1994 was 6 years ago, this doesn't really qualify as being retro
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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And my Axe!
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 nostalgia hits hard here! So much fun had in this era of pc gaming.
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.
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.
OMG I had one of those!
First game I ever had on PC!
The reason I still use inverted Y-axis on controllers to this day!
Ohhhh boy. This is just tooo good!
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.
Will this run on a steam deck? I had it back in the Weezer win 95 dialup, wutang CD-ROM mansion days.
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.
Damn, that looks nice
I had a SpaceOrb 360 so I could play this. It didn't help.
Cool, now I can vomit like it's the 90's again, but with incredible lighting :p
So cool, I had this on PC back in the day, but the PC really wasn't powerful enough to play it properly, it was so jerky. Can't wait to try it on a modern computer, thanks for the link!
Yoooooo! What a throwback!
I remember seeing a demo in the mall when I was a kid. It looked so futuristic
This was frequently the only game they had on the demo PCs at Walmart back in the day, so if the N64 kiosk was taken up by some kid who didn't know how to take turns, you could play Descent or SkiFree on the PCs.
I'm sure Digital Foundry are working on a video about this.
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.