1994 was 6 years ago, this doesn’t really qualify as being retro
I’m Commander Sheppard, and this is my favorite comment in the Fediverse.
And my Axe!
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.
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!
A good joystick or even gamepad can help a fair bit with the control. Keyboard sometimes felt… complicated
The reason I still use inverted Y-axis on controllers to this day!
Damn, that looks nice
I don’t get it. Why bother with such poor quality textures? D1 was my favorite of the series, but I feel like the d1x project probably did more for the appearance boost (been a while since I played it though!)
The nostalgia hits hard here! So much fun had in this era of pc gaming.
I remember seeing a demo in the mall when I was a kid. It looked so futuristic
Damn I used to play the hell out of this game. I remember the controls being very difficult to figure out, but once you did it was awesome.
I had a SpaceOrb 360 so I could play this. It didn’t help.
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.
I’m sure Digital Foundry are working on a video about this.
Will this run on a steam deck? I had it back in the Weezer win 95 dialup, wutang CD-ROM mansion days.
I think the lighting on the original was quite good, enough that adding raytracing is only adding a tiny bit more.
What it really needs is upscaled textures tbh.
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”
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.
Some of the original devs made a spiritual successor a few years ago.
