don't understand this. Like it hasn't been ok to say R word for like last 20 years
This channel is very (proudly) woke. Ranger's built a safe, wholesome space for everyone.
Slurs and phobic aversions need not apply.
Except thalassophobia. That one's OK.
One day Microsoft will solve the rights issues and put this under KEX at Nightdive.