J.C Denton

-First time I met Doom, I was 11. It was in a professional informaticians convention and was displayed on a huge screen. My real first major video game shock happened that day (and the fact that I'd never give a fuck about age rating starting from now). -Doom has been the very first PC game I have ever seen, the first I've tried and the very first PC game I bought. -I've been doing Shareware version of Doom dozens of time without ever be bored. It ended the day my father brought the full version at home. For a long time, computer games = Doom for me. -I've been playing Doom for the first time on a LC630 Macintosh : 66Mhz 68040 processor, 8Mb RAM, 720Mo HD, CDROM reader (don't remember the speed but probably something like 2x), MacOs 7.1 something, 256colors (up to 32K with adaptator), 8bits sound. It was lagging but I played it anyway. Next computer was a PC : AMD K5 166Mhz ("overclocked to 200Mhz), 16Mb memory, 1Mb 2D-only CG(could be extended up to 2MB but at the expense of 1Mb RAM), 1.2 Gb DD, 4x CDROM reader, Windows 95. Played Doom and the other episodes on it and kept a special Folder for it and the extra Wads. -No matter how great several FPS I have played are, I still lock to this statement : Doom is the absolute emperor of FPS (yet I consider Deus Ex 1 to be the best game of all time). -I still tend to say Doom-Like and not FPS even today. Young generation goes WTF at me sometimes because of it. -At night sometimes when I go to bed, close the door and the window, lay in the bed, switch off lights to be in total darkness and then headphone in my ears I listen to Aubrey Hodge's Soundtracks. Try it and happy dreams! -While I activate Mouselook and jump in Project Brutality, I still feel bad for it because I think it's not faithful to the spirit of original Doom. Shame on me. :( -As for other FPS I've played, I consider Painkiller to be the closest to Doom spiritualy. I usualy describes it at "Doom's gothic brother" and sometimes jokingly nickname it "Doomkiller".

I'd say Ultimate Doom! While I enjoyed them all, I still feel like home when I play Doom 1. I'd however give the first place to Doom 64 if I could but I don't think I can consider it as a "classic" Doom.

It seems that the more games are evolving the more politicaly correct they have to be... I remember how the gory in the trailer shocked some peoples. Like "OMG Blood'n'Rip!!! How can we tolerate this in a video game?". Damn guys back in the days you had Mortal Kombat where you could just behead your opponent with bare hands and even rip their spine with it among other things. There was Splatterhouse which involved heavy horror stuff. And this was the Golden Age of video games. So ok it's more realistic today. But hell this was realistic at the time for peoples too. And we're talking about Doom. A game which involves demons and hell. Not Minions and Ponies. Doom is like "comic books gory meets heavy metal meets geek culture". It is Aliens meets Evil Dead. Dante's Inferno meets Black Sabbat. Doom, in my opinion, must be "I'm listening to heavy metal, grabing huge guns, running fullspeed, killing demons, bathing in blood pools, walking on skins and guts paths in a hell filled with demon's symbols, flames, bones and all the gory stuff you could dream off ". If Doom 4 doesn't follow this, I think it's not really Doom. Saying Doom is too Gory is like saying North Pole is too cold. I found that violence and brutality again with games like Serious Sam and Painkiller. So I expect a lot from Doom 4.

Several for me : -Space Colony : Really fun game with nice atmosphere. I enjoyed using creepy music with it. -Ghost master : Ghost hunting simulation. Really amusing and catchy I found. -Painkiller : Resurrection. The sole episode I like really in the "non-dreamcatcher" Painkillers. It was flawed but I liked the concept and the atmosphere. Problem : it was WAY too short. -Jaws Unleashed : It was fun in its way and I loved the underwater graphics. Oh and they made Ecco Defender of the Future. -Call of Cthulhu : Dark Corners. Flawed but I liked the atmosphere. -Outcast : Stargate feeling inside. Truly I was a fan of this game. Graphics were awesome. -Clive Barker Undying and Jericho : Tow great games! Especialy Undying. Hellraiser meets Haunted houses. -Blood Omen/Legacy of Kain serie : The story was thrilling. So bad we don't hear about it anymore. -Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2 : I have been playing them for hours. Still will play. It's a shame they truly disappeared. I have not played the game inspired from them but oh well. -Doom 3 : I liked the turn it took. Yet it doesn't replace the classic episodes.

They could do it a la Painkiller : ambient music when it's calm then heavy burst of Metal when fight starts.