@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-20 19:00:07
I am old enough to have played #Doom in my childhood, but young enough not to have played it thorough back then. Since then, I've played through the remake of the first episode on Doom 3 engine, Classic Doom, and played a bit via Doomsday.
Finally, I've started replaying them all. I've decided to go with crispy-doom, which gives makes them quite accurate, with minimal improvements. And I'm playing on gamepad, which turns out just the right choice for an old game with partial autoaim.
So far I've finished Ultimate Doom and #Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders. And I have to say that these games are much better than I remembered.
Doom is just great, though I have to say that the fourth episode (the one added in Ultimate Doom) is a bit uneven; it's still great, but it's start with a very hard first map and then seems to become progressively easier.
But Heretic is even better. And I have to say that all five episodes (two being expansions) are great.
#games
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“Paul Atreides just made it, through a mad dash to rocks, after crossing drum sand. A sandworm is in his heels.
“Paul stands at the edge of the rock, as the sand wormrises from the sand, thrumming, scales clicking and chittering. Paul is dead meat, as the couple hundred meter long sausage of doom towers over him.
“The sand worm stops, opens his round mouth, and starts thumping at Paul.
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