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- Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:30 pm
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: The best and crudest designed levels of D1
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4185
Re: The best and crudest designed levels of D1
I like the third Mars level a lot. The large caverns are a lot more fun for fighting compared to the awful tunnel-based ambushes of the first two Mars levels. Callisto Tower Colony is hard as nails but a really enjoyable and well-designed level. I like all of the Neptune levels as well. Generally, I...
- Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:11 pm
- Forum: Descent Single Player
- Topic: Favorite D2 Single-Player Campaigns
- Replies: 75
- Views: 11562
Favorite D2 Single-Player Campaigns
Hey dudes, I've finally gotten D2 working on my computer and I'm playing through the Vertigo missions for the first time in a decade or so. I recall a lot of great D2 campaigns from back in the day. It's been at least ten years (probably more) since I've really played any add-on levels, but some of ...
- Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:06 pm
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: Which robot has the creepiest sound?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15018
Re: Which robot has the creepiest sound?
Yesterday I was playing Vertigo level 7 on Ace, and having a hell of a time killing the boss. He was much harder for me than the D1 bosses on Insane (probably didn't help that there were no cloaks or invulnerability powerups around.) That bot makes one horrible noise (I don't recall if any of the ot...
- Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:34 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Terminal Velocity on GOG.com!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1305
Re: Terminal Velocity on GOG.com!
I loved Fury3 when I was a kid, which is apparently all but identical to this game, so I should try playing this sometime.
Re: Won't Run
Yep, that's where my files are installed. I noticed that the folder was set to "read-only," which I unchecked, but that didn't seem to make a difference.
Won't Run
Okay, so I've got D2X-XL installed on my Win7 machine. I've got all of the game data in the right place. But when I try to run the program, it instantly crashes. First it tells me that it can't find d2x.hog and d2x.mn2, and then it says "can't open pig and/or ham file." I don't understand ...
- Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:06 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Dessert thread. [make this thread evil]
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1240
Re: Dessert thread. [make this thread evil]
An-Donuts. Awesome Japanese dessert that's similar to a cream-filled doughnut, but it has delicious azuki filling instead of the regular stuff. So, so good.
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- Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:04 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Ok, chime in. What do you call it?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2797
Re: Ok, chime in. What do you call it?
Me and my family have always just called them "soft drinks."
Re: run
If I neglected to shoe myself, probably somewhere between the police box and Yamazaki convenience store down the street.
- Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:16 pm
- Forum: Descent Single Player
- Topic: Going Rambo on D1 level 6 (And other levels)
- Replies: 409
- Views: 744845
Re: Going Rambo on D1 level 6.
These are some seriously impressive videos. Considering that I've been playing Descent since I was seven, I should be this good. I've beaten D1 on Insane with cold starts on each level, but not without dying.
- Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:53 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: I am a PC Game...And I am a Space Sim...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6109
Re: I am a PC Game...And I am a Space Sim...
This looks extremely cool. Makes me wish I had a nice PC to run it. You know, ever since I got D3 in 1999 at age eleven, I've been complaining about my crummy computers. I've got a full time job, my own place to live, a car, lots of nice clothes, and yet I've still never bought myself a nice PC. I d...
- Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:29 pm
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: Do you like Descent 3?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4789
Do you like Descent 3?
While I play the original often and Descent 2 fairly frequently, I went ten years or so without playing through Descent 3's single-player campaign. I wasn't sure why; D3 was a fun game, how come I didn't play it? Well, after finishing my first full playthrough of D3's campaign in many years, now I r...
- Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:38 am
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: What do you think D1 beats D2 at?
- Replies: 111
- Views: 39397
Re: What do you think D1 beats D2 at?
Something else I recall (from single player) is that homing missiles in D1 seem a lot stronger than D2, especially when robots are firing them at you. Those green Centurion things or whatever they're called from D2 are way less dangerous than D1's red hulks.
- Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:24 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Game Theory
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1404
Re: Game Theory
You seem to have a different Game Theory in mind than how the term is usually used online.
- Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:05 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Interesting read: The Great Depression
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1958
Re: Interesting read: The Great Depression
World War II itself did not lift the US out of depression post-war; it was the fact that most other industrialized nations besides the US were destroyed and had to rebuild themselves (with our help) that caused the recovery. And unlike the 1930s, where the depression was mostly over in other countri...
- Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:33 am
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: If Descent was revived/re-made...
- Replies: 65
- Views: 17411
Re: If Descent was revived/re-made...
The idea for varying levels of infestation really comes from the different difficulty levels (which I'd still want in a new Descent.) Class 1 drones are pretty harmless on the lower difficulties but they act totally bonkers on insane, and their shots are much faster, too. Plus, a room full of low-le...
- Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:34 pm
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: If Descent was revived/re-made...
- Replies: 65
- Views: 17411
Re: If Descent was revived/re-made...
Actually Lothar, that's pretty close to the sort of balance I'm trying to achieve with my robot ideas - you'll notice most of them don't have tons and tons of weapons, and are designed to encourage strategic thinking in order to dispatch them. Bosses, on the other hand... I'm still coming up with id...
- Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:42 pm
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: If Descent was revived/re-made...
- Replies: 65
- Views: 17411
Re: If Descent was revived/re-made...
I'm not totally sure whether two damage gauges is a good idea, either. But I like the idea of having one that recharges (to some extent) and another that's more permanent. But maybe it would work better to just have shields and more places where they could be recharged, at least to some extent. But ...
- Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:27 pm
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: If Descent was revived/re-made...
- Replies: 65
- Views: 17411
Re: If Descent was revived/re-made...
Ah, but don't you see? That's the beauty of Descent! It's supposed to be hard as nails. I think games these days are way too easy and tend to treat the player like a baby with all sorts of hand-holding along the way. Just look at a game like Demon's Souls, which is exceptionally difficult - yet stil...
- Sat Jun 11, 2011 5:16 am
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: If Descent was revived/re-made...
- Replies: 65
- Views: 17411
Re: If Descent was revived/re-made...
Today I cooked up some ideas for robots: some re-imagined versions of old bots, others entirely new ideas. Class 1 Drone: The original pest, now in varying degrees of viral infestation. Some are slow and dumb, while others attack you with wild abandon. Class 2 Drone: This bot was originally designed...
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:04 am
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: If Descent was revived/re-made...
- Replies: 65
- Views: 17411
Re: If Descent was revived/re-made...
So I've been plotting out more ideas on how I'd like to make Descent. I'll share a few over the next few days, starting with the ship and weapons and some basic gameplay details. Ship And Weapons The Ship: The pilot flies a Pyro-GX, closely modeled on the vehicle from the original Descent. It's equi...
- Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:32 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Moving to Japan
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1071
Re: Moving to Japan
I'm doing fine. I'm in Osaka for job training for the next few days, then moving to Iwate after that. Everything's pretty much fine around here. Nobody's freaking out or particularly worried about the nuclear power plant, etc. Power and food is fine in Osaka, apparently things are going back to norm...
- Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:30 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Bye Bye Miss Nuclear Pie
- Replies: 118
- Views: 7748
Re: Bye Bye Miss Nuclear Pie
Of course, Japan imports the vast majority of its food, so food contamination is not really a problem either way. I don't believe the media hype about the reactors for one second. Most people's ideas about nuclear energy/reactors come from disaster movies and other sci-fi sources. The media naturall...
- Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:05 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Moving to Japan
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1071
Re: Moving to Japan
Yeah I've been reading those almost since they started. It's possible that they had some sort of weird influence on me, but I didn't become interested in learning Japanese and stuff until years later so maybe not.
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:51 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Moving to Japan
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1071
Moving to Japan
So I'm moving to Japan in one month to work as an English teacher for elementary/middle school students. I studied in Osaka for a semester in 2009 and also spent six weeks in Japan in 2008. I'll be living in the northern part of the country, in a town in Iwate prefecture about an hour's drive from M...
- Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:05 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: BIG THREADS FOR BIG THREADS SAKES THREADS
- Replies: 69
- Views: 6494
- Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:51 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Tron Legacy...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1844
Avatar basically makes me want to puke - the whole visual overload hyper-detailed CG style has already been done to death and is basically redundant by now. I'm tired of movies that look like big-budged FPS games. Tron, on the other hand, looks interesting because they use all that technology in an ...
- Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:07 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Post yer awesome loot! '10
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7400
- Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:36 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Post yer awesome loot! '10
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7400
- Fri Dec 24, 2010 8:14 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Tron Legacy...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1844
- Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:13 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: that guy who did \"heh\" poetry on the DBB
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1166
- Mon Dec 13, 2010 5:40 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Your 3 favorite games
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8446
- Thu Nov 18, 2010 11:19 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: LIVER & ONIONS!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2228
- Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:23 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Your Top Animes
- Replies: 94
- Views: 10664
- Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:24 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Your Top Animes
- Replies: 94
- Views: 10664
Heh I remember that avatar Krom, but I didn't make the connection when I watched the show earlier this year. :P I forgot to mention that I like (pseudo?) historical stuff. Rurouni Kenshin, Samurai Champloo, and especially the Vagabond manga. And naturally, jidai geki films (pardon my gratuitous Japa...
- Wed Nov 03, 2010 7:26 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Your Top Animes
- Replies: 94
- Views: 10664
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:11 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Post pics of your Descent collections :D
- Replies: 109
- Views: 22583
- Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:41 pm
- Forum: Descent Single Player
- Topic: Descent 2 level name meanings
- Replies: 32
- Views: 35927