Re: Carmack's Revenge

On 5/23/2025 5:21 AM, Xocyll wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
 

John Carmack once wrote about Doom, "Story in a game is like story in
a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but its not that important".
So it amuses me to no end that, with the advent of "Doom: Dark Ages"
Doom-lore has grown so extensive levels that it literally takes three
hours to describe it all.
>
     The DOOM Timeline | COMPLETE DOOM Story & Lore
       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5OdQYASIPQ&t
     (length: three hours, thirteen minutes and 59 seconds)
>
(admittedly, the narrator is extremely slow. A good editor could
probably cut it down to one-third that length. But who am I to bitch
about somebody being excessively verbose? ;-)
>
Honestly, one of the unspoken marvels of the nuDoom games is how they
managed to link together /all/ the different aspects of the Doom
franchise --be it the original games, the spin-offs like Doom64, or
even those awful movies-- into one cohesive (if not entirely logical)
narrative. I rather liked how they gave the demons more depth and
history than just random evil-things that you shoot, and I'm not
immune to the appeal of the power-fantasy that is the Doom Guy's
story.
>
The original Doom games were fun, but too self-contained. Monsters
appear, you kill them, end of story. "Doom 2016" --and more
importantly, "Doom Eternal"-- added enough new nooks and crannies that
the we can keep adventuring on for years. "Doom: Dark Ages" is just
one such exploration of that lore.
>
That said... even I have to admit it's a /bit/ much for a game that,
mechanically, is so simplistic. It's like somebody making a two-hour
Hollywood blockbuster out of a single game of Rock-Paper-Scissors. It
just seems so overboard and out of place for a game that relishes in
gore and guns.

 With Keanu Reeves as Rock, Nicholas Cage as Paper and Dwayne Johnson as
Scissors.
 <snip>
 Xocyll

What a minute here!  How can Dwayne Johnson NOT be The Rock?!  Keanu Reeves should be Scissors, he does more blade work.  But I agree that Nicholas Cage is paper.  :)
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