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  • Doom will B almost 30 yrs. old in a yr. :O

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 10 08:21:49 2022
    Dang!
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    Doom will B almost 30 yrs. old in a yr. :O
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 11 19:43:34 2022
    On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 08:21:49 -0800, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:

    Me too!*

    I'd use this date as a celebratory excuse to play another the
    original** Doom again.... except I don't really need an excuse. Doom
    is one of those evergreen games that never gets old (oddly enough, I
    can't say the same for its sequel).

    And in the rare instance you /do/ tire of Doom, the engine has proven
    to be so adaptable that the thousands of mods - which transform the
    game into almost a game of any genre you could imagine - will breath
    new life into the experience.

    So I can't get too excited about this newest anniversary because - for
    me - it's never really left my life. For me, there's really not much
    difference between day 10,591 and 10,592... it's just another day to
    play Doom ;-)

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    * for very specific values of '30' that may not be in anyway related
    to how long it takes the Earth to go around its sun
    ** Well, technically a Source port of the first game with a bunch of
    additional mods... but the original .WAD files are still being used so
    it still counts, right?

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to spallshurgenson@gmail.com on Fri Dec 16 12:45:42 2022
    On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:43:34 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    And in the rare instance you /do/ tire of Doom, the engine has proven
    to be so adaptable that the thousands of mods - which transform the
    game into almost a game of any genre you could imagine - will breath
    new life into the experience.

    Not my video, but...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjnOdDzSxWs
    ... it sort of proves my point. Pick a genre, any genre, and Doom's
    got you covered. Open-world games (Doom Free Room), RPGs (DoomRPG,
    natch), racing game (Sonic Roboblast 2 Kart), flight sim (OZ Vision),
    even dating sims (Doomed Love). Doom does it all.

    Worth a look to see some of the oddities made with or for Doom.

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