Attention, attention! This is your regular Thursday Epic freebies announcement-thingee. Y'all know the drill.

This week's offering:

Doom64
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/doom-64

You probably know the story of this one; it's a remastered port of the Nintendo64 version of "Doom" now on PC. Although the N64 version
shared a lot of assets and story with the original game, thematically
it was quite different; it was much slower paced in its gameplay, with
a bigger focus on puzzles and navigating the labyrinth. It's still a first-person shooter first-n-foremost, but it's more akin to the
cautious exploration in "Half Life" (albeit without the strong
environmental storytelling) than the frantic run-n-gun that is usually associated with "Doom".

Long forgotten, "Doom64" earned itself a reputation it doesn't - I
feel - quite deserve. It's been put up on a pedestal largely because -
after so many years of 'regular' Doom - it feels fresh and original.
It's an okay game, but it's quite slow and it's mazes aren't much fun
to traverse. It's great that it's different and it's not necessarily a
bad game, but it's flawed and - at least in my opinion - not that much
fun once the novelty of its existence fades. Any "Doom" fan should
give it a try, but if you're expecting a great exciting transformation
of the franchise, you'll be disappointed.

Still, it's a Doom game and it's free, so I'm adding it to my library.
You have a week to decide if you want to do the same.

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On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:40:14 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Attention, attention! This is your regular Thursday Epic freebies >announcement-thingee. Y'all know the drill.

This week's offering:

Doom64
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/doom-64

You probably know the story of this one; it's a remastered port of the >Nintendo64 version of "Doom" now on PC. Although the N64 version
shared a lot of assets and story with the original game, thematically
it was quite different; it was much slower paced in its gameplay, with
a bigger focus on puzzles and navigating the labyrinth. It's still a >first-person shooter first-n-foremost, but it's more akin to the
cautious exploration in "Half Life" (albeit without the strong
environmental storytelling) than the frantic run-n-gun that is usually >associated with "Doom".

Long forgotten, "Doom64" earned itself a reputation it doesn't - I
feel - quite deserve. It's been put up on a pedestal largely because -
after so many years of 'regular' Doom - it feels fresh and original.
It's an okay game, but it's quite slow and it's mazes aren't much fun
to traverse. It's great that it's different and it's not necessarily a
bad game, but it's flawed and - at least in my opinion - not that much
fun once the novelty of its existence fades. Any "Doom" fan should
give it a try, but if you're expecting a great exciting transformation
of the franchise, you'll be disappointed.

Still, it's a Doom game and it's free, so I'm adding it to my library.
You have a week to decide if you want to do the same.

They had me at "free." Okay though, mild interest helps.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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As a classic DOOMer, I took it. I think I played it briefly in an
emulator or something decades ago too. :)


Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Attention, attention! This is your regular Thursday Epic freebies announcement-thingee. Y'all know the drill.

This week's offering:

Doom64
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/doom-64

You probably know the story of this one; it's a remastered port of the Nintendo64 version of "Doom" now on PC. Although the N64 version
shared a lot of assets and story with the original game, thematically
it was quite different; it was much slower paced in its gameplay, with
a bigger focus on puzzles and navigating the labyrinth. It's still a first-person shooter first-n-foremost, but it's more akin to the
cautious exploration in "Half Life" (albeit without the strong
environmental storytelling) than the frantic run-n-gun that is usually associated with "Doom".

Long forgotten, "Doom64" earned itself a reputation it doesn't - I
feel - quite deserve. It's been put up on a pedestal largely because -
after so many years of 'regular' Doom - it feels fresh and original.
It's an okay game, but it's quite slow and it's mazes aren't much fun
to traverse. It's great that it's different and it's not necessarily a
bad game, but it's flawed and - at least in my opinion - not that much
fun once the novelty of its existence fades. Any "Doom" fan should
give it a try, but if you're expecting a great exciting transformation
of the franchise, you'll be disappointed.

Still, it's a Doom game and it's free, so I'm adding it to my library.
You have a week to decide if you want to do the same.

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On 8/18/2022 9:40 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Attention, attention! This is your regular Thursday Epic freebies announcement-thingee. Y'all know the drill.

This week's offering:

Doom64
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/doom-64

You probably know the story of this one; it's a remastered port of the Nintendo64 version of "Doom" now on PC. Although the N64 version
shared a lot of assets and story with the original game, thematically
it was quite different; it was much slower paced in its gameplay, with
a bigger focus on puzzles and navigating the labyrinth. It's still a first-person shooter first-n-foremost, but it's more akin to the
cautious exploration in "Half Life" (albeit without the strong
environmental storytelling) than the frantic run-n-gun that is usually associated with "Doom".

Long forgotten, "Doom64" earned itself a reputation it doesn't - I
feel - quite deserve. It's been put up on a pedestal largely because -
after so many years of 'regular' Doom - it feels fresh and original.
It's an okay game, but it's quite slow and it's mazes aren't much fun
to traverse. It's great that it's different and it's not necessarily a
bad game, but it's flawed and - at least in my opinion - not that much
fun once the novelty of its existence fades. Any "Doom" fan should
give it a try, but if you're expecting a great exciting transformation
of the franchise, you'll be disappointed.

Still, it's a Doom game and it's free, so I'm adding it to my library.
You have a week to decide if you want to do the same.

Does one have to play the first 63 Doom games for Doom 64 to make sense?


--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

Any "Doom" fan should give it a try, but if you're expecting a great
exciting transformation of the franchise, you'll be disappointed.

Well, I gave it a try, got through the first level. Feels so weird you
can't look up or down. Got the chainsaw so I performance tested that,
worked well.

I don't know, feels like this might be the end of it for me and Doom. I
quite liked the 2016 thingy and I haven't gotten around to "Eternal" yet
but I wasn't really tempted by the reviews.

Oh BTW, I did play the text adventure Doom back when. Anyone else?

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On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 01:00:51 +0300, Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote:

I don't know, feels like this might be the end of it for me and Doom. I
quite liked the 2016 thingy and I haven't gotten around to "Eternal" yet
but I wasn't really tempted by the reviews.

Oh BTW, I did play the text adventure Doom back when. Anyone else?

I played the "Doom" adventure trilogy by Topologikia ("Countdown to
Doom", "Return to Doom", and "Last Days of Doom"), although those
predate Id's games by a decade. Does that count? ;-)

I'm unfamiliar with any text-adventures based on Id's game, however.
There's one called "FooM!" (https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/FOOM!)
Never played it, though.

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

I'm unfamiliar with any text-adventures based on Id's game, however.
There's one called "FooM!" (https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/FOOM!)
Never played it, though.

That's probably it.

From what I recall the text adventure was minimal, I think it had just a
part of the first level. But you could move around and shoot so in a way
it covered all of Doom :) I'll see if I get around to trying that.

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