Best classic FPS (early-mid 90s)? SPACE vs. HELL vs. SPACE vs. WIZARDS

[brain_stew]

Did people who voted Doom actually played Duke3D in those days ?

It had way more variety, especially when playing over modem and Kali.

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I played Duke 3D back in the day and have revisited it many times. It doesn't come close to Doom. Variety isn't a substitute for near perfect game design.

 

[Billfisto]

Marathon for me. Marathon became my life in middle school.

Doom is great, but I actually played Doom (in a reasonable resolution/fps) after Marathon, and it felt like a step back.

 

[hiredhand]

I really liked Star Wars: Dark Forces went I played through it few years ago.

 

[Poimandres]

Did people who voted Doom actually played Duke3D in those days ?

It had way more variety, especially when playing over modem and Kali.

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What do you mean "those days"? Duke came out years after Doom, and in the 90s a few years was an eternity for game advancement. It was Duke vs Quake, not Doom.

 

[styl_oh]

When I made this, I didn't really have nostalgia or Those Days in mind, although I suppose it's inevitable how that'll factor into the votes of many.

For myself, no 90s nostalgia for these exists; I played the ones I played far later, incl. Doom last year, which I got really really into, and remain into.

I'm also not a big believer in art being dated in any real way; if it doesn't 'hold up' now, I suspect it wasn't terribly good to begin with, so when I say 'best', I suppose what I had in mind was: can you fire it up right now and have fun?

Dark Forces should have been on the list over Heretic.

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ack, very good call! or maybe over Ken's Labyrinth, which was... not exactly a joke answer, maybe moreso a little recognition for Ken and his engine