I want to play a classic pc game

[ANDREW GREEN]

Even though FPS had been around for a mere 5-6 years, they were becoming a bit stale. The old adage of the red or blue key card find was prevalent in just about everything when talking single player first person regardless of whatever theme. I guess you had to be there to realise what a breath of fresh air the original was in a stagnating genre. Placing the game now with the awareness you have of it sitting in the subset genre is blinding, there was nothing like at the time.

I suppose that's fair. I played shareware Doom when it came out, but never really 'got it' at the time so didn't get into FPS games until decades later. Re-playing Doom and discovering Quake over the last year after playing modern shooters, and it made me think how fun they were compared to a more orienteering type of modern shooter game. It helps that they update the games with modern resolutions. But like you say, if I was playing something that seemed formulaic for years, I'd likely welcome the innovation.