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I just went back to Doom...
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Syphon Filter
Member
Can you play Doom online on steam? Or you need a mod?
Raptomex
Member
Zandronum is a source port which allows online play. I don't know if it works on Steam. Never played it on Steam. I just downloaded them for the wads.
You really should! I would love a guide that shows the best source port to use and how to get the games to look their best!
Raptomex
Member
Not sure if I'm allowed or what's really required for an OT.
After Marathon's dual shotguns, I never could bring myself to play Doom.
Super Shotgun, bro.
Ohhh Goddd Doom 64 EX...
It's my first time.
My soul has just gone Berserk!
Thanks, man! Will try that. Game looks a revelation in widescreen. It's the stuff of glorious dreams (or nightmares!). I have wanted this for years. Sooo good.
It's my first time.
My soul has just gone Berserk!
Thanks, man! Will try that. Game looks a revelation in widescreen. It's the stuff of glorious dreams (or nightmares!). I have wanted this for years. Sooo good.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Well, yeah I have to agree. But now I know why I love Bioshock (1) so much. The level design is just oldschool.
Dictator93
Member
I hope you are enjoying yourself. Unlock the frame rate? That makes the game feel so amazing (turn off Vsync too, it has probs I think with the framerate unlock).
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=450653
Go there and I believe if you claim you are doing it that is all you need.
This reminded me of level 20 (I think) where you have to fight a Cyberdemon and a Spider Mastermind in the one room... Oh and then opens a door with 2 archviles that resurrect enemies!
Raptomex
Member
Awesome. I may give this a shot. Thanks.
human onion
Banned
The /vr/ thread on Doom is always great, so an official thread here should be fun. Lots of talk on upcoming WADs and stuff like that, and maybe multiplayer hosting.
Syphon Filter
Member
Anyone else make the enemies fight each other? I used to make the spiderdemon fight with the cyberdemon.
Raptomex
Member
Exactly. I want to make one detailing the games, source ports, and some WAD recommendations. Also, Doom Builder and other Doom editing stuff.
Nerdkiller
Membeur
Yup. I knew from the moment Brutal Doom was mentioned, it would be torn apart, as if it ruined the original game. Well guess what? You can still play Doom, as is. If you don't like it, don't play it. But you don't have to go on about how it allegedly ruined Doom in your mind.
Mouselook is fine as long as you don't enable crouching, flying, jumping, or any other bullshit that has no place in an older Doom game.
Edit: Reworded to avoid appearing that I was criticizing the great Heretic and Hexen games. Love those.
yeah i guess mouse look isn't too bad. I play with only horizontal but disable the old school forwards/backwards movement that the dos version had.
Make sure you make mouselook horizontal-only. Best way to play with modern controls while not breaking the level design.
Those are still going? I stopped bothering with 'em when they kept getting bogged down by the DoomKart guy posing as others and trolling to derail the discussion.
Lord British
Member
Absolutely not.
Brutal Doom is fun, but it's a bastardised Doom experience. The thrill of Doom is not visceral gore and ceaseless noise, it's careful encounter design, exploration, conservation and tactics. Brutal Doom throws that all out for bullet spam. It's wearying seeing it come up in every Doom thread, especially if it's labelled as "how Doom should have been", or "would have been" if the tech existed.
It is enjoyable but it should not be someone's first experience of Doom, or considered any kind of improvement or, god forbid, replacement.
Edit: But, catching up, yeah, it's overdone; play whatever you want to play, it's just my two cents.
Lord British
Member
Serious Sam isn't even close to feeling like Doom, imo. Doom has level design, Serious Sam has killboxes.
Alcoholikaust
Member
after marathon-any 2D fps does not hold upAfter Marathon's dual shotguns, I never could bring myself to play Doom.
speaking of level design, perhaps one of the best kept secrets of gaming is the Quake1 & 3 mapping communities
here's some examples from one of my favorite authors:
here's some examples from one of my favorite authors:
- http://www.simonoc.com/pages/2014.htm
- http://www.simonoc.com/pages/design/sp/its.htm
- http://www.simonoc.com/pages/design/sp/moteof.htm - if you have Quake3, you should really really play this puzzle map. it is quite brilliant!
Just this weekend I got off my butt and downloaded Chocolate Doom along with a new MIDI soundfont that has been recommended in earlier Doom threads (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=90451643&postcount=279). It's so much fun going back to the basics and playing keyboard only, low resolution Doom with sounds that blow away the standard Windows MIDI stuff.
It sucks that I'm too bad to play on Nightmare, maybe I'll be able to some time but not yet :/
It sucks that I'm too bad to play on Nightmare, maybe I'll be able to some time but not yet :/
Lord British
Member
Meh, nobody plays on Nightmare, do they? Ultra - violence is where it's at.
Interresting topic! I've been trying to straight up play the Steam versions of the games and it's kind of crappy. I'll try ZDOOM or some of the other recommendations.
BTW I'm a weirdo who mostly played Doom on SNES, can I easilly set up a controller with ZDOOM or one of the other ports?
BTW I'm a weirdo who mostly played Doom on SNES, can I easilly set up a controller with ZDOOM or one of the other ports?
I think all these old 2D-with-fake-height Doom-like are a very good fit for gamepad play. Having movement on the crosspad and strafing on the shoulder buttons works wonders. I used to play like this on the Saturn and it didn't feel gimped at all.
Me too, OP. I had the same experience lately.
Thank god the Doom 3 BFG edition has the OG soundtrack for Doom. I really hated the atmospheric themes that came out on almost all the console versions.
One funny thing I noticed while me and a friend both bought BFG when it came out, but each on different consoles. Was that the music's tempo of the 360 version of Doom is slower than the PS3 version, which is perfect.
Thank god the Doom 3 BFG edition has the OG soundtrack for Doom. I really hated the atmospheric themes that came out on almost all the console versions.
One funny thing I noticed while me and a friend both bought BFG when it came out, but each on different consoles. Was that the music's tempo of the 360 version of Doom is slower than the PS3 version, which is perfect.
Brutal Doom is a lot of fun. Obviously it's different from Vanilla Doom, but it's a mod so of course it is. They're both great.
Shadow Hog
Member
There's a good reason it's singled out: every Doom thread under the sun has a "play it with Brutal Doom" post in it within the first few pages (if not the first page), sometimes with disclaimers that it's what Doom should have been. Every single Doom thread. No other Doom mod has this vocal a fanbase. It gets grating extremely quickly.
Raptomex
Member
Because it really changes the gameplay and intensidies the action. That's also why so many people. It's a well created mod worth checking out and even I would recommend it to any Doom fans. But whether you're interested or like it is all down to your preference and it's completely optional.
Shadow Hog
Member
Regardless, it's pimped to high heavens in every Doom-related GAF thread, so decrying it being singled out as if it was totally unjustified seems a bit naive.
Eh... I'll pass on that one. Ultra violence or nothing.
Voxelstein 3D is the closest you can get to something like that.
http://voxelstein3d.sourceforge.net/
I love these threads and wholeheartedly agree that games like Doom and Quake are still incredibly playable.
My favorite track.
My favorite track.