DOOM

[MechDeus]

Anyone else think this game has aged extremely well?

Oh God yes. One of the best games ever made, bar none, a masterpiece in every way.

Yes Doom is awesome. But Doom 2 is even better.

Doom 2 is great, but the level design isn't quite Doom. It does have one of the coolest final battles ever, what an epic scale that was.

Final Doom was damn fun but the "random" (random in design, not actually randomized) set of levels wasn't all that (the one which actually had a rocket launcher in the first stage). The other set was pretty cool.

I still haven't finished Doom64 (my eyes! They burn!) but it was damn nice finally seeing new art.

[NeoZeedeater]

Words cannot describe how blown away I was when I first played Doom. I have played it more than any PC game by far.

That being said, I don't think it's even close to the best in the genre anymore. It's still great fun though.

[Ste-Von]

Doom 2- the city levels, where you had streets and some tall buildings to run around in. Mmm...

James

YES!!! Those were the absolute best levels in the game, but I remember the "Tricks and Traps" level being really awesome.

Another reason I remember loving Doom, especially in the later levels, is that it was so fucking evil. Fucking pentograms and demons everywhere. Doom must be the official game of Satan.

[JMET]

I played Doom for about 2 hours the other day and had to quit because of the massive headache it gave me...

[Ste-Von]

Yeah, one of my friends can't play FPS's because he gets motion sickness and/or headaches.

[Spanky McGee]

Doom is cool and all, but I had a Mac growing up. By the time I got Doom, I was playing Marathon.
Case being Marathon > Doom.

[Ste-Von]

Words cannot describe how blown away I was when I first played Doom. I have played it more than any PC game by far.

I, too, felt completely blown away when I first played Doom. It was so ahead of it's time it was like it came from five years in the future. Wolfenstein 3D was fun, but nowhere near the level of Doom. I can remember when I first got my 486, staying up until 5 or 6 AM every morning playing Doom and Doom 2. In fact, I think I'm gonna go play some Doom right now.

[MechDeus]

It all started with Wolf3D for me. Back when shareware disks were in drug stores, I would go and look at all the packages, not buying anything because I rarely had any money. I got some cash through my allowance and checked that Wolf3D cover and over (already quite the little skeptic), thinking it so incredible but also realizing that cover art and screenshots are often so misleading. I finally decided to go for it, and when I saw my 486SX pump out what had to be God's gift to videogames I shot through puberty just to have a full-blown orgasm about it before returning to my 11-year-old body.

Later on I was working at a youth theater and a few of the older guys were talking about Doom, I can still hear their description of how cool the shotgun pump was. Intrigued, I asked them to get a copy for me and they said they needed five disks (good ol' 1.5" floppies) for the shareware version. I asked them if they were sure about that, flabbergasted that it would take so much space since all five (or was it six?) episodes of Wolf3D fit on a single disk. But I scrounged and came up with those disks, and after installing that game... Whoa. Words cannot describe my elation.

Later on, my grandparents tried to buy me Myst for Christmas (not knowing I had already beaten it at a friend's house anyway), but thankfully my mom intecepted them and managed to convince them to buy me the brand new Doom II instead. I was in heaven. And I love my mom.

[Regus]

Doom is a fantastic game. I was addicted to it a few years back. I even tried to make my own levels, but ended up failing miserably. I still have a phone book sized stack of papers printed off the internet about Doom FAQs and Modding.

[skelly]

Good to see Doom/II get props. I fully believe it's one of the best games ever made.

Was it Ultimate Doom that had the two really hard chapters in it, 26 (or so) levels apiece?

That was Final Doom. I didn't like it very much, though it was better than the incoherent "Master Levels" add-on.

Ultimate Doom was the brick-and-mortar store release of the full version of Doom 1. It also had a new, hard, not terribly fun fourth episode, Thy Flesh Consumed.

By the way, the next version of ZDoom, my favorite source port, will finally break the 35 fps barrier! I can't imagine how much better Doom will look at 200+ fps... it's going to make going back to the original version painful.