[QUOTE=Sudz][QUOTE=Luke] You see, that's the problem - you just played it for the first time recently. This game was released in 1991, it didn't just come out yesterday. So you really can't expect it to have much "substance." Also, keep in mind that this game came out a year before Super Mario Kart, and four years before Wipeout (PS1). In a sense, what Doom is to first-person shooters.. F-Zero is to futuristic race games. It's the Grandaddy.
[/QUOTE] With regards to the review itself though, the Critic has made it clear that he reviews and judges games based on how fun they are to play, and to a lesser extent how they stack up against other games for the same console - how old or recent they are has little to do with it. [/QUOTE]I'm sorry, but age DOES play a major factor here. If you're like the one guy who said on here that he "just played it for the first time recently," then you're going to have all these preconceptions and expectations going into playing it. But you need to keep in mind that upon it's release there wasn't anything out there like this so when you play it now YOU ARE going to judge it by later 3D racing games like Super Mario Kart and Wipeout.
It's true that some games just hold up better than others, and those are in fact what many of us consider to be "true classics." But whether you want to believe it or not, if you've grown accustomed to a certain style of gameplay in a genre like.. say, First-Person Shooters, and you love playing Half-Life, Halo, Far Cry, Resistance, etc. then there is a GREAT possibility that you may go back and play a game like Doom and not ENJOY it as much (or at all) because it's different that what you're used to and it doesn't have the nice graphics and the plethora of options.
I think the Critic does a good job with his reviews and I'm sure he does take age into account sometimes. But really I'm just commenting on how most people in general perceive older games.
You ever see a young kid pick up an N64 controller at a used game store and within minutes he says, "This game sucks! Look at the horrible graphics!" He's grown accustomed to high-definition graphics with an improved style of gameplay. Games have changed a lot over the years and I do think you have to take their age into account because you may not like playing them as much now as you would have ten or twenty years ago. I mean, does that not make sense to you? I don't think I could explain it any better.