Learning from DOOM

[commodorejohn]

Oh yeah i forgot. The worst game ever is any Quake game.

Shutcher face, Quake and Quake II kicked ass, back in the days before everybody decided first-person shooters had to be GRITTY AND REALISTIC.

[commodorejohn]

Yeah, that was actually a very interesting read. I'm no more than a layman when it comes to architecture, but the guy did a good job of explaining what he was talking about.

I do like the surrealist level designs of DOOM - far more evocative and interesting than your modern shooters where every last one of them is nearly indistinguishable.

[commodorejohn]

@everyone. Am i the only one who didn't like multiplayer and instead preferring single player mode? Single player mode just suits my style of gaming. I really like to sneak around corners and sneak up on monsters. I play like a ninja whereas multiplayer everyone just runs around crazy in a more 'shoot n run' style of play. run and gun just isn't my style

I enjoy a good deathmatch or CTF every now and again, but multiplayer is nothing I'd buy a game for - not when Q3 is open-source and OpenArena provides a free content pack to run with it. That's one other (comparatively minor) complaint I have with modern shooters, they seem to be deciding that since a lot of people buy them primarily for the multiplayer, it's okay to have a single-player mode that's largely an afterthought or straight-up gives the finger to single players >:/

[commodorejohn]

Oh ya, that stuff can be fun, though I still hate the idea of playing Capture the Flag and King of the Hill over and over again. I guess it's why I'm not huge on sports games, then again...

CTF gets a lot more fun when you've got a good selection of weapons to go with it

Anyhow, here's another interesting DOOM related item:

http://doom.chaosforge.org/articles/27/doomrl-0993-released

Oh hell yes. DoomRL is quite addictive (even Franko might like it, you have to think and use strategy!) Maybe it's not as in-depth as other roguelikes, but it's still tons of fun.

[commodorejohn]

Wonder how long it's going to take them to open-source id Tech 4 now that they've got all this damage control to do on Rage...