10/4/2017
As this was my first time playing the DOOM Series, I chose the easiest difficulty possible!!
I usually play the Normal or Easy difficulty when encountering a new game. But I was a bit surprised upon entering the levels that enemies lay strewn across the floor already dead. It was humorous to see that enemies were included still but just dead, it’s like someone else had gone through this level before me?? I started to wonder about the story of this game since there was no opening prologue or dialogue. Are we the only protagonist in this game?
This is what the easiest difficulty looks like…
It’s been awhile since I’ve played a first-person shooter in general, but especially on my laptop. I wanted to spend some time getting reacquainted to this style of gameplay and get to learn all the controls. For starters, for some reason my mouse wasn’t working. And a problem I encountered was pressing F4 to get to the volume controls screen. I used this as my way to pause the game, but my first time doing so brought on a ton of lag? I closed all the tabs on my computer and re-entered the game which helped, but later when I returned to the volume control screen, the screen turned black. I’m not sure what was going on, so next time I’ll test it out a bit.
Another thing was an issue with strafing. I could only successfully toggle between strafe/non-strafe when in fullscreen mode. And sometimes just pressing ALT didn’t work, sometimes it did. Sometimes I feel like I had to hold it down a bit, and other times I think I had to use ALT in combination with a left or right arrow key. This made combat challenging with the brown enemies that shoot the fireballs.
But overall, my first experience with this game was positive. I feel like the easier difficulty helped me consider this game in the context of a class rather than just thinking about how fun/addicting it is. I’m excited to continue!