Hey hfric, I apologize as my comment two weeks ago is what got me to pick this game up again...I am currently looking at the final act of this game. After trial and error it appears to be that after you rack up enough points in the directors cut, eventually the chief will ask you aka the commander if he’s ever heard of an old urban myth related to their forefathers. The commander calls it rubbish but the chief tells you that you’re going to make a visit during a lull in the conflict, to an “inconsequential” place. It turns out to be the location where the old mothership of the Epic crew resides (aka the prequel game). You take a brief visit into the mothership, which is devoid of any installation turrets or rexxons, but after you beat this mission the game begins to repeat. If you get down to your last spare life after this mission, you will lock into the final act of the game. There are three missions, the first two where you try to kill Drakkon in the center control room, then a third final mission where you failed the first two and are tasked with trying to defend the Ark aka humanity’s final stand in moving to a new solar system much the way they did in Epic. I will need time to figure out how these final three missions act, but I am definitely seeing the finite end to this game because there is a game over that exists regardless of how many regen chips you hold.
I just tried this game for the first time on my overclocked Intel 486DX2-66@80Mhz system. It runs GREAT! I'm amazed at how good this game was for the time. Unfortunately back then I had an 8088 8Mhz Turbo XT system until 1997 and missed all of the early to mid '90s gems like this game.
Being an old fart, I played this game on PC not long after it came out. The cutscenes were pretty impressive for the time, and the transitions from different places, planetside, space, and motherships just wasn't a thing you saw back then. Let's not forget that this space game could be played with a mouse. In 1994. That was a BIG DEAL back then. Funny thing... no, an infuriating thing, was that I could fire directly on an enemy ship, watch the blast hit it, and there was no damage.
" the transitions from different places, planetside, space, and motherships just wasn't a thing you saw back then" Well, you did see them in Frontier Elite 2, from 1993. ruclips.net/video/5uX8Z39CbLk/видео.html
I still have the OST CD from this game. I preordered it and everything. I sooooooo wanted to love it, but as much as it has elements that were impressive for it's time, it just really fell flat overall in actual gameplay. It was a sad day for me...
Such incredible nostalgia! Aside of the Privateer and Wing Commander series, Inferno was among one of the very first space flight/combat simulator games I played when it came out in 1994. I still own the original PC gaming box and install CD at home. This is a classic!
THanks for the upload. Lots of nostalgia here. Even tho the inflight gameplay was lacklustre. Jesus tho, they didn't understand how to balance background music with speech did they?! Those cut sequences got too much for me with the incessant music. Funny as hell voice acting tho.
The thing that ultimately annoyed me about this game is whether or not it actually has any good ending anywhere. I would consider playing the game through and recording the good ending if someone out there can confirm it exists, but I've had no such luck being able to do so. I'll never know if it's something super cryptic no one could figure out or if the developers were just used the backlash they got over Epic being so short to just make Inferno loop endlessly. Among all the flac Ocean got over the years for their decisions, this game's apparent lack of a good ending annoys me the most.
And you want to know a OST tidbit ... guess who made the music for the Legacy of Kain series ... Information Society ruclips.net/channel/UCqBYUnU_4yqqJpkUTpVASAA ... another OST that can get you into trouble when the main theme "Ozar Midrashim" is from them ruclips.net/video/Xgzbyd2MhbE/видео.html
I had so much trouble to get this game to work on my Pentium 120. It did always complain about too little memory and the cd rom driver did eat alot of that. When i did finally get it too work i did spend hours to figure out how the missions did work and i did find the cut scenes so annoying after a while.
I only remember the box art, back then the only videogame genre I know was just plattformer or Beat Em Ups, so seeing PC game for me, I thought it was "boring" back then, with all these "strategy", Space Sim and Point and Clickers
Back then , this game by hyped to infinity ... it was in everything ... even in magazines that posted only Amiga games ... with a sticker ONLY on CD-32 ... but then Commodore flopped and it never came
Off Topic, You gotta try Observer, looks like Poland is going to be the new software powerhouse. But one warning, that game gave me serious motion sickness for some weird reason so I been puking none stop just. Although good game with Rutger Hauer.
Come on, the dynamic campaign was neat, they reused it for F22 Raptor published by Infogrammes... Okay Inferno had a better soundtracks than gameplay (but my 17ish self back then thought it was neat) Edit : the french VOs for this game were hilarious.
Thats pretty idiotic statement. Not only soundtrack and cutscenes, Inferno is a solid space combat game with damn wide range of possibilites for its time.
yet today its only know for this ... but if you talk about 1994 ... on that day it was a game promoted like crazy for a product showing the real power of Amiga hardware , know for making people buy a CD addon for Amiga1200 ... with a CD promo for AmigaCD32 and CDTV... the sad thing was it never came to those systems
no, it works with dosbox but its speed is inconsistent - fast in the space with flickering screen, but slow inside the installations. setting fixed cycles solved the screen problem, but made the overall game slow... nevermind, since then i tried the game under pcem emulator with dos 6.22 and the game runs fine there.
For more information about the production of this title ...go here ruclips.net/video/C3PWG_y5oDg/видео.html
What sound card are you using here, or is it a redbook audio version? Or did you use remixes?
It took me about an hour to find the name of this game. Guessed it was from 1994 and went through a list of every game.
Hey hfric, I apologize as my comment two weeks ago is what got me to pick this game up again...I am currently looking at the final act of this game. After trial and error it appears to be that after you rack up enough points in the directors cut, eventually the chief will ask you aka the commander if he’s ever heard of an old urban myth related to their forefathers. The commander calls it rubbish but the chief tells you that you’re going to make a visit during a lull in the conflict, to an “inconsequential” place. It turns out to be the location where the old mothership of the Epic crew resides (aka the prequel game). You take a brief visit into the mothership, which is devoid of any installation turrets or rexxons, but after you beat this mission the game begins to repeat. If you get down to your last spare life after this mission, you will lock into the final act of the game. There are three missions, the first two where you try to kill Drakkon in the center control room, then a third final mission where you failed the first two and are tasked with trying to defend the Ark aka humanity’s final stand in moving to a new solar system much the way they did in Epic.
I will need time to figure out how these final three missions act, but I am definitely seeing the finite end to this game because there is a game over that exists regardless of how many regen chips you hold.
I loved the music in this game !!!!!
I just tried this game for the first time on my overclocked Intel 486DX2-66@80Mhz system. It runs GREAT! I'm amazed at how good this game was for the time. Unfortunately back then I had an 8088 8Mhz Turbo XT system until 1997 and missed all of the early to mid '90s gems like this game.
I had this in a twin pack with TFX - looked and played great but couldnt work out what the hell I was doing. Gave me a real Dan Dare vibe.....
I have TFX as well again, the cd-rom edition. great soundtracks.
this soundtrack is awesome!
This was ground breaking - much like Carrier Command. Early 3D games that were playable. Loved the CD32 it was slightly faster than an Amiga 500
Totally agree
This never released on cd32
Being an old fart, I played this game on PC not long after it came out. The cutscenes were pretty impressive for the time, and the transitions from different places, planetside, space, and motherships just wasn't a thing you saw back then. Let's not forget that this space game could be played with a mouse. In 1994. That was a BIG DEAL back then.
Funny thing... no, an infuriating thing, was that I could fire directly on an enemy ship, watch the blast hit it, and there was no damage.
" the transitions from different places, planetside, space, and motherships just wasn't a thing you saw back then"
Well, you did see them in Frontier Elite 2, from 1993.
ruclips.net/video/5uX8Z39CbLk/видео.html
I still have the OST CD from this game. I preordered it and everything. I sooooooo wanted to love it, but as much as it has elements that were impressive for it's time, it just really fell flat overall in actual gameplay. It was a sad day for me...
You can say the same about TFX ... hehe
Such incredible nostalgia! Aside of the Privateer and Wing Commander series, Inferno was among one of the very first space flight/combat simulator games I played when it came out in 1994. I still own the original PC gaming box and install CD at home. This is a classic!
Still have my PC CD-rom edition
Love the art style here! Love your channel!
Thank you! Cheers!
THanks for the upload. Lots of nostalgia here. Even tho the inflight gameplay was lacklustre. Jesus tho, they didn't understand how to balance background music with speech did they?! Those cut sequences got too much for me with the incessant music. Funny as hell voice acting tho.
Tell me about it
This was my first CD-ROM game for my first PC back in 1994. Lost interest in this game quick because I had no idea what I was doing while playing it.
The thing that ultimately annoyed me about this game is whether or not it actually has any good ending anywhere. I would consider playing the game through and recording the good ending if someone out there can confirm it exists, but I've had no such luck being able to do so. I'll never know if it's something super cryptic no one could figure out or if the developers were just used the backlash they got over Epic being so short to just make Inferno loop endlessly.
Among all the flac Ocean got over the years for their decisions, this game's apparent lack of a good ending annoys me the most.
Early 3D graphics at their "best"
The OST sound very much like that of System Shock.
aye , back in the day game OSTs where so good, you just both games for it ... compared to games of today that have generic bland of meh ...
Happy Finale now available on my channel to watch!
And you want to know a OST tidbit ... guess who made the music for the Legacy of Kain series ... Information Society ruclips.net/channel/UCqBYUnU_4yqqJpkUTpVASAA ... another OST that can get you into trouble when the main theme "Ozar Midrashim" is from them ruclips.net/video/Xgzbyd2MhbE/видео.html
I had so much trouble to get this game to work on my Pentium 120. It did always complain about too little memory and the cd rom driver did eat alot of that. When i did finally get it too work i did spend hours to figure out how the missions did work and i did find the cut scenes so annoying after a while.
OOH AHH
I only remember the box art, back then the only videogame genre I know was just plattformer or Beat Em Ups, so seeing PC game for me, I thought it was "boring" back then, with all these "strategy", Space Sim and Point and Clickers
Back then , this game by hyped to infinity ... it was in everything ... even in magazines that posted only Amiga games ... with a sticker ONLY on CD-32 ... but then Commodore flopped and it never came
Off Topic, You gotta try Observer, looks like Poland is going to be the new software powerhouse. But one warning, that game gave me serious motion sickness for some weird reason so I been puking none stop just. Although good game with Rutger Hauer.
Its from the same people that did "Layers of Fear" ... so yeah , was planning to play it ...
Pretty interesting storyline, like a mix with Blade Runner and Silent Hill.
Come on, the dynamic campaign was neat, they reused it for F22 Raptor published by Infogrammes... Okay Inferno had a better soundtracks than gameplay (but my 17ish self back then thought it was neat)
Edit : the french VOs for this game were hilarious.
Thats pretty idiotic statement. Not only soundtrack and cutscenes, Inferno is a solid space combat game with damn wide range of possibilites for its time.
yet today its only know for this ... but if you talk about 1994 ... on that day it was a game promoted like crazy for a product showing the real power of Amiga hardware , know for making people buy a CD addon for Amiga1200 ... with a CD promo for AmigaCD32 and CDTV... the sad thing was it never came to those systems
@@hfric Well yeah, did not take to account a view of general public haha. Good day, sir.
this isn't dosbox gameplay, right?
You sound like you wanted to play this game under Dosbox , but could not get it to run ?
no, it works with dosbox but its speed is inconsistent - fast in the space with flickering screen, but slow inside the installations.
setting fixed cycles solved the screen problem, but made the overall game slow...
nevermind, since then i tried the game under pcem emulator with dos 6.22 and the game runs fine there.
I just found my orig disc. ANyone know how to make it work with windows 10?
dosbox