Old Descent Commercials.

TigerRaptor · Post by **TigerRaptor** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:45 am

Saw this on another BB. Thought you guys might want to watch these.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... =Descent+2

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... =Descent+2

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... =Descent+2

Aus-RED-5 · Post by **Aus-RED-5** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:57 am

hehe.. nice find.

The last clip was the best.

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:08 am

Okay, that was a completely random Rodney Dangerfield cameo. Did not see that one coming.

Gotta love the \"shield eyes\" though.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:15 am

Whoa!

How in the world did I miss these?

I hadn't yet tried multiplayer, but I was a HUGE fan of the game back at the time these came out, and I have both PlayStation titles. Were they just on website ads, or were they actually broadcast somewhere?

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:16 am

Yeah, the shield eyes are one cool idea.

Hey, Descent shield contact lenses would be cool!

dissent · Post by **dissent** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:10 am

Or, for those of us who don't wear contacts - sunglass lenses.

aldel · Post by **aldel** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:56 pm

Diedel wrote:Hey, Descent shield contact lenses would be cool!

Looks like this place could do it if you paid them enough.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:10 pm

That's just nuts!

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:33 pm

dissent wrote:Or, for those of us who don't wear contacts - sunglass lenses.

There are contacts w/o optical effect, just to change the appearance of your eye pupils.

Heck, animated shield contacts would be cool ...

Dakatsu · Post by **Dakatsu** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:09 pm

Cool commircials, I so want shield contacts.

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:04 pm

I liked Descent 3's commercial better.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 3:27 pm

Unbelieveable I know, but I agree with Agressor Prime.

WTF with Jenny McCarthy? That ★■◆● couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. And as for her \"You're going down\"??? OMG - NO ★■◆● - YOU ARE!

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:06 pm

I can't imagine playing with a controller. ;P

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:18 am

It takes a little bit of getting used to, and you have to sacrifice some maneuverability, but I was able to fly at least decently with the PS1 controller.

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:12 am

It actually worked fairly well on the PSX controller.

It's Descent Maximum with the issues (Afterburner, Headlight, Switch Mines, and all of those other Descent 2 features are awkward to map to so few buttons).

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:21 am

Yeah, I never got completely used to it, but you can at least set up a workable setup for just the basic movement/weapons controls. The rest of the specific controls had to be bound to weird things like \"Select+R1\".

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:14 pm

i found that game for a dollar at a store and bought it not too long ago. I was disappointed at it's controls and graphics. D2X-XL has done so much for the game i cant stand it any other way now.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:20 pm

All I know about the controls is that the default scheme absolutely reeked. Believe it or not, you couldn't even slide up and down!

I think I wound up using the four circular buttons for sliding, two of the shoulders for forward/back motion, and the other two for weapons. Unfortunately, banking had to be relegated to holding Select and using one of the shoulders, but all things considered, it ended up working out pretty well.

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 6:50 am

Controls were easy on PSX if you were not cheap and had one of these

ANALOG BABY