/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6354434]

What gun is the Doomguy holding on the cover of Doom 1? On Doom II it is clearly the shotgun.

[Anonymous No.6354441]

Oh great. Another Doom faggot that can't use the catalog. Might as well just rename /vr/ to Doom General.

[Anonymous No.6354445]

>>6354441

How hard did daddy hit you this time

[Anonymous No.6354449]

>>6354441
Its at like 600 posts and about to die, why are you so upset?

[Anonymous No.6354451]

>>6354441
may as well LOL

[Anonymous No.6354459]

>>6354449
then make a new one, fuck, there are too many spammy threads as it is.

[Anonymous No.6354467]

>>6354449
He's upset because this thread wasn't his idea.

[Anonymous No.6354542]

>>6354467
True

[Anonymous No.6354757]

So uh... any ideas on the question in OP? Just a made up gun by the artist who did the cover? Is it a stylized pistol? The chunkiness of it and the magazine also make it resemble the chaingun from Wolfenstein 3D, at least the icon of it, though the gun Doomguy is holding clearly doesn't have multiple barrels.

[Anonymous No.6354759]

>>6354757
Made up gun by the artist. Cover of Wolfenstein 3d has a gun not in the game either.

[Anonymous No.6354771]

>>6354757
it’s a fictional fucking sci-fi gun that was drawn by an artist who’s probably never fired a shot in his life, designed with the intent of “it looks cool and futuristic and no one could possibly be autistic enough to seriously ponder if it’s based off of a specific weapon”

[Anonymous No.6354774]

>>6354759
True, though I prefer this cover art which does have an accurate to the game chaingun - though the chaingun in game doesn't show the bullet belt an instead has a clip, probably just for the sake of making the in-game graphic for the icon and pick-up cleaner. Some scenes like the end screen of an episode shows BJ with the gun with a belt as all chainguns use.

[Anonymous No.6354780]

>>6354771
Well I mean I am just saying he was clearly shown sprites or concept art because the Doomguys armor and helmet are accurate to the game as are the overall design of the demons which resemble Hell Knights, he could have used a gun from the game just like the artist for Doom II did.

[Anonymous No.6354787]

only on a niche place like /vr/ will there be spergs who care about the most pointless things

[Anonymous No.6354792]

>>6354787
>only on a niche place like /vr/ will there be spergs who care about the most pointless things

[Anonymous No.6354808]

>>6354780
maybe you can go back in time and ask the late Mr. Punchatz why he made such a horrible error in artistry when he could’ve easily illustrated a firearm accurate to the Doom Canon™, you feces-gobbling welfare baby

[Anonymous No.6354816]

I only just realised he's not dual wielding machine pistols. I thought he had a gun in each hand for the last 25 years. That's some Mandela Effect shit.

[Anonymous No.6354841]

>>6354808
You don't have to be a seething faggot about it.

[Anonymous No.6354842]

>>6354841
*sprays diarrhea into your low-effort thread*
seethe about THIS

[Anonymous No.6354843]

>>6354842
>*sprays diarrhea into your low-effort thread*
>seethe about THIS

[Anonymous No.6354849]

>>6354816
He has two guns in his hand in the title screen version, but one is a shotgun.

Though you're right in that it definitely resembles a machine pistol/submachine gun more than anything else. I believe some mods have tried to add a gun like it, maybe Brutal Doom or Rogue-like Arsenal?

[Anonymous No.6354851]

>>6354434
I wonder if the SMG in Brutal Doom is based off of it? They look pretty similar.

[Anonymous No.6354852]

>>6354851
Yep, it is inspired by the gun from the box art/title screen.

[Anonymous No.6354857]

>>6354849
I love that look of deep concern in his eyes. Doomguy cares. Cacodemon's chilling in the top left too.

[Anonymous No.6354862]

That cool gun on the coverart is actually based off of a Russian prototype submachine-pistol hybrid similar to the gyrojet that never made it into production because it had a chance of jamming and killing the user, the gun was named the HGK-172 also I made all this up and you have poor priorities if you seriously spend time questioning the legitimacy of a videogame boxart weapon

[Anonymous No.6354867]

>>6354862
how do i know you're not lying about making it up???

[Anonymous No.6354869]

>>6354867
Who just goes on the internet to lie

[Anonymous No.6354874]

>>6354857
Yes, I really dig the title screen version. Does anyone know who embellished it like that in the in-game version? Was it Adrian?

[Anonymous No.6354876]

>>6354862
Anyone who isn't retarded knew you were bullshitting halfway through your first sentence, announcing it wasn't really necessary.

[Anonymous No.6354880]

>>6354862
>getting this mad about people discussing art of a video game box
Pretty cringe.

[Anonymous No.6354881]

>>6354876
Anyone who isn't retarded wouldn't be in this thread

[Anonymous No.6354887]

>>6354881

[Anonymous No.6354891]

>>6354881
>Anyone who isn't retarded wouldn't be in this thread

[Anonymous No.6354898]

>>6354881
Fucking kek

[Anonymous No.6354913]

>>6354434
what the hell is that guy in the background holding

[Anonymous No.6354918]

>>6354913
the same gun but with a stock

[Anonymous No.6354937]

>>6354808
>>6354842
>>6354862
>>6354881
>NOOOOOOOOO WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? YOU CAN'T JUST DISCUSS THE BOX ART OF A VIDEO GAME ON A RETRO GAMING IMAGEBOARD, STOP!!!! FUCKIN NERDS WHY!???

[Anonymous No.6354976]

>>6354937
>soijak poster has an inflated sense of self-worth
woah

[Anonymous No.6355063]

>>6354976
>nonce comes to thread to screech about discussing the cover art of a video game from 1993 on /vr/ for entirety of said thread
woah

[Anonymous No.6355108]

>>6354434
From a distance I always thought doomguy was holding two guns and the flame being thrown at him was actually the muzzle flash from a gun in his left hand. This thread changed my life.

[Anonymous No.6355157]

Duke did the same thing. This gun isn't in the game.

[Anonymous No.6355159]

Half Lifes better.

[Anonymous No.6355170]

>>6355157
Isn't that the rocket launcher or whatever gun it is that the actual sprite always has?

[Anonymous No.6355207]

Go back to your containment general.

[Anonymous No.6355209]

i thought it was the chaingun

[Anonymous No.6355323]

>>6354937
>AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH LET ME SHIT UP THE BOARD WITH REDUNDANT POSTS, YOU CAN'T JUST RUIN MY GARBAGE THREAD WITH SHITPOSTING!!!! GOD I WISH THIS WAS /v/!!!

[Anonymous No.6355504]

>>6355323
You act like there is quality content to be found on this site.

[Anonymous No.6355576]

>>6354459
>then make a new one
... He technically did.

[Anonymous No.6355587]

>>6354434
I never really noticed his arm being grabbed, always thought it was just a ridiculous pose.

[Anonymous No.6355680]

>>6354434
Doom's arsenal went through a lot of changes during development, so most probably this gun was in the game at some point as a machinegun or something before getting replaced.

[Anonymous No.6356043]

The chaingun was originally an SMG.
It was changed to a chaingun, maybe because it was iconic to Wolfenstien 3D, but the mechanics of the weapon were not changed. This is why the chaingun feels kinda feeble in Doom.

Also the game was called Doki Doki Panoki and we never got the real Doom 2

[Anonymous No.6356104]

>>6354434
>>6354849
All these years, and I never noticed the other marine in the background.

[Anonymous No.6357063]

>>6355680
>>6356043
Wow, finally legit answers. Thank you based anons.

Also this thread seems to have revealed some things to anons like >>6354816 and
>>6356104 they never knew. I would call this a success.

[Anonymous No.6357089]

>>6355323
Imagine being this autistic about a shithole like /vr/