Obviously very true Doom facts thread

[Chip]

If you made a DooD mod on Boom, it would be called BooB

Edited May 12, 2020 by LiT_gam3r

[The_MártonJános]

The demons intended to pave the entire Unholy Cathedral with floor tiles.

But, the day just before the eventual consulting, the Barons (being responsible for financial decisions in this project) decided to order the fancier, and thus about three times more expensive FLOOR0_7 tiles instead of FLOOR0_5 which were initially intended. Due to this, at about 30% of the scheduled work, their budget ran out and they had to put the progress on a halt.

However, before they could save up enough Hellbucks to finish the work, Doomguy arrived and each and every of them were mercilessly slain by him.

This is the sad story behind E3M5, explaining why it is partially tiled, yet also has dirtground for a massive two thirds of its covered area.

Edited June 29, 2021 by Cell

[Deimos]

Doom 3 guy just wanted to make his way to safety during a power outage when all his new co-workers decided to surprize him hidden in closets.Fear triggered by the element of surprise caused him to react in a violent way.

The violent exchange triggered his onset mental illness predispositions that made him "see demons" .

A rescue team found the guy amongst his victims and he was sentenced to 64 years in psychiatric unit. We found records of his ancestor B J Blazkowicz who went thru the same ordeal. As his mother told us "it runs in the family".

Doom 2016 features a birthday secret in homage to the hidden co-workers. The poor bunny that was supposed to be gifted to him is an other story. Hug a bun bun for me.

Edited May 20, 2020 by Deimos

[Super Mighty G]

A Hell Knight is just a Baron with gangrene. 

[Chip]

666, the number of the devil divided by 9.652173913 is 69!!!

Edited May 20, 2020 by LiT_gam3r

[Gokuma]

On 5/20/2020 at 6:04 PM, Super Mighty G said:

A Hell Knight is just a Baron with gangrene. 

I thought they just had that pigmentation disease that makes people grab their crotch and go "OW!"

[Smouths]

Japan has had the highest number of deathmatchers per capita ever since Dwango became a TV network there.

Edited May 23, 2020 by Smouths

[Dark Pulse]

34 minutes ago, Smouths said:

Japan has had the highest number of deathmatchers per capita ever since Dwango became a TV network there.

The great Japan vs. South Korea VirtuaWar '97 deathmatch tournament created gaming history.

 

Having narrowly lost to Japan, South Korea quit the Doom scene, using it as their swan song.

 

Some members of that team would then latch on to a hot new game a few months later.

 

You may know that game as "StarCraft."

[Vic Vos]

Freedoom was referenced in the movie Braveheart.

[Archanhell]

•Cacodemons always smile because they just want to raise the mood amidst the brutal ambience that is DooM's world

•Archviles just want to help their friends and wonders why Doomguy kills his Sargeant friend ten times on a row, on less than thirty seconds

•Imps like to play baseball with the former humans, using hell sticks as the baseball bat

•Arachnotrons let other demons get on their chasis and take rides around Hell

•The Spider Mastermind is a good mom and teaches their small spider sons about planet Earth

•Hell Knight constantly does weird references to something known as "JoJo's Bizarre Adventures", his demon friends thinks he is a weeb, spoiler: He is

•Baron of Hell is the Johnny Bravo of Hell

•Cyberdemon plays catch the Cacodemon with other demons like him

•Pain Elementals actually do not deliver pain, they just deliver friends

•Revenant is a trumpeeter on the local jazz band

•Chainguy and Sargeant Guy also have their own rock-rap band "'Em Baldiez Of Hell"

•Former Human uses Twitter

•Mancubus is trying to be less fat because he wants to be as cool as the Baron of Hell

•Pinky is an olimpic athlete

•Spectre is the shy brother of Pinky

•Lost Souls like cereal

 

(Not talkin' about DooM 2016 and Eternal demons cus I don't know all of them)

 

 

 

[Maximum Matt]

Doom was originally going to be titled Doom 1993, because they knew that one day eventually someone would make Doom 2016 and they didn't want to be retroactively embarrassed by it.  John Romero is still campaigning hard for the name change to this day, and considers it a professional misstep way worse than Daikatana.  

[The_MártonJános]

You ever wondered why there are four "entrances" to E3M3: Pandemonium?

The placement of multiplayer starts and ammo/health pickups into said alcoves is just technicalty. The truth is a bit more profound - and in order to reveal it, we have to look at E3M2, the previous map.

It is a quite widely-known fact that E3M2 is shaped like a hand, thus having five finger-esque alcoves in the northern end. One of these - the "thumb", respectively - is located quite apart from the other four, and doesn't end in a covert area either. Now, for the rest of them - the blue key door that lowers a certain platform to reach the exit pedestal can be found in the "ring finger", while the other three are trap-happy dead ends - at least on the surface.

In fact, those alcoves are holding exit pedestals as well, but due to Doomguy's violent crash into Hell's surface that also resulted in the crater of E3M1 and him losing all his weapons and ammunition prior, a severe aftershock shook the caverns of the Slough of Despair, and they partially caved-in, blocking the entrance to all the other teleport platforms. And since Doomguy is a slayer, not a digger, he could only access the one which was left relatively intact by the accident, though even that one was blocked by a raising tectonic plate.

^{...These Inferno theories are weird. I think.}

[frag enabler]

12 hours ago, Cell said:

You ever wondered why there are four "entrances" to E3M3: Pandemonium?

The placement of multiplayer starts and ammo/health pickups into said alcoves is just technicalty. The truth is a bit more profound - and in order to reveal it, we have to look at E3M2, the previous map.

Fun fact: the E3M2 initially looked a little different, more in line with the creator's feelings towards the player.

Spoiler

Seriously, FUCK that map.

 

[Doom_Dude]

On 5/7/2020 at 7:50 PM, LiT_gam3r said:

If you made a DooD mod on Boom, it would be called BooB

 

So if I go full Boom and decide for a name change, i'd be Boom_Boob? haha

 

Cacodemons have the extra hole in the back because the Cyberdemons inflate them full of hot air with their big cyberlips in the morning.

[mammajamma]

The Doom Marine was originally going to be in Super Smash Bros 64, but Nintendo cut him during development due to the game's controversy after Columbine.

[Doom_Dude]

On 6/15/2020 at 5:12 AM, SuperchargedEuthanasiaDiv said:

Fun fact: the E3M2 initially looked a little different, more in line with the creator's feelings towards the player.

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Seriously, FUCK that map.

 

I like that map. It's fun. :D

[Maximum Matt]

In the movie "The Color Of Money" there is a scene in which Tom Cruise's character pulls out his custom cue case at a pool hall.  Originally, when someone asks "what do you have in there?", Cruise says "a three dimensional, virtual reality type action game created by id Software.  In some ways, it is similar to Wolfenstein 3-D"

[Dark Pulse]

Lost Souls are very good bois who just want to love you forever.

[frag enabler]

11 hours ago, Maximum Matt said:

In the movie "The Color Of Money" there is a scene in which Tom Cruise's character pulls out his custom cue case at a pool hall.  Originally, when someone asks "what do you have in there?", Cruise says "a three dimensional, virtual reality type action game created by id Software.  In some ways, it is similar to Wolfenstein 3-D"

Shit, did he really say Catacomb 3-D?

[Dark Pulse]

1 minute ago, SuperchargedEuthanasiaDiv said:

Shit, did he really say Catacomb 3-D?

He couldn't have. Catacomb 3D was done by some guys at Softdisk.

[Maximum Matt]

Who ironically were eventually hunted down and murdered, one by one, by John Carmack and his big-ass Conan sword.

[Doom_Dude]

8 minutes ago, Maximum Matt said:

Who ironically were eventually hunted down and murdered, one by one, by John Carmack and his big-ass Conan sword.

 

Carmack The Codebarian. lol

[P41R47]

On 4/25/2020 at 12:50 AM, Maximum Matt said:

Satan himself was sitting behind John Romero and breathing heavily on the back of his neck the night he created E4M2. 

 

So Satan was raping him?
Mmm interesting...

I heard it was the opposite.

He was raping Satan while creating E4M2
The Cyberdemon telefrag was his subconscious trying to be good on poor Satan, chained under the desk.
After all, he made us all his bitches.

Edited June 29, 2020 by P41R47

[Dark Pulse]

31 minutes ago, P41R47 said:

So Satan was raping him?
Mmm interesting...

No, just trying to keep him warm on those frosty Texas nights.

[seed]

"Pr" in PrBoom stands for "Public Relations".

[GarrettChan]

3 minutes ago, seed said:

"Pr" in PrBoom stands for "Public Relations".

So PrBoom means it's a bad company and their public relations are so bad that explodes? :P

[DooM Bear]

DooM isn’t actually 3D

[D4NUK1]

Doom 3 Marine it's Samuel Hayden

[SYS]

The Icon of Sin is completely misunderstood and wants nothing more than love and friendship. 

[Maximum Matt]

On 6/30/2020 at 2:32 AM, P41R47 said:

So Satan was raping him?

Nah dude, c'mon. 

I was trying to convey a mental picture of Romero sitting by himself at midnight, mapping, the only light in the room the monitor, the only sound the tapping of the keyboard, he's got some good ideas for this new map.... when all of a sudden he feels a presence sitting behind him, can almost feel it smiling, he's suddenly terrified and sitting bolt upright, eyes bugging out, sweat appearing on his forehead, and from midnight to six AM (as the legend goes) he puts together the most evil level he can possibly think of, filled with lava and wood and marble, throws over a dozen barons and a cyberdemon in there, all the while feeling this presence behind him grinning and nodding approvingly, and then as soon as he finishes and presses 'save' the presence disappears and he spins around in his chair and realizes he's alone in the room, maybe he was ALWAYS alone in the room, but that feeling was there...