I'm surprised that no one has done this one yet but Doom (1993). Theres not a huge amount left to say about this game that hasn't been said a gently caress load of times already but it's one of if not the single most important and influential game of all time (and also is my favourite game of all time). It wasn't the first fps by a long shot but it defined the genre (to the point where almost every fps that came out after that up until maybe Half Life was called a Doom clone). It's still the fastest fps of all time with Doom Guy being able to reach a blistering 40kmph while strafing It spawned first person shooters as a full on genre and influenced Quake (which was originally going to be an ARPG until iD changed direction) and Half Life, which went on to influence a whole ream of games. It practically gave birth to the speedrunning genre by having completion times at the end of the each level (with John Romero having set par times so gamers could match their skills to his). On a more technical level it was the first game to show off the PC as a proper graphical powerhouse. Before this most of the heavy hitting graphical games were on consoles and PCs were confined to graphical adventure games. Doom really changed that to the point where even console ports of it struggled to match the PC counterpart. Iirc it was the first online shooter. In terms of cultural impact it was huge. Due to the first (and best) chapter being shareware almost everyone I knew had played it at one point or another. The game was practically designed with custom modding via .wad files in mind, first with custom maps and also went on to become totally open source later on in the 90s A lot of shooters have fallen by the wayside and have been all but lost to time due to technical limitations and just not holding up well compared to modern games and it says a lot that Doom has managed to hold this off. It still plays incredibly well today (with a minor floor polisher graphical mod) and I would absolutely recommend anyone that hasn't played Doom to do so, even if it's just to run around with a chainsaw munching through some Imps. CyberPingu fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Aug 20, 2021 |
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Party Boat posted:
My first time playing it at a friend's house we didn't know about the cheats, we were only playing the shareware version but still got wrecked by the Barons of Hell at the end. It wasn't until I picked it up again in the collection version which was released around the time of the movie that I discovered the cheats.
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Jerusalem posted:IDSPISPOPD is seared into my brain The funny thing about the music is a lot of it is actually rock music from the time just synth'd up and changed juuuust enough to avoid copyright. That's why e1m1 is basically master of puppets in reverse. And one of the later stages is a switched around Hells Bells.
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Harold Fjord posted:I freaked the gently caress out when I beat this game no cheats on our family's 486 in my stepdad's office. I think I was 10. That might have been the first time I ever properly beat a game, looking back. When we finally beat the Barons of Hell at the end of chapter 1 we marked out. Probably the first time I've really got excited over a video game. We then spent about 3 hours trying to survive the intended death when you finish chapter 1
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Aug 21, 2021 17:08
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Zaphod42 posted:Honestly doom released today probably wouldn't pass copyright, they barely even changed half the songs. They're basically straight midi covers of pantera and metallica. Pretty much yeah. It owns.
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exquisite tea posted:Somehow Guilty Gear still keeps on truckin' despite all their songs basically being lifted directly from contemporary prog rock and metal. I don't think anyone* really cares unless you are literally copying it. *There are obvious exceptions to this.
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bewilderment posted:I found Sekiro to be much more beatable than Bloodborne, simply because Sekiro gives you back a 100% damage reduction block. I found Sekiro a lot harder. I dunno something about the parry mechanic in Sekiro just took a lot longer to get than Bloodbornes. I still don't have Sekiros parry timings down very well at all
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poo poo yeah, Homeworld is loving amazing. My one gripe with it is that you can get into an unwinnable situation and not know about it as units persist over missions.
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