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Daikatana Goes Gold!

Posted by emmett on from the finally dept.

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.

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  1. My Thoughts On Daikatana by idealego · · Score: 5
    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

    1. Re:My Thoughts On Daikatana by Uksi · · Score: 5

      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.

  2. Daikatana! by drwiii · · Score: 5
    Wow, I never thought a 3d game could look this good!

    screenshot