Comments on: 'Doom': A personal retrospective

Doom 4 is scheduled to be released at some point in the future, but that doesn't mean we can't look back at a great franchise. Don Reisinger does just that.

[J-Hawaii]

Man, Doom could scare the hell out me when I was a kid - and I loved it. One minute you're blowing away brown dudes and "chick-chick"-ing your shotgun, and then all of a sudden huge, hooved demons throwing green crap are pouring out the walls... good times indeed.

[t8]

I tell you what made Doom a great game.
It was the madness of lots of enemies coming at you at once.
At first you just died and died and died, but as you got better, you learned to fight these mindless and mad mobs of hell creatures. Nowadays, games are one or a few enemies at a time in order to be more realistic and to satisfy the limits of graphic capability. But Doom was set in hell so lost souls and demons don't fight one at a time do they? The other thing I liked was it's futuristic looking levels. This game was definitely the future and the ability to build new levels and play thousands of others was one of the big draw cards. I still have an old 386 laptop at home just for playing Doom and some of the levels I created back in the 90s.

[AndrewRich]

It might be worth pointing out Doom's direct antecedent: Wolfenstein 3D. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D

[blusky08]

They'll probably turn it into yet another one of those 3rd person military mission style games that now line the shelves. Strangely, it does seems someone decided the violence is more acceptabe in that context.

[alegr]

I liked Descent more.

[bootchmagoo]

Doom was great. I also really enjoyed the first Quake. I had Return to Castle Wolfenstein on Xbox back in the day. When you beat it, it unlocked the original Wolfenstein 3D and I think I had more fun playing the old version again.

I'd like to see Doom 4 kick a$$.

[FpLiOnYkD]

I recently purchased the Doom 2 download on Steam for $4.99. I had longed to play it for years (bought it in 1994) but the version I had was so old it couldn't run on any of my Windows XP PC's, and I was too lazy to figure out how to make it work. Ah, the memories it brought back. Doom 2 was the first game I was truly addicted to--playing 6 hours straight with nary a potty break and wondering what happened to the time; getting to level 23 on "Hurt Me Plenty" difficulty and then deciding to start all over on "Ultra-Violence" mode; swapping war stories with fellow Doomers at work; getting absolutely terrified whenever an imp or revenant would scream when you stumbled upon it--it truly was a wondrous time. Sure felt good to play it again!