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51. Doom 1993 (1993) - PC

Crap, I keep forgetting the numbers...

I think I enjoyed the first episode of Doom the best. Not because it was the best one - just because it felt the freshest. Episodes 2 and 3 had some cool new ideas, with fun enemies and mechanics, but at their core they're basically just more Doom, and that wasn't really what I wanted. Ep 4 felt too hard for me so I guess maybe I'm just bad at Doom as well. Anyway, Doom has some cool stuff in it. Level design is generally fairly interesting, with lots of secret areas and exploring. Only got really confused on a couple levels. There are lots of ways to get through most of the levels, and you can ignore 90% of what's there if you know where you're going. Lots of the enemies are totally optional for killing, and in some of the later levels, you pretty much have to skip killing a good chunk of them due to the limited ammo. The variety of weapons is pretty good, with the only unfortunate thing there being the lopsided ammo distribution. I found myself using the shotgun like 75% of the time due to getting WAY more shotgun ammo than everything else. The shotgun's pretty great, so it wasn't a big deal, but it would've been nice to be encouraged to switch a bit more. It's definitely no Doom 2016 on that front.

Neat stuff overall. I can understand why it was so revolutionary at the time... though when you think about it, it was only released a year before the PS1, which makes it a bit less crazy, heh.

Next game hint: the spiritual successor to one of the games already listed.