Doom!

[Solver]

Anyone here plays the classic game and has any experiences worth sharing? I hate most shooter games, but Doom is so much of a classic, I just love it.

Even though, I pretty much suck at it, as I do at all shooter games, but, I'm a good sharpshooter - bad at everything else .

No, the single player game is fun though in Doom 2. I believe those levels are one of the best things about comp gaming.

So, anyone else sick with it?

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Hell yes.

One of the custom levels I've been going through recently has been Doomworld's "10 Sectors" megawad. The challenge was to build a level with only 10 sectors. "Sector" is an editing term; each sector has a set floor and ceiling height, floor and ceiling texture, light level, and other characteristics. Basically, they did all these levels by merging sectors with identical properties. (Search around on Doomworld, there's a link to the 10 Sectors download.)

Solver: I also am not that great at playing Doom. To the best of my knowledge, I've never used the Deathmatch mode.

[Solver]

Deathmatch? Gee. I still run it and play single player levels when feeling bad, improves feeling SOOO much.

[pg]

i could go on about doom forever. my favorite single player/co-op game, and deathmatch isn't that bad either. i could play co-op doom on lan forever! personally my favorite wads are plutonia, tnt, and eternal. i don't recall an specific stories at the moment but i think speed run demos have lots of good stories captured in them.

http://ural2.hszk.bme.hu/~ha211/compet-n/index.cgi

speed run demos - amazing stuff you have to check at this one below out if you haven't seen any of them before

ftp://competn.doom2.net:8002/pub/com...e/30uv2657.zip
"whole damn game" ultraviolence speed run, clocking 26:57 for doom2. to play them extract to where your exe file is and do "doom2.exe -playdemo 30uv2657.lmp"(without quotes).

http://www.teamtnt.com/ixet.htm

get eternal here, great wad, and freaking hard.

[Juggler]

used to play mostly single player games and through lan at school, but that was 5 years ago. Still, it's the best 1st person shooter I ever played. I can still memorize some of those levels. It looks like I'll download it again after seeing this thread , can't miss on this fun again

[Jethro83]

I only ever played single player Doom. But it was a better experience than perhaps some of my recent Quake III and Unreal Tournament games (for the time at least). Still keeps me amused at times.

[Apocalypse]

Just last Wensday I finally beat Level 17 in Doom 2. I could never get passed it before. I always had to do the level jump cheat. Now I finally found my way out.

[MattyBoy]

ftp://competn.doom2.net:8002/pub/co...ie/30uv2657.zip
"whole damn game" ultraviolence speed run, clocking 26:57 for doom2. to play them extract to where your exe file is and do "doom2.exe -playdemo 30uv2657.lmp"(without quotes).

That's insane.
I imagine that this guy bought the game, switched to ultraviolence, then had all of the levels finished after half an hour. Must be pretty talented!

[War4ever]

i preferred wolfenstein myself but doom was ok

[St Leo]

I use the jdoom emulator with 3d models to play Doom II.

[RGBVideo]

The storyline of Doom 2 caught me by surprise.

[Dinner]

I liked doom two but I haven't bothered with any of the other doom titles.

[DrSpike]

Doom has its place as the father of Quake. I thought SP was rubbish, but MP popularised the genre - a true classic.

[Solver]

I'm probably a moron, but I found Doom2 pretty hard as far as labyrinths go - on many levels I had difficuly finding my way out. Shooting monsters up was no problem with original levels though.

[pg]

i love doom single player for a simple reason - it plays to it's own weaknesses that all computer games share. instead of trying to have 'smart' ai(which is impossible as we all know) it throws hoards of dumb, and weak monsters are you with specialized attacks(this is important because it lets you create different tactical environments by mixing and matching monsters). instead of a few supposedly smart ai monsters with strong attacks which are easy to exploit(most games you can just pick off monsters from behind walls, or get them stuck on the walls when they chase you).

solver - i used to have that problem too. i know most of the lvls by heart now though, after a few times through them it gets easier(unless you play nightmare then it's way harder!).