Some dated mechanics but still fun
YEAH BABY THE OG
June 16th: I have finished episode 1 (Knee Deep in the Dead) of DOOM 1 on Ultra violence with NO cheats for the first time. :3
June 17th: Episode 2 beaten. The Cyberdemon was as big of a pain as I expected. XD I'm not sure I'll be able to keep this difficulty up for all four episodes.
June 18th: Finished Episode 3, and it was fantastic. The further I got, the more comfortable I was with the difficulty, which felt amazing. It strikes me as great game design.
June 17th: Episode 2 beaten. The Cyberdemon was as big of a pain as I expected. XD I'm not sure I'll be able to keep this difficulty up for all four episodes.
June 18th: Finished Episode 3, and it was fantastic. The further I got, the more comfortable I was with the difficulty, which felt amazing. It strikes me as great game design.
fechado com o djabo n
The ol classic
The shooter that shaped the gender, still being one of the best shooters ever and one of the hardest. The level design is soo iconic and characteristic side by side with the art direction which gives an immersive atmosphere.
doom.exe -file simpsonsdoom.wad
A classic.
Following up on Wolfenstein 3D just a year later, id Software managed to improve upon their own classic formula in just about every way with Doom. Rather than using the same engine, John Carmack had already written a new one for this game, which in turn allowed for more intricate level designs featuring switches, verticality and outdoor areas.
The art design shifted to more fantastic and blood-soaked sci-fi setting compared to Wolfenstein's relatively sedate nazi murder dungeons and accompanied again by a metal soundtrack and improved sound design for the weapons and the various creatures you would mow down with your arsenal of firearms.
The same smooth gameplay from Wolfenstein carried over to this game, and coupled with the improved visuals and more dynamic levels, Doom set a new standard for the first person shooter genre, as well as doubling down on a template that would continue to influences hundreds of games going forward.
The art design shifted to more fantastic and blood-soaked sci-fi setting compared to Wolfenstein's relatively sedate nazi murder dungeons and accompanied again by a metal soundtrack and improved sound design for the weapons and the various creatures you would mow down with your arsenal of firearms.
The same smooth gameplay from Wolfenstein carried over to this game, and coupled with the improved visuals and more dynamic levels, Doom set a new standard for the first person shooter genre, as well as doubling down on a template that would continue to influences hundreds of games going forward.
Informational review regarding versions, controls and engines.
This product was previously sold as the "Ultimate Doom" version of the game, which came out in 1995 and featured the original Doom (1993) and the expansion pack: "Episode IV: Thy Flesh Consumed" for MS-DOS. It was emulated with DOSBox here on steam.
In 2019, for Doom's 25th anniversary, id Software released an updated version of the game running on the Unity engine which was ported to the 8th generation consoles. This update, called Doom Enhanced, was later released here on steam as a free update to previous owners of Ultimate Doom, they also changed the store name to DOOM (1993). Fortunately, the original emulated DOS version still comes with this one. The same applies to the steam version of Doom II as well.
This new re-release, marketed as "Enhanced version", was made in a similar way to the community source ports, like GZDOOM or PrBoom+. It had numerous problems when it released but they managed to fix pretty much all the issues and is now considered a very good port. It unfortunately isn't as good as the community source ports in regards to mod support. Despite that, if you're just looking to play a very authentic Doom experience with modern QoL features like 60 fps, high resolution and widescreen support, the Enhanced version is probably the best place to start.
Nerve Software and Bethesda seem to have aimed for a very vanilla and conservative port, something more akin to the original experience. It even renders the game at a 640x400 resolution internally regardless of the selected output resolution, resulting in a very crisp but low-res image and without the downsides of running a resolution non-native to your monitor. This choice obviously makes the image look "worse" but the chunky pixels fit well with the low-res textures and is more authentic to how the graphics were designed to look. It's a matter of preference though and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an option to change that.
Nevertheless, If you're looking for the actual vanilla game, you can play the DOSBox version by selecting it in the launch options. You can choose either the DOS version with modern WASD controls or classic controls, in which you move with the arrow keys. Speaking of controls, you can also choose to play with keyboard aiming or mouse aiming, which were both a feature even on the original Doom back in 1993. Although many people claim that Doom only had keyboard controls back in the 90s, that isn't true and is a classic case of the Mandela effect. It is true that many people at the time preferred keyboard aiming but the game actually came out with mouse controls from the get go. John Romero even went on to say that Doom was made for mouse input, so was Wolfenstein 3d (source: soulsphere.org).
The original game didn't have vertical aiming however, that's due to a rendering limitation of the engine. Meaning you could only look left and right and not up and down. Back then, calculating perspective was really taxing on performance, so less angles = faster.
The first FPS that featured unrestricted vertical mouse-look was Bungie's Marathon back in 1994. Although Ultima Underworld (1992) rendered up and down angles, you had to click the edges of the screen to manipulate the camera. Heretic (1994, Doom engine), while giving you the option to look up and down, restricted it to very small angles and you had to control it via keyboard. In 1995, 3D Realm took note of Bungie's breakthrough and added a similar mouse-look control in its Build engine (Duke Nukem 3D 1996). That said, all of these games that let you control the camera vertically one way or another, didn't really re-render the scene like you'd expect and relied on visual trickeries to change the view. They did it by shifting the horizon line up or down instead of changing your perspective, that's so they didn't need to calculate any of the 3-point perspective distortions that we see in the real world. Hence why they all felt unnatural.
These engine limitations were one of the reasons that Quake (1996) was such a big deal when it came out, and why people call earlier FPS titles 2.5D in retrospect. It wasn't until Quake that full 3-point perspective became a norm in the industry, made possible with the arrival of hardware acceleration technologies. Eventually, since the release of Doom engine's source code in 1999, various community source ports were made. Some, such as GZDOOM added hardware-acceleration rendering options like OpenGL and Vulkan, which allowed real up and down perspective rendering like Quake and all modern 3D games.
Here are a couple of useful tips if you're playing in the DOSBox version:
Movement was binded to mouse input, overlapping your movement keys which will feel very strange if you're used to more modern FPS movement controls. You can disable this forward and backward movement with novert.
You should also correct the aspect ratio to the original 4:3 otherwise the game will look squashed. That's because, like many games at the time, the original graphics were designed for monitors that vertically stretched the image natively. I.e. the original 320x200 resolution is a 16:10 logical aspect ratio but ran on monitors with a 4:3 aspect ratio that stretched the image up and down to fit it, and at the time, graphics were designed to account for that. To correct this, just change the following lines on ultimatem.conf and ultimate.conf files in the game folder to:
[sdl]
output=ddraw
And:
[render]
aspect=true
Both of these issues were already corrected in the Unity source port (Enhanced Version).
(This review was first written on Steam -- 26 August, 2023)
This product was previously sold as the "Ultimate Doom" version of the game, which came out in 1995 and featured the original Doom (1993) and the expansion pack: "Episode IV: Thy Flesh Consumed" for MS-DOS. It was emulated with DOSBox here on steam.
In 2019, for Doom's 25th anniversary, id Software released an updated version of the game running on the Unity engine which was ported to the 8th generation consoles. This update, called Doom Enhanced, was later released here on steam as a free update to previous owners of Ultimate Doom, they also changed the store name to DOOM (1993). Fortunately, the original emulated DOS version still comes with this one. The same applies to the steam version of Doom II as well.
This new re-release, marketed as "Enhanced version", was made in a similar way to the community source ports, like GZDOOM or PrBoom+. It had numerous problems when it released but they managed to fix pretty much all the issues and is now considered a very good port. It unfortunately isn't as good as the community source ports in regards to mod support. Despite that, if you're just looking to play a very authentic Doom experience with modern QoL features like 60 fps, high resolution and widescreen support, the Enhanced version is probably the best place to start.
Nerve Software and Bethesda seem to have aimed for a very vanilla and conservative port, something more akin to the original experience. It even renders the game at a 640x400 resolution internally regardless of the selected output resolution, resulting in a very crisp but low-res image and without the downsides of running a resolution non-native to your monitor. This choice obviously makes the image look "worse" but the chunky pixels fit well with the low-res textures and is more authentic to how the graphics were designed to look. It's a matter of preference though and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an option to change that.
Nevertheless, If you're looking for the actual vanilla game, you can play the DOSBox version by selecting it in the launch options. You can choose either the DOS version with modern WASD controls or classic controls, in which you move with the arrow keys. Speaking of controls, you can also choose to play with keyboard aiming or mouse aiming, which were both a feature even on the original Doom back in 1993. Although many people claim that Doom only had keyboard controls back in the 90s, that isn't true and is a classic case of the Mandela effect. It is true that many people at the time preferred keyboard aiming but the game actually came out with mouse controls from the get go. John Romero even went on to say that Doom was made for mouse input, so was Wolfenstein 3d (source: soulsphere.org).
The original game didn't have vertical aiming however, that's due to a rendering limitation of the engine. Meaning you could only look left and right and not up and down. Back then, calculating perspective was really taxing on performance, so less angles = faster.
The first FPS that featured unrestricted vertical mouse-look was Bungie's Marathon back in 1994. Although Ultima Underworld (1992) rendered up and down angles, you had to click the edges of the screen to manipulate the camera. Heretic (1994, Doom engine), while giving you the option to look up and down, restricted it to very small angles and you had to control it via keyboard. In 1995, 3D Realm took note of Bungie's breakthrough and added a similar mouse-look control in its Build engine (Duke Nukem 3D 1996). That said, all of these games that let you control the camera vertically one way or another, didn't really re-render the scene like you'd expect and relied on visual trickeries to change the view. They did it by shifting the horizon line up or down instead of changing your perspective, that's so they didn't need to calculate any of the 3-point perspective distortions that we see in the real world. Hence why they all felt unnatural.
These engine limitations were one of the reasons that Quake (1996) was such a big deal when it came out, and why people call earlier FPS titles 2.5D in retrospect. It wasn't until Quake that full 3-point perspective became a norm in the industry, made possible with the arrival of hardware acceleration technologies. Eventually, since the release of Doom engine's source code in 1999, various community source ports were made. Some, such as GZDOOM added hardware-acceleration rendering options like OpenGL and Vulkan, which allowed real up and down perspective rendering like Quake and all modern 3D games.
Here are a couple of useful tips if you're playing in the DOSBox version:
Movement was binded to mouse input, overlapping your movement keys which will feel very strange if you're used to more modern FPS movement controls. You can disable this forward and backward movement with novert.
You should also correct the aspect ratio to the original 4:3 otherwise the game will look squashed. That's because, like many games at the time, the original graphics were designed for monitors that vertically stretched the image natively. I.e. the original 320x200 resolution is a 16:10 logical aspect ratio but ran on monitors with a 4:3 aspect ratio that stretched the image up and down to fit it, and at the time, graphics were designed to account for that. To correct this, just change the following lines on ultimatem.conf and ultimate.conf files in the game folder to:
[sdl]
output=ddraw
And:
[render]
aspect=true
Both of these issues were already corrected in the Unity source port (Enhanced Version).
(This review was first written on Steam -- 26 August, 2023)
DOOM me hizo odias a los pelados
Jogo de PSicopata pprt.
love the game nuff said
One of the GOATs. I prefer Doom 2 but Doom is still one of the most important games ever made.
Esse jogo é incrível, foi o primeiro FPS que eu joguei, tenho muitas boas recordações de chegar da escola de manhã e almoçar jogando esse jogo tarde a dentro, é um jogo muito nostálgico para mim, que marcou uma fase muito importante da minha vida, além disso, a estética é muito interessante, os inimigos, os segredos, a cara do personagem ficando machucada conforme o dano que recebe, as armas, tudo é muito legal.
Still need to complete the master levels but great game and i'm amazed how well it holds up to this day. One of the grandfathers of FPS and scared the hell out of me as a kid. Floppy disk still resides in my collection.
"If only you could talk to these creatures, then perhaps you could try and make friends with them, form alliances... Now that would be interesting."
"A story in a video game is like a story in a porn movie... it's expected to be there, but it's not important"
I hate Doom and I hate id software. I think that John Carmack is a genius. I do not think that Romero is a genius. I truly despise the influence that these games have had on the gaming industry. Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake are like an infection, a festering wound on American game development. Nothing that those two have touched matters to me in the slightest. They epitomize the absolute worst that American culture has to offer: the power fantasy, pure escapism, actual intentional Satanic imagery, glorification of violence, speed, destruction. It is the perfect game for a segment of the population which looks to games for thrill and excitement alone.
These stories have no meaning. You can't learn anything from these games. They are intentionally anti-literate. American parents of the time were fully justified in experiencing moral panic stemming from the onset of games like this.
Frankly it is frustrating to hear "gamers" defend Doom, Quake, retro shooters and act surprised that ordinary individuals took offense to them. Simulating corpses blowing to pieces is not fun. Just take a step back for a second. In all seriousness, what is fun or enjoyable about that? It is the genuine equivalent of fast food. It is tasteless, cultureless, visual stimulation devoid of any thoughtful content whatsoever. These games are agonizingly bad.
Doom is Duck Hunt. It is literally Duck Hunt. Aim cursor at target, press trigger, watch target fall, aim at new target. Duck Hunt is the rightful air to the title of "first important FPS" along with all the other light gun games. At least in Duck Hunt, we were simulating a relatable, recognizable activity that had some degree of cultural justification and acceptance.
What is Doom? There is no narrative context. Game opens, gun in hand, shoot. The targets, rather than being contextualized as ducks on a day of hunting, are human beings and eventually demons in hell.
For those readers who say " :( no ur wrong there is actually good story and content ur destroying demons and thats a good message :) " turn on your brain. Demons are defeated by one's strength of moral character, by personal struggle against temptation, by self sacrifice. There is no recognized moral tale about man blowing demons to bit with a shotgun or rocket launcher with the help of exploding barrels. It doesn't even mean anything. Even if one were to try to argue that Doom is some sort of literary metaphor for Christ's descent into hell, or man's descent into the psyche to defeat demons, the metaphor fails on it's own criteria. Because certainly such a metaphor would not suggest that we delight in the joy of carnal destruction, delight in visualizing human bodies blown to pieces. To believe in such a metaphor would only be to justify one's own base and violent desires under a thin veneer of self-serving moral argument.
No. It is far more reasonable and far more obvious to believe that this game was created from mans animal impulses. The Dionysian war impulse, setting man free from the "thou shalt not kill" dictate and allowing his evil desires to play out freely. This game is a signpost indicating the path of moral decay in our technological reality. In this world, there is only the superman and the enemy. And the superman of Doom, Quake, and the other early FPS games is a far cry from the superman of Nietzsche.
In this world, the only capacity the superman has is to kill. Man is reduced to a killing avatar. He engages in a world while violence is his only purpose.
They were right to make the ESRB and to punish id software for creating this. Yet another "Hatred", justified under the "but they're demons!" argument.
What an evil, reductive game. A man can only be reduced by playing it, and I deeply resent its influence on the industry that built on top of it. I hate Doom.
I hate Doom and I hate id software. I think that John Carmack is a genius. I do not think that Romero is a genius. I truly despise the influence that these games have had on the gaming industry. Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake are like an infection, a festering wound on American game development. Nothing that those two have touched matters to me in the slightest. They epitomize the absolute worst that American culture has to offer: the power fantasy, pure escapism, actual intentional Satanic imagery, glorification of violence, speed, destruction. It is the perfect game for a segment of the population which looks to games for thrill and excitement alone.
These stories have no meaning. You can't learn anything from these games. They are intentionally anti-literate. American parents of the time were fully justified in experiencing moral panic stemming from the onset of games like this.
Frankly it is frustrating to hear "gamers" defend Doom, Quake, retro shooters and act surprised that ordinary individuals took offense to them. Simulating corpses blowing to pieces is not fun. Just take a step back for a second. In all seriousness, what is fun or enjoyable about that? It is the genuine equivalent of fast food. It is tasteless, cultureless, visual stimulation devoid of any thoughtful content whatsoever. These games are agonizingly bad.
Doom is Duck Hunt. It is literally Duck Hunt. Aim cursor at target, press trigger, watch target fall, aim at new target. Duck Hunt is the rightful air to the title of "first important FPS" along with all the other light gun games. At least in Duck Hunt, we were simulating a relatable, recognizable activity that had some degree of cultural justification and acceptance.
What is Doom? There is no narrative context. Game opens, gun in hand, shoot. The targets, rather than being contextualized as ducks on a day of hunting, are human beings and eventually demons in hell.
For those readers who say " :( no ur wrong there is actually good story and content ur destroying demons and thats a good message :) " turn on your brain. Demons are defeated by one's strength of moral character, by personal struggle against temptation, by self sacrifice. There is no recognized moral tale about man blowing demons to bit with a shotgun or rocket launcher with the help of exploding barrels. It doesn't even mean anything. Even if one were to try to argue that Doom is some sort of literary metaphor for Christ's descent into hell, or man's descent into the psyche to defeat demons, the metaphor fails on it's own criteria. Because certainly such a metaphor would not suggest that we delight in the joy of carnal destruction, delight in visualizing human bodies blown to pieces. To believe in such a metaphor would only be to justify one's own base and violent desires under a thin veneer of self-serving moral argument.
No. It is far more reasonable and far more obvious to believe that this game was created from mans animal impulses. The Dionysian war impulse, setting man free from the "thou shalt not kill" dictate and allowing his evil desires to play out freely. This game is a signpost indicating the path of moral decay in our technological reality. In this world, there is only the superman and the enemy. And the superman of Doom, Quake, and the other early FPS games is a far cry from the superman of Nietzsche.
In this world, the only capacity the superman has is to kill. Man is reduced to a killing avatar. He engages in a world while violence is his only purpose.
They were right to make the ESRB and to punish id software for creating this. Yet another "Hatred", justified under the "but they're demons!" argument.
What an evil, reductive game. A man can only be reduced by playing it, and I deeply resent its influence on the industry that built on top of it. I hate Doom.
Joins The Godfather, Illmatic, and the works of Shakespeare in the pantheon of "Things That are Actually as Good as Literally Everyone Says They Are."
A gamechanger.
A lot of 3d shooters feel like 3d shooters, but Doom also feels a videogame.
Primeira vez conseguindo jogar Doomzinho até o fim (joguei no PS4 mas a opção não aparece aqui). É tudo que falam de bom mesmo, o mais forte pra mim foi a Soundtrack. As músicas fazem transições muito boas de agitadas, focando em ação, e melancólicas e mais paradas, dando até um grauzinho de terror, especialmente quando você tá na fase completamente sozinho. Ver uma gameplay de Doom sem inimigo nenhum é desconfortante, e jogar sem também é muito. Jogo muito foda, adorei
A classic. Started really good but after episode 1, it's a lot of ups and downs. This game never runs out of tricks to ambush you.
ignoring its incredible and foundational design, it would be five stars just for being a true technical marvel
los 90, tiros y demonios, me corro
an unholy, skull-flattening, high-speed blitz through hell’s loudest, most crowded nightmare flesh-jungles. not inconsiderate, hardly ever unfair, but just as mean as what is cosmically funniest. like an awful snot-nosed kid. and his shrill cackle. as he kicks you in the nuts
Still holds up well
porra rock n roll é mto foda
faut un doctorat pour comprendre le jeu
Doom ha pasado de ser el padre de los juegos de disparos en primera persona, a ser casi el abuelo. Más de treinta años después se sigue manteniendo como un juego sólido y divertido. El buen diseño de niveles no envejece, y más en un juego pionero como lo fue Doom en su época.
Doom popularizó y perfeccionó la propuesta que hizo un año antes ID software, con el desarrollo de wolfenstein 3D. Mientras que este primero sería algo más experimental, consagrándose como el primer FPS en la historia, Doom refinaría la fórmula presentada y daría un salto abismal en la complejidad y diseño de los escenarios. Sus niveles están perfectamente confeccionados, tanto a nivel de ambientación como jugable. Sumas ese buen diseño con una jugabilidad simple pero innovadora para su época y tienes la receta de uno de los juegos más influyentes de la historia. Porque la jugabilidad de Doom se basa en disparar armas de fuego mientras te mantienes en movimiento para evitar a los enemigos. Si habéis jugado alguno de los doom modernos, veréis que es exactamente lo mismo que se hacía en el 93 pero ahora con escopetas con gancho. Es un bucle jugable que funciona muy bien. De hecho, me encanta ver el boom que hay actualmente con el género “boomer shooter”, que ha derivado en las diferentes interpretaciones de esta jugabilidad.
Sin embargo, pese a que alabo mucho el diseño de niveles de doom, creo que es algo heterogéneo. Hay un salto grande en la calidad de los niveles del primer capítulo, a los dos que prosiguen. Mientras que el primero se siente perfectamente ejecutado, los otros por su parte se sienten algo mejorables. No todo es malo ojo, hay algunos niveles muy buenos en esos capítulos también, pero es innegable notar la bajada de calidad.
En definitiva Doom es una obra impasible al paso del tiempo, su entretenido bucle jugable y un diseño de niveles sólido, lo mantienen a día de hoy como un juego muy decente si quieres pasar una tarde entretenida acompañado de una banda sonora excepcional.
Doom popularizó y perfeccionó la propuesta que hizo un año antes ID software, con el desarrollo de wolfenstein 3D. Mientras que este primero sería algo más experimental, consagrándose como el primer FPS en la historia, Doom refinaría la fórmula presentada y daría un salto abismal en la complejidad y diseño de los escenarios. Sus niveles están perfectamente confeccionados, tanto a nivel de ambientación como jugable. Sumas ese buen diseño con una jugabilidad simple pero innovadora para su época y tienes la receta de uno de los juegos más influyentes de la historia. Porque la jugabilidad de Doom se basa en disparar armas de fuego mientras te mantienes en movimiento para evitar a los enemigos. Si habéis jugado alguno de los doom modernos, veréis que es exactamente lo mismo que se hacía en el 93 pero ahora con escopetas con gancho. Es un bucle jugable que funciona muy bien. De hecho, me encanta ver el boom que hay actualmente con el género “boomer shooter”, que ha derivado en las diferentes interpretaciones de esta jugabilidad.
Sin embargo, pese a que alabo mucho el diseño de niveles de doom, creo que es algo heterogéneo. Hay un salto grande en la calidad de los niveles del primer capítulo, a los dos que prosiguen. Mientras que el primero se siente perfectamente ejecutado, los otros por su parte se sienten algo mejorables. No todo es malo ojo, hay algunos niveles muy buenos en esos capítulos también, pero es innegable notar la bajada de calidad.
En definitiva Doom es una obra impasible al paso del tiempo, su entretenido bucle jugable y un diseño de niveles sólido, lo mantienen a día de hoy como un juego muy decente si quieres pasar una tarde entretenida acompañado de una banda sonora excepcional.