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⌈ Secret Post #2534 ⌋

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[Doctor Who]

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[Guild Wars 2]

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[Perry Mason]

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[Sleepy Hollow]

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[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic; gorefic]

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[Marco Mengoni/Max Pezzali (883)]

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[Hetalia]

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[Once Upon a Time and Uncanny X-Men]

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[Borderlands 2]

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[Elementary]

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[Rise of the Guardians. Art by Rufftoon.]

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[Mabinogi]

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[minecraft/C418]

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[The Big Bang Theory]

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Bit long so to avoid complaints full post will be a reply to this.

Greetings, F!S! Twenty years ago today a bunch of nerds with long hair and terrible clothes uploaded a game they made to the FTP server at University of Wisconsin-Madison and FOREVER CHANGED THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.

It was violent, it was scary, it was controversial, it was influential, it was legendary. It pissed off an army of parents, religious people and politicians. It was banned in Germany for 15 years. It was blamed for everything from loss of productivity to school shootings. It chugged on 386 PCs, it chugged on Playstation, and now it can be played on calculators and cell phones and pianos. It revolutionized the nascent PC gaming industry, introduced deathmatch to the masses and would serve as the basis for many imitators for years.

It's Doom.

Sure, kids day might look at it and say "bad graphics, why can't I reload" and other catchphrases of the Press X to Hollywood generation, but beyond those clunky little sprites and MIDI music and pseudo-3D engine is a lot of history. PC gaming would not exist without this game, most likely -- at one point, an estimated 10 million people had at least the (free) shareware copy within two years of its release. And if I'm being perfectly honest, if it weren't for PC gaming, a sizeable majority of today's modern console gaming wouldn't exist either.

I don't think I'm being hyperbolic when I say modern gaming owes everything to Doom, and an equal amount to Doom's programmer John Carmack, who is without a doubt one of the smartest men in the world.

You wanna play Doom? You can buy Doom for cheapies or you can be like me and use very ancient copies of the IWADs that've traveled across 5 computers because I lost the discs ages ago, or you could just get it off kickass.to, I dunno. You don't need to use the old decrepit DOS exes, either -- just drop the necessary .wad files into a folder with this and you're good to go!

And if PSX Doom's simplified architecture and creepier atmosphere is more to your taste, boy have I got the present for you. And let's not forget Doom 64. (You could also try this, but it requires the Doom 64 wad to get its resources.)

Here, have some Doom music.

Doom

Doom II: Hell On Eearth

Final Doom: Evilution

Doom and Final Doom PSX

Doom 64

Nice post, thanks.

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I never played Doom because I'm generally too young, but I definitely appreciate how big of an impact it had on the gaming industry. So yay, happy birthday Doom :)

You're never too young to play Doom :)

Maybe I'll check it out during a steam sale! I meant that I was young when it came out so it never really crossed my path as a game to play. :)

A word of advice if you buy Doom 3 BFG Edition, which comes with a revamped Doom 3 as well as 1 and 2: The versions of Doom 1 and 2, specifically the .wad files -- are modified from the originals, with some censorship. It's worth it just to play Doom 3 without having to swap between a gun and a flashlight, and it also comes with No Rest For The Living (which was previously only on the XBLA version of Doom 2), but they screwed the pooch on that too and you'll need an additional freely-made wad to make it run properly outside the (barebones) port that comes with BFG edition.

The individually-sold versions I linked above are untouched and come with Final Doom and Master Levels (but not No Rest for the Living.)

Happy Birthday, Doom. You will forever remind me of Ministry and the first Offspring album and scaring the shit out of myself finishing you late at night in the computer room, back when homes only had one computer.

I will forever have fond memories of trading off playing Doom levels with my brother as a kid, and cursing the game because we couldn't get the multiplayer to work on our copy(or at least we think it had multiplayer).

Your history of the game is laughably wrong. It was developed by the exact same professionals who developed Wolfenstein using the leftover resources from that. The team recognized a better way they could have made Wolfenstein so they built the Doom engine. Doom's popularity was built on Wolfenstein's success; id marketed it as Wolfenstein with true 3D.

You start off by telling me I'm wrong in a condescending way, and then you go on to be fucking wrong yourself.

Fantastic. I was wondering when someone would threadshit, good job.

Hi, I'm Alex Devoll and you'll find my name in the credits for Commander Keen 1-6, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake I & II. Your history of Doom is laughably wrong.

Oh I get it, you're trolling, because I have half of those games installed right now and your name isn't in any of them, I've been a fan of id Software since I got Commander Keen in 1993 and I have never seen your name ever, and "Alex Devoll" and "id software" in the same search string turn up zippo. Not to mention I've read "Masters of Doom" twice and your name doesn't come up at all ever, and it even mentions that weird contracted coder they hired that was pissing everyone off and they tortured him in effigy and left the results on his office chair for him to see when he came in.

I'd say "post proof" but you don't have any, so do me a favour and just punch yourself in the face for wasting my time.

[edit] Not to mention, anyone who worked on those games would be in their 40s or 50s by now, and wouldn't come near a teenage wasteland like Fandom Secrets. Why did you even bother with this shit?

Edited 2013-12-11 08:15 (UTC)

I guess you feel if you're gonna lie, lie big right? It takes around 2 minutes to show that you're NOT in the credits of any of those games, what did you think was going to happen, that everyone would just take you at your word and bow down to your awesomeness?

Welcome to the internet.

I only ever watched Linkara's review of the Doom comic. :( I'm glad you guys have a thingy though!

Haha the Doom comic.

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