Duke of Hazzard, on 01 August 2014 - 10:04 PM, said:
I suggest asking a guy named mikelat on YouTube, he did a co-op LP of Descent using D1X-Rebirth and he had the FMV intro as well as sexy cyberlady briefings.
For a moment I thought you were speaking of Descent 2... The levels in the PSX version of that game suck compared to PC. They're too short and simple.
Ogre did a few tracks for PC Descent 2, too. Way better than the MIDIs, but unfortunately Parallax did some weird quirk with them that makes the tracks play randomly after the level-specific tracks. This doesn't happen with the MIDIs.
Yeah I'll definitely ask him. Those briefings are
the shit.
Duke of Hazzard, on 02 August 2014 - 07:32 AM, said:
It's worth it (I had a physical copy of Descent II but lost it), but GOG could've chosen a better version to sell... The best one that has the classic Descent games is the Definitive Collection, which includes the Vertigo missions. Sadly, GOG sells a different bundle that only includes Descent and vanilla Descent II.
Actually, The Definitive Collection is missing some of the Descent II redbook tracks...I had no idea until last year, because I've always owned this version. Also, most versions of that collection include an improperly patched Descent 1 1.5 instead of 1.4a. The music stops playing shortly after Level 7 or something. Mine is the original release though.
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Mass Effect 3 would need to be pretty fucking amazing to knock Descent down a notch in my list of greatest games of all time. I agree the gameplay in the first one is even better than Descent II, because it's more balanced. In Descent II you get tons of over the top weaponry which are hardly useful because they waste so much energy, and Gauss Cannon is too good for an ammunition-based weapon. The new secondaries are very good, though.
Yeah I actually went into it not expecting too much after 1 and 2, after everything I've heard. I posted a giant rant about it a while back in this subforum, it's got it's own thread which is full of spoilers after the first page. It's underrated because Casey Hudson botched the original endings, and EA shipped it with 15 hours of missing content. I've only ever played the "complete" version and I've never had a game absolutely
wreck my emotions like that, from start to finish...especially the finish. If you wanna try it out though don't even bother without playing 1 and 2, if you don't know what's going on, there's no point, plus if you don't import an ME2 save you're punished with "worst case scenario" outcomes being selected by default.
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Off-topic: Speaking of GOG, they really need to improve their releases of some games IMO, especially in games with Redbook CD audio, because they sell stuff with music encoded in lossy format to save space (when there's no need for them to do that) and they have been known for cutting setup files from their releases in the past. Until they sort these issues, I can't give them a top rating.
Anything less than CD quality is a crime.
MusicallyInspired, on 02 August 2014 - 10:26 AM, said:
Wow. I bought this for PSX way way back and never had a console to play it on. I later sold it to EB Games for a dollar. Put it towards Duke64 (which I also later sold for a rare Gamecube Zelda collection). Glad I never had the chance to play it.
However, long live the Level2 remix.
I'm pretty sure it runs poorly because I'm almost certain it's rendering the geometry on the CPU instead of the GTE. The visual anomalies are identical to what you'd see on a PC with the detail level turned down. PS1's hardware quad support is broken. Descent has always used quads and it should have been converted to polys or just straight up programmed for the Saturn, the SDK's were much improved by '96 anyway. Also the Saturn had proper analog support back then as well. Furthermore, Sega had poly -> quad conversion tools so it's not like programming the other way around would be impossible...plus the official Descent levels have ultra simple geometry.
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