The History Of Unreal: Unreal Gold

Actually Prisioner 849 was originally supposed to be female which infact the add-on confirmed it with her being voiced.

The Quake 2 demo was the first game I ever saw running under hardware acceleration. Once you saw that, you knew that graphics cards were going to be a big deal.

Did you play this in software renderer mode?

This capture looks like the Software Renderer with HighResTextureSmooth set to False, or maybe a mod that disables texture filtering. Unreal doesn't visually benefit from this as much as Quake or even Half-Life, as there aren't many rectangular objects in the world (like medkits), and textures have higher resolution. Unreal does have one of the best software renderers from any game. It's difficult to tell the difference often. Notably, reflective floor and colored dynamic light are still working, there is two-level transparency.

The Contrast is also cranked up too high with blacks clipped. Most of the game is dark and sometimes you're reacting to a nearly black screen. The static night shot of the Flightcastle is washed out. To fix the light levels without clipping or post procesing, you need to install an updated OpenGL renderer. Then you talk about conserving ammo and waste Flak by blowing up barrels and Automag on a slow moving Brute.

Prisoner 849 is a she, mate.
Still, good job on this video. I enjoyed listening and will be going through the rest of this mini-series.

The next chapter of 849's saga? Unreal: Firestorm by Turboman. But will he ever release it...?

My man great video also my favorite, this game changed my identity when i was in 7th grade and its funny i found this while ISV Kran Deck 2 and 3 is on pause on my laptop!!! Youhese Skaarj are kicking my ass

Also this video just gave me drive to continue, as i was getting down about getting killed, im ready to destroy some Skaarj no2, lol

music, atmosphere, npc, secrets was the main thing i enjoyed in original unreal game ! :`)

thumbs up if u used Noclip to fly through to sandbox of skies, spawned there some sort of npc and later on laughed your socks off

Skaarj is in my memory same as iddqd from doom lol

Who is playing in software rendering in 2013? :p

What were you playing on? Those framerate drops were horrible.

I still play unreal 1998, im so viciate at this game, i want stop because today dont have much players.. but i always play aguen..

Lol, but why software mode! :( The game looks much better under OpenGL...

q2 was absolutely better, but unreal was like a new tech, everyone was shocked about hardware requirements for it, because q2 can run on software acceleration) Now Umg - best engine, but UT still not so good)

Truly, an "Epic" game.

you should do a playthrough of the unreal games or try out a playthrough of unreal gold and if it does well do the next one

Those were the good times :)

Dude, what were your settings at
Is your computer a toaster oven?

I miss this game a lot

i remember when this came out it was what 3 yrs in the making i loved it and ut but doom was being played on collage severs everywhere so was q1 rise of the traids duke nukeum q2 you could play coop and id made a set of 64 player maps muilti play was everywhere at the time unreal came out i was playing it with a 16 mg tnt card lol sorry for rambling on

Ever plan on doing a system shock review ?

True Review, did you know that there were two novels created after Unreal called Hard Crash and Prophet's Power? Maybe those will have your answer as to what happened to Prisoner 849?

I remember back in 99, Unreal was seen as standing shoulder to shoulder with Half-Life.

you talked good about this game. i liked that because i played and i think is great

Rewatching this series for at least the fifth time. Still holding out hope that we can get a series like this for the likes of Quake or Doom.

Wasn't your prisoner character a girl? I remembered seeing my reflection in game and the avatar was def a woman a-la Ripley of aliens.

There is no other game that gave such impression as unreal did. Great picture, great design, great atmosphere, and of course MUSIC.

Gee, You need to remake this and make it darker.

The gameplay looks like it was recorded on Voodoo 1 card or without a proper driver for hardware acceleration. This looked much much better even with Voodoo 2 generation and proper drivers. This capture doesn't do it's justice :)

Games today look more realistic, doesn't mean they look better.

I feel like the Quake games have aged better in terms of playability and feel, but I love the Unreal technology and visuals. So impressive. Just wish I could enjoy the gameplay more.

this game always scars me! my dad are still playing and replaying it

Played the game. Frankly, it feels extremely overrated to me.

Time to binge watch True Review 👩🏻‍💻.

Unreal 1 MP was the shit

Why were you using the software rendering? You could have used the DirectX rendering.

what's the game with sgt hartman voice actor ?

I'm re-watching this series again. Good memories.

loved this game growing up. was the first computer game i ever owned on my dad's old Windows NT Box lol, what a crazy wave of nostalgia makes me feel so old.

little did we know that epic games would make fortnite several years later

True Review, thank you so much for making the story of my childhood franchise. I am hoping that Unreal will go on. Someday. And I hope you will be prepared for that moment.

Amazing video, im glad people still have a passion for the 1st game in the series, i think its amazing that you bring things up that a lote people look over like the atmosphere , tone, and the music ❤there just something about this game that still ive never experienced when playing a scifi shooter, even the fact that sometimes its scary even tho unreal was never indented to scary the ISV Kan ship was really intense the first time i played it , i would love to see unreal 3 one day or a remake its a 10/10 a all time classic

You playing the almost black screen and stuttering mod ? hardcore

It's a good game with quite the variety of weapons... but the level design is questionable. The old shooters made you search for keys to unlock doors, or had different objectives in each level that you had to complete in order to progress to the next level. Both styles worked very well because they gave you a clear idea what you need to do to complete the stage... My problem with Unreal's level design is not the complexity or the size of the stages (i like that)... it's the lack of mission objectives and goals, which sometimes makes the levels a confusing mess. It kinda makes me mad that most people actually believe Unreal to have better level design than Quake 2 and Half-life - now that's an f'n joke... and not a good one!

Your footage is incredibly dark here.