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I had totally forgotten about Descent, thank you for the reminder. That game seriously scared me as a 13 yo boy at the time. I loved it.
by gwicks56 8y ago
I had totally forgotten about Descent, thank you for the reminder. That game seriously scared me as a 13 yo boy at the time. I loved it.
- LoonyBalloony 8y agoCheck out Overload on steam dude. Made by the same peeps.
- lloeki 8y agoAdditional check out: Sublevel Zero, a Descent game with roguelike mechanics.
- VectorLock 8y agoI get a little sick to my stomach just hearing the word "Descent."
- Semirhage 8y agoI still have Descent dreams. If they’re good it’s just an exciting time, but if it’s an anxiety dream then it’s the equivalent of “the brakes on my car don’t work” anxiety dreams in 3D. I may have played those games a biiiit too much.
- cperciva 8y agoOddly enough, Descent was the one 3D game which didn't make me suffer from motion sickness.
- lostlogin 8y agoI still hear the Marathon rocket launcher from time to time (rare now) and that alien cackle was so great.
- phusion 8y agoWhat a fantastic bunch of games those were, right? We eventually had such a blast playing Descent: Freespace at LAN's.. great game.. anyway.. the Descent devs are at it again! https://playoverload.com/ https://playoverload.com/
- ChuckMcM 8y agoAh wingnut, I miss those times of plunging through the caves with you :-)
- johng 8y agoPlayed lots of Descent over kali, fun times.
- paulie_a 8y agoI haven't thought/ heard the name Kali for decades... Did anyone ever actually purchase kali?
- troydavis 8y agoI did. I remember thinking that based on my license serial number (which seemed to be sequential), Jay Cotton was making a lot of money. Here’s a 2-part interview with the creators: https://episodiccontentmag.com/2016/08/26/kali1/ https://episodiccontentmag.com/2016/08/26/kali1/ https://episodiccontentmag.com/2016/09/02/lan-trickery-an-interview-with-scott-coleman-and-jay-cotton-creators-of-kali-part-2/ https://episodiccontentmag.com/2016/09/02/lan-trickery-an-in...
- paulie_a 8y agoInteresting! I feel like an asshole teenager in retrospect. I pirated it :(
- kevstev 8y agoThe entire genre of flight and space-sims has almost entirely gone away and to me its such a tremendous shame- with today's multi-monitor setups and wide screens they would be such a better experience. X-wing, descent, flight simulator, were all so much fun. I still have my MS sidewinder collecting dust in a closet- which may be part of the problem- these games really needed a decent flight stick to enjoy, and that's a big barrier to entry.
- kuang_eleven 8y agoI wouldn't say that. Elite: Dangerous is the current big space-sim, and hotter than ever. Everyone is looking forward to Star Citizen, although it's even odds to me if it ever sees a full release...
- gwicks56 8y agoOh God, Privateer. That was another 10,000 hours of my childhood.
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- eropple 8y agoIn addition to stuff like Elite: Dangerous and the X series of games, House of the Dying Sun came out in 2016 and is rad.
- terandle 8y agoThe descent guys recently did a kickstarter for a new game: Overload. It just came out on Steam. I haven’t checked it out yet to see if it’s any good.
- headsoup 8y agoIt's Descent through and through. It's great.
- 2muchcoffeeman 8y agoTo this day I have to ‘invert’ my y-axis when I play for any sort of 1st person perspective game.
- gaius 8y agoThat game seriously scared me as a 13 yo boy at the time. I loved it I remember playing for hours then standing up and immediately falling over and having to just lie on the floor for a few minutes...
- loeg 8y agoThey just published a remake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overload_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overload_(video_game)
- thret 8y agoDescent gave me vertigo. I found it completely disorienting. It was awesome, and the only game to do that outside of VR.