DESCENT FOR WiiWare HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED!

NUMBERZero · Post by **NUMBERZero** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:08 pm

http://www.interplay.com/about/article.php?id=44

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TELL EVERYONE WHO IS NOT A DESCENTER AND WHO HAS A WII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:23 pm

Well...didn't see that coming.

Alter-Fox · Post by **Alter-Fox** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:29 pm

Wow... well I'm going to tell my friend who has Wii (I got him into D3).

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:38 pm

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:01 pm

Squii!!!!!!!

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:29 pm

Well, it's pretty cool, I guess.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:30 pm

I guess we know who owns left field...

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:33 pm

“Descent remains the most popular 1080º 3D blasting game. Translating its 3D worlds and game play to WiiWare™ is an exciting move”,

1080?

edit nevermind 360x3=1080

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:03 pm

I like what my brother wrote in response to this:

As long as i feel like i am playing real baseball or golf.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:13 am

I will buy it since I have the Wii. woohoo.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:14 am

Not sure exactly what this means, though it sounds like they just intend to port the old-school stuff virtually as-is. Might be an interesting novelty though, and I already have the console, so...

NUMBERZero · Post by **NUMBERZero** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:06 am

Hope they have multiplayer. Maybe they will bring PXO back.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:26 am

If it will have multi, it would be multi on the Wii channel only I'm sure.

Thenior · Post by **Thenior** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:09 pm

I'm getting a Wii soon - I'll have to buy this.

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:05 pm

How will the controls work? Wii controller doesn't exactly win the \"controller with a lot of buttons\" award. I even find it hard to make all Descent controls work on a Playstation3 controller as it is.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:11 pm

You could get the Wiimote's motion handling roll, pitch, and yaw, with the Nunchuck stick for sliding, and the buttons on the Nunchuck for forward and reverse motion. The A button handles primaries and the B button secondaries, or vice versa. The 1 and 2 buttons could cover ancillary features like flares or proximity mines. I feel like it'd work out fairly well.

Thenior · Post by **Thenior** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:34 pm

Xamindar wrote:How will the controls work? Wii controller doesn't exactly win the "controller with a lot of buttons" award. I even find it hard to make all Descent controls work on a Playstation3 controller as it is.

Is that hypotetical, or do you have Descent running on your PS3?

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 3:09 pm

Thenior wrote: Is that hypotetical, or do you have Descent running on your PS3?

Haha, I wish. No, you can plug a dualshock3 controller into a PC and it works (Linux works out of box, Windows with an easily downloaded driver). I have tried it a few times in Descent 2 and 3 but so far haven't been able to get used to it.

Top Gun, that actually sounds like a good way to do it. Sounds fun.

Aus-RED-5 · Post by **Aus-RED-5** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:18 pm

Xamindar wrote:How will the controls work? Wii controller doesn't exactly win the "controller with a lot of buttons" award.

It's possible.

Alter-Fox · Post by **Alter-Fox** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:39 pm

I hope they include some good custom missions (like ONP, Descend Again and especially Descent Vignettes), if they actually finish this.

NUMBERZero · Post by **NUMBERZero** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:49 pm

They could also set it up exactly like a joystick. \"Hold the WiiMote straight up in your dominant hand. Tilt it back and forth for pitch. Tilt it left and right for turning. Twist it left and right for rolling. Nunnychuckkey is the throttle.\" Sliding controls could be the D pad on the Wiimote or the C-Stick on the nunchuck.

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:42 pm

Aus-RED-5 wrote:
Xamindar wrote:How will the controls work? Wii controller doesn't exactly win the "controller with a lot of buttons" award.
It's possible.

Watching that, make me wonder, if you could play Multiplayer with any confidence.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 8:15 pm

It doesn't look like that config is using the infrared light bar, like an actual Wii setup would, so it's probably just limited to the accelerometers in the Wiimote, instead of the full position triangulation. Now what would really be interesting is if this port is designed for the MotionPlus add-on, since you could probably get an even finer level of control out of that.

Sedwick · Post by **Sedwick** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 8:35 pm

I'd like it if acceleration was controlled by the distance you move the Wiimote away from the \"sensor\" bar.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:38 pm

curiouser and curiouser....

Sickone · Post by **Sickone** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:12 pm

hhmmm...
My wife starting using a computer this year, though they have always been in our house - she wanted no part of it. Now she spends a couple hours a day.

She uses the Wii for exercise stuff...
If I get her to play Descent on Wii... just maybe
I could get her to play on the computer.

This could get interesting

goznik · Post by **goznik** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:29 am

I never liked the Wii
But now I think it’s time to \"borrow\" my cousins Wii

Edit:
Oh ,and buy a new 47 inch TV

Sergeant Thorne · Post by **Sergeant Thorne** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:21 am

Sounds like they'll be doing this with the first Descent... maybe Descent 2. I'm afraid that doesn't have any effect on Descent 3's PXO. Cool, I guess, but still... what's up with that? Surely the WII is capable of handling D3...

Article wrote:“Descent remains the most popular 1080º 3D blasting game.

Whaaat?

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:36 am

Sergeant Thorne wrote:Sounds like they'll be doing this with the first Descent... maybe Descent 2. I'm afraid that doesn't have any effect on Descent 3's PXO. Cool, I guess, but still... what's up with that? Surely the WII is capable of handling D3...

Article wrote:“Descent remains the most popular 1080º 3D blasting game.
Whaaat?

360x3=1080

Aus-RED-5 · Post by **Aus-RED-5** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:55 am

Sergeant Thorne wrote:Sounds like they'll be doing this with the first Descent... maybe Descent 2. I'm afraid that doesn't have any effect on Descent 3's PXO. Cool, I guess, but still... what's up with that? Surely the WII is capable of handling D3...

Interplay doesn't fully own D3? They share rights with Outrage and they aren't on good terms - from memory?
Something like that.

There are others here that know more about that.

Sergeant Thorne · Post by **Sergeant Thorne** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 7:33 am

Now that the math is out of the way, Alphadog...

What does it mean?

Aus-RED-5 wrote:Interplay doesn't fully own D3? They share rights with Outrage and they aren't on good terms - from memory?
Something like that.

That's right.

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 7:38 am

Aus-RED-5 wrote:
Interplay doesn't fully own D3? They share rights with Outrage and they aren't on good terms - from memory?
Something like that.

There are others here that know more about that.

http://www.descent4.org/ wrote:
Regarding Descent sequels, it's very unlikely that Volition would ever be involved in one. Interplay owns the sequel rights to Descent. It's possible Outrage will develop another Descent sequel, but I don't know what their plans are. I also don't know what Interplay's plans are for the franchise.

Maybe that helps.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:33 am

Outrage doesn't exist any more... there are a few former members in another outfit called Reactor Zero, who e.g. did the PC port of Red Faction: Guerilla if I recall correctly.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:21 pm

Outrage was internally obsorbed and \"dismantled\" within THQ a couple of years back. Volition, however, still remains.

goznik · Post by **goznik** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:23 am

I thought a lot about why would interplay re-release D1 for Wii.

I mean who would buy it?
only guys that loved the original game,
No new player would buy a 15 years old game.

Probably and hopefully they are just testing the water to see if there is a market for a descent game.

This is the main reason why I would buy it.
Even though I don't really see myself playing descent with a Wii-mote.

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:33 am

goznik wrote:No new player would buy a 15 years old game.

Why not?

Sickone · Post by **Sickone** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:17 pm

It is hard to say without seeing it.
If I saw Descent for the first time today
(assuming it 640x480 graphics not 320x240) I am
sure I would be as hooked as I was 15 years
ago.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:56 pm

Gonz, why would they release it on Wii?

couple of reasons I can think of:

They need the cash and Descent was a major seller for them back in the day.

The Wii? probably it's best demographic. That and the controlle would be well suited for it.

It's a bit of a gamble, but they won't lose hardly anything. I'm sure they will sell well; perhaps not as well as say Mario carts or Zelda, but I think they will at least clear the costs of packaging and marketing.

Aus-RED-5 · Post by **Aus-RED-5** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:20 pm

Duper wrote:....but I think they will at least clear the costs of packaging and marketing.

Wiiware is download only last time I checked.

So really, the only cost is to the people who are porting it.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:36 pm

Oh! well then scratch that last comment!

I don't have a Wii.

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