Stupid, totally unfounded Doom rumors

[Maes]

Gez said:

I always viewed this texture as a sort of Unholy Shroud, especially the upper portion (imagine just a Christ's head with a halo, a bloody beard, and a mangled body).

[yellowmadness54]

http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/games/2000/doom1.html must be the review everyone one is talking about.

"The game is completed only after you have survived a great number of levels, each requiring scores if not hundreds of hours to master."

........... heh, wait what?

[Walter confetti]

my cousin for describe me doom 2 when i don't had played yet (so when i was 12/13) he described me map32 as a marble stone place where you kill some childs to pass the level

[Archy]

http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/games/2000/doom1.html[/url]
"Extra points are given for a shot in the head."

Damn, that's pretty impressive (impossible) for a 2D game... these guys must have thought way into the future.

[betabox]

Why not help them add more bullshit to their "reviews", like "The player is rewarded for burning down chapels". I'm pretty sure this is how they came up with their work.

Anyway, there were countless rumors from my friends about Doom II when I first played the game and got stuck on levels. Like I was stuck at the end of factory (missed a switch) and my friend described a way to get the red key (or whichever one prevents you from going back). Or when I was stuck on level 3 and someone said there's a dangerous enemy to kill to beat the level. Another crackhead said he had Doom 16. The closest thing to Doom 16 would be SNES Doom.

There's an elevator on map 15 (on the other end of the lava) that I hadn't figured out how to lower. Someone said the elevator is stuck by glue (yep) that needed to be burned off with a special gun; and that a Cyberdemon would be waiting that can use all sorts of weapons. Good old days.

[Porsche Monty]

Archy said:

http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/games/2000/doom1.html[/url]
"Extra points are given for a shot in the head."

Damn, that's pretty ipressive (impossible) for a 2D game... these guys must have thought way into the future.

Not exactly impossible, even back in the day.

[Csonicgo]

Porsche Monty said:

Not exactly impossible, even back in the day.

just make the objects into "groups" with separate parts that register different damage values to the group as a whole.

[neubejiita]

There was someone that I was talking to about Doom years ago that said hat the monsters could sh*t on you ;).

[Coraline]

Back in the day, a few kids tried telling me a "rumour" that Michael Jackson's head was on a stick at the end of Doom2, and would "sing" when shot. I knew better, but it was too entertaining to tell them otherwise. I eventually enlightened them.

*Puts on Sunglasses*

Once.

[Blastfrog]

neubejiita said:

sh*t

Self censorship is really stupid. Just saying.

[GingerPickle]

One of my classmates once told me that there was an easteregg in Doom 1 that had a 3D model of the Master Chief. I can't believe how stupid he was.

[Netherstorm]

DoomGater said:

I've heard rumours, that playing doom turns us all into emotionless. coldblooded maniacs killing kids in schools.

Oh like that Colu-...

whatever.

[Reisal]

Chu said:

Back in the day, a few kids tried telling me a "rumour" that Michael Jackson's head was on a stick at the end of Doom2, and would "sing" when shot. I knew better, but it was too entertaining to tell them otherwise. I eventually enlightened them.

*Puts on Sunglasses*

Once.

If you can edit the Icon of Sin sprites for that and use "Ow!" soundbit and something else for the death.

[Xaser]

You can revive General Leo by fighting 4000 battles in the dinosaur forest, defeating a Gold Dragon, and then using the Revival Potion they drop at Leo's grave.

Erm, wait. What's Doom?

[Koko Ricky]

Since some of you guys have posted "stupid bullshit from non-Doomers" anecdotes, I thought I'd share a gem. It was 1999 and I was with a couple of friends in the school library. We saw a copy of the first Doom novel and one of my buddies said that the illustration on the cover was "the worst artwork I've ever seen." My jaw dropped. I wanted to go berserk and gib him right then and there. I actually got ENRAGED that someone would look at that artwork and not only think it was shit, but that it was the worst they had ever seen.

[fraggle]

yellowmadness54 said:

http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/games/2000/doom1.html must be the review everyone one is talking about.

"The game is completed only after you have survived a great number of levels, each requiring scores if not hundreds of hours to master."

........... heh, wait what?

The interesting thing about this article isn't the obvious factual errors but the sensationalist style in which it's written. Notice how he repeatedly restates this idea of "killing your friends" for example.

In fact the real clue comes at the top of the page: "Reviewed By: John Gocke Used with permission from AlMenconi.com". That links to the website of Al Menconi Ministries, which has the prominent headline on the front page of "How Video Games and Porn are Ruining a Generation". A quick browse around his site reveals some choice articles such as:

• "Is it just a game or are you playing with real demons?" where Al claims that demons are real and that playing computer games like Doom that feature depictions of them is equivalent to performing satanic rituals.
  
• "Which Games and Video Gaming System is the Best?", where the answer is apparently "none of them", as all video games are addictive and will destroy your marriage and your family.
  
• "How to Ruin a False Worldview", where he talks about how important it is to brainwash young children so they can't enjoy movies, because Jesus is more important.

There are plenty more similar articles on the site but you get the idea. He has a pretty clear agenda and it explains a lot about the review. Presumably in his batshit delusional worldview it's okay to make up or exaggerate details in the reviews as long as it achieves the goal of letting everyone know how evil and dangerous video games are. Remember, lying's okay as long as it's lying for Jesus!

[Paul D]

Here's one:

If you idclipped and walked far far outside the play area of Doom 2's map 30, you could find the room where all the monsters were waiting to get teleported.

[betabox]

Now I recall someone saying they had a cartridge of Doom 64 3. One guy who never actually played Doom said he had a shareware version which only had E3. Similarly, another said a site offered episode-specific demos.

[Bashe]

At one point in time, I had a text file I thought had come with Doom 2 that said if you typed in IDDQD (or IDKFA), the first sergeant you'd see on map01 would have wings. To this day I have no idea where the text file came from. I also recall seeing what were apparently cheats for Doom 2 on SNES (lol), that involved pressing the B button like 24 times to turn into a chicken.

[Dragonsbrethren]

Paul D said:

Here's one:

If you idclipped and walked far far outside the play area of Doom 2's map 30, you could find the room where all the monsters were waiting to get teleported.

Sounds like this could have some basis in reality:

http://doomwiki.org/wiki/%280,0%29_respawning_bug

I don't have any stupid Doom rumors. Plenty for other games from that time period, but not Doom.

[Quasar]

Bashe said:

At one point in time, I had a text file I thought had come with Doom 2 that said if you typed in IDDQD (or IDKFA), the first sergeant you'd see on map01 would have wings. To this day I have no idea where the text file came from. I also recall seeing what were apparently cheats for Doom 2 on SNES (lol), that involved pressing the B button like 24 times to turn into a chicken.

That sounds suspiciously similar to the "Play as Ermac" cheat which was activated by playing the arcade version of Mortal Kombat (original shipped version only!) while standing on your head and pressing all of the buttons on the front of the console to the beat of a drum in the background music.

[lupinx-Kassman]

Bashe said:

At one point in time, I had a text file I thought had come with Doom 2 that said if you typed in IDDQD (or IDKFA), the first sergeant you'd see on map01 would have wings. To this day I have no idea where the text file came from. I also recall seeing what were apparently cheats for Doom 2 on SNES (lol), that involved pressing the B button like 24 times to turn into a chicken.

This sounds like angels, a wad that gave the seargents wings, which if I recall correctly was a sprite replacement used in several other pwads as well. The chicken thing sounds like a rumor started by someone watching someone else play heretic (which I can see being confused for doom) and using the 'cockadoodledoo' cheat that turns the player into a chicken.

[Antroid]

While i was in school i didn't have internet and only had the SNES doom, so i had no idea what were doom 2 and final doom all about, i only knew the name "final doom" from a games magazine where they had cheats for the PSX version. I once played doom 2 map14 at a friend's house but i was conviced it had doom1 episode1 sky, didn't know it was doom2 and was very confused about it all for a while. I also didn't know about archviles but i remember seing something like that on one of those metal lifts in the corners in the water. Maybe i completely misremember but when i saw my first archvile by myself i immidiately recognized the thin pale guy who burns your screen from that time at a friend's house. I dunno how it got on those lifts though. I could've mixed it up with him peeking through windows, but there are no windows from the archvile's area...

I also had a friend who appeared to know about doom, so i asked him once what's the deal with "final doom" (the existence of which i knew about, unlike doom2), and he told me some total bullshit story, from which i only remember a boss: a knight in plate armor with a sword, who is invincible, but there's a bird flying behind his back all the time and you hit the bird to harm him. What the fuck was that all about??

[BaronOfStuff]

Antroid said:

I also had a friend who appeared to know about doom, so i asked him once what's the deal with "final doom" (the existence of which i knew about, unlike doom2), and he told me some total bullshit story, from which i only remember a boss: a knight in plate armor with a sword, who is invincible, but there's a bird flying behind his back all the time and you hit the bird to harm him. What the fuck was that all about??

Sounds a lot like the first boss, "Judgment (Type 28)", from The House of the Dead 2 to me.
http://houseofthedead.wikia.com/wiki/Judgment

"GO KUARL!!"

[Dr. Durr]

My "Shit Non-Doomers Say" Entry
A friend, who is a CoD fanboy, saw me blazing though E1M3 and said, "Looks like a cheap Modern Warfare." My response, "I know, it ripped off MW3 almost 20 years before it came out!"

My "Dumb Doom Rumor" Entry
I was told there was a "Super Weapon" stronger than the BFG. I only had the shareware version at that point, so I didn't doubt it.

[Netherstorm]

Dr. Durr said:

My "Shit Non-Doomers Say" Entry
A friend, who is a CoD fanboy, saw me blazing though E1M3 and said, "Looks like a cheap Modern Warfare."

-_- Annoying, i know.

[Marnetmar]

I don't understand where he could possibly get the Modern Warfare thing from.

[betabox]

Marnetmar said:

I don't understand where he could possibly get the Modern Warfare thing from.

You'd be surprised how stupid some kids are.

[Waffenak]

I remember my cousins dad me telling back in 1995 that there is black chainsaw hidden somehwhere and with it you can cut stone and make your own paths thru levels. Sounded crazy back then also but I seached for it sometime

[Scypek2]

My whole family thought that my cousin converted a wolfenstein level to doom and put on a map accesible via idclev31 only. He also created cheat codes for doom and knew monster names thanks to hacking into engine.