/vr/ - Retro Games

Descent 1 Level 6

>>7983424
Descent was fucking amazing. These fuckers probably trained me for ambushes more than any revenant closet ever did

Its a shame the 6D movement and navigation was such a filter for people, still considering making a mod to incorporate it but I've gotta keep working on my Zscript if I want to do it right.

>>7835725
correct
anyone advocating for it reveals he hasn't played enough games

Thank god they're the game's only hitscanner

>>5528314
You are about to make...friends.

>>5413114
It did. The shareware release was all over the place and it sold well enough for them to make a sequel. We played it a lot over network, at home and at work. Stellar possibilities in death match if you master its controls and the 6dof mindset.

>>4133279
One of the main reasons I prefer Descent 2 and still can't beat the first game on anything higher than Rookie.

Descent 3 has a few things going for it:
>graphics, obv
>much more complex and varied environments, levels have totally different styles rather than just variations on mine shapes and wall textures
>more interesting objectives than simply blowing up the reactor and escaping each level

Unfortunately it's got a bunch of stupid shit too:
>sound design worse across the board
>aesthetic style worse too, much less grit and robots like they're designed for coolness rather than Descent 1/2's bulky industrial look
>robot AI feels like it's designed to be annoying with many small enemies that dodge like crazy, especially in open areas, but aren't very threatening
>infinite lives -- death means you drop your items and respawn at a checkpoint, but otherwise keep all your progress
The last two made combat feel like a dull time sink to me. I wasn't excited about dogfighting robots, I just wanted to clear the rooms of annoyances and get it over with. I ended up lowering the difficulty and rushing through the last half of the game just to say I finished it.

It absolutely deserves its reputation as a crappy sequel. I mean, yeah, I guess if you're starved for 6DoF action it's fine, and they're aren't many games like this so I wouldn't say it's really a BAD game, but it's really easy to see why fans thought the Descent feeling was lost.

I'm sorry, did you want those shields?

normies get out of my mineshaft
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Oh, did you want those shields? Sorry, just being one of the biggest asshole enemies in vidya history. Pic related (or the absence thereof) is another reason why I prefer Descent 2.

>>1561485
I don't remember that, but now we have source ports to make that difference moot anyway.

I think I still prefer Descent 2 overall, it wasn't as ruthlessly unforgiving as Descent 1 was on the harder difficulties (pic related does not appear, for example) and the levels were a little more varied. Those bosses were fucking nutso, though.