Descent ... (PS1) Gameplay

[@eyedeasneverdie3348]

I remember playing this as a kid and loving every second of it, despite having no idea where i was, or what was happening.

[@iamLI3]

same rofl

[@Daobeezy]

I have found memories of playing this game as a child. Favorite part was saving the hostages and escaping before the explosion

[@whoohaaXL]

I can't believe they squeezed this on PS1, looks great!

[@willfreethemfreethem7671]

I remember playing this on a arcade type machine that you sit in at circuit city or service merchandise.. This game blew my mind back in the day..

[@Monoplacophora]

this game was phenomenal, great memories, excellent

[@stopthrm]

THis game also came with Video Cutscenes, which the Original PC game did not. The sequels however, did.

[@drdysl3xia795]

Multiplayer on PC this game was so fun. I now have to play on PS1. WOW.. great game.

[@Danny-vx1wc]

What a game, used to love this so much.

[@jollygamerguy]

I was 14 playin this.. missin the 90's

[@wes788411]

I believe I was 13. I loved this game.

[@samp6162]

I was around 5 or 6.It scared the crap out of me

[@Thievius333]

I still have the longbox version of this on PS1. I put so many hours into it.

[@SaturnineXTS]

Would never have thought the original PS1 was too weak to perfectly run good ol' Descent. The game was really ahead of its time, it holds up even today and the pixels only add to the retro charm. The textures are still beautiful and the gameplay is super tight. The only issue is rather weak mouse support, even with source ports (pitching time is very slow). But it's perfectly fine to play with just the keyboard.

[@yellowblanka6058]

I mean, it's not a locked 30, but then again, it's running the game as well as most PCs around the time of release would have. These were the early days of 3D when "Smooth 30 FPS" was often a tagline on 3D accelerators.

[@casedistorted]

I know this was 4 years ago but more recent versions of DXX Rebirth have fixed the pitching time (pitch lock setting) issue which allows you to release the pitch lock and also uncapped turning, so now X and Y axis with mouse look is very fast, smooth, and feels great. I was just playing the game today and the mouse look is incredibly fast and precise (using a Logitech G Pro Superlight as well)

[@CALAdmin88]

I'm proud to still own my long box copy which is still in okay condition.

[@spiderjerusalem100]

Doesn't get more classic than this.

[@Tucher97]

My first shooter, this game was my first shooter and yes on the play station that i played at a baby sitter's house, but no way of saving

[@nicholasgoldsborough1563]

Dude i remember when my Little Brother beat this back in the day! Such a great game!!

[@cheater87]

My copy arrived in the mail today :D

[@stevea3149]

First game I bought for ps1!

[@EvanMoon]

This game is so good. I tried to play it again and I started to get dizzy because of the graphics

[@olehhabalewych649]

The same feeling of flying and moving in space, long before drone flights!

[@marquisor]

Very decent!

[@marukuanfuni]

Couldn't have said it any better than this, my friend!

[@casedistorted]

Ooof that version of the music with the guitars is a bit rough, the rest would have been awesome though

[@olehhabalewych649]

My favorite game. Completed all, killed all Bosses)

[@_mnl_]

Definitely runs better on the Pentium, but this was a really good port!

[@yellowblanka6058]

Considering a Pentium PC would have been orders of magnitude more expensive than a ps1, this is running quite well - probably about as well as most people’s PC would have run it at the time.

[@_mnl_]

@@yellowblanka6058 I think you're right, this is probably how it would run on a 486.

[@casedistorted]

@@yellowblanka6058 I think it would still look better on PC though, the wobbly edges and the garbled textures with everything scaled down so bad definitely makes it look rough compared to the PC port. Even if the framerate might've been the same the PC versions always looked much better.

[@yellowblanka6058]

@@casedistorted Oh no doubt, but if you didn't have access to a multimedia PC at the time, this would certainly have been a decent enough way to play the game, and it had lighting effects the PC version lacked. As I said, this is roughly what it would have looked/run like on a middle-of-the-road PC with reduced resolution/settings. Higher-end mutlimedia PCs were anything but cheap back then.

[@The_Husband_of_Jane_Lane]

From the developers of Red Faction and Saints Row.

[@rommix0]

and don't forget Freespace.

[@elleCX01]

I didn't even know there was a ps1 port of this game.

[@derekewart5017]

This used to make me motion sick. It's something I don't suffer from apart from this game 🤔

[@heardofrvb]

I know there's a dual joystick controller that works with this game. I wonder how that feels.

[@meanmole3212]

Are those star power up sprites glitching?

[@JamesPound]

Oh man, those projectiles are like 1/4 the normal speed. Is that from the difficulty setting or because it's on PS1?

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

Does this game work with analogue controls? Because the original controller doesn't have enough buttons to cater to the game's multiple control inputs. I'm just used to playing it on a keyboard, but I'm curious if it can still work alright with controller mappings, since I'd like to play it on the Steam Deck.

[@heardofrvb]

It works with a unique Dual Joystick controller. Fortunately, Duckstation can set the controls based on it, and it feels good.

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

@@heardofrvb Thanks for the heads up, but I think I've become more acquainted to running the PC version via. DX1-Rebirth and the custom layout on Steam Deck. The trackpads and additional buttons can prove to be very useful when playing any game in the trilogy on Deck.

[@TheLetterK81]

they don't make games like this anymore

[@matternicuss]

Actually, they do! Check out Overload.

[@EmptiedPockets]

I spent the last 4 hours trying to figure out what this game was!

[@Hunt3r2k]

Will it Blend ?

[@iamLI3]

woooooah it's actually functioning on the ps1??....

[@FurbyParade226]

Is this not the first home console game to utilize dual stick gameplay?

[@sealboy1211]

Nope when this launched, dual stick was not a thing yet. You played this with the dpad and buttons. Like hold a button to go forwards and look with dpad. Maybe I’m wrong it’s been so long now I guess but I can’t recall if I touched dual sticks before the ps2. I think turok on the 64 with the c buttons and the joystick was as close to dual sticks as I had.

[@heardofrvb]

​@@sealboy1211There is a dual Joystick controller that's made for games like this.

[@guarapo66]

I guess the first fps game that had modern like dual joystick controller was the alien game for the ps1 , golden eye 64 also has a pseudo dual joystick set up were you use both controllers

[@ericmsandoval]

So it's basically the same one as the Windows 95 version?

[@Arandui]

A few brifing got shorted on the ps1 version, the brinfings are set to audio, the audio quality is better and it has full videos sequenzen in intro and outro. But the rest is the same like the Windows 95 version.

[@CynicalGamingBlogTerry309]

It's closer to the mac version

[@johnsimon8457]

lower res, usual texture perspective problems in PSX, I don't know about what the controls are like.... dunno if it uses dual shock or not, but the PC has a keyboard to do all sorts of rotations and strafing in 3 dimensions

[@stopthrm]

@@Arandui DOS*

[@materialdefender3599]

Way better soundtrack than the PC version but slightly worse graphics.

[@robertomoi2044]

How shit does this look compared to the MS-DOS version.

[@Infinitelyperplexed]

None of the secret areas :(

[@waxximis]

I watched that entire first stage just to see the awesome escape scene…. Here it comes he shot the core, here comes the greatest escape scene ever!!!!!!………….. the person playing skips it. I have honestly never seen a long play skip a scene before. Man talk about a major letdown. :-(