Playing Doom 64 for the first time...

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:26 pm

Bought it today for £2...

OH MY GOD...

Playing the first bit could quite possibly have MORE tension than the entire of Doom 3. The music, the lighting, the shadows, the game is just perfect...

I just couldn't believe that even though its this old, its just amazing!

Anybody else here like it?

Post by **dzjepp** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:48 pm

Yeah it's pretty good. I believe fileplanet has a link you can download it legally now.

Post by **Mogul** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:09 pm

Yeah, this guy, in conjunction with the guys that actually made DOOM 64, have made an extremely faithful total conversion for DOOM II using jDoom (the one that looks really nice).

And yes, it rules. I fucking LOVE it.

Download here.

http://www.doom2.net/~doomdepot/abs-download.html

Post by **Mogul** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:16 pm

Download the installer in the link, download the high quality music .wad and then put doom2.wad and the music wad in

c:\Absolution\Bin\Data\doom64\Auto\

And there it is.

Awesome.

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:28 pm

Mouse look, jump, gl etc?

Doom 64 fucking rules it owns the PC versions to death. Its crazy good, and even when there was just a single pinky 20 feet away from me... I WAS SPOOKED. The tension was fantastic.

Post by **Mogul** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:08 pm

Mouse look I believe. Jumping is a cheat that you can unlock, I think. OpenGL, yes.

And fairly detailed customization of visual effects like particles, lighting stuff, etc, all in the UI.

And you don't need anything but the install package and the high quality music file to play. Have fun.

Post by **hemostick** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:39 pm

Pretty nice so far. Of course I'm only a few levels in =)

Post by **Mogul** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:59 am

Yeah, it's fun.

Post by **Scourge** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:16 am

Never played doom64 before. Must say, pretty cool. :icon14:

Post by **MKJ** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:56 am

does the TC work with zdoom ?

Post by **Mogul** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:58 am

Maybe if you do some minor hax0ring. The thing you download is an installer with a custom jDoom. I'm not sure if you could get it working in any other port. But jDoom is better suited for this thing, anyway. Don't get my wrong, ZDoom is cool for regular DOOM play, but to get the DOOM 64 experience, jDoom is better.

Post by **o'dium** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:01 am

As long as it has the same music i'll get it, that what rocks the most.

Post by **Mogul** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:02 am

It is the same music. And yes, that is the coolest part of DOOM 64.

Post by **MKJ** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:34 am

by bobby prince i hope?

[edit] oh its not. its Aubrey Hodges

Post by **Mogul** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:46 am

No, this isn't the extra-silly 12 bar blues-based riffs of Bobby Prince. This is some really, really effective, unsettling ambient horror stuff.

It's the same stuff that's used in the PlayStation version of the game, too, I believe. But yeah, it's extremely effective in setting the tone for the game.

Post by **hemostick** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:05 pm

Bah =) My 64 music wad wasn't in the right place. So I still played with the original doom music :icon25:

Post by **MKJ** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:29 pm

lookit, its homostick \o/

Post by **hemostick** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:27 pm

?

Back to the TC, it would crash when I switched to the plasmagun after I installed the outcast levels on top of it. Anybody came across this ?

Post by **o'dium** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:31 pm

Sorry to keep posting stuff but i just cant get over how fun and good it was... It just had so much tension, everything, the music, the lighting, the sounds, the looks, was just perfect...

Maybe D3 should of had some kind of music

Post by **Scourge** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:44 pm

hemostick wrote:?

Back to the TC, it would crash when I switched to the plasmagun after I installed the outcast levels on top of it. Anybody came across this ?

Haven't gotten to the plasma gun yet, but I'll let you know if it does.

Post by **hemostick** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:32 pm

You can quickly try it by playing the demo map. I tried installing *just* the engine update from this addon and I don't have the problem anymore (I had to anyway, my savegames wouldn't work otherwise).

Post by **busetibi** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:50 am

thanks for the link Mogul, :icon14:

Post by **Mogul** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:08 am

Word, word.

Post by **MKJ** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:49 am

i get a 360 Hall of Mirrors on every map

Post by **Mogul** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:31 am

That is really, really weird. Did you somehow mess up the installation?