
porcelain_mouse
Published
Worthy of It's Namesake
I haven't played a lot of this game, yet, but it's pretty clear that the rave reviews are deserved. It's a smooth integration of arena-style play, level-based play, and a the classic game's premise. Advanced versions of familiar features, like the map, journal/story history, and a simple player progression system, actually makes the vision of the original game more vivid.
Side note: I first experienced nearly continuous video "gliching" *while* running compute apps simultaneously/concurrently. The effect looks like bit like tearing, but much worse, with many lines where the buffer is not contiguous. But, it's not tearing, it's that portions of the screen are actually black/empty for a frame or two, but it looks like tearing because it's so brief that the black areas ghost a bit from the previous buffer. However, there are also isolated squares that are black elsewhere in the buffer, it's nearly all the time, and doesn't go a way with tripplebuffering, so that's when I figured it wasn't just tearing. In any case, I can hardly call this a problem with the game, since it doesn't happen unless I run GPU computing while playing. However, this is the ONLY game I've played in the last 10 years where this happens, so it took me a while to accept that was the cause.
Classic FPS. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
Yes, I had a couple crashes on the first map. It didn't seem intolerable, if it were not for the fact that game files got corrupted when that happened. See "other significant bugs".
I think the crashes I experienced were likely random, but a consequence of the crashes is that game files get corrupted, i.e. running a file integrity check finds (& fixes) bad files. I tried proton 7.x and 'experimental'. 7.x ran the game, but 'experimental' crashed the game after loading any saved game or even a new game.
So, DON'T Use Proton to run this game on Linux! Someone else posted a cryptic message about "version 1.3". I went digging and found that Romero made a native Linux binary of this game freely downloadable. I copied my Steam-installed data & map files & combined them with that native bin to make a working install. That was pretty stable; it crashed only a couple games over the whole game, but one of those caused a similar problem where game files were corrupted. I just reinstalled. But, experience was better all around!
Don't believe the bad press. I'm glad I didn't ignore this classic created by a giant in the early PC gaming era, which I missed at the time. If you can see yourself replaying Doom, then I'm sure you'll like this. I thought the secrets were very hard to find, and the story was not just enjoyable, it's impressive if you consider the era. Also, voice acting was as good as any modern game.
It's no SOTR, but visuals are peasant, looks fine on a large gaming monitor, text quality is excellent, and the game runs smoothly.
Seems like I maybe missing some visual element regarding the way scents (smells) are displayed. I had a hard time passing the tutorial because I couldn't see something that was supposed to be there. But, I think I see it during game play, so maybe it was just a limited glitch.
Seems okay.