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The Snowfish. wrote:
> i've only played the demo of descent 3 but it dosnt seem to be as fun
> as descent 2.  am i right?
I think they're both pretty cool. The weapons in D3 are better and
some of the graphics are more advanced.

I think I like game play of d2 but prefer d3 for on-line multiplayer.

"ZiggyPopp" <ZiggyPop@hotmail.com> skrev i en meddelelse
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> The Snowfish. wrote:
> > i've only played the demo of descent 3 but it dosnt seem to be as fun
> > as descent 2.  am i right?
> I think they're both pretty cool. The weapons in D3 are better and
> some of the graphics are more advanced.
>
> I think I like game play of d2 but prefer d3 for on-line multiplayer.
>
I think D2 was the best of them all. I bought D3, but didn't like it much
and D1 was very difficult at times, even when playing on rookie difficulty.
D3's biggest problem for me was the new 3d-engine, with all the
lighting effects and so on. I simply couldn't find my way around the
different levels.
It didn't have the Descent 'feel' to it, I think.

I still play D2 single player on occasion. Love it.

Claus

The Snowfish. wrote:
> i've only played the demo of descent 3 but it dosnt seem to be as fun
> as descent 2.  am i right?

Having played D1, D2 and D3, i still like the game play in D2 the most
because it was such much richer (water, weapon, enemies) than D1 which 
was then seen as just an other doom-spin off.

Unfortunately, at least in my (humble) option ;-), D3 was not such
step forward. The graphics are much nicer and the enemies are much
more clever, but the game did not be come more fun. It even think
it has some downers like the fact you _can_ play out side but there is a 
'glass ceiling' and of cause those anoying turrets, which can only shot 
away with a vaus, while you are shot to pieces ....

However, i have start playing d3 again after ordering d3 mercenary ...
hoping it will be better ;-) ... yeah i have seen the reviews ...

happy mining.

aam

> However, i have start playing d3 again after ordering d3 mercenary ...
> hoping it will be better ;-) ... yeah i have seen the reviews ...
> 
> happy mining.
> 
> aam
What were the reviews like?

ZiggyPopp wrote:
> 
...
>> hoping it will be better ;-) ... yeah i have seen the reviews ...
...
> 
> What were the reviews like?
> 

Looking to find the game in the NL, i came across some reviews in dutch. 
The general story was that its nothing new compared to the D3, just more
of the same (i hope there is no train station or subway in it).

The game was not expensive ... and i haven't played Descent for a while 
so i ordered it ... and now ... i have to wait until they have imported 
it ... still two weeks to wait :-(

greetings.

>> 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 

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:06:32 +0100, "CK®" <kaplov@image.dk> wrote:

>
>"ZiggyPopp" <ZiggyPop@hotmail.com> skrev i en meddelelse
>news:yBvod.447454$D%.10352@attbi_s51...
>> The Snowfish. wrote:
>> > i've only played the demo of descent 3 but it dosnt seem to be as fun
>> > as descent 2.  am i right?
>> I think they're both pretty cool. The weapons in D3 are better and
>> some of the graphics are more advanced.
>>
>> I think I like game play of d2 but prefer d3 for on-line multiplayer.
>>
>I think D2 was the best of them all. I bought D3, but didn't like it much
>and D1 was very difficult at times, even when playing on rookie difficulty.
>D3's biggest problem for me was the new 3d-engine, with all the
>lighting effects and so on. I simply couldn't find my way around the
>different levels.
>It didn't have the Descent 'feel' to it, I think.
>
>I still play D2 single player on occasion. Love it.
>
>Claus
>

I liked D1.  Tried D2, gagged on the cheap ugly textures.
Found the 3dfx patch for D1 and played that since. 
Picked up D3 for $9, but haven't gotten around to playing it yet. 
Kinda stuck on Unreal Tourney these days.