The way Epic handled the Unreal series is truly heartbreaking.

@fus132

2 ай бұрын

@basicallyhuman UT4 had basically no competition, Epic just decided to chase money with Fortnite instead.

@memes_gbc674

2 ай бұрын

it was pennies to them to keep the master servers up, how is it that valve is still keeping the master servers for their oldest games that peak to 20-30 players every weekend

@natenbox64

2 ай бұрын

I’m still not happy about it (I still have my copies of those games before they got delisted tho).

@RelakS__

2 ай бұрын

@@memes_gbc674 Shoot down the master servers, who cares? But let players buy/download the game and dedicated server to be able to continue the fun. I say this even though I did not play UT for more than 15 years.

@V3ntilator

2 ай бұрын

@@fus132 Epic were stupid for putting all eggs in one basket, and cancel UT. Fortnite won't be a money bin forever.

Man I miss those days when having 37 maps was seen as not good enough. Now we'd be lucky to have 5 maps and have to pay more for any other maps lol

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

No kidding, we didn't know how good we had it

@wamba2097

2 ай бұрын

And then there were the awesome community map packs too!

@kirkanos3968

2 ай бұрын

Forgot the #1 fact back then we used to own our game we paid for not just buying a license to play them.

@abadenoughdude300

2 ай бұрын

@@kirkanos3968 Also we could've done all kinds of weird things with them using all kinds of tools that CAME WITH THE DAMN GAME. Almost as if the devs themselves wanted us to enjoy and have fun with their games, rather than begrudgingly tolerate our existence as it is now.

@DrundeFPS

2 ай бұрын

Xbox fans and old COD players reading this: 😳

UT 2004 was THE go-to game for my LAN party group for years. No matter what other, newer, shinier options were on offer, there would always be at least one UT deathmatch running at all hours of the night, and everyone got in on the fun, no matter how little FPS they played otherwise. It has a timeless, pick up and play magic about it, matched only by Mario Kart.

@barl6412

8 күн бұрын

Hey this isn’t anime what goin on here? Also UT 2004 is still the most fun I’ve ever had in an FPS

@CragScrambler

8 күн бұрын

The map and mod support was awesome.

It's hard to explain to younger gamers what a HUGE deal UT2004 was at the time. I was too poor to afford a gaming PC, but my buddy Chris let me play at his place whenever, and it was glorious. I cherish that time so much.

@carbon5261

2 ай бұрын

I also had a buddy Chris whose house I would play this at. He had a Mac tower that he got a new graphics card for specifically to play this.

@phyrr2

2 ай бұрын

It's just like explaining to younger people now the value of growing up WITHOUT smart phones, with actual real life friends, riding bikes and crap like that. The world had changed very fast and much for the worst. I'm glad we got to grow up in such a time with good honest fun and with amazing games. People now are just used to mediocre to crappy products thinking that's just the norm. Poor bastards.

@ccricers

2 ай бұрын

I had a 1280x1024 LCD monitor at the time but those were so expensive back then. So the PC was too slow to run these on native resolution because I still had a weak graphics. This game eventually convinced me to upgrade.

@crunchysuperman

2 ай бұрын

I had a room in my house set up with 5 PCs in a LAN. Had friends over for playing 2k4, original UT, Serious Sam, etc - it was glorious! I might even have enjoyed that time of my life more than the original arcade scene from the early 80's. Maybe.

@aMiyafuji

Ай бұрын

It's kind of weird. I remember playing UT99 from my dad... around the time 04 would of came out with no clue about it. Hey, UT99, Tac Ops, and Halo CE worked for a bit until I could spread my young wings further myself. Love the older stuff though. As much as I wanted to play the current stuff, I still appreciated what I had because it was fun. Like even dying seemed more fun then. I dunno if it was just how crazy it all looked, the sounds, or just being young

Fuck Epic for delisting all Unreal games from every store.

@OpenTournament

2 ай бұрын

💢

@guguy00

2 ай бұрын

First I've heard of this. Thank balls I bought them years ago. Epic Fail Games infuriate me sometimes. Okay, most of the time. Still baffles me as to why they don't just put the Unreal games on their own fucking store.

@MandleRoss

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for putting it the best out of all the comments about this. The word "travesty" is fine, but a good old "fuck you" to Epic is the only real way to express the awfulness of what they have done.

@ARRRsonist

2 ай бұрын

Such an unnecessary kick in the dick that was. Like, I get shutting down the servers to a degree, because I'm sure that saved them a very small amount of money, and community servers always find a way. But removing the games completely was baffling. It's not as if they don't run on modern computers, I play UT2004 from GOG at least once a year.

@xFluing

2 ай бұрын

@@ARRRsonistCommunity servers only find a way if the game supports them in the first place, like these old unreal games. It's a real issue when the game depends on a central server and that goes down, you're left with nothing. It's destruction of property. Straight up.

In my opinion UT2004 is the best vanilla Arena FPS game of all time. An absurd amount of content out of the box.

@leonardodavid4670

25 күн бұрын

agreed

20 years... Shit I feel old. UT2K4 was one of the last of the golden era of gaming.

@Kevalanium

11 күн бұрын

Thats so incorrect the xbox 360/ PS3 era alone were golden era of gaming.

@SirFrag32

3 күн бұрын

@@Kevalanium Definetly not. And the golden era was never console gaming.

So glad to see Onslaught getting some love. I thought I was the only one that adored it and was bewildered that it never got the props it deserved.

@pilariusable

28 күн бұрын

ONS and VCTF both! Those vehicles with their physics were so much fun those days!

@Tricksteeer

11 күн бұрын

One of the best larger scale vehicle warfare, would be amazing to have it revived in newest unreal engine

What Epic is doing to the franchise that built their company - the very namesake of their engine that powers most of the gaming universe, is beyond baffling to me. In fact, it's rather infuriating to see what Epic have decided to become.

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

Hear hear!

@iron3764

2 ай бұрын

Its all fornite, battlepasses, titty cartoon characters and gen z now :/

@joshallen128

2 ай бұрын

i wouldnt be surprised if they renamed their engine to the Epic Engine@@LGR

@aserta

2 ай бұрын

That's why corporate types have no business in the gaming world.

@dualpapayas

2 ай бұрын

Such a big juxtaposition between Valve releasing a documentary celebrating Half-Life's 25th anniversary and Epic Games trying to memory hole Unreal (the game) from existence.

On Noclip's docummentary on Warframe (made by Digital Extremes), the now CEO of DE, Steve Sinclair starts the conversation on "people tell me 'I hate the lighthing gun what is that horrible thing' and im just like 'yeah, that was me'" hah

@Krynis

2 ай бұрын

I feel like Steve had made up for it since then haha. (big Warframe fan here)

@blunderingfool

2 ай бұрын

The lightning gun has an otherwise unused killfeed line for players who manage to kill themselves with a hit-scan weapon... It includes "PLAYER defied the laws of physics". =P

@SITHRootz

2 ай бұрын

@@Krynis yeah warframe slaps

@megan_alnico

2 ай бұрын

What's your favorite frame?

@CharlesAnjos

2 ай бұрын

I came here to comment this, that part of the interview is fucking hilarious

Epic's treatment of this franchise proves that piracy is morally correct.

@JSSMVCJR2.1

Ай бұрын

It only proves that companies can eff off, on the gamer's perspective.

UT 2004 being on LGR is so wild. In 3 years we'll start seeing Crysis and Bioshock.

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

Crysis: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qKR12dKtnZC1Z9o.html

@Odog78

11 күн бұрын

I know. It hits home when you see a car from your teenage years, and it has an antique license plate on it.... FML.

Wow. 20 years ago, I was at a LAN Party. The host left to go to best buy, came back with one copy of UT 2004. Gave it to somebody else. He went into a bedroom, came back later that night, cracked it, and gave us all copies. It was legit all we played that entire time!

@lucastekkan

2 ай бұрын

It must have been amazing lol. I was born too late for these big lan parties (still played lan with some friends, but mostly out of necessity instead of nostalgia).

@TheDman216

Ай бұрын

i loved lan partys

@Mofapilot

18 күн бұрын

It was even crazier later on. From a certain update on, the CD was not needed anymore to play, even in LAN multiplayer. So we were installing the same copy on every PC, installed the latest update back then and were all good to go

It's such a fucking tragedy this franchise was removed from the digital marketplace.

@SinisterPuppy

2 ай бұрын

For real. What a weird way to celebrate the 20th anniversary. No idea wtf is happening with Epic.

@AJ-po6up

2 ай бұрын

@@SinisterPuppy They only care about their cash-cow Fartnite that's what's happening with Epic.

@skillaz908

2 ай бұрын

You can still get original UT99 from GOG and there are still a lot of servers to play! ✌️

@CharlesAnjos

2 ай бұрын

​@@SinisterPuppybusiness and finance over everything else is what happened

@blade9292

2 ай бұрын

They could Either offer the games for free in their store or update them to work better with modern systems...

What I remember the most about UT2k4 was the music. There were some absolute bangers that I still listen to today occasionally. Serenity, Rankin, SkaarjAssault

@kizurura

16 күн бұрын

The wonders of Kevin Riepl. A musical genius. The other 2 composers were great too, but KR rose the bar really high with the orchestral style.

3:13 "Hor-As-! Hor-As-! Hor-As-!" I see I wasn't the only one who did that lol.

Love how you can always pull out 5 different releases of the same game. A true collector!

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

I do find it quite gratifying tracking down all the alternate releases and special editions I couldn’t afford back then or never knew about 😁

@utarefson9

2 ай бұрын

I do wish you'd give Unreal Championship 2 a proper review, it's one of the many forgotten gems of the OG xbox

That moment you realise you're now 20 years older

@jr2904

2 ай бұрын

I've been doing that a lot this year thanks to movies I watched as a kid or teenager having some big anniversaries this year lol. The matrix turned 25, Shaun of the dead is 20, Terminator is 40, etc.

@TheDman216

Ай бұрын

iam an old guy now

@Iraqveteran99

20 күн бұрын

@@jr2904 im as old as Terminator? fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuq......................

@vgjhlgjhfuyfjhfjkhgyghj

14 күн бұрын

🙄 ffs

Nailed that "Zen state" thing. Perfectly describes what it felt like, and took me back to those wonderful days

@nickwallette6201

2 ай бұрын

Yup. I always thought it was funny how UT would ramp me up in a chaotic frenzy, and then I start to coast into that flow state, and finish up feeling totally chill and happy.

UT2004 ruled, basically. And this video really just hit home essentially everything about it. Watched this and ended up nostalgic about those days I was almost always at a LAN Cafe that had this and Doom 3/HL2. Though by then, said cafes would play more CS, Korean mmos, and other stuff while Quake and Unreal's popularity dwindled locally, which I still lament. Hell, I hate how the announcer for this got popular in a different WC3 custom map (that spawned a genre lol).

It's amazing how great UT2004 still looks! That era of 3D game just has this awesome aesthetic that wasn't trying to be real life, but also had a bunch of contrast and lights to keep you engaged.

@Two49

2 ай бұрын

Yeah the original style of '04 really shines through. A modern re-release with remastered textures would be awesome.

@FrauleinMuller999

2 ай бұрын

I love sci fi design of that era

@mindblockandroid

2 ай бұрын

The awesome thing is that the mod tools are all in there! We could make a remake ourselves if Epic doesn’t care about it!

UT2004 was peak multiplayer PC gaming. It had absolutely everything in a single package, tons of game modes, an absurd variety of maps, multiple weapons, player skins, mods, high skill ceiling for the hardcore, a 3-hour long soundtrack with D&B music to apocalyptic choirs, etc. No FPS game has come close to the amount of content UT2004 had just on day one.

@OpenTournament

2 ай бұрын

That's absolutely true. TBH it puts most other games to shame

@zenithquasar9623

2 ай бұрын

I loved it so much.

@Aggrofool

2 ай бұрын

Well kinda. By 2004 everyone got sick of arena shooters, Battlefield was the shizz

@Jack-vk5ko

2 ай бұрын

@@Aggrofool idk dude, servers were constantly full and I remember UT2k4 was a staple for the LAN parties I went to (along with CS2). In fact could still find decent amount of ppl playing in 2010 and beyond (mods really kept it going)

@1Raptor85

2 ай бұрын

​@@Aggrofool battlefield didn't even start getting big until almost 2 years after ut2k4...

This makes me understand why I love Helldivers 2 so much. It's the same kind of engagement and silliness where they just let the developers do whatever they wanted while never asking for permission or forgiveness.

7:46 "... though it has seen better days: it's rapidly aging, and it's darn near falling apart since the mid 2000s, but hey... who hasn't ?" Aww man, right in the feels!!

That Ball Delivery shot that barely missed... I felt that deep in my soul.

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

The way my stomach turned when that happened

i still play all 4 games in the series regularly, like a balding man clinging to his last pieces of hair, remembering a once great time

@BaldingSasquatch

2 ай бұрын

Sorry what was that about hair loss?

@sega_kid4288

2 ай бұрын

Hey!!!! I’m not clinging I’m just lazy 😎

@duxzu

2 ай бұрын

I too am balding

@poeticsilence047

2 ай бұрын

Homer, is that you?

@olik136

2 ай бұрын

Asking for a friend.. how can you play them today? (legally)

I loved UT2003 and UT2004! I had the game as a kid and I still love it! Especially the music!

Can't believe it's been 20 years I still play UT2004 from time to time , we have a modified trials server where we speed run hundreds of maps against each other down to the milliseconds with a lot of maps and times now being very close to what the community considers humanly perfect. Some footage on my channel from a couple of years ago if anyone is interested. Really is such a shame that Epic removed UT from being purchased digitally and also washed their hands with latest project of UT - UT4 (the epic and community led project). This was a great video though and was really nice to watch your review !

"Geared up for war" now that you mentioned it, I see the connection.

@4Wilko

2 ай бұрын

I chuckled at that part (10:00).

@rhydiangalindo8939

2 ай бұрын

also the GOW hammer of dawn flying by while talking about the orbital laser 27:41

"falling apart since the 2000's, what isn't" Right in the feelz

@rommix0

2 ай бұрын

Yeah like the Patriot Act and No Child Left Behind. good times.

@bert.hbuysse5569

2 ай бұрын

YES!

The UT2004 soundtrack is "mid 2000s" in a way that nothing else can be. It's incredible.

@MrWolfSnack

2 ай бұрын

Its sounds so much like the techno soundtrack of Fast and Furious 1.

@russelldoty2743

2 ай бұрын

That's tracker music for ya. Very distinctive.

@azazelleblack

2 ай бұрын

@@russelldoty2743 Ironically, UT2004 mostly didn't use tracker music, haha.

First time finding this channel after feeling nostalgic for the Unreal franchise. I spent so much time with this game in Internet cafes in middle school when I was 13 back in 2004. I didn't have a good PC that could play it. So I had go to one in a local Mall instead.

I played SO MUCH Unreal Tournament. It absolutely triggers that "good old days" feeling any time I see or hear anything about it.

@raafmaat

2 ай бұрын

i never got into it much, i played it on a couple of LAN parties and a few times with some mates later using teamspeak or something similar, but it never really hooked me in much, it seemed like just a quick fun thing to do in suuuper short burtsts!

@InfectiousGroovePodcast

2 ай бұрын

@@raafmaat neat. Many of us played it for hours and hours :)

@OpenTournament

2 ай бұрын

Hi

2004 was such an awesome year for gaming, can't believe it's been 20 years already...

@Igorsov

2 ай бұрын

And the last too…

@buggerlugz6753

2 ай бұрын

back when you didn't need 10 different game clients eh.....and could put a cd or dvd in a drive!

Some of UT2004 music is such a decade-long earworm. KR Hyperblast Redux theme (I guess a legacy from single player 'campaign's last level...) still pops up in my head randomly from time to time And SDG-ONS08 track is so unique and memorable too

Man, this was a delight. UT'99 is still the first game I install on ANY PC capable of running it. 2004 is such a great successor! I just remember being real sour at the time, because at LAN parties, my crappy little HP laptop (ze4500 I think? With a Celeron and a Radeon IGP 340m with shared V-ram lol) was the ONLY machine there that could barely run it. It RAN, but at less than 10 FPS at all time lol But not long after that, I built a baller AMD Athlon XP 3000+ PC in a slick Soyo Dragon case with a handle on top, and got a nice 19 inch flat-panel monitor, and LAN parties became a riot again! Also, hearing Forgone Destruction will always put me in the zone. I'm halfway through making a Junk-dive episode, but now I just wanna shove all that aside and do a UT'99 /2004 centric build. 😍

Imagine a current multiplayer FPS loaded with 37(!) maps on release day.

@JSSMVCJR2.1

Ай бұрын

AA games.

Onslaught mode is still one of the greatest multiplayer experiences out there.

@DMKleinArts

Ай бұрын

Id love something to utilize it again as well as ut2k4 did

@pilariusable

28 күн бұрын

The game mode itself was great, I loved it, but the success was mostly due to the well balanced vehicles/physics for both on-foot and vehicle combat.

@Tricksteeer

11 күн бұрын

Battlefield brought some new additions to the genra, but i always missed Onslaught, i still hope it will be revived someday

This was such an awesome video, thank you for all the time and work you put into it! Im so jealous of your dos gaming collection lol. Its even worse because you're the one who got me into dos gaming in the first place!

Thanks for the video. I lived in Norway when these games came out and I played them on a semi-pro level with a friend whos brother wanted to go pro and used us for practice. 2k3 and 2k4 were unique in the UT series with the double-jump, meaning pros would literally fly around the arena combining it with strafing. I became hooked on movement shooting and always wanted to see another similar game, now I play Apex Legends to get my fix. UTcomp was the official competitive mod, I recommend checking it out.

I worked in a wildlife refuge for months in isolation no Internet no phone....that game was very important to me. It was a great game!!

Such a fun time. It's an absolute travesty UT got wiped from GOG.

@matternicuss

2 ай бұрын

Thankfully people who bought it before the takedown can still download it and archive it, but it’s tragic we won’t get any new players until Epic decides to rerelease them.

@ThePlayerOfGames

2 ай бұрын

​@@matternicussintroduce new players via the power of piracy. If they're going to commit arson and intentional destruction, torrenting is the natural cure!

@pilot3605

2 ай бұрын

Bought Unreal Gold like a month before they took it down. Wtf epic

What a good nostalgic video, I haven't thought about this game since 2006. I loved it. The improvements in unrealED especially the ability to import from maya was a really killer feature. Thank You for making this video

Thank you for this video Clint, My Dad introduced me to UT2004 when I was a kid and I haven't stopped playing since. Truly one of the best games of all time. I'm glad you like Bombing Run, I enjoy it too!

I have played 1000 hrs of this game's demo on a Dell Dimension PC with my dad. Amazing times they where.

@lootpack27

2 ай бұрын

Hell yes the demo was all you needed

@phoboswhiplash

2 ай бұрын

AS Torlan theme must be fried into your brain, just like mine

@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing

2 ай бұрын

Back when some geniuses at Circuit City put them on the demo PCs, and were networked...people would have impromptu matches against other shoppers. I think it sold more well-spec'd Compaq and HP computers than anything else

@TheMadRRConductor

2 ай бұрын

I never owned the full proper game I played the demo mostly exclusively. Only fairly recently picked up the full game on steam. Still have my demo installation files and they still work well too.

Easily spent over 20,000 hours in the UT Franchise........ mostly 99, but 2003 and 2004 were fun. Amazed how slow some of the video scenes appear compared to the competitive nature we had back in the day, it was so fast on the semi-pro and pro scene. Back when custom mods, maps and skins were all free, no loot boxes, self-hosting servers....... Thank you for the memories.

@syproful

2 ай бұрын

Yeah 120% speed was no exception at all, sometimes even more.

This was peak gaming. The demo had that multiplayer map that was one of the best multiplayer experiiences i have ever played. It did almost feel like a sport.

Some of the best weapon animations in gaming. I played the shit out of this. Also, the Scythes on the Scorpion jeep, so dope!

Love these retrospectives and throwback to old excellent games.

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad to hear!

UT2004 was the centerpoint of our school LAN parties. Still love it!

@volvo09

2 ай бұрын

In my computer tech class at technical high school the teacher would let us have a lan party at the end of some Fridays if we got all our work done. Sometimes on ala Friday we'd be tasked with reformating our drives since we'd mess our computers up with lessons and tests, so we would all reinstall win98 and all associated drivers, ms office, and if you finished faster you could go online or we'd play unreal (the original 99 one).

@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing

2 ай бұрын

And the last arena game where I actually enjoyed playing against halfway useful bots in blissful, internet free solitude. Until that last CoD BOps Cold War update...the new botmapping is actually impressive and nobody seems to know about it

@dvdlesher

2 ай бұрын

God I wish ut2004 was played by literally anyone during my high school time. The only thing they know and care is counter strike, and not even half life death match or even quake

@lm4278

2 ай бұрын

@@dvdlesher Dude. HLDM was the shit, too. My buddy and I had a clan back in the day. We called ourselves TMC.. Two Man Clan. We would get on DM or OG TF and dominate. People would actually leave the map when we got on because we kicked ass. Man that was some fun.

This game was my jam back in the day. Spent so much time on Torlan I probably STILL remember where all the guns are on it.

It always makes me feel super old to see more and more of these 20, 25, 30 years later videos...but god are they always fun! Great job, Clint! Definitely a fun time!

7:50 -"It's rapidly aging and darn near falling apart since mid 2000, but hey who hasn't". I feel personally attacked and also in same time I giggled hard hearing that.

Special mention has to go to the UT2003 announcer, who is so memorably over-the-top that he pretty much sells the sports theme all by himself.

@OpenTournament

2 ай бұрын

Same VA just very over the top sporty performance

This was a great retrospective and walk through of all the features of this game. I barely ever strayed from onslaught back in those days, but to see how cool everything else was definitely makes me want to revisit and play again. That is AWESOME to learn about the alternative master servers too. I had no idea! This has me stoked. Hopefully I can get this working through Steam somehow lol.

What a thorough retrospective of one of my favorite games. Thank you. Thank you.

This was the game I set up on all school computers in drafting class. Oh coach thought we were drafting CAD files!

@SITHRootz

2 ай бұрын

We did the same thing, for whatever reason, the school saw it fit to kit out the CAD and robotics computers with Athlon XP Thoroughbreds and GeForce 4 Ti 4600s. Our IT guy was the shit and had an FTP with all the goodies for us to take advantage of those machines.

@gdtyra

2 ай бұрын

CAD... with guns

@OpenTournament

2 ай бұрын

UnrealEd is a great intro to architectural design IMO

@mow123

2 ай бұрын

It was the reverse for me, I took a CAD class because I used unreal editor. Only at lunch did the unreal fun begin, only a few of the computer could run 2004 so we mainly played 98.

This and Halo: CE are the games I always play with my younger nieces and nephews; they really enjoy the sandbox of it all. Something strangely missing in sweaty battle royale games. The eldest one has even gone on to give me a run for my money when he indulges me in my need for nostalgia.

Clint just seeing this gameplay shows what a beast you are at UT truly one of the best I'm a long time subscriber and find this channel one of the best gaming greetings from Manchester England 👍

This was the game that introduced me to FPS games when I was 9 years old. If you ever did a retrospective on Empire Earth then I'd know we had the same childhood

It's crazy how much of UT's combat DNA can be seen in Fortnite. The whole "jump and shoot" mechanic continues to be there even though it's not an arena shooter. It was never my jam, but as an enjoyer of games, it's interesting to see how concepts in gaming mutate over time.

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

Indeed, my old UT Onslaught skills carried over pretty well to Fortnite! Well, other than the quick building mechanic. I was glad when that went away.

@MarcosCodas

2 ай бұрын

@@LGR That's gone away? Might have to try Fortnite again! Thanks for the reply, Clint!

The ice level and the forest level in UT2K3 blew me away graphically. I remember playing it on my friend's Geforce 3 and being so jealous and awestruck. I also think UT2K3 had great music. I had some of those .ogg files in my playlist for years. Great video, as always!

Man. This just dredged up some seriously long forgotten memories. I played the demo so much when I was in the Paper Street house. I wish I could go back, and re-live those times.

Excellent video, Clint. One of my favorite cult classics right here. I am still partial to OG UT myself but one can’t deny the appeal of 2004.

the modding scene for this game was absolutely bonkers and there was so many additions of maps. gameplay mods and so on. I recall how assault mode had some really amazing maps on MP. and invasion was arguably a BIG one too as modders created a whole genre of making it a rpg invasion mode where you now had big monster packs with unique and crazy challenges to them. and you could now level and upgrade and add stats and perks. that stuff was my early teens playing some really popular assault map servers and a few invasion rpg mod servers. it really gave what was pretty decent modes even deeper depth.

@OpenTournament

2 ай бұрын

Worked a ton on MonsterMash & MonsterEvolution RPG Invasion & Assault. Servers are still running & getting updated content.

@killerguythefox

2 ай бұрын

@@OpenTournament appreciate the work put into it.I do remember that one of my favorite though not sure if it was the global best AS mode server was nachos and beer. they had some of my favorite maps for it. specifically the C&C maps that had a very unique mechanic made into it using the objective system from the mode. and they hosted maps too where ballistics mod was baked into it too? i was always playing on some favorite modded invasion server or that server for AS mode. Cant venture to guess how many hours i spent on both.

@OpenTournament

2 ай бұрын

@@killerguythefox Yeah I remember C&C but pretty vaguely, seemed like you need to have played C&C Renegade to fully understand what was going on in those maps/modes

I loved UT2004. Being in my early teens, my PC was barely able to run the game at all but the sheer scale of it really made me fall in love with the game. Coming from UT99, this felt like a proper sequel.

Great video. You brought back so many great memories!

seeing you play with that crazy weapon mod around 30:20 really brought back memories, I played UT2004 alot back around 2009-2012 when I lived with my mom and didnt have the best computer, endless hours of fun using those weapon mods in bot matches. Thank you for that little bit of nostalgia

Game still looks great in 2024

@sambas9257

2 ай бұрын

Graphically it sucks. It has a simple rounded poligono abstraction and a modern sci-fi neon/jungle palette but it still sucks.It was already old when it was out the same year of Doom III and Half-Life 2 both in realism and universe building. It was the peak of the refined versions of Quake 3 gameplay with vehicles and all those different kind of modalities and that is why it is still cool

@MalakaiDerg

2 ай бұрын

Whenever I revisit it, that's why I think too. They really were at the top of their game in those years

@marblecar1162

2 ай бұрын

​@@sambas9257it looks fine.

@Ai_Dreamscapes_in_Latent_Space

2 ай бұрын

@@sambas9257 Half-Life 2 revolutionized the gaming landscape, while DOOM 3 stood out as a graphical powerhouse. However, a game’s aesthetic extends beyond mere polycounts. Personally, I’d choose the vibrant graphical style of UT2004 over today’s monotonous, microtransaction-laden shooters any day.

@BurningFishGaming

2 ай бұрын

Agreed. It still looks good despite the anarchistic art style.

There is nothing like the feeling of map domination in Torlan when you position your tank blasting your opposing team as they desperately try to escape their home base after the loss of all their power nodes.

That “all geared up for war” quip made me choke on a Reese’s Cup.

Clint, I have to thank you and your channel for introducing me to this game. I have been enjoying it for nearly three years now. Granted, I mostly play only Deathmatch, but it's still quite fun nonetheless!

The music, that intro splash screen along with your hype man makes me wonder what happened do games these days. Developers went all out and just had fun.

@snakedogman

2 ай бұрын

Now they've all converted to the religion of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

I loved unreal tournament and i used to play the one under development on unreal engine before fortnite came out. It was sad when fortnite came out and became huge as development for UT slowed then stopped. Its even sadder to know that Epic games decided to remove all unreal tournament titles from their site and steam. Ill never understand companies and their need to remove legacy games. 😢 i havent finished the video but as soon as i saw the title, i felt sad and happy seing it.

@OpenTournament

2 ай бұрын

We can build it

@LTonyGames2099

2 ай бұрын

@@OpenTournament please elaborate.

@HappyBeezerStudios

2 ай бұрын

It would cost them nothing and make them money to keep old games in stores. They can simply declare that the game is unsupported and delivered as-is. No cost, but people will buy them.

@OpenTournament

2 ай бұрын

@@LTonyGames2099 Open Tournament is a spiritual successor to the UT series of games

I always appreciate how you manage to keep the nostalgia of our past alive and well with the references to the ATI 9800 and the Alienware PC while highlighting the Anniversary of this game. I actually never played the 2004 version but spent countless hours on the original Unreal when I got my first Gateway PC. I was always on the lookout for good deals on the ATI card to play “Soldier of Fortune” in all it’s glory! 👊🏼 This was an epic video Clint, and I can always count on LGR to come through with highlights of the past. Great job! 🤌🏼😎

Fantastic retrospective, thank you so much!

The amount of content right out of the box, and all the numerous options to customize everything you wanted. Damn how I miss that so much. Games used to allow you to just d*ck around, and this is the reason for the longevity and making it legendary.

I literally reinstalled the game on my brand new PC two days ago. Still plays amazing and looks beautiful to me. Looking forward to your UT III video in 3 years' time!

such a cool recap, watching this makes me remember all these maps, guns, soundtracks, modes and vehicles. Chances are we all played together at some point between 2004 and 2010 or so :)

An absolute classic of my childhood. I played this for hours on my bedroom PC, I didn't have internet up there so I had to download patches and mods and bring them up on a memory stick. I got completely lost in this, soaking in the lore provided, listening to the music and getting into massive wars with the bots. Eventually, I found the Ballistic Weapons mod and played that to death until I went to uni and moved on from it. Feels like home.

Still remembering its announcements in magazines and how amazed I was regarding its graphics. To this day it’s one of my favorite Games of all time!

Rip to the goat franchise. A vision of uncompromising competition, ive always loved the gladiator bloodsport vibe of UT. Pure old school twitch skill. Sad to see that unreal is only relevant as the unreal engine these days. A true classic for the pc nerds. Great video!

Thank you for doing this video. My god the hours spent at LAN parties multiplaying this game.. such amazing fun time memories

UT2004 was SUCH an improvement on 2003! And yes, I played that 2003 demo for hours and hours.

I remember playing the UT03 demo and just being amazed at the ragdoll physics after you got the ball into the enemy goal and you just tumbled down on all those bars.

One of the best games ever made totally needs a remaster I still play it all the time. I'm a modern PC. I just love seeing that logo that you get for having maximum specs versus when you don't

@OVERKILL_PINBALL

2 ай бұрын

a remaster would be PERFECT

@jbmcb

2 ай бұрын

dgVoodoo2 is your friend here :)

@brinksectionz

2 ай бұрын

A remaster would be cool, but it plays and runs so well already.

@latindragon1988

2 ай бұрын

@@brinksectionz It does. The only problem is the only server is still playable our freeze tag

@PSYCOMMUnist

2 ай бұрын

The remaster would have season passes and microtransactions and would be censored to Hell and back and probably a ton of input latency and a ton of autoaim for controller players.

Ut2k4 was the game that made me get a job. That and wow having a monthly sub. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

UT2004. This is the game that got me into PC gaming. UT2K4, and Morrowind, but yeah, I was in high school, worked the whole summer, and put all the money I made into a beast of a PC. IIRC, it had the AMD Athlon 3200+ and a Radeon 9600 XT with a massive 20GB hard drive, and a great big CRT gaming monitor (that burnt out and died a few years later while replaying Half Life 2). Good times.

UT2004 was one of my first online FPS. Got it for my 16th birthday (in 2006), and still own the copy. It was a simple single DVD version at that point. Ended also falling into the rabbithole of mods, with Ballistic Weapons being basically a must-install for me even to this day, and playing the original mod-version of Killing Floor.

UT2K4 was such a big part of my life. Shout out to the great people at Big Battle Servers when that was a thing.

2:17 you know your old when you reference books like a professional , never played unreal tournement as i was too young at the time but heard much about it , thank you very much for filling in the blanks and damn good work on its presentation

The Ballistics Mod was good fun, I remember playing it with a duel wielding mod to duel wield flamethrowers. Poor Ripper Gun. Your bouncy discs of serrated fire-and-forget was enjoyed by me.

This game is my childhood and the game i compare every other first person shooter to, to this very day. And the Unreal Championship 2 fan made port to PC, is something i'm very much looking forward to seeing to completion.

@LGR

2 ай бұрын

Same, I really want to play more of it but the Xbox original is rough around the edges.

@Lordbobomb

2 ай бұрын

​@@LGR It's a damn shame they never ported UC2 officially to PC if you ask me. The game looks absolutely amazing to play with how melee was integrated in to the gameplay and how characters have their own adrenaline abilities. It could have been the best Unreal game if it a PC version with modding tools and stuff that 2004 had like Assault, Onslaught and Invasion. I'd still be playing Invasion RPG servers as much as i did with 2004 if that was the case.

UT 2003 was the first FPS game I've played, UT series has a special place in my heart. I tried the game when I was like 4 our 5 y/o, after watching my dad struggle against Malcolm, I ran to the cair and tried to play. The experience was awesome, a whole new genre so everything was new to me

0:27 Cute coincidental convention, Clint can confidently concur!

This game with it’s modding tutorials was the one that started my game dev career. I have extremely fond memories of it!! Heck, I’d love to do a new level for it with modern know how 😅

I remember the day this was delivered. I was at work, waiting impatiently to return home so i could install this game, and start slaying noobs. I actually forgot about the special edition, which i had. That aluminum sleeve was hefty. Early UT games were fantastic. Absolute classics.

@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments

2 ай бұрын

Oh same. Except Amazon messed up and sent me an Indonesian copy of Farcry instead.

I would honestly love if modern games could still look like this. It takes up less space on your machine, more people can actually run it, it still looks great and the worlds/maps could be massive, reduce development time and cost and much more. Honestly a near perfect looking game in my eyes. I love the aesthetics from games made in the 90's up to the mid 2000's.

@fus132

2 ай бұрын

You will [150GB, SSD REQUIRED], and you will be happy

@MaitreMechant

2 ай бұрын

same, lots of people have nostalgia for retro pixel art but for me it's these kind of graphics that I just love

@MINI_91

2 ай бұрын

@@MaitreMechant I have nostalgia for both styles. The gorgeous and timeless pixel art from the 16-bit era being blended together by a bad composite signal to create effects with the technical limitations, and the blurry low poly mid-to-late 90's look, along with the early-to-mid 2000's look... They all look amazing to me and they charm the absolute hell out of me.

@briandyche

2 ай бұрын

The “boomer shooters” genre has a bit of this. A lot of it runs a little older in style (copying Doom or Quake) but there’s a lot of fun indie options there that might scratch that itch (and all 4-10gb!)

@MINI_91

2 ай бұрын

@@briandyche I have a lot of them. Can't wait for Selaco!

I absolutely adored the manta. The onslaught mode, pancaking players, shooting raptors out of the sky... So much fun

Man, I'd completely forgotten about this game. The guns, the main menu, the weapons, the music. What a trip back in time. I absolutely loved 03 back in the day because it's all I knew. Never knew it wasn't that well received