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What is the most defining gameay feature of the "Doom" series?
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Movement and how it ties into encounter design, including things like being able to maneuver around enemy projectiles.
Also, I've always been a chaingun>>>shotgun person.
Also, I've always been a chaingun>>>shotgun person.
It's a mix of the fast paced combat combined with the excellent level design. Outside of hitscan enemies the dodging of projectiles and using weaponry in an effective manner led to so many people playing the game.
Plus, having a basic in game timer and recording capabilities led to Doom being one of the first games to ever develop a speedrunning community that is still going strong today.
Modding and speedrunning are probably the long term forms of engagement the early games have, it's just so incredible and new mods keep things fresh.
ID Software built a masterpiece.
Plus, having a basic in game timer and recording capabilities led to Doom being one of the first games to ever develop a speedrunning community that is still going strong today.
Modding and speedrunning are probably the long term forms of engagement the early games have, it's just so incredible and new mods keep things fresh.
ID Software built a masterpiece.
Fast-paced combat a lot of other FPS also have it, but no other game has the same level and encounter design.
Multiplayer. Imagine being able to play with a friend online in 1993.
Getting it to run on everything, including calculators.
Getting it to run on everything, including calculators.
Yup. Space chainsaws. They make no sense, but at the same time they make perfect sense.
Honestly if it's only one of those, it's still not Doom.
Fast paced shooting describes Quake 3. Maze levels describes Wolfenstein 3D. Modability describes Half-Life.
It's all of them at once or it ain't DOOM.
Fast paced shooting describes Quake 3. Maze levels describes Wolfenstein 3D. Modability describes Half-Life.
It's all of them at once or it ain't DOOM.
The whole "fast movement" thing didn't really come into play until Doom 2016. Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, Doom 64, and Doom 3 aren't really that fast. id didn't move to the whole super fast movement until Quake, which Doom 2016 feels like an extension of.
Fast-paced shooting action was already the defining feature of Wolf3D, so it's vast maze-like stages defined by BSP trees.
I'm not sure I even knew about the sprint key when I first played Doom back in '95 or so. And circle-strafing was nigh impossible when playing keyboard only.
Ton of fun having always-sprint on and circle-strafing with KB+M in source ports like GZDoom, though.
Precisely this. For those of us of a certain age, the original Doom was mind blowing. The verticality that it added to Wolfenstein made everything just come alive. In Episode 1 Mission 1 when you turn left, walk up the steps to collect the armour and you have the windows and the sky box beyond… we'd just never seen anything like it.
Ha I remembering playing goldeneye and was like what is this shit
Finding the blue key to open the blue door.
seriously, though.
clever self contained stages with lots of secrets.
as an aside, i've been playing doom 3 fully overhauled for VR with roomscale, motion controls etc and I've a new appreciation for that game. Having a wonderful, wonderful time withit.
seriously, though.
clever self contained stages with lots of secrets.
as an aside, i've been playing doom 3 fully overhauled for VR with roomscale, motion controls etc and I've a new appreciation for that game. Having a wonderful, wonderful time withit.
The level design.
The dance between the perfectly balanced enemy types and your arsenal.
As perfectly as Eternal has brought that dance to the modern day and cranked it up to 11, I really wish the adventure aspect would also come back as strong.
The dance between the perfectly balanced enemy types and your arsenal.
As perfectly as Eternal has brought that dance to the modern day and cranked it up to 11, I really wish the adventure aspect would also come back as strong.