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ggrobot Elite Member
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 1:08 am Post subject: Terminal Velocity: Boosted Edition announced [56881] |
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Ziggurat Interactive has announced Terminal Velocity: Boosted Edition, an updated version of the combat flight simulator for consoles and PC. The PC version will launch first via Steam on March 14, followed by unspecified consoles at a later date.
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Csimbi Elite Member
Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Posts: 4800 Location: The bright side of the dark side
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 1:36 am Post subject: |
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Haha, this was the among the first 3D games that utilized 3D graphics under Windows, I think.
At least, the among those that I played.
I remember because the bitch would not run on DOS
I enjoyed it a lot at the time, being action-oriented.
Rouge Squadron 3D and such came later.
But I doubt anyone will want to be playing it anymore because it's quite dated in all aspects.
Descent got a modern remake, but that did not pick up either, so I think the time for these games are gone. |
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Sabot Elite Member
Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2082 Location: The Dark Side of The Moon
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 8:33 am Post subject: |
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I absolutely loved Terminal Velocity. Played it to death. Remember the thumping music? It was either this or Decent that you can stick in your CD-ROM player - pc or home - and play the whole album as separate tracks.
Decent I think got with my first joystick. The Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro. Best joystick until I got the Sidewinder Force Feedback pro -first one - plugged into my SB AWE 32 sound card. (The length of a table!)
Remember ‘Fade to Black’ on pc (Delphin Software -French)? I think that was the first Gourad Shading 3D game at the time.
Yeah, past it. Had their time/day. I even got Battlezone remake and found it hard to get into vs when I bought it day one release. It was novel back then, like the birth of 3DFX and Matrox Mystique/Diamond Monster 2 cards, S3 Virge chipsets |
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Csimbi Elite Member
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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It's Descent, not Decent
I loved Fade to Black, too. It had a pretty unique menu system that I liked but I've never really seen being adopted anywhere later.
S3, Gravis, 3DFX, big, iconic names... Like an early Nvidia - not the that late lying, greedy Nvidia. |
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Sabot Elite Member
Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2082 Location: The Dark Side of The Moon
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 1:59 am Post subject: |
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Got to love predictive text. |
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heretic Site Admin
Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 2746
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2023 1:27 am Post subject: |
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I didn't like Descent very much. It was a great 3D, but somehow it made me sick when I played it, maybe a bad graphics card/CPU, I didn't always have a fast PC!!
I remember when I married my wife in 1999, I wanted to play Soldier of Fortune so badly. But the PC just couldn't handle it, it was lagging horribly, completely unplayable even on small details. At that time I just didn't have the money for new graphics, we started with really little, had to save up for food, etc. But I had a lot more free time!
I mean, the standard of living has gone up a lot in 20 years. A lot of people have 2-3 cars, 4 holidays a year, their own flat and cottage and buy a lot of rubbish. Since last year the standard of living has started to go down (energy price 3x, food price 1x as much). But it's still not nearly as expensive as it was in the 90s. I mean, in relation to how much money people make. |
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