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Everyone says this is great but the game is unplayable at several moments due to the darkness. Areas go 100% dark and any monsters in the areas also become 100% dark, making them literally impossible to see and shoot.

I kept running into areas with no visibility and Spectres, it's really cheap and annoying. It wasn't my TV black levels or gamma or brightness either, I mean it when I say 100% dark... literally no colors but black.
Why does nobody who sucks this port's dick ever mention the pure darkness that completely hides enemies?

>> No.9057135

Cool bait.

>> No.9057159

>>9057135
Maybe because I'm playing on a real ps1? I'm looking up videos on Youtube and the lighting is way better with 32-bit colors from emulation. On real hardware, the blackness around Doomguy's face is exactly the black that many of the dark rooms go to.

>> No.9057162

>>9057128
Talk to me when you've played and beaten the SNES version. My eyes never recovered. I regret nothing.

>> No.9057168

>>9057162
Why would anyone play Doom without strafing? It's like playing SM64 on a keyboard, it takes all the fun away.

>> No.9057264

>>9057168
>it’s 1995 so you can just load up any version of Doom at your heart’s content

>> No.9057330

>>9057159
You sound like a pussy.

>> No.9057337

>>9057128
>Gaystation
Found your problem

>> No.9057338

>>9057128
better than shitturn

>> No.9057397

>>9057128
It's to prepare your for Doom 3.

>> No.9057459

Have you tried adjusting your TVs settings?

>> No.9057487

>>9057128
I didn't have an issue playing through it.
Any levels in particular you found too difficult because of the darkness?

>> No.9057496

>>9057159
sounds like doom 64 problem

>> No.9057498

>>9057459
thats dumb advice because what it essentially means you gonna be paying twice as much money for boosting your crt's brightness and burning those electrical bills. it's awful game design at best and downright cruel jew scam if that's what devs intended for kids to do back in 1995

>> No.9057502

>>9057128
The minigun should act as a torch of sorts
If firing weapons doesn't light up the room you're playing a shit port

>> No.9057565

>>9057498
I gave you a solution to your problem. Either play with your TV settings or quit batching about something you aren't willing to fix.

>> No.9057571

The 32X has the best console port of this now anyway

>> No.9057574 [DELETED] 

>>9057498
>dark scenes in videogames? must be da joos
hilarious to think many people here sincerely think like this

>> No.9057684

>>9057565
OP here, that's not me.

As I said in my OP, the TV settings have no impact. It's 100% black, if you turned up brightness or anything else that would normally work you would just make it 100% dark grey instead. The enemies are completely hidden in the darkness with it being literally impossible to see them eith any image adjusting, it's pure blackness. It's unplayable on Ultraviolence.

>>9057502
No attacks light up the environment. Not yours and not the enemies. It's really good besides the choice to have total blackness area.

>> No.9057691

>>9057128
>I mean it when I say 100% dark... literally no colors but black.
That's how dark rooms in doom work kid.

>> No.9057729

>>9057128
Doom is trash? Agreed %100. But for future reference, please keep this trash in the containment general. That's what it's there for, as there's enough cancer on /vr/ as is.

>> No.9057735 [DELETED] 

>>9057574
Substitute jew with gypsy or shyster if hearing the word jew makes your npc programming routines engage and you freak out.

>> No.9057838

>>9057128
stop playing on an lcd. doom 64 is even worse for being dark and everyone praises the shit out of that game.

>> No.9057878

>>9057128
Why aren't you playing Doom on PC?

>> No.9058206

>>9057330
desu.

>> No.9058438

>>9057838
People mostly play Absolution or re-release and don't know what it actually was like on the N64.

>> No.9058513

>>9057168
Doom being one of my favorite games ever, I made a point to play and beat every version of this game I could find.

>> No.9058515

>>9057729
ack yourself tranny

>> No.9058550

>>9058513
I genuinely respect the autistic commitment, I tried something like that with Sonic a few years ago.

>> No.9058631

>>9058550
The Saturn version of Doom, while charming, is unbeatable without cheating. There are 2 levels I recall that require you to run off a cliff onto a ledge to grab a keycard to progress. Because of the awful framerate, the jumps are impossible. I had to enter a code for all keycards to get past these levels.

>> No.9058642

>>9058631
Writing that down for the next Saturn shitpost thread

>> No.9058685

>>9058631
That would be a funny story if true, but I doubt it's true as there's longplays of the Saturn version. You can move while having the map screen open which I imagine would be a workaround.

>> No.9059198

>>9057128
>>9057159
Which levels are too dark for you?

>> No.9059224

>>9058685
It is completely true. Those longplays you are watching aren't done on the actual hardware, and the framerate is increased. I can assure you the jumps I mentioned are impossible.
>>9058642
>Saturn shitpost thread
Don't be that guy.

>> No.9059227

>>9058685
>move while having the map screen open which I imagine would be a workaround
Also, I tried this. Is doesn't help anything.

>> No.9059246

i don't know anyone outside of 4chan who thinks these boomer shooter console ports were good

i feel like i'm in some twilight zone when people talk about these ports like they were the best thing since sliced bread. i had duke 64 for instance. props to the dev team for doing the best they could but it was still ass. and it was censored to boot

>> No.9059254

>>9059246

Most people hate them. There's just a couple of nuts 'raving' about it on 4chan.

>> No.9059431

>>9059246
Duke on the 64 is incredible and the best console port. You are either baiting, on drugs or never actually played it.

>> No.9059886

>>9059224
Which levels? This guy played through it recently and I know he plays on real hardware.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpj5wuFdK50

>> No.9059913

>>9059246
Doom on Playstation has better graphics and better music than the PC version. The framerate is only slightly worse (in Doom 1 levels at least, Doom 2 does chug a bit). I always replay Doom on Playstation.
Hexen 64 looks way better than the PC original, which is a pixelated mess. I do usually replay on PC using a Doom source port though.

>> No.9060310

>>9057264
>it's 1995 and you don't own a computer