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Re: DOOM 2: Hell On Earth

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From: EvilBill
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:29
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count zero wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:41:29 +0000, pc games <pcgamer23708@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 06 Mar 2007, count zero wrote:
>>
>>> THE first FPS was Wolf 3D...
>>
>> Agree
>> But DOOM was the defining moment
>>
>>> The real followers are console games... In those games you
>>> circle-jerk your way through targets by pressing buttons then
>>> firing... How about using a mouse and aiming for yourself?
>>
>> Consoles are crap
>> Consolist are dumb
>> Console makers are monopolist companies wanting to turn customers
>> into SLAVES
>>
>>> Duke 3D was the first to come up with 2-axis mouse aiming...
>>> everything else is followers.
>>
>> No it wasn't it was Terminator Future Shock, one of the most
>> innovative FPS ever created and one to be together with Wold3D
>
> Im pretty sure TFS came after because it wouldn't play on my 386 AMD
> 40 Mhz 4 MB which Wolf 3D rocked on...
>
>> (yes
>> definitely the first FPS ever created) and DOOM as all time best
>> Duke Nukem 3D is a very well made DOOM clone and became a classic,
>> but its a clone nonetheless
>
> Duke 3D was groundbreaking at the time. It had 2 axis mouse look,
> creative weapons like the ice gun where you shatter the frozen enemy
> and the shrink gun where you step on it. It also had good location
> graphics, like city scapes, plus collapsing buildings and mountains,
> not to mention great dialog for the time... Too bad Duke Nukem Forever
> never materialized...
>
>> The innovation is with the humor which then gave birth to titles like
>> Serious Sam
>> Serious Sam is a "child" of Duke Nukem 3D and I feel that is a big
>> compliment cause Serious Sam is now also classic material
>
> Yeah maybe Duke Forever should've used the Quake 3 engine like Serious
> Sam and got it over and done with... Now all we have is Duke Fornever
> still haunting us 12 years later...
>
> Duke is no doubt rolling in his grave...
>
> BTW, did anyone actually beat Serious Sam 1???
>

Yup.


...On the easiest diffixulty. ;)

> I gave up after the arena of endless Rhinos...

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From: "EvilBill" <quake2lives@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: DOOM 2: Hell On Earth
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