/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9132484
That's bullshit. There are plenty of good shotguns with long-ish range that came after DOOM2. Outlaws, Duke Nukem 3d, shadow warrior, Blood (it's long range considering it's a sawn-off).
Besides, videogame environments by nature are relatively boxed-in unless you're playing some kind of a battlefield-ish game with large sprawling landscapes. As such, the shotgun needs to be "powerful but with limited range", otherwise it's going to always be the absolutely dominating option. Unless of course you don't care about balance.

>completely worthless outside of point blank range
That's most often a hyperbole and when it isn't, it's an isolated case of poor balancing.

>>9132460
If your only criticism is what it may or may not have inspired in future games, it's not a very convincing argument imho.

>>9132689
Well that just means the game's able to roll out more advanced monsters at you quicker because you have the SSG to take care of them with. And it's not like DOOM 2 campaign have a consistent build-up of challenge, it's all over the place so having a traditional "weapon progression" would be kinda weird imo.

>>7843141
Nuclear Winter's a really cozy episode for the most part. I'm slightly sad that I had some stuff I was really worried about when I played it so I couldn't fully enjoy it but I suppose it helped me through a bad time but thankfully everything turned out to be alright .

Those elves were kinda annoying though like a lot of them come at you with the dual uzis and you're dead.

>>7817795
>You abandon it the moment you get better weapons just like DOOM

Unlike DOOM though, the chaingun cannon and pistol do not share the same ammo pool so if you don't have the chaingun yet (especially since dry starts between the episodes) it's a backup pool of ammo.

And some levels / episodes tend to be pretty stingy with ammo in the early levels so the pistol being good is kinda vital sometimes.

Even in later game the pistol is good for dispatching the less dangerous enemies or flicking remote switches, setting off explosives etc that you don't want to waste chaingun ammo for.