Your first doom game

[CC_machine]

So what was the first Doom game you bought?

[CC_machine]

and why havent i got any poll options ?? grrrrrr

EDIT: oh soz now i get it :D

[FATAL]

First we had the shareware doom. Then we got the full version, and shortly after doom 2.

[Dark~Shadow]

Shareware Doom of course, best time of my life. Then I bought the full version, then Doom II, then the great n64 and playstation came out, so I bought both and played DOom 64 and Final Doom, amazed by great ambiance, I prefer to stick to the classic games, pixelated.

[The Undertaker]

SNES Doom, the red cartidge caught my eye.

[Lord Kaizen]

Doom 64 isn't on there. It's not really a port.

EDIT: What the heck is DooM cubed?

[Turrican]

Doom II was my first doom game :D

[rustyslacker]

I think he means DOOM3, because on the box the 3 looks like an exponent. It's a joke. Laugh, dammit.

DOOM II first, for me. It came with DOOM shareware.

[ace]

Doom II for me. Then PSX Doom. Then Dooms I and II on GBA. Then Final Doom. Then, quite recently, Ultimate Doom. And now I'm getting D3 soon (Christmas most likely).

Doom cubed... isn't that the Nintendo version of Doom for the Gamecube? :p

[signofzeta]

Shareware doom for me.

BTW is heretic counted as a doom clone?

Stick is fist
Elvenwand is pistol
Crossbow is shotgun
Gloves is chainsaw
Dragonclaw is chaingun
Hellstaff is plasma rifle
Phoenix rod is rocket launcher
Firemace sucks
BFG is the best

well you get the point.

Because I was thinking. If you mod all the wall textures for doom and changed all the weapon sprites and monster sprites from doom, is it still doom? So is heretic doom?

[CC_machine]

A doom clone is any game that is based on DooM or uses the doom engine but was not made by id.

A ported game is doom played on anything other than PC, why do u think doom 64 isnt a port?

shoulda explained them at the start soz..

oh and doom cubed is Doom 3 because the three looks like a "to be cubed" sign in maths.. its both a joke and protest really.. why did they do that?

[Harry]

A doom clone is any game that is based on DooM or uses the doom engine but was not made by id.

A ported game is doom played on anything other than PC, why do u think doom 64 isnt a port?

shoulda explained them at the start soz..

oh and doom cubed is Doom 3 because the three looks like a "to be cubed" sign in maths.. its both a joke and protest really.. why did they do that?

Yeah so heretic is a Doom clone, but they would have had to change quite a bit of the source code, for the using items etc.

[CC_machine]

i've never actually played any doom clones apart from doomed, but anyways yes heretic would be a clone. What's so different about doom 64?

[Ninja_of_DooM]

Maybe you should play it before saying it's a clone or a port in future. ;) Save yourself the bother.

[ace]

Doom64 is not a port. If it were a port it wouldn't have new levels, new textures, new graphics, new sounds, new music, etc, etc. It doesn't have anything from Doom I or II really... it is an entirely different game.

I think Doom3 is Doom "cubed" because it would make it seem less like a sequel. After all, it's a remake/retelling of Doom I. If it were a sequel they probably would have used the III symbol under the name. But because it isn't a sequel, a smaller 3 that makes the name rather than the number emphasized, makes sense to me.

[CC_machine]

Maybe you should play it before saying it's a clone or a port in future. ;) Save yourself the bother.

i haven't played it, that's why i'm asking! *squint* lol

even if doom 64 is completely different than doom I or II, it's still doom isn't it? was it made by id?

[FATAL]

Doom64 is not a port. If it were a port it wouldn't have new levels, new textures, new graphics, new sounds, new music, etc, etc. It doesn't have anything from Doom I or II really... it is an entirely different game.
Every game has those. The question is, is the gameplay different, which I can say, isn't.

[Lord Kaizen]

Oh it's different Fatal. Powerups teleport. Monsters appear from thin air. There's more scripting. There's projectals that fire from the walls like in Hexen. Health potions and helments are worth 2 points instead of one. Player speed is slower. And the rl and super shotgun has recoil.

Plus the story is different.

[ace]

Every game has those. The question is, is the gameplay different, which I can say, isn't.

But that's just it. The question isn't as to whether it is the same game, but as to whether or not it is a PORT.

While I can't find one damn dictionary dedicated to games, my definition of a port (in this instance) is taking software and changing it minimally to be able to run on a different platform. In other words, if it had all the same things (with, of course, things taken out/changed) as Doom I/II, it would be a port. Sure, it has the same gameplay, but it uses virtually none of the original resources, except perhaps code.

So no, it isn't a port. The same basic concept, but not a port.



EDIT:
And what LK said. :p

[rustyslacker]

And if you still think gameplay isn't different, play E4M8 of DOOM, then try the last level of DOOM 64. The Mother Demon really changes the game.

[g6672D]

I played Doom2 first. Then Heretic. Then Ultimate Doom. Then Hexen. Then others.

Then Doom source ports. I remember the old Legacy version. No GL, solid corpses, height-check, coolness. :) I then discovered Legacy 1.4#. jDoom was last. I looked at ZDoom and Eternity prior to that. They didn't do much for me (except skyboxes). :)

I got Doom Collector's Edition somewhere after first Legacy. The Final Doom levels were great.

Doom3 and then the expansion were last. On a GeForce4 it kinda sucked. But it was SO FRAGGING COOL!!! :)

ID Software is the best. Theee best!

[lucius octavion]

Not really a doom clone, but it was a TC with it's own Iwad.

[Doom_Dude]

The Doom shareware was on a comp my bro bought. We didn't know it was on there and one day I walked in and he was playing and I was.... whooooah this looks damned cool. Then I bought Doom 2 and then later I finally got Ultimate Doom. Ages later I got Final Doom when I spotted in in a Radio Shack store. I finished Final and asked a dude in the vid store if there was anouther Doom after Final and he said... yeah man it's called Quake. A few months later Quake was in the stores. heh.

[lucius octavion]

You know I think I must be the yougest person here... When I was like Five years old, Chex Quest came in the cereal box and I didn't even know what doom was. I used to play it like nuts. Then my dad wrecked the computer in an attempt to tweak it or something. I had no computer until two years ago. Then I got ultimate doom and doom II at the same time. Then I started using Jdoom and Legacy. Then I got doom III this past halloween.

[owna]

Doom 2 was my first.

[Lord Kaizen]

Doom 64 isn't there still so I guess I can't vote. :(

Final Doom ported to a different platform (the PSx version) isn't on there either.

[Falci]

I was not very sure... I voted Doom Shareware, but thinking now, when I first saw doom at my friends place years ago I remember seeing the intermission pic from E3 (You know... hell's map)

So, it wasn't shareware. The first Doom I played was Doom 1.

[Nurlok]

The first doom game I played was Doom. It was one of the early versions, with three episodes, no nighmare skill level, only one gamma correction level.
However, the first game I bought, was Doom 3.

[Markel66]

and then I went online and ordered the complete DooM. i don't know, v1.666? It was early maybe '95. And I have been playing eversince. Keep up the good work all of you wad authors.*heart*

[jimmyj]

DooM SHareware for me..but, whats DooMed?

[Rico]

Hey, I'm kinda new here. I never really got the internet gaming(or pc gaming) scene until just recently. My first doom game was doom I full version. My uncle installed it on my computer (RIP Dos) when I was 4. I kept getting owned on The shores of hell first stage, then my aunt came by and destroyed the map..>_< It was fun!

[Ffabbia]

Shareware Doom to begin with, on my 386 computer, a couple of months after it was first released. I bought the PC just to play Doom! I'll never forget those intense days (and nights) of gaming, when I would phone in sick from work and wear my eyes out through lack of sleep :D

Upgraded to full version shortly after, then Doom 2, followed by Heretic, then Hexen.. and the branched out a bit with other FPS games such as Duke3D etc....before Quake hit the scene.

Never played any console versions, and never intended to; but now I have the Doom 64 port for the PC.

[Sheer-Cold]

mine was Doom I, then got Ultimate Doom, which wasn't much different cept a new episode, i still remember it, and i sucked dramatically since i didn't know how to control the character in first person. it was also my first game i ever had, once i got that, i got Doom 2, and years and years later, just recently i downloaded Final Doom, which was a bit scary with a ton of hard monsters in the beginning of the game (Plutonia Experiment)
a month or so later, i got Doom 3, and then the expansion, which kept me busy for a while. i still think that doom is a good game, cept that it has bad graphics, which the gameplay makes over it

[Kuwabara]

I never got to get the shareware version of Doom.at that time i was playing Chex Quest and i did'ent see the connection of Chex Quest and Doom untill i started to play the ROM of the 32X version of Doom about a year or too ago. .now that i think about it,i should have voted the other game with Doom engine choice.

[freeKK]

I remember playing the Shareware version when it first came out, I was like 4 lol. That game terrified me, which is probably the reason I still have that unconditional love for it. I think after I played Doom 2 I almost bought Final Doom a little while later but got Resident Evil instead. Good times, good times.

[Nessonic]

Good ol' SNES Doom. Now some of you may laugh, but man that thing was kickass when I played it, and I had played Goldeneye, Unreal, by then. So I had played some really cool shooters, but Doom......wow. I'll always remember my 1st Demon sighting, being in a tight corner and it making that noise.....even though the SNES sound sucked I still jumped. Can't wait until I get my Doom Collectors Edition so I can relive the originals!

[Kuwabara]

If you want to get Doom Collectors Edition i would suggest http://www.amazon.com

[yo_tuco]

I feel classic Wolfenstein should have honorable mention. No doubt any Doom player back then was playing it first! And the map editor couldn't have been simpler.

[Kuwabara]

I feel classic Wolfenstein should have honorable mention. No doubt any Doom player back then was playing it first! And the map editor couldn't have been simpler.
It couldn't have been more Boring too.

[Midnight]

The first Doom game I bought was Doom 2, the first Doom I played was Doom Shareware, back when I had DOS. It came with this game package that had at least 50 games, all Shareware.

[Blood_Marine]

i bought doom collectors edition about a week ago and ive hardly been able to pull myself away from it since. i remember my first sighting of those big pink melee demons(sorry but the ingame manual doesnt come with names and descriptions) i was in a corner getting a bottle, and i turn around and just about shit my pants. i just got the chaingun so i let 'im have it!*evilol*

*Edit*- hey thanks for the welcome

[Dutch Devil]

Big pink melee demons and bottle sounds funny :), welcome to the forums Marine.

[Logan MTM]

Is imposible to me forgot my first match on SNES !!!

[Revenant]

I first got doom on shareware but then soon found the doom2 engine online via free doom, then i got doomsday, and just recently i have aquired doom3 via reletives. (lol)

[[compactSprue]]

my very first doom game was DOOM 1 for the Sega Genesis 32x...has anyone heard of it? i used to think that was so awesome...shooting anything that moves! i was fascinated by the concept! then it was DOOM 1 for GBA...didnt like it...enemies dont explode and the blood is all green...and then i got DOOM collector's edition for 10 dollars...then i realized how crappy the console and handheld versions were!


long story short...i am now HOOKED on any doom game *turvy*

[EvilNed]

Doom Shareware. Played it at my dads work when I was younger (8 or something). I remember being really scared by it and it was really the first experience I ever had with video games. I operated the weapons, and my brother the arrow keys; it was a blast! We got as far as the fourth level and got scared shitless by our first demon.

I then played Doom Shareware at home alot, got it from a shareware CD. I eventually played Doom 2 at a friends and just had to get it for myself. So that was the first full Doom game that I got. After that I got the Ultimate Doom and Final Doom, and I am still playing them to this day.

[Steeveeo]

my first has got to be doom 1. I dug it out of a collection of my bro's old floppies stored on some random shelf about a year ago. Along with my first copy of DMapEdit. Ah the good old days of DOS......oh no.....the momories are coming back.....horrible....painfull...DOS MEMORIES!!! BEWARE OF DOS!! GYAAAAAAAaaaaaaa......*what*......nvm...... Oh well. Now I play on the Doomsday and Risen3D ports and use DeepSea and Doom Builder.

[General Greivous]

Doom for SNES. Years and years ago. Doom 64 was my 2nd and what inspired me to want to make Doom levels today. You can see that influence in my maps ;)

[Life_of_DOOM]

I first played Doom 2 when i was young. I've always loved playing it.

[Johanbeyl]

I find it interesting that more people got Doom 2 before the original. Obviously the most people had Doom Shareware, but that was free. This might shock a few of you *wacky* , but I don't know Doom. Only Doom 2. LOL! Well, with the new Doomsday engine coming out shortly, I intend to find out how they compare. Which is better?

I remember me and a friend being so scared that we used to physically lean to the side to try and see around a corner in the game!! LOL, those were great times!

[FATAL]

I find doom 1 to be better than the second one. The episode brought by ultimate doom is crap, though.

[cenobite321]

I was introduced to Doom (the shareware Doom) by my cousin when I was like 7 or 6 years old, and I don't know why I remember that there were hundreds of monsters in the first level. Well, but that is what I kind of remember from many years ago.

After that day my dad bought me a copy of shareware Doom and I also showed it to one of my best friends. Oh, I remember those times when he told me some myths of Doom, that there was a monster that was a sun that if you touched you died and that the radiation suits were death people that grabbed you if you were near them. I remember I was scared when I saw the first demon in level 4 oh and I remember that in Central Processing a demon that was behind me scared the crap out of me and I turned off the computer.

Then my dad bought me Doom 2. I remember I had a schedule for playing it: First 30 minutes to solve the level, next 30 minutes to explore the next map. It was an hour a day playing Doom 2. That schedule continued until Monster Condo, which was the scariest level and I didn't had the courage to pass it at the age I had until some time later.

Interestingly, when I was like 7 years old I found Doom scary, and today, 8 years later, I found Doom 3 scary

[The Hand]

I got the shareware first then became a addict and got the rest :)

[OzzyPapat]

I play to the first doom on Super nintendo when i have 6 years old and 12 years after i am still fu***** crazy of this game , and i mod it , but my release have not end so i still wait.

[blood imp]

DooM II for me

[Raptor Jesus]

i first played doom II at my uncles house at the age of 5 i think. Even then i knew that the game kicked soo much ass :P

[kaloo]

Hmm... not really sure... I was like... 4 or 5... My Grandpa had Doom on his computer. It just said Doom... Maybe the Shareware. A good while later he gave us the computer, it had Doom I and II on it... I had it until recently.

[blood imp]

Now that you mention it... DooM II was the first game I ever played. I think it was when I was 3.

[ich]

First game was Ultimate Doom (directly) around 1996, bought from London. I played it after Dark Forces, so Doom didn't seem so impressive. Too bad I lost Dark Forces.

[Chubz]

I was very young... probably about 5 or 6 when my dad brought home the floppy disks for the original DOOM and installed it on our (then awesome) Windows 3.1 system with 4 MB of RAM.

I never played the shareware (from what I can remember) but I definitely remember that the original DOOM was the first one I ever laid my eyes on.

I watched my dad play it until I was old enough to understand the game, then at age 7 or 8 I was hit hard with DOOM fever and couldn't get off of it. You can just imagine what happened when he brought DOOM II home with him a few years later...

[dsalazar23491]

I have got the original CD Magazine with the Doom Shareware and 100 wads..........thats my treasure

[Rekrul]

My first official Doom game was Ultimate Doom played with the Doomsday engine.

I never had an intel-based system until mid 2000 or so, so I missed out on many of the "classics". A friend finally put together a Windows system for me, and he put on the demos for Half-Life, Descent 3, Jedi Knight, Hexen 2, Requiem: Avenging Angel, Heavy Gear 2 and a couple others. I played all those demos first, so my first real experience with FPS games was with the demos for more advanced games. I'd briefly played Doom for a few minutes on a friend's system, but not enough to really know it.

The first full FPS game I played through was Dark Forces followed by the sequel, then Thief Gold, Half-Life and others. I only got a copy of Doom a year or so ago and attempted to play with with the original EXE. I could never get used to the mouse control it used and it crashed constantly (under Windows 98SE). Doomsday looked like the best source port, so I used that to play through the Doom games: Ultimate, Doom II and the first half of Final Doom (the second set of levels was too hard for my limited patience). In my defense, I probably made the games harder than they originally were by turning off the auto-aim.

Actually, if you want to get technical, the first fully 3D shooter-like games I ever played were Castle Master 1 & 2 on the Amiga. Flat, colored polygons, enemies made out of about 10 polygons each and the games ran at about 5 frames a second, but it was great to be able to explore a castle in full 3D. There were 3D games before that, but those probably came closest to being the forerunners of modern FPS games.

[xbolt]

Chex Quest. The best game that uses the Doom engine. A couple years after I got CQ, I saw Doom at a freind's house, and I thought: "This is kind of like Chex Quest!" I also thought it was really weird when I got to the sixth level. (CQ only had five.)

[Rockjumala]

The first time I played DOOM was when I got this REEALLY nice collector's edition pack with Ultimate DOOM, DOOM II and Final DOOM. It was a birthday-present from my grandmother for my 6-years :D Now I'm talking about this really big box with giant booklet and the games and stuff.

Sadly, my grandmother threw the game away after seeing it :(. "Too violent", she said. But I already had it installed on every PC so never mind :D

Now a couple of years ago I bought the new collector's edition DOOM disc.

One of the best games EVER. Especially in co-op.

[william]

my first experiance with doom is when i got the collectors edition

[Osiris's_Legacy]

My dad got Doom 1 full version first, then Doom 2. Dad would make maps (with the old editor, ahhhh no 3D mode!??!) and I would play them. Then we got Ultimate Doom. After 7 years, I moved on to finding out about ports and stuff. Legacy was the first, given to me by my Uncle.

[CSlyr Cthulhu]

Oh, a Doom Clone would be something like Chex. DooM Shareware for me, though.

[helldemon]

i actully bought doom 3 first but i didint see it up there the one after doom 3 was doom 1 then doom 2