doom is the last videogame my dad ever had any interest in playing
he insisted on a pistol-only run like a true street freak
11 Likes
I’m all in on Katamari but am kind of shocked Doom is taking a lot of heat. I’m not sure if it’s a generational thing or baggage from New Doom’s cache with capital g Gamers or whatever—especially with folks not feeling the aesthetics. Doom felt hip and underground and edgy in a way I don’t think a video game could possibly ever be again.
4 Likes
I’ve always thought doom’s aesthetic was a bit corny, but I came to it late. I might have played hexen on the N64 first…I can’t remember
1 Like
To your point I cannot imagine holding this opinion
I was first introduced to Doom by the ports that came with Doom 3 from a friend who wanted to do network co-op really bad. I don’t think the aesthetic struck me as notable at all - wouldn’t have been out of place next to Twisted Metal, to get heretical.
I like dropping in on the SB DOOM thread. A continuous flow of curios, like just jumping to the top and scrolling through a few posts, I learn that the guy who puppeteered those grody trolls in Ernest Scared Stupid modelled monsters for DOOM II.
And these Japanese maps that have a unique flavour, love to see people from all over the world express themselves with DOOM.
Imagine how much cooler video games at large would be if studios accomodated players the way DOOM does. If I never played DOOM again (as if) I could still be entertained by it for years just watching what people come up with.
The definition for DOOM is still being written in the Big Dumb Dictionary of Games.
DOOM forever.
10 Likes
Doom is like an Exhumed or a Cannibal Corpse album cover come to life. It felt like a strange angry thing made by strange angry people, and felt further out that other stuff in that realm. And it came on a generic floppy someone made for you, not like a professional package.
In retrospect sure it’s cartoony and there’s a mega math nerd behind it, but at the time it was a very different perspective we had on it.
5 Likes
That sounds kind of like when Undertale came out if I can hazard the irony
Is this also why people old enough to remember its release like Mortal Kombat? The original games look hideous and gross to me, like I’ll take Street Fighter’s guileless racism every time.
I play like 80% only-killing games because I like all the killing but I’m a bit surprised to see Doom celebrated for making shoot-to-kill the dominant kind of video game for the past thirty years
2 Likes
i thought mk was lumpy trash when it came out so idk
1 Like
I forgot to mention I am a loser who turns off blood in shooters if I can or just plays FPSes that don’t have blood to begin with so uh yeah that doesn’t help doom
3 Likes
that’s why the gods made Chex Quest
6 Likes
Chex Quest episode 3 is more consistently good than Doom in its entirety, though the highs are not as high.
1 Like
i loved mortal kombat when it (and the first couple of sequels) came out, but i was a dumb kid who also thought early image comics were the second coolest and most badass thing around
the coolest and most badass thing around being the depiction of knuckles in sonic the comic, obviously
6 Likes
That spoiler tagged bit nearly cost you that blood potion
1 Like
Between this and that Sin City parody, should I be tracking down weird sonic issues?
Gaze into the abyss, etc
When I’m ready for the end I’m gonna go to a cabin, read all of the Sonic comics, and turn into a tree like Tessa Thompson in Annihilation
3 Likes
ohhhh we’re facing confusion regarding versions of sonic lore. i meant the uk publication sonic the comic, not the one put out by archie comics.
archie sonic did indeed suck up until the late 2000s (about the time when they launched the side series sonic universe)
and idw sonic has been consistently excellent since its launch a couple of years ago.
3 Likes
Was UK Sonic on some 2000 AD trip or something? I had no idea that was even a thing.
lots of 2000ad connections in the creative and editorial staff, yeah. and also like 2000ad, it was an anthology magazine, so alongside sonic (and sonic-related) series, there’d be comics in there based on other sega games, particularly ones that were super-popular in the uk like streets of rage, golden axe, shinobi, etc.
2 Likes
fwiw i’m kind of annoyed by the whole NuDoom “Rip and Tear” aesthetic (not really what i liked about Doom to begin with) and really really hate some of the more like reactionary boomer shooter/retro FPS people who come from the Brutal Doom lineage. i always kind of found Doom more like this surreal singular object of mystery that just happened to have a very gory album cover aesthetic. but yeah Doom and id software in general were definitely outsiders to the mainstream game industry when Doom came out, which is almost hard to conceptualize now. i think history often gets rewritten in ways that papers over this stuff.
11 Likes