Doom 2

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i was scrolling through the internet and found a page dicussiing the classics like Doom, Doom 2 etc etc.

I was just wondering if anybody can remember if Doom, Doom 2 etc was playable over a LAN?? :D
 
Is it any good over a LAN?
What kind of options do you get, Co Op, deathmatch etc etc? :D
Max amount of players?
 
One of the best games over a LAN. I think it's 16-32 players but I'm not sure. It's been years since I've played it. Think I recall it being simple deathmatch and team deathmatch with a form of coop mode being available but dunno of the player limits in that.
 
Pretty sure Doom was 4 player only? Co-op was pretty fun though, shame you don't generally get the option in modern games...

Playing Doom after playing modern fps games feels wrong; no jumping or looking up and down (there is a mod of doom which lets you do this i think). Old games are generally best left in the past, going back to them only sullies you memories!!
 
jim5000 said:
Pretty sure Doom was 4 player only? Co-op was pretty fun though, shame you don't generally get the option in modern games...

Playing Doom after playing modern fps games feels wrong; no jumping or looking up and down (there is a mod of doom which lets you do this i think). Old games are generally best left in the past, going back to them only sullies you memories!!
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Pfft.

There's very little currently out that even gets close to Doom in terms of gameplay.

There are many games on my shelf, the new ones get completed once or played a little and left there, but Doom I keep going back to every now and then to complete again.
 
i remember playing Doom2 over lan at school at lunch when it was raining - happy memories - either that or touching up grils *looks whistful*
 
I got a lot better at Quake when I started using mouselook. I think it's better than Doom personally, if only because of Quakeworld. I never tried playing Doom over a network tho - I did a couple of times on Kali (anyone remember that?) and it was terrible, but it wasn't Doom's fault.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Quake is probably a more enjoyable game for deathmatch than Doom 2 is/was and didn't need any of this fancy mouselook business either to be good unlike modern games. :)
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Things like mouselook and/or protcol support (I think) can be fixed in Doom using a more modern port though.
 
playworker said:
Yes, you need the IPX protocol installed on all the machines though IIRC
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How easy will this be to setup on 3 XP build pcs going through a Belkin router??
 
amaru said:
How easy will this be to setup on 3 XP build pcs going through a Belkin router??
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Easy - just right-click on the network connection on each PC, click "Properties", click "Install...", select "Protocol" then click "Add", select "NWLink IPX/SPX/Blah blah Compatible Protocol" and click "OK"... It might ask you restart the computer but that should be all.

As noted above - modern Doom2 ports will have TCP/IP support built in and probably run better on XP etc. so it might be worth trying one or two out :)
 
Tute said:
Things like mouselook and/or protcol support (I think) can be fixed in Doom using a more modern port though.
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True but I don't want mouselook on classic games, I used to be better at Quake without mouselook than I was with it although I didn't perhaps make myself very clear before. :)
 
Gotta agree played this game to death when i was kid, thought i would set it up on a LAN and take my son on :D
 
Of course, if you have a null modem cable lying around and a couple of computers with serial ports... :D
 
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