One of the earliest gaming gamer memories i have is playing Doom (and Wolfenstein) with my dad, him working the directional keys and me smacking spacebar repeatedly on every wall, hoping for a secret door. Since then I have hopped into Doom intermittenly for 20+ years, but I never really sat and played it front to back.

I’ve been getting more gray hairs lately, I stare at them in the mirror. I don’t think it bothers me that much but I do this daily, multiple times a day. Maybe I can prolong a thing or two by completing the video games I loved but never finished back when I had no gray hairs.

As much as I love the name of this video game, i can’t help but think that “Boom” or “Zoom” would’ve been equally as effective.

Anyway, E1-E3 is pure game, rich and robust juice, no pulp. E4 is something that I also ended up playing, and then I marked it completed it on Backloggd. E1-E3 is a rollie coastie of running, and then gunning, and then searching. E4 is the “funhouse” trailer at the local fire department fair, a cheap thrill if you will. The amount of buttons I pushed in E4 that resulted in the wall behind me opening to reveal enemies in a closet makes me question a thing or two. Question one being “what the hell?” and question two being “can you not???”

idk man Doom rules and makes me so happy. I played it on switch and it feels so good with a controller. Maybe we don’t have to be so married to the “FPS needs to be fully 3D” idea.

Reviewed on Apr 23, 2024


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