So I’ve been playing doom 64 on my PlayStation and I have to say I’ve been really enjoying it. I haven’t finished it yet but a few quick thoughts:
1. It is basically a game close in style to the original doom and doom 2. If you can’t handle graphics that are that primitive…
1. It is basically a game close in style to the original doom and doom 2. If you can’t handle graphics that are that primitive…
… this isn’t for you.
2. It is not a port of any doom game I know of. I have never seen these levels before, and there’s even a weapon I’ve never seen before. Hilariously when I picked it up the game said something like “what the &$@?! is that?” I laughed
2. It is not a port of any doom game I know of. I have never seen these levels before, and there’s even a weapon I’ve never seen before. Hilariously when I picked it up the game said something like “what the &$@?! is that?” I laughed
3. The graphics are both better and worse at the same time.
3.a. The bad: your weapons never have animations for reloading. This is most noticeable with a super shotgun, bc you shoot, then hear a reload cycle, and until it’s done you can’t shoot again… But the gun doesn’t…
3.a. The bad: your weapons never have animations for reloading. This is most noticeable with a super shotgun, bc you shoot, then hear a reload cycle, and until it’s done you can’t shoot again… But the gun doesn’t…
…really move.
3.b. The good: they redesigned almost every character and I think for the most part it looks better and less cartoony. I mean you’re still not going to think this stuff looks realistic but I do think it actually looks better.
3.b. The good: they redesigned almost every character and I think for the most part it looks better and less cartoony. I mean you’re still not going to think this stuff looks realistic but I do think it actually looks better.
4. On a related point, the entire game seems more atmospheric. Which I am digging.
5. And the maps seem a lot more tricky. I have sometimes spent a good five minutes looking around kind of stumped as to what I’m supposed to do next. I haven’t resorted to looking online…
5. And the maps seem a lot more tricky. I have sometimes spent a good five minutes looking around kind of stumped as to what I’m supposed to do next. I haven’t resorted to looking online…
… to figure this stuff out, yet. But it is harder to figure it all out. I think that’s a real difference from doom one and two.
6. I am also pretty sure that in the original Nintendo 64 version it was their first chance to deal with vibration as a feature.
6. I am also pretty sure that in the original Nintendo 64 version it was their first chance to deal with vibration as a feature.
whatever it was like on the Nintendo 64, now it uses vibration really effectively. When you pull the trigger on the chain gun, The entire screen shakes and your controller shakes and it feels really good. It feels really chunky.
8. So I paid a little less than two dollars for this one and, frankly, at that price it’s pretty great. I’m getting my money’s worth. Again if you can’t stand those very early first person shooters, I don’t think this will change your mind
so maybe this is partially getting by on nostalgia from the other doom games that were released at the time that I still have fond memories for 🤷♂️
but if you found yourself enjoying playing doom one and two, you might like this, too. /end
but if you found yourself enjoying playing doom one and two, you might like this, too. /end
Actually let me clarify something that I said earlier. I said it was not a port. It is a port of the original Nintendo 64 game. But that game was not a port of doom one or two, or any other game that I knew of. Can I plead lack of caffeine?
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