🚀 go-pugleaf

: Not really.  Doom is "just another shoot em up" with great graphics.
: Beyond the graphics, there is not much of a game.  It has modem support
: which is cool, but this could be added with virtually any shoot em up
: game and you'd get similar results minus the graphics.  Personally, I
: look for more in a game than graphic displays.  Raptor kicks Doom's butt

	DOOM has modem support and network support, meaning you can play 
it over the modem with your buddy across town or you can network a few 
computers together and have up to 4 people running around in a level, 
shooting and killing each other like mad while they sweat off a few 
pounds.  Grab some of the .LMP demos off of infant2, some of the 4-player 
deathmatch .LMP's and tell me THAT isn't an adrenaline rush.  Best of 
all, if you have acess to it, you can play 4-player DOOM over the net.  
All you have to do is get on the #doom channel on IRC and there's ALWAYS 
someone there who wants to play.
	And Raptor?  Get real.  Raptor is a simple scrolling game, not 
nearly as complex as DOOM.  Looks like every other scroller that ever 
came out.

: Serious mode on -- this is the kind of idolatry I simply cannot understand.
: It goes *way* beyond the love for a good computer game.  Quake isn't even
: out yet, and for all you guys know, it'll suck dirt.  But already, there's

	I seriously doubt Quake will suck dirt.  The only time it'll 
suck is when it sucks everybody into its gaming environment.  Of course, 
it'll probably spit YOU right back out.

: thread that should never have made such a splash.  All the original poster
: said was that he didn't like Doom and that since it was starting to fall
: from the top, maybe it would continue to fall and maybe THEN there could
: be some topic of discussion in csipga besides doom doom doom doom doom.
: You guys are less than considerate, you know.  It's an impossibility to
: discuss any action game besides Doom anymore and get a decent conversation.

	Well, for one, the original poster was implying that he hopes the 
supposed downfall of DOOM in the ratings chart would continue so that the 
fuss over DOOM would cease to be.  THAT is not being considerate, so why 
should he expect any civility in kind from the DOOM players if he posts 
flamebait like that?
	Why don't you start your own newsgroup if you don't like the 
discussion of DOOM?  Hell, DOOM already has 4 of them that I know of, not 
including the more general groups like c.s.i.p.g.a.