Old School Doom

Jaged · 2004-06-25, 06:26 AM

Searching through my library of old CD's for starcraft, I happened upon an a copy of the original doom. My curiosity compelled me to pop in doom. I had never player it before. If my memory servers me correct it was too scary for me when I first got it. (I was probably about 5 at the time.) After playing for a little while, a strange thing happened. I found that I was really enjoying the game. I was expecting some out dated piece of junk. Sure the graphics, and AI were awful, but the core game was better then most modern shooters. I can see why this game is such a classic. The fact that this game is still really fun about 10 years later says something. If you haven't played doom for any reason, please do. It is a piece of video game history you don't want to miss.

Download doom here.

Fragmatic · 2004-06-25, 06:35 AM

Indeed.

Octavian · 2004-06-25, 06:45 AM

Actually I must admit the graphics are pretty good for 10+ year old game.

Fragmatic · 2004-06-25, 06:53 AM

Originally Posted by Octavian

Actually I must admit the graphics are pretty good for 10+ year old game.

that's an opengl version.

Jaged · 2004-06-25, 07:09 AM

What is the opengl version?

Fragmatic · 2004-06-25, 07:26 AM

http://www.programmersheaven.com/sea...p?FileID=14109

that's for the D3D version, can't remember what engine I was running for those screenies.

Jennyboo · 2004-06-25, 08:50 AM

Hmm blood & Guts

Khronos · 2004-06-25, 09:07 AM

i used to play the doom games religiously when i was much younger.

i have the floppies for doom and doom2 around here somewhere..hmm...

doom

has anyone played multiplayer doom before?
my noober skills as a younger kid couldn't figure it out and it always looked really fun

ViperGTS · 2004-06-25, 10:15 AM

For ten bucks you can find Ulitmte Doom, Doom 2 and Final doom plus a doom 3 preview disk. Its really good.

Heavygain · 2004-06-25, 10:40 AM

Nevermind hehe.

Madcow · 2004-06-25, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by Khronos

has anyone played multiplayer doom before?
my noober skills as a younger kid couldn't figure it out and it always looked really fun

First game I ever saw (and played) on a network, over at a friend's house with two computers hooked up. It was absolute crack, although I can't imagine it would still hold the same appeal to me now. At the time just seeing the other soldier run across the screen and realizing it was your friend was astounding. Getting the BFG ruled all, and it was even fun when the other guy had the BFG and you were trying to figure out ways to get him to waste shots.

I'm always thinking about loading Rise of the Triad back onto my machine and trying to network that again, I always thought that was the best of the 'old school' network games. I think that those deathmatches would still hold up.

Mr1337Duck · 2004-06-25, 10:53 AM

Does it have cheatz? Yes, I'm a dirty cheater.

Mr1337Duck · 2004-06-25, 11:11 AM

Just played. Quake 1 was 1337er. When this game was around for Win 95, I was playing JK. Not impressed.

Madcow · 2004-06-25, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by Mr1337Duck

Just played. Quake 1 was 1337er. When this game was around for Win 95, I was playing JK. Not impressed.

So young. So very, very young. Quake 1 was years after Doom. Hell, Quake 1 was years after Duke. Doom was the game that made people realize that FPS network gaming was possible, and fun. ROTT made people realize it could be fast as hell. Quake made people realize it could be fast, smooth and pretty.
Jedi Knight was years after Dark Forces, which was years after Doom. You're comparing Windows XP to Windows 95. Sure, there's lots of similarities but there's also a whole lot of changes with technology being the biggest one.

Edit: Continuing my ROTT love, why has no other game included Drunk Missiles since ROTT? That's got to be my favorite FPS gun ever. God mode, Dog mode and Shrooms mode are also the greatest set of powerups ever.

Ludicrous Gibs!

Hamma · 2004-06-25, 12:46 PM

I remmeber playing modem games with someone up the street