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Fun Stuff => CLIKC => Topic started by: Luke on 27 Oct 2005, 23:00

Title: Descent
Post by: Luke on 27 Oct 2005, 23:00: I was inspired to start this after we hijacked the Stuff You've Made thread.

Descent is a dead game, unfortunately (Interplay, its creator, has ceased to exist), but it was one of the best games I ever played on the computer.

Any other Descent lovers out there?
Title: Descent
Post by: Inlander on 28 Oct 2005, 02:59: I only ever had the demo . . . But I played that over, and over, and over again.

Damn those 3-D maps take some getting used to, though.
Title: Descent
Post by: Bunnyman on 28 Oct 2005, 03:35: I just got too lost to enjoy it after a while.

But it was hella cool, especially "in the day." so many awesome details, like splashing lava on people with laser fire...and the mighty, mighty vulcan cannon.
Title: Descent
Post by: jhocking on 28 Oct 2005, 05:35: I really enjoyed the first one right up until I reached the first boss (level 7, I think.) Maybe I just suck, but I could never beat that guy. After about a week circling his lair and being chased by those damn green pellets-o-death, I stopped playing the game. Never played the sequels.
Title: Descent
Post by: Luke on 28 Oct 2005, 22:41: We used to have Descent I, but I don't know what happened to it. We have only II & 3.

I finished Descent 3 only with cheat codes, so I'm eager to set up my old computer so I can go back through it the right way. (Descent II won't install on XP as it was written for the 95 platform, and Descent 3 stops working towards the end of the game.) Hopefully Windows 2000 will be old enough for the both of them.
Title: Descent
Post by: McTaggart on 29 Oct 2005, 01:45: I got Decent bundled with my old packard bell Pentium 75 MHz. What I managed to get through was awesome.
Title: Descent
Post by: Jenno on 29 Oct 2005, 04:15: I liked Freespace better, no idea why.
Title: Descent
Post by: kikanjuuneko on 29 Oct 2005, 05:08: Freespace was even awesomer than the original Descent series, in whatever way that is possible. Such a fucking shame THQ won't buy the license from the now-defunct Interplay, though. What is wrong with those people?
Title: Descent
Post by: Sathanas on 29 Oct 2005, 07:52: Freespace = most awesome space game ever. Especially FS2. Watching a pair of two-kilometre-long capital ships tear each other apart with beam cannons is at least seven types of cool. I was completely in awe when I saw the GTVA Colossus the first time, and the SJ Sathanas (which I took my screen name from) was utterly beastly.

Also, I think I heard somewhere that THQ is trying to get the Freespace license, and confirmation of such would completely rock my world.
Title: Descent
Post by: Luke on 29 Oct 2005, 19:04: Okay, I feel left out now. I've actually never heard of Freespace. *prepares to be assassinated* Can anyone give minor details?
Title: Descent
Post by: jhocking on 29 Oct 2005, 19:52: Long story short, the developer of Descent split into two companies: one that continued to do Descent games, while the other created Freespace, a series related to Descent but, well, in free space instead of clausterphobic tunnels.
Title: Descent
Post by: Bunnyman on 29 Oct 2005, 21:04: Mmmm...Freespace.

Never mind that it has nothing to do with Descent whatsoever. It's a damn fine piece of work.

Volition = win.
Title: Descent
Post by: battyone on 30 Oct 2005, 20:51: I love D1/D2 and that is pretty much the only kali server still alive and kicking. [YES I still use kali...hell I still play d1/d2!]
Title: Descent
Post by: AdamIsConceited on 01 Nov 2005, 04:08: Appreciated.

The first time I played it I was at a computer store... let's just say I didn't leave for a while hehe.
Title: Descent
Post by: Kelamin on 01 Nov 2005, 20:56: Own and have finished all the descent and freespace games so awesome!

need to get a new joystick as my old one died horribly

just wondering what kind of controls did people use for descent?
Keyboard, mouse joystick what?
Title: Descent
Post by: kikanjuuneko on 02 Nov 2005, 00:12: I've always used mouse and keyboard, since I've never owned a joystick at all.
Title: Descent
Post by: Sathanas on 02 Nov 2005, 03:54: I had a nice Thrustmaster joystick/throttle combo for Freespace. Separate throttle, too, not integrated, which was nice. Then the damned thing died on me.

The Saitek X52 (http://www.saitekusa.com/usa/images/product/pcp/x52.jpg) is what I want, though.
Title: Descent
Post by: Luke on 03 Nov 2005, 06:46: I just installed my new Windows 2000 computer in my bedroom, along with Descent 3! Descent 2 wouldn't install because the installation program tells me that it has to run on Windows 95, boo. (It's strange, since it didn't give me that error message on XP - it just wouldn't finish instaling)

Soon as the weekend comes (and I hook up some speakers), I'm tearing into that game. Whoo!
Title: Descent
Post by: salada on 04 Nov 2005, 06:08: man, descent was awesome.

i found descent 2 in a bargain bin somewhere for like five bucks. awesome!
Title: Descent
Post by: jhocking on 04 Nov 2005, 06:49: I hope that was a long time ago. Descent 2 is free now. Hell, there's even an OSX port (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/action_adventure/descent2.html).

Why aren't I playing it right now? I downloaded it over a year ago, but I have yet to play it.