The DOOM thread

@atalarikt  
My first impressions is “holy crap, the German servers is where I used to work”.
 
Overall, I don’t think that the Doom 1 review is that bad. At least not after hearing how it sucks. It sure has it’s oddities, though. I can understand thinking that the Berserk Pack wears of after some time. Many probably thought that, me included (I faintly remember that someone (John Romero?) admitted that the visual effect, of the red screen that gradually went back to normal, was a mistake, due to the confusion it caused. I might be wrong, though.). But I’m pretty sure that it doesn’t have an effect on fire rate.
 
What’s really weird is the caption of the screenshots of the first secret level. I’m not sure how this guy saw lizards in the imps, but okay. Claiming that they don’t fight back is just dumb, though. Maybe the incoming fireballs were to subtle for the reviewer…
 
I really like the last paragraph, though. It’s just so “ahead of it’s time” and really sounds like something a modern game journalist would write.
 
The Doom II review isn’t without it’s errors either. For one, when it’s not calling enemies by their appearance (“skeleton”, “fat man”), it gets their names wrong (calling a Pain Elemental a “Cacodemon” and a Heavy Weapons Dude a “Sergent”). Also, it’s odd how it says that HWDs are “weak but their guns have a long range”. Aside from the fact that there aren’t really any range limitations for ranged attacks in the first place, the actual trouble with these enemies is that their guns are full-automatic.

Of course, this video needs to be posted
 
Perfect strats.

I’ve just tried Going Down, and up to the beginning of the second level it was ‘push button, horde of enemies pops up.’, ‘open door, horde of enemies pops up.’ and ‘drop down chute, horde of enemies pops up.’.
 
Not exactly my cup of tea.

@Hakar  
The fights do get pretty interesting with some nice level gimmicks. One has you switch between ruined and pristine versions of the same level, and another has you exploit infighting to thin out a crapton of revenants vs a Mastermind.

@atalarikt  
 

@Solitude  
I remember seeing those images when looking for the DOOM tag here a few months ago. Yet another reason to like Applejack even more.

@atalarikt  
Indeed.
 
Also, mildly relevant.

@MoogSourceVermona  
This made me laugh far too much. XD

I never actually played Doom. Never had a PC at the time that the game was popular. But I do enjoy DoomRL, the _Doom roguelike. It’s a nifty little game.
 

@hawthornbunny  
Grab the game (not BFG edition if you can), grab ZDoom, slap the IWAD in the folder, and have some fun.

I’m just glad Doom 4 (or DOOM as it’s now called, creating more problems for future historians) has gone back to its roots and dropped the “scary monster closet” shit that Doom 3 had.
 
Doom was never a horror game, it was a game about a space marine killing shit and being a badass while listening to heavy metal midies.
 
After Wolfenstein: New Order proved that the old way of shooters can still sell in todays market, I have high hopes. Now…if only we can get a new Pain Killer and a sequel to BulletStorm.

@atalarikt  
You asked if they are compatible  
Yes, yes they are

Anyone ever try playing Doom as the Goddamn Batman?

@Solitude  
The Goddamn Midget Batman!

@Zincy  
Yahtzee. Is that you?

@Whatevs
 
I am a consistently drunk, typically angry fantasy writer who plays more video games than I should, but sadly I’m not paid for any of it so no. Also not British enough.

@Zincy  
You write fantasies?

@Whatevs
 
I have a few stories in the works. My longest is currently 36 pages.
 
Though, I think Yahtzee actually writes mystery novels with fanatical elements, where I write pure high fantasy, so the comparison wasn’t complete.

@Zincy  
Out of his works, he seems to like writing stories with supernatural elements in them.

@Virgil Stormblade
 
Given his personality, that doesn’t surprise me.

@Zincy  
That he’s a freak?

Everyone complains about Mighty No. 9, and I seem to be the only here who complains about Mordeth 2…

@Zincy  
I know he wrote a novel about an MMO npc coming to life inside the game or some such. Mogworld or something like that.

So, I just finished DOOM 64, although using the DOOM Wiki walkthrough occasionally. Can’t really consider it much of cheating, though. At least I got all the three Demon Keys and defeated Mother Demon with ease and without cheating (if you don’t consider using walkthrough one).
 
Speaking of it, what do you guys think of DOOM 64?