![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve spent some time exploring BFG Edition over the past few weeks-perhaps too much time, I’m not sure when I grew this beard-and I’m here to report on what I found.īFG Edition isn’t just Doom 3. Then again I always felt that Doom 3 fell just short of its potential, so I was pretty excited when I heard that id Software was re-releasing it as Doom 3 BFG Edition. I have some fond memories of Doom 3-I even built my first gaming rig to play it back in ‘04 as I was just starting college. It’s an addiction I thankfully never kicked, or perhaps an alluring nightmare I can’t put to rest. But Doom…there’s something virulent about it, that heady mix of violence, triumph, adrenaline and terror. Wolfenstein 3D was the small burning taste I needed, and then Doom got me hooked-I was a PC gamer, primarily of first person shooters, until years later when GoldenEye 007 tempted me back to consoles and I spent several subsequent years as an ardent Nintendo fanboy. It’s ironic, then, that I became a gamer because of a video game that WAS the devil, or at least about shooting up the devil and his minions. My parents weren’t exactly of the “video games are the DEVIL!” variety, but they did think it was more sensible to own a home PC you could do homework on instead of a console that only played games. I played those of course-plenty of friends owned them and I have fond memories of Track and Field, Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario All Stars-but I never owned any of those groundbreaking games or consoles. Unlike a lot of my generation, it didn’t start as a full-on hobbyist on classic consoles like the NES, Genesis and SNES. ![]() I have an interesting genesis as a gamer. ![]()
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