Topic: Descent is on Steam!

[Eagle131]

Seeing Descent on Steam made me want to fire up D1, 2, and 3 again.  I've been playing through the Descent games non stop since I saw it!

Anyone else notice that the person playing the game in the video posted on Steam isn't doing that great a job at it?

^That's exactly what I thought when I watched the game play videos!

[Teh poke man]

D3 was just added. GOG D3+Mercenary v1.4, but also includes a Glide wrapper. Curious...

[Scyphi]

D3 was just added.

*day is made*

I really didn't think it was going to happen, so I'm glad to be proven wrong. 

[Viper1999]

D3 was just added. GOG D3+Mercenary v1.4, but also includes a Glide wrapper. Curious...

Sweet! Used to play this one when i was a kid!
Good to see something from my childhood coming back to me.

[Scyphi]

Downloaded and played on through to most of the third level of D3. Pretty much is the same D3 as always, but in comparing it to the original installation of D3 I already had on my laptop, it does seem to have a few minor rendering fixes that enable it to run better and more efficiently on my more modern Windows 7. Less flickering when jumping from gameplay to map and back, doesn't mess with my desktop's default Aero themes, slightly increased rendering performance...stuff like that. Of course, by default, the game seem to run on pretty low graphical settings, but a quick go-through the options menu fixes that. I can run the game totally maxed out on its rendering capabilities without issue, and it looks very nice.  Can't quite do that with the original non-Steam installation.

At first I thought it was also showing the D3 cinematics in either additional widescreen or with added details, because it seemed to me there was suddenly more to see in them than I remembered there being in the past, but after comparing them with the original's installation, I saw I was just imagining it. 

Only quirk I've found is that, for some reason, the little loading graphics (like what you see when a level is loading) aren't being displayed. The text and everything else is there, but the actual graphic is missing, not getting rendered, which is...odd. Never seen it do that before, at least that I can recall. Not a big deal though, because the game loads so quickly on this system that you could blink and miss that loading screen altogether because it done and loaded everything already. Which is nice for speed issues, but also a downfall as you don't really get much chance to enjoy the loading screens for said levels, which I had always thought was a nice touch, aesthetically speaking.

[TechPro]

Hmmm... Got some ideas on that...

[Kaiaatzl]

I remember when it took ten minutes to load the first mission...
Yeah I think there's a reason so many games have followed Descent 3's example when it came to loading screens.

[Scyphi]

If you're going to be waiting awhile for it to load, might as well give you something to look at, right?

[Kaiaatzl]

Our game did it first!
I think...

[Scyphi]

Oh man...how would one even research that and find out? Because I'm pretty sure no one's been keeping track of that. 

[Scyphi]

Guys...I just found Freespace 1 on Steam...it was just released today...and is 50% off until May 14th...

Just thought you ought to know.

And of course you know this means Freespace 2 will probably soon follow, given current trends.

[VANGUARD]

FreeSpace, not a bad game. Sort of miss the classics