Descent

I enjoyed replaying this classic once again. I remember being 11 years old when this game came out. I spent many hours exploring each nook and cranny and maxing out the score. So much fond memories of this amazing game. Thanks GOG for doing such a wonder job on bringing it back.

Another game I wish I was more fond of. Descent was very much a fever pitch pioneer in the 6 degrees of freedom genre, if you don't count games like Interphase. Descent is a quaint game about blowing up reactors because you're a contracted mercenary and a virus is ruining the operations of a mining corp. (Yeah, the story doesn't make much sense, presumably they want to claim insurance or something.) And it works for the first half of the mission. Finding the reactor and blowing it up, great. The problem comes in the very short lived second half where you get 45 or so seconds to escape. The problem tends to be that you get a little turned upside down or turned around at points, which makes escaping a shaking, exploding twisting passage, a little hard. And of course, since this is a first person game released during the 1990s, there's of course, obligatory keycard hunts. Before anyone asks: Descent II is literally more Descent I, and even harder. It's that kind of sequel. So if you liked playing this one, go ahead, buy the second. The map in Descent 1 leaves a lot to be desired in readability, using primitives instead of a useful reference projection. There's a classic old source port called DDX Rebirth, it has some quality of life changes, and newer ports such as DXX-Redux. You should use one of those instead of trying to throw DOSbox at a game that barely fit in DOS in the first place.

I Played it the shareware version 30 years ago, now I need my menacer again.

This is one of those games that I remember playing as a child and had many good times with. I even played online a bit. When I saw these on GoG I bought them up in a hot-second and booted them up. Only problem is once I get it working and playing everything is fine until I get motion sickness. If you have a good tolerance to this sort of thing it is good, I never had the problem before but I cannot go playing these for very long without getting a bit sick. Regardless these are more than worth $3 a peice ($6 for the package) and I would recommend anyone looking for a good fps to pick these up.

Descent is amazing, i just wish i could figure out how to play online.