/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2652214
The Plasma Rifle in Doom 64 was easily the worst incarnation it ever had in any of the games.

Practically the only thing redeeming it from being a utter trash weapon imho is both its design and the buzzing sound that plays upon equipped. Then again, 8 year old me thought any sort of auditive feedback upon equipping any weapon in any game was fucking awesome back then, but that's really where the nice part ends sadly. It has a shit feel to it, no recoil, no kickback, and generally feels weak as all fucking hell compared to, say, the fucking chaingun of all things, and worst of all, they turned the volume of the firing sound down to fucking barely audible, almost as if they wanted to make the explosion sound of the plasma hitting a wall louder than it should be. The exact opposite being the BFG, and meanwhile its firing sound is easily the best I've ever heard, the sound the ball makes when it lands on a wall is fuckall -loud- in comparison to anything. Literally made me jump of my seat back then when I was playing the game for the first time almost 15 years ago and it got quiet all of a sudden.

Doom 64 may have objectively had the best weapon feel out of the entire series, but god damn, did the weapons suffer some fucking balance issues. It may had not been levels of terrible as the joint of shitty metal boxes they tried passing off as guns in Doom 3 which was ripe full off unbalancement too for example, but still.

I'm also pretty disappointed that Doom 4's PR is so heavily reminiscent of it. It's quite literally the only thing I can say that I absolutely truly loathe about the game so far.