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by muziq 388 days ago
The world seems to have rewritten history, and forgotten Ultima Underworld, which shipped prior to Doom..
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zeroq 388 days ago
Couple "3D" games shipped before Doom. Battlezone comes to mind.

The difference is that id owned the natural progression (from Wolf3D through Doom to Quake) and laid foundation to what we call today a FPS genre.

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Narishma 388 days ago
I think that's because it had such high system requirements that very few people could run it, unlike Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.
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foldr 387 days ago
It was just about playable on a 25MHz 386. We used to put up with frame rates that would make your eyes bleed back in the early 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VdRXgWoShM

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momocowcow 387 days ago
Exactly, I played through underworld on a 386 16mhz. Being an rpg, the lower fps was much more tolerable than in Doom, which was in fact unplayable.
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Narishma 387 days ago
I'm sorry but that is not very playable even when it only renders to a quarter of the screen, especially compared to Wolfenstein 3D on similar hardware. It was also quite clunky in terms of interface. The guy on the video spends like 3 minutes trying to pick up a sack on the floor before just giving up.
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