DOOM - An LGR Retrospective

The original Doom. Released by id Software on December 10th, 1993! Taking a look at each of its episodes, its retail follow-ups, its gameplay, and what specifically makes Doom "Doom."
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[@LGR]

My follow-up review of the new Doom is now ready for viewing! kzbin.info/www/bejne/enjOoaSeeZlmZ8U

[@TheEcoolarg]

6:07 that was your reaction for the remake too?

[@Bob_Beaky]

Still waiting on that Doom 2 video, dude. ;P

[@hmst5420]

You are the best narrator for old games!

[@blob5907]

LGR If your gonna show a soundclip to show off the music DONT SHOOT OVER THE MUSIC.

[@Gojiro7]

you know its funny Clint, I had the exact same experience seeing doom for the first time at a party of a family friend, watching with awe as the teenage kid of the house played while me and another cousin watched until my dad came along and ushered me out of the room because of the violence. good times :3

[@flippedoutkyrii]

I grew up in a Catholic hosuehold, and my Dad thought Doom was the best Christian video game ever made. He always thought "What's more Christian then going to hell and blowing up Satan's minions with a rocket launcher?" :D Watching him blast through Doom 2 on Ultra Violent kept me entertained and on the edge of my seat for hours. :)

[@oz_jones]

+flippedoutkyrii Your dad sounds cool.

[@snake4322]

@@Bauglir100 my dad loves Wolfenstein for that reason alone

[@vindomramvindomram4394]

To Hell With the Devil is one of the best Christian songs.

[@fuc3-]

Matthew 5:39 (NIV) But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.

[@ksam2000]

Hahaha

[@Jokerwolf666]

Every time he gets excited he turns into Duke Nukem lmao.

[@berserkerlewis7089]

Bruh 😂😂

[@samsondaniel399]

😂😂😂 true

[@notoriousbig3k]

or he gets horny or orgasms check hes retro pc reviews builds ... he almosts comes on screen

[@Karthikkun2805]

Yeh lol

[@Jokerwolf666]

@ Then don't watch him... lol

[@elimalinsky7069]

Doom is probably the single most important game ever released, and it was an indie title made by ten guys in a rented apartment.

[@silvenkovich7352]

that shows that it doesn matter if you have good computers for developing, or you have a fucking bunch of folks working for you to create a game, if you have creativity and the skills you will rock n roll

[@andrewhaxley9467]

Doom is definitly a masterpiece of a game cause it really changed my view of fps games! i grew up on it and loved it ever since it came out!

[@raeesahmad6866]

silvenkovich ehhh they did require some expensive computers tho for there time

[@silvenkovich7352]

Yeah, but it's a pretty good game anyways ;)

[@FamilyTeamGaming]

*American* video game industry. Nintendo saw an opportunity and picked it up. It's not unlikely somebody else would've picked up the bill back then if Nintendo hadn't. Also, people need to stop mystifying games having somehow "Single handedly" done something. Super Mario Bros. didn't do anything alone, the entire way the NES was handled in the US during its first years was what helped the American industry at the, and SMB was just one of the pieces on the board. One of the more important pieces, mind you, but nothing that happened back then can solely be credited to it. The same way the blame on the '83 American crash can't be solely pitted on E.T.. It's actually outrageous to believe only one game would've done that, and it's something that's been spread around way too much over the decades.

[@AlexeiVoronin]

I remember the first time I saw Doom - 1994, my mom brought the shareware version from somewhere. We all gathered around the monitor and stared mesmerised at it - it was as if a window had just opened into another reality. Never before had we even imagined our humble 40 MHz computer (with 8 MB RAM) could bring something that realistic to life. It defied all logic and sanity. It felt ALIVE. IT WAS ALIVE! Twenty-two years later Doom still is my all-time favorite game. And I have yet to get tired of it :) P.S. I was only 9 years old in 1994, yet my parents never restricted me from playing Doom... for which I am grateful.

[@volo870]

Have you grown into a psychotic homicidal satanist? Very important-looking people on TV said that you should've.

[@mapesdhs597]

@@volo870 If they were right, I should have achieved world domination by now. :D I wrote the main cheat codes FAQ.

[@Spooky799kil]

I played at 6

[@thetrashmann8140]

John Carmack is genius with programming and game design and game development, and managed to bring "3D" to computers that were deemed not powerful enough to handle a "3D" space but he said fuck that and did it

[@johncortez1599]

I was 11 in 1994, and remember feeling the same way when I first saw the game at my dads office.

[@GameplayandTalk]

DOOM is such a classic. Easily one of my most-played games of all time, I still go back to it frequently today. Pretty much everything you said is spot-on.

[@robbobbrah8953]

@@only257 damn dude, you type lime youre 12.

[@jimmyf1312]

Calls it lazy game reviews. Does a ton of research before hand

[@GuitarGuy5000000000]

+jimmyf1312 Was just thinking the same thing. Maybe what he means by lazy is that he doesn't make it a priority to review all the latest games? Just a guess.

[@intergalacticspacecanoe4659]

+jimmyf1312 releases a review 23 years after release :P

[@tatercatstudios1763]

jimmyf1312 not sure but I think that’s the joke

[@bernlin2000]

But he doesn't have to do a lot of legwork outside his house to do that research 😛

[@hes_alive]

The "lazy" part is just his lazy way of speaking.

[@BIaziken2]

I think Doom has aged quite well, definitely a fair bit better that Wolf 3D.

[@EnigmaGameMaster]

It has aged so well that I still prefer it over most FPS games of today. Its graphics may be outdated, but the gameplay, the music, the atmosphere and the level design is still phenomenal to this day. Every time I fire it up, it's always a blast to play!

[@Allstin]

Professor Bearington I wish new games had this style of play! Just with updated graphics.

[@dukenukem5768]

Wolf 3D was just a kind of rehearsal for Doom. But with Wolf's all-on-the-level and only-cuboid rooms there is no comparison. Doom is in a totally higher league.

[@Laki99000]

@@EnigmaGameMaster Tbh, those outdated graphics give that feel to the game too.

[@vindomramvindomram4394]

But Wolf 3D just simply has that maze feel. There had been so many wasted hours trying to find my way through the same putrid color looking rooms.

[@xxcrysad3000xx]

"If there's demons, you're probably going the right way". Sound advice when playing the game of Doom. Terrible advice for real life.

[@estradasvirtuais2105]

are there any demons screaming IRL?

[@martinsthalles]

No, there are only demons whispering.

[@lilituthebetrayer2184]

We all have our demons and we shall meet them face to face And possibly make a great orgy.

[@unfa00]

Exorcise 'em all!

[@frechjo]

If you meet with the mobs leader, you're probably going the right way. GTA taught me well.

[@Mijitas]

I remember being a kid and my mom took my sister and I to a baby sitter during the summer. That lady had a son who honestly was maybe in their mid 20s looking like the typical nerds you hear about. He was always on his computer, having many games but THIS game was one I saw alot. I never knew what it was but it caught my attention. A little girl who should be playing with barbies was amazed with shooting and gore. I since later found Doom 2 and 3 at a thrift store and so began my old computer game collection. Thank you so much for these videos!

[@NateTalksToYou]

I can still remember watching my father play The Ultimate Doom back when I was 6 years old. My mother didn't want me seeing the violent gameplay, so we'd always have to sneak over to the computer when she wasn't looking.

[@LGR]

Haha, that's awesome. The sneaking around my mother with my dad for violent things didn't happen til a few years later for me ;)

[@Deoxribonucleic]

I love the personal touch with the story of a 7 year old LGR seeing Doom for the first time. Good story teller, he is.

[@LGR]

Thank you!

[@tomypower4898]

Yes to mention

[@VbombzDaBomberman]

I never understood religious outrage at games like Doom. You are literally killing demons. Why the hell would devil worshipers make a game about killing devils? I guess if you think demonic images invoke them or something.

[@MaxonerousX]

It's like Germany not liking Wolfenstein 3D, even though the whole point of that game is killing nazis

[@Hunne2303]

that law is rubbish and you know it, doom up until v1.4 also had a swastika in E1M4

[@m0ther_bra1ned12]

I was thinking the same thing. The demons are... the bad guys... literally the entire game is... blowing them up...

[@edgepixel8467]

Vbombz If we’re to ban every media containing something about demons, we should start with the Bible.

[@withheldrathernotsay3324]

It’s very embarrassing to us Christians who are normal people and actually understand fiction

[@KarlRock]

I feel you! My parents let me play it, Thank God 😁

[@yj4003]

Didn’t expect to see you here Karl! I was just watching you before this video!

[@JmKrokY]

Cool

[@Karmagasm]

5:47 RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS OUT Don't think I didn't see that frame in there.

[@LGR]

Hehe

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

+Karmagasm YOU ARE HUGE! THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS!

[@Cythil]

+Karmagasm Ahh... Truly a masterpiece in of 90's art like the thing that inspired it. :)

[@kagemarunl]

+Karmagasm Nothing else is as recognisable as that single panel. Glad to see that I'm not the only one. RIP AND TEAR! 8D

[@SkuldChan42]

I remember swapping shareware disks at high school and coming across Doom. We talked the Netware admin in helping us set it up and played deathmatch and co-op modes on their Everex 386's. Probably the first network game I ever played.

[@rixxy9204]

My soul was taken too... forever. My 486, its 11pm, no lights: the music has me pumped. I turn the corner into a long dark hallway. Can hear the snarls... they're coming for me. I can't see them... I fear to go in, but there's no turning back. Out of the darkness a fireball flies in, and then another; just missed me! Shotgun in hand, fire against fire is the only way forward. That monster's head explodes but there're so many others behind him! Ahhrr the fireball burn! The last one is blown 6 feet backwards from a shotgun to the face... Damn you monsters back to hell! Heart pounding, adrenaline at unhealthy sky diver levels, still twitching on the WASD keys. Yeah, that was Unforgettable.

[@brickit26]

486 dx 2 with sound blaster pro freakin amazing at the time

[@rixxy9204]

@@brickit26 I wish.. I didn't have the money! Headset was good enough :)

[@brickit26]

@@rixxy9204 haha me either my parents had it I just ran the crap out of it.

[@Leoyagami96]

I realy love how this guy sometimes sound's like Duke Nukem

[@davidbanan.]

Every one is aware of this

[@theachapter]

i love your passion for video games, it really shows up in your videos, keep it up!! greets

[@Criticcizm]

I just got the original Doom for xbox 360, playing it on xbone and my 10 yr old daughter tried it out. She can't stop playing it now lol. I guess, even with all the new fps games, Doom still has those claws.

[@ZapWires]

Being timeless is something few art pieces, let alone games have achieved, goes to show how good doom is.

[@SeanJTharpe]

Don't delete it! They took it off the XBLA store. Blame Bethesda.

[@MondySpartan]

@@ZapWires Doom is Eternal, indeed.

[@gabesyt4863]

You'd think he'd have reviewed this much sooner than he did...

[@LGR]

And yet here we are. Such is life.

[@jacoboblanco1555]

Your avatar is amazing!

[@lukehillard9093]

Who's avatar, the brown Gabriel Brown guy or LGR's? You forgot to clarify.

[@jacoboblanco1555]

Luke Hillard Sorry I meant Gabriel Brown. The Ski man game brings me back to my childhood. Never did beat that yeti.

[@andrewhaxley9467]

i woulda thought it was late for him to do it too!

[@tappajavittu]

My most precious gaming memory is when my dad came home after work and he had bought DOOM for me, DOOM I & II are still my favorite FPS games ever.

[@Frio500]

Played doom at the age of 5. My Dad built me my own computer just to do it. Some of my earliest memories are of him waking me up in the middle of the night to show me the "cool thing" he added to his doom levels he'd be working on.

[@SuperDanny1212]

Props for having subtitles for her hearing impaired!

[@codecato9527]

I have a very similar history with Doom. I was born in 1997 and when I was 8, I watched a report on violent video games. My parents showed it to me because they knew I liked playing games alot and didn't want me to be uneducated about these "Murder Simulators". I didn't care at all and just wanted to play mario and Sonic at the time, so I assured them that I wouldn't play any of those games, especially since all the games they showed looked dull, gray and just boring. But at the end they showed some older games, trying to get accross, that these types of games are getting more and more realitstic. I remember seeing E1M1 and hearing the soundtrack and monster noises, which really captured my imagination for the next weeks until I sneeked onto my dads pc (without any knowlege of the internet) and started looking up "old shooter game" on yahoo. After some searching I found one of Dooms textures, the one out of marble with a demon face in the middle. I hadn't even seen that texture in the report, but I knew that this was it. Too scared and too unexperienced, I din't look for a download, especially since I din't even know what a download was. Once I got my own PC when I was 10, I downloaded and played the game. Fun for ages! Also got into mapping and modding for Doom and now I'm going to attend a Game Design University next year. So, cool video dude, really took me back. Also hope you enjoy the new Doom, I think it's amazing personally :D

[@callmeishmael5742]

When you just wanna play non violent cartoon games but your parents tell you not to play violent games and you end up playing them

[@TheDavo10001]

In 1994, two mates of mine lived next door to each other in our university hall of residence (3rd floor). Having both acquired 486 PCs, they wanted to run a serial cable for death match play in Doom. The only way to get the cable between rooms without drilling a hole in the cinderblock wall was out the window. So for the rest of the year from the courtyard you could see what was soon dubbed the "umbilical cord" hanging between their windows. They were soon dubbed the "umbilical brothers". Good times.

[@mclaine33]

John Romero is releasing a brand new Megawad in February 2019. He has been working on it for 2 years now!! Can’t wait to try it out!!

[@dowom1452]

The Sigil is being unleashed

[@doomfanman5534]

it's generic honestly, i've seen way better i was a bit disappointed

[@jobelthirty1294]

romero had the sheer audacity to call seven maps a megawad... it's just one episode lmao. romero's a good dude though

[@zakazany1945]

Yeah, but actually it wasn't a megawad, just an episode. Not even as long as Knee Deep In The Dead

[@bozidarjovanovic5608]

John is a DOOM Hero!

[@Daniel__Nobre]

When I played Doom it had been out for a couple of years and I had been completely enthralled by images of it. Yet there was something special when you'd install and run Doom for the first time. It was just such a big jump in gaming evolution that I think very few games can actually compare in that sense. It was seen from a first person perspective, it was incredibly immersive and hypnotising. For the first time you could actually truly be inside of a video game. The sounds and the textures are so well done that everything feels tangible, like you could actually touch it. The game was not just "developed" but actually "designed". Meaning the focus was on how it would feel, on the experience, rather then just making cool features glued together like most developers think games are made of. Thanks for bringing back some cool memories!! Keep up the good work (and videos!)

[@zcxvasdfqwer1234]

I like your childhood story. For me my friend had a pc with Doom but I had an older pc with other classic games like King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Populus, Life and Death, Alleycat, Beauracracy text based game, etc. Later though, my friend showed me Half Life and my world was never the same.

[@VaderTheWhite]

The year is 2008. I'm a 15-year-old dork in high school. I'd play games like Halo and Star Wars: Battlefront II before and I enjoyed them a lot. I'm in my computer class and the kid who sat next to me asked me to help him install a few games. They were Doom, Doom II, and Final Doom. I proceeded to help him and then discovered the magic of these classic games. The original Doom's been my favorite FPS for over a decade with Doom 2016 being the only real rival to its crown. Very few games control as well as Doom or feel as fun. There's a magic in Doom's heart, primal, still raw, and action pumps in its chambers. Even after 25 years, it still kicks ass. FUN FACT: I provided said classmate with mods and source ports galore. I even discovered a shared drive that all but a few computers in the school were connected to, so I put all of it in there. I was a hero to my computer classmates (we all sat and played Doom when we could get away with it). I was sad when I discovered in my senior year they removed it, but I never did get in trouble for it. Also, side note: I also had to take an economics class the same school year. We had a project where we had research how to start a company and do a presentation on our mock company complete with an example product. Mine was a video game developer and my product was an (incomplete) multiplayer Doom map I called "Pac-Doom". It was just the basic walls seen all over "Knee-Deep in the Dead" and made in the layout of Pac-Man's legendary maze. My class was so impressed with it, though, and my teacher gave me an 100%! Thanks, id Software!

[@raphaelleite4931]

dude i randomly found your channel and you're my new favorite person. thank you for bringing back so many happy childhood memories!! This is great.

[@LGR]

Awesome to hear. I hope you continue to enjoy!

[@TheRealMrBeercan]

I was in my 30s when DOOM came out. I was working a Ford in Dearborn and we had a big problem in our office. Our network was bought to its knees because so many people were playing DOOM on company time on the company’s IPX network. I couldn’t play at work because I spent my day on a UNIX computer. I played at home on my Cyrix 486SLC-40 computer. I also played Strife and Duke Nukem 3D on that old 486. By the way, I still have that old 486 and I still play games on it from time to time. I’m in my 60s now.

[@farmhousemedia3000]

I think SECRET AREAS are what I miss the most from these classic shooters. Modern shooters just seem so shallow and linear these days.

[@justind4448]

Did you play the new Wolfenstein yet?

[@wesleybcrowen]

+The Adequate Gamer then you'll love the new DOOM then.

[@oz_jones]

+Justin D. New Order was balls to the wall pure awesome. I just wish they would have went even more insane. Oh well.

[@lokalnyork]

+The Adequate Gamer from what I've heard new DOOM have crapton of well hidden secrets.

[@gakk8658]

LOL @ Clint's Doom intro story. When I was a kid I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle's house for a family vacation, with my parents and younger brothers staying at a nearby Grandma's house leaving me by myself. My cool uncle showed by Wolfenstein 3D, and I played so much of it during that trip instead of sleeping that I made myself sick from sleep deprivation over those 4-5 days. I couldn't stop, though, I was so blown away by what a computer could do.

[@mikemacdee6390]

I avoided the game at first because I was brought up in a somewhat southern baptist household, and assumed anything with demons was evil and to be avoided. Finally played it in '95 on the super nintendo and fell head-over-heels in love with it. Been my favorite game of all time ever since. I'm still modding for it and everything.

[@PartyCrasher04]

Mike MacDee what mods have you made? I may want to try them :p

[@XavierBergeron]

Those 15 minutes felt like 30, in a very good way. The scripts (I even feel bad calling them scripts) you write are sublime and so captivating. Thank you.

[@LGR]

I appreciate it!

[@robertjenkins6132]

+Lazy Game Reviews Your narration voice sounds a little like Duke Nukem sometimes.

[@Marjill_katzen888]

Im glad PBG brought me to your channel. Your reviews seem pretty interesting, Im gonna subscirbe.

[@LGR]

Thanks a lot :)

[@xeokym223]

This is so spot-on. I first got Doom for the PSX and my cousin and I were blown away, playing it non-stop for days. We even set 2 TV sets up side-by-side and played PVP..

[@TheWilldrick]

0:10 dammit Clint, you're a clone off your dad!

[@y0urs03pic]

Aren't We All Clones of Are Dads??

[@hkoizumi3134]

Wow... Thanks for sharing this with us. It's surprising to hear that you didn't get to play Doom after Quake. I was 13 back in 1993 and my step dad just upgraded our PC from 386 to 486. We were on the way to pick up 4MB RAM stick and that's where I saw Doom at the store. I vividly remember holding that box with embossed lettering. My step dad looked at the system requirements and he decided to buy it to test out our new PC. We didn't have sound card installed yet but but the visuals alone changed the perception of gaming for me. It was totally unlike what my Sega did and I was hooked. It was couple months later when i saw Doom demo at compUSA with beastly 66mhz 19inch SVGA with sound blaster. Again, it freaking blew me away just with the sound. I must of been the few kids in the world that asked for sound blaster for Xmas that year lol

[@philscomputerlab]

Doom is great. One of the few DOS games with decent benchmarking / time demo features built in. A real classic.

[@28beanz95]

Weird to see you here. I really enjoy your videos, dude!

[@philscomputerlab]

Well I watch a lot of KZbin :)

[@Prismatic_Rain]

Awesome video LGR! Thank you for giving Doom the review it deserves. Doom was the game that got me into multiplayer online back in the 90's. I spent so many evenings connected to the local BBS deathmatching, and so many weekends doing lan parties with my friends to play it. It really sparked my love of PC gaming and interest in online games ever since.

[@A_Player]

This is the very first video game I remember playing. What a hell of a game to start with (or at least I assume so, it's probably not THE first video game I played).

[@kloakovalimonada]

Best sound effects in a shooter ever made. Still pack an incredible and to date unparalleled punch.

[@shrpbluntobject]

The key to the original DooM was that it was a game. It was not a story-driven borefest, nor a hyper realistic dad-game. DooM was a relentless fun time. Smooth controls, great weapons that feel good and act like you need to fit niche roles. Level design was fun and felt fun and fast pace no matter the episode. DooM was a game and thats why its great, and will never die. There's a reason the game is still being modded and has huge community.

[@Tall_Order]

One of my favorites thing in the original doom was how weapons and enemy deaths blend into the soundtrack like they're additional instruments. And the score counter at each level end, the pistol fire sound adds to the guitar. That's what I picture when someone talks to me about combat flow.

[@rodneyhamilton6750]

Summer, 1994.. or was it 95'? Eh, memories fade but what doesn't fade is the images and sounds burned into my childhood. I was at my uncle's house when we made an out of town trip. He was one of the few adults I knew that cared and owned computer stuff. I was already into my Tandy 3000 and the AppleII but now I had a taste of THE FUTURE. He sat me down and let me have a go at some of the games he had. The two I was most fascinated by were DOOM and Cyberia. The later of which would be basically lost for time but in that moment those two games just amazed me and made me fantasize of what magic could come next? I also never thought "it couldn't get better" than synthesized MIDI . ... technology is awesome and awe inspiring eh?

[@ChipArgyle]

Recently bought the BFG version of Doom 3 from Steam for the Lost Mission campaign. It includes Doom and Doom 2. I played them all when they first came out. Now I'm replaying all of them to earn the Steam achievements nearly half a lifetime later. My computer upgrades over the years have been timed with the release of a new Doom game, including Doom 2016. That's how you know this is an amazing franchise.

[@OMA2k]

IDDQD

[@painkeller20]

+OMA2k oh the password to be invincible ohhhhhhhhh the memory

[@OMA2k]

+Rorikon King : Make good use of all those weapons! ;)

[@Hunne2303]

nah man...IDBEHOLD L ftw^^

[@bluedragon3085]

IDSPISPOPD

[@arturorosas2170]

IDKFA

[@ROFLCOPTERS92]

I've been playing DOOM since I was probably in 5th grade, and i've been graduated for over a year now. I have not got tired of it yet. Love this game!

[@ItsHyomoto]

I agree with you about Doom (2016) . In fact, as time goes on I realize the less I need or even want 'the next thing'. Doom is amazing to this day, and if you want a 'modern' Doom then Brutal Doom fulfills that remarkably. New games will come along that are awesome, and as someone who loves them at a technical level (board, card, video, mind, take your pick) I'll always be interested in what's going on. But when it comes time to sit down and pick something to play. Sorry to say, the reason some of these games are Classics is not just because they were good for their time, but that they continue to be good for arguably all time.

[@anthonyj4735]

I'm actually surprised Doom (2016) is good.

[@drugstoremarc2]

This is the most heartfelt review of Doom I've ever seen. We can really feel how passionate you are about the game and how it made a huge impact on your life and personality. I was a little bit older than you when I first saw Doom. I was 13 and I never stopped playing since. You, sir, are a true DOOM fan

[@MrRaivokasMagma]

There's so much Doom in here, that the word Doom sounds so funny now.

[@arvizturotukorfurogep6235]

+MrRaivokasMagma DUUUM

[@CoTeCiOtm]

This video had me smiling the entire time. This for me is the one, the best. I know how you feel about Duke3D and I share with you that it's an outstanding, unique and ridiculously fun game, but Doom for me is the one that had the perfect balance, the one who did it all perfectly despite the bugs here and there, the right speed, the right maps, the right monsters, the right weapons, the right graphics, the right music, the right ambiance, it all clicked right in place, no unnecessary stuff, no tedious objectives, just plain non-stop action. I could say a lot about this game, but the way you put it here in the video is better than anything I could come up with. This is it for me, the best game ever made.

[@walktroughman1952]

It would be pretty neat if you made a similar video for Quake!

[@flintston3r]

Haha. he just finished it I believe.

[@walktroughman1952]

David Lara Yeah I saw it! :D It was like he saw it!

[@andrewhaxley9467]

he did that too man! go see that too instead of asking!

[@flintston3r]

Andrew Haxley little late there buddy.

[@andrewhaxley9467]

David Lara ok thanks friend i know i am,

[@rossmacmillan3415]

What a fantastic review of my favourite game of all time, thank you! At 12 years old, Doom used to scare the absolute shit out of me but always brought me back for more.

[@camolotthe42]

So, basically, Doom was for your childhood what Total Annihilation was for mine?

[@gizho6493]

By far the most honestly passionate and in-depth game review I have seen in my life. Nice.

[@jgamer9307]

Happy 25th to Doom

[@Helfirehydratrans]

Classic Doom still feels fresh compared to other modern games

[@cujoedaman]

I remember when I got my first Shareware version of DOOM, it came in this small paperboard sleeve (about the size of a CD sleeve they sell now) with DOOM across the front and just a mess of greeble texturing under it. I spent an hour and a half on a ride home before just constantly looking it over and over, reading and rereading the back and just staring at the front, trying to see if there were any images in the greeble textures on the front. That was a frickin' long ride :P

[@LeandroFTW]

I was raised on Doom without sound back then. My first computer didn't have a sound card. Arrested Development's Zingalamaduni Album was my soundtrack. I miss the 90's.

[@LeandroFTW]

@lgr remember how trash the first sound blaster was? Hexten and Heretic was decent.

[@alec7568]

Doom holds up really well. I was born in 1994 so i didn't enjoy doom until I was a teenager and someone showed me doom 3. Ever since then I was hooked on the series, i went and bought doom 1 2 and 3 and played them non stop. Even now in 2021 i still love playing the original doom despite the fact that by the time i had finally gotten my hands on it it had aged quite a lot.

[@Gutigwolfe]

Been wanting to see a review about Doom from you forever. You always talked about how amazing it is, I was surprised you didnt have a review sooner.

[@weirdotzero7065]

I think my testosterone levels were boosted by 274% from watching this video. Before, I couldn't grow a beard. Now, it's 12 feet long and indestructible.

[@shaitet]

WeirdoTZero I've played DOOM, Duke Nukem, Serious Sam, and Quake so much that I grew a neck beard and my balls have dropped down the floor and turned into steel.

[@davidinark]

I worked at a University that was looking at switching networks from DEC Pathworks to either Netware or NT. We sat through a demo of Netware, IPX, etc, and the group of us in the room had a very bright, collective bulb appear above our heads: IPX meant multiplayer DOOM!! The uni went with NT, but we geeks had all the ammo we needed to boot to DOS, load network drivers, toss in a little IPX and play DOOM in what became VERY extended “lunch hour massacres.” It was awesome!

[@lashyndragon]

25 years later two years ago 🤔 clint confirmed time traveller

[@tjames6427]

I still love doom now in 22 as much as I did back in 93 !! I've been making my own maps, weapons, and enemies for a few years now and it's quite a labor of love.

[@Spacecoke]

I always drooled when I would see screenshots of doom back in the day because I did not own a PC... I didn't play doom until it was released on the original playstation and I loved it. I saw half life and unreal reviewed in computer and video games magazine later on and there was no way I was missing out again so I upgraded to PC gaming and never looked back :)

[@TheGrayMysterious]

I may not have been born yet when Doom came out, but I'll never forget storing it, Doom II, Final Doom and Doom 64 on a flash drive and picking a computer with a monitor faced away from the teacher's desk so I could play it all at school. Granted, teach had a program for watching students' monitors so I only got away with it when my work was done or he wasn't paying attention, but he was cool enough to just lightly remind me to get back to work if I got distracted. Too bad I lost that drive though. Oh well, whoever picked it up got 4 great games for free.

[@mapesdhs597]

Yikes, I did part of my dissertation that year on the side effects of playing the game, while you weren't born yet... holy teleporter pads I feel old. :D

[@seanobigaming7143]

DOOM is definitely one of my favorite games of all time! Thanks LGR for all of your hard work and time you put into your videos!!

[@LGR]

Totally; I appreciate you noticing :)

[@mauer594]

do you have a IBM T60? just wondering

[@crowrodriguezplays2621]

13:21 I really hope you get to play as Homer in that Simpsons mod.

[@genericTC2ber]

3 years later, you do.

[@waterdrinker90]

God damn it, LGR, that was beautiful :') Doom is my all time favourite video game. I remember booting it for the first time on my windows 95. I remember getting throught the sahreware for the first time. I remember finally getting the full game for the first time. I still play it to this day. I still love it to this day.

[@rickonami]

5:47 ... Wait.... Whhaaa?

[@redey1290]

It's a reference to Two Best Friends Play

[@Apemopo]

+rickonami RIP AND TEAR. NOW IM RADIO ACTIVE. THAT CANT BE GOOD.

[@wiseguy724]

It's an absolute shame that a person who has your level of appreciation for these games was not able to play this game during its beginning years. I think that experience from your more youthful perspective would have made for an even better video. I am grateful my parents trusted me with games like doom and whatnot at that young age.

[@paulmuaddib451]

Doom was a passion project, that's why all the "Doom clones" seem derivative.

[@hunter371]

What a fantastic video review. For a game this huge, this monumental, this important in gaming history, reviewing the title can be fraught with peril for any number of reasons. What is left to say about the game that hasn't already been said, and said again and again? With the dogma of this title it can be easy for reviewers to get lost when reviewing the game, losing focus and trying to talk about too much (and as LGR rightly pointed out, there is sooo much to talk about here) that the review takes on an ambition it was never suited for. In sticky to the basics about what it is about this game that not only got it right at the time (because Lord, if you were around in 1993/94 when this game hit computers, it blew everything/one away) but what makes it such an enduring title and has gamers of all ages going back to play it and replay it 20+ years after its release. LGR so fluently and concisely encapsulates exactly why this game was and is so fun to play without getting too caught up exterior conversations that normally derail modern reviews of this game. Sometimes with the most brilliant art, it can be difficult to put into words why it's brilliant. LGR just sticks to the basics and has us nodding our heads putting words to the reasons our brains were/are in love with this game after all these years.

[@ThePreciseClimber]

Back when first person shooters were still fair.

[@Redhotsmasher]

+ThePreciseClimber And still good.

[@YuukitheMighty1]

+ThePreciseClimber back when they were fun. Though Overwatch is a lot of fun :D

[@ammytersau]

+YuukitheMighty1 the new doom game is also a lot of fun

[@livardo]

Seeing how big a Doom fan you are, it's amazing that you held out until 2016 to come up with this review.

[@ozguroyus]

1:37 Totally Legit Warez. Sure, I feel you bro.

[@55giantsfan22]

I'm loving the new release, I haven't played most of the different games of it but I have good memories of 1 and 2

[@BryanWhite77]

Your story about being at someone's house and having the man of the house showing off their new 486 DX2 66 PC and all its accoutrements is exactly how I remember getting interested in computers and computer games. Except the first game I saw was Flight Simulator. The first game I bought for my parent's powerhouse DX4-100 was Wolfenstein 3D. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@MASTERVETEAM4]

I've never been into first person shooters but this review gives me a new appreciation for Doom. You've outdone yourself once again!

[@Keks1976]

Best game ever - Played it in Feb‘94 the first time at the age of about 16 years. Never got so impressed by a game!

[@Superintendent_ChaImers]

Best reason to play doom ever. You'll probably end up in Hell eventually, shouldn't you know your way around before you make the extended visit?

[@MarshallMathersthe7th]

+Nunya Bidness Whenever i would go to hell, ima punch those demonfuckers!! And give them surgery with the chainsaw afterwards,

[@covenantslayer1]

I may of been late to playing this game but I still remember officially getting into the series when I was in 8th grade with the collector's edition of the DOOM 95 ports on my old Vista laptop back in either late 2010-before May 2011. And is pretty much got me into PC gaming and somehow became a bit of a tradition for the men in my immediate family since both my dad and older brother have played it.

[@Akselmoi]

Will you make a video about Quake too? :)

[@RUTVonline]

You summed up Doom perfectly, and props to giving a nod to the community!

[@Zergosmuahaha]

That editing bit at 9:53 was just masterful. Bravo!

[@strider6425]

You're writing is impeccable. Every video of yours has that right tone and pace. This one though, hit the spot. As a longtime Doom fan, this video made me reminisce on those incredible times I had (and still have) with this game. Kudos to you good sir and keep on doing what you do. You have a fan in me

[@PumpkinSmasher79]

You should take a look at Blood.

[@LGR]

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[@battosaijenkins946]

+Lazy Game Reviews Thank you, it was January 1994 for me and wee high with a 486 dx2 66 to tinker around with. I also remember Doom as a shareware and all of this brings me back!

[@BussyBishTV]

+Pumpkin Smasher79 Omg thats it! Very similar to Doom. Never managed to complete it.

[@MarcellDAvis1103]

mr bad guy

[@MarcellDAvis1103]

+MCA der Negus nein die Telekom ist besser!

[@FightingForceSoulless]

And now, the 5th episode is on the way! Pure dedication by one and only John Romero himself, even 25 years after the game's release, he cares.

[@LordVader89]

Doom has a very special place in my life. I probably wouldn't be as much of a PC gamer as I am now if it weren't for that game. I was only 4 when the game came out but we were visiting a cousin's house when I first saw the game. I was sitting on my cousin's lap and I would press ctrl to shoot while he was using the arrows to move around. I was so hooked I didn't want to leave when we had to go. We didn't get our own computer till a year later but my older brother made sure that the first thing we got was Doom. Since then we moved on to Quake, UT, CoD, BF and the like but it all started with Doom.

[@sudocatsda1guy390]

I was in business school, and had network administrator class, where me and another guy finished our Windows NT installation and network setup early and tried to play Doom deathmatch. We couldn't get the network setting right in Doom, and work on it when our teacher stopped behind the other guy. For a minute he stood silent watching what's going on. The he asked "What are you doing?" Caught literally playing around we didn't feel line excusing and one of us told him we're trying to get Doom working in the network. He stood their silently for few seconds and said "It should work" and sat down to review our setups.

[@LGR]

For more information of the creation story of Doom, I recommend the book "Masters of Doom." I've read it like, I don't know how many times now, it's excellent! www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Culture/dp/0812972155 I also highly recommend this in-depth video about Doom from my online buddy, Ahoy! It is both comprehensively informative and audiovisually stunning. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHKXXoaMiq2Ej6s

[@Astfgl]

+Lazy Game Reviews If I look to my left right now, I see a copy of Masters of Doom lying on a table next to my bed. Great read, it illustrates very well how working in game development can be both amazing and excruciatingly terrible. Often at the same time. As for Doom... it's still such an amazing game. I got the shareware version pretty early on, somewhere in 1994, on one of those compilation discs that the stores were full of back then. I had to wait until our PC got more RAM to be able to play it, but man was it worth the wait. Fortunately my mom didn't pay much attention to what I was playing on the computer, so even though I was only 10 at the time I had very little trouble playing gory and violent games.

[@LSKzane]

+Lazy Game Reviews I approve! Masters of Doom is really good indeed! Looking forward to your DOOM 4 review, mate.

[@Ronny1031]

+Lazy Game Reviews I probably read Masters of Doom at least once every few months! Love that book! I have the love for Doom that you have for Duke Nukem 3d. I remember getting the shareware of Doom with a computer my dad bought back in 1995 with a brand spanking new Pentium and being HOOKED. Looking forward to the new Doom, and wouldn't mind hearing your thoughts on it.

[@Hardts]

+Lazy Game Reviews Ah man... It's ~6 $'s, but ends up at 30 $'s due to shipping to Denmark. Maybe next month..

[@patrickwalsh2086]

I've watched the Doom video by Ahoy a while back, it's wicked!

[@greypatch8855]

Man I used to play doom3, turn out the lights, turn up the speakers and man....... scary stuff there

[@FroztiProductions]

I was born in 95, my dad let me play doom as soon as I could figure it out. I'm now a 21 year old pacifist who likes violent games. I thouroughly believe if violent games make you violent, you were already violent.

[@andromeda4641]

+FroztiProductions Agreed, same here my family let me play whatever i want, Doom, GTA 3 & Vice City and seriously i had a great childhood, no fucked up family and not a single fucked up thought passed in my head of doing harm to anything or anybody. If you play GTA or Doom, then go shoot up a school. Oh believe me don't go and sue the game, 90% of the fault lays in the parents.

[@FroztiProductions]

Agreed it actually made me a little angry when he said he wasn't allowed to play it at 11 years old, but his parents had good intentions and it was a different time.

[@iwanttoforceavegantoeatmea7596]

Pacifism is pussyfication.

[@MaxSafeheaD]

They included DoomEd ... that was my start into level design. Deathmatch, was the start of my FPS ... OMG

[@Crescent_Audio]

I was also 7/8 in 1993, and I also vividly remember playing Doom on my cousin’s 486 with 8mb ram, and I distinctly remember that our 486 at home only had 4mb of ram, which significantly affected the quality of Doom as it ran on my Pc. Excellent!

[@ViolentVista]

"Who hasn't heard of Brutal Doom at this point?" The kids at my school who live under rocks (none have ever even heard of Quake)