What genre is DOOM?
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Published 2024-05-03
00:00 Introduction
00:50 How was DOOM originally described?
02:20 DOOM clones
04:33 Quake Killers
6:06 A hypothetical question
12:05 Conclusion
Bibliography
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[2] The Ultimate Doom, Manual, p5 (id Software / GT Interactive Software 1995)
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All Comments (21)
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Clearly Doom is a benchmark test for household appliances
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"Doom is an action RPG" is a phrase that deals 2d6 psychic damage
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Doom doesn't require you to kill enemies aside from boss fights (which we could say, they count as 'special levels'). It's just about getting from point A to point B, maybe looking for a couple of keys. It's a walking simulator, with obstacles. An interactive walking simulator, if you might.
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Fun fact: back in the day, Apogee distributors had what they called a “Shoot-em-up Collection” that I wanted Dad to get me. Immediately he got angry and said “I’m not buying you shooter games.” And I had to go like no, Dad, it’s stuff like Terminal Velocity and Raptor, and I THINK it also had Biohazard, which is what I really wanted. He was like “oh”. Still didn’t get it. Within a couple years we were playing Doom deathmatches AdHoc over a telephone line.
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"I will be taking no questions." Now that's a power move.
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"Daikatana was a Quake killer." Now comes the part where we throw our heads back and laugh.
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I wish I could have been there to see John Carmack hear about texture mapping for the first time (probably one of, if not the most important technical leaps in 3D game design), only to pause for a few moments to ponder this concept and then say: "I can do that" And then do it on a scale that is still astonishing to this day.
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Come to think of it, EVERY game is some sort of an RPG: - HalfLife? - you take on the role of Gordon Freeman - Quake? - you are now a Ranger - Railroad Tycoon II? - you are now the Fat Controller...
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5:34 "Co-op's for girls? Not according to Team Fortress 2" That is certainly a headline.
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I'm so glad that you didn't find an angle to categorize it as a Pong clone.
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In Italy we simply referred to every game with a lot of shooting involved as "sparatutto", literally "shooteverything" being there fps, side scrolling shooters or whatever. i don't remember when the thing stopped, but i'm pretty sure it lasted at least well into psx era
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Carmack is the father of modern gaming. His work on the quake engine, that instead of selling he open sourced, inspired every modern engine to this day. There is still code from the quake engine in unity, source and even unreal engine to this very day. He redefined gaming so many times and never did it for profit, but for his prolific love of games and game development.
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First I was like "Thats a stupid question. It's an FPS" But then I noticed is an Ahoy video. And I became really intrigued.
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DOOM is an adventure game in which pointing and clicking elements on the screen is a key game mechanic. A point-and-click adventure, if you will.
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only works if nobody questions Gauntlet as an RPG, when it's mostly based on mazes & shooting, truely inspired by RPGs, like Druaga, but Doom is evidently molded from catacomb 3D evidently molded after catacomb, which is drawn frow gauntlet, but gauntlet has more to do with shooting in mazes than dungeon master is
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3:03 "But there's a bit of a problem in describing broad categories of games with the name of another." Dark Souls: 👀
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Carmack was kinda crazy with it. Like, he just hears some term from Romero and casually goes with it. "Texture mapping? ...yeah, I can do that." Gigachad behavior
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WAKE UP BABE AHOY'S UPLOADING AGAIN
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I'm on the hospital treating what I believe and hope is a minor infection, and seeing this pop up on my recommendations brightened my day immensely. Also, I loved the use of the "Suspense" theme, it was a highlight on the previous Doom video, and didn't disappoint here either. Finally, "Doom is an action RPG". This is the evilest thing I've ever seen in a while, I loved it!
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Per the DOOM (SNES) Manual, Page 07: "The game play for DOOM™ is quite simple. This is not a cumbersome role-playing game, but an action-oriented slugathon! Also, you don't need super-human reflexes to win - using your wits is IMPORTANT. To escape DOOM™, you need both brains AND the killer instinct."
