SOSU Posted December 22, 2017 Let's say in some bizzare alternative universe Doom instead of becoming one of the biggest games in video game history just becomes some obscure fps no one played but Heretic using the same engine becomes a massive hit.What do you think would ther world be like if this was the case? 0 Share this post Link to post
yakfak Posted December 22, 2017 people complaining that their gzheretic mod with a crystal wand you have to reload got snubbed for a Maulaward in favour of some vanilla Villa map 11 Share this post Link to post
ShoDemo Posted December 22, 2017 (edited) Raven would buy id, so that they could have the fancy engines for their games. Enemies in shooters would be utter bulletsponges and today's games would have less ammo types. Also, maybe we would be playing a new Hexen game in 2004, with a plot going after all of the Serpent Riders' and Praevus's deaths (that I would want to see in our reality, but it seems Raven likes making CoD games more). And what about a devastated fantasy world with industrial metal and brutal spells? Without puzzles of course, because it would be 2016 and who likes puzzles anyways, am I right??? (ok this wouldn't work out well, given the nature of the Hexen games, but I would be curious to see a modern incarnation of Hexen) 2 Share this post Link to post
42PercentHealth Posted December 22, 2017 1 minute ago, ShotgunDemolition said: today's games would have less ammo types. Wait, what? Doom had 4 ammo types, and Heretic had 6... 6 Share this post Link to post
ShoDemo Posted December 22, 2017 (edited) DAMN IT! I thought of Hexen for a sec... Now that I think about it though, since all of the next games in the series had less ammo types, wouldn't it be the rule in games? At least until someone would change that. Edited December 22, 2017 by ShotgunDemolition 1 Share this post Link to post
seed Posted December 22, 2017 Honestly I think that beside having Heretic instead of Doom as popular (especially among the masses), nothing else would probably change much. I expect people like us would easily figure out it's a great game and still become a hit in the modding community anyway. Yet, I'm not seeing how Heretic would become the popular game, especially since Doom revolutionized many things in the genre at the time, which Heretic did not, and likely wouldn't even in such an obscure, upside-down alternative universe. For this to happen Heretic must first become revolutionary, therefore a different game. 1 Share this post Link to post
Danz Posted December 22, 2017 Instead of generic military space marines, we would have generic magic wizard elves. 2 Share this post Link to post
SOSU Posted December 22, 2017 11 minutes ago, Agent6 said: Yet, I'm not seeing how Heretic would become the popular game, especially since Doom revolutionized many things in the genre at the time, which Heretic did not, and likely wouldn't even in such an obscure, upside-down alternative universe. For this to happen Heretic must first become revolutionary, therefore a different game. It's a what if,that means that we don't need to explain why it's like this :P 0 Share this post Link to post
seed Posted December 22, 2017 3 minutes ago, SOSU said: It's a what if,that means that we don't need to explain why it's like this :P I know, just my 0.02$ xd. 1 Share this post Link to post
Cruduxy Pegg Posted December 22, 2017 Heretic added a ton of QOL stuff we take for granted nowadays, Same with hexen. I still think not much would change especially after Quake's reveal. 0 Share this post Link to post
Cruduxy Pegg Posted December 22, 2017 Quality of life, like looking up\down. 1 Share this post Link to post
Impie Posted December 22, 2017 (edited) 4 hours ago, ShotgunDemolition said: Enemies in shooters would be utter bulletsponges Definitely this. 0 Share this post Link to post
_42_ Posted December 22, 2017 4 hours ago, ShotgunDemolition said: Enemies in shooters would be utter bulletsponges True that! 0 Share this post Link to post
Cruduxy Pegg Posted December 22, 2017 Hexen is the one full of bullet sponges not heretic, Especially on skill 5. Well unless you want to use nothing but the crossbow but then you are doing it to yourself. 0 Share this post Link to post
_42_ Posted December 22, 2017 1 hour ago, Pegg said: Heretic added a ton of QOL stuff we take for granted nowadays, Same with hexen. Not to mention Hexen added jumping too. 0 Share this post Link to post
Da Werecat Posted December 23, 2017 We'd probably have less military shooters and more shooters inspired by DnD et al. Might sound like a good thing now, but they'd be every bit as much of a tired cliche to us in this scenario. 1 hour ago, Pegg said: Well unless you want to use nothing but the crossbow but then you are doing it to yourself. I'd say it's basically any weapon except the rod, and the rod has a pitiful ammo pool. 0 Share this post Link to post