Daikatana on Steam [Oct 02, 2013, 08:35 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Daikatana is now available
on Steam, offering the
chance to check out the shooter and be The Romero's bitch for just $6.99 (though
it's been cheaper: the game was free for a while years
ago on GameTap). The sci-fi game
featuring a magical sword and a pair of AI sidekicks was intended as the
flagship title from ION Storm, an honor which turned out to be shared by Deus
Ex and Anachronox, but the game seems to be in witness protection, as
no developer is listed. Thanks nin.
KS wrote on Oct 2, 2013, 13:57:
I downloaded the demo way back when, fought to get it running with Power VR, the only Open-GL capable card besides 3dfx and DOS CAD workstations with industrial strength Open GL graphics.
...and fought frogs. Sorry, that just killed my interest in actual fact. And no, back then people weren't yet sick of military shooters. This was the second generation of FPS, consisting of six "Quake killers", of which this, Sin, and the apparently destined-to-be terrible Half Life that stunned the shit out of everyone when it came out.
No, the sword wasn't the problem, or even the frogs per se. It was shoving the opposite of cool, frogs, in your face as the loss leader demo that was supposed to attract you.
I was there. I lived it.
Frogs and mosquitoes were literally less than a quarter of the entire game, yeah they were bad, but the rest was better.
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