"You're big! That means you have big guts!"

June 6, 2009 12:43 AM

Just a little too late for Flash Friday, it's Flash Doom 2D, a fairly solid side-scroller.via Aaron Williams.

I will admit to being the first person who can be swayed to like something simply because it's Doom, but I really like the way the fifteen year-old graphics and sounds are put to use.

posted by Pope Guilty (11 comments total)

I really wanted to like this, especially being on a Doom kick lately, but playing the original the modern way is way more satisfying. For example, you can actually dodge shit.
posted by neckro23 at 1:16 AM on June 6, 2009

It's ironic, considering that the Doom engine never allowed one walk-on-able point to be above another.
posted by Nomiconic at 1:18 AM on June 6, 2009 [2 favorites]

I've been playing Doom 2 most of the week. This is a nice change of pace.
posted by RussHy at 6:21 AM on June 6, 2009

I am as equally great at side-scrollers as I am terrible at FPSs, so this was a great confidence booster.
posted by alon at 7:08 AM on June 6, 2009 [4 favorites]

Reminded me of Zillion a bit.
posted by schyler523 at 7:10 AM on June 6, 2009

hm. i seem to have jumped thru a wall that i wasn't supposed to and got stuck. end of game for me.
posted by fuzzypantalones at 8:03 AM on June 6, 2009

walk through walls is on
posted by eustatic at 9:18 AM on June 6, 2009

fuzzypantalones: try typing "idspispopd" (or "idclip", depending).

Ah, I don't think I'll ever forget the Doom cheat codes.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 11:23 AM on June 6, 2009

Heh, a couple levels in and I'm enjoying it. It's like they gave it the Metroid Prime treatment in reverse.

Speaking of dimensionally-reductive versions of Doom, friends of Nethack may want to try out DoomRL if you haven't already.
posted by cortex at 2:09 PM on June 6, 2009

It's neat, but what it lacks is the "what's behind that door" feel of the original.
posted by fungible at 3:44 PM on June 6, 2009

*squeeeeeee*
posted by chairface at 10:05 AM on June 13, 2009