• patachu
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    2 years ago

    One of the true childhood nostalgia games for me.

    Sometimes I’d hear people talk about other games with Descent in the title (I think it was Descent: Freespace?) I’d think “Wait … that’s not the Descent I know of”

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    One of those games I owned a demo of, but was never able to control properly. But, boy, was it cool! As a kid I messed around with it, but didn’t see more than one or two levels.

    I still think about it from time to time, that’s the lasting impression it had on me. I never imagined, there would be an update or remake!

    Thank you for the memories!

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      2 years ago

      A good joystick or even gamepad can help a fair bit with the control. Keyboard sometimes felt… complicated

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    2 years ago

    The nostalgia hits hard here! So much fun had in this era of pc gaming.

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    Descent taught me how to fly using the numpad. I think I had A as thrust, Z as reverse, 8/2 as pitch, 4/6 as yaw, 7/9 as roll, 1/3 as horizontal strafe, and +/- as vertical.

    Descent also taught me how to use dial up for multiplayer.

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    Played a ton of Descent with my CH Products Flight Stick Pro, which is since long gone. Not sure I could play any other way.

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    This was such a unique game. It was like a merge of a tight corridor first person shooter and a space combat simulator where there is no “up”. I haven’t seen anything like it since.

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    Will this run on a steam deck? I had it back in the Weezer win 95 dialup, wutang CD-ROM mansion days.

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    Hah. Not surprised NHTV folks made this. Those students have made many interesting graphics/gamey projects over the years.

    It looks pretty! I gotta try it.

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    2 years ago

    Cool, now I can vomit like it’s the 90’s again, but with incredible lighting :p