Planet Descent
Community => Mess Hall => Topic started by: NUMBERZero on February 28, 2010, 11:15:53 AM
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Another Descent first!
Yes I completed it finally. Last level was great! I cannot believe I survived.
Playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C66D87528D458F28
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Congratulations.
Pleople keep saying that Descent 3's graphics are far behind today.
Watching theses videos of D2 makes me wonder how someone can recognize something on their screen at all. :D
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Watching theses videos of D2 makes me wonder how someone can recognize something on their screen at all. :D
And yet we still do :)
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Nice set of vids yet again Zero!
On a side note, I STILL have yet to work my way through this campaign. I'm going to do it one day.
@PyroJocky: It's because we grew up in a time an place where design quality > graphics quality.... Though at the time, Descent had both. ;)
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At lease now I don't have to play Descent on a 14" CRT at 640 x 480 resolution, which was the de facto standard at the time. Ahh...memories ::)
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640x480... the standard?
Ah, how people forget. No, the original Descent ran at 320x200. :D
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You _could_ run it on 640 x 480, if you had a "high-end" PC. :)
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Exactly. I played at 320x200 until I upgraded to a 486. :)
Even then, I usually played at 320x400. It wasn't playable at 640x480 (which seemed crystal-clear!) until I had access to a Pentium in college.
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You played that on a 386? ;D
Luckily, I had just gottan a Pentuim 60 MHz when the game came out. It ran much better in OS/2 full-screen than on native DOS with 32 MB RAM. 640 x 480 was still almost unplayable with framerates under 10 when more than 2 robots waited together in the same room. :)
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Yep. Played the original demo in '94-'95 on a 386-SX at 16Mhz with 640Kb RAM (I think).
Even at 320x200, it became unplayable at times... I had to shrink the screen using the "-" key to get decent framerates for some areas.
When I upgraded to the "blazing-fast" 486-DX40 with 4Mb RAM, I remember feeling like it was awesome to be able to play Descent in its full 320x200 glory. :D
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Oh the irony. Then compaired to now.