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Resident_Hazard on 15 April 2008
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disolitude said:
highwaystar101 said:
I have completed Doom on the GBA and PC many times before, but I have just recently began playing through the SNES version and I am hooked. For me it plays exactly how I expect it to for a console, I am addicted to this game all over again. Has anybody played this version? What do you think is the best version of the original?

Im not too sure I agree. I remember playing the snes version and finding it worse than my 32X version...and we all know anything 32X is garbage...

 Compared to Jaguar, 3D0, PS1 and ultimately the PC versions...the snes version can't really compare.


 

I think you should head on over to Wikipedia and read up on Doom history. The SNES version is generally rated higher than many other versions except for the original PC game. The 32X and Jaguar versions both suffered worse graphics and from my understanding, about a third of the game was entirely cut out of the old 32X Doom. The SNES Doom is one of the truest-to-original ports except for the fact that the enemies are always facing you and the swastika was malformed. 

 I still own the SNES and N64 Doom titles and I loved the hell out of them.  Completing SNES Doom was one of my prouder achievements from the SNES days.  It's pure hell fighting that damn Cyber Demon when the guy is always facing you!!  Hell, the Jaguar version didn't even have music.  The 32X Doom lacked the final episode and the BFG9000.  All these things (music, episode, BFG) were present in the SNES game.  They Cyber Demon and Spider are also not in the 32X and Jaguar versions, but they're in the SNES game.  In fact, the SNES version is said to be the one that most closely resembles the PC original when compared to pretty much any console port except for the Playstation version(s).

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_and_ports_of_Doom