Blood,
I loved that you played a Sadistic Undead Cowboy.
And the bit where he comes across the body of his wife and yells "SHOW YOURSELF DEMON"
that was pretty powerful stuff back in the day.

Oh god yes Ax Dude. Blood was my favorite Build Engine game (followed by Shadow Warrior, making Duke 3D actually my less favorite build engine game) It's such a blast, but it's so much harder than the other two.

Also, Bravo, I sure do like Wolfenstein. I find myself sucking major ass when I try to replay it now, but when I was REALLY YOUNG (don't ask me why, I was what, 7, 8 or 9 at that time) I fucking RULED at Wolf3D and fucking BEAT IT.


On the subject of DooM's simplicity and great feeling, I guess it doesn't catch on to people these days. One time I tried getting some asian dude in it (he was I think 13-14 at the time and I was 14-15). I grew up with DooM(literally) and so I was pretty used to it, but after a while his comments were just

DUDE WTF? I CAN RUN AT 700MPH AND MY PISTOLS HOLDS 200 BULLETS WITHOUT RELOADING THIS MAKES NO SENSE

WHAT A GAY GAME

So yeah, I think if you didn't fall into the old fps craze when it was still boiling hot, you might have more trouble getting into DooM and the likes. Though, the DooM community was full of 10-11-12-13 year olds a few years back. Terrifyingly full of them, actually.

I can't remember how many days me and my brother and the neighbours would sit around and play Goldeneye 007 after school. Its memories like that that show you which games had the biggest impact on your life.

It has its issues, but as basically the first console multiplayer FPS, it really broke ground.

I didn't think anyone else played Rise of the Triad here. It's the first multiplayer (network) game I've ever played. Good shit... though the ending is kind of disturbing.

I networked two of my PCs with BNC cable just to be able to play Doom and ROTT. Over heeeeere. BEHIND JA!

Descent, if that counts

SOME people consider it a "flight simulator", but I too consider it a "no gravity" fps. It's not too different from the underground portion of Crysis. It was my first truely multiplayer game, and I remember how overwhelmed I felt on a 8 player game on Kali (anyone remember Kali? the place to go for MW2 games online). Descent also had some of the best midi music I've ever heard, right up there with the original doom. And it's sequel's CD audio was some of the best techno-metal to come from a video game.

I networked two of my PCs with BNC cable just to be able to play Doom and ROTT. Over heeeeere. BEHIND JA!

SOME people consider it a "flight simulator", but I too consider it a "no gravity" fps. It's not too different from the underground portion of Crysis. It was my first truely multiplayer game, and I remember how overwhelmed I felt on a 8 player game on Kali (anyone remember Kali? the place to go for MW2 games online). Descent also had some of the best midi music I've ever heard, right up there with the original doom. And it's sequel's CD audio was some of the best techno-metal to come from a video game.

Wasn't Descent mod music? Or something the like, at least.

Sorta like UT.

I didn't think anyone else played Rise of the Triad here. It's the first multiplayer (network) game I've ever played. Good shit... though the ending is kind of disturbing.

I think it went by a bit unnoticed, sadly.

Still, Rise of the Triad and Wolfenstein 3D were my FPS games of choice back in the day. I remember that I didn't really understand network gaming and I used to make a network game and wander around in the levels collecting things in RotT, wondering why there weren't any enemies. Good times! The main game was awesome as well, pretty gory from memory. I wish I could remember the ending but I've totally forgotten.

Wolfenstein was the first I played (shortly before Doom) and I always loved it for whatever reason. The low quality sound samples, collecting Nazi treasure, fighting mecha-Hitler, it was all great. I had Spear of Destiny too (expansion pack) and I think that bumped it up to around 6 episodes, can't remember that well though. Finished all of them which was quite an achievment for me when I was younger. Great game. I've been looking for the GBA port to see if it holds up nowadays but it must've been a tiny release.

Bloodshot aka Battle Frenzy for Sega Genesis was one of the first console FPS games I played and I loved it. From memory it had a 'vs mode' that was actually co-op, but you were in competition to kill more enemies or something. Still, it was one of the first co-op games I'd played and even a few months ago me and a mate had a blast at it for an hour or so. It wasn't a very remarkable game bar the multiplayer, but it was solid enough and I have good memores with it.

is it actually spelled DooM like that one guy and the title screen says or was that just for style.

It's just for style as far as I know. Also, DAMN, FINALLY. Somebody says Perfect Dark. Am I the only one who thinks Perfect Dark blows Goldeneye out of the water?


We need to Skulltag someday dethmetal..