DOOM

It just is really hard to top the arcadey 1rst person shooter, what is left to do?

Regardless this game will get my money.

Kuriin_sl said:

Doom 3 wasn't that bad. D1 and 2 had co-op play? I guess I don't remember that, hah.

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Pretty sure it was only LAN, but my friend and I played the shit out of D2 co-op whenever I went over to his house. Hopefully this one has a co-op campaign as well.

In the unis we played via IFrag, made by the fellow that went on to make Kali.

Kuriin_sl said:

Doom 3 wasn't that bad. D1 and 2 had co-op play? I guess I don't remember that, hah.

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yeah it does but you really have to keep in mind that you can still hurt your teammates there, I had my share of telefragged LAN buddies because I just mindlessly followed them through a teleporter without thinking

You have some serious prescription rose colored glasses if you remember Doom 3 as being "good".

I don't know what the fuck people expected from Doom 3 that left them so disappointed. High speed circle strafing while gunning down hordes of enemies?
Then they would have accused the game of not moving forward. Once you're that big, people will always piss on what you do.

Doom 3 was great, and I enjoyed it like few other games back then, this has nothing to do with rose colored glasses, I remember people bitching about the most ridiculous issues because they wanted to be unsatisfied.

Doom 3 was also released during a time period where FPS games were all in the multiplayer craze created by Quake 3/UT/CS so alot of the younger players expected D3 to go into the same direction instead of being a single player game like their predecessors and pretty much every shooter from the 90s

While I don't agree Doom 3 was "bad", you have to agree it was retarded for them to have you choose between "see where I shoot" (flashlight) and "shoot" (everything else). I know some mods later made it possible to attach the flashlight onto a gun but that was just ridiculous. I spent most of my time clubbing zombies in the face with the actual fucking flashlight.

the Doom 3 version that you can get on Steam has the flashlight mod enabled

Disp_sl said:

Pretty sure it was only LAN, but my friend and I played the shit out of D2 co-op whenever I went over to his house. Hopefully this one has a co-op campaign as well.

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we used to 1v1 in the same room via serial cable.

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The game should have the pace of playing on DWANGO

Those noises bring back so many memories. I remember playing Doom 2 4 player split screen on a N64, 4 people huddled around 13" black & white TV for HOURS while in college. GD I wish they would make good FPS games again.

Poor guy has no idea how to dodge that BFG. Wish I still had some of my old demos around.

ifrag, there's a name i have no heard in some time

i was a long time member of the houston dwango server.

I couldn't play against locals, they'd just quit. I had to sign in to sirdoom as other people to get anyone to play, heh. And even then I had to do shit like not use the BFG at all, not use the SSG too much, etc. I started playing long distance against people from newsgroups or IRC. It was a rather expensive habit.

My favorite thing in Doom was dodging everyone's BFG shots, then tricking them into thinking they were dodging mine when they were actually moving into the cone. Most thought that you just had to get behind the player to be safe.

And in the early days, hah. So many people trying to play with gamepads or just the keyboard.

Best player I ever played was Xoleras. Mostly for his d2map11 play. Dude was quite the freak.

dak_sl said:

Dwango 5 free for all - YouTube

The game should have the pace of playing on DWANGO

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LMAO, I racked up a $500 long distance phone bill in a month playing Doom 2 on Dwango when I was 13. I'm amazed I wasn't killed by my parent.

Tarisk_sl said:

LMAO, I racked up a $500 long distance phone bill in a month playing Doom 2 on Dwango when I was 13. I'm amazed I wasn't killed by my parent.

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UO did that to me and the wife. Hah.