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Topic	THE Snake Ranks Anything Horror Related (Vol. 5) 5th Anniversary RANKINGS
Snake5555555555 10/30/20 10:54:08 PM #315:	15. DOOM (1993 video game) (23 points) Nominated by: MetalmindStats (0/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODs5WPvE2ic Importance: 10 Fear: 4 Snake: 9 DOOM is a product of its reputation, a "gaming nasty" if you will. Much like films such as Cannibal Holocaust & The Driller Killer, Doom spread like a wildfire through the public thanks to its progressive first-episode freeware model, and with it, a cursed satanic reputation rose, as critics were quick to shout out its potential as a "mass murder simulator", its high levels of graphic violence nearly unmatched for the time, with concern growing for the youth playing this type of game. It may seem tame now, but DOOM remains a sizable power over the gaming industry, a mythical Rosetta stone in game design, a perfect design doc on how to present horror & action, and a permanent scar on how games are perceived and criticized to this day. It wouldn't be out of bounds to call this the single most important game released since 1990. DOOM is incredibly simple to pick up and shoot, yet mechanically rich, every room a puzzle of dynamic enemy placement and level geometry so perfect you can feel it in every movement of your character and every pump of your shotgun. Other games would position its demonic hordes as horrific end-game enemies, DOOM meanwhile has you slay them by the dozen with hardly a second glance. Its music, MIDI covers and medleys of popular thrash and rock songs, pumps up the action and brings the pace to an absolutely gleeful, bloody boil of guts and carnage. Its early form of environmental storytelling meanwhile brings in the horror with stuff like corpses on spikes, and gives you a steely resolve to put all demon sons-a-bitches to rest for good. I'm sure this is all stuff you've heard before, but with DOOM it always bears repeating. There's a reason DOOM has been on every electronic known to man, and it's because it's just a damn joy to play. You can get an incredible adrenaline rush just by playing E1M1; there's no pretense, no BS, it's just you and the game, and really that's all gaming ever really needed to be. DOOM, even with its controversies and unfortunate connection to real-life tragedies, will always be the distillation of what makes gaming so appeal all over the world, and that's its ultimate legacy. --- Bare feet on the tile with my head up in the clouds https://imgur.com/1e1e70S <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:946520381] in THE Snake ... [t:79012032]...</cite> <quote>15. DOOM (1993 video game) (23 points) Nominated by: MetalmindStats (0/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODs5WPvE2ic Importance: 10 Fear: 4 Snake: 9 DOOM is a product of its reputation, a "gaming nasty" if you will. Much like films such as Cannibal Holocaust & The Driller Killer, Doom spread like a wildfire through the public thanks to its progressive first-episode freeware model, and with it, a cursed satanic reputation rose, as critics were quick to shout out its potential as a "mass murder simulator", its high levels of graphic violence nearly unmatched for the time, with concern growing for the youth playing this type of game. It may seem tame now, but DOOM remains a sizable power over the gaming industry, a mythical Rosetta stone in game design, a perfect design doc on how to present horror & action, and a permanent scar on how games are perceived and criticized to this day. It wouldn't be out of bounds to call this the single most important game released since 1990. DOOM is incredibly simple to pick up and shoot, yet mechanically rich, every room a puzzle of dynamic enemy placement and level geometry so perfect you can feel it in every movement of your character and every pump of your shotgun. Other games would position its demonic hordes as horrific end-game enemies, DOOM meanwhile has you slay them by the dozen with hardly a second glance. Its music, MIDI covers and medleys of popular thrash and rock songs, pumps up the action and brings the pace to an absolutely gleeful, bloody boil of guts and carnage. Its early form of environmental storytelling meanwhile brings in the horror with stuff like corpses on spikes, and gives you a steely resolve to put all demon sons-a-bitches to rest for good. I'm sure this is all stuff you've heard before, but with DOOM it always bears repeating. There's a reason DOOM has been on every electronic known to man, and it's because it's just a damn joy to play. You can get an incredible adrenaline rush just by playing E1M1; there's no pretense, no BS, it's just you and the game, and really that's all gaming ever really needed to be. DOOM, even with its controversies and unfortunate connection to real-life tragedies, will always be the distillation of what makes gaming so appeal all over the world, and that's its ultimate legacy. --- Bare feet on the tile with my head up in the clouds https://imgur.com/1e1e70S</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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