lol UES was a blast back when I played on Kahn. The "Who the ★■◆● blew up the reactor???" bit happened alot whenever newbies hopped in.Tricord wrote:Ah, UES.. Where are the days.
"Who the **** blew up the reactor???" lol
I did a fair bit of marker-camping in UES.. That absolutely ruled
Everyone else would chew out the guy that did it, and he'd be like "wtf did I do wrong?!" 
Then theres the people that didn't know what coop meant and just started shooting at anything that moved. 
I made a few levels and so did Otherone that had a much more D1/2-esque plasma. Try it out.....Pulling Teeth and Athena come to mind....Duper wrote:THE one thing that alyaws bugged me about D3 was the size of the plasma projectiles. They're only about half the size they should be. The sound was/is kinda odd, but not terrible. The model of the blobs is fine too. They just needed to be bigger. :\
Indeed. The MIDI scores for D1 and D2 are fabulous (and this is coming from a musician's perspective). D2's in particular perfectly suited the dark, "you know something's just around the corner" atmosphere. I used to play D2 on my laptop with headphones on all the time, and playing it was almost, "scary."D1 had a great MIDI score, but the D2 soundtrack was absolutely brilliant. There's a particular song where the rhythm actually matches the ship bobbing. Add some lava noise in the background and the adrenaline is there.
The Redbook audio tracks from Type 0 Negative and others were excellent too. I still sometimes pop in my D2 CD and listen to it. I was always a gauss/plasma guy in D2. I speak only from experience in SP, as I didn't know enough to figure out how to get into MP back then. I primarily liked the feel, look, and level design of D2. Perhaps if I could get D1X to work D1 would seem better, but the contrast in graphics between D1 and D2 made D2 a clear winner back when I played them.haha, word!Oh, D1, all the way. I subscribe to Deimos' analogy--D1 is chess, D2 is Checkers, and D3 is Hungry Hungry Hippos.
... I asked my parents for it on my next birthday/Christmas/whatever (I have a bad memory ) and, fortunately for me, they happened to pick up the Definitive Collection . I wasn't able to get D1 working completely until a few years ago, when I heard about D1X. I played through D2 and Vertigo singleplayer a few times, and that was it until I first saw D3 at the same neighbor's house. The first image I have of that game was the new shield orb; compared to the old D1/D2 sprite, it was awesome-looking . What also blew my mind was that you could go outside. I bought D3 soon after, but my old computer wasn't even able to run it (16 MB of RAM ). I got as far as the opening movie, which left me begging for more. Meanwhile, I played through the first few singleplayer levels at my neighbor's house. I'm proud to say that I solved the Priest's Icon puzzle before him and without the help of any strategy guides . Soon after, we got a newer computer and Comcast high-speed Internet, and I started playing D3 online. I got introduced to the D3 online community by searching for Descent sites online. I visited the old D3 Community a few times, and I saw that they were going to merge with a site called PlanetDescent. Unfortunately, my school's web filter didn't let it through. (Damn you, Bess! ) When I finally had home Internet access, I registered at PD, got a PXO login, and became part of multiplayer Descent .. As a whole, I like D3 the best out of the 3 games. The singleplayer, though far from perfect, at least features more variety than the key/reactor hunt of the first two games, which I found to get tiring after the twelfth or so level. I will agree that the D1 and D2 MIDIs were better than D3's music, and that the D2 Redbook was the best of all. (It's still one of my favorite music CDs .) However, I do like the D3 music; tracks like levels 5, 9, and 15 are some standouts. Multiplayer-wise, I think D3 has a greater variety of strategy than the two earlier games, due to the greater variety in weapon types. I also find it hard to see other ships in D1/D2, due to the size of the weapon sprites and the dull colors of the ships. Overall, I've had more fun playing D3; however, I enjoy all 3 of the Descent games. May they live on and prosper .Hostile wrote:I made a few levels and so did Otherone that had a much more D1/2-esque plasma. Try it out.....Pulling Teeth and Athena come to mind....Duper wrote:THE one thing that alyaws bugged me about D3 was the size of the plasma projectiles. They're only about half the size they should be. The sound was/is kinda odd, but not terrible. The model of the blobs is fine too. They just needed to be bigger. :\
Funny. I've said I'm sorry so give me a break , okay? You may post this jokingly, but it's not getting any funnier.Tyranny wrote:wow. major thread necromancy.
To the others: I'm gonna do my best to be a good boy in the future, okay? No hard feelings. I just thought that the mummy pic was enough. Also, if all first time posters are greeted this way if they make one mistake, it might scare them off...Tyranny wrote:meh, it gave me an excuse to unveil my revised retard award. Don't take things so seriously around here or you'll be eaten alive
Funny, I didn't see much offtopic until after my first post...Tyranny wrote:As far as spamming with offtopic junk. The topics been out of topic for months so...a mod will probably come around and close it
If I only had some friends that weren't crap at Descent or just hated it...Tyranny wrote:Ontopic: Mostly for multiplayer. Sadly it didn't live up to D1/D2s multiplayer.
I would have played over the net, but I have dial-up, so that's not really suitable.Yeah, well, I guess I got a little pissed that after thousands of posts on Futuremark's and PCGamer's forums (my interest is mainly computer hardware), I come here and make one mistake and immideately gets contacted by mods and jumped at from left and right. I guess I've grown a bit too used to being a forum old timer... Anyway, I'm certain that I'll have lots of fun on this board!Tyranny wrote:Offtopic: Most of the new people are greeted this way only if they do something that allows anyone to take a shot at them. Most of it is done in good fun but you'll notice that there are plenty of regulars here and probably about a handful everyone picks on.
The rest learn to pick their fights wisely
Go ahead and have your fun, 'cause I've kind of deserved it! Oh no, there are FAR worse. Trust me. (Ask Sky if you don't believe me.Sirius wrote:Probably is still the most tight-assed forum on the planet. But you kind of get used to it. :]
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