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.'"

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Doom-shaped hole in my life?

[tverbeek]

I still haven't played it. Or any of its derivatives.

I don't feel that I've missed anything that I care about having in my life.

Wikimedia stewards are fucking bastards

[Anonymous Coward]

Please go to meta wiki and insult the following idiot cock sucking stewards that work for the bastard Jimbo Wales (he rapes babies by the way)

Pathoschild
Bsadowski1
Mike.Lifeguard
Shanel
Mercy
Jyothis
J.delanoy
DerHexer
Dferg
Drini
Leinad
M7

Create insulting accounts attacking them, use the alt-gr key when typing vowels to get around the username filters.

obviously a pussy

[smash]

He went HOW FAR without getting a shotgun? On the one true difficulty level (ultra violence) you get a shotgun just off to the left alcove from where you begin the game.

Also way better played with the mouse for aiming... but we all know that already...

Re:Nice

[Anonymous Coward]

"conservative by the time you're 40? ha!!"

What's your point?

Look at Barack "Hussein" Obama. He's over 40 and certainly no conservative.

And don't get me started on that fucktard Biden. I'm not sure WHAT he is, but nothing like that occurs naturally.