The first Doom versus the first Quake, and why first Doom wins for me
I just recently bought a ton of FPS related stuff on Steam, mostly because I was feeling horribly nostalgic. I've been a long time Doom fanboy, mostly because it's got great music, simple yet fun gameplay, and it's "kill them dead" goal for the demons is just pretty damn fun. Of course, like most people, I cannot bear to play these games in their original glory via DOSbox, so I play them via source ports (Zandronum being my usual source port, though GZDoom is a nice alternative). But even in their original, low resolution, grainy as heck glory, I always found Doom just rang some sort of bell in my mind. I did play Quake a long time ago, so I recently acquired it again because it's been so long since I last played it I wanted to remember why I hadn't played it in so long. I remembered why soon enough. Quake has everything Doom has to have added via source ports, like true 3D modeling and pre rendered lightmaps and particles, but I'll be the ...