Saturday, August 16, 2008

Doom 1 and 2

Ok. I'm not a huge fan of FPSes. I'll play through them, but slowly, typically. I end up disliking how the games end up not feeling just like run and gun awesome action. They add in puzzles and stealth and ... Arg. Now, while I don't dislike those elements in other games, they tend to ruin FPSes for me.

Doom 1, however, is the perfect FPS, IMO. The entire game is you running around and killing the everloving crap out of everything. There's few things more satisfying than knocking around a Cacodemon with a rocket.

... Well, except for using the Super Shotgun. If Doom2 did one thing right, it was the addition of the Super Shotgun. The firing noise and reload noise of that gun is great. Also great is running circles around an Arachnotron and filling it full of shotgun. However, Doom2 ends up having platformingish aspects and a lot more of the whole 'Run around level, find key' aspect. A bit less fun than Doom1, but both are amazing games.

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