I've been playing a lot of DOOM and DOOM II recently, and the experience got me to thinking about some of the older console releases of DOOM I've played and how I actually prefer some elements from them. Notably, I always loved how the SNES version of DOOM (which had no built-in cheats) had the decency to retain your starting ammo, armor and weapon inventory for each level while still restoring your health to 100% upon restarting the level. Also, I kind of miss the abbreviated level set used in the Jaguar version of DOOM, as many of my gripes with the level design in DOOM tend to get so much worse beginning with episode three (and get really bad in DOOM II in particular).
Are there any inferior conversions/ports of games you played and somehow preferred to the "better" versions? I don't think I would've played the SNES and Jaguar versions of DOOM if I had a PC at the time, but I'm glad I did, as it was interesting to see how such an important game was adapted to different platforms during a time when we expected some sort of compromise.
Are there any inferior conversions/ports of games you played and somehow preferred to the "better" versions? I don't think I would've played the SNES and Jaguar versions of DOOM if I had a PC at the time, but I'm glad I did, as it was interesting to see how such an important game was adapted to different platforms during a time when we expected some sort of compromise.