Doom is still so much fun to play even today, it's fast, hectic, challenging and makes you feel like an absolute badass. It's probably the best FPS of all time.
one of my favorite things about Doom is that there was literally a sub-generation of Generation X (generation previous to the current generation) that was called the Doom generation. How frickin sick is that!?
it's a shame that I only recently got into this game a few months ago because of DOOM 2016, it's crazy fun even for someone who just recently got into it. I love all the mods it offers like Brutal DOOM. Looking forward to IDs new adaption this month, looking pretty good.
ok, samuel nevalainen, i think a little bit, what amazing game better than DOOM was made after the 90s ? Why are we talking about DOOM 25 years later ? Because there are many concepts in this game missing in all games after DOOM Only polish was done, hardware update. Most of video games now are just cutscenes.
It's truly remarkable how Doom still today feels so good game. Most games of that era feel quite dated in pretty much all aspects, graphics, sound and gameplay. Everything is so well made in Doom that it doesn't feel nearly as dated as it "should". Just few days ago I fired up old pentium with SB AWE32 and played through first few levels of "vanilla" Doom2. It still was so fun. Only thing that felt bit dated was resolution. Doom was most definitely _THE_ game changer.
doom is without question the most important fps game ever made. Anyone that played it back when it came out would understand how huge of a leap it was. One of the best games ever made. Doom kind of burns itself into your head long after you played it
You talked about the hidden passages with monsters in them In the the book masters of dooming talks about sandy Petersen purposefully doing just that and that's what got him hired
hazza connor brock matt sam "Master of DOOM Is the correct title, but not alot of Hidden Passages had monsters In DOOM If I remember, to be honest. Just once and a while.
Love Doom! Same exact story you told! I was 7 and my parents finally gave in and bought me Doom II because the shareware wasn't enough ahahaha. My mom was so frightened of the game she banned me from showing it to my friends! Good times, Doom was the kick ass secret violent game I would play all alone and I too still remember all of the cheats ahahaha
Zelousmarineinspace I've gotten the shocked face before too. It's a bit random but I think can pretty much be considered a part of the game. It's just really rare and I've only got it once.
007Tubedude The shock face in doom isn't that rare if you play on Ultra Violence, it mostly happens when you get the blue face at the sametime of death or near death, you have to get hit at the sametime when you get the blue face. It's that feeling of "HOLY SHIT! I SURVIVED! Low health + getting hit + blue face = shock face. It happens at least once everytime you play on Ultra Violence. If it's a shock that you survived, it'll be a shock to the character as well.
Max Willson Yeah, I was playing on UV when it happened. I think its really at the point where it can be considered a part of the game as opposed to a glitch.
007Tubedude The shock face is suppose to be the opposite of the death face, you are suppose to get the shock face when you cheat death and get health right before death. You'll also get it if you over whelm the character with a lot of new weapons and health during a stressful situation. It's very rare to get it during easy times.
BROOO!! Fellow Aussie here. Those PC games you named were ALL the ones i played as a kid. i was born in 1986 and my dad was a fan of PC's early on. Bio Menace, Commander keen series, DooM, Halloween Harry, Jet Pack, Hocus Pocus, Wolfenstein 3d, Red Hooks revenge, Jazz Jack Rabbit just to name a few were all on my faves list. Subbed, love your channel it takes me back to my childhood man
Funny thing worth mentioning, a few weeks ago a friend of mine (we're both in our mid 30's) was playing an IPAD doom port in public transportation, and a 10 years old came to him and said "Hey that game's freakin' awesome!!! what's that???" "er... lol, doom..." A 10 years old, I mean that kid probably have like at least a PS3 or some nextgen console at home. Doom definitely has its own appeal, something like no other game. I do believe that the music and the overall sound ambiance does most of it. Thanks for the review mate.
Rip and fucking tear indeed. I'm finishing up my first full playthrough of Brutal Doom and it's as bloody, violent, and beautiful as ever. I can't wait for Doom 2016. I just hope it keeps that Doom feel. Great vid. :)
Thank you for your Retro Reviews. When it comes down to Old School, many don't take the prospective like you do. I appreciate it. Others I seen reviewing at times are just a bit too full of themselves or just focus on one side of the Pros and Cons list.
This is one of - if not *THE* - Best videogame ever made. Every single First Person Shooter calls back to Doom in SOME way. You can't deny it's impact. If you are a person who thinks of FPS with Cod: THIS GAME IS GONNA KICK YOUR ARSE!! & If you havn't played it: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE??!!
Every and I mean every first person shooter owes it's existence to Doom and Wolfenstein. That's how it works, and I still play the hell out of Doom more than any other shooter combined.
This is awesome you sir had the ability to see into the future. I am curious if doom will eventually dethrone space invaders as the most important game ever released. At this point I put it at 2. But who knows.
You were right about doom gaining recognition as a masterpiece. Recently the Strong Museum opened the world video game hall of fame and doom was one of the inaugural 6 games to to enter this year
As a kid from germany my family didnt had a pc until I was 7 and even after that I was not allowed to play anything except for lerning games. Since I wasnt allowed to own a console or a handheld either I experienced doom way to late (odly enough after playing doom 3) in my life but it changed it for good! Since then im a really big fan of "old school" games and own a bunch of old consoles,game cases,big boxes and a such things. Doom changed my few on games and let me enjoy the old games as much as the new ones (if not even more). When I hear people like you talking about playing games like doom,blood or duke nukem for the first time as a kid then I get kind of sad because I learned of there excistence way to late (around 12/13 maybe). Its kind of sad that none of my friends seems to enjoy the classic as much as I do but who can blame then, they grow up with pokemom and gta and stuff like that... What I want to say is that Doom is such a great game that incluenced so many people and the gaming world as a whole. Truely a masterpiece! (I still cant recall how often I finished Doom since then...I even play it on my phone via a gldoom port)
Gwen Hale I remember being 5 at the time and seeing a friend of mine play the first level and run out of his chamber crying because It scared the hell outta me.Hahaha good time!If my younger self only knew what horrible and gruesome game I would play later In my life xD
When I think "gaming memories," I remember playing Half-Life with my dad back when I was little. It gave me nightmares, but I made me the gamer I am today.
I remember playing a shareware version of this on a lan during lunch at a tafe computer course in 1994, we just stayed on the first level until we were literally knee deep in the dead. I don't think I've ever had a more enjoyable gaming session to this day.
Played this SO many nights all night long with friends online. I think most of my many deaths came from firing a rocket and not noticing the invisible pinky demon in front of me in a hectic firefight.
In 1993 i was in elementary school as well. I would go out and play with my brother in our back yard setting up battles between plastic army men and native Americans. On some weekends i would sit in the family living room and watch my Dad play Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Duke Nukem, X-COM: UFO Defense, X-COM: Terror From the Deep, Hexen, Ultima 7, Sim City, on his PC and a few others i can't think of at the moment. My dad let me play all the games i mentioned above except Ultima 7. I now play all those games on my modern PC thanks to GOG.com and Steam. I have the shareware version of Doom on an 18 year old PC that i don't use all that much anymore. Your story is similar to mine and thats just plain awesome.
While DOOM I wasn't the first FPS game I played, it's sequel, Hell on Earth, was. And back then I could barely play it without cheating (my first memories of the game was when I was 3 or 4, back when my family was still living in Hawaii around either 95 or 96), even then, I didn't want to go out of the starting area because I was too scared of the monsters. But I enjoyed watching my dad play it, in fact, I remembered my dad making it to the Icon of Sin, but he had trouble trying to beat him without cheating, and I remembered seeing the digitized John Romero head on a pike when my dad used the noclip cheat. I started playing DOOM and DOOM II for real when I was around 7 (of course, I still cheated), and I remembered getting to the ending of the first DOOM and seeing the severed rabbit head (my dad still debates that it was a human head, though, must've confused the Romero Head in DOOM II), or coming across the Arch-Vile for the first time in the sequel and being utterly scared shitless by it. And I played DOOM and DOOM II again when I was in 8th grade after downloading them online (strangely, I only got the shareware version for the first DOOM), but that point, I barely played it due to other stuff grabbing my attention then. I wouldn't play DOOM at it's fullest without cheats until I entered college when my dad downloaded it for the iOS, and I was hooked again for the first time since Middle School. So much so that, on 2013, I bought the BFG edition of DOOM 3 so that I could have access to (almost) every DOOM game out there. Much like how Command & Conquer was influential to introducing me in the Strategy genre, and Breath of Fire III introduced me to the RPG genre, DOOM will always hold a special place in my heart.
The thing which is hard to convey to younger gamers nowadays, is how this 90's decade fundamentally changed things in all genres. How games would come out and render anything which had come before obsolete. Doom, Quake, Unreal, Grand Prix Legends, later Half Life... I remember when the Grand Prix Legends demo was released. I downloaded it, played it at something like 11fps in the basic, Goreux shaded mode until 4am in the morning, slept some and then took time off work, stating personal reasons, just to buy a brand new computer in the morning, in order to be able to play that game.
Man, my first experience with Doom was in 2002 at a friend's house. I got there and hee was playing the demo of the PS1 version. Yeah I used to get everything pretty late... I was born in '96 and I got my PS1 for my 6th birthday, meanwhile everyone else already had a PS2. Before that all I really had was my brother's Mega Drive and Game Boy Color. Good times.
i salute to those who played Doom in 1993 and beyond and i salute to the newcomers who started playing any of the Doom games as they continue the legacy
For all of the classic ID FPS' that I played (Quake (PC and N64), and Hexen (N64)) when I was younger, (and Doom more recently), one thing I can say is, ID knows what they're doing at making really memorable games. Just throw a stick at the fps genre and you'll come across these games. If it weren't for them, the FPS genre wouldn't be what it is today.
I know most people here would already be aware of it but I can't recommend the Brutal DOOM Mod enough if you were into DOOM before it takes all the things that were already great and cranks them to 11 (here's a link to my favorite version of it forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=37428) just spreading the word. Also I think it goes without saying at this point but great video as always.
Absolutely amazing game, this game truly put the PC gaming on the world stage. Even to this day tons of people are playing it, the fact that nightmare mode provides such a challenge is testament to the longevity of the game.
Doom, alone in the dark, twisted metal, pinball 3d space cadet, truck madness 2, quake series and half life. These was great games at their time! I still remember strange feeling that i had when i first saw moving end screen after finishing doom 1 on pc. It was great time to be born! And i'm glad that i was born then and not now. However, today's games can be awesome but still won't be the same as in the past they was. For example: Far cry 3, Crysis 2 and gta v.
i managed to get into the doom closed beta, and all i can say is it will live up to anyone's expectations, its fun, well balanced and it feels like the right doom. and funny thing is it was the first beta
i grew up in the later generation sure doom was out when i was younger, but i was too young to understand, but i understand your feeling because even though they are in a different genre its GTA 3 that always floods back the memories and i can still have a blast, sure there are better free roaming adventure games, but loading it up, hearing the loading screens of DMA design and then that cool jazz music of the intro always brings it all back to the first day i got my PS2 and GTA 3, this is what people dont understand this is how gaming can make us feel and i dont want to sound stuck up or anything but i do feel truly sorry for the people growing up in the call of duty generation, because pretty much everything is the damn same these days, sure GTA V is an amazing game (one of my all time faves) but it doesnt bring back the feeling of being 9 years old and sneaking a go on GTA 3! pure bliss haha
Have you tried the Brutal Doom mod yet? As well as adding gore, it beefs up the sound and remakes the songs, as well as adding a few modern additions that make it feel fresh whilst still being the same game.
Doom 2 was my very first PC game(maybe a year or two after release), first FPS ever played, the game that made me an FPS junkie for life, AND is still one of my favorite franchises (psyched for new Doom!) Game on Viva la DOOM! Alongside Quake, halflife, unreal and UT, and duke nukem 3D
I can accept that it is the grand-daddy of FPS games, but I still like Heretic better. Although I can concede that Heretic is made a lot easier by not having any enemy using a hitscan weapon against you. And I absolutely love your Retro Reviews. Made especially better with your Aussie accent of course, and funny things you say that only us Aussies would say :P
***** yea, I don't like the N64 controller. But it's not the worst controller ever. Quake 2 on the N64 gives you the option to use the D-pad for movement and the analog stick for looking, just like modern FPSs. But when it came to Doom 64, I actually played the unofficial port of the game on PC, so I used a mouse instead :P I would've hated playing that with the N64 controller.
You know when I was a kid I didn't first experience Doom through the PC version. I actually had my first taste of Doom with the Custom PlayStation Edition. It was in my opinion the best way to experience Doom. Since my Dad only owned a PlayStation and not a PC back then.
+DashieSparkle yeah man my first ever doom experience was doom , doom 2 ultimate doom , and final doom on the ps1 Goddamn the sound effect gave nightmares for years also the badass doom 64 then after that I owned a pc in 2006 after doom 3 release ,,,,, : ) : ) ahhhhhhhhh great fucking times ,, not those casual weak ass moments in call of doooty and battlefield do not get wrong after world at war and modern warfare 1 , 2 and blackops 1 2 these games are dead to me ,,,, thank god we are getting the new doom on may 13 ,,, the the badass shadow warrior 2 , Goddamn can,t wait for these awesome games
Where Doom stands out truly is the design of weapons, enemies and encounters. Each enemy and weapon fulfils a niche, as opposed to modern FPSes 30 mag automatics.
this game is a masterpiece, but only at this era of gaming i can truly appreciate how amazing this game is. with all the advances in gaming technology, superb voice acting, amazing cutscenes, beautiful graphics, then i go back to play Doom, and i find myself enjoying it so much more than modern games like CoD, Crysis, Metro etc..there's something so enjoyable in its simplicity that is just lost in modern gaming, no1 try to sell you gimmicks or feed you stories. it's simple, but it's done well, very very well the soundtrack is plain awesome, i mean who really remembers soundtrack of modern games? no1. but i'll remember doom's for the rest of my life the weapons are so much fun with excellent feedback and sound, which also you'll never forget the enemies are great with awesome death animation and sound effects (again..) my only complain is the lack of story progression and terrible level design with no rhyme or reason, something fps games only finally figured out in Half-Life to its fullest potential. it's as if the design was made by programmers, they prob never even realized that something was missing, it's a flaw they kept since W3D. technically it was possible to take it one step further, but it was beyond them..they created an amazing engine, but didn't know what to do with it. there's not even an intro that tells you where you are and why, you are just thrown into the game..you only get the story when it's over..it was prob in the box, but that's no excuse. sure fps were kinda new stuff, but that's no excuse either, lets not forget how many amazing rpg and adventure games existed by that time
My most intense doom experience happened recently on E2M1 (on ultra-violence) I ran out of shotty ammo and ran into the cacodemon at the very end of the mission (the 2nd one) and ran out of pistol ammo leaving me with just my fists to kill a cacodemon, so I ran into the imp at the exit door and mashed the spacebar until the mission ended
I was 10 and my first experience was the shareware disk. My computer at the time did not have a CD drive nor the required space to install the full version, so I ended up with a red cartridge for the SNES. I eventually got around to the full PC experience though when we finally got a new computer in the Y2K haha.
Still the best action game of all time, I'd say best game period but I know some people will disagree. Built like a twin-stick shooter from the first person perspective and very careful design (speed as a defense, progressive weapons, and simple-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay. Hell, I STILL play this game and have since '93.
What's a chicken flavored twisty? sounds yummy. Also: how many different "full" versions of doom were there? I know that there was a Playstation, SNES, 32x, and I think Sega Saturn version(s) of the original Doom, but what about those versions with new features or more levels? or even level packs themselves like with Wolf 3D??
The versions were... MS DOS 32x Atari Jaguar SNES 3DO Playstation (Custom Playstation Edition) Sega Saturn Game Boy Advance Microsoft Xbox (Doom 3 Limited Collectors edition or Doom 3 Resurrection of Evil) Microsoft Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade or Doom 3 BFG Edition) Playstation 3 (Doom Classic Complete or Doom 3 BFG Edition) NEXTSTEP OS/2 IRIX Solaris Mac OS Linux Microsoft Windows (Doom 95 or Doom 3 BFG Edition) Acom RISC OS Tapwave Zodiac iPhone and iPod touch.
Could you one day make a guide to playing these types of shooters? I'm one of those people raised on battlefield and I know that I will have fun once I know what the fuck I'm doing.
***** 80's kid here, grew up with doom. Shoot all the fucking monsters before they shoot you. Do not conserve ammo, it is in abundance. Find the keys, and hit the switch to end the level. Guide finished.
Doom is still so much fun to play even today, it's fast, hectic, challenging and makes you feel like an absolute badass.
It's probably the best FPS of all time.
I'd say HL1 or DX:HR.
no, resistance 3 deserves the spot
hands down best fps of all time and the fps that has aged the best.
+Serpico's Beard PC gaming news site Rock paper shotgun agrees
www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/05/13/best-fps/7/
striderpsv it's aged better than quake 1 and unreal
one of my favorite things about Doom is that there was literally a sub-generation of Generation X (generation previous to the current generation) that was called the Doom generation. How frickin sick is that!?
I'm referring to myself as part of the Doom Generation from now on.
Doom generation a.k.a The Shotgun generation
Yup
There doomers lmao
I was just called Doomer Boomer by nephew when he saw me playing doom
Nitpick: Those are Barons of Hell that come out at you at the end of Episode 1, not Hell Knights; Hell Knights didn't show up until Doom 2.
glad im not the only one who noticed
Heh
it's a shame that I only recently got into this game a few months ago because of DOOM 2016, it's crazy fun even for someone who just recently got into it. I love all the mods it offers like Brutal DOOM. Looking forward to IDs new adaption this month, looking pretty good.
agreed!
From witch planet do you come from ? Even on mars they know DOOM !
It is the game where all dead monsters stay in their blood on the floor.
ok, samuel nevalainen, i think a little bit, what amazing game better than DOOM was made after the 90s ?
Why are we talking about DOOM 25 years later ?
Because there are many concepts in this game missing in all games after DOOM
Only polish was done, hardware update. Most of video games now are just cutscenes.
It's truly remarkable how Doom still today feels so good game. Most games of that era feel quite dated in pretty much all aspects, graphics, sound and gameplay. Everything is so well made in Doom that it doesn't feel nearly as dated as it "should". Just few days ago I fired up old pentium with SB AWE32 and played through first few levels of "vanilla" Doom2. It still was so fun. Only thing that felt bit dated was resolution.
Doom was most definitely _THE_ game changer.
doom is without question the most important fps game ever made. Anyone that played it back when it came out would understand how huge of a leap it was. One of the best games ever made. Doom kind of burns itself into your head long after you played it
You talked about the hidden passages with monsters in them
In the the book masters of dooming talks about sandy Petersen purposefully doing just that and that's what got him hired
hazza connor brock matt sam "Master of DOOM Is the correct title, but not alot of Hidden Passages had monsters In DOOM If I remember, to be honest. Just once and a while.
Spelling error sorry
Love Doom! Same exact story you told! I was 7 and my parents finally gave in and bought me Doom II because the shareware wasn't enough ahahaha. My mom was so frightened of the game she banned me from showing it to my friends! Good times, Doom was the kick ass secret violent game I would play all alone and I too still remember all of the cheats ahahaha
Zelousmarineinspace I've gotten the shocked face before too. It's a bit random but I think can pretty much be considered a part of the game. It's just really rare and I've only got it once.
007Tubedude Even rarer on the Xbox 360.
Although source ports fix this
007Tubedude The shock face in doom isn't that rare if you play on Ultra Violence, it mostly happens when you get the blue face at the sametime of death or near death, you have to get hit at the sametime when you get the blue face. It's that feeling of "HOLY SHIT! I SURVIVED! Low health + getting hit + blue face = shock face. It happens at least once everytime you play on Ultra Violence. If it's a shock that you survived, it'll be a shock to the character as well.
Max Willson Yeah, I was playing on UV when it happened. I think its really at the point where it can be considered a part of the game as opposed to a glitch.
007Tubedude The shock face is suppose to be the opposite of the death face, you are suppose to get the shock face when you cheat death and get health right before death. You'll also get it if you over whelm the character with a lot of new weapons and health during a stressful situation. It's very rare to get it during easy times.
Way to capture the sprit of Doom and couldn't agree more with your points
BROOO!! Fellow Aussie here. Those PC games you named were ALL the ones i played as a kid. i was born in 1986 and my dad was a fan of PC's early on. Bio Menace, Commander keen series, DooM, Halloween Harry, Jet Pack, Hocus Pocus, Wolfenstein 3d, Red Hooks revenge, Jazz Jack Rabbit just to name a few were all on my faves list. Subbed, love your channel it takes me back to my childhood man
I was 8 or 9 when I first played Doom.
Not only were my parents aware of this, but they played it too. We were one freaky family back then :)
Funny thing worth mentioning, a few weeks ago a friend of mine (we're both in our mid 30's) was playing an IPAD doom port in public transportation, and a 10 years old came to him and said "Hey that game's freakin' awesome!!! what's that???"
"er... lol, doom..."
A 10 years old, I mean that kid probably have like at least a PS3 or some nextgen console at home.
Doom definitely has its own appeal, something like no other game. I do believe that the music and the overall sound ambiance does most of it.
Thanks for the review mate.
legend.
yet another great video and to top it off about a great game!
Rip and fucking tear indeed. I'm finishing up my first full playthrough of Brutal Doom and it's as bloody, violent, and beautiful as ever. I can't wait for Doom 2016. I just hope it keeps that Doom feel. Great vid. :)
Nice video!! But I'm sooo sorry I have to say this! At 2:18 they are Barons of Hell... Hellknights were introduced in Doom II ;_;
Thank you for your Retro Reviews. When it comes down to Old School, many don't take the prospective like you do. I appreciate it. Others I seen reviewing at times are just a bit too full of themselves or just focus on one side of the Pros and Cons list.
This is one of - if not *THE* - Best videogame ever made. Every single First Person Shooter calls back to Doom in SOME way. You can't deny it's impact.
If you are a person who thinks of FPS with Cod: THIS GAME IS GONNA KICK YOUR ARSE!!
& If you havn't played it: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE??!!
Again, Doom is nowhere near the world's great ass-kicker.
Deus Ex 1? That's the kicker of ass.
20 later and i'm still not tired of DOOM :)
Beautiful review. You just gave me a huge nostalgia hit of my childhood too.
Every and I mean every first person shooter owes it's existence to Doom and Wolfenstein. That's how it works, and I still play the hell out of Doom more than any other shooter combined.
This is awesome you sir had the ability to see into the future. I am curious if doom will eventually dethrone space invaders as the most important game ever released. At this point I put it at 2. But who knows.
Dude you bring up such awesome childhood memories with your story!
DOOM 2 was my introduction to the fps genre. When I first saw it on somebody's PC I couldn't believe it how beautiful it looked.
nice retrospective
The ending couldn't have been better, haha. Suscribed!
You were right about doom gaining recognition as a masterpiece. Recently the Strong Museum opened the world video game hall of fame and doom was one of the inaugural 6 games to to enter this year
As a kid from germany my family didnt had a pc until I was 7 and even after that I was not allowed to play anything except for lerning games.
Since I wasnt allowed to own a console or a handheld either I experienced doom way to late (odly enough after playing doom 3) in my life but it changed it for good!
Since then im a really big fan of "old school" games and own a bunch of old consoles,game cases,big boxes and a such things.
Doom changed my few on games and let me enjoy the old games as much as the new ones (if not even more).
When I hear people like you talking about playing games like doom,blood or duke nukem for the first time as a kid then I get kind of sad because I learned of there excistence way to late (around 12/13 maybe).
Its kind of sad that none of my friends seems to enjoy the classic as much as I do but who can blame then, they grow up with pokemom and gta and stuff like that...
What I want to say is that Doom is such a great game that incluenced so many people and the gaming world as a whole.
Truely a masterpiece!
(I still cant recall how often I finished Doom since then...I even play it on my phone via a gldoom port)
That music! God this brings back memories! You forgot to mention that this game started the LAN party phenomena!
I remember seeing my Brother Play doom when i was like 4 And It Gave me Nightmares.
Gwen Hale I remember being 5 at the time and seeing a friend of mine play the first level and run out of his chamber crying because It scared the hell outta me.Hahaha good time!If my younger self only knew what horrible and gruesome game I would play later In my life xD
I was 3 or 4 when I saw my dad play Doom II, I think that was the very moment I got hooked into gaming. Well, that, and Command & Conquer.
I remember playing and beating both Doom and Doom 2 when I was 4.
i love Your reviews and this one is just great. awesome video, man
I have Doom 1 and 2 as extras that came with Doom 3 BFG Edition. Really need to go back and play the first one again.
+Divine Retribution Those are all mods, the console versions are original ports.
wariodude128 I have the original Ultimate Doom, Doom 3 BFG edition and GZdoom source port with Brutal Doom.
When I think "gaming memories," I remember playing Half-Life with my dad back when I was little. It gave me nightmares, but I made me the gamer I am today.
I remember playing a shareware version of this on a lan during lunch at a tafe computer course in 1994, we just stayed on the first level until we were literally knee deep in the dead. I don't think I've ever had a more enjoyable gaming session to this day.
Happy Birthday Doom!
Played this SO many nights all night long with friends online. I think most of my many deaths came from firing a rocket and not noticing the invisible pinky demon in front of me in a hectic firefight.
In 1993 i was in elementary school as well. I would go out and play with my brother in our back yard setting up battles between plastic army men and native Americans. On some weekends i would sit in the family living room and watch my Dad play Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Duke Nukem, X-COM: UFO Defense, X-COM: Terror From the Deep, Hexen, Ultima 7, Sim City, on his PC and a few others i can't think of at the moment. My dad let me play all the games i mentioned above except Ultima 7. I now play all those games on my modern PC thanks to GOG.com and Steam. I have the shareware version of Doom on an 18 year old PC that i don't use all that much anymore. Your story is similar to mine and thats just plain awesome.
Doom made me a gamer! I will always remember the first time I saw it. .I hope id will deliver with the next Doom game! ! ! !
Well done anniversary video, thank u!
While DOOM I wasn't the first FPS game I played, it's sequel, Hell on Earth, was. And back then I could barely play it without cheating (my first memories of the game was when I was 3 or 4, back when my family was still living in Hawaii around either 95 or 96), even then, I didn't want to go out of the starting area because I was too scared of the monsters. But I enjoyed watching my dad play it, in fact, I remembered my dad making it to the Icon of Sin, but he had trouble trying to beat him without cheating, and I remembered seeing the digitized John Romero head on a pike when my dad used the noclip cheat.
I started playing DOOM and DOOM II for real when I was around 7 (of course, I still cheated), and I remembered getting to the ending of the first DOOM and seeing the severed rabbit head (my dad still debates that it was a human head, though, must've confused the Romero Head in DOOM II), or coming across the Arch-Vile for the first time in the sequel and being utterly scared shitless by it. And I played DOOM and DOOM II again when I was in 8th grade after downloading them online (strangely, I only got the shareware version for the first DOOM), but that point, I barely played it due to other stuff grabbing my attention then. I wouldn't play DOOM at it's fullest without cheats until I entered college when my dad downloaded it for the iOS, and I was hooked again for the first time since Middle School. So much so that, on 2013, I bought the BFG edition of DOOM 3 so that I could have access to (almost) every DOOM game out there.
Much like how Command & Conquer was influential to introducing me in the Strategy genre, and Breath of Fire III introduced me to the RPG genre, DOOM will always hold a special place in my heart.
This game still holds up today!! The brutal doom mod makes it really good..
Slydk1982 Oh heck yeah,It gives It a breath of new life and Its so freaking kick ass!!!
Doom is amazing. Brutal Doom is just outta this world.
Quite possibly the best game ever made. My entire youtube channel is dedicated to DOOM
what brandon said!now it's dedicated to clickbaity gmod videos!
Retog Your channel is just perverted videos
good game? sure. best fps? maybe. best game of all time? HELLL NAWWWWW. (no pun intended)
Not really
Loved this review. I can relate to a lot of this....my favourite moment was getting the chainsaw.
The thing which is hard to convey to younger gamers nowadays, is how this 90's decade fundamentally changed things in all genres. How games would come out and render anything which had come before obsolete. Doom, Quake, Unreal, Grand Prix Legends, later Half Life... I remember when the Grand Prix Legends demo was released. I downloaded it, played it at something like 11fps in the basic, Goreux shaded mode until 4am in the morning, slept some and then took time off work, stating personal reasons, just to buy a brand new computer in the morning, in order to be able to play that game.
Man, my first experience with Doom was in 2002 at a friend's house. I got there and hee was playing the demo of the PS1 version. Yeah I used to get everything pretty late... I was born in '96 and I got my PS1 for my 6th birthday, meanwhile everyone else already had a PS2. Before that all I really had was my brother's Mega Drive and Game Boy Color. Good times.
So glad DOOm Made it into the video game hall of fame, not only that, but it was also one of he first 5 ever picked.
i salute to those who played Doom in 1993 and beyond and i salute to the newcomers who started playing any of the Doom games as they continue the legacy
For all of the classic ID FPS' that I played (Quake (PC and N64), and Hexen (N64)) when I was younger, (and Doom more recently), one thing I can say is, ID knows what they're doing at making really memorable games. Just throw a stick at the fps genre and you'll come across these games. If it weren't for them, the FPS genre wouldn't be what it is today.
what the hell are twistys
+Dominic Esquivel www.google.com.au/search?q=twisties&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitg5L9-LTJAhVjPKYKHQhDC6sQ_AUIBygB&biw=1920&bih=946
+Gggmanlives good god that was fast but thanks
dude twisties are the jam
basically Cheetos
Are you gonna review Doom 4 when it comes out?
Next year, it's going to be my 30th year of playing Doom.
I know most people here would already be aware of it but I can't recommend the Brutal DOOM Mod enough if you were into DOOM before it takes all the things that were already great and cranks them to 11 (here's a link to my favorite version of it forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=37428) just spreading the word. Also I think it goes without saying at this point but great video as always.
Brutal Doom is really fun. I'm afraid to say it's ruined vanilla for me.
Absolutely amazing game, this game truly put the PC gaming on the world stage.
Even to this day tons of people are playing it, the fact that nightmare mode provides such a challenge is testament to the longevity of the game.
Doom is indeed a masterpiece. Even all these years later it holds up and holds up well.
At 0:52 i was like "yes,yes YES FUCK YEAH DOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Doom, alone in the dark, twisted metal, pinball 3d space cadet, truck madness 2, quake series and half life. These was great games at their time! I still remember strange feeling that i had when i first saw moving end screen after finishing doom 1 on pc. It was great time to be born! And i'm glad that i was born then and not now. However, today's games can be awesome but still won't be the same as in the past they was. For example: Far cry 3, Crysis 2 and gta v.
What a great video. Such an amazing series, Doom is.
id Keys Firearms Ammo
thats what idkfa stands for... idfa is just weapons and ammo incase people didnt want the keys and look for it themselves
also playing this ever since 1996 when i was 6 years old... my dad still hates me for playing it at that a young age...
Miciso It stands for “killer fucking ammo” according to the devs
i managed to get into the doom closed beta, and all i can say is it will live up to anyone's expectations, its fun, well balanced and it feels like the right doom. and funny thing is it was the first beta
i grew up in the later generation sure doom was out when i was younger, but i was too young to understand, but i understand your feeling because even though they are in a different genre its GTA 3 that always floods back the memories and i can still have a blast, sure there are better free roaming adventure games, but loading it up, hearing the loading screens of DMA design and then that cool jazz music of the intro always brings it all back to the first day i got my PS2 and GTA 3, this is what people dont understand this is how gaming can make us feel and i dont want to sound stuck up or anything but i do feel truly sorry for the people growing up in the call of duty generation, because pretty much everything is the damn same these days, sure GTA V is an amazing game (one of my all time faves) but it doesnt bring back the feeling of being 9 years old and sneaking a go on GTA 3! pure bliss haha
Have you tried the Brutal Doom mod yet? As well as adding gore, it beefs up the sound and remakes the songs, as well as adding a few modern additions that make it feel fresh whilst still being the same game.
Those sprites are terrifying! Nah, Doom is the granddaddy of the first person shooters!
1:27 My faves before Doom were Faxanadu, Out of This World, and Flashback.
3:30 Doomguy loos kind of a lot like early '90s Tom Berenger.
Doom 2 was my very first PC game(maybe a year or two after release), first FPS ever played, the game that made me an FPS junkie for life, AND is still one of my favorite franchises (psyched for new Doom!)
Game on Viva la DOOM! Alongside Quake, halflife, unreal and UT, and duke nukem 3D
you know what's funny? all the games he listed at the end of the video are being put into the hall of fame, along with DOOM
Very well put!
ha! i still remember the doom codes even after 20 years of not playing!!!
Karl Adam Play the mod for doom "Project Brutality"
looks sweet as hell!
I can accept that it is the grand-daddy of FPS games, but I still like Heretic better. Although I can concede that Heretic is made a lot easier by not having any enemy using a hitscan weapon against you.
And I absolutely love your Retro Reviews. Made especially better with your Aussie accent of course, and funny things you say that only us Aussies would say :P
I love the first Doom! All that violence!
what game is at 4:52 please. i've been looking for it but couldn't remember the name!!
+Conor Daly Hey dude it's Heretic!
thanks you, i remember the shock gloves from this game classic
doom 64 is bloody awesome too (very underrated game).better than doom 3 imho.
Agree 100%. It wasn't perfect, but it had entirely new levels and art design and the atmosphere was especially dark (both literally and figuratively).
Story wise, Doom 64 was the true sequel to Doom 2
***** yea, I don't like the N64 controller. But it's not the worst controller ever. Quake 2 on the N64 gives you the option to use the D-pad for movement and the analog stick for looking, just like modern FPSs. But when it came to Doom 64, I actually played the unofficial port of the game on PC, so I used a mouse instead :P I would've hated playing that with the N64 controller.
Definitely. It has been ported to PC as well by the fans, more people need to know about it.
racefaceec90 That was the first Doom I played and it scared the crap out of me. I think I only played it once lmao.
THIS...SHIT...NEVER...GETS...OLD!!!!
Used to play with friend. I opened doors and shoot guns, he did the movement.
First game that scared me shitless. Couldn´t play alone.
2:17 these are Barons of Hell aka Bruiser Brothers. Hell Knights are their weaker versions that can be found in Doom II.
idspispopd was clipping in the original, but yes awesome game that is still fun
The memories! :) Most games today are disappointing! :( (Old Doom games need to be on all game systems every time a new machine comes out!)
Absolutely love that ending! "Rip and fucking tear."
You know when I was a kid I didn't first experience Doom through the PC version. I actually had my first taste of Doom with the Custom PlayStation Edition. It was in my opinion the best way to experience Doom. Since my Dad only owned a PlayStation and not a PC back then.
thats like my first taste of starcraft was on the n64, and I never played the pc version until years later
+DashieSparkle yeah man my first ever doom experience was doom , doom 2 ultimate doom , and final doom on the ps1 Goddamn the sound effect gave nightmares for years also the badass doom 64 then after that I owned a pc in 2006 after doom 3 release ,,,,, : ) : ) ahhhhhhhhh great fucking times ,, not those casual weak ass moments in call of doooty and battlefield do not get wrong after world at war and modern warfare 1 , 2 and blackops 1 2 these games are dead to me ,,,, thank god we are getting the new doom on may 13 ,,, the the badass shadow warrior 2 , Goddamn can,t wait for these awesome games
Doom was a movie and lets just say it wasn't what people were possibly expecting.
Ultimate DOOM was the first video game I ever played. I was 2 years old.
Where Doom stands out truly is the design of weapons, enemies and encounters. Each enemy and weapon fulfils a niche, as opposed to modern FPSes 30 mag automatics.
good on ya for the rip and tear reference before it became common knowledge
Born in '03. Somehow fits in with the Doom generation.
0:30 Sega Mega Drive bro, don't forget your roots :)
Ah, Doom. A timeless legend of a game.
this game is a masterpiece, but only at this era of gaming i can truly appreciate how amazing this game is. with all the advances in gaming technology, superb voice acting, amazing cutscenes, beautiful graphics, then i go back to play Doom, and i find myself enjoying it so much more than modern games like CoD, Crysis, Metro etc..there's something so enjoyable in its simplicity that is just lost in modern gaming, no1 try to sell you gimmicks or feed you stories. it's simple, but it's done well, very very well
the soundtrack is plain awesome, i mean who really remembers soundtrack of modern games? no1. but i'll remember doom's for the rest of my life
the weapons are so much fun with excellent feedback and sound, which also you'll never forget
the enemies are great with awesome death animation and sound effects (again..)
my only complain is the lack of story progression and terrible level design with no rhyme or reason, something fps games only finally figured out in Half-Life to its fullest potential. it's as if the design was made by programmers, they prob never even realized that something was missing, it's a flaw they kept since W3D. technically it was possible to take it one step further, but it was beyond them..they created an amazing engine, but didn't know what to do with it. there's not even an intro that tells you where you are and why, you are just thrown into the game..you only get the story when it's over..it was prob in the box, but that's no excuse. sure fps were kinda new stuff, but that's no excuse either, lets not forget how many amazing rpg and adventure games existed by that time
Doom 2 made me nostalgic for a time that I wasn't even alive.
This is the second game which I ever completed!!!! 👍👍👍
My most intense doom experience happened recently on E2M1 (on ultra-violence) I ran out of shotty ammo and ran into the cacodemon at the very end of the mission (the 2nd one) and ran out of pistol ammo leaving me with just my fists to kill a cacodemon, so I ran into the imp at the exit door and mashed the spacebar until the mission ended
I was 10 and my first experience was the shareware disk. My computer at the time did not have a CD drive nor the required space to install the full version, so I ended up with a red cartridge for the SNES. I eventually got around to the full PC experience though when we finally got a new computer in the Y2K haha.
I loved Doom and Doom 3 and here's hoping Doom 4 will be awesome.
That Commander Keen 4 music though.
Although Cyber Demons are Terrifying...I still don't get as scared/jumpy/panicked as when I hear a Cacodemon hiss.
1:10 Slayyyyyerrrr!
Still the best action game of all time, I'd say best game period but I know some people will disagree. Built like a twin-stick shooter from the first person perspective and very careful design (speed as a defense, progressive weapons, and simple-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay. Hell, I STILL play this game and have since '93.
What's a chicken flavored twisty? sounds yummy. Also: how many different "full" versions of doom were there? I know that there was a Playstation, SNES, 32x, and I think Sega Saturn version(s) of the original Doom, but what about those versions with new features or more levels? or even level packs themselves like with Wolf 3D??
The versions were...
MS DOS
32x
Atari Jaguar
SNES
3DO
Playstation (Custom Playstation Edition)
Sega Saturn
Game Boy Advance
Microsoft Xbox (Doom 3 Limited Collectors edition or Doom 3 Resurrection of Evil)
Microsoft Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade or Doom 3 BFG Edition)
Playstation 3 (Doom Classic Complete or Doom 3 BFG Edition)
NEXTSTEP
OS/2
IRIX
Solaris
Mac OS
Linux
Microsoft Windows (Doom 95 or Doom 3 BFG Edition)
Acom RISC OS
Tapwave Zodiac
iPhone and iPod touch.
good video. Doom and doom 2 games where the sh*t back in the day
*Still are
lol flickering CRT what kind of monitor did you have?
Nothing can live up to dooms standards. But I hope DOOM (Doom4) will be close.
Could you one day make a guide to playing these types of shooters? I'm one of those people raised on battlefield and I know that I will have fun once I know what the fuck I'm doing.
***** Not a bad idea, maybe in a future vid. What would you like to know in particular?
How to dodge attacks from hit scan enemies, how to find secrets, how to maneuver around in tight corridors, etc
Pretty much the basics
+Gggmanlives
How to dodge attacks from hit scan enemies, how to find secrets, how to maneuver around in tight corridors, etc. Pretty much the basics.
***** 80's kid here, grew up with doom. Shoot all the fucking monsters before they shoot you. Do not conserve ammo, it is in abundance. Find the keys, and hit the switch to end the level. Guide finished.