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What a coincidence, I've been playing Doom 2 for the first time over the last couple of days. I've also recently replayed the first, but I had actually played t
by doesnt_know 14y ago
What a coincidence, I've been playing Doom 2 for the first time over the last couple of days. I've also recently replayed the first, but I had actually played that back when I was in primary school (behind my parents back of course).
I'm surprised just how much fun it still is and if you use something like ZDoom [1] (which I have been) you can literally just run the binary with no setup and it runs flawlessly on a modern system.
One thing that really stuck out to me as I've been playing it is that there really isn't anything from modern shooters I miss. I'm not trying to diminish the work that has been put into AI, Physics, Graphical fidelity etc, but what does it say about the genre when you can remove all the innovations over the last 20 years and it's not any less "fun"?
[1] http://zdoom.org/ http://zdoom.org/
- aw3c2 14y agoJumping, mouselook, crosshairs? That does not sound like Doom to me. Give http://www.chocolate-doom.org/ http://www.chocolate-doom.org/ a try, that engine is faithful.
- doesnt_know 14y agoI'm not playing with any of those things so they must be off by default. I'm just using it as a way to be able to easily run it on a modern system without having to mess around.
- unemployed 14y agod'You give brutal doom a try yet? It's a little violent but amazing and fast. http://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom http://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3zJJW4m9g&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3zJJW4m9g&feature=relmf...
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- hilko 14y agoI don't think it says anything specific about the genre. The same applies to platformers (Super Mario Bros), and most other genres.
- oops 14y agoDoom II is possibly my favorite game of all time. In the early-mid 2000s there was a pretty active multiplayer scene around a port called ZDaemon[1] and another called Skulltag. Conplete with a GameSpy-like client for finding and joining servers, new modes of play like CTF and monthly tournaments. Not sure what it's like today but worth a look if you're liking ZDoom. 1: http://zdaemon.org/ http://zdaemon.org/