june gloom on 10/12/2013 at 10:52
Controversial, violent, influential, legendary. Blamed for everything from school shootings to loss of productivity. Chugged on 386s, chugged on Playstation 1, now playable on cellphones and calculators and pianos.
(
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/10/doom-is-20-years-old_n_4417099.html) Gosh, I'm fuckin' old.
But not too old to play Doom some more. bbl gzdoom.exe
Malf on 10/12/2013 at 11:51
Hrrm, must be close to 2 years since I fired up Doom in any particular flavour. May very well have to give it nostalgia run.
Interestingly, my first Doom experience wasn't the PC version, but rather the Atari Jaguar one. I had a Mac IIci I'd bought for college work at the time that wasn't powerful enough to play Doom, but did okay with Marathon on the absolute lowest settings.
Volitions Advocate on 10/12/2013 at 11:52
You should give Zandronum a try. It's forked from GZDoom after buddy threw his hissy fit.
Malf on 10/12/2013 at 11:59
I fell deeply in love with zDaemon for a very brief, intense period a few years back. I was just incredibly impressed with the integrated download service and wide variety of ways to meet up with people and gib them. That and I appreciated the more traditional look and feel as opposed to GLDoom or one of its many iterations.
3D monster models were fun for a while, but I quickly realised that sprite scaling was key to Doom's charms.
june gloom on 10/12/2013 at 12:04
Quote Posted by Volitions Advocate
You should give Zandronum a try. It's forked from GZDoom after buddy threw his hissy fit.
Technically it's forked from Skulltag after Carnevil and the Skulltag team had a falling-out. Skulltag is sort of an un-forking of Zdoom and GZDoom. GZDoom's developer Graf Zahl is a major diva though.
BTW Malf, if you want to use GZDoom and achieve a more vanilla experience, set it to a low resolution, go to display options -> opengl options -> texture options and set filtering to none, then go to compatibility options and set it to Doom or Doom (strict).
Or you could use Chocolate Doom if you're really that hardcore.
Red_Breast on 10/12/2013 at 19:35
Around early 1994 I couldn't afford a PC but I knew somebody who was teaching IT at a local nightclass college.
It was OK, at certain times, to pop-in and use the computers. Apart from PCs with Windows and a room of Macs they had the odd Amiga, BeBox and I believe they had a computer with a UNIX OS on it.
I was at the college one evening and two men turned up who turned out to be friends of the teacher. The teacher said to me that they were going to play Doom on the LAN, when everybody else had gone home.
I had heard of the game but had not played it yet.
I had a little practice on my own with the single player but the fun really started with multiplayer. After the evening was over my head was swimming with thoughts of what games could be like in the future.
june gloom on 11/12/2013 at 05:24
[video=youtube;xECUrlnXCqk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk[/video]
Besides... considering the primary source material is (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtH-L5CZFA0) THIS, I think I actually improved it.
DarkForge on 11/12/2013 at 12:24
Twenty years eh? Wow I didn't realise. :eek:
As tragic as I know it sounds I have never played a Doom game before. I did however happen to pick up the Doom 3 BFG Edition the other week, so I guess there's no more appropriate time to finally get started!
(On that note, can I clarify: does the BFG Edition also include the mission packs for Doom 1/2? I thought I read on a couple of websites that it did, but the case and manual make no mention of them.)