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    Forget About Diablo... Who still plays Doom (not Doom 3)?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Zellio, Oct 29, 2006.

  1. Zellio

    Zellio The Dark Knight

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    :)

    I do (I have all versions sadly >_<)

    The original Dooms are the only ones that play on my pc, Doom 3 won't play (But who gives a ****, huh?)
     
  2. hollownail

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    yar. Beats the hell out of doom 3 thats for sure!

    Have you seen that a group made a doom mod for doom 3? I can't remember if they had the whole first episode, or a bunch of levels from the first episode, but it was really good.
    Pretty accurate remake.
     
  3. Lysander

    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    I played 12 player Doom 1 a few months ago. It multiplies the enemies by the number of players, so it was insane. The last level... so many enemies I was only getting 30fps on my old machine.
     
  4. solag3

    solag3 Notebook Consultant

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    Heres my 2 cents


    Diablo 2 > any doom game but thats just me
     
  5. LIVEFRMNYC

    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    Doom 3 & SWAT 4 has the best adrenaline effects for me. I feel like my actual life is on the line :)
     
  6. I'm Confused?

    I'm Confused? Notebook Evangelist

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    Doom 3 won't play? Huh? I envy you......
     
  7. otakuoverlord

    otakuoverlord Notebook Evangelist

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    Hell, I still play Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold (by ID, based on the wolf3D engine) That's ancient even by Doom standards. =p
     
  8. mikkroik

    mikkroik Notebook Consultant

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    lol i used to play doom 1 but then i beat it without codes and then couldnt find the file for doom 2 that game me more then 16 colors!

    so if anyone has any idea how i can get a "normal" vertion of doom 2 PM me thanks
     
  9. HavoK

    HavoK Registered User

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    Still play Doom and Doom 2 on my phone sometimes, but not on my pc...

    Wolf 3D, I think that's a far better game, especially when its so insanely easy to mod... :)
     
  10. hydra

    hydra Breaks Laptops

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    If you have the original WADS, try the J-doom engine. Runs and looks good on just about anything that runs Open GL, from a M-4 on up.

    I got about 10,000,000,000 third party levels and mods to go....
     
  11. Dustin Sklavos

    Dustin Sklavos Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    I play Doom and Doom 2 on the Doomsday engine. Hi-res textures and 3D models for everything. Looks better than Quake 2 and even parts of Quake 3. :)

    Old games but still a heck of a lot of fun and I'd agree, better than Doom 3.

    But I do love Quake 4 and Doom 3 (more Quake 4). Gorgeous games, and Quake 4 is actually, in my opinion, a good game.
     
  12. Zellio

    Zellio The Dark Knight

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    Yeah, Quake 4 is awesome (Although the engine sucks). I love the storyline...
     
  13. Kil4Thril

    Kil4Thril Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have enjoyed Q4. I may load it on my laptop just to see how it plays with 2 cores.
     
  14. ninjazed

    ninjazed Notebook Consultant

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    I played the original Doom last year since it's included on the D3 collectors edition for xbox. It was fun for about 15 minutes but I must confess to being spoiled by the graphical eye-candy of the new generation games. I've tried some of the PC mods but they just don't seem to cut it for me. I wouldn't have thought of a 360 degree field of view when I first became addicted to the original shooters but it really adds to the overall immersion factor.
     
  15. shinji257

    shinji257 Notebook Deity

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    I got Doom on the X360. I also have it on the Doom 3 collectors edition. I found the one on the X360 very enjoyable. Kinda disappointing that they didn't add any hi-res graphics or anything like the PC ports have done.

    Oh and I have all the original WAD files. ZDoom used to work quite well. Don't know what is still out there for pc mods anymore.

    EDIT: Checking out Zdoom.org. Looks like they are still working on it. Wonder if they got support for "Strife: Blade of the Sigil" working. I know they had to implement some stuff but preliminary support was in the version I have right now (2.0.63a)..... Yep. it works. Latest version is 2.1.6 and they must of finished the support for Strife.
     
  16. hydra

    hydra Breaks Laptops

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    I would crak up;

    Order Status: Confirmed // In-production | Playing Doom 1 / Playing Doom 2, ok ok // Boxing...

    The wait is always the worst part...