Grimm Posted August 10, 2004 Hey has anyone seen this? It's pretty damn good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOOM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOOM_community Did anyone from here help write these guys up? 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted August 10, 2004 (cur) (last) 19:36, 1 Aug 2004 Fredrik m (Impact and controversy - fix a link) (cur) (last) 01:59, 23 Jun 2004 Sarge Baldy (dab lee killough) 0 Share this post Link to post
m0l0t0v Posted August 10, 2004 hey, I noticed a discribtion of the BFG there a while back... Seemed pretty pointless to me. Who would ever need to look up that word? pointless but cool none the less :-) 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted August 10, 2004 I wrote most of "DOOM". I have barely touched "DOOM community", however. 0 Share this post Link to post
DEMOn Posted August 10, 2004 I don't see the relevance/importance of even mentioning Columbine in the description of DOOM. Other than that, it seems very well done. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted August 11, 2004 DEMOn said:I don't see the relevance/importance of even mentioning Columbine in the description of DOOM. Other than that, it seems very well done.The Columbine link is important because it was covered heavily in mainstream media. A lot of people have heard about Doom only in that particular context.mewse said:great writeup fredrik Thanks. Though, it would be unfair to call it my writeup; I've written most of, but far from all of it, and improvements have been made everywhere by lots of people. SargeBaldy also wrote a couple of paragraphs and helped with working out the structure for it. Of course, if anyone wants the exact details, it's all in the article history. 0 Share this post Link to post
sargebaldy Posted August 11, 2004 I did a lot of the work on [[DOOM Community]] and a few things in [[DOOM]].. I think I started the controversy part and I took the DOOM II shot that's on there. But yes, I agree they're very quite nice articles, especially when you compare them to the articles for some other games.. half of [[Quake]] is devoted to jumping techniques. 0 Share this post Link to post
ducon Posted August 11, 2004 I participated to the french one and in many other articles about FPS in french. 0 Share this post Link to post
DEMOn Posted August 11, 2004 Fredrik said:The Columbine link is important because it was covered heavily in mainstream media. A lot of people have heard about Doom only in that particular context. I hear you, but DOOM should be referenced in the Columbine write-up, not the other way around. You wouldn't want Vrack-style mapmaking tainted with annotations of 'mockery' maps that intentionally tarnish the quality associated with the real thing. I don't care how many copies of 'Eat it' sold, it doesn't deserve to be mentioned in Michael Jackson's life story. DOOM effected 100 million people; Columbine didn't really have anything to do with more than say 10,000 people. I doesn't deserve that recognition. I understand why it is there, I just don't agree with it. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted August 11, 2004 Good article. He made a section about the game's controversy... Columbine is inevitable there, and it's not the only thing mentioned in the section. I think that's fine if you want to give a relatively complete view of the game; I would have done the same. 0 Share this post Link to post