/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10523363
Doom was an absolutely seminal title.

First is the technical. Nobody had ever made a game with those kinds of graphics or gameplay running as smoothly and fluidly on that kind of hardware. Ultima Underworld from 1992 has slightly stronger graphical fidelity, but lacks the slick optimization and is ANYTHING but a fast action game.
Doom also shipped with network multiplayer on top of this. The 1.0 netcode was pretty scuffed, but just stick with LAN until that's patched and your sysop wouldn't strangle you. After Doom 2, DWANGO would facilitate proper online play with dozens of players, map rotation, etc, (and somehow NicoNico Douga and Danganronpa would later birth from the Japanese DWANGO branch).

Second we've got design. Doom was one of the earliest FPS games, and established the conventions of that genre so firmly that the go-to name for FPS for years to come was "Doomclone", even when a game actually strayed significantly from that gameplay.
This was also a very violent game, more visceral than Mortal Kombat. Splatterhouse is the only major action game I can think of that matches it (with Doom 2 exceeding it, though Splatterhouse 3 was swinging for the fucking rafters).

Third is that a game of this magnitude and this quality was designed to facilitate users modding it. People would have to do some creative hacking before the source code release if they wanted to do some of the more wild shit, but this was encouraged by the devs, and the scene is as lively as ever.

Fourth is publishing. Doom was the biggest ever success of the shareware model on its release. The demo was just passed around widely for free, and you'd mail order the full version, which had never dwarfed all big publishers before.

tl;dr while Megaman X is an excellent game everyone should play, it's ultimately "just" another sidescroller like the Megaman games before it, it wasn't this massive, multifaceted revolutionary step which changed the world of videogames.

>>8244947
>Be picrel
>Doesn't want to hunt mavericks
>Only wants to play Quake and Doom

>>6483652
"HOAHWATCHOUTIMMATHROWYAOVERTHERE"

>>6185284
Thanks much for the rec. Going to go check it out later tonight.

>>6146510
it clearly says he's a boomer but okay dude

>>6108306
>>6110547