By Alec Meer on March 4th, 2009 at 12:01 pm.
It’s a love story for the ages: two of most important names in PC gaming history have finally admitted their feelings for each other, and after a whirlwind romance they have a beautiful bouncing baby. Yes, Doom and Diablo now have a child to call their own, and of course it’s as gloriously moronic as its parents.
Doom: Fall of Mars is id’s setting, monsters and essential armoury dressed, with surprising finesse, in Diablo’s clicky clothes. It is cheerfully shameless about it, employing the sprites et al of Doom, and the oh-so-familiar fonts and inventory of Blizzard’s kill’n'collect pseudo-RPG. While this is only a proof of concept demo (comprising three levels, a few bosses and a ton of what I believe the younglings call Phat Lewt), it’s safe to say it realises the cartoonishly compulsive elements of both games remarkably well: this is a standalone modlet that we gladly award the official RPS A Right Old Giggle trophy to.
It’s also a mere 3.3Mb, and you can snag it from here. Oh, and the guy behind it calls himself If Software, which is about as apt a studio name as there could be for this wee retro genre-bender.
Someone combined Doom and Diablo?
Oh god the world of gaming has been destroyed as masses will be consumed by this product.
(downloading)
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someone divided by zero
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Pfft, everybody knows Diabloom is the only Diablo/Doom merger worth playing.
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I farmed demios for purples :(
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And of course there is the brilliant DoomRL which combines Doom with NetHack…
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It soo obvious makes you wonder this has not ben done before.
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Having played it, it’s very rough and short, but then again it says it’s far from finished on the website. Still though, the core idea is great
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Mash-ups. Fusion. Retrhomage. If this is the future, why does it feel so much like a crude and lazy redrawing of the past?
Cultural melting pox, more like.
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Holy shit thats awesome.
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Brillig :)
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I played this last year. It’s interesting and fun, aside from the bugs, but it totally overlooks that the real fun in diablo comes from its randomization and replayability (that’s a word, I swear!). Plus you can’t move and shoot simultaneously. What’s the deal with that?
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Holy crap. I’d pay anything for this.
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This is what Hellgate: London should have been!
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This makes a whole lot more sense than remaking Planescape Torment with the NWN II engine.
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@yns88
I don’t know about the running while you shoot thing, but the next release is going to have randomly generated levels. Look at the forums.
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omg i love this game :)
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it… is… disturbingly cool.
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Nobody’s remaking Planescape Torment. The Planescape mod project for NWN2 is aiming to create an entirely original campaign that merely happens to use the same campaign setting.
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lol xD
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Hah, fun little diversion. Pretty slow-paced, though.
I’m not sure that I agree, but I do love the phrase “cultural melting pox.”
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I got to hell and killed the cyber demon, but thats it. You just wander around. I even walked my ass back up to the top (thats like, 20 floors) and it was still the same. The people didn’t even thank me! Assholes.
Anyway, I found a glitch. Some powerups will say “+ 33% damage” or something. Equip 2 and your damage will skyrocket. Dont equip a third or else it will crash. I was in hell when I discovered this. My damage went from 200 to 700 with 2 +30% damage items. A third made it my damage 10 digits long before the game froze xD.
but yes. This was the best mashup i have ever experienced. Throw on some and you’re in for a good time. Can’t wait to see what he improves.
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My friend suggested me to visit your blog. Very well explained
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I found your blog on Yahoo and I just wanted to say that I think your writing is simply stunning!
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Wow! Some amazing effects. Definitely some great ideas here. Thanks for sharing!
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don’t expect to determine UGG boots, these as anything with Bruce Lee or Sean
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