Not to be that bastard who always has a tape recorder in his pocket, but...
I Live...AGAIN wrote:Doom. I actually think it's right where it should be. Great game but people give it too much credit.
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Though you are right, there is a difference between saying it gets to much credit and it being overrated, so I guess I retract my statement.
I will admit Duke does live heavily off nostalgia for me, as it was one of the first FPS games I played after Doom. Duke was interesting to me because, unlike Doom, it tried to show the real world and not just some lunar base on Phobos (although it did have the space station, though that is my least favourite episode). The Atomic edition is a great example of this, having levels set in a shopping mall and a restaurant, for example. This is something that was thankfully inherited by Blood.
In my view Shadow Warrior was hurt by the fact that the it was not handled right once you reach the second episode. It should have been split up into at least two distinct episodes, as the way it turned out it makes you feel like you are fighting hoards and hoards of monsters (or ninjas) and not progressing anywhere. They should have had an episode transition when you defeated the fat man at least.
I for some reason could never get into Heretic or Hexen though. Heretic always seemed to much like a fantasy Doom mod to me, and I tended to get lost in the levels. Hexen was a bit more interesting to me, but the hubs made things even more confusing. I spent a lot of time playing the Hexen II demo, but when I tried to play the full game I always just seem to loose interest. I never played Heretic II, but that barely has any relationship to the other games. So I guess I just do not have the patience to play them properly.
