{"id":23277,"date":"2013-12-10T12:26:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T17:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23277"},"modified":"2013-12-10T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T18:15:49","slug":"twenty-years-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/twenty-years-of-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty years of <em>Doom<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>The Register<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/11\/23\/antique_code_show_id_software_doom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy Orr<\/a> gets all nostalgic for id Software&#8217;s <em>Doom<\/em>, which turned 20 today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Doom<\/em> wasn\u2019t short on story, never mind the gore and gunfire to follow, I particularly enjoyed the fact my own government had fucked things up by messing where they shouldn\u2019t and opened a portal to hell. Damn, it\u2019s just me left to go ultraviolent and push the legions of hell back into fiery limbo.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with dual chain gun-wielding bulked up Aryans as your foe, <em>Wolfenstein 3D<\/em> was funny rather than scary. Indeed, I don\u2019t remember being scared by a game until <em>Doom<\/em> appeared, with its engine capable of dimmed quivering lights and its repugnant textures. The nihilistic tones of <em>Alien 3<\/em> echoed through such levels as the toxic refinery. Like the <em>Alien<\/em> series <em>Doom<\/em>\u2019s dark corners allowed my imagination to run wild and consider turning the lights back on.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>Doom<\/em> had a lot more going for it then a few scary moments, and I don\u2019t just mean those scrambles for the health kit. Being able to carry an army&#8217;s worth of gun power is not necessarily realistic but neither are angry alien demons trying to rip my flesh off. I\u2019m never empty handed with a chainsaw, a shotgun, a chain-gun, and a rocket launcher at my disposal.<\/p>\n<p>With <em>Doom<\/em> you were not only introduced to a world of cyber demons but death matches &mdash; be sure to have the BFG 9000 on hand for that one shot kill &mdash; cooperative gameplay and also a world of player mods including maps and sometimes full remakes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/id-Software-Doom-1993.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/id-Software-Doom-1993.jpg\" alt=\"id Software - Doom 1993\" width=\"560\" height=\"378\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/id-Software-Doom-1993.jpg 560w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/id-Software-Doom-1993-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/id-Software-Doom-1993-480x324.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The Register, Lucy Orr gets all nostalgic for id Software&#8217;s Doom, which turned 20 today: Doom wasn\u2019t short on story, never mind the gore and gunfire to follow, I particularly enjoyed the fact my own government had fucked things up by messing where they shouldn\u2019t and opened a portal to hell. Damn, it\u2019s just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-23277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-history","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-63r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23280,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23277\/revisions\/23280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}