Daikatana Goes Gold!

CaptainCarrot writes: "And this time they mean it! Here's the story at Gamespot. There's even a demo you can download. (102.4 MB - not for the faint of heart.)" The demo is over a hundred megs. I'm 23, and I remember saving up money for a 40MB hard drive and a 2400 baud modem. Anyway, congratulations to John and the rest at Ion Storm.

Comments

My Thoughts On Daikatana

[idealego]

OK I've played Daikatana for a little while now. It's actually not anything like what I was expecting. IT'S WORSE!!!@#$%!#%!

Oh no! armies of mosquitos are attacking me! shoot the blue stuff at them! oh no I'm out of ammo! hit them with the sparking fist! Damn their hard to hit, oh no more mosquitos. Where's your deep woods when you need it?

Romero "Ok guys we need something that will scare people shitless in the first moments they spend playing our new masterpiece, any suggestions?"
Programmer "MOSQUITOS! Armies of Mosquitos!"
Romero "Holy shit I know that would scare me!"
Romero "Man with armies of mosquitos in Daikatana how can people not be impressed"
Programmer "Oh Oh I know! A sparking fist!"
Romero "Wow! we could make people run around and punch the armies of mosquitos with a sparking fist!"
Romero "Ok now get to work bitches! With armies of mosquitos and a sparking fist this is gonna be the best game of 1997 umm I mean 2000"

-idealego

Re:My Thoughts On Daikatana

[Uksi]

Man, armies of crappedy-ass FPS players whining and whining and whining on Slashdot, getting their posts moderated up.

It's pretty easy to shoot the mosquitos, same goes for the frogs and keep moving while battling the alligator. Turrets can be taken out by simply shooting the control panels at a distance, the turrets won't even touch you.

There are secrets that can make your life much easier, such as the wraithorb (invisibility) near the bridge where a shitload of mosquitos come out and there's that huge bird/whatever that drops a megashield if you kill it.

Then you have a something walking/zombie monster, I killed it too fast for me to see what it was. I paused playing the game when I got to the next save gem, so I can't tell you more.

But, damn, people, PUT SOME SKILL into your playing and beat at least three or four levels before you bitch and moan about Daikatana the worst game released!

For 3dfx AMD K-6 3dNow! users, go into your config.cfg and daikatana.cfg files and change the line that says 'set gl_driver "opengl"' to 'set gl_driver "amd3dgl"'. You'll get DAMN GOOD performance. The game is running sweet here with a VooDoo 2 and AMD K6-2 450. Users without AMD, but with 3dfx chipsets, might want to use 'set gl_driver "3dfxgl"'.

I mean, come on, can we see some effort being put into this game instead of "download the demo real quick, get killed and pissed real quick, post to slashdot as soon as possible to get post moderated up."

Grr.

A bit late. . .

[SMN]

April Fools was - by my watch - a full 21 days ago. Besides, that prank's old already - no one will fall for it _again_!

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Why can't we see others' karma anymore?

Wow.. this is AWFUL

[Teman Clark-Lindh]

At first I thought, oh, this might be good..
hehe. boy, was I ever wrong.

There are 2 kinds of enemies. Ones on the ground, and ones not on the ground. Some of them have different models, but that really isn't important.
Then you get to a boss.. And run out of ammo.

The guns are all as lame or lamer than Unreal 1. They went totally overboard with the partical effects, so you get distracted cuz it is raining hard are you are firing the 10 trillion bright green bouncing sparks gun.

Deathmatch reminds me of doom.. Low detail levels, and LAG! The sword sucks in HTH.

These guys are gonna get slaughtered. This is the "Blood 2" of the year 2000.

-Teman

Problems Installing Demo?

[Agar]

I read on a couple of boards that there may be installation glitches with the 100MB download.

After running the .EXE file (DKDEMO.EXE?) to install, you may get an error that says "Insert next disk." Installation then aborts.

If this occurs, rename the file to DKDEMO.ZIP, extract the files to a temp directory using WinZip (or whatever), then run SETUP.EXE from the temp directory.

Hope this helps...
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Vaporwave coalescing is so existential...

[ruin]

ROS (mournfully): Not Daikatana. I don't believe in it anyway.

GUIL: What?

ROS: Daikatana.

GUIL: Just a conspiracy of gaming magazines, you mean?

ROS: I mean I don't believe it! (Calmer.) I have no image. I try to picture it arriving in stores, at Babbage's perhaps... or EB... a sales clerk to point it out... its shiny red box... playing it for a day or a fortnight and then uninstalling it... That would be the logical kind of thing. ...But my mind remains a blank. No. It can't be real.

GUIL: Yes... yes... (Rallying.) But you don't believe anything til it happens. And it has gone gold. Hasn't it?

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(just another of the wierd things that pop into my brain)

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Daikatana!

[drwiii]

Wow, I never thought a 3d game could look this good!

screenshot

My daikatana logbook

[kirkb]

1. Spend 8 minutes downloading (cable. woo hoo!)

2. Spend 3 minutes installing.

3. Start first game. Find mosquitoes. Kill mosquitoes. Find frogs. Get poisoned by frogs. Die.

4. Start second game. Kill mosquitoes. Kill frogs. New map loads. Kill more mosquitoes. Get mowed down by pop-up machinegun turret.

5. deltree c:\games\daikatanademo

6. Feel pity for the daikatana development team, knowing that the 15 mintues of my life that has been wasted on this game pales in comparison to the combined DECADES that they've squandered.