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DOOM not up to par with other shooters of the time??? Ya gotta be kidding me. DOOM had more firsts than I can wave a stick at. Including multiplayer deathmatch, and zillions of graphical firsts.

I'd love to be shown a game before DOOM that was more influencial and has a bigger fan-base and modding community then and today than DOOM.

It was estimated at one point more people had shareware DOOM than Windows. :not_ok:

That review is of Doom 2 though, not Doom. Doom was revolutionary, Doom 2 was kind of more of the same. Heretic was released in 1994 as well, and I think that had much more in-depth gameplay than Doom 2.

A friend of mine played Doom 3 unprepared for what was in it, and he wet his pants bout ten times in the first 5 minutes. LOL

Doom 3d was not scary at all. Rellay repetitive and boing. The map program really sucks too. Were is that clip of the 2 gus scared of doom3... :smoke:

i`m not a great fan of DOOM games..

Part 3 really sux...way too dark :not_ok:

I remember seeing doom for the first time running on a computer in some store. I was definitely blown away at the time, that must count for something! Those deathmatches over serial networks were f'in awesome.

When I got Doom 2 - TNT and Plutonia Experiment (addon packs, I guess) quite some time ago now, I played them for really long. I liked the levels, I liked the music and I liked the crazy action in the game. It was like no game I played before. Later I got Doom 1 and Doom 2 also. Doom 1 wasn't that cool, but Doom 2 I liked also alot.
For me Doom is the best game of all times (but not Doom 3, despite it's great graphics).

Nothing happens in the first 5 minutes that could scare someone enough to wet their pants. I think you're friend has a problem.

I like the darkness. It's a great idea. More games should have it. :ok:

At first I hated the darkness in Doom 3 and the constant need to switch flashlight and weapon, but I resisted the temptation to get one of those mods which leaves the flashlight permanently on. Now that I'm further on, I'm glad I did -- there are some moments where it really makes the atmosphere. Running through a dark room and activating some zombies, then climbing a staircase and ducking into a dark corner which you hope is empty so you can see the silhouettes of the enemies as they climb the stairs after you and then gun them down is actually pretty scary stuff. If you could just shine a torch down the stairs while you're shooting it wouldn't have anywhere near the effect.

TNT had great music!!!!