/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5612462
>We're back in almost-horror Doom instead of balls to the wall action Doom.

I still can't believe people still exist who think DOOM Was never a horror game in any sense.
>Aliens was stated as a direct influence on the look and feel of the game.
>Half-Life was directly created to try to be as scary and special as Doom was when it launched
>Doom has more iterations of mutilated corpses and impaled figures than probably any game in existence.
>That section of Masters of Doom where Romero makes a level with creepy flashing lights, darkness and enemies popping out to show everyone how doom should look and feel.
>The purposeful diminished lighting system in Software doom to

These are the people who want to forget that Doom 3 exists, people who drank the Doom 4/Brutal Doom Zeitgeist Kool-aid so hard that it's stunted their brains.

Doom was never ALL hyper-masculine power fantasy shit.
It was nerdy, it tried to be scary, it was a bit goofy and that's where all of the charm came from. But at the time, it WAS scary.
Some levels did limit your ammo so you had to ration your weapon usage, enemies were designed to be frightening so fighting them and winning was even cooler.