/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10650328
>No idea why I believed this meme
It was a forced meme by secondaries and newfags for a very long time.

Young people who grew bored of modern military shooters being frequently built around pressing a button to attach yourself to designated cover spots to play protracted minigames of Whack-A-Mole, and having heard something about how older shooters weren't like this, they somehow imagined that this meant that you would never ever use cover at all in games like Doom and Quake.
It's as if they came to the conclusion that the mere concept of taking cover from fire was somehow a bad and harmful idea for shooters, and the main reason why generic cover focused military shooters were bad.

While Doom was never built around using cover as the sole means of fighting, using cover should still be part of your strats, because avoiding getting shot is always a good thing in shooting games. The Arch-Vile in Doom 2 even enforces this on you, and only by a bare minimum, just the slightest bit of level geometry to break his line of sight will interrupt his otherwise undodgeable attack.

What Doom doesn't do is force you to just sit tight in one spot and just slowly pick enemies off as you go (nor is cover a mode you engage in at designated spots, you just go behind some suitable level geometry). The monsters in Doom are dumb as fuck but they are 100% aggressive and will always try to advance to your position at all times, so you can typically never stay put in cover, or you're no longer in cover.
You also don't get health regenerating for free by doing nothing, health is a limited resource to find and manage.