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hardcore_gamer said:
Anyways, what are your thoughts on the playstation ports? In my opinion they are the only console port worth playing (I don't count modern "ports" like the Xbox 360 release or copies that are included as bonuses for other games like with the Doom 3 collectors edition

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Mithran Denizen said:

The fact that PSX Doom used colored lighting is cool, but the way it's plastered all over the original maps seems kind of garish, so I actually felt like it detracted from the atmosphere slightly.

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magicsofa said:

Also, some of his major complaints were that there's no gamma correction and that the cheats aren't convenient to enter? Give me a break.

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Bucket said:
The only reason why I'd play Doom on a console is for splitscreen multiplayer. Inexplicably, neither of these games has this feature. (Yet somehow the PS1 port of Quake 2 manages it quite well.)

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Dark X said:
I have never actually played the Doom port. I'm only familiar with the Final Doom one. I have no incentive to look into it it now, though.

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magicsofa said:
This guy says a lot of bullshit. "As you walk from area to area, the lighting actually changes!"

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hardcore_gamer said:
Pros:
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-The fact that levels were cut out means that you don't have to play some of the boring ones from the PC versions.

Cons:
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-Some levels are missing in PSX Doom, and most are missing in PSX Final Doom.
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-The PSX version of Final Doom doesn't actually have that many Final Doom levels at all, it only has like 6-7 Plutonia levels and about 12 TNT levels, the rest are levels from the Master Levels. And most of the master levels included in the PSX release are very mediocre.

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Mattfrie1 said:
why haven't we seen a PSX Final Doom TC yet?

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Mattfrie1 said:
I was never too big of a fan of the PSX Doom TC. Don't get me wrong, it did a good job of bringing PSX Doom to the PC, but for me it just doesn't feel the same as the original. Plus, why haven't we seen a PSX Final Doom TC yet?

I think Williams/Midway did an excellent job with PSX Doom/Final Doom. The lighting is good for the most part, but it does seem out of place and overused in some levels (E1M9 comes to mind). The ambient music (composed by Aubrey Hodges) is probably some of my favorite video game music ever. It really changes the mood of some levels, most notably Geryon from The Master Levels. Also, one of the biggest things I like that wasn't retained in the TC was the echoing of sound effects off the walls in certain areas of the game, which really added an extra dimension of atmosphere to the game.

However, PSX Doom/Final Doom were both released when the PSX was in it's infancy, so chances are the developers weren't able make Multiplayer work on one system without killing the framerate. I do think it is a bit ridiculous having to have 2 Playstations, 2 TVS and 2 copies of the game, plus a PSX link cable in order to do multiplayer though. I tend to remember other early PSX games, like Wipeout, Destruction Derby and Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown needing to do the same thing as well in order to play multiplayer.

If you really liked PSX Doom/Final Doom, I highly suggest you check out Doom 64 as well as Quake on the N64, considering both were ported by the same people responsible for PSX Doom/Final Doom.

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hardcore_gamer said:
And the framerate is even worse then it was in the original PSX Doom, and the framerate in the original PSX Doom was never all that fantastic in the first place.

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scalliano said:
The actual reason there hasn't been a PSX Final Doom TC yet is because the game uses a different compression method for its maps, meaning that Kaiser's conversion tools won't recognize them. They would have to be recreated from scratch.

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hardcore_gamer said:


PSX Doom TC

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