Doom Series..

[kbk]

The original FPS (other than wolfenstein 3d). And by far one of the greatest games ever made, to me it never loses playability. I own Doom 2, and just purchased Doom 3 (should be here sometime next week). I have a demo of Doom and Doom 95 (what's the difference?)...I have been a Doom fan since I was like 10 when I first played quake and then found Doom on a quake related website (quake is pretty much just a 3D copy of Doom).

[DoctaD]

IDDQD
IDKFA
IDSPISPOPD
IDBEHOLD

I remember...

[kbk]

Who could forget?

[phoenix]

I'm currently looking up at the first game I ever bought for PC which is in fact Ultimate Doom. Doom 2 is next (for DOS and Windows 95!) and next to that Doom 3. The box on Ultimate Doom says copyright 1993. I was all of 12 years old when I bought that. It was an MA rating for 15 years and over due to High Level Animated Violence.

It's funny how far games have come since I was a young scrapper. Doom 3 scared the wits out of me yet I can remember playing Doom 1 and 2 with no dramas at all.

I think Doom was the pinnacle of all PC gaming. It had suspense, action, gore, storyline and sheer playability. It might not have had the comedy of Duke Nukem but you'd sure as hell giggle nervously after rupturing a Revenant in anticipation of what was around the next corner.

Farcry was nice but it didn't have the edginess that the Doom series had. Unreal 2 was more of a "damn, I bought it now I have to finish it" sort of FPS and Heretic was a Doom with spells attempt that ended up disappointing me.

Anyone bought the Doom 3 expansion pack? What's it like? Worth the outlay? I've heard good things about it and would almost buy it for the double barrel shotty but I'd like to know if there's more to it than just an extra weapon or two.

[kbk]

I got Doom 3 today...It's awesome, I havent gotten very far because it keeps freezing up...so I will have to free up some space on my computer I guess.

[Serix]

Oh, I need to get a new computer and get Doom 3. I've been wanting to play it since it came out, I hear it's great. But, I have a new job now. So if I can manage to save up for a new computer, I think I might just get one.

[Biovore]

Take this from a gamer...

Im soooo over that game, it was all like omg d00m 3 must play...

Loaded it up on to my gamming system, and was disapointed right after i got over the first boring bits.

Why i didnt like the game:

Black IS the new BLACK
Gameplay wasnt too good.

Why i liked the game:
Graphics rocked

Maybe d00m 4 will be better based game.

[Stone]

But what about HL2? What a fucking amazing game! Beats D3 in every aspect!

[kbk]

I like Doom 3 so far, the gaphics do rock and now that I deleted a ton of shit off my HD it runs nice too.

[AnotherDamnNewbie]

I have my eyes on Quake 4 myself. Looks like a first person version of the scariest bits from the Animatrix. Something about robots evicerating humans scares the shit out of me even more than other people for some reason.

[kbk]

Quake seems like just a copy of Doom. Granted, it is a damn good game but they seem very similar.

[Biovore]

HL2 > d00m

I get the feeling the doom was just a step that had to be made to learn more about dynamic lighting.

ADN: Got robophobic?

Anways, not too happy with the quake 4 vid yet, still a bit more dev needed, but very nice sounds...

[DIzzIE]

Speaking of Doom, ran into this little oddity today...
http://tinypic.com/6g9an6.png
It appears to be the Doom guy, standing on a platform in a small off-the-map enclosure with a shotgun below him. This is on map 18, Mill, from the TNT Evilution portion (tnt.wad) of Final Doom.

The coordinates:
http://tinypic.com/6g9anr.png

[DIzzIE]

According to the Classic Doom FAQs:

Q: "While no-clipping in PC Final Doom, I found a 'Doom guy' in a tiny room!"
A: In old-school Doom jargon, it's known as a Voodoo Doll, and is used as trick device to force a change on a player outside of normal gameplay action. A Doom map can be set up to have two start positions for one specific player character in a Single-player or Cooperative game. When that map is loaded, that player character essentially appears at both positions simultaneously: You see the game from one of the two locations, the "Voodoo Doll" is at the other. Map-makers can take advantage of this by engineering events at the Voodoo Doll's location, which in turn affect what you experience. In Final Doom, the most common use for Voodoo Dolls is to drop them onto weapons in order make those weapons spontaneously appear in your inventory. They are also creatively used in several third-party Doom/Doom II WADs.

[duiker]

Anyone remember Wolfenstein?

[Stone]

I remember Doomenstien :twisted:

It was a .wad (that's what the maps for Wolfenstien were called? Or am I confusing it with another game?)

It was doom in wolfenstien.

[kbk]

In Doom 2 there is a level that is just like the old Wolfenstein, it was pretty cool...Sometime we should organize a "Rorta Doom Deathmatch" or something like that :). Would be fun to play the old Doom game multiplayer...Hopefully Doom's 1 and 2 will work together and we all wouldn't have to have one or the other...

[Stone]

They can all be downloaded as abandonware now anyway.

[kbk]

True, we should deffinetly organize a game or something like that then in the near future. What's the site you can download them all from? I went to abandonware.com and it was some search thing..

[DIzzIE]

#oldwarez, #oldgames on EFnet

[kbk]

I got Doom off of Limewire, never played it all the way through till the other day...Damn good game.

[Count_Chocula]

The original FPS (other than wolfenstein 3d).Actually there was one even before Wolfenstein. Catacomb Abyss or something like that, use to be able to download it off dosgames.com

And by far one of the greatest games ever made, to me it never loses playability. I own Doom 2, and just purchased Doom 3 (should be here sometime next week). I have a demo of Doom and Doom 95 (what's the difference?)...Not much. Doom95 is just a Windows port of the original DOS game.

I have been a Doom fan since I was like 10 when I first played quake and then found Doom on a quake related website (quake is pretty much just a 3D copy of Doom).
Doom > Quake (IMHO)
But both are classics