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Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time
sfraggle writes "Kotaku has an interesting review of Doom (the original!) by Stephen Totilo, a gamer and FPS player who, until a few days ago, had gone through the game's 17-year history without playing it. He describes some of his first impressions, the surprises that he encountered, and how the game compares to modern FPSes. Quoting: 'Virtual shotgun armed, I was finally going to play Doom for real. A second later, I understood the allure the video game weapon has had. In Doom the shotgun feels mighty, at least partially I believe because they make first-timers like me wait for it. The creators make us sweat until we have it in hand. But once we have the shotgun, its big shots and its slow, fetishized reload are the floored-accelerator-pedal stuff of macho fantasy. The shotgun is, in all senses, instant puberty, which is to say, delicately, that to obtain it is to have the assumed added potency that a boy believes a man possesses vis a vis a world on which he'd like to have some impact. The shotgun is the punch in the face the once-scrawny boy on the beach gives the bully when he returns a muscled linebacker.'"
Some of the writing is godawful:
Skulltag ZDaemon GZDoom Doom Legacy Doomsday
GENERATION 24: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social exper
He missed the BFG 9000! Along with many other landmark innovations in Doom that set the benchmark for FPSes ever since.
Winds me up as much as noobs who think film started with Tarantino.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
Mod parent as: WTF are you talking about?!?
Did you ever try Ultima Underworld? It was released *before* Wolf3D and was in many ways more advanced than Doom was. (Sloped ceilings and floors, up/down looking, jumping, water you could swim in, a physics model for throwing items, etc, etc)
Admitted, it's not an FPS but a first-person role playing game, but still - a game that really was years ahead of its time. And not only technologically.
Sounds pseudo-intellectual to me
You're unfamiliar with the new game journalism, eh?
Just wait till you see Doom 2. 7x 720k floppy disks? No game after Doom come close in making a truly awesome rocket launcher, imo.
You would know. Their 'waifu' are those stupid lolicon pillows.
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/07/29/2D-love.jpg
Doom? Is that supposed the old stupid game with the rickroll boom box?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aJjMOy-Ops
and the blue tails runnin thru map01 firing shotguns since tails are foxes are the best, on the multiplayer geting a DOUBLE KILLS and role play with MAH BOIS etc.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Doom http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/LINK_MAH_BOIIIII
Doom's image has been tarnished plenty by these kinds of newbies these days. They no longer understand its contextual relevance and its significance.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Shit_Nobody_Cares_About
To prevent this day from getting worse, I'll just read ERROR as GOOD TH
3dfx is dead.
They've gone bankrupt since 2000
But I share your sentiments, once I got my Voodoo Banshee card and got some extra RAM in my Pentium I was king on earth.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
You mean GZdoom, not Zdoom - G is the one with 3d acceleration and OpenGL stuff.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
Awesome indeed. What was even more awesome is when Smashing Pumpkins included Doom sound samples into their song "Where Boys Fear to Tread" as a nod to this joke.