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Game similar to Descent ?
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| Hello friends,
I'm not much of the gammer, but I did get hooked on Descent.
Can anybody recommend a game similar to Descent (360/fly)?
Thanks,
-zorro
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| Fusion 2004-09-08, 6:09 pm |
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Yager (new)
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:04:54 GMT, Zorro <zorro@earthlink.net> wrote:
quote:
>Hello friends,
>
>I'm not much of the gammer, but I did get hooked on Descent.
>Can anybody recommend a game similar to Descent (360/fly)?
>Thanks,
>-zorro
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| J. Yazel 2004-09-08, 6:09 pm |
| On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:04:54 GMT, Zorro <zorro@earthlink.net> wrote:
quote:
>Hello friends,
>
>I'm not much of the gammer, but I did get hooked on Descent.
>Can anybody recommend a game similar to Descent (360/fly)?
>Thanks,
>-zorro
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If you want more levels, go to ftp://ftp.pooterman.com
He has hundreds of levels.
Jack
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| Florian 'The Outrider' Piesche 2004-09-08, 6:09 pm |
| Zorro schrieb:
quote:
> I'm not much of the gammer, but I did get hooked on Descent.
> Can anybody recommend a game similar to Descent (360/fly)?
At the risk of people hitting me with foam bats, Forsaken.
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Florian "The Outrider" Piesche (outrider@mag-murphy.net - http://www.mag-murphy.net)
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be
running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive
electronic music." - Kristian Wilson (Nintendo Inc.), 1989
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| Steveski 2004-09-08, 6:09 pm |
| Florian 'The Outrider' Piesche wrote:
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> Zorro schrieb:
> At the risk of people hitting me with foam bats, Forsaken.
Who said anything about foam?
:-)
Steveski
[AB] Daggett
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| CaptainJ 2004-09-08, 6:09 pm |
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"Steveski" <steveski7SPAMbeGONE@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Florian 'The Outrider' Piesche wrote:
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> Who said anything about foam?
Heh! I like the aluminum myself: nice crisp "DING" when it bounces off the
head!
Forsaken indeed!
CJ
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| > At the risk of people hitting me with foam bats, Forsaken.
Few people are aware of another Descent clone called Radix: Beyond the
Void. It had a 2.5D engine and as I recall had improved framerates compared
to Descent2 at the time.
You flew through tunnels with descent-like weapons, and well, that's
enough to get you started. You can try the shareware at
http://www.3dgamers.com/games/radix/
If anyone has a copy of this or a warez link, I'd be interested as a
collector.
rms
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| Wesley 2004-09-08, 6:09 pm |
| Forsaken
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| Pixel \#~ 2004-09-08, 6:09 pm |
| Earlier rms muttered:
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> Few people are aware of another Descent clone called Radix: Beyond the
>Void. It had a 2.5D engine and as I recall had improved framerates compared
>to Descent2 at the time.
>
> You flew through tunnels with descent-like weapons, and well, that's
>enough to get you started. You can try the shareware at
>http://www.3dgamers.com/games/radix/
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> If anyone has a copy of this or a warez link, I'd be interested as a
>collector.
Hmmm, and what about that thing called Freespace?
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pixel
So many idiots - so few comets.
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| Maraverse Explorer 2004-09-08, 6:09 pm |
| Zorro <zorro@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Hello friends,
>
> I'm not much of the gammer, but I did get hooked on Descent.
> Can anybody recommend a game similar to Descent (360/fly)?
I don't know if anything interesting has been released in the last year
but summing-up from similar questions in this group from 2001 & 2002 we
get (and repeating some of the other answers):
A) Completely similar, 360-degrees rotation, maze-flying games:
A0a) (1994) Descent {Parallax Software} (DOS ? | MacOS)
A0b) (1996) Descent II {Parallax Software} (DOS 5.0|Windows 4.x | MacOS)
A1) (1997) Terracide {Simis} (Direct3D(DirectX 5), Glide)
Demo (1997-09-25) (11.4 MB)
A2) (1998) Forsaken {Probe Ent.} (Direct3D(DirectX 5))
Demo (1998-07-22) (17.9 MB)
<news:alt.games.forsaken> (even lower volume then a.g.d)
A3) (1999) Descent III {Outrage Ent.} (Direct3D(DirectX ?), OpenGL)
B) Suggestions for "similar feeling" games that Descenters might like:
(a 2.5 Dimension style game)
B1) (1995) Radix: Beyond the Void {Neural Storm Ent.} (DOS)
(an advanced helicopter-like vehicle)
B2) (1997) G-Police {Psygnosis} (Direct3D(DirectX ?)
(a Descent-like ship in tunnels, but you can't fly upside-down)
B3) (1998) Adrenix {Digital Dialects} (Direct3D(DirectX ?))
Demo (1998-01-20) (13.7 MB)
(a helicopter vehicle)
B4) (1999) Lander {Psygnosis} (Direct3D(DirectX ?)
(a futuristic submarine game)
B5a) (2001) Aquanox {Massive Development} (D3D(DirectX ?),OpenGL, Glide)
B5b) (2002) Aquanox 2: Revelation {Massive Dev.} (D3D(DirectX ?),OpenGL)
(And maybe the FreeSpace games should be in the list also?)
HTH
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| Florian 'The Outrider' Piesche 2004-09-08, 6:09 pm |
| Pixel "#~ schrieb:
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> Hmmm, and what about that thing called Freespace?
It's not really a Descent game; it was called Descent: Freespace in the
US, apparently to benefit from the Descent franchise. The Freespace
series are normal - but nonetheless good - space opera games a la TIE
Fighter, Starlancer (which I actually believe to be a mediocre attempt
to clone Freespace) etc. The only thing it really has in common with
Descent is the name and some of the developers behind it.
The Non-US title of Freespace was actually "Conflict: Freespace" instead
of "Descent: Freespace".
Hope this helps,
Florian
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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be
running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive
electronic music." - Kristian Wilson (Nintendo Inc.), 1989
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| Raymond Martineau 2004-09-08, 6:09 pm |
| On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 08:09:18 +0100, marine69@hotmail.com (Maraverse
Explorer) wrote:
quote:
>Zorro <zorro@earthlink.net> wrote:
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>I don't know if anything interesting has been released in the last year
>but summing-up from similar questions in this group from 2001 & 2002 we
>get (and repeating some of the other answers):
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[...]
quote:
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> (a helicopter vehicle)
>B4) (1999) Lander {Psygnosis} (Direct3D(DirectX ?)
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> (a futuristic submarine game)
>B5a) (2001) Aquanox {Massive Development} (D3D(DirectX ?),OpenGL, Glide)
>B5b) (2002) Aquanox 2: Revelation {Massive Dev.} (D3D(DirectX ?),OpenGL)
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>(And maybe the FreeSpace games should be in the list also?)
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The types of games in the list involve "six-degrees" of movement (or
close enough to). The FreeSpace games cut down on lateral and
vertical movement leaving only four degrees, resulting in a different
feel for the game than Descent.
FreeSpace would feel more like a flight-sim such as Red Baron, Crimson
Skies, Wing Commander, etc. It wouldn't capture the same feeling
Descent-style games provide, thus you might want to add it into
another section if you do.
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| Maraverse Explorer 2004-09-08, 6:09 pm |
| Raymond Martineau <bk039@freenet.carleton.ca> wrote:
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> The types of games in the list involve "six-degrees" of movement (or
> close enough to). The FreeSpace games cut down on lateral and
> vertical movement leaving only four degrees, resulting in a different
> feel for the game than Descent.
>
> FreeSpace would feel more like a flight-sim such as Red Baron, Crimson
> Skies, Wing Commander, etc. It wouldn't capture the same feeling
> Descent-style games provide, thus you might want to add it into
> another section if you do.
Ok, that was someone elses suggestion to the the OP. The "six-degrees"
freedom of movement (or almost) games would be the "A"-list.
You can't swim/fly upside-down in the submarine and helicopter games
either i think. But i played around a little more with the Adrenix Demo
since yesterday and i was wrong. You can do a 360-degree loop front to
back but not a 360 degree rolling sideways, so i feel it should have
been placed on the "A"-list.
Except for the 2 AquaNox Demo's they are all small enough so that most
anyone can DL them and make up their own minds.
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| Florian 'The Outrider' Piesche wrote:
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> The Non-US title of Freespace was actually "Conflict: Freespace" instead
> of "Descent: Freespace".
Because Descent did not sell too well in Europe, we must be out of our
minds...
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| On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:04:54 GMT, Zorro <zorro@earthlink.net> wrote:
quote:
>Hello friends,
>
>I'm not much of the gammer, but I did get hooked on Descent.
>Can anybody recommend a game similar to Descent (360/fly)?
>Thanks,
>-zorro
Thanks to all who did reply. I'm in process of testing all
suggested games 
Currently my favorite (most D3-like) is Forsaken. I would
like to buy this game (I guess by now it should cost around
$10 or so). Googled around but couldn't find it. Does anybody
know some online store where I can buy it? (Would prefer to
pay-and-download).
The suggestion to get more levels is also good (duno why I
didn't think about it myself). I used to use in the past a
program DETLEF32. I have DW the latest version, but all the
sites the program tries to contact are unreachable - I guess
the list is old, and sites are gone, or changed their URL.
Does anybody use this progy for missions? How? This is not
a big problem, one can always just search for levels...
The only other game I liked, and bought was Quake. Q1, Q2
were ok, But I personally didn't like Q3. True, I usually
play with myself - but still I don't get it, just run
and shut everything. One thing about the Quake3, the
graphic is SUPER!
Finally, one more note for those who seek to get a little
more thrill out of their D3. If you didn't do it already
upgrade your video card! I had a cheap TNT2/64MB video
card. The card did ok with D3 on 800x600, but after I
upgraded to GForce-5700/128MB ($200), and run D3 in the
1600x1200 (or so) resolution it felt like a new game!!
Thanks again for your input,
-zorro
P.S.
If anyone want to trade Forsaken for Quake3 let me know.
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| "Zorro" <zorro@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:04:54 GMT, Zorro <zorro@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Thanks to all who did reply. I'm in process of testing all
> suggested games
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> Currently my favorite (most D3-like) is Forsaken. I would
> like to buy this game (I guess by now it should cost around
> $10 or so). Googled around but couldn't find it. Does anybody
> know some online store where I can buy it? (Would prefer to
> pay-and-download).
>
> The suggestion to get more levels is also good (duno why I
> didn't think about it myself). I used to use in the past a
> program DETLEF32. I have DW the latest version, but all the
> sites the program tries to contact are unreachable - I guess
> the list is old, and sites are gone, or changed their URL.
> Does anybody use this progy for missions? How? This is not
> a big problem, one can always just search for levels...
>
> The only other game I liked, and bought was Quake. Q1, Q2
> were ok, But I personally didn't like Q3. True, I usually
> play with myself - but still I don't get it, just run
> and shut everything. One thing about the Quake3, the
> graphic is SUPER!
>
> Finally, one more note for those who seek to get a little
> more thrill out of their D3. If you didn't do it already
> upgrade your video card! I had a cheap TNT2/64MB video
> card. The card did ok with D3 on 800x600, but after I
> upgraded to GForce-5700/128MB ($200), and run D3 in the
> 1600x1200 (or so) resolution it felt like a new game!!
>
> Thanks again for your input,
> -zorro
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> P.S.
> If anyone want to trade Forsaken for Quake3 let me know.
>
you might not be able to find lander in stores.
as a result you can download it for free at "home of the underdogs". i
can't remember the url, so just type that into google.
there is also a demo available on teh net.
if you are having trouble getting either of them running, try running them
in compatability mode. (and try installing the full game of lander to
C:\lander), or just give me a buzz.
it's one of my favourite games.
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