Topic: YouTube: Descent 2 Vertigo is now complete!

[NUMBERZero]

Another Descent first!

Yes I completed it finally. Last level was great! I cannot believe I survived.

Playlist:

[Thomas]

Congratulations.

Pleople keep saying that Descent 3's graphics are far behind today.

Watching theses videos of D2 makes me wonder how someone can recognize something on their screen at all. 

[PyroJockey]

Watching theses videos of D2 makes me wonder how someone can recognize something on their screen at all. 

And yet we still do 

[D2Disciple]

Nice set of vids yet again Zero!

On a side note, I STILL have yet to work my way through this campaign. I'm going to do it one day.

@PyroJocky: It's because we grew up in a time an place where design quality > graphics quality.... Though at the time, Descent had both. 

[PyroJockey]

At lease now I don't have to play Descent on a 14" CRT at 640 x 480 resolution, which was the de facto standard at the time. Ahh...memories 

[Foil]

640x480... the standard?

Ah, how people forget.  No, the original Descent ran at 320x200. 

[Thomas]

You _could_ run it on 640 x 480, if you had a "high-end" PC. 

[Foil]

Exactly.  I played at 320x200 until I upgraded to a 486. 

Even then, I usually played at 320x400.  It wasn't playable at 640x480 (which seemed crystal-clear!) until I had access to a Pentium in college.

[Thomas]

You played that on a 386?  

Luckily, I had just gottan a Pentuim 60 MHz when the game came out. It ran much better in OS/2 full-screen than on native DOS with 32 MB RAM. 640 x 480 was still almost unplayable with framerates under 10 when more than 2 robots waited together in the same room.  

[Foil]

Yep.  Played the original demo in '94-'95 on a 386-SX at 16Mhz with 640Kb RAM (I think).

Even at 320x200, it became unplayable at times... I had to shrink the screen using the "-" key to get decent framerates for some areas.

When I upgraded to the "blazing-fast" 486-DX40 with 4Mb RAM, I remember feeling like it was awesome to be able to play Descent in its full 320x200 glory. 

[NUMBERZero]

Oh the irony. Then compaired to now.