Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away Day #25 : Unboxing XII

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
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Did you ever played classic DOOMs?

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Heck my first DOOM was the shareware episode1 0.99b, which didn't have
working sound until the patch a few days later.

Ahh, the days of downloading your games over slow FTP servers. By the
time you managed to slowly trickle the archive over the modem to your
computer, the developers had enough time to release the next version
;-)

Oh please. Try dial-up BBSes! Those were my days for DOOM! And then, I
finally got Internet in 1993 via college shell accounts! I still
remember ftp.idsoftware.com, ftp.cdrom.com/pub/games/doom..., etc. I
miss those days.

They seemed so shallow after playing Duke Nukem 3D, and by all accounts
in here when DOOM3 came out it was jump scares and lack of light that
was it's driving design.  

Were there ever free Duke Nukem game giveaways in here?

"Doom 3" was an undeniable departure from the earlier games, but over
the years I've come to enjoy it quite a lot. It owes a lot more to
survival-shooters (sort of like "Resident Evil") being much more
slow-paced, with the monsters hitting harder and being harder to hit.
Its visual design is amazing. All that darkness works poorly if your
expecting an FPS --where being able to make out the enemies is
paramount-- but it works very well for horror. I was less enthralled
with the monster closets (which to be fair was a hold-over from
classic Dooms), although mostly because they were so predictible and
felt out of character with the rest of the game's atmosphere.

One thing I've found is that "Doom 3" is best served by playing it in
short bursts. I can whip through the entire shareware episode of the
original "Doom" in a single sitting, but I find "Doom 3" quickly
becomes tiresome if I do more than one or two maps in a row. But if I
give it a break in between, the game remains an intense and fun
experience.

TL;DR: "Doom 3" is a good game, but it was too different for many
Doom-fans, who (myself included, at the time of its release) were
unable to re-adjust their expectations.

I enjoyed DOOM 3. Sure, it wasn't good as the first two. I still have my
retail game that I showed in a few weeks ago in another thread post!
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