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Re: Doom enhancements

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From: bm... Tim Berger
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 01:55
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People have posted suggestions for improvements to Doom, including the
ability to jump, talk with other characters, look into a backpack, etc.,
"like Ultima Underworld 2."
Listen up, dudes: DOOM is strictly an ACTION game.  I guess you're having
problems thinking that there's actually an action game on the PC, since 1
out of every 1.5 IBM game releases are mainly RPGs.  You're trying to make
the game into an RPG, and I DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN.  And I bet other
people here don't want it, too.  Besides the fact that I hate RPGs and don't
know why in the world people can like such boring, "imaginative" (heh, yeah
right people.  Try picking up a book.), games that take a long time to
conquer ( a complete waste of precious time, IMO), Doom is fine the way it
is. Things such as the following will, among other things, hamper
playability, remove the real-time action suspense element in Doom, and
increase CPU overhead:
Talking with characters... Who the hell (no pun intended) is gonna converse
with some other characters in Doom?  Oh, maybe some Wizard from one of your
RPGs would show up in hell and trade some items with you?  Completely
ridiculous...
Looking into your backup... Who the hell came up with this one?  There's no
goddamn time to look in your backpack!  Isn't the amount of ammo left
display enough? 
Jumping... Too much like UW and UW2.  There are no terrible holes or abysses
to jump across, so why do we need it?  Sure, if the game required it, then
it would be nice, but all of the levels are tailored in such a way that
jumping isn't needed at all.  Besides, this is not some ancient Stygian
Abyss.  There are high tech elevators that can get you to some interesting
places high above....
Please ID, don't listen to this trash.  Leave the RPGs for companies like
Origin and let the game freaks look into their backpacks and talk with
computer characters (get some human friends, guys?) for 40 hours straight. 
Bring in the ammo.... Stop these people who are trying to ruin Doom!
	-Tim
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