Also my favorite PC game by far, but I really hope it doesn't happen... It seems the devs are going for yet another 'monetized'/pay-to-win travesty à la Dungeon Keeper redux, sadly. Thanks but no thanks.
From the page: "All copies of Descent: Underground start with the WASP unlocked. Some pledge tiers unlock additional ships. All ships can be unlocked through game play."
As long as you can unlock ships without paying, it seems okay.
It doesn't seem to me that any of these guys have anything to do with the original title besides getting the license. Not that necessarily means anything bad for the game, of course.
Trivia: The original Descent was written in assembly language, probably one of the last major PC games not to be written in a high-level language.
Thanks for checking! That repo appears to be the original source release, unaltered. IIRC there are some non-free bits in there that Parallax missed. (They discuss this in the interview in README.TXT.)
Anybody remember DEVIL, the 3rd party Descent Level Editor? :)
Descent was my first exposure to hacking. I'd hex edit save-game files and give myself 255 shield-value.. ;)
What's this? Capture the asteroids? Multiple playable ships? Corporation logos?
This is not Descent. Descent is a dark, gloomy space shooter, that makes you feel miserable, disoriented, lonely and afraid of the damn robots with their not so bad AI.
And then you invite friends to play cooperatively to make it a little less horrifying.
The staff seems to have a hearty pedigree, the goals seem attainable, there are some smart statements about limitations. They might just pull it off. Might. I wouldn't bet on it. Why? Just feeling grumpy.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 80.9 ms ] threadFrom the page: "All copies of Descent: Underground start with the WASP unlocked. Some pledge tiers unlock additional ships. All ships can be unlocked through game play."
As long as you can unlock ships without paying, it seems okay.
Don't know which I would be more excited about.
Trivia: The original Descent was written in assembly language, probably one of the last major PC games not to be written in a high-level language.
[1] http://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq3.htm
Edit: I can't access this domain from work, but perhaps somebody else can confirm this. http://descent2.com/ddn/sources/descent1/
Originally it built with some Borland product, and some folks put a lot of time and effort into porting it to MingW32.
Eventually, it gained SDL support, then OpenGL support... These days, you can apt-get install d1x-rebirth and d2x-rebirth. :)
Indeed I was wrong that it's all assembler. There is lots of assembler but plenty of C too.
Anybody remember DEVIL, the 3rd party Descent Level Editor? :)
Descent was my first exposure to hacking. I'd hex edit save-game files and give myself 255 shield-value.. ;)
They're selling ships.
There's not much more bad you can do for Descent.
This is not Descent. Descent is a dark, gloomy space shooter, that makes you feel miserable, disoriented, lonely and afraid of the damn robots with their not so bad AI.
And then you invite friends to play cooperatively to make it a little less horrifying.
That is Descent.
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Hmmm, I wonder what the completion rate for high cost games on Kickstarter is... (some googling later)... It's near 30% apparently...
http://gamerant.com/kickstarter-video-game-failure-rate/
The staff seems to have a hearty pedigree, the goals seem attainable, there are some smart statements about limitations. They might just pull it off. Might. I wouldn't bet on it. Why? Just feeling grumpy.