Ah yes, six degrees of freedom, an excellent opportunity to get both hopelessly lost and violently sick at the same time.

Kidding, of course. Descent was one of my favourite games.

It doesn't look like the Kickstarter will manage to meet the funding goal. Shame.

 

Y'know I had like half of a really good joke typed out and if it wasn't 6 AM with me staying up all night, i'd totally have finished it.

Anyway, Poland has some crazy ass banks if you can walk in and grab a $500,000 loan.
I think that's referred to as bank robbery


well you did say take a risk I s'pose.

 

Kickstarters are the same though ...the only change is that the risk is on backers hands, not a big bank.

The only problem with it is that people don't see it as the same, and forget the risk factor when backing.. ...but if you acknowledge that, Kickstarter is pretty good, since the risk is minimized by a lot (it's divided between a bunch of backers).

 

Why people think that if it's comedy, then it certainly shows all the truth?

Banks obviously take risk, unless you're actually joking when saying that? Sometimes they take a long time to recover their money, and even have to forgive part of the debts at some cases (it's not always much of a lucrative business). BTW not only banks loan money, the more common on this cases is that it's done by investors and enterprises, where their usually recover money from the future game's advertisement, and sell income. So risk is never out of the table.

And don't generalize bad Kickstarter performance. It's a tool that can be used well. It's also very good to have new ways to bank projects in a fast and meaningful way.
Doesn't matter if some people will use it in a bad way, it doesn't make the whole Kickstarter system un-meaningful.


Now on topic:

Hope more people show interest in this project ...I afraid they will not reach the goal in time.
It's weird that people don't even get curious about this new 6DoF kind of games, since it's not a usual thing to find nowadays. Maybe space games is not as popular nowadays?

 

Ah, descent...the game that made me switch from all-keyboard to keyboard+mouse. And manage to fail descent decent proper navigation even with those controls.

In all honesty: descent was fun, but not that fun. Aside from it being the only REAL 3D shooter on the market, it didn't have anything memorable. Aside perhaps the attempt to escape the mine at the end of each level. But everything was generic, from the monsters to the layouts to the weapons. Navigating the map was clunky and you often lost track of what was the floor and what was the ceiling (in all honesty, it didn't matter).

And I gotta be honest: from the videos I see and the description, I don't think this'll be a HD remake at the very best. Descent was never a space game...it was an FPS that just happened to use 3 movement dimensions. In fact, if it wasn't for the crosshair, the title and the font of the title, I would never even have guessed this was supposed to be a descent game. And that's kind of essential, if you ask me.

 

Ah, so many memories of playing for hours until I was nauseous.

Descent, six degrees of freedom. The extra 2 degrees are nausea and vomit!

 

Sorry by the double-post ...just pointing that I've updated the OP up there with the new trailer, that was just released with the Engadget article about the game (btw, the trailer is pretty cool!).


And since I'm posting already, here is their last Hangout video about the project, if you like to watch more lengthy tidbits:




EDIT: ....Aaaannnddddd ... it was FUNDED!

phew! that was close ...they needed to reach 600k, and got 601k lol ...well now it's a real thing

Hope to play this game in the future

 

No cockpit view? It really just looks like an FPS.