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This game was truly one of the first real 3d mouse controlled indoor flying shooter game. Even today you won't find many in this genre. Games like Darker and Terminal velocity were a bit similar and cool as well.
It was probably my first encounter with a proper video game. I never got to play it with a joystick (apparently the quintessential way of playing) but I got decent with the keyboard controls.
It's pretty fun, and holds up even today despite the now-dated graphics. It never got quite the level of recognition that Doom, Quake, etc got but in my mind it's just as much of a landmark in gaming.
Some Gameplay footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpLyV9_zgmM
a lot of times with nostalgia gaming, one quickly notices how broken and inaccessible the controls are and how much more imagination it requires to be an escape
but this one just looks straight forward and fun
That update history on the right is interesting. Also if you like 3D shooters but haven't heard of any recently: give Overload a look.
It's basically Descent. It's created by some of the original Descent devs.
Hrm. Memories. One of the few games I played. And the only one where I almost always won when we did it over LAN! edit: For comparison, in C&C, about the same epoch in the first variants I always lost, because I mistook it for SimCity, building defences, infra, etc. And then the masses of enemies came. Boohoohooo! But Descent was my thing, easily.
At the time, Duke Nukem 3D and Doom 2 were contemporary games. But (as far as I remember) Descent was the only game that supported both Mac and PC clients, and let them play together on LAN.
Edit: Does anybody know of an earlier graphical game that had mixed-client LAN support? (~1996-97)
Some Gameplay footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpLyV9_zgmM
that looks a lot more fun and straight forward than games today hm a lot of times with nostalgia gaming, one quickly notices how broken and inaccessible the controls are and how much more imagination it requires to be an escape but this one just looks straight forward and fun
[EDIT]: and wine won't run the windoze version either.
ugh.
Hrm. Memories. One of the few games I played. And the only one where I almost always won when we did it over LAN! edit: For comparison, in C&C, about the same epoch in the first variants I always lost, because I mistook it for SimCity, building defences, infra, etc. And then the masses of enemies came. Boohoohooo! But Descent was my thing, easily.
Me too! I'd say we should fight, but that game is to blame for my tendonitis and last time I played, I couldn't type for several days.
My superpower was that I played without autoleveling and didn't get disoriented. Can't pull wacky 0g maneuvers if you've got artificial gravity weighing you down...