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Article #89275Re: isnt descent 2 (singleplayer) a funner game than descent3?
From: rms
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:21
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:21
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>> What were the reviews like?
There's nothing horrible about D3, and the story is certainly more
substantive than the earlier games.
Gameplay-wise, I've been playing it on this very fast modern system at
1600x1200 (with my standard mouse+keyboard config), and the controls are
very twitchy and aiming is difficult. I blame the mouse driver code more
than anything, as proper acceleration curves aren't easy to set up so you
get precision with small movements while not requiring much lifting of the
mouse for big turns. I had this well-adjusted back in the day with
command-line DOS mouse driver parameters and the 3dfx version of D2, but oh
well.
Modern FPS games have superior mouse code, but the Descent developers
never really gave respect to mousers, not even bothering to fix the
framerate issue in either D1 or D2; all their effort went into pleasing
stick users. Oh well, sometimes trying different mice can help, I'm
thinking of getting the MX1000 for my next mouse, if they make a tailed
version :) This Explorer4 is ok, but does have glaring flaws.
rms
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