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- dn11, on 09/05/2008, -0/+36"The graphics for the time were pretty good"... that's an understatement. They were one of a kind for the time - a huge leap beyond Wolfenstein or Ultima Underworld. For me, when I was a kid playing it for the first time, it was so engrossing and realistic it would raise your heartbeat to walk into a shadowy corridor. The first time me and my friend had the shareware fired up on my 486 we played all through the night in a a darkened room - but we had to take turns because it was so intense. Sounds ridiculous now, but it really was that much of a step forward.
- 808ethan, on 09/05/2008, -0/+27Doom ruled because you shot up like 50 demons at a time! You really felt like a bad ass. Now with the obsession to make the best graphics your computer can handle, shooters never have more than 5 or 6 enemies at a time.
I miss chaingunning down row after row while dodging fire. - spammishking, on 09/05/2008, -1/+21idkfa
After all these years I still remember - picoritdidnt, on 09/05/2008, -0/+20Doom literally changed my life. It was the beginning of computers and technology for me.
I connected to my first BBS through DOS to play Doom, which is where I also experienced "online" life for the first time. I had my first moment of video game online play with another human being over a modem connection with Doom. I built my very first computer from scratch so I could play Doom. I used software for creative purposes for the first time through level editing and customization with Doom.
I can remember the smell of the sunshine seeping through the windows as countless hours of fragging accumulated over several summer vacations. I remember the friends I made, and the feeling of boundless exploration that summed up the entire experience. I think about Doom a lot now that I'm older, and want so badly to go back to that state of mind where worries and bills and girlfriends and self consciousness were something that I didn't think about - where I could simply and with complete devotion, do something that made me deeply happy. I'm trying.
A few years ago, I was contacted by Todd Hollenshead of ID software for a Tattoo idea he had. They wanted to collect pictures of ID tattoo's fans had gotten and make some sort of poster out of it for their office. I never heard what ended up of that, but here are the submissions he received, with my homage to a life changing experience being the first picture of the bunch:
http://www.picoritdidnthappen.com/idtattoos/index. ... - Nice2BHere, on 09/05/2008, -0/+18Hah, I am a 56 year old mother of four. I was a Doom fanatic and I still am a Doom lover. Do you think that all gamers are teenage boys? LOL
- MarkusX, on 09/04/2008, -0/+18Doom rules!!!
- Haoie, on 09/05/2008, -0/+16It's certainly left a legacy on first person shooters.
Doom 3 is nothing like the first 2 though, as it tried to be a survival horror game. - Frogee, on 09/05/2008, -0/+15IDDQD
- farblong, on 09/05/2008, -1/+15Plug for Doomsday: http://www.doomsdayhq.com/
Play on my Mac a lot, and the graphics packs and 3D models do wonders for the game. - mattomondo, on 09/05/2008, -0/+14Oh the memories I have of playing Doom (especially Doom II)...
I can still remember the layout and music of just about every level.
And playing online via DWANGO was an amazing experience back in the day. :D - ZombieSociety, on 09/05/2008, -0/+10I hate when you're in a quiet area in the game and there are no enemies around, maybe you're looking for something...and you turn around...
AND THERE'S A ***** CACAODEMON RIGHT IN YOUR FACE.
Kill it! - Shambla, on 09/05/2008, -0/+9Homer Simpson, smiling politely.
- Rudegar, on 09/05/2008, -1/+9I Duke3d was good too
- Filmore, on 09/05/2008, -0/+8"It is important to note that Doom popularized a type of software known as Shareware."
I'm pretty sure Wolfenstein 3D did that first (I have a coppy of the disk in my office). (oh, also Commander Keen)
DooM/DooM II popularized the multiplayer aspect of games. Hands down this was DooM's great contribution. How many of you remember shouting "IF THE PHONE RINGS, DON'T ANSWER IT !!!"?
DooM was also one of the first games to even allow for user-generated MODs
Quake gave the first looks into full 3d. It also had the first (and only replicated by NWN as far as I can tell) super-friendly MOD system that went all the way down to having it's own programming language to change the very fundamentals of the game (Quake-C anyone?)
Quake 2 was one of the first games I've heard of to use multiple processes in the engine (made for multi-core systems)
I'm not sure what Quake3/4 had (if anything)
DooM III hit on dynamic lighting and embedded video, but was drowned out in the industry due to the popularity of the competing HL2 engine from Valve.
And now ID is working on a new project for free online gaming funded by in-game ad-s. - Nrvana423, on 09/05/2008, -0/+8Not all shooters. While not quite the amount as Doom, there were several instances in HL2 where they threw a pretty decent amount of bad guys your way. Especially, when you had to take out all the ant lions in Ep 2.
- Darkangel754, on 09/05/2008, -0/+8Shame on you!
- inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+8Doom and Quake... good player-mod/map times had by all! To this day, I haven't seen a strong mod community compared to quake... other than perhaps never winter nights.. a bit.. or the elder scrolls series...
Anyway Doom/2 and Quake rocked! - paradigmxx, on 09/05/2008, -0/+8I was 6 years old when I played Doom back in '93 or so.
It exposed me to video game violence.
It was epic. - 83JB, on 09/05/2008, -0/+7I wish my mom played doom :(
- 808ethan, on 09/05/2008, -1/+8Maybe Ill give HL another try then. Never got too far.
- NOD32user, on 09/05/2008, -0/+7Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles of Putrid Debris
- Electricpigdigg, on 09/05/2008, -0/+6The chainsaw!
- brundlefly76, on 09/05/2008, -0/+6I checked the id ftp server like every 2 hours waiting for it to come out, we would all hang out in the #doom irc channel, all anyone would talk about was when it would come out.
I downloaded it within an hour of it showing up on the ftp server, and set about ironically flunking Assembly Language Programming at college because I was playing Doom constantly. I was paying really high phone bills because I would offer to call anyone on irc long distance for modem deathmatch.
I will never forget the first time I played deathmatch and saw the other space marine in his green helmet - I was like 'holy crap - thats another person!' Sounds pedestrian now but at the time it was amazing. - r4ge, on 09/05/2008, -0/+6IDSPISPOPD
- jonshipman, on 09/05/2008, -0/+6My mom played StarTropics :o
- koshbaby, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5Doom is also one of the only games in existence that treated co-op very seriously:
- The co-op experience was virtually identical as the multi-player experience. Playing through the story mode with my best friend was amazingly fun.
- You could save anytime and it would save for both players and their stats.
- Dying actually meant something. Since dying meant losing all your stuff, reloading the game from the last save point was necessary. Nowadays, more often than not, you simply reappear with all your stuff or just need to pick them up from where you died.... that totally kills the challenge.
- Sharing ammo and health was essential to making sure both got through in one piece. - GreatSunJester, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5Only game that has ever had me find myself moving my body side to side as I creep up on a corner to look around it.
- baldgye, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5Downloaded Doom 2 the other week from Steam... I've not played the original in years because I don't have a floppy drive, but Doom 2 is STILL a super fun game, as well as being really ***** hard
- inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4This article totally makes me want to play Doom again. I have it on Xbox Live... anyone out there wanna play? Gamertag: Boymuzik
- qster, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4Doom + Deu.. the amount of hours I put into making levels.. is just.. .
- mezzanine224, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4Doom is a great game that deserves some insight and a decent write-up. Sorry, but this article reads like it was written by a 3rd grader.
- inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4I always loved Doom. I remember playing it for the first time at my grandfathers house (he was a big techie and a computer gamer)... I was SO scared I almost pissed myself! If you want to play a more modern game that is close to the kind of fun of Doom, definitely check out Painkiller.
- synchestric, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4It's 2.5d in the sense that sectors could not overlap, nor things could be stacked (you couldn't walk on top of monsters for example).
Linux Doom was an official Id port and could be played over UDP. - ExSlashdotter, on 09/05/2008, -0/+4Indeed. I'm sick of people ragging on the co-op modes of FPSs.
Just because we like to play the co-op doesn't mean we're noobs or just 'can't hang' in multiplayer. Its just a fun thing in and of itself.
//typing this wearing an fps_doug tshirt... - 83JB, on 09/05/2008, -1/+5I also enjoyed doom 3, I don't know why so many people hate on it. It really shouldn't be compared to the original dooms though, they are awesome in their own way.
- farblong, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3Yes, and I have all of my original discs for Doom/Ultimate Doom ][ Heretic and Hexen, and they all work wonderfully.
You can still go buy them if that's your thing:
Doom Collector's Edition (Doom/Doom ][/Ultimate Doom)
http://www.amazon.com/Doom-Collectors-Pc/dp/B0002I ...
Heretic:
http://www.amazon.com/Heretic-PC/dp/B0002LHPA0/ref ...
Hexen:
http://www.amazon.com/Hexen-Beyond-Heretic/dp/B000 ...
Or, you could find them anoTher Place proBably
:> - elliam, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3Killer ***** Ammo
http://everything2.com/title/idkfa - Rage67, on 09/05/2008, -2/+5Doom 3 wasn't bad either...
- mustang460, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3Doom 3 was id's most successful title, selling over 3.5 million copies so I'd say many share your thoughts on it being a good game
It was much different from the original, I think old fans were just upset at the survival horror theme, instead of the slaughter droves of monsters theme. - RandomGuySteve, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3Doom.. We have a "PC Gaming" section, no need to put it under the Nintendo Section.
Although Doom64 wasn't that bad. - redwallhp, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3If you like Doom, try the open source game Sauerbraten (an FPS made with the Cube 2 engine). In recent years it's come a long way, and I tend to think of it as Doom for the modern day. It has a multitude of game modes, and an in-game editor where you build everything out of sculptable cubes (very easy once you get the hang of it). Online play is fast-paced, whether you want deathmatch, team deathmatch, instagib, CTF, or Regen Capture (or one of the other less-used modes like assasin or efficiency). The graphics are reminiscent of Doom or Quake, and the gameplay is awesome. Sauerbraten.org.
- daridave, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2DOOM is still absolutely amazing to play. The graphics are outdated, but hop in, IDDQD+IDFA (yeah, try looking for the keys at least, mofo!) and blast around. I can promise you will NOT find a shooter today that will offer such crazy-fast fun as DOOM did. FPSes today just take themselves too seriously! While games like Call of Duty 4 do it right and are amazing, most of them can't come close to the fun it was back then. Oh and I'm one of the few who actually loved DOOM 3... come to think of it, I think I'm gonna do another run. :) DOOM FTW !!!
- iDiggYa, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2iddqd!
idkfa!
Wow, I'm old.. - HiloMcGee, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2The stuff of legends
- bigfruitbasket, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2Doom was the bomb! And there was nothing like Quake 2 with 12 people playing capture the flag. My eyes burn just thinking about the epic 4-6 hour marathon matches we had in my computer lab.
- strypersarmy, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2idclip was my fav.
- Nice2BHere, on 09/12/2008, -0/+2You are so funny ... time to get real
- NOD32user, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2Yes, but do you know what it stands for?
- davidwasman, on 09/05/2008, -1/+3I popped in my old version of Duke Nukem the other day and played all the way through...in GOD mode. It was awesome.
That and tonight I was reminiscing with a friend about my first computer, the TRS-80 (Trash 80) and all the text based games on that. Not as much fun to go back to as these old '3D' games. - GorfTron, on 09/05/2008, -1/+3Doom rocked. And I loved shoving it in the face of my Macsnob friends. Their retort was (cough, cough) Marathon.
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