Re: More Doom... that's a good thing, right?

On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 13:33:49 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man
<rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

There are two reasons I'm interested in this new Doom release.  The
first is the new expansion, which really, I shouldn't be all that
excited about, because there are many, many good WAD's out there already
and new ones coming out.
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The second is that it seems it comes with a lot of historical game
assets.  Sounds, midis and graphics that were used during development
which didn't make it into the final game, or even the early alphas.
Stuff that wasn't even in Romero's Doom Dump.  I saw a YouTube video
where someone skimmed through it, and there were lots of graphics,
alternative sprites for guns, for the DoomGuy face, skies and such that
I've never seen before.  That alone makes me want to get it.

Fortuantely, the Doom assets are now available elsewhere (IIRC,
somebody has already made a WAD file with them) so it isn't required
that you use the Kex-engine game. We'll hopefully start seeing
GZDoom/Boom-ports (or even expansions that still run on the vanilla
v1.666 Doom-for-DOS) that utilize this lost art.

But I'm not sure what other advantage this release offers that GzDoom or
Prboom+ (my source port of choice) doesn't offer already, except for
perhaps making it easier to load mods, which I don't need at all.

For you? Little. But at lot of advantages for Bethesda.