Poll: Doom is 25 years old

[snoopy7548]

Man, I don't know how anyone can think Doom 3 is better than Doom or Doom 2. It does play completely different from the first two (and Final Doom), so I guess there's that. More survival horror than run and gun, I guess.

 

[bigi]

Doom 1 and 2. Still have DOS versions. Good thing those WADs can be used with emulators like Doom Legacy Project.

Doom 2016 is also great. IMO, worthy sorceress to original classics.

 

[Raduque]

For me, it's Doom 2, DOOM (2016), Doom 3/RoE

I chose doom 2016 but i liked doom 3 a lot more when it comes to the environment and the ambiance. It was more scary and i was really desperate to survive. Every time i heard those hell spells, i was fully on edge to attack. Hairs in the back of my neck raising up. If i get such a thrill in a game, then that game is great for me. With doom 2016 i just came in the game ready to open a can of whoopass. Doom2016 looks fantastic, but it was more of a game like the first 8 bit doom. Just guns blazing...

The first time I played Doom 3, I had just gotten home from work at 8am (worked graves from 7pm-8am), had my blackout curtains closed, my headphones on, and after turning on the signal and heading back to the main base, I remember cowering under that one stairway freaking out listening to the marines on the radio dying - and then hearing the Imp hissing nearby. It took me 20 minutes of psyching up to get out from under those stairs and keep playing, lol.

 

[William Gaatjes]

For me, it's Doom 2, DOOM (2016), Doom 3/RoE



The first time I played Doom 3, I had just gotten home from work at 8am (worked graves from 7pm-8am), had my blackout curtains closed, my headphones on, and after turning on the signal and heading back to the main base, I remember cowering under that one stairway freaking out listening to the marines on the radio dying - and then hearing the Imp hissing nearby. It took me 20 minutes of psyching up to get out from under those stairs and keep playing, lol.

:thumbsup:
Exaclty the thrill that is great. 🙂
And that is what i have been missing with doom2016 and wolfenstein new order, old blood and new colossus.
The original "return to castle Wolfenstein" from 2001 also had that ambiance.
I miss that with the current generation of idtech5 / 6 based games.
It is just provokation by showing some nude figures and swearing.
It as if these guys need a real writer and director to help create a good plot.
It is the same difference between the latest startrek movies and the older star trek movies.
I guess i am getting old...

 

[Stg-Flame]

Man, I don't know how anyone can think Doom 3 is better than Doom or Doom 2. It does play completely different from the first two (and Final Doom), so I guess there's that. More survival horror than run and gun, I guess.

Easy. I never played the first two games when they were new. By the time I got around to playing them after playing Doom 3, I couldn't stand them. Sure they were revolutionary for their time, but they didn't stand up to the test of time.

I used to play Doom 3 in my bedroom with my 5.1 sound system at 1:00 AM and being the only person in the house. It would creep me out so much I had trouble sleeping.

🙂

I had my consoles routed into my 2.1 sound system. It was a Wal-Mart system, but it was incredible for bass which Doom 3 had plenty of.

I still have that system but I use it for working out in my garage now and it still sounds great.

 

[chitwood]

Doom 1, or 2, or Plutonia, doesn't matter, as long as you use Brutal Doom.

if you don't know what brutal doom is, youtube it. changes the whole experience.