Doom is a great example of the absolutely disgusting rate hardware advanced at in the 90s. Feels like we got much farther in the ten years between Doom 1 (1993) and Doom 3 (2003), than in the twenty between Doom 3 and 2023.
There was such a vast gulf between PCs and console hardware back then, with games like Doom using the beefy 32-bit 50+ MHz CPU to do everything in software, and consoles relying almost entirely on dedicated graphics hardware.
> twenty
> Doom 3
WTF. Doom 3 is twenty years old?!
I remember playing it (poorly) on a GeForce MX440.
That first taste of Doom 2 multiplayer is what set me on my life's course.
- a reformed, once-degenerate, FPS gamer.
1977-1983:Child
16 year gap
1999-2005: (immature) Adult
10 year gap
2015-2019: world weary (immature) Adult
The 10 year gap felt like 5 minutes, whilst the 16 year gap was almost infinite.
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