An Old Classic

[FISHCHAIR]

the old Doom games where and still are my favorite games of all time, i even think
its better than the new Doom they brought out on the 360. ok the graphics wernt much cop
But, the gameplay was Superb remember how intense the game was suddenly you would flick a switch to open a door next to you, but when you hit it to your supprise the lights would dim and all hell would be on your behind comming at you from all angles, let me tell you i must have used about 5 pairs of underpants just trying to reach level 3. not to mention the ammount of air fresheners i went through.
Bring Back The Oldies, Old Games Are Like A Fine Wine, They Get Better With Age !

[bobson]

I don't think that games are like wine.
Some of the old games, are not so easy to control. Maybe it's because I got used to play with all that "easing" stuff. For examole Warcraft series. I played "Tides of Darkness a lot", even bought all of the originals (ToD, BtDP, BN.edition), but I didn't enjoyed Orcs And Humans. Play with keabord, or click on icons ... blah ... no AI! :titan: It made me nervous, so I abandoned that title.

[_r.u.s.s.]

game-crack is right, the only thing about new doom which was better were graphics and sounds. all the good stuff like gameplay and great level design, which are most important thing about the game are gone, and game changed to walk through linear almost-same levels with pretty high requirements

[bobson]

I don't like high requirements :titan:
Maybe, because my computer is not good enough :whistling:
need more money ... :wallbash:

[The Fifth Horseman]

The "gets better with age" is really a case-by-case thing. Some games age very fast, some don't at all.

[JimmyJ]

Everyone is saying that doom 3 and the expansion suck, but they clearly have not played the mod Dungeon Doom (the expansion version)

[guesst]

Playing Doom 3 didn't impress me. It looke to me like a graphics demo for John Carmak's latest engine. The gameplay didn't offer anything that I couldn't find in other games, games like Doom 1. Sure the graphics were great, but if I wait a few months I can pay the same money, get the same graphics AND get some unique gameplay options. Like Prey. Okay, it didn't impress me that much, but it makes the point.

Sure, mods may be great, but that (rarely) justifies a still $60 tag.

I've said it before, Halflife (1) was the last FPS to impress me. Since then few have offered anything new. Even Halflife 2 didn't offer anything Halflife 1 didn't have. Except the gravity gun, but that was sort of a "here's something cool, but we're just going to use it to break up your same ol FPS game play." I have hope for portal, but the only way I'll be truely impressed with it is if you NEVER get any sort of offensive weapon. Now that would be interesting to me.

[JimmyJ]

Doom 3 is 20 bucks, not sixty..

[STFM]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(guesst @ Aug 27 2006, 12:07 PM) 251147</div>
I've said it before, Halflife (1) was the last FPS to impress me.
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I thought Call of Duty 2: BRO was pretty good, but im a sucker for WW2 games

[Cloudy]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(JimmyJ @ Aug 27 2006, 03:42 AM) 251152</div>
Doom 3 is 20 bucks, not sixty..
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Yeah, now. It's been out for what, a couple years now. It cost more when it was just out.

[thebes]

Have not tried the new Doom,..still stuck in final Doom. I still love the old first Doom the best. I guess from the memory of many a nights being snuck up on by a stinkin sprite! The gameplay is great. If they changed that all the graphics in the world won't help. At least for me it is the game and gameplay,..not the looks. that is why I was so happy to learn about Abandoina and Dosbox and VDMsound. :kosta:

[keithwiggins]

I played the Doom95 demo, pretty cool, pretty cool.. my favorite part though was that brain guy with the mechanical legs on the download window.

[Treewyrm]

Well it's no wonder and I knew Doom 3 was going to be a techdemo and not a game. Linearity is what killed the gameplay. Original Doom had a sort of freedom to walk around where you had no hints apart of locked door colors telling you where to go. There was essential part of the FPS gameplay called level exploration, it was preserved in some of the Doom clones like Heretic and then made one of the cornerstone elements in Hexen series. Level exploration is non-existant in Doom 3, after a while I got feeling that I play some of those old "shooter-on-rails" games like Cyberia and Rebel Assault. I got bored really fast with it, completed just for the sake of watching outro which, again no wonder, sucked as well. There is another thing I like about old Doom: illogical levels, some bizzare and surreal level design where things aren't what they are, chaotic placement and yet quite playable, a hellish interpretation of Salvadore Dali, this is what Doom was about. Again there is no such thing in Doom III, it is strict and tight, reusing everything it have hunderds and thousands of times, has to be humanly logical, has to have electronic tablets with descriptions of what you do and where you go. Of course this is understandable considering that most of the game you walk around human bases. But what is Doom without hell? And those few levels where you did actually walk on the surface of hell were the best ones in the whole gam... *cough* techdemo. For me Doom 3 was a dissapointment. Not that it was shocking revelation, I knew it was going to be different and watching footages from the game along with playing early betas I already knew it's not going to be a Doom.

[Mighty Midget]

Don't know this D3 thing. I play (and enjoy) Doom from time to time. Part of the enjoyment is to see the "Mother of all FPSs" in action. Sure, the graphics are rough, but the feel of the game in total is great.