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1st October 2003, 01:58 AM
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Peace all,
Has anyone ever played the Descent games? I played the first 2.Pretty cool flight simulation etc...
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1st October 2003, 11:29 AM
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Reps: 61 (power: 0) | | | Sure, I got the first one when the platinum box release came out. I got Descent 2 as a video card bundle. My neighbor was addicted to Descent 2. That sure was a long time ago, still a playable came though. Now I pretty much stick to MS Flight Simulator 2002 with all the add-on aircraft models I can download from the net and add in. I’m looking to get MS Combat sim sometime as well. |
1st October 2003, 01:33 PM
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Reps: 163 (power: 0) | | yep yep, my dad bought me the first two and i realy liked them, and once the third one came out i bought that one also, but its realy hard(i could barly beat the second level). but yeah , its a great game 
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1st October 2003, 01:36 PM
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Reps: 61 (power: 0) | | | Bland? Yeah, but it was cutting edge for its time. The game is nearly a decade old and originally ran under DOS command. I think it was released sometime between Duke Nukem 3D and Quake 1. Descent is a true classic and was considered as a standard for the first person shooter genre for a time. |
2nd October 2003, 01:58 AM
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2nd October 2003, 02:14 AM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | | I haven't played the 3rd. When I got it my old computer didn't have enough memory to handle it.Someone had given me the first many yrs ago, then I enjoyed so much I got the 2nd, when it came out.Take in mind when I was a kid, prong was supposed to be (atari) was a big deal.Now it is simply amazing how far things have come.
I thought the robots were pretty creative on Descent.Especially the Red ones w/the homing missiles.The 2nd had new features like turbo, various weapons.
I don't play many games nowadays, accept EA sports NCAA football, Madden etc...
Thanks for the input guys.
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2nd October 2003, 07:57 PM
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Reps: 194 (power: 0) | | oh man! i use to have the first one, i loved it!, it was on my old computer! but i lost the disk so i couldnt put it on my new one 
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2nd October 2003, 09:09 PM
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Reps: 61 (power: 0) | | Hey what do ya know, I found Descent 3 in a stack of CD’s. Good old game  |
12th October 2003, 09:57 PM
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Wow. brings back alot of memories. Descent was really one of the first 3d games played over the Internet. This was back before MIRC where you had to have a shell Unix account (remember where we had to run C scripts =)) You would basically have to run a C program on the server called IHHD. Basically we would meet in #Descent on Efnet (Chucky, Baron, Xr, Scoundrel, Ledzep, etc) then when we were ready to play we would run a script via command within the IRC script (telnet) then go into the game. It was one of the first games which more then 2 people could play at a time!
Anyway, if any of you are from those days I'm sure you will remember the undeafeted PUN|SHR =]. Scoundrel gave me a few run ins.
IHHD, MILK (didnt every really pan out), then KALI. Kali still exists I think. | | |
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