Never had the chance to play it properly. I had a demo of it in a magazine CD, but could never figure out the controls
Played the hell out of 1, 2, and 3, along with Freespace. Planetdescent was my home for years. Shakerheads unite!
If you liked and miss Decent, check out Overload on Steam. It’s great.
The resemblance is immediately obvious. Didn’t know this existed. Thanks.
It’s made by the original Descent devs and it genuinely slaps :)
Already bought it. It’s the Descent IV we never got 20 years ago. Dang, been a while since I thought of the dev drama surrounding these games.
Man I friggin loved Descent II. Game was so fun and immersive. I watched that opening cinematic over and over. The soundtrack was fantastic as well.
I later went and played Descent 1 as well but 2 was the one I played the most.
2 also has the thief bot which while infuriating also lead to some of the most memorable gameplay for me. Just chasing that little piece of shit to the ends of the earth and then feeling so triumphant when I finally nabbed it and got my stuff back.
Descent II has maybe the most unique soundtrack I have ever heard in a game.
It really was incredible. Especially back then when I hadn’t had much exposure yet to that style of music. The fact that it was CD quality instead of midi really helped.
I vividly remember discovering how you could just put the game disk in a regular CD player and it’d work. Kinda blew my mind lol.
I was in a computer club in High School. So we were able to play a few games in the computer lab after school. The teacher that headed it absolutely loved playing Descent, but she was also so bad at it that it was pure blind luck if she ever actually hit anyone.
I remember I had a super low Kali number.
Descent 3 using Kali was my first online game experience. What a crazy time that was.
that was a great game
One of the things I’ve always remembered about Decent was when you put in cheat codes it would play a little sound effect of someone saying “cheater…”
Nausea has never been as fun as it was back then.
I played terminal velocity, kind of like the ‘we have descent at home’
Also around that time there was a game Magic Carpet EA published that had a similar feel
Civvie 11 had a good video on both Descent games.
Great game, but I could never play it for more than ten minutes at a time before getting woozy and nauseous.
This game holds a special place in my life. Back in the 90s we had it on the family PC and it was so awesome.
Every once in a while I play it on DOSBox. I fully recomend it. It’s an amazing game.
I played the shit out of this. I bet the controls are still hard coded in me.
Brilliant game.
Worth playing with the PS1 Descent soundtrack too for a different experience (or Descent Maximum as it was across the pond), it got me in to Type O-Negative too.
