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Wherefore Art Thou Descent Wii?

Doc HollidayDoc Holliday Registered User
in Games and Technology
Last April, news broke of Interplay working on a Descent port for the Wii.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/108/1084002p1.html
http://www.1up.com/news/descent-headed-wiiware-fall
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/15/finally-wiiware-gets-a-descent-game/

Descent was my very first online experience, and my first foray into using a keyboard for first person shooters. I spent a large majority of my afternoons dialing up my friends on my sweet 24 baud modem and shooting some mining robots.

Naturally I was stoked at the news, but it seems to be for naught, there's been no news of this sense.

Anyway let's lament this fact on the eve of the Wii as the Wii U approaches, and let's just talk about how awesome descent is.

Also I guess y'all can talk about Freespace even though I never really played it. I GUESS.

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  • darleysamdarleysam Registered User regular
    Man, I've not played this in forever. After the copy of.. PC Format (I think, that or PC Zone) carried the demo on two floppy discs on the front, complete with an apology over including only one demo at a massive 6mb, I was absolutely hooked. Then when I got a copy of the full thing, it consumed my dad who would play it obsessively. So awesome. Really need to get a copy from GoG, now.

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  • IdolNinjaIdolNinja Registered User regular
    I've been playing the hell out of Descent and Descent II lately using the Rebirth source port. They both are still incredible games and hold up extremely well today, just as they did when I got the first one bundled with my 3DFX Voodoo card on release. The freedom of movement and sense of speed really has me spoiled. It's hard for me to even play newer 2 axis games lately.

    So, the big question is when are we scheduling some multiplayer? I used to play a ton of Descent 2 Deathmatch during work at my very first tech support job, and I recently heard that it also has coop. The thought of 8 Material Defenders swooping around blowing the holy bajeezus out of mining robots certainly puts a huge smile on my face. :D

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    oh god

    descent

    and descent 2





    (let us not speak of descent 3)

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  • MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    Interplay is a shell corporation at this point, existing for the sole purpose of holding IP.

    Expecting anything more from it is like expecting a newly-born kitten to do high-level calculus.

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  • darleysamdarleysam Registered User regular
    MechMantis wrote: »
    Interplay is a shell corporation at this point, existing for the sole purpose of holding IP.

    Expecting anything more from it is like expecting a newly-born kitten to do high-level calculus.

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  • MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    That is clearly a cat, not a still-wet newborn kitten.

    Point still stands.

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  • EchoEcho Per Aspera Ad Inferi Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Psst. Wherefore means "why".

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    right

    he's asking why the Wii has experienced a descent of sorts

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  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck Registered User regular
    Fucking Wiis

    also Romeo

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    darleysam how did you post that image two minutes after he made that post



    truly, the internet is a majesty

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  • agoajagoaj Play It Loud! Get N Or Get OutRegistered User regular
    Homebrewers already ported it

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  • darleysamdarleysam Registered User regular
    Captain K wrote: »
    darleysam how did you post that image two minutes after he made that post



    truly, the internet is a majesty

    Google image search: illustrator to your wildest analogies.

    edit: and yeah, I checked the time stamps as soon as I posted that, to see how long it took.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    Maybe they're holding off for the WiiU?

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    I'd be more interested in a WiiU port of the Freespace games. Make the little pad's display resemble the control panel of the spacecraft with the engine/weapon/shield outputs and such.

    I'm looking forward to the day when a wider range of gamers can understand just how intense the words "DIVE DIVE DIVE HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT" can be.

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  • mr weenismr weenis Registered User regular
    Oh man, Descent. In 5th grade, my teacher used to let me stay in the classroom during lunch, by myself, and play Descent on the classroom Mac. Good memories. I really hope it gets ported.

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  • ApogeeApogee Lancks In Every Game Ever TorontoRegistered User regular
    I was pumped for this last year, but I've since given up hope. The homebrew DS port was decent, but crashed often; I gave up around level 18-19 due to some insurmountable bug.

    Still, if it was on the WiiU at launch? Fuck Mario, I'm buying it for Material Defender.

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  • Drunk_caterpillarDrunk_caterpillar Registered User regular
    Yeah, after MDK2 got ported I started thinking about this again. I'd kill to play descent on my widescreen TV. Might just get the sourceports though and play them on the lappy instead.

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  • Doc HollidayDoc Holliday Registered User
    Echo wrote:
    Psst. Wherefore means "why".

    Don't you come in here with your knowledge and your words.

    Deny thy name or I'll no longer be a Catapult. Or whatever.

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  • ForanForan Registered User
    Any notice yet that their site has conflicting information?
    http://www.interplay.com/games/descent.php says it's released
    and http://www.interplay.com/games/wiiware says it's "coming soon"

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