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


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

Well...didn't see that coming.

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

Wii?

Squii!!!!!!!

Well, it's pretty cool, I guess.

I guess we know who owns left field...

“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

I like what my brother wrote in response to this:

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

It's possible.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

curiouser and curiouser....

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Why not?

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.

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.

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.

Oh! well then scratch that last comment!

I don't have a Wii.