Current Events > Doom for Sega Saturn is such a crime against humanity

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By rights it should've been the best console version. The Saturn had superior 2D sprite rendering and scaling to the PlayStation, which the Doom engine utilized instead of polygons.

The 32X version actually ran really well, but had awful music. There's no excuse for the Saturn version to run worse.
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I guess it goes to show I grew up playing the only version worth playing thank you.
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DarkRoast posted...

The 32X version actually ran really well, but had awful music.

understatement of the year

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man i love doom. its that game i could play forever. gonna load up some brutal doom
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AlmightyCheeks posted...

man i love doom. its that game i could play forever. gonna load up some brutal doom

Endlessly replayable.

And the various ports of the 90's are genuinely fascinating.
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The DOS version still remains the best DOOM.
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Doom is one of the few games that is truly timeless. It will never feel dated
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DirkDiggles posted...

The DOS version still remains the best DOOM.

I'd argue that the Playstation version is probably the best original version. It had better visuals and a much better OST.

Doom 64 is hugely underrated, although admittedly is a different game.
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DarkRoast posted...

AlmightyCheeks posted...

man i love doom. its that game i could play forever. gonna load up some brutal doom

Endlessly replayable.

And the various ports of the 90's are genuinely fascinating.

yeah. ever listen to the 3DO port's OST? That has some groovy stuff

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AlmightyCheeks posted...

DarkRoast posted...

AlmightyCheeks posted...

man i love doom. its that game i could play forever. gonna load up some brutal doom

Endlessly replayable.

And the various ports of the 90's are genuinely fascinating.

yeah. ever listen to the 3DO port's OST? That has some groovy stuff

It's really good, unfortunately the 3DO version itself is.... I mean, yikes.
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Saturn was a cool console that had little support. It was like a dumpster for shitty 3rd party games. Although, I had this helicopter game that was pretty fun.
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Playstation Doom had it all, though.

An upgraded engine with transparencies and sorta real-time lighting
CD audio soundtrack
Ultimate Doom + Doom II + Exclusive levels
Multiplayer
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The music tho

PoopPotato posted...

Saturn was a cool console that had little support. It was like a dumpster for shitty 3rd party games. Although, I had this helicopter game that was pretty fun.

It was victim to bad timing, strange hardware design and general distrust of Sega.

But the hardware itself was basically tailor-made to be the best 2D system ever, and its huge supply of fighting games and SHMUPs are a testament to that fact.
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DarkRoast posted...

Playstation Doom had it all, though.

An upgraded engine with transparencies and sorta real-time lighting
CD audio soundtrack
Ultimate Doom + Doom II + Exclusive levels
Multiplayer

the music was cool but i loved the metal music more than the ambient psx/n64 stuff. Didnt have the same punch. the new DOOM game had a great mix of the two
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I'm not sure which OST I like more.

PlayStation Doom's truly creepy ambient OST, lighting and general atmosphere made it a lot more of a "horror" game than the other versions. That carried over to Doom 64 as well.

Honestly I think the SNES Doom's OST might actually be my favorite. It's so relentlessly bass-y with tons of reverb.
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time to go reinstall Brutal Doom

Apparently it's John Romero's fault. He insisted that the Saturn version not use any sort of hardware rendering because it could cause texture warping, even though the consequence of using software-based rendering had considerably more faults.
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Solid Sonic posted...

Apparently it's John Romero's fault. He insisted that the Saturn version not use any sort of hardware rendering because it could cause texture warping, even though the consequence of using software-based rendering had considerably more faults.

Oh no, can't have texture warping! Better have 5 fps framerate instead!
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DarkRoast posted...

Solid Sonic posted...

Apparently it's John Romero's fault. He insisted that the Saturn version not use any sort of hardware rendering because it could cause texture warping, even though the consequence of using software-based rendering had considerably more faults.

Oh no, can't have texture warping! Better have 5 fps framerate instead!

Watch your mouth or John Romero will make you his bitch

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There were bad ports yes. But I really liked Exhumed, that was well done. Quake was also fantastic on the Saturn.

OK I'm getting nostalgic need to play these again lol
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Quake for Saturn was a herculean feat of brilliant coding.
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