How Dark Reign nearly beat Command and Conquer (Documentary)

wow, you actually went and visited someone responsible for the game. That's some serious dedication

Thank you all for your kind comments. I'm just reaally happy that you all enjoyed DR as much as I, and the entire DR team, had fun making it. :)

5/5 Documentary. It's heartwarming to see that there are still people producing quality content

I was just thinking about Dark Reign a couple of days ago. I never played Command and Conquer or Warcraft, this was my first ever RTS so its a big nostalgia hit. I love that the old website is still up, never let it die.

I did play Dark Reign and did like it but never fully fell in love with it. This was a terrific interview, he seems like such a genuine guy anyway but I also think he was feeding off your presence. I’ve seen a lot of gaming interviews but many are simply over a webcam, most of them were still good but this was special.

I can't believe that I had never heard of Dard Reign until this video. Thank you for a fantastic documentary, and thank you for introducing me to a new 90s RTS!

Thank you for making this! I haven't seen your channel before, I happened to search for videos about Dark Reign when this video was about 20 minutes old. Perfect timing, just what I needed tonight. As an Australian, thank you so much for the work you put into sharing this story about such an important Australian game dev <3

What a great watch! It's fantastic that you had the opportunity to meet with Greg and it was great to hear all his war stories and unearth a lot of details about Dark Reign. He comes off as a very passionate and humble individual, seems like a real proper gentleman geek!

What a legend, and what a legend interviewer to take a plane to Australia just to make this happen.

I genuenly loved every moment where he just shows his support for the modding / long term support for games, we genuenly need more people like him. Also man really does show his love for games throughout this whole thing haha

"Hell yeah Dark Reign" was again said out loud in the living room when this popped up in my sub box. Also those are some excellent boardgames laying around ;)

Just Wow what a fantastic interview. If you can get more interviews with people involved in any game at a high level. Then you probably have something special here on this channel. I can imagine it would be a lot of work and complex to pull off, so thank you for your work on this video.

Yo Zade 1.7 for Company of Heroes 3 has just been released and it seems that Relic's breakup with SEGA brings very good results, because the game immediately changed for the better. We now have vehicle physics for both driving, shooting and getting hit, better pathfinding, more focus on unit abilities, improved audio-graphical style, lots of balance changes aimed at even more tactical behaviors, noticeable reduction in TTK and many other things that I can't fit into one comment. I think it's time to give this game another chance and re-examine the future of Relic :D As for the video itself, Great idea for a new format, great execution and a wonderful topic I love DR2 <3 (And for some strange reason it never occurred to me to be interested in the first game and its history) Keep up the good work, Boss!

I completely forgot about Dark Reign. This brought back a lot of great memories I had as a kid. Big thank you for doing this interview and to the legend himself!

WOW! His library is bigger than mine used to be, and that is saying a lot. The text-based game ZORK was the first game I played also. I gave all my boxed games to a needy young man who was slightly disadvantage. He lived with his grandmother, and she and I both did volunteer work at a local food bank. She told me her grandson was a gamer and was sorry she couldn't afford to buy him many games. Problem solved. Thanks for sharing.👍👍

woah! I'm 1 minute in and already excited. you're now making full documentaries? congrats this is awesome 😊🎉❤

MIND BLOWN. First the retrospective, now this? Greg is the fuckin' man. Absolutely NAILED it with this follow-up full length documentary! Love it ~Magpie

Amazing documentary! Keep up good work, love to see and hear about history of RTS games or what happend to their former developers. 🙂

This is pure gold! Fantastic information for old and new game creators and enjoyers. Thanks a lot for the video, and thanks to Greg for DR!

Wow, this brings back memories! Thanks for the video. I had many hours playing this and many, many more making custimisations with the included toolkit.