Slashdot Mirror
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.'"
There's only one thing to say about that.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
the cunning linguists range of word-play.
The cunning linguist. ...
I think I've got a new nick there.
Are you summarizing sex or doom?
Sex...it's just like doom.
It's been 17 years since I enjoyed either.
I give you my internet for the day sir.
ics
Some people go through life without ever reading Homer or listening to Bach
But I *watch* Homer (and Bart), you insensitive clod!
Catalin Braescu
Ofaly.com