Descent

This is me playing the first level of the original PC shareware version of Descent. It was the first 3D action shooter with moving around in any axis.

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• Descent
• shareware
• PC
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• 3D
• action
• first
• person
• shooter
• Parallax
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• DOSBox
• MS-DOS
• games

[AcesHigh6789]

They need to put this on XBLA.

[Lorenzo2300]

Man, I loved playing this game when I was a kid... Awesomeness. The music gave a really eerie feeling to the levels.

[auxpower]

holy crap does this bring back memories

[alexKrasny]

@illjutsu There are remakes. I will be doing a let's play of this game soon. It looks much better than this and runs smoother.

[illjutsu]

I played this game for hours. Someone has to do a remake. It was so much fun.

[karx11erx]

@velocityreptile Of course you can - at least when using one of the modernized open source versions of the game.

[InexplicableHat]

@CuteFloor

For reference, 4862 are my directional/pitch keys obviously, 13 are slide horizontal, +/enter are slide vertical, and 79 are for banking, with thumb on Numpad Insert for bombs. Left hand on ASD keys with pinkie finger on LShift, D for Primary Fire, S for accel, A for reverse and shift for Secondary (F for Flares).

This setup's worked for me for years and due to the keys used you can easy fire + move in multiple axes. Mouse is obviously still preferable to this, but it works.

[InexplicableHat]

@CuteFloor

That's not an excuse for not being able to accelerate/reverse while sliding in at least one direction on a keyboard. Yes, the default controls for Descent were intended for a mouse and were crap for keyboard play, but I've got it setup so I can play using only a keyboard and I'm capable of movement in multiple axes at once. Trichording is obviously a bit too tricky without a mouse, but using the numpad is the way to go when using just a keyboard.

[victorbarovsky]

I remember getting horribly lost.

[FreddoX1]

@20110102 That explains it. Thx :D

[20110102]

@FreddoX1

lol, theyre mining facilites to start with.

The mining bots have been infected with a virus causing them to turn against their human controllers and killing them.

Later on though you do get to more military installations.

Read the intro to missions to find out.

[FreddoX1]

This game was so wierd, it didn't make any sense what so ever.

What kind of place would have like a bunker with a bunch of spaceships flying around in it?