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hotseatgames wrote: Doom.
I enjoy both genres, but I don't need a live opponent to have fun with Doom.
To be fair, "Doom" is what he calls it when he slathers his palm with lotion.
Both genres were launched, in great part, by these games, but Doom has had a much more profound impact. I remember playing DOOM over LAN at my dad's office back in the day...good times. A lot of people forget, but that WAS the original FPS deathmatch game.
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I remember the first time I saw it, I swear it was liking watching cel animation taking place on an arcade. The graphics were mind blowing at the time. And that cast of characters! I've never been an expert at fighting games, but I definitely enjoyed them in their heyday. Doom was OK, I had a Macintoish with a BW monitor most of my time growing up, so I only got to play Doom at my friend's house. I wasn't very good, and I appreciated it for what it was but it didn't give me the same amount of thrill as Street Fighter.
So it's funny. Of these two specific games I played WAAAAAY more SFII than Doom, but in my life I've played and enjoyed play way, way, way, way, way more FPS games than fighters, and I don't really *like* fighting games because I'm no damn good at them.
Still you asked about the specific games so...
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Josh Look wrote: Doom, like Nirvana, inspired a slew of shitty imitators. But Street Fighter II inspired David Sirlin.
For ME, Street Fighter 2 (Hyper or Turbo if I may). I loved this game when it came out and still love it today. It's a masterpiece in game design.
For the world, Doom. Doom isn't a masterpiece, but it's dang good, and made a huge push in the way games could look and act and feel. You can trace a direct line from it to Half-Life, System Shock 2, Deus Ex, and nearly every first person game since. The same can be said for SF2, but fighting games have never been as impactful and are much more niche.
DOOM is eternal. I was actually playing the original on my PS3 a few months ago and enjoying it as a game not as nostalgia. I'll still happily play FPS's in general, but I never play fighting games anymore at all. If I were to play a fighting game for nostalgia it would be Mortal Kombat.
dysjunct wrote: SF2, no question. An almost impossibly deep game, full of psychological tricks.
I played a lot of competitive Doom in the 90s, and the deathmatchers in my group would have strongly disagreed that Doom isn't rich with psychological tricks. Ever heard of the silent BFG? That was just one of a slew of tricks that competitive doomers had up their sleeves. The trick was to override the BFG charging sound with a grunt ("oof") by hitting space against a wall immediately after clicking your fire button. If you did it quickly enough, there was hardly any BFG sound at all. Surprise BFG! That's not where it ends, though. So, of course the master doomers all knew of this trick, and they'd listen for the grunts. Maybe a trickster would release a bluff grunt without actually firing - *then* he might fire just a moment after, throwing off the target's expectations and messing up his defensive maneuvers. Or maybe the player didn't even have a BFG at all and wanted to give the impression that he did!
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