Posts Tagged ‘doom’
Video Game Purists Ep 71: Within 30 Seconds
This week Trees is having a blast on vacation while Fred enjoys a relaxed 4th of July weekend. Listener mail leads the discussion to the PS1 days before moving onto games. Trees has been playing more Car Mechanic Simulator and Mario Golf: Super Rush, plus early exploration into Lego Builder’s Journey. Fred played through Doom (1993), a good chunk of Far Cry Primal, and dipped his toe into the run-based PS5 exclusive Returnal.
Video Game Purists Ep. 70: Sega Wall Art
This week starts off with a very Sega discussion about the classic Genesis (or Mega Drive) days. We also hear about block parties and the joy of Best Buy employees before jumping into games. Trees traded in his XB1, took the plunge into the so-so Mario Golf and continues to dominate in Car Mechanic Simulator to the point that he’s almost out of things to do. The highlight this week for him was still Yakuza: Like a Dragon where the story is enticing but it’s main protagonist Ichiban that may be Trees’ favorite gaming character of all time. Fred wrapped Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, had a horrid time with Sea of Thieves, continues to enjoy Far Cry: Primal, and delved into getting gaming deals via Gamefly. He’s also going a bit retro with the newest re-release of Doom on Xbox and replaying Psychonauts.
Video Game Purists Ep. 9: Cow Crash
This week Fred and Trees talk more about life in a barren world, a little Genesis collecting, Doom Eternal‘s “too far” moment, and tons of Neo Geo fun on the MiSTer.
Opening Song: Facehammer – Ozzed (you can find a great library of chiptunes at ozzed.net)
Closing Song: Maximum Power – After Burner II (Genesis)
VGP Ep. 5: Footbag Action
This week we largely hop in the way back machine with Fred talking the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, Trees’ used game shop stories, and how it’s basically 1998 with the upcoming releases of a Doom sequel, Resident Evil 3, and of course our impressions of the Final Fantasy VII Remake demo.
Opening Song: Facehammer – Ozzed (find this and many other tunes at ozzed.net, don’t forget to donate!)
Closing Song: Those Who Fight – Final Fantasy VII Remake
Podcast: A Night At The Movies
This week Fred and Jam are joined by special guest Me10dy to discuss 4 movies we deemed essential watching in the combination of film and video games. Those movies are: Resident Evil, Doom, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. In this ep you’ll learn fun facts, hear much discussion, and some great tunes.
Songs (in order of appearance):
- My Plague – Slipknot (off Resident Evil soundtrack)
- Don’t You Know Who You Are? – Nine Inch Nails (off Doom soundtrack)
- We Are Sex Bob-Omb – Sex Bob-Omb (off Scott Pilgrim soundtrack)
- You’re The Best (Around) – Joe Esposito (off King of Kong soundtrack)
Closing Song: Black Sheep – Metric (off Scott Pilgrim soundtrack)
E3 2019: Bethesda Impressions
Click on image to see briefing.
Fred is again joined by Andy (42 Level One), Chip (The B-Team), and Chase (Scarcasm Live) to discuss the short, but sweet, set of Bethesda announcements.
Want the announcements as a simple bullet points list? Click here.
Documentary: G4’s “Icons” The History of Doom and Making of Doom 3
0:00-21:59 – G4’s “Icons” Documentary on Doom and the Making of Doom 3
22:00 – 26:23 – Developer Interviews
26:23 – 30:08 – Concept Art and Creature Development
Back when G4 was a thing, the channel would often delve into these short half hour documentaries on the making of upcoming games. Companies liked to include these documentaries in special editions of Xbox games. One of those is found on the special edition of Doom 3 for the original Xbox.
While it’s an interesting look at Doom 3, I have to apologize for the quality, which is a blown up and upscaled version of the video on the disc. That video takes up a small portion of real estate on the screen and the Xbox only outputs it at 480p. Either way, it’s fun and interesting so lets take a look at G4’s coverage of the History of Doom and the Making of Doom 3.
Doom Retrospective
As I said in a previous article regarding Wolfenstein 3D, “Wolfenstein 3D did it first and Doom did it best.” The same team, id Software, created both games so it’s less of a competition and more of an evolution. While I agree that all games are a team effort, the technology that runs these games can sometimes be credited to one person. In the case of Doom that one person is none other than John D. Carmack. By this point most of us are aware of John Carmack and what he’s contributed to video games as a whole, but back in 1992 he was the guy creating a new engine for a new game. That engine was called the Doom Engine. Carmack claims the name Doom came from the movie The Color of Money in which Tom Cruise describes a custom pool cue as “doom” when questioned as to what’s in his case. It was created to enhance the first person shooter to include different heights, distances, and even sound effects in stereo for a more realistic type of game. In truth the hardware of the time couldn’t handle rendering a 3D world so the game is actually all on a flat plane in the code, which is why rooms never overlap and you can shoot a guy on a ledge by just aiming at the wall beneath him. I don’t know about the rest of you, but in 1993 I hardly noticed. Doom had positional breathing of mutant men, lighting effects (including dark rooms), a hybrid cyberpunk and distopian Hell setting, and a ton of violence. It was the rock star of the video game world.
Podcast: Web Browser Included (Online Gaming Part 2)
This week Fred and Jam continue with the discussion of online gaming and focus more on consoles. After going back in time to cover some forgotten console online services, the duo continue into the mid 90s gaming, the genesis of MMOs, and eventually the transition to online console gaming.
Double Fine Has Some Awesome Game Dev Videos
I have always been meaning to watch the fantastic Double Fine Adventure! series spanning more than 20 videos at current that gives you the most in depth look behind the creative process I’ve ever seen. Always a likable team with an equally likable and charismatic leader in Tim Schafer, Double Fine nails it in this series about Kickstarted title Broken Age and all of the business and developmental setbacks along the way. I have posted the full run (playlist) below as an in-browser window for your convenience.
What you should also check out is the fantastic Devs Play series that spans 25 videos of development guys playing old games (like The Lion King and Doom) and even how to hack a ROM (they use Legend of Zelda), which I find fascinating. Probably the best episode, and a rightful finale to the first season, is a more than 2 hour video with Koji Igarashi (Iga) on the development of Symphony of the Night to kick off his new project. You can also see that below:
Gaming History 101 