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Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

I loved Fury3 when I was a kid, which is apparently all but identical to this game, so I should try playing this sometime.

Firewheel

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.

Firewheel

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 this ...

Firewheel

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.

Firewheel

Me and my family have always just called them "soft drinks."

Firewheel

If I neglected to shoe myself, probably somewhere between the police box and Yamazaki convenience store down the street.

Firewheel

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.

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

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.

Firewheel

You seem to have a different Game Theory in mind than how the term is usually used online.

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

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.

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

It's been forever since we've had a big thread, hasn't it?

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

I had Hover on Win 95, back then I thought it was pretty cool - definitely not as fun as Descent, though. I had Fury3 as well, great game!

Firewheel

Alter-Fox: I totally agree! It was my favorite movie of the year, too. Hence why I requested it for Christmas!

My last \"present\" (from me to myself) arrived in the mail today.

Firewheel

A picture's worth and all that.

The most exciting present has yet to arrive, though.

Firewheel

I've never seen much of the original Tron but I really enjoyed this one. The story was a bit complex but nowhere near as bad as reviewers made it out to be. It was visually explosive fun done right - much moreso than say, Avatar.

Firewheel

Yeah The Fragile was great. It's too bad we can't see the entire 11+ years of DBB posts, stupid PHPBB!

Firewheel

I have a friend of mine who owns her own hair salon cut it for me. She does a terrific job. She's just about the only one who can cut it right. For me, having a good haircut makes the difference between looking good and looking bad.

I'd never even think of trying to cut it myself.

Firewheel

1. Descent I
2. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
3. Dragon Quest VII

Firewheel

Wow Ingus is back?! Awesome. Now, I wonder what The Fragile is up to these days?

Firewheel

I'm glad that you guys seem to be familiar with TVTropes.

Firewheel

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 ...

Firewheel

I don't really watch much anime, but there are a few series I've seen over the years that I really liked.

Welcome to the NHK!
Gundam: 08th MS Team
Monster
Last Exile
Evangelion (Rebuild movies much moreso than the original series)
Big O

Firewheel

Gold Leader, that is an INCREDIBLE collection! Wow, I never even knew there was a Japanese release of Descent! 3D SHOOTING GAME indeed!

Also, what is Dimensions for Descent? I think I've seen that before but I have no idea what levels are on it.

Firewheel

Level 16. Temple of Syrinx:

This is a reference to the Rush song 2112. One of the parts of the song is called 'The Temples of Syrinx.'

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