The enemies not disappearing after they're killed is such a great feature, wish modern gaming would bring it back. It blew my mind in Resident Evil 2 remake when the bodies didn't disappear.
The can't. You see, every triangle is counted, now. and they all feel they HAVE to put triangles in meaningless places, instead of bodies in the level, because people will find the game ugly if the shiny parts aren't shinyt. It's been an annoyance to me in gaming since decades, that enemies all disappear, or almost in every game.
Doom was the reason i got my first PC back in 1995. I was only 7 and had to save money for it my self, but i was so determined, because of how much of an impression the game had made on me
Doom made a huge impression on me when I played it on the PS1. I still remember being haunted by the sound of demons lurking behind corners and hidden rooms, desperately trying to find the source of the noise before they found me.
The music is what did it, for me, changing the atmosphere from a high-octane kill-fest to something much more sinister and foreboding, despite the gameplay being the same, ostensibly.
I played Doom as a kid. I was scared... a lot. Then time has passed by. I played other FPS games. I came back to Doom. I was scared again. It wasn't related to me being a kid at the time. The game had actual freaky moments.
Another thing about sounds in Doom: the weapons are downright *musical.* Their tempo might be different, there might be silent breaks in each gun's leitmotif, they might not have 4 notes, but they're musical. The Super Shotgun shot+reload is six notes at roughly 480 BPM, with the second and fourth notes being silent. The Chaingun also fires at roughly 480 RPM. And the shotgun? Its pump action is the midpoint before you fire again.
Subscribed, liked, and leaving a comment. This has been THE BEST video I've seen on Doom. We must be close in age, because I played Battlezone as well. This video needs a part II. That being said, ya Doom absolutely changed the world. It changed my life. Prior to this I had no idea what I'd do for a living. I taught myself how to build a PC, how to network PC's, and how to configure them via TSR, config.sys and autoexec.bat. On part II, you should cover Thresh, how WADS became standard (prior to this it was arrow keys or ijk) IPX games that came after (Descent, Warcraft), Kali gaming network, and the first 3d accellerators. Should really focus too on how Doom/Quake created an arms race for frames per second of PC enthusiasts, and how it helped sell PC hardware.
Doom is one of those games that you remember the first time you played it. My first go on it was with the Super NES version, and even with the stripped-down graphics and iffy controls I enjoyed it. Then I got a PC, installed Doom on it and found that it was even better than I thought. An old 386 running Windows 3.1 and DOS, and I was running fast and smooth.
Thanks Boro, that was stupid of me. I will correct in the description. Thanks for your legendary video, you are a great explainer and your footage is awesome.
I still have very vivid memories of the first time I saw someone playing Doom. It hooked me like no other game before it. Doom was a cultural phenomenon. I still play it today and it’s just as impressive.
@@LordDoug69 Nothing wrong with that. Dark Forces is another fantastic game. It was one I wanted to play back in the day but I never got a chance to. Dark Forces 2 on the other hand...
Fantastic video. To be honest, Doom still scares me a little bit nowadays. What's funny-it didn't used to. As a kid I always played every game with cheat codes, so it was all just power fantasy. I played again about 15 years ago as an adult, and with things actually at stake, the vibe really came together and immersed me in a way it never had before.
Indeed. I've played DOOM since the beginning and I am in my 40s and there are still times when DOOM/DOOM2 will scare the holy living fuck out of me. If I am in a level with confined halls and rooms and I hear the sound of a fucking Baron of Hell wake up within a few feet, I am put into such a state of pure FEAR and unthinkable dread with adrenaline having gone from zero to full peg I sometimes literally become ill. The double barreled shotgun from DOOM2 gave the player a little bit of a fighting chance against the bigger hell spawn if they got lucky with landing a pain chance inflicting shot.
The first time I saw doom was in a mall display, playing some gameplay on a loop. and I was instantly blown away. I had played wolfenstein, but this was on another level. I still play mods and try out new megawads to this day. Best fps franchise hands down.
Been playing DOOM/DOOM2 since 1994 and still to this day not an hour goes by of any day that I don't think about DOOM. NOTHING will have the shear impact DOOM had on me when I first saw it and first played it and got completely overwhelmed. DOOM is life.
Yes, I play many other games-too many to list. We played many Playstation and Playstation 2 games and lots of other PC games over the decades and at the moment I play a lot of Final Fantasy 14 after quitting Neverwinter. I will always be a gamer. @@Polemos_News
@@Polemos_News Heck yeah! I have Doom+Doom 2+Doom 64+Doom 3+Doom 2016+Doom Eternal on...the Xbox Series X/PS5/PC and as of yesterday Doom 2 on the Switch! Fun Fact- Did you know that we can finally play with fast monsters on Ultra Violence on consoles now?! You have to start the game by level select first and choosing Ultraviolence+ in the difficulty options. If you select the first level you can play the entire game straight through. You can also save your game and pick up later with the options still set. ;)
1:21 I remember my 386 couldn't handle doom so I had to cold boot with shift key pressed before turn on the computer, maybe it's because of the size of ram because it was 3968 KB. 🤣
We had to do this in order to play DOOM2 on a 486sx25 with only 4mb of RAM. 4mb was fine for shareware DOOM on a 486 but DOOM2 had higher minimum requirements so my dad made a batch file in DOS that we would load after hitting the shift key right when it said loading MS-DOS. Doing this prevents a number of TSRs (terminate and stay resident programs) from loading into memory during boot and allows you to have more available RAM to use, I cannot remember if it was "upper memory" or conventional memory. We were fortunate to have a 486 back then, I knew a few people who only had the family 386 to play DOOM on and that must have been rough. I remember dad coming home one day a few months later with 4 more megs of RAM and I could immediately see the performance increase when playing DOOM and DOOM2, this was back when RAM was $50 USD for each mb. Once we had DOOM I would wake up over an hour earlier on school mornings to play it and I could not get home fast enough to play it more.
Awesome!! Yes! Doom changed the World vroeger had ik ook heel veel doom gespeeld doom 1 doom 2 dat waaren heele gaave tijden van vroeger om zulke games te gaan speelen
I may have not been able to play Doom in its prime, first playing it 20 years after release, but it still had a large impact on me as a gamer. I had already played games like Call of Duty but truly as primitive as Doom is it still managed to scare and challenge me I ways I never thought possible, and I still enjoy it more than most modern video games.
@@Polemos_News I think it's because games nowadays have become more than just games. Post-Half Life, there is now narrative, "progression," science, aiming, tactics, etc. While that might not be all bad (OG MW2 was my favorite multiplayer of all time), Doom is just plain, almost analog, fun.
Hey OilHut - that's Final Fantasy IV - I never played myself (unlike the other games I showed) but when researching it came up as one of the most popular games of the early 90s, so I used it to show how different it was from Doom.
Well,doom formed the basis for what fps shooters are now today,3D textured graphics,online multi player,puzzle solving,i remember when i first played both doom 1 & 2 on my pc back in 1999,i was scared with those games but i found them fun as well,i soon would discover how addicting doom could be,BUT doom did sadly also has it’s bad influance on certain peoples as well as it did inspired some crazy nerds to raid a school and killing many peoples inside it,on of those guys did dad ‘it’s gonna be like doom’ ouch.
Hi Zombie, you're right, I used Decino's footage of the death match against John Romero. I will credit him in the description, I can't change the video now. Cheers.
The enemies not disappearing after they're killed is such a great feature, wish modern gaming would bring it back. It blew my mind in Resident Evil 2 remake when the bodies didn't disappear.
Agree Lewis. Easy win for a modern developer, maybe substituting a low poly corpse for the original?
The can't. You see, every triangle is counted, now. and they all feel they HAVE to put triangles in meaningless places, instead of bodies in the level, because people will find the game ugly if the shiny parts aren't shinyt. It's been an annoyance to me in gaming since decades, that enemies all disappear, or almost in every game.
Doom was the reason i got my first PC back in 1995. I was only 7 and had to save money for it my self, but i was so determined, because of how much of an impression the game had made on me
You got your own PC when you were 7! That is impressive.
Doom made a huge impression on me when I played it on the PS1. I still remember being haunted by the sound of demons lurking behind corners and hidden rooms, desperately trying to find the source of the noise before they found me.
Nice memories. I remember the adrenaline flowing.
The music is what did it, for me, changing the atmosphere from a high-octane kill-fest to something much more sinister and foreboding, despite the gameplay being the same, ostensibly.
IIRC PS1 Doom had an entirely different soundscape. I think it was mostly from Doom 64. It was much more atmospheric and downright creepy at times.
Yeah, the same guy did the soundtracks for both PS1 DOOM and N64 DOOM @@JBEditsYT
I played it on SNES as a child. It didn't left that much of an impression, but it did anyway. Not the best port.
I played Doom as a kid. I was scared... a lot. Then time has passed by. I played other FPS games. I came back to Doom. I was scared again. It wasn't related to me being a kid at the time. The game had actual freaky moments.
I have to try playing it again properly and see if I get scared. Thanks Leven.
Ps1 version was definitely a horror game
Another thing about sounds in Doom: the weapons are downright *musical.*
Their tempo might be different, there might be silent breaks in each gun's leitmotif, they might not have 4 notes, but they're musical.
The Super Shotgun shot+reload is six notes at roughly 480 BPM, with the second and fourth notes being silent.
The Chaingun also fires at roughly 480 RPM. And the shotgun? Its pump action is the midpoint before you fire again.
That's an amazing observation Rd, thanks. I noticed when I was making the video how satisfying the sounds were, but I had no idea why.
Excellent video.
Thanks so much Forrest.
Subscribed, liked, and leaving a comment. This has been THE BEST video I've seen on Doom. We must be close in age, because I played Battlezone as well. This video needs a part II. That being said, ya Doom absolutely changed the world. It changed my life. Prior to this I had no idea what I'd do for a living. I taught myself how to build a PC, how to network PC's, and how to configure them via TSR, config.sys and autoexec.bat.
On part II, you should cover Thresh, how WADS became standard (prior to this it was arrow keys or ijk) IPX games that came after (Descent, Warcraft), Kali gaming network, and the first 3d accellerators. Should really focus too on how Doom/Quake created an arms race for frames per second of PC enthusiasts, and how it helped sell PC hardware.
Rip & Tear Until it is Done!🤘🏽
Doom is one of those games that you remember the first time you played it. My first go on it was with the Super NES version, and even with the stripped-down graphics and iffy controls I enjoyed it. Then I got a PC, installed Doom on it and found that it was even better than I thought. An old 386 running Windows 3.1 and DOS, and I was running fast and smooth.
Interested to hear that Kevin - I've had some others saying they had great trouble running on a 386. Thanks for the comment!
Thanks for crediting my footage, but I have to point out that the credit at 5:40 is a mistake - that footage was made by decino and not me.
Thanks Boro, that was stupid of me. I will correct in the description. Thanks for your legendary video, you are a great explainer and your footage is awesome.
@@Polemos_News No worries. Your video was an enjoyable watch :)
i especially enjoyed when the image of the video was shrunk when talking about how important audio is
Thanks William! Nice to find someone who appreciates the edit. Cheers!
I'll be the judge of this 😮
Great video man .Doom was the first FPS I ever seen It actually did frighten me as a child haha
Great video. What a timeless game. Maybe it was scarier back in the day, but archviles jumpscaring me creeps me out to this day.
Thanks Shimmy!
I still have very vivid memories of the first time I saw someone playing Doom. It hooked me like no other game before it. Doom was a cultural phenomenon. I still play it today and it’s just as impressive.
Thanks for the memories Webhead. I've been amazed how many people are still playing Doom...
@@LordDoug69 Nothing wrong with that. Dark Forces is another fantastic game. It was one I wanted to play back in the day but I never got a chance to. Dark Forces 2 on the other hand...
Fantastic video. To be honest, Doom still scares me a little bit nowadays. What's funny-it didn't used to. As a kid I always played every game with cheat codes, so it was all just power fantasy. I played again about 15 years ago as an adult, and with things actually at stake, the vibe really came together and immersed me in a way it never had before.
Pretty amazing that such an old game can still be scary. Many people have said the same. Thanks for the feedback atim.
Indeed. I've played DOOM since the beginning and I am in my 40s and there are still times when DOOM/DOOM2 will scare the holy living fuck out of me. If I am in a level with confined halls and rooms and I hear the sound of a fucking Baron of Hell wake up within a few feet, I am put into such a state of pure FEAR and unthinkable dread with adrenaline having gone from zero to full peg I sometimes literally become ill. The double barreled shotgun from DOOM2 gave the player a little bit of a fighting chance against the bigger hell spawn if they got lucky with landing a pain chance inflicting shot.
Great video, Mate 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks dude, I appreciate that!
Thank you for debunking the "Doom on Pregnancy Test" story that I keep seeing repeated everywhere.
You're welcome - I was about to put it in as gospel but I followed the reddit and it was clear it wasn't a real thing.
2:20 only played the UAC Labs recently, crazy what kids were able to make before RUclips tutorials.
Agree! RUclips is THE modern teacher.
The first time I saw doom was in a mall display, playing some gameplay on a loop. and I was instantly blown away. I had played wolfenstein, but this was on another level. I still play mods and try out new megawads to this day. Best fps franchise hands down.
Great video . I could watch doom analysis videos all day
Thanks Metallic, it actually took a bit of work, and I'm glad it's appreciated.
Been playing DOOM/DOOM2 since 1994 and still to this day not an hour goes by of any day that I don't think about DOOM. NOTHING will have the shear impact DOOM had on me when I first saw it and first played it and got completely overwhelmed. DOOM is life.
Thanks for the comment Vile, and I'm glad you watched the video. You play anything else?
Yes, I play many other games-too many to list. We played many Playstation and Playstation 2 games and lots of other PC games over the decades and at the moment I play a lot of Final Fantasy 14 after quitting Neverwinter. I will always be a gamer. @@Polemos_News
"Doom changed the world"
Meanwhile my classmates : *what is doom?*
lol.
I started playing Doom in 1994. The very first time I saw it running on a PC I wanted it. I still play through Doom and Doom 2 at least once a year.
That is cool Sinn. Making this made me want to go and play as well.
@@Polemos_News
Heck yeah! I have Doom+Doom 2+Doom 64+Doom 3+Doom 2016+Doom Eternal on...the Xbox Series X/PS5/PC and as of yesterday Doom 2 on the Switch!
Fun Fact- Did you know that we can finally play with fast monsters on Ultra Violence on consoles now?! You have to start the game by level select first and choosing Ultraviolence+ in the difficulty options. If you select the first level you can play the entire game straight through. You can also save your game and pick up later with the options still set. ;)
They are not floppy disks. They are micro disks.
Great video. Nice research!
Thanks a lot Jatma!
I still play doom & doom 2 quite often.
Incredible that such an old game can still be so compelling. Thanks Savage Henry.
I was so relieved when you pointed out that DOOM has a Z-axis, so many videos just repeat that 2.5D misconception 😅
Yeah it's 3D with a locked head position. Thanks XX!
I have watched every single video about Doom in existence and this one was great.
That is high praise Ridass, thank you.
The level of immersion was unbeatable at the time. Nothing would come closer in my opinion until maybe System Shock 2.
watching you fight the spidermastermind gave me a stroke
lol
1:21 I remember my 386 couldn't handle doom so I had to cold boot with shift key pressed before turn on the computer, maybe it's because of the size of ram because it was 3968 KB. 🤣
Yeah the work arounds were real in those days. Maybe I should have interrogate the 386 claim a bit better. I first played on a 486...
We had to do this in order to play DOOM2 on a 486sx25 with only 4mb of RAM. 4mb was fine for shareware DOOM on a 486 but DOOM2 had higher minimum requirements so my dad made a batch file in DOS that we would load after hitting the shift key right when it said loading MS-DOS. Doing this prevents a number of TSRs (terminate and stay resident programs) from loading into memory during boot and allows you to have more available RAM to use, I cannot remember if it was "upper memory" or conventional memory. We were fortunate to have a 486 back then, I knew a few people who only had the family 386 to play DOOM on and that must have been rough. I remember dad coming home one day a few months later with 4 more megs of RAM and I could immediately see the performance increase when playing DOOM and DOOM2, this was back when RAM was $50 USD for each mb.
Once we had DOOM I would wake up over an hour earlier on school mornings to play it and I could not get home fast enough to play it more.
Awesome!! Yes! Doom changed the World vroeger had ik ook heel veel doom gespeeld doom 1 doom 2 dat waaren heele gaave tijden van vroeger om zulke games te gaan speelen
Dank u Ronnie! I lived in Amsterdam for four years so I can understand you!
Agree! :)
Thanks!
I remember playing it on snes then doom 2 on pc, I actually had to take my pc to get the ram upgraded in order to play it
Nice memories. Lots of people saying they still play too.
I remember having to load Doom through DOS.
Yep, I had forgotten that detail, but that's how it was done. Thanks for the comment Raven.
Super video !
What is the wad showed at 7:19 ?
I may have not been able to play Doom in its prime, first playing it 20 years after release, but it still had a large impact on me as a gamer. I had already played games like Call of Duty but truly as primitive as Doom is it still managed to scare and challenge me I ways I never thought possible, and I still enjoy it more than most modern video games.
Interesting isn't it? I often wonder if young gamers starting now have the same sense of wonder, I think they probably do.
@@Polemos_News I think it's because games nowadays have become more than just games. Post-Half Life, there is now narrative, "progression," science, aiming, tactics, etc. While that might not be all bad (OG MW2 was my favorite multiplayer of all time), Doom is just plain, almost analog, fun.
I did not expect to hear Total War sounds in a Doom video…
Thanks Prophet - didn't mean to put them in - where were they?
@Polemos_News what was that castle crawler you showed at 8:57 ?
Hey OilHut - that's Final Fantasy IV - I never played myself (unlike the other games I showed) but when researching it came up as one of the most popular games of the early 90s, so I used it to show how different it was from Doom.
Doom was great, but the first game to scare the living crap out of me was Unreal. Those were some kick-ass monsters.
Nice point Sarky. I remember Unreal being completely gobsmacking when it came out ... the fly by of the castle at the beginning was impressive
Well,doom formed the basis for what fps shooters are now today,3D textured graphics,online multi player,puzzle solving,i remember when i first played both doom 1 & 2 on my pc back in 1999,i was scared with those games but i found them fun as well,i soon would discover how addicting doom could be,BUT doom did sadly also has it’s bad influance on certain peoples as well as it did inspired some crazy nerds to raid a school and killing many peoples inside it,on of those guys did dad ‘it’s gonna be like doom’ ouch.
Hey John, yes that's true. I think any game with as big a reach as Doom is going to have good and bad effects.
Vanilla doom runs on a 486
Yeah... We desperately need a new doom (or rather not a doom game, please, a new game as revolutionary).
That is a good call Jojo. It would be amazing to have that wow factor when you saw and played the game for the first time.
bro didnt gave credit to decino wtf wtf
Hi Zombie, you're right, I used Decino's footage of the death match against John Romero. I will credit him in the description, I can't change the video now. Cheers.
@@Polemos_News 5:41 that's decino not borogk
@@imaz0mbie_I’ll make sure decino hands me over the keys from his channel ;)
Alan Wake 2 is crap.
Good video but don't ever compare Forknife or Alan Woke 2 to DOOM.
EVER!
LOL. Best comment ever.
Why is this a AD
I was going to like this video until the robot voice showed up to narrate the quote - throw up emoji
Thanks for the feedback Lorenzo. I didn't think it jarred too badly, but I hear you.
@@Polemos_News I’m glad you replied : )
GTX 3060 😭
I remember playing it on snes then doom 2 on pc, I actually had to take my pc to get the ram upgraded in order to play it
You know a game is good when you pay to get a machine to play it. Thanks Patrick.