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5 Doom continues to be one of the most fun gaming experiences available and shows no signs of being removed from that list. We were a Mac family back in the day so I played through it for the first time 5-10 years ago.
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I never liked Doom all that much when it was new. As mentioned the level design is pretty bad. 3.
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5 It’s still fun to play today. Heck, I even enjoyed the SNES version back in the day. As awful as it looked, the gameplay was more or less all there.
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May 28, 2019 05:07
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The most negative thing I am capable of saying about Doom is that it invented the unskipable in engine cutscene.
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May 28, 2019 05:11
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3 Doom was ground-breaking for its time but going back to it today without zDoom and various other tweaks is a painful experience. And put me in the camp that thinks everything Doom did, Doom 2 did better. Put Doom 2 up for this and I'll give it a 5
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You know, I don't think I've ever actually played Doom. But it is only 4 quid on Steam and I'm off work today 
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The Thread Where Everyone Rates Their Favorite Childhood Games 5.
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Orv posted:The Thread Where Everyone Rates Their Favorite Childhood Games 5. Don't worry, there will be plenty of more recent games and also ones less deserving of 5s!
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Orv posted:The Thread Where Everyone Rates Their Favorite Childhood Games 5. lol yeah
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5 I never really cared for first person shooters and my only options to play this back in the day was the SNES or 32X versions which felt wrong to play even back then when I had no concept of how Doom or a first person shooter played (being piss in the wind rentals didn't help). It eventually got sidelined by the time I could play it on a computer since I had a certain understanding of that entire genre and just kind of assumed Doom fit in just the same just on a fundamental level. Thankfully random Steam sales means that it ended up in my library at some point, and on a whim I played it a few years ago and it finally clicked and I couldn't really stop playing until I had done all the episodes and realized that it was still a fantastic game to run around and shoot poo poo in. It probably helps that I like mazes and confusing levels, too. Dropped off Doom 2 really fast though, and never really cared for 3 or how the new one plays so it still seems fundamentally special.
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I didn't play Doom until the 360 arcade version somehow and it was fun enough to play through twice on Ultraviolent so that's a 5/5
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2 I played it around age 8, on my friend’s computer around 2000. It wasn’t bad, but it was a mediocre shootmans game that I do not plan on revisiting. Good for the time isn’t the same as good.
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I picked up Doom and I've got through most of the first mission set so I think I'm ready to drop an opinion. I didn't have a PC when I was young so the closest I ever came to Doom was watching a neighbour play it on the SNES and playing Heretic and Quake a long while back. I wasn't really expecting much from this but it actually surprised me by being... kinda fun? It's the FPS genre distilled down to its purest form without all the extraneous bullshit of physics puzzles or realistic AI or driving sections or whatever. There's a very simple joy in it. It's also really creepy! The sound design and grimy environments and flickery lighting and clunky controls make it hard to know if something's sneaking up on you. Very effective. The main negatives I have are that it's starting to get very samey with too many identical environments and too many identical enemies and also the animation is incredibly stilted. 4/5
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I tried Doom once and the unmodded controls were basically unusable after a lifetime of use the mouse to turn. I didn't play enough to figure out what its strong points are though so I'm not gonna rate it
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Orv posted:The Thread Where Everyone Rates Their Favorite Childhood Games 5. I grew up with Mario 64 and not Doom yet I gave Doom a higher score. In fact, the first time I played doom was the abysmal GBA port which Id still rate higher than Mario 64 push come to shove. Man Doom is good Barudak fucked around with this message at 00:32 on May 29, 2019 |
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May 29, 2019 00:29
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The GBA port of Doom is surprisingly good, honestly.
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4 At the time of release it would be a 5/5 but shooters have come a long way and we no longer have to suffer through using the keyboard to rotate or getting lost in levels with muddy visuals. Still a very fun game and definitely the most influential in the genre, but like any decades-old game, time has taken its toll
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Orv posted:The Thread Where Everyone Rates Their Favorite Childhood Games 5. Mario 64 and Doom aren't very controversial, most people will agree that they were/are great. Just wait until the thread gets around to someone's beloved cult classic, or something of a more divisive genre like point-and-click adventures or JRPGs. 
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4 You can't deny that DOOM was an extremely influential game, and I don't think there's a community out there that's this active for a game that's this old. The only thing holding it back is the remnants that tie it to its era, with no mouselook and being pre-WASD making it difficult to approach for modern players.
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Ceyton posted:Mario 64 and Doom aren't very controversial, most people will agree that they were/are great. Final Fantasy (7/8/9/X/whichever) will tear this thread apart!
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I honestly think youll get a better thermometer read on less acclaimed titles. Like nobody is gonna ride or die for Kill.switch or Operation: Winback no matter how important they are in terms of mechanics.
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Barudak posted:I honestly think youll get a better thermometer read on less acclaimed titles. I'll throw down over Bionic Commando 09
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ill throw down for the part of operation winback where the black guy dies and one of your squadmates immediately goes 'drat! he was one of the good ones...' and this statement is never questioned or acknowledged
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I'll throw down for Syphon Filter 2 or Shadow Hearts
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Endorph posted:ill throw down for the part of operation winback where the black guy dies and one of your squadmates immediately goes 'drat! he was one of the good ones...' and this statement is never questioned or acknowledged drat why are my memories of Winback boring clunky box shooting and not this???
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Barudak posted:I honestly think youll get a better thermometer read on less acclaimed titles. I've already said I'll stan for Pilotwings 64 and I fuckin' meant it 
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Ciaphas posted:I've already said I'll stan for Pilotwings 64 and I fuckin' meant it Now there is a truly good game
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We'll need to compare our scores to metacritic or something as games like Shadow Hearts are definitely goon favourites
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Mario 64: 3. I first played a bit on an import n64 at a store. Was ok. Got the ds version and bored of it quickly. I mean its better than Conker or original Tomb Raider but eh? Doom: 4. It's good but Doom 2 is more or less first Doom perfected. It played best back then with a Gravis gamepad but modern ports and wasd are also lovely. Most of the Doom engine games are decent though. Strife is the only one I can't really get into though I have tried. Beware the Heretic and Hexens though. They are way harder than either Doom. Some games I'd like to see covered: Ultima 7. Bloodborne. Dragon's Lair. Wing Commander. Mechwarrior 2. Fire Emblem.
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Final Fantasy (7/8/9/X/whichever) will tear this thread apart! I pray to god Final Fantasy dares show its face in this thread so I can cut it down in front of everyone Doom I can't really comment on since I didn't play it anywhere near its actual release date and that's the lens through which you really have to view that game. I really liked the first level of SM64 as a kid but my parents refunded it because it gave them motion sickness and I never went back after playing Banjo2/DK64 RazzleDazzleHour fucked around with this message at 02:09 on May 30, 2019 |
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I will slap anyone across the face like a spoiled debutante if they talk poo poo about Rule of Rose. The game is jank but it's absolutely beautiful jank.
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Barudak posted:drat why are my memories of Winback boring clunky box shooting and not this??? did you play the n64 or ps2 version? the ps2 version had a hilariously cheap dub but natch. the n64 couldnt handle full voice acting
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Captain Rufus posted:Some games I'd like to see covered: I'll see what I can do 
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Endorph posted:did you play the n64 or ps2 version? the ps2 version had a hilariously cheap dub but natch. the n64 couldnt handle full voice acting That it explains it, I played this bad boy on the N64. My friend was convinced, convinced, that it was better than metal gear solid but a) he didnt have a playstation and b) we were idiot children and couldnt get like a third of the way into the game.
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2 I don't believe anybody voting higher than this has ever actually played Doom. Maybe a port or a remake with improved visuals and controls, but the original Doom for ms-dos is unplayable today. It deserves respect for its influence and latter-day engine remakes with mouse and keyboard support really let the core concepts shine, but Doom the actual game as released is a solid 2.
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RandomFerret posted:2 Like I said, I didn't play the game when it came out, but I also think that the modern process of "playing Doom" is playing the game for like 20 minutes or an hour at the absolute max and saying "yeah that was fun" but I can't imagine sitting down and playing Doom for a whole afternoon in the same way that I play marathon sessions of basically every game I like
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I dont even know what game youre playing to say that about its controls and ability to hold interest. Theres basically no way I fire up doom and dont finish all of Ep1 in a single sitting. The original controls are phenomenal and explicitly designed around what the game Doom is. I could pontificate on why doom is absolutely top down an incredible design acievement all day so to have someone say "oh people only like it because they use modern control schemes" when those control schemes are basically a sleight of hand tricks that dont do as much as youd think because its how people expect the game to work is crazy.
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Captain Rufus posted:Some games I'd like to see covered: These are all excellent picks, especially WC
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n/m
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Classic early 90s game Undertale
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