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[IronLich]

Oh god, no! The DOOM series consumed 10 year old me.

I couldn't get enough of all the skin mods, and all the neat levels. I even had THE ALCHEMY, a disc surely constructed by hellspawn pre-packaged with thousands of levels of pure DOOM terror, and one of the levels somehow included Barney DOOM complete with bad Barney fanfic.

DOOM and DOOM II were so fucking hellaciously good. The things that game can do to you in the blackest of night with headphones on. Especially whenever you hear a Revenant's cry, or see an Archvile's flame spell.

 

[Catdaddy]

The modded Aliens DOOM was one of my favorites and still 100 times better than Aliens:CM.

 

[ResidentDante]

The modded Aliens DOOM was one of my favorites and still 100 times better than Aliens:CM.

Had to youtube it, did not know about this mod, looks awesome!

 

[Shane]

What a game. What an f'ing game. Doom and Doom II are design perfection. Flawless execution.

I'm currently playing through Final Doom for the first time. Picked it up as part of an id bundle sale a while back on Steam.

Never had it as a kid and the difficulty ramp is great. Real tough and cleverly designed levels.

Using Zandronum to run it and it's easy. The free look feels natural, which I didn't expect.

 

[Nerdkiller]

The dark ambient soundtrack for Playstation Doom is available on Aubrey Hodges' Bandcamp page.

Worth it just for Club Doom alone.

 

[ElTopo]

I always wanted to play Doom 1 and 2 with the Playstation Doom and Doom 64 soundtracks.

 

[NIN90]

What a game. What an f'ing game. Doom and Doom are design perfection. Flawless execution.

I'm currently playing through Final Doom for the first time. Picked it up as part of an id bundle sale a while back on Steam.

Never had it as a kid and the difficulty ramp is great. Real tough and cleverly designed levels.

Using Zandronum to run it and it's easy. The free look feels natural, which I didn't expect.

Evilution on Final Doom is probably still my favorite WAD. Plutonia is kinda annoying IMO, though.

 

[Neo Child]

Ahh, Doom 2.

Back when you needed to look at a map when playing a FPS. Rather than being told where to go.

though the game kinda becomes more map than anything later on. speeding as that arrow through rooms not being able to figure out what the different colours meant

 

[Shane]

Evilution on Final Doom is probably still my favorite WAD. Plutonia is kinda annoying IMO, though.

On Plutonia at the moment. Chaingun Dude-a-rama.
Evilution is up next.

 

[Red Chocobo]

though the game kinda becomes more map than anything later on. speeding as that arrow through rooms not being able to figure out what the different colours meant

True. I think I played half of the game as an arrow in map view lol.

 

[Ovid]

I read that entire OP. Good job.

Doom II is one of my favorite games of all time. Reading those enemy descriptions brought back a lot of memories.

 

[7threst]

How time flies. Getting kinda melancholic here now. I loved Doom back then, but somehow can't stand fps now.

 

[Team Filler]

Great OP. DOOM II is kind of like my personal version of the Deus Ex meme, in that everytime I see it mentioned somewhere, I feel a compelling urge to fire it up and play again.

 

[abracadaver]

Always wanted to ask this: What was the invisibility item for? Monsters still spotted and attacked me immediately

 

[Jazzkokehead]

Always wanted to ask this: What was the invisibility item for? Monsters still spotted and attacked me immediately

I'm pretty sure it actually causes enemies to have reduced accuracy when attacking in singleplayer, though I think it's mostly meant as a multiplayer item.

 

[¡HarlequinPanic!]

Always wanted to ask this: What was the invisibility item for? Monsters still spotted and attacked me immediately

its to give you awesome whitevision and nothing more~

 

[trudderham]

I just noticed the little hands poking out of the side as it walks. How have I not noticed that for the last 20 years?!

 

[Run-M-Run]

I just noticed the little hands poking out of the side as it walks. How have I not noticed that for the last 20 years?!

Holy shit you're right. Wow.

 

[The Elite]

My 486DX2-66 ran this like a dream...

That was my rig.

I know a lot of people jumped into PCs and PC gaming with similar specs.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Always wanted to ask this: What was the invisibility item for? Monsters still spotted and attacked me immediately

I'm pretty sure it actually causes enemies to have reduced accuracy when attacking in singleplayer, though I think it's mostly meant as a multiplayer item.

Well, there's a reason why it's called partial invisibility. It be no fun if the enemies couldn't see at all.

 

[Krejlooc]

One of the very best ports:

Even supports external wads.

 

[Ingueferroque]

One of the very best ports:

Even supports external wads.

Can't be better than the PSP version by nature of the hardware/controls, no?

Anyway, this is one of the classic games. Amazing achievement on so many levels, absolutely timeless if you ask me.

 

[Krejlooc]

Can't be better than the PSP version by nature of the hardware/controls, no?

Anyway, this is one of the classic games. Amazing achievement on so many levels, absolutely timeless if you ask me.

Works just fine with the controls on the GP32.

Left trigger = strafe left
right trigger = strafe right
Hold select + left trigger = weapon down
hold select + right trigger = weapon up
A button = fire
B button = open/use
press start button = menu
hold start button = toggle run
press select = map

EDIT: In terms of hardware, aside from lacking any 3D hardware (which doom doesn't even use), it has a CPU on par with a PSP - clocked at 133 mhz by default, that can be set up to 266 mhz.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

When i think of 90s i think of WWF RAW/WCW Nitro, Terminator 2 and Doom 1 and 2

Which is amusing because Quake, Quake 2, and Quake 3 Arena were also all released in the 90s.

 

[Shadow Hog]

Always wanted to ask this: What was the invisibility item for? Monsters still spotted and attacked me immediately

Enemies can still spot you, but their accuracy is completely shot. You'll notice every time the game code calls A_FaceTarget() (when they're supposed to look straight at you), they'll instead look at you with a random angle offset instead.

Sounds useful, right? Well, unfortunately, in practice, not so much. See, good Doom play generally involves very quick dodges of projectiles, oftentimes at pointblank range, and with Partial Invisibility in play, the projectiles are now being shot at completely random angles, often times not even lining up with the angle the monster is facing (ie: they're facing to your left, but threw a shot that's heading straight to you regardless). The upshot is that this is less of an issue for hitscan enemies, since there's not really any projectile to be dodging here - if they're facing away from you and fire, that's that. As such, it's useful for areas where you're expected to run a gauntlet of hitscan enemies (although the angle changes for every Chaingunner shot, so there's still that to contend with), and less useful outside of that niche. It's generally considered one of the least useful power-ups in Doom for experienced players, as such.

ZDoom changed the code to be more in line with Heretic and Hexen; if you're using a Partial Invisibility power-up, sight checks for dormant monsters will fail. This wasn't the case in vanilla Doom; that sight check wasn't affected at all, they'd still wake up if you ran by them. You can change it back to the original behavior in the Compatibility Flags menu, but I kinda wish it'd default to that for Doom at least. It does make the power-up marginally more useful, though, so your mileage may vary on whether it's worth flipping that flag or not.

 

[KKRT00]

That was my rig.

I know a lot of people jumped into PCs and PC gaming with similar specs.

Yep, same here. It was my first PC.

 

[Laevateinn]

As a kid, I always just used idclip to beat the Icon of Sin. Beating the game legit when I got to college was the best thing.

 

[EGM1966]

I sank so much time into Doom and Doom 2 it would probably horrify me to actually see a total.

Such astonishing games at the time (still in some ways).

Damn that Arch Vile though!

 

[Red Chocobo]

I just noticed the little hands poking out of the side as it walks. How have I not noticed that for the last 20 years?!

Woah! I never noticed that before either.

I guess it's because I always panicked when they appeared in the game.

 

[RS4-]

I used to go to my neighbors place just to play doom.

The shareware version.

 

[2MF]

19 MB

Amazing how that now fits into the cache of some modern CPUs

 

[Nowhere Man]

One of the greatest shooters ever made. Why? Because guns never need to be reloaded. Not even joking. Fuck realism in fast-paced arcade shooters. Reloading means you have to momentarily stop shooting, ergo you should never have to reload.

 

[Noble Neckbeard]

DooM is, in my humble opinion, the best game ever made.

 

[Deleted member 102362]

Oh wow, those Legos are awesome!

I should really replay these games sometime.

 

[Omegasquash]

Now I want to play it tonight. I'm supposed to be farming more Vanguard marks and now I'm going to have to do this too god DAMMIT.

 

[orborborb]

The main thing Doom did was saddle the real-time first person perspective (which it by no means invented) with a bunch of lame connotations of military industrial gore and supernatural shlock that took decades to wear off.

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

The main thing Doom did was saddle the real-time first person perspective (which it by no means invented) with a bunch of lame connotations of military industrial gore and supernatural shlock that took decades to wear off.

Nah, it's more like Tim Willits was a military buff (being in ROTC and stuff), so Quake II and Doom 3 both suffer from those influences (and bad Hollywood-isms). Gears of War, though. Is a more complicated mix of things.

 

[orborborb]

to be fair Doom also showed people how dungeon crawler level design could be done without the damn grid, though only Descent, Hexen, and Marathon properly followed up on that. Ultima Underworld's grid nonsense carried through all the way to Bioshock.

 

[Nerdkiller]

One of the greatest shooters ever made. Why? Because guns never need to be reloaded. Not even joking. Fuck realism in fast-paced arcade shooters. Reloading means you have to momentarily stop shooting, ergo you should never have to reload.

Or just go one step further and proclaim that guns are for wusses.

 

[G-Fex]

On Plutonia at the moment. Chaingun Dude-a-rama.
Evilution is up next.

After the shit I've been through up to yesterday, Plutonia looks like a fucking push over to me now.


I'm doing 4 thousand monster maps

 

[hlhbk]

The main thing Doom did was saddle the real-time first person perspective (which it by no means invented) with a bunch of lame connotations of military industrial gore and supernatural shlock that took decades to wear off.

And it was the greatest game of all time!

 

[Mask]

Doom 2 and Doom are two of my favourite games ever, and the Super Shotgun is still the best shotgun I've ever used in games to this day.

A little while ago, I dug out the Doom 2 floppy disks and installed them on this super old mini laptop and played it on their for nostalgic reasons. Was pretty cool.

 

[Guile]

Sorry for bumping but am I the only one who would love a port of the original Doom, Doom II and all the expansions included for PS4/XONE?

For extra awesomeness it would have to be in 240p/480p, have all the original menu's/graphics (not like the ''remastered'' XBLA version) and the original DOS (sound blaster?) music.

 

[abracadaver]

Well, there's a reason why it's called partial invisibility. It be no fun if the enemies couldn't see at all.

That's how it is in quake. Unless you start shooting the monsters don't see you at all.

 

[KittenMaster]

Sorry for bumping but am I the only one who would love a port of the original Doom, Doom II and all the expansions included for PS4/XONE?

For extra awesomeness it would have to be in 240p/480p, have all the original menu's/graphics (not like the ''remastered'' XBLA version) and the original DOS (sound blaster?) music.

You'd need the BFG edition wads and a source port that replicates "vanilla style" playing and presentation.