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Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 months ago by DosDude@retrolemmy.com to c/dosgaming@retrolemmy.com
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[–] xangadix@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The author failes to mention that some of the Original creators went on and made Overload, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overload_(video_game), a modern descent version. It even supports vr (which is awesome). A bit lazy journalism tbh

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You made me buy this game, and I'm now sitting with my steam deck enjoying a new descent game. Thank you. I've finished the first few levels, and it's exactly like descent in many ways with qol upgrades.

[–] xangadix@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love this ☺️, I hope you have as much fun with it as I had. If you get the chance, try it in VR too. it is one of the most enjoyable games in VR that I've played!

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 2 points 3 months ago

If AMD decides to update the drivers so my rift S isn't just showing greens, I will. I'm not a fan of downgrading drivers just to play VR.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My favorite thing in this game was how everyone would orient themselves differently. There was no "the enemy gate is down" mentality, you'd come around a corner and people would be at some weird, sideways angle and you'd think "wait, that's supposed to be 'down'?" Right before shooting them in all 3 of their polygons.

Good times

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago

Oh, I remember this one. It was confusing but fun. My friend and I linked PCs via serial cable but I think my machine was too slow to handle it.

He could fly around and shoot me down with no issues but all I could see was a slideshow! It was unplayable. 😄

[–] stooovie@mas.to 4 points 3 months ago

@DosDude and Acclaim's technically impressive clone, Forsaken!

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

One of the few games that worked on my vfx1 20 something years ago… a blast. I tried it’s successor when I got the index but it failed to revive the flame.

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One of the only games to give me vertigo.

[–] chanibal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

You had to buy vertigo, it was not given for free :D (the mission pack for D2 was called Vertigo)

[–] fzz@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

I remembered it with VR of those times! 🥹