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Cool #9
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PostPosted: 01-16-2012 01:07 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Eurogamer posted a retrospective on DOOM, in which the author reminisces over the game and what it meant for him.

It's a good read. Brings back a few memories.

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Holy s***, there's a monster in the lift.

That's not supposed to happen. The lift is the end of the level. It's a safe zone, a chance for a breather before the game totals your score. For God's sake, it's a universally acknowledged cessation of hostilities. But this time, there's a monster in the lift and both my friend and I physically reel with shock, spasming backwards as the thing lurches towards us.

[...]

Doom is not only the best looking thing we've ever seen, but it's also the first game that's ever given us any sense of fear, that's ever reached right down to our brainstem and tugged hard.

[...]

For two young teens in the early 90s, Doom is merely the next big thing in a rapidly-accelerating gaming industry that soon leaves it behind. We never really notice that it's Doom itself which had stamped its boot on that accelerator, but we'll have Doom to thank for so much that we'll come to take for granted, its influence scattered across modern video games like shotgun pellets.


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012- ... ctive-doom




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PostPosted: 01-16-2012 09:50 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Another one? How many Doom retrospectives can you read?




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PostPosted: 01-16-2012 08:08 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Lots, if they're from different sources with differing opinions and takes on the franchise. Hell, lots anyway.




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Cool #9
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PostPosted: 01-16-2012 11:50 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


DTS wrote:
Another one? How many Doom retrospectives can you read?

You don't have to read it do you? I'm not putting a gun against your face.




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Messatsu Ko Jy-ouu
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PostPosted: 01-17-2012 12:32 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


not a bad idea, actually.




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Unquantifiable Abstract
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PostPosted: 04-22-2012 06:26 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Good read :D




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PostPosted: 12-04-2014 11:13 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Doom is not only the best looking thing we've ever seen, but it's also the first game that's ever given us any sense of fear, that's ever reached right down to our brainstem and tugged hard.



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Messatsu Ko Jy-ouu
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PostPosted: 12-05-2014 12:32 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


that's subjective.
and also not true.




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