Doom's had quite an interesting history of ports to be honest. There are very few fully featured ports in the first 10 years or so. Ports like the GBA games have entire levels/monsters missing, and whilst the PS1 version puts an interesting spin on the atmosphere, it removed entire levels and the Arch Vile to do so.
If anyone is interested, Digital Foundry did a video about all (back then) Doom ports that were officially released in consoles.
It's a GZDoom mod. Technology wise it's basically a completely different engine. Meanwhile the mod itself is filled to the brim with assets and scripts the author just ripped from wherever he pleased and other authors, we are still finding people he's completely failed to credit, he has no ability to legally sign off on it.
Thanks for the reply. I would imagine theres a allot of legal grey areas with signing off on a mod in an official capacity, considering how many people have probably touched it over the years. Who knows whats in the code.
It's probably pretty low on my list, but it has been ages since I've played it.
Thanks for the list. I've beaten the base games of Doom 1 and 2 and didn't know where to start with all these expansions. Thy Flesh Consumed was indeed the biggest chore to drudge through back when I played it on the Xbox 360 rerelease.
Yeah, it is just really uneven. There are a couple of great maps, and some really dull ones, and little sense of progression to it. I was really disappointed with it back in the day. I think all the expansions are worth playing, though.
I think they're all worth playing.
yeah, the Quake Wii port was a really nice way to play it. I also got on quite well with the DS port.
I think I've installed it on every capable device I've owned!
You might want to check that again. The Wolf3d enemies were restored.
The alternative was no re-release at all and the game stays permalocked to the PC with no new releases and homebrew for the rest of history, and over something not actually important to the rest of the game (it's an Easter egg in two maps exclusively on Doom2). There's frankly no sense doing that to the franchise over one small thing, it's not worth it.
I've discovered that if you wake it and then wait around 10-20 seconds or so it unfreezes. I was restarting the game every time until I noticed this.
There's laws and regulations over the use of Nazi imagery in various countries, including Germany. From my understanding (haven't personally struck this problem so it hasn't been an issue I've had a chance to properly review), you have to prove that the use of said imagery is integral to the media in question and isn't morally objectionable. So for Wolfenstein that's easier to explain, the whole point of the game is you fighting Nazis. Doom though, and for a one off niche easter egg? Yeah that's getting nixed.
I know, I was mentioning the new rules. It used to be straight up banned, no ifs or buts.
Yeah, Unholy Cathedral, Limbo, and House of Pain really bring down Inferno for me. I do quite like Pandemonium and Mt. Erebus though. I think the secret level is pretty great too.
It's one way of looking at it, but what's actually going on is a lot more straightforward. TNT and Plutonia are IWADs, and as such all the addon system is doing is loading them up as the base content rather than as a mod, and the way Doom has worked since DOS means that the IWAD that's loaded is what changes what game rules are used. The same executable could load both Doom and Doom2 (which one it did load was based on which one it found first), and Final Doom worked much the same way.
I'd skip it. I made it 4 levels in and it doesnt get better, just awful compared to the previous ones.
Thanks. I guess I'll just jump straight to Doom II then move on to the mods after that.
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of episodes three and four in DOOM, and I didn't find myself enjoying DOOM II, either. (I quit playing DOOM II because of an elevator bug that prevented me from progressing.) Honestly, I like episodes one and two of the original DOOM, and Sigil is quite good, as well. I'd suggest sticking with those and waiting until DOOM 64 comes out, as that's one of the best DOOM campaigns, in my opinion.
