/vr/ - Retro Games

Descent

I've played Hellbender and Forsaken, but I've never played the original. How the hell did people play this with a keyboard and only 2 hands?

Descent pre-dates both Terminator Future Shock and Quake. So does Mechwarrior 2.
The achievements Carmack made were never about being hugely innovative in terms of visuals, it was all about coming up with novel ways to speed up 3D gaming on PCs specifically.
Daytona USA came out a few months after Doom and was literally a decade ahead of what PCs could do, there's tons of 3D first-person games from the time period as well for both PCs and consoles mostly space shooters but also stuff like Geograph Seal which is a fully 3D FPS for the Sharp X68k.

Do you consider Descent a revolutionary game? it's barely talked today

learning curve to git gud is very harsh
but the game is dedicated to the Rule of Cool and I still think about it from time to time

How come nobody really talks about it, /vr/?
I finished D1 a few days ago and am halfway through D2, I'm having a blast. It's about the closest thing to a three-dimensional shmup.
Is it the complex level design and the (not required, but pretty beneficial) use of a joystick that turns people off?

The glory days are over, the community has become stagnant, some of my friends in the community have actually died, and I will never have the time to devote to playing it every night.

Do you guys mind if I post some Descent screenshots? I have some old, and some new.

It was on Steam and GOG, but Herve's insatiable desire for jewery, total incompetency and being an irredeemable asshole in general forced it off all storefronts and it's extremely unlikely to return, unless Interplay actually manages to un-burn their bridges with Parallax and good fucking luck with that. It's a damn shame too.

Descent. Was, like, three years old or something. No idea how I actually managed to beat it.

So I'm playing Descent for the first time, just beat level 6 and holy shit where has this game been my whole life.

I'm a huge Doom fan, but 6DoF is just a game changer for me. Maybe I need to play more space sim stuff...

So let's talk about the Descent series.
Favorite game/ Recommended levels/ Memories/ etc.

I love Doom. I've loved Doom since its release. Will I enjoy Descent? I've never played it but I always remember hearing comparisons.

Is there a way to know if it would be legal to include assets from a game in a doom WAD?

Pic related, I love it's music.

Motherfucking Descent. I have no idea how I beat it as a kid, because I bought it on GOG recently and that ship handles like complete ass.