Poll time. Your favorite Descent

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:57 am

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Since he doesn't know how to do it

Defender · Post by **Defender** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:11 am

Hrm, I'm the only one so far to vote for D1?

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:56 am

I voted D1.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:56 pm

D1, because I'm actually old enough to remember it coming out.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:57 pm

Teh D1. Single player on insane, or co-op on insane is the most fun!

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:22 pm

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:54 pm

Nostalgia freaks. It's GOTTA be D3.

D1 is gonna be great when I can play it on my phone, but on a big screen it's ugly.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:58 pm

D1x 1.43 with 8x AA and 8x aniso filter doesnt look that ugly. Its no Doom3 but the gameplay is better.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:02 pm

Mobius wrote:Nostalgia freaks. It's GOTTA be D3.

D1 is gonna be great when I can play it on my phone, but on a big screen it's ugly.

Pfft! It only looks ugly on your POS video card. D1 looks great on my GF4 maxed out.

Maybe it looks ugly on your "big screen" because your video card is overheating and bent over 45 degrees because of all that weight?

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:40 pm

*snicker*

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:52 pm

Mobius wrote:Nostalgia freaks. It's GOTTA be D3.

D1 is gonna be great when I can play it on my phone, but on a big screen it's ugly.

This calls for a third finger salute, as well as a three pic salute!

D1 is your god. KNEEL! hur hur.

Darkside Heartless · Post by **Darkside Heartless** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:40 pm

D1 all the way

Robo · Post by **Robo** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:02 pm

Sorry

Descent3.

Battlebot · Post by **Battlebot** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:05 pm

Lan parties were extremely fun with descent 1 so thats my vote.

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:22 pm

*Passes out from nostalgia fumes*

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:01 pm

Descent sucks without afterburners and smart mines.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:57 pm

LOL, I have D1 and D2 in the original boxes ... shrink wrap and all ... never been played. I got hooked on D3 and never gave them another thought.

Vlider · Post by **Vlider** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:57 pm

Iceman MAIL THEM TO ME!

My brother, Tomcatt is in the army stationed in korea and he has my d1/d2 cds. SEND them to me foo! prv msg me.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:23 pm

It'a all about D1 and tricording. ...stand on your head or get outta the game.

Lobber · Post by **Lobber** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:25 pm

I guess I'm the only D2 Fan here.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:28 pm

D1/D2

D1 for the gameplay

and d2 for the SMINES!

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:32 am

d1 for pure skill versus skill games. d3 for team action. ctf, monsterball, guardian, entropy, etc is what made d3 cool.

d2 was pure ass.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:25 am

D3 CTF was actually fun... the rest of it was a waste of time compared to what it used to be like.

I do, just barely, have to put my vote in for D2 over D1 though. The molasses feel of the non-augmented player ship is quite a minus, but all the new cool stuff made up for it in my opinion. (The other new stuff that sucked could generally be removed)

Arol · Post by **Arol** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:34 am

Thanks!
Got'a be D2. D3 had the X-factor and the chance for aerial dogfights.
D2 had the magic.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:06 am

D2 had one redeeming quality.

Hoard in UES. Thats the only way to play D2.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:45 am

D2 > everyone except D2.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:00 am

D2 for me.

All those good memories... Gauss whores, Fusion sluts, Plasma bitches... Running into Smart Mines in the Minerva energy centers

Clayman · Post by **Clayman** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:17 am

D2. It was everything D1 was and more. I especially loved the dark ambient feel of the levels. Gauss pwnz j00!

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:20 am

Everyone that voted D2 must have never got into any serious D1 SP game with a Fusion cannon, its the best gameplay of all three.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:23 am

I agree D1 Fusion was pretty exciting (esp. spray-and-pray and hope someone shows up to catch the blobs in the face

), but it doesn't make up to all D2 has to offer instead.

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:30 am

D1 for me. I've played it through a cable but never on line. There just seemed more of a rush about it.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:17 pm

Tricord wrote:D2 for me.

All those good memories... Gauss whores, Fusion sluts, Plasma bitches... Running into Smart Mines in the Minerva energy centers

Or behind the doors behind a certain tunnel...

I got many a kill that way.

Lobber · Post by **Lobber** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:54 pm

Any D1 level made by me.

Any D2 level made by me.

Arol · Post by **Arol** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 5:39 am

Avder wrote:UES.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:00 am

There are two types of Descent players; those who know what UES is and those that don't.

UES, or Ultra Earth-Shaker, was basically a legend in the days of D2... the most well-known Shaker level out there. (Gigadeath, or at least its 2 and 4 incarnations, was also popular, but not so much.)

The fact that it was a fairly amateur effort by a fairly amateur designer didn't stop anyone.

UES became probably the second most famous D2 level after Minerva 2...

I really didn't think much of smart mines myself. :] Sure, they require good tactical thinking to set properly, but your piloting skills can be utter crap and you can still use them. At least prox bombs had a -little- class... because nobody used them... :]

But I guess that was it with Descent 2 - they added a handful of weapons that actually required skill to use... like the super lasers, Gauss cannon, Phoenix cannon, Flash missiles and Mercury missiles... then there were the downright cheap yet occasionally wildly amusing ones like the Helix cannon, Omega cannon, Guided Missile, Smart Mine and Earthshaker Missile...

Yay, nostalgia baby. :]

Zero! · Post by **Zero!** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:57 am

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:44 pm

I always like Keg Party 1, Keg 2, aside from being a "pirated work", wasn't too bad either. Was Awesome for Horde.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:11 pm

Oh yeah. Keg Party was one of the two best Hoard levels in the game... the other one being UES...

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:28 am

Descent 2.

It was Descent 1 but improved. Yes, I played all 3 games and finished them all. D1 had some redeeming qualities, but the atmosphere of D2, level design, bots, and the soundtrack really put it over the top. And im a sucker for cool cutscenes.

Descent 3 took what D1 and D2 had and bastardized it. Multiplayer is cool, but the singleplayer was a bore and a half.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:53 am

Funny you mention the soundtrack. 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 D3 soundtrack was a dreadful thing. I mean, it wasn't even music, it was noise to get upset about while playing. It didn't help the game at all.

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

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