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Vigo:

--- Quote from: Malenko on March 25, 2011, 09:37:39 am ---All joking aside, I think Quake is really started moving the FPS genre. 3D environments and 3D enemies, instead of flat 2D (cardboard standee) enemies

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Quake may have been revolutionary in LAN multiplayer FPS gaming scene, but I don't think it is the one responsible for the dramatic rise in the FPS genre. On the heels of quake came Goldeneye a just year later. I think breaking into the console market is really what brought FPS games into huge commercial successes.

Not to mention that quake came out at a funky time for PC computers, so it was not an initial major success. Quake was a DOS program that had high system requirements...at least for a dos game. It could be launched on Windows 95 but could not use any graphics acceleration, so the first release was slow on most computers. They did not fix up quake until Quake 2 came out a year later. I'm not dissing quake, but it just took a little while for it really take off.  ;)

Vigo:

--- Quote from: Mikezilla on March 25, 2011, 12:18:10 pm ---Youre right, it IS a difference of opinion, but you just THOUGHT it didnt succeed, when cleary, it did.  Maybe you just didnt get the humor, or maybe youre one of those weird computer people that dont think anything is funny because youre too smart.

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Just to kinda add on your thoughts, I don't even see why a PC game needs to be heavily rated on it's commercial success, anyway. Doom was easily the most popular FPS at the time, I know I played a lot of it. It really wasn't the best thing out there, though.

I used to play a ton of Marathon at the same time, which has now fallen into obscurity, yet the graphics were better, the weapons were better and there was multiplayer. You could aim with a mouse like modern FPS games, and there were neat things like varying gravities and oxygen levels, and the game could even be modded for co-op play.

It makes me think of all the cool things they could have added into Doom II, and the only improvement we got was a double barrel shotgun.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 25, 2011, 01:16:04 am ---Doom is Duke's father, no Duke without doom.. no fps without doom and therefore doom can NEVER be overrated.

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You really can't be serious? Doom is definitely not the first FPS to hit the market and if Doom didn't exist, another FPS would take its place.

Sorry dude, Doom is more like the successful uncle.

Mikezilla:

--- Quote from: Vigo on March 25, 2011, 01:10:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on March 25, 2011, 12:18:10 pm ---Youre right, it IS a difference of opinion, but you just THOUGHT it didnt succeed, when cleary, it did.  Maybe you just didnt get the humor, or maybe youre one of those weird computer people that dont think anything is funny because youre too smart.

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Just to kinda add on your thoughts, I don't even see why a PC game needs to be heavily rated on it's commercial success, anyway. Doom was easily the most popular FPS at the time, I know I played a lot of it. It really wasn't the best thing out there, though.

I used to play a ton of Marathon at the same time, which has now fallen into obscurity, yet the graphics were better, the weapons were better and there was multiplayer. You could aim with a mouse like modern FPS games, and there were neat things like varying gravities and oxygen levels, and the game could even be modded for co-op play.

It makes me think of all the cool things they could have added into Doom II, and the only improvement we got was a double barrel shotgun.


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+1


--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 25, 2011, 01:22:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 25, 2011, 01:16:04 am ---Doom is Duke's father, no Duke without doom.. no fps without doom and therefore doom can NEVER be overrated.

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You really can't be serious? Doom is definitely not the first FPS to hit the market and if Doom didn't exist, another FPS would take its place.

Sorry dude, Doom is more like the successful uncle.

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+1 again.

NiN^_^NiN:
This was one of my first FPS's i played back in the PC days

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacomb_3-D

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