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McGrandpa wrote:
> Doom2, I think I have some 5 storebought CD's of levels for that one 
> alone.  I did find some great faves.  All but forgotten now.  I started 
> playing Doom shareware on a 386DX40 with 128 megs of ram and a legacy 
> vid card.  That quickly got upgraded to something I could play it with 
> :)  486DX4-100 was the best pre-Pentium rig I had.  256 megs SDram, VESA 
> local bus and a couple different VLB cards like a Diamond Stealth 128 
> and a Hercules Dynamite Pro VL.  Those were the days where you knew what 
> to do with DOS to get all the conventional ram free you could or you 
> didn't play many games :)  I thought the original Wing Commander was 
> sooooo cool.  Then there was Wolfenstein 3D, and then along came Doom :) 
> Wow.
> Well, seeing as most folks think that ROE is better than Doom3, I'd 
> better pick that up this weekend :)
> McG.

A 386 with 128 megs of ram? Are you sure? That would've costed about ten 
times the rest of your rig at that time.

Now about RoE: I finished Doom 3 about week ago and started playing RoE 
immediately thereafter. Maybe it's because I needed to take a break from 
this type of games, but I didn't enjoy RoE that much - somewhere along 
the line I've lost my enthusiasm and stopped playing it. And the reason 
is there's too much "adventure,"  if you know what I mean - the grav 
gun, the artifact...

What really disgusted me was the first boss, the one that is immune to 
conventional weapons, so you have to use the grav gun, grab projectiles 
from the turrets and shoot it at him. Am I the only one who thinks 
something like this would be more appropriate in Super Mario or 
something? He even moved like Super Mario bosses - if he went "ping" 
every time I hit him, the impression would be complete. Now MY idea of a 
good boss fight is to shoot the hell outta him with the heaviest 
firearms you have, not playing some piggy-in-the-middle...

Lukas Hosek