I played them both a lot when they came out, and still have it installed on my PS4.

For 30 years I’ve almost always had some form of Doom and or Doom II available to play, and you are 100% right, the gameplay and feel, there just isn’t anything else like it.

Of course not, and Henry Ford for some reason doesn’t run Ford anymore. It’s still the company that invented the assembly line, and id software created the FPS.

There is institutional knowledge that makes id software unique, and MS is making a big mistake firing so many.

I watched a few videos about this situation last night and have a better idea what’s going on.

The shift in focus to the core IPs, which at this point appear to be Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Wolfenstein, could be a great idea, if it means we get one of them every 18 months or so, as vs the decades between main releases the current model is heading towards.

What I really hope is that all this talent being released into the wild gather together to form some new developers.

My word, Fallout 4 was eleven years ago.

No, of course you are right that it’s not the same team from 1993, but they are the ones who fixed the FPS shooting in FO4.

Doom isn’t the singularity it was in the 90s, but it is still a well loved and unique franchise.

And as others have pointed out, even without their own IPs, this team has a lot of knowledge and skills that can be applied to other MS properties.

I mean really, what does id software know about gaming? It’s not like they single handedly created the FPS genre and one of the most recognized IP in all of gaming history. /s

I tried playing at launch, on a PS4. Only time I’ve ever really felt a game was unplayable.

Year or so later, tried on a PS4 pro, but still wasn’t any good.

Today after a friend bugging me for like week, I’m giving it another go on a PS5, and this time, it looks and plays the way they promised.

First game I’ve played that makes use of the trigger feed back, going to have to get used to that.

Just finished the tutorial, really hoping it lives up to the hype. Do have to say it’s the best looking game I’ve played.

The other thing that never gets mentioned, you can’t actually play the 1.0 version of the games on discs anymore anyway.

The first thing it does is load 50g of day one patches etc

So even if you have a disc, if the servers go down, you ain’t going to be able to play the game the way you want.