I love how much LGR knows, and has to know, to review these things. Culture, technology, science, history, economics, game design, game industry, etc, etc, and he just brings it altogether in a simple casual way that anyone can follow and understand without having to know any of that to fully appreciate the review. Just awesome. Also the way he goes in and out of his Duke Nukem voice consciously and unconsciously.

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

Glad you're enjoying, thanks :)

@OtherworldTelevision

3 жыл бұрын

After watching a bunch of his videos in a single sitting I feel like the Duke is slowly taking control.

@ronin_user

3 жыл бұрын

I would thank you for being so specific. It’s like a nice Yelp review.

@zacharyjochumsen9677

Жыл бұрын

@@LGR did you ever playb lifeline ever for the ps2 it was microphone controlled scfi horror gsme and how old are you by the way

@olivercharles2930

Ай бұрын

I will thank you for being thanked.

I love that short-lived 90s aesthetical style of the pre-rendered games.

@element1111

6 жыл бұрын

I wish we got more of that. REmake was great.

"Be prepared to forgive a lot of awkwardness." is what I would say to girls before the start of any first date.

@phant0masterr

8 жыл бұрын

you just won the internet dude :D

@15wileyr

6 жыл бұрын

"would say"

@lucariowolfomegax1175

6 жыл бұрын

Shade Draws 🎮🎮🎮🎮🎸🎸🎸🎸🐉🐉🐉🐉🐺🐺📰📰😇👌👌👍👍😽😽😻😻👏👏👏🎊🎊🍙🍙🍙🍙🍙

@jozinek876

5 жыл бұрын

same, probably

@jozinek876

5 жыл бұрын

@ScopeDog I've never been on a date before, would much rather stay at home playing TF2

Man I loved this game. While I was waiting for it‘s release, I wrote a little diary from the perspective of the protagonist being transferred to the planet. :p

@Nemoticon

5 жыл бұрын

Lol, that's how we had to entertain ourselves back in the day!

Ug... LOVED this game. I still sometimes yell "If you've come for the fork, you'll be sorely disappointed!". Great game.

@gav240z

6 ай бұрын

Haha classic. I always loved how you beat the living daylights out of the other prisoner whilst telling him you should work together.

I'm surprised the modding community hasn't taken up the cause of fixing the bad stuff.

Beating a guy to death with his own arm... WOW!

@SpecShadow

9 жыл бұрын

+The Adequate Gamer I remember that feature in Planescape:Torment and Severance: Blade of Darkness, two opposite games (one have great combat, other have great story).

@pegasusactua2985

8 жыл бұрын

You could do that as a finishing move in Gears of War.

@Wavemaninawe

8 жыл бұрын

"Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!"

@lukeskywalker8317

7 жыл бұрын

Quan chi wins. FATALITY.

@jozinek876

5 жыл бұрын

Stylish ;)

This is one of those games I have memories of as a child but could not for the life of me remember if it was true or not. Thank you LGR! Finally I am able to put a name to this game I watched my brother play so long ago. Your review are always awesome.

Also known as the game with the best mouse cursor ever

@fotakatos

9 жыл бұрын

***** Actually it would stretch whenever you hovered over something clickable.

@JacobKinsley

5 жыл бұрын

Mario maker ain't got nothing on this

@TheAdatto

Жыл бұрын

7years late but: The 7th Guest..

Man, it's hard to hate on these old PC titles. They may have been clunky as hell and looked like butt, but they had so much charm and atmosphere to them. Like Harvester. I SHOULD hate that game, any rational person should hate it...but I love it. It's just SO damn cheesy and insane, you can't help BUT love it! Still waiting on a Tex Murphy overview, Clint...

@jozinek876

5 жыл бұрын

Classics like Half Life, Deus Ex and System shock 2 are better today than many titles in recent years. And barely anything comes close in terms of charm.

@kiddhkane

5 жыл бұрын

That's me and Time Commando! I loved the game so much. Probably many more

@handsomebrick

5 жыл бұрын

Harvester has so much imagination and ambition.

@kummakummakummakummakummac8606

5 жыл бұрын

@@jozinek876 - I was playing Deus Ex on Playstation 2 the other day. I spend more time playing older games then I do newer ones. The short answer is newer games are so dumbed down (in general0 to newer games.

Ah, Bioforge! This was my first CD-ROM game ever! Such fond memories... Love the world of this game.

@JazGalaxy

9 жыл бұрын

VeZius wow. Huh. I wonder what mine was? Sam and Max Hit The Road, maybe?

@crowsbridge

9 жыл бұрын

I used to play the demo over and over, it was just the first room with the blue guy.

@Domspun

9 жыл бұрын

VeZius My first was Rebel Assault, came with my PC Creative CD-Rom/Sound blaster set.

@noneofyourbeeswax01

5 жыл бұрын

@@crowsbridge Me too; it was a demo on one of those free discs you got back then with all computer magazines that generally had upwards of 50 game demos and shareware games. I thought it was so awesome that I did eventually get it, but it required the collective efforts of friends and family to complete, with a different person taking over when different abilities were required, e.g. the kidsd would usually do better at the combat/shooting sections whilst the older ones would be better at the more cerebral puzzles. With everyone having their own savegames and getting assistance when needed we eventually got one of us over the finishing line - which was something of an anti-climax, I have to say. We might just as well have been told we were "Captain John Smith" or "Zsa Zsa Gabor" at the end, there was no real revelation, no significance or meaning and enlightened us not at all. Still enjoyed it tremendously though, and had really hoped for the updated edition.

Say what you will, but the 90s Origin titles were just amazing in terms of immersion and creating atmosphere. I spent me whole youth wishing i could live in the Privateer universe.

This definitely brings back many nostalgic gaming memories. PC gaming in the 90s was the best!

This is one of my favorite games of all time. Probably in my top 10. It was so deep and complex, beautifully designed and well-acted (mostly, it's a 90's game after all😏). Contained an amazing combination of multiple game-genres and innovative story telling, enhanced by very decent visuals and smooth movememnt. Love it. Simply love it.

Frick! That's a Laser Raptor. I thought they went extinct, thousands of years ago.

@bobbulat1393

6 жыл бұрын

Futonrevolution Must be the Viking Age

@kummakummakummakummakummac8606

5 жыл бұрын

+ 1 for the Morte av or whatever they are called.

It really was my first and last original game I´ve ever bought. It was a blast back with our first family p90 Computer. I remember that 1MB cost 70DM which would be around 50 Euros today. SO our first setup with 550MB HDD, 17" Eizo, HP 690C, QuadSpeed CD Rom and 16MB Ram along with a Pentium 90 was around 9.000 DM when I was 13. That´s mindblowing 6500 Euros today, with a technology that was obsolete almost 2 years later.

my late dad bought me this game original pc cd back in the 90s in Poland. It cost him a fortune as the pirate game market was sky rocketing these days in Poland. Loved the game and loved my dad. Miss him.

Honstly, this looks like a game that would really benift from a reboot. Vastly improve graphics, and just slightly tweak game play (keep it movement and combat slower compared to modern games, but not restricting like a modern horror.)

Wow this looks sickkk, can't believe I never heard of it before

This looks like one of those 90's games where, yes there are faults, serious almost-downright-unplayable faults , but the good stuff is so, so good, and so unique, that you won't find it in any other game, so you keep coming back anyway.

I had had a BioForge Mousepad, with the coverart. Even i did not liked the game, i used the mousepad for years, it just looked awesome. ^^

A Fork!

@noneofyourbeeswax01

5 жыл бұрын

_"If you've come for the fork you'll be sorely disappointed!"_

@bobbobson110

5 жыл бұрын

Fork you!

@tormuse2916

5 жыл бұрын

@@noneofyourbeeswax01 "Return the fork, or I'll command it to destroy you!"

@TheSpacey52

5 жыл бұрын

What the fork!?

@SvendleBerries

4 жыл бұрын

A LOG book.

I work midnights pretty consistently, and I always watch your videos. But your soothingly deep voice always makes me sleepy.

Dear LGR, I really dig your channel. Regards, Keen

I refer to it as "Security camera" style. Because the camera Is stationary like you're watching a store security camera.

@TheSpacey52

5 жыл бұрын

More like Resident Evil with it's fixed camera angles and tank controls

@dorpth

3 жыл бұрын

More like Alone in the Dark, you youngsters!

@ChristopherGoddard-du7gk

3 жыл бұрын

Actually with this game you can see cameras littered around the halls and that's where the camera shifts to. The intended aesthetic seems to be that you were meant to see through the security cameras cameras

I was specifically looking for this game review. Thanks for covering it! When I tried playing this as a kid, I found it too scary and didn’t really get anywhere lol

Memories of this game: The 3D graphics were amazing at the time. This was only 1 year after Alone in the Dark's triangle people, and 1 year before Resident Evil which it looked nearly as good as. This was the first game I tried after upgrading from a basic 8-bit Soundblaster to a Soundblaser AWE 32 and the difference in music quality was minblowing, nearly as big a jump as going from PC speaker to a Soundblaster. The thing is, I initially upgraded to an Esoniq Soundscape but it wouldn't work with Bioforge so I traded it in for the AWE 32 which did work. Looking back, the Soundscape was actually the superior card, and Bioforge was one of the rare games that DIDN'T support it. So I missed out on a superior sound card just to play Bioforge and...I don't think it was really worth it. The game combat was so slow and clunky and janky that often I couldn't tell if you were meant to beat enemies, bypass them, or had to use some puzzle to beat them. It was hard to tell if your blast was hurting the giant ED-209 mechs. The robo-raptor could only be stunned and you had to use a puzzle to kill him. The main "villain" alien could only be stunned and had to be disabled with a puzzle the first 2 times you fought him. The 3rd time you fight him, you're meant to finally kill him with punches but there's zero indication that this fight is any different and it takes SO LONG that you naturally conclude that you're meant to use a puzzle so you give up fighting and run around looking for a puzzle. Took me a whole week before I was completely surprised by him dropping dead after the 100th punch.

Bioforge is so freaking amazing! I feel like the game was held back by the industry standards in gameplay and technology. Really, if it was made later, it could have been the best cyber-horror third person person action adventure game. The beginnning was most promising, but the slow gameplay and clunky combat showed its ugly face, as soon as you escape the prison (not the cell, but the prison by using the chopped of arm).

Fuc- at the dos prompt made me laugh hard. Cool review as always, Clint. Brought me back memories.

That was the first PC Game I bought for my first own computer when it came to shops in 1995. It did cost 129 Deutsche mark, supposed to be 129 Euro today. My AMD 486DX2-80 was close to the minimum hardware requierement and it took some time to load the game. But that time it was really awesome and it is still, till today one of the best games I ever played. It runs well in DOSBOX today on modern hardware, but you have to cycle down the Dosbox otherwise you will never be able to solve the reactor quest due to the time running out to fast. It was some kind of an early Half life. I even wrote to Origin back the days to get a copy of Bioforge Plus, but it never saw the liegt of day. I like your Videos pretty much. ;-)

I remember trying to play the PC gamer demo for this. Died many times before finally rage-quitting. It was the Dark Souls of 1995.

@noneofyourbeeswax01

5 жыл бұрын

Dude, you only had to get out of your cell, into the blue guy's cell to retrieve the fork - _"If you've come for the fork you'll be sorely disappointed!"_ - and use it to short-circuit the exit door, end of Demo! Mind you it's probably just as well you never played the full game, because believe me it gets insanely hard - you just saved yourself a lot of pain!

The old-school PC music at the end got me more excited than anything. I love the soundblaster/adlib era PC tunes so much... Much like the graphics, the limited capabilities of the music made my brain fill in all the extras and it was amazing. Games nowadays rarely exercise that part of my mind.

2:43 Great scream Lol!! Thanks for covering this game, loved it back in the day.

Your voice is awesome. I'm not even into the games that much. But you narrate so well,that I just listen and meditate. Thank you!

The only thing that I remember of this game is the starting room and getting killed repeatedly by the nurse bot. I must've never figured out that puzzle and quit out of frustration. 28 years later, I know how to solve it. Thanks, LGR! 😂

@Nov-5062

10 ай бұрын

Yep, just beat it a few times :-)

Lawsa mercy, this is a DEFINITE old favorite. Flawed, yet still brilliant. Loved the intro cutscene.

The second I saw the jail cell the memories of this game came flooding back.

I have fond memories of that game. That "AHHHGGG" sound when you walk into the cell bars really brought me back. must have heard that 20 times before i got out :) RETURN THE FORK OR I WILL COMMAND IT TO DESTROY YOU!

3:55 "I have no wish to harm you!" [proceeds to be beaten to death with own arm.]

I've always wanted to play this one, but could never get it to run on the machine I had at the time. I completely forgot about this game since then, until now! Glad to finally see some footage of it. Great job as always, LGR.

I love to crack open a beer, light up a joint and listen to your soothing voice review old shit.

@allurhatrbelongtome

5 жыл бұрын

hell yeah brother

I was disappointed to find out you do not in fact construct illicit copies of biographies in this game! D:

@isaacwilson4174

9 жыл бұрын

I personally was disapointed with the overall lack of mad scientis style surgeries

@fotakatos

9 жыл бұрын

littleNorwegians Heh, I thought it was about manufacturing tools out of biodegradable materials.

I simply ADORED this game and finished it without a guide. Took forever, as a kid, but well worth it. Also - boo for playing on easy combat. Hard makes every repeated move slower, forcing you to mix things up.

I love seeing your review this game. I used to play this until we've got to a point where my computer could not handle the processing power to play this game as it starts out simple but gets more complex. I later met the people who program this game because they are local coders. Really nice guys, they used to also run the software shop here in Gainesville Florida

Holy crap that game looked amazing for a 1995 game, though.

@LGR

9 жыл бұрын

Frank Sandqvist Oh yeah, it's crazy impressive for the time.

I wrote a review of this game that pretty much sums it up like this:"The negatives far outweights the positives so I recommend it only if you're interested in an quite ambitious title or you're like me and love Origin Systems and must own every game of their collection"

I loved this game. It was freaking hard, but really cool. It's sad that it never had a sequel. And I still have my box!

One of my earliest PC games; still have it, still haven't played it. I remember having a go on a friend's PC and not being able to properly hear the speech. "If you've come f.... , you'll disappointed". Other early games I got from around the same time: Ecstatica, Desert Strike, Alone in The Dark, and Little Big Adventure (maybe known as Relentless in the US). Still got them all, too, and not one of them has been played...

Alone in the Dark style gameplay meets System Shock atmosphere, with a dash of The Terminator-inspired character designs?! This looks amazing!

this game is so rare, i plaed a demo from a pc gamer demo disc a long time ago. thanks for reviewing it.

Man, I played this game time after time. Brings back gooood memories :D Thanx for reviewing it! :)

20 years... I like when you review games from this period. Bioforge is one of those many titles I really wanted to play but I had amiga at the time and no money for a PC. I remeber it looked awesome and advanced in the magazines.

Gotta love the charm of those old games along with the sound blaster 4 operator FM sound. A couple worthwhile weird/obscure 90s games you might wanna check out - ZPC and Blue Ice

Liberated a jewel case version of this for $4aud on Friday. Always remember this nearly getting game of the year back in '95 - how time flies

This is totally a game I would play if it weren't for the controls. Prerendered backgrounds are the best.

Okay, important question: Does the box or CD glow in the dark?!

@LGR

9 жыл бұрын

***** Nope.

Thanks again for this LGR (seen it first on Patreon) I am really glad you talk about the time bomb puzzle, I couldn't get past it as a kid and that happens very early in the game :(

I loved this game and played it right to the end without cheats or guides etc. Awesome!!!

-- If you've come for the fork, you'll be sorely disappointed! -- I have no wish to harm you! (while beating the poor guy to death with his own severed hand) I freaking loved this game! One of the first games that I played on my shiny new 486 DX4-100/8Mb/ computer back in 1995. I was blown away by the graphics, animations, complex sci-fi plot, dialogues during action gameplay like the one above (today it doesn't seem like a big deal, but back then voice acted dialogues were mostly presented in non-interactive scenes). The only problem that I had with Bioforge was that it was too damn hard, even by 90's standards of adventure games (which were already quite high) and a lot of the times you had no idea what to do next. About halfway through I gave up and started using solution. Still, I was very impressed with the game and quite upset when I learned that Origin cancelled the sequel.

@noneofyourbeeswax01

5 жыл бұрын

"I have no wish to harm you!" If that was true why didn't you simply distract him for a while by offering him the meat you picked up earlier? Always it's "oh, let's just bash him to death with his own arm" these days, what happened to finesse? You can't just beat someone to death with their own arm as a solution to all life's problems you know! I agree with you about the insane levels of difficulty though; made even harder by the mix of different types of problems requiring variously combat, FBS style shooting, time limited objective, physical and mental puzzles. The only way I got through it was to enlist family and friends to contribute (the younger ones usually being far better than me in combat), judiciously using savegames - playing was, rather unusually, therefore often a group effort and social event, which made it even more enjoyable for me.

Love this game as a kid, could never get far though..thanks for some sweet nostalgia.

7:27 that has to be one of first uses of a light bridge in a game. The whole game looks like demo art, and those backgrounds are incredible.

@9HighFlyer9

7 жыл бұрын

Nexfero I happened to scroll down to your comment right as the light bridge showed up on screen.

@Nexfero

7 жыл бұрын

+9HighFlyer9 I was playing Blackthorne on my SNES recently and that game also contains light bridges and it was released in 1994. Thats the earliest pre-halo use of light bridges I know of

Wow. That promo art is so fucking sick.

It's always weird when I have very specific memories as a kid playing a game I cant remember the name of then, BOOM you show it. Thanks.

So glad I bought this game used back in the day.

Oh man, the 3D models walking around in a pre rendered screen that is just a image. The times, the times they are a changing. This was a leap in different tech, the atmo man the atmo of this game was incredible, CD-rom titles, loved it, never had the gear to play it proper though.

Bioforge used to freak me out as a kid probably because I didn't know what body horror was back then.

I've still got this game, and it was the business. All it's quirks was taken for granted back then no matter how clunky. Would love to see a remake.

I remember playing this during some summer vacation. All day, all night. I even remember some terrible part, where you had to disable some kind of reactor from blowing up, and you really didn't have much time to spare. There was a bridge you had to get across first, ooooh... the memories...

I’ve dove into this game recently and I really love it

This game looks cool! Going on my GOG wishlist ASAP!

@MundMoriginal

2 жыл бұрын

Dude, just buy it!

This game was the reason I had to upgrade from 4mb ram to 8mb ram. On a price u might get a damn i9 nowadays. Thank you grandma 😊

@dallesamllhals9161

3 жыл бұрын

And I picked strawberries for 4 weeks(0400-0900) to buy a 16MB SIMM RAM module. Because back then I ALSO belived that more System RAM = FASTER EVERYTHING!!! 4+16=20MB YAY :-/ (sigh) Oh, well! Still have that 16MB module in the same 486! But now with the AMD Am5x86 133MHz CPU that IS faster than the DX2 66MHz back then. EDIT: DOOM 2 last stage was why I wanted more than 4MB RAM...and Dark Forces, Full Throttle...and... :-)

LGR I'm on a trip to Russia and today I found a bunch of pc games on a bookstore. They were in cd covers, brand new and extremely cheap. Dark souls 2 was being sold for ₽700 (with the current exchange rate just $12), and I even saw Omerta: City of Gangsters, a game I didn't even know had a physical release, for less than ₽300! Its a physical steam sale!

@LGR

9 жыл бұрын

Otávio Do Not Look Here Google Nice! I grabbed the physical copy of Omerta in the 4th episode of LGR Thrifts: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l4yJzq5sgNfMdsY.html

Purchased this not long after it released. Loved it SO much. So ahead of its time and the graphics blew me away not to mention the sound with the voices and such . For the time this was past cutting edge and into bleeding edge. I then lost it over the years but got a copy off ebay. Cant let it go :)

Wow I’ve been trying to remember what this game was for years! It ran terribly on my PC back in the day but I still recall that damn starting prison scene.

This was one of the games I got with my first PC. I remember it being really tough, but I did complete it. Thanks for an interesting video.

"I shall pattern my life after the random loopings of your entrails!" has yet to be topped as a game quote.

Gotta love that Death Scream!!! 2:43

I was very fascinated by this game. I bought it and I played just for a few hours, not being able to go past the very first scenes. When you got stuck back in those days, there was no online tutorial helping you out. You felt alone in the dark.

When i was young i had this game. My computer could never run it, but i always stared at it wondering how it would be. Guess i didnt miss out on much.

@52BLUE

2 жыл бұрын

You did. This game was groundbreaking at the time and absolutely terrified me as a 12 year old.

Those mid 90's games; offering content and then not delivering. I think the one that broke my heart the most was Terra Nova: Strike Force Centari. They had a mail order multiplayer add-on that never got made.

Found the big box version for €1 on last week's local flea market... :D

@Seafyre

8 жыл бұрын

Congrats! I want that myself

This one really makes me miss big box pc games. I had that box sitting on my desk for years back in the mid 90s, one of the few pc games my dad bought for me.

I think you've sold me on purchasing this game dang it, you know how to exploit my precious nostalgia lol.

8:20 - 8:34 That's called, Nostalgia Herpes. With modern medication you can live with it, but, every once and a while it'll flair up.

people from more recent generations forget or simply are not aware that that kind of controls and gameplay was a standard back then and since alone in the dark that was super huge title especially that back then games were really hard, unforgiving and such graphics back when was like wooooooooooow. I remember you could just look at bioforge or creature shock and think wow so those are the games of the future lol and yes, these titles were considered ahead of their time in a way.

Oh man the memories of BioForge... and trying to install it to work on my Tandy 1000 SX.... Uuugh, but so awesome. It was best of times it was the worst of times.

@LGR

9 жыл бұрын

MAMECADE Video Game Reviews Oh man, that's a recipe for disappointment!

It was designers' intentional push for minimalistic UI, they wanted to make a "movie" experience. I remember this statement printed in B&W from back-then '90. computer game magazines.

I remember seeing the box for this game at computer stores back in 1995. It looked so cool, but my 386 DX-25 was far too slow to even attempt to play it. It looks like the sort of game that would have blown my mind, but would have been incredibly frustrating once I inevitably got stuck. I likely would have powered through the clunky controls, though, much like I powered through Star Control III and Outpost.

4:10 RIPTOR I love the bass on the music. Gives me an advanced Sega Genesis vibe.

Other games like these that i liked were Ecstatica 1 and 2, and Dark Earth, ever played those Clint?

This has been on my GOG wishlist for a while, I was always curious how it'd be. Thanks for the review!

ahh man i loved this game as a kid.. such a dark eerie world

"Did that say cyber-raptor?" Patrick Klepek, 2013

This game is a MUST, along Alone in the Dark and Planescape: Torment. Truly a piece of history in gaming.

Bought this when i was a kid. originally wanted Quake but it was too expensive so I got bioforge instead. That giant wasp/mantis creature under the cryogenics lab still gives me nightmares to this day! They should do a remake or remaster someday.

Yet another great video LGR! Keep at It!

There was a Bioforge Plus? FRACK! That's what this game needed most of all. Always drove me crazy, I love the setting and style sooo much, but as you said, the gameplay is infuriating.

I enjoyed the eerie ambiance last half of darkness reference, oh and the whole video.

For a game that's supposedly using mo-cap, those sure are some awkward and unnatural looking animations.

@noneofyourbeeswax01

5 жыл бұрын

I think it taught us that Mo-cap is pretty much wasted in a 486graphics DOS game.

@kummakummakummakummakummac8606

5 жыл бұрын

When I heard motion capture I thought of Avengers Infinity War. But it didn't look like that. Lol.

FMV is the way to be. Those who didn't embrace the next level, are why we are forever lost in the non-volumetric video wasteland polygonal nightmares.