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@@StevenZephyc I think Doom may've been the first or among the first to popularize the term "bible" but a lot of shows, video games, and even books have "bibles". It's most useful for large franchises with multiple forms of media and multiple authors/creators who contribute.
Nah, a Bible is just the collection of all documentation made to a certain product. A movie bible, for example, is usually used to pitch it to the studio and contains the full cast of characters, the plot, art direction and other such things.
No one today will understand the torment of making separate menu systems in DOS so you could either play DooM or use your normal config. This was our devotion.
@@DoomguyIsGrinningAtYou. imo the 2016 BFG Division is better than the 2020 one since it’s way more fluent and detailed and most importantly, it’s a big fucking song which is fitting for the BFG
5:42 That is so true. These engagements in Doom was just amazing. The whole world just phased out, there was only the screen and the demons that I had to kill. Heart rate was up, eyes focused on one thing.
The fusion gun in Turok is another BFG-like gun. Though that final energy-beam staff you have to find the pieces of throughout the game is stronger, but it definitely is less BFG-like in appearance and "projectile."
I find it interesting that this video came out just a month after Decino's videos on classic Doom sprites that also addresses the BFG's origins as a toy gun, but also the Pistol, Shotgun, Chaingun and Plasma Gun.
It's actually Big *Frame* Revolver The BFR models are chambered in huge rifle cartridges like .45-70 and .500 NE But I'm sure the acronym is intentional
7:13 - That was one of the best things about that otherwise mediocre movie. Also, I think if that movie had come out unassociated with the name _Doom_ it would have been received better. Change a few names, words, and references here and there, and it could have just been a sci-fi horror movie with a nod or two to the _Doom_ franchise, and it would have been better.
if they had just made the entire movie in first person from Reaper's perspective, and kept the plot the same as the games, rather than some 24th chromosome bs, it would have been a fucking spectacular movie
@@ConservativeWhiteMan741 I read somewhere they changed the plot to avoid having to fight off the religious ninnies who would wage a full frontal boycott campaign against the studio. Since absolutely no other movie has ever had demons and hell /s. But yes original plot basis, lots of personal bullet hoses. And probably cast Arnie, Because in my mind a movie version of Doomguy spews 80s action hero one liners while liquifying demons with "excessive" firepower.
The best part of this gun is how madly it's coded in the original dooms. Until you read about how the raytracing attack actually works it feels like a complete coin flip... sometimes hitting like a wet noodle, sometimes cleaning entire rooms. Best bit, it always hits like a truck when you're right in the thick of it and does almost nothing if you cover fire shoot and like a damned coward.
Another reference: Gauntlet Legends and its updated version Dark Legacy has the archer's strongest attack called the BFG. It is also a big green projectile of "fuck this direction in particular."
You should have bought two of those toy guns and built the BFG IRL - at least in plastic toy form. (2 or 3 or 4 or however many you would need to get all the parts in place)
reallly ? It's that bad ? the old doom movie wasn't very good aside of the FPS sequence which was funny, but the BFG there was lame, hell it didn't cleared rooms and felt weaker than quake 3's
BFG 10,000 is just a BFG 9,000 Shot Amplifier. Now, imagine Doom Slayer ripping out the BFG 10,000 and mounting it to his space-home for portable Anti-Demonic Hyper Weapon.
To this day, blasting the Cyberdemon's brains out with a point blank BFG shot in DOOM 2016 after the boss spends the latter half of the fight literally cowering in fear from you is the coolest experience in a game ever
In the BFG reference rapid-fire, you forgot the Gauntlet series. The archer's ultimate turbo attack is called BFG. It's a massive spectral ballista that yeets like half the screen, and can one-shot bosses.
Whoa whoa. I'm Docking points for not pulling out a 3d printed bfg con second 47. I was totally expecting a ".. this aaaugh" hauls up a 30 pound monster
Actually the first update to the BFG was quake 2 as since it was the gun that shoots an explosive plasma ball that shoots rays Using the BFG with the quad damage allowed you to clear a whole corridor of enemies as long as the ball didn't exploded on something.
My brothers and I had that toy gun in the early 2000s, we loved that thing. But our dad gave it away with 95% of our toys (while we were all still kids and when we still played with our toys. Him doing that, caused us to play so many video games because we had basically nothing. And he hates that we all play so many video games)
I swear, every single time you pull the trigger on the BFG feels like a Big Deal, no matter how many times you do it, and this applies both to the classic and modern Doom games.
I had a “desert Shield” machine with attachable grenade launcher. I noticed the gun right below the BFG was modeled directly from a part of that toy. It was exact. This now confirms they were just copying toy guns. Kinda cool
the SpaceX thing is called Starship, Im guessing because its far easier to market it to government critters under that name. Though hearing the NASA director say "Big Fucking Rocket" would have been great.
![Evolution of DOOM [1993-2025] (NEW)](/img/1.gif)
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I don’t think it’s legal to censor the word fuck when talking about the BIG FUCKING GUN
Where did you get that shirt?
This series is awesome!!
Why did you not credit decino for these toy gun findings?
@@trogo3402 Because that's not where I originally found this information. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Attention all mortally challenged personnel: the Slayer has the BFG”
someone needs to mod in a replacement voiceline saying "Attention all mortally challenged personnel: You're all f*cked now."
Repeating , Doom Guy got the *Big Fucking Gun*
A Big Friendly Giant.
Imp: *RUNAWAY!*
Our cleaners just canceled their contract.
I laughed when I heard the words "simplistic design" while that pistol was showing :D
Damn, so the toy I once had was the inspiration of BFG cool and still cool even now
Not only inspiration, it is directly based upon photos of it.
يقولن دنيا زي اول اول يجينا المطر ماندريه يجين العجاج مامدرين لحين تدرين قبل شهر مافيه عصار ومافيه فيضان مافيه زلزال مافيه بركان مافيه خسف مافيه نهيار الحين زلزال وخسف و ونهيار وبركان وعصار ووفضان وكذا
@@appstore7702 ok
@@appstore7702 Funniest shit i've ever seen
@@Forlorn-kg7zm what doe sit say?
“Simplistic design” gun covered in wired lines and vent looking pimples lolz
When you think doom can't get any more holy,
Then realizes that the game's design document was known as the Doom bible.
A lot of the reference books are called Bible, I believe both fallout and sonic has one(or several)
@@StevenZephyc I think Doom may've been the first or among the first to popularize the term "bible" but a lot of shows, video games, and even books have "bibles". It's most useful for large franchises with multiple forms of media and multiple authors/creators who contribute.
@@Mahbu It really wasn't. "Bible" has been used for reference documents in TV and movie production for decades.
Nah, a Bible is just the collection of all documentation made to a certain product. A movie bible, for example, is usually used to pitch it to the studio and contains the full cast of characters, the plot, art direction and other such things.
The sacred texts!
I can never get enough DooM facts, such an iconic game. So happy to have actually played it in 1993 "i wAs tHeRe" 😂
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That just means we're old af my dude hahaha
Probably throw my back out trying to fire that thing now
ahh the old days of Dos and windows 95...
No one today will understand the torment of making separate menu systems in DOS so you could either play DooM or use your normal config. This was our devotion.
id made the most iconic gun in gaming history. In 2016, Mick Gordon made the most iconic song as a tribute to the most iconic gun.
And he topped it in Doom Eternal
@@rebel0334 I honestly can't tell which soundtrack is better.
@@DoomguyIsGrinningAtYou. yeah both OST's are amazing but I love Eternal just a bit more
@@DoomguyIsGrinningAtYou. imo the 2016 BFG Division is better than the 2020 one since it’s way more fluent and detailed and most importantly, it’s a big fucking song which is fitting for the BFG
The Beta Bfg is what looks to be the inspiration for the Unmakyr in Doom Eternal as well
Actually it is from Doom 64.
The Unmakyr is based on the Doom 64 Unmaker which was in the Doom Bible but didn't make the cut
Unmaker is from doom 64
@@janerik5997 and honestly it was better then, now it's only good for Khan Makyr and Icon of sin.
@@doublem1354 unmaykr has more damage per ammo
You forget the movie "Soldier" where Todd, Kurt Russell's character, has a bio that shows he is proficient with the BFG 9000
Imagine finding a BFG after 14 hours of gameplay and realizing that you forgot the batteries during the first level
BFG:
most powerfull gun in the game
the iconic gun from the DOOM
batteries not included
"This Product is brought to you by: ID Software"
Demons: why do I hear heavy metal
Robot lady: the slayer has the bfg 9000
Demons: well shit
"The doomslayer have no ammo"
@@talentlessasian330 that is worst, the Slayer will kill them barehand.
that is racist, you should say "totally challenged"
Amazing Stormer turns out it’s the BFG 10000
@@mariano98ify nah the correct term is "absolutely fucked"
5:42 That is so true. These engagements in Doom was just amazing. The whole world just phased out, there was only the screen and the demons that I had to kill. Heart rate was up, eyes focused on one thing.
The fusion gun in Turok is another BFG-like gun. Though that final energy-beam staff you have to find the pieces of throughout the game is stronger, but it definitely is less BFG-like in appearance and "projectile."
"WARNING: THE SLAYER HAS CONTROL OF THE BFG"
I find it interesting that this video came out just a month after Decino's videos on classic Doom sprites that also addresses the BFG's origins as a toy gun, but also the Pistol, Shotgun, Chaingun and Plasma Gun.
Kotaku and a bunch of other articles credited him for this, but gamespot doesn’t seem to care about it
Magnum research has a pistol called the b.f.r they say it stands for biggest finest revolver
Something tells me F doesn't stands for finest
actually some people call the BFR big f ing revolver
So, when little kids are around, call the BFG ”the Biggest Finest Gun.”
@@josephfickenscher9420 I bet all kids already know what the BFG actually means.
It's actually Big *Frame* Revolver
The BFR models are chambered in huge rifle cartridges like .45-70 and .500 NE
But I'm sure the acronym is intentional
And to maximise the use of the toy gun some parts where photographed and used as map terrain too.
Yes, the exit door!
7:13 - That was one of the best things about that otherwise mediocre movie. Also, I think if that movie had come out unassociated with the name _Doom_ it would have been received better. Change a few names, words, and references here and there, and it could have just been a sci-fi horror movie with a nod or two to the _Doom_ franchise, and it would have been better.
if they had just made the entire movie in first person from Reaper's perspective, and kept the plot the same as the games, rather than some 24th chromosome bs, it would have been a fucking spectacular movie
@@ConservativeWhiteMan741 I read somewhere they changed the plot to avoid having to fight off the religious ninnies who would wage a full frontal boycott campaign against the studio. Since absolutely no other movie has ever had demons and hell /s.
But yes original plot basis, lots of personal bullet hoses. And probably cast Arnie, Because in my mind a movie version of Doomguy spews 80s action hero one liners while liquifying demons with "excessive" firepower.
it's time for a proper remake of this... with the actual plot that was explained by markiplier
The made in Taiwan thing really brings tears to my eye.
not so much when you think this toy was designed by guys in America and the toy might be fabricated by cheap labours.
劉佳銘 ozone
The best part of this gun is how madly it's coded in the original dooms.
Until you read about how the raytracing attack actually works it feels like a complete coin flip... sometimes hitting like a wet noodle, sometimes cleaning entire rooms.
Best bit, it always hits like a truck when you're right in the thick of it and does almost nothing if you cover fire shoot and like a damned coward.
Another reference: Gauntlet Legends and its updated version Dark Legacy has the archer's strongest attack called the BFG. It is also a big green projectile of "fuck this direction in particular."
You should have bought two of those toy guns and built the BFG IRL - at least in plastic toy form.
(2 or 3 or 4 or however many you would need to get all the parts in place)
Chad W Smith considering how old it is, there probably aren’t a whole lot of them easily accessed
@@wrongtime9097But.. it's FOR SCIENCE!
4:33 you shot a BFG shot. at a lost soul. ok...
Harry Le worth it
That's what I said like what a waste lol
Seeing at how annoying lost souls are, I'd say its a perfectly rational decision.
If you played against pain elementals in Doom 2 on Ultra Violence, you'd understand.
@@deanrich6928 that's different, elementals are absolute shit balls and will get a face full of plasma
There’s more stuff in this game based on real life objects. I recommend checking out Decino’s video on interesting findings from Doom’s graphics
Another reference to the BFG is in the show Generator Rex as one of Rex's builds is called the BFS (Big Fat Sword).
I swear by god Dave, I saw that satisfaction you felt when you said "Simply, a big *fucking* gun" and man, I'm envious
BFG- Love child of minigun and a rocket launcher
That's the Unmaykr. BFG is just a massive fuck off to the entire map
@@phantomwraith1984 And the planet Mars too, now.
Ryan Olivier no the Unmaykr was the love child of the minigun and plasma rifle, just a lot beefier
@@FoxyHxCMacfly
V.E.G.A.: Should I disengage security protocols?
Slayer:
7:14 you mustn’t have seen the NEW doom movie? Makes this one look like a masterpiece
reallly ? It's that bad ?
the old doom movie wasn't very good aside of the FPS sequence which was funny, but the BFG there was lame, hell it didn't cleared rooms and felt weaker than quake 3's
true
I'm a children, and I don't appreciate curse words being censored.
Adding to the list, Risk of Rain 2 has a legendary equipment item, Preon Accumulator, that works exactly like the BFG
also in the code its called bfg
Half-Life was also have it too,the Displacer gun.
Fun fact:
Han Solo and shrek wear the same clothes
What has been seen...
...cannot be unseen.
Amen
BFG 10,000 is just a BFG 9,000 Shot Amplifier.
Now, imagine Doom Slayer ripping out the BFG 10,000 and mounting it to his space-home for portable Anti-Demonic Hyper Weapon.
To this day, blasting the Cyberdemon's brains out with a point blank BFG shot in DOOM 2016 after the boss spends the latter half of the fight literally cowering in fear from you is the coolest experience in a game ever
Background music: BFG 10.000
I see what you did there :)
I see someone saw @Decino's videos
Haha I thought so too
Yeah. Kinda cheap of gamespot. The real cool stuff is made by youtubers anyway. These so called professionals just copy and paste.
@@vlaktorbb ?
I dunno, after watching Doom Annihilation, the ‘05 movies version of the gun doesn’t seem so bad anymore. At least it was actually visually imposing.
oof
OOF
*OOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFF*
@makutamaster yeah, I know...
I had the disgrace of seeing it with my own eyes.
Doom annihilation was physically excruciating to watch
Ok so they took a toy raygun, mirrored it and that's it. Done
That's cool, you can even see a faint line running down the center of the BFG in the game asset, so they did just mirror the image. Neat.
In the BFG reference rapid-fire, you forgot the Gauntlet series. The archer's ultimate turbo attack is called BFG. It's a massive spectral ballista that yeets like half the screen, and can one-shot bosses.
Imagine if the bfg came in a package that said **batterys not included**
You forgot another reference, In halo Reach: Forge or Custom games, map "Spire" has a location called BFG.
BFG: best friend gun
Im gonna say it
Big [Redacted] Gun
It's Bio Force Gun actually.
@@G1241-g7g nah it's big fucking gun
In Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, the huntress' ultimate Turbo attack was B.F.G., a massive crossbow that functioned similarly to the original material.
I haven't played that game in YEARS! I don't remember such a thing and now want to play it again just to see 😂
Magnum Research makes a gun known as the BFR which technically stands for "Biggest Finest Revolver" but we all know what it really stands for.
The guy who originally found this out was “decino” a Doom RUclipsr.
That’s a real credit
''Mick Gordon's BFG division begins to pound in your speakers"
That cacodemon make me want rip and tear his t-shirt.
I like your face.
@@G1241-g7g thx, it's my 'shoot me in the head pls' face
"You can't just shoot a hole into the surface of Mars"
Imagine the person who designed that original pistol and how they would feel knowing how big DOOM is now.
That Beta version of BFG is actually look like the RYNO Ultimate weapon series in Ratchet and Clank Series. Cannot be that coincidence ..
lol at "big hoards of demons" in Doom 3 *cut to footage of BFG taking out 2 demons*
Don't forget the gun in Jazz Jackrabbit (1994) called: LFG-2000
"Damages user a bit."
And then we got all the weapons in Daikatana. The rot ran deep.
Ah so the Unmaykr is the original BFG 2401 finally realized, if not slightly toned down and only with the red projectiles
The plasma rifle was based off of a toy as well. I used to have it. It was a rifle that came apart and had triggers all over.
"warning the slayer has control of the bfg" Best warning ever
"Forced you to ditch weapons in order to hold a flashlight"
*Shows gameplay of the port where flashlight is independent*
You forgot about the real-world Serbu BFG .50 - an actual .50 caliber single shot rifle!
the bfg 50 is everywhere, it was even there before itself.
I see that Doom 3 fotoge was made by real games journalist.
Shooting BFG at one lost soul.
Never change . Never change
The Quake 2 iteration was fricken awesome.
2:10 stop right there...you had me at Doom Bible
Great vid :D loved it
As a kid, I used to think BFG meant "Big Fat Gun", not "Big Fucking Gun"
Best BFG rip off is 100% the Fusion Cannon from Turok: Dinosaur Hunter.
I think it's look alike.
I'm pretty sure that the Fuel Rod Gun from Halo is also a nod to the BFG.
They had the "nuke" in turok 2 that was thier version
And the Chronoscepter in Turok Dinosaur Hunter.
Whoa whoa. I'm Docking points for not pulling out a 3d printed bfg con second 47. I was totally expecting a ".. this aaaugh" hauls up a 30 pound monster
6:23 BFG 10000
*"Its over 9000!"*
Actually the first update to the BFG was quake 2 as since it was the gun that shoots an explosive plasma ball that shoots rays
Using the BFG with the quad damage allowed you to clear a whole corridor of enemies as long as the ball didn't exploded on something.
Awesome video!
90's company: Lets make a toy gun that makes sounds and light when you pull the trigger
DooM Dev, getting an idea for BFG: *screaming of a genius*
You learnt this from decino but added extra facts
Finally, someone else realises it
This is terrible journalism, they need to credit the original discoverer of these facts
-The weapon could cause the game to slow down -
Firing the BFG in doom
Eternal has 80% chance to crash the game to desktop lol.
*that aged well*
There's also a version on one in "Apoom", a minigame from Virtual Springfield in the 90s
This is a fun RUclips video because you can tell the guy is actually a fan of Doom and not just some rando reading a script.
My brothers and I had that toy gun in the early 2000s, we loved that thing. But our dad gave it away with 95% of our toys (while we were all still kids and when we still played with our toys. Him doing that, caused us to play so many video games because we had basically nothing. And he hates that we all play so many video games)
I swear, every single time you pull the trigger on the BFG feels like a Big Deal, no matter how many times you do it, and this applies both to the classic and modern Doom games.
in gauntlet legends for the nintendo 64, the archer has a BFG attack also called big fucking gun and it works the same as the bfg in doom
The only thing they could do to make this video better is playing “the only thing they fear is you” the entire vid
Ah, the classic line of guns the big fucking gun. truly powerful.
They have the master copy of Doom in the video game museum in Sheffield
"YOU GOT THE BFG9000! OH, YES."
I like how iconic something simply called the BIG FUCKING GUN became.
Ah the eighties, back when R-rated action movies could be marketed to kids and have their own toy lines. That’s not messed up at all.
I love decino re-runs
So do i
The doom movie holds nostalgia for me. Thats why i enjoy it so much.
Only thing that's gonna rip and tear is that super tight shirt buddy is wearing
It's already dissolved from sweating through it under those studio lights
Honestly, what a nightmare.
I had a “desert Shield” machine with attachable grenade launcher. I noticed the gun right below the BFG was modeled directly from a part of that toy. It was exact. This now confirms they were just copying toy guns. Kinda cool
Just looked it up. It was also the Rambo M60 machine gun. The back of the grenade launcher was the plasma rifle
Yeah darn right! I always admired that Assault Cannon. The Doom 3 one best. And it’s really Bio Force Gun.
2:25 nice use of the meatball
Man today I found out not only my dad has one of these to this day but also founded Quakecon
I accidentally turned up the music part at 2am and now I’m in bft big fucking trouble
The air guitar was mandatory. Better hope you're not holding anything important when BFG Division comes on.
Kind of let down you didn't show him getting it in Eternal, cause that was awesome.
love that the Calamity blade is just a roartoy byu the grip
the SpaceX thing is called Starship, Im guessing because its far easier to market it to government critters under that name. Though hearing the NASA director say "Big Fucking Rocket" would have been great.
Nice video!