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Phew, Descent WiiWare Still in Development...Wait, What?

Giant Bomb goes where other gaming sites won't dare.


Prepare the vomit bag! 
Prepare the vomit bag! 
Having the word "descent" in a headline yesterday squirreled the nausea-inducing Descent series into my head. It also reminded me that Interplay once tasked someone with porting Descent to WiiWare. There's been nothing on Descent for WiiWare in nearly a year, though, so I decided to ask the question all the other gaming writers of the world weren't willing to ask: what happened to Descent for WiiWare?

Turns out it's still alive at developer G1M2, who last worked on SNK Arcade Classics 0 for PSP.  

"Thank you for asking us about Descent for Wii," said a company spokesperson. "It is still in development and we are hopeful that the project will be completed soon. While it has taken longer than expected, we are hopeful that people will like the final product when it comes out. More details to come soon..."

One less mystery of the world to solve, guys.  (Nobody tell Jeff about this.)
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@umdesch4: Forsaken was THE BEST.

Pine Mine.
Solaris.
Pine Mine.
TITAN.

LOVED IT.
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Oh man, those crazy 6DOF games are the best! While they're at it, I'd go for another kick at Forsaken. Remember this?

  

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i missed out on Decent, never played one, so i wouldn't mind checking it out at this point to see what the talk is about.

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Patrick Klepek always asking the hard hitting questions like "Hey, is Descent for WiiWare cancelled?"

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"Thank you for asking us about Descent for Wii," said a company spokesperson.


Sounds like you made someones year Patrick. 
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Descent was the first major PC game that I ever played. So much fond memories~

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Vomit storm incoming.

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Oh man, now I just need some Fury 3 and Terminal Velocity!

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Man, I could remember playing Descent on the computer they had in my homeroom in middle school. Those were the days.

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Just reminded me of picking up Descent and Tunnel B1 on the same day, one game got played the hell out of, the other got played once. I still don't know what Tunnel B1 was meant to be.

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I bought a Saitek Cyborg Evo on the off chance that a) I would replay the Descent and Freespace games, and b) that maybe, possibly, someday they'd make a modern Descent or Freespace. That zero-g ship section in Red Faction: Armageddon is the closest I've seen yet to a modern Descent.

Also really curious to see how a Wiiware version of Descent works! Can't even figure out how the flight controls would work.

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Who got nauseous playing Descent? I played that game for three years straight and never got sick playing it.

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I'd buy an updated Descent on WiiWare if it controlled well.

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@SileoNex said:
" I could go for a new Descent. "
Same here. Kind of curious how a modern Descent title would look and play. Wouldn't mind a PSN/XBLA/Steam release of 1 and 2 with online multiplayer either.
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WiiMotion Plus six axis navigation. Oh man, that would be so sick in many ways.

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I could go with some proper Descent. Loved that music.

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wiiware news ftw!

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Cool been wanting to try a decent game.
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I could go for a new Descent.

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Nostalgia of my friend's old overworked voodoo cards comes rushing back.

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Prepare the vomit bag! 
Prepare the vomit bag! 
Having the word "descent" in a headline yesterday squirreled the nausea-inducing Descent series into my head. It also reminded me that Interplay once tasked someone with porting Descent to WiiWare. There's been nothing on Descent for WiiWare in nearly a year, though, so I decided to ask the question all the other gaming writers of the world weren't willing to ask: what happened to Descent for WiiWare?

Turns out it's still alive at developer G1M2, who last worked on SNK Arcade Classics 0 for PSP.  

"Thank you for asking us about Descent for Wii," said a company spokesperson. "It is still in development and we are hopeful that the project will be completed soon. While it has taken longer than expected, we are hopeful that people will like the final product when it comes out. More details to come soon..."

One less mystery of the world to solve, guys.  (Nobody tell Jeff about this.)