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"Lukas Hosek" <none.of@your.business> wrote in message
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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.

You right.  I had 64 megs.  Still have the ram.  It was my first Pentium 
rig I put 2 x 64 meg DIMMS in.  That 486DX4-100 had 96 megs.  That one 
might still boot :)

>
> 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...

Some folks liked it better than Doom3 proper :\
McG.
>
> Lukas Hosek