Poll: Doom or Duke, Which Do You Prefer?

[briankoontz]

Doom is a key cultural work of art. Duke Nukem 3D is a great game with courtesy of Tom Hall one of the best senses of humor in a video game.

Duke Nukem 3D is a parody of Doom and games like it, as well as a parody of 1980s action movies, which along with heavy metal inspired Doom.

 

[AT God]

For the classic versions, I prefer Doom over Duke, Duke 3D had some really silly maps that were hard to navigate while Doom had mostly straight forward shootouts, except for Perfect Hatred. Plus Doom has mods that make it about the same graphically as Duke 3D.

As for modern, Duke Forever beats the hell out of Doom 3. 2/4 Weapon slots and regenerating health make it a lot closer than it should be but DNF has better handling and more variety in the enemies and environments than Doom 3.

If Duke Forever 2 and Doom 4 came out at the same time, it would be an interesting comparison to have.

 

[Chester Rabbit]

Duke Nukem. It?s just the more fun shooter of the options we were given in this thread. Doom there just isn?t a lot to do the environments aren?t that interesting and neither are the enemy designs.

Duke, you can jet pack all over the place while having shoot outs with Aliens and Pig Cops throw a pipe bomb on them all. The game play is just more fun and there are various ways of going about combating your enemies and overall It was just a much more exciting game. Doom all I am doing is running and gunning sluggish enemies and it?s just kind of boring. Out of all of them I would say without nostalgia goggles Duke has held up the best.
(I say no nostalgia because there is nothing for me to be nostalgic about. I never really played these that games extensively until this year)

Now if we were talking about Duke vs Doom 64, well that?s a bit tougher.

 

[Andros83]

Duke. There is no other option.
Doom, while a phenomenal game in its own right did not age as well as Duke.
It's simply the more varied, the more interesting and simply the most fun.
Some of the levels contained within it are among the best ever designed(Hotel Hell and Hollywood Holocaust spring to mind) and the music was some of the best that Lee Jackson had ever produced(Stalker being a true classic).
And its also far more influential in design than Doom ever was. Above it you only have titans such as System Shock 1, Deus Ex and others.
Anyone saying otherwise is just bandwagonning on supposed "old school cred".

 

[The White Hunter]

What's the point of making secret plans if you tell everyone about them! xD

We may as well just broadcast all the Injustice League meetings as well XD

OT: I much prefer Doom, but to be honest I've never really played much of either.

Of what I have played Doom just felt... better. Not very helpful I know, but whatever XD

I posted the methodology and a goal, I did not post the entirety of the plan. Those documents are safely concealed.

 

[The White Hunter]

You only dislike the Duke because you lack the Balls of Steel to deal with his awesomeness.

Spoiler

I bet his manliness makes your already tiny manbits shrivel up and die without reproducing like the Pinta Island Tortoise.
Doomguy may have fought his way into and out of hell but the Duke did the same while also saving all the Babes, and all he had was a boot and an empty pack of gum.

Spoiler

The quiet and sad cries of your receding genitalia in the face of such a sexy, manly, testosterone infused Adonis only amuses the Duke.

So yeah, I think my vote is obvious.
Its Doom all day everyday.

Nah. If I turned around too fast near Duke I'd knock his fucking head off with my dick and you know it.

And yes. Doom is superior.

I actually just think Duke 3D has aged poorly, it's really not very fun to play now compared to Doom.

Your double ended black dildo doesn't count as a dick and you know it.

I agree. I still have lots of fun with Duke 3D but I grew up on Doom and it just seems to have more lasting appeal to me.

Indeed I must agree. Nothing against Duke 3D, both are great games, I just love me some Doom.

 

[The White Hunter]

/snippage

Surely the age old war was over if people were Quakers or Dukers? In which case I was a Quaker, nail gun to your antiquated sprite arse.

Voted Doom because ID. Couldn't really being myself to vote for Gearbox even if I wanted to. :-\

Never played Quake back in the day, I played Doom on my dads PC when I was a very small child, I was like 2 when these things were big in the mainstream.

I dislike Gearbox intently but thats nothing to do with classic Duke.

 

[navyjeff]

I had a lot more fun playing Rise of the Triad than either Duke or Doom. But between the two, Doom was the more enjoyable game because it had better pacing and more originality.

 

[Weaver]

Duke 3D is my favourite FPS from the 90s. IMO it's amazing.
The weapon variety was great and the level design was fantastic.

To the point, I feel nothing but Fremdschämen for this whole "Injustice League" thing. You guys can do what you want, but I don't have to like it. I thought we'd have learned our lesson on cliques and sub-groups here from PRIATE and Asylum Open Mic, but apparently we haven't.

 

[Fijiman]

I choose the hidden fourth option of none because I've played none of them.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

Borderlands since I've not played Duke or Doom.
Also I'd probably like Borderlands more anyway.

 

[loc978]

I have nothing but good memories of the Doom series, because I only played 1 and 2. I never saw the point to having a Doom 3, since the Quake series was essentially the successor to Doom...

But I've always felt that back in the DOS era, 2D platformers just worked better than FPSes. The technology just wasn't there until about 1996. So Duke all the way in this contest. Also, Duke 3D was pretty well on-par with Quake... with added humor (juvenile can still be funny if you don't have a stick up your ass).

 

[Formica Archonis]

I made (what would now be called) mods for Doom for years. There's my vote.

 

[The White Hunter]

I surely can't be the only person that picked up the BFG edition to play the Doom 3 I never got around to and played the shit out of Doom 1 and 2 again?

I highly recommend doing so btw. They really hold up.

No I did too, on PS3 for xmas, Doom 3 on PS3 does not control very well it's rather sticky and stiff.

Then I saw it dirt cheap for PC. So I've been playing it recently.

The originals work buttery smooth on the PS3 though. Doom splitscreen, so fun!

 

[The White Hunter]

Duke 3D is my favourite FPS from the 90s. IMO it's amazing.
The weapon variety was great and the level design was fantastic.

To the point, I feel nothing but Fremdschämen for this whole "Injustice League" thing. You guys can do what you want, but I don't have to like it. I thought we'd have learned our lesson on cliques and sub-groups here from PRIATE and Asylum Open Mic, but apparently we haven't.

We've been around for a long time we just have spurts of activity. You don't have to like it, you are correct. If you don't like it that's fine. To each their own, but we can have our fun. As can the Brovengers, but they haven't seemingly had a project on the forum for a while..

 

[surg3n]

Duke, has to be - used to play multiplayer every lunchtime, damn good fun. For me, the traps and stuff made it a more interesting game. We'd play Doom as well of course, and Descent, StarCraft, Worms, ROTT... all the classics

 

[surg3n]

I surely can't be the only person that picked up the BFG edition to play the Doom 3 I never got around to and played the shit out of Doom 1 and 2 again?

I highly recommend doing so btw. They really hold up.

Yeah! - the 4-player mode is especially good. Moreover, it works on the 360 and is far better than the XBL version of Doom. I would happily play through Doom again, some games never get old, especially with old school split screen mode and a high difficulty setting.

 

[Dfskelleton]

Ouch, that's a hard choice.
Despite the fact that Duke is undoubtedly one of my favorite video game characters, I think Doom is probably a better series overall.

 

[Bad Jim]

Back in the day I greatly enjoyed Doom, Duke 3D and Wolfenstein 3D. But it's Doom that I keep coming back to whenever I need a retro fix. Wolfenstein is primitive and doesn't have much variety in weapons or enemies. Duke is a bit gimmicky. Doom just plays better IMO.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Geez, this thread is just as bad as the ones where people insist the only reason anyone cared about the old Tomb Raider games was the boobs. I like Doom, but Duke Nukem 3D blows away both Doom and Doom 2. It's got better level design, more varied gameplay, more interesting weapons, more interesting characters (or enemies, at any rate), and a sense of humor to boot. All modern level designers should be forced to study Duke 3D and Dark Forces to see how it's done. Both games avoided being pointless mazes (which is something Doom had problems with) while also avoiding the modern problem where the whole game is just one long corridor, where if there's ever a branch at all, you know one path takes you to an item, and the other to the end of the level. So yeah, you may not /always/ be able to bet on the Duke, but I'd take his best outing over Doomguy's.

Edit: And then I clicked on the wrong option in the poll and voted for Doom, like an idiot. I wish this forum had a way to change your vote on something.