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Random thought: Heretic never got the love it deserved IMO.
I had a 486 SX33 and I played a shit ton of Doom and Wolfenstein. I recall the Wolf definitely ran better at the time.
Random thought: Heretic never got the love it deserved IMO.
Random thought: Heretic never got the love it deserved IMO.
Hexen didn't either and I thought it was the better of the two. The game had an amazing atmosphere and fantastic sound. Heretic II and Hexen II on the other hand were both underwhelming.
I'm not sure they could revive that franchise these days, but I wouldn't mind a twitch shooter with a fantasy/supernatural setting.
Random thought: Heretic never got the love it deserved IMO.
Random thought: Heretic never got the love it deserved IMO.
DOOM was too dark in comparison to Duke3D!? I think I get where you're coming from, DOOM was weird as far as satanic/religious stuff goes, but the inter-species stuff in Duke3D was fairly dark for me. Aliens invading Earth and doing nasty stuff to propagate their species kinda creeps me out more than a human entering Hell and destroying demons.sure, but I didn't like doom as much because it was too dark.
I loved duke nukem though
P.S. DOOM messed me up because it didn't have WASD.
WASD wasn't a thing when Doom was released. Didn't start becoming a standard until late 90's.
I had a blast with both the Heretic and Hexen games. From memory, Hexen 2 didn't know if it wanted to be a shooter or RPG. I think I liked the idea more than the reality.
I'm not sure they could revive that franchise these days, but I wouldn't mind a twitch shooter with a fantasy/supernatural setting.
WASD wasn't a thing when Doom was released. Didn't start becoming a standard until late 90's.
Even on my i386 it ran better than that. I did have to reduce the size of the game window to almost as small as it could be.
I got the shareware version of doom on floppy from a long-gone local pc store - thank god for having one parent that didn't care about violent video games and another that would play along side me
I'm pretty sure the family PC was a 386 then, it ran it pretty decent.
I remember using a Gateway2000 programmable keyboard for Doom, the nice thing was the lower diagonal keys I programmed to strafe instead of using the alt key. The F keys to the left were programmed for cheats. When Doom came out, I got the shareware version and got hooked and saved up my money for the full version from iD. I remember tying up the phone line playing a friend over the modem. I still have the 3.5" floppy disk, somewhere. I remember teaching myself how to make maps and .wads for Doom. I also played Heretic too which was under rated, never got on that Wolfenstien though.
here's a pic of keyboard:
I still rock the arrow keys
One of the main differences between Doom on the PC vs. the 32X I recall is that the enemies were never facing away. Because of limited resources, enemies were always facing you and they didn't have any assets for them facing other directions. Something like that at least.
The Jaguar version was great, though. Twitch aiming wasn't really an option, but otherwise it was like Doom running on a pretty good PC.