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KilgoreTrout

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Doom Series Topic
« on: July 04, 2009, 09:13:15 pm »
Doom, to me, is a big contender for best game of all time. Defiantly the best FPS of all time. It seems to get so much right without ever bogging down or making you bored. Without the ability to aim up and down, it makes things easier on you to the point that you feel like an action movie star.

I've played through Doom, Doom 2, and more WADs than you could shake a stick at, anybody else big on Doom?
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Re: Doom Series Topic
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2009, 09:19:28 pm »
I'm a HUGE Doom nut... Well okay, I used to be. But I played the hell out of that game, even got a little active in the community before.
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Re: Doom Series Topic
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2009, 09:41:19 pm »
what are your views on marathon?
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Re: Doom Series Topic
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2009, 09:43:03 pm »
Mine or Killgore's? As I love Marathon even more than I love Doom.
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« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2009, 09:55:02 pm »
either of you,

the only reason DOOM beat Marathon was it was released on the Mac only.

that and possibly marketing.
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Re: Doom Series Topic
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2009, 12:15:49 am »
Marathon's controls were awful.  Anyone who's moderately familiar with modern FPSes can sit down at Doom and say "what, I have to use the keyboard to turn / up on the mouse goes forwards?  okay, I can deal with that".  But if you sit someone down in front of Marathon...oh god it's worse than Heretic and Hexen.

Either that or I never found the mouselook setting.

But yeah I used to host Doom 2 LAN parties all the time when I was...like...ten.
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Re: Doom Series Topic
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2009, 12:34:55 am »
I just couldn't get into Marathon at all when I tried it. I've given it two chances and I've never cared to play past one level.
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« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2009, 12:39:41 am »
I loved Marathons story, it was pretty cool.
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Re: Doom Series Topic
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2009, 02:16:16 am »
I love Marathon.

The story is a bit hard to get into if you can't play the first game though.
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Re: Doom Series Topic
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2009, 02:20:25 am »
Well all three are freeware now so I don't see how that would be a problem...
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« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2009, 02:20:57 am »
I love marathon, or at least what I got on Xbox live arcade. Never had problems with the controls, but I did often find myself not knowing where to go from hours, which can be a huge buzzkill.

Doom was pretty fun. However, I think I had more fun, as an almost-FPS, playing Mechwarrior. Rather different games though- I liked MW for it's planning, Doom is like "!!KILL THAT MUTHAFUCKAH NOW!!" which can be an equally sought after experience and equally missing from a lot of more modern games.
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Re: Doom Series Topic
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2009, 02:28:02 am »
Quote from: Okenido on July 05, 2009, 02:16:16 am
I love Marathon.

The story is a bit hard to get into if you can't play the first game though.

Quote from: Sofia on July 05, 2009, 02:20:25 am
Well all three are freeware now so I don't see how that would be a problem...

But the controls are awful!  You CAN play it, but it's so absurdly hard to get into.  It has aged the worst of any FPS I have ever played...and that's what I thought EIGHT YEARS ago.

Find me an open source remake that upgrades the controls at least to the Quake 1 era, and I might actually be able to play it...  I'm not normally a stickler for controls, but really, it struck a nerve with me.
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Re: Doom Series Topic
« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2009, 02:35:15 am »
I've never had a problem with the controls.

It's quite easy to configure.
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« Reply #13 on: July 05, 2009, 02:46:43 am »
I love the doom games and heretic, but never really got the marathon games to run.  What I'm curious about is how many people have beaten doom on nightmare mode, it was hard enough for me to just beat the first level on that difficulty.
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Re: Doom Series Topic
« Reply #14 on: July 05, 2009, 07:27:03 am »
i think you only despise marathon's controls because it wasnt the first FPS you played.

you are probably used to other games.
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