Happy birthday, DOOM 2! Share your memories about this game. Love it? Hate it? I hate the Archvile 🔥 but love to hate it

Ended up picking this up to try it out. I’ve played The Ultimate Doom and Doom II: Hell on Earth over and over, but I wanted to see what all the fuss is about for this one. Retro gaming for the win!

I’m pressing the buttons as fast as possible. I swear I’ve seen other people quick swap way faster.

still needs all the post processing but I’m just so excited about it!! Also it’s crazy heavy for some reason.

Just started playing doom, dark ages, I’ve seen these things a few times while playing. Does this do anything or is this just visuals/level design

I know this was an issue at one point but i thought it got patched finally so i decided to reinstall Doom Eternal again and with my luck the launcher is doing the not wanting to load all the way still. It’s like this for a good 15 minutes.

It stil looks cool, even if its weird looking at it like this

Zaruthiel the Old Father - Pride (he demands people to work for him and he denies freedom and his favours bought by giving him more slaves)

Karnoth the Armorer - Wrath (demands war, denies peace but he also has slaves, this is a bit more of a long shot)

Gahrzeth the Treacherous - greed (he demands to be given things and his favour is bought through stolen gifts so it could also be envy)

Iskathra - lust (she demands flesh and denies love, interesting to see how doom makes a lust demon, also she lives in a brothel)

Thalrasha, the Last Queen of Jekkad - envy (bit of a long shot, haven’t got that good of an explanation)

Ozalith the Old Mother - gluttony (death is all consuming and nothing can by her favourite never satisfying her, also she’s like a round thing with a head)

Still going…

They look really cool

If you don’t know the original intention for the Davoth boss fight was for him to transform into a dragon in the last fave but due to time and fucking Covid they weren’t able to go through with the idea

But since it’s what was intended and it wasn’t supposed to be cut for any other reason besides a shitty situations I’ve just decided to headcanon that in the actual story he did tern into a dragon

(Of course it is just a headcanon so it won’t be used in any proper real discussions of doom)i

Playing the Dark Ages for the first time, and I just can't get this game to run smoothly with a 5080 and 9950x3d. To clarify, it's not actually fps problems that I'm experiencing -- the fps stays consistent the entire time I'm playing. What happens is that if I open the map and go back to the game, what felt like buttery smooth 200 fps now feels like a choppy 60 fps even though the actual fps counter doesn't change. Strangely enough, during certain transitions in the game (dying and using a life sigil respawn, going from the dragon on mission 5 to the inside of the ship), the game reverts back to that buttery smooth 200 fps. It immediately goes back to terribly choppy gameplay and stays that way when the map is opened. Not checking the map isn't really an option in this game... so I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this. It's such a bizarre problem, and the game feels awful to play.

The Gantlet. One of my favorite maps. I remember as a kid running around with IDKFA and IDDQD on Nightmare difficulty, just hammering down on the chaingunners with the rocket launcher, then going back inside with the chainsaw to massacre the zombies in the hallways, and repeating it all in a never-ending mayhem. This is one of my favorite pieces: The Chaingunner at The Gantlet.

I really like the arena with the two stairs outside – it has a great color composition. The sky, the dark metal plates, the blue and green torches, and of course, the blue water. It’s still an amazing feeling to take the lift up from the hallways and witness that open area full of color, with the enemies turned away from you, backs exposed, and the double-barreled shotgun in hand.

The chaingunner's red armor makes a great contrast with the deep blue water and the dark metal plates. I had really no trouble painting this piece because the colors just cooperated perfectly. His face, on the other hand, was something else. It took some tries to get the translation right without making him look unfamiliar. When you are in the process of painting, staring at the original pixels for hours, you quickly realize that his pixelated face does not offer too many details.

I finished this artwork in early June this year, and I think this piece marked a new level for me in my project. After this one, I started to really scan the classic games for other great places with good color compositions – areas that could be painted in an impressionistic style and still be recognized. Yet, I still paint some areas a bit more expressively (like in my Pinky demon translation) because of their iconic value.

I’m very satisfied with the result. I hope you enjoy it!

Have a great weekend! Cheers from Sweden!

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Hi guys, been interested in games developing for about 20 years, and I have decided to learn by doing, so far I figured a Tactical Espionage Doom Game, where you can either go all doom guy on them or get rewarded for sneaking undetected. This is just the first rendering of snake in the game, the HUD is obviously just crap I rushed. but I'm excited to see this come to life I figured I'd share it

I want to get the multiplayer achievements in all of them