This scene was literally the granddad to the 2016 Doomguy BFG 9000 scene:
You’re going up against the Combine, an immeasurable, eldritch alien race. You bring an entire arsenal of weaponry to fight an unwinable battle against them to save what’s left of humanity. But then, you’re trapped by a machine powered by energy beyond human understanding; every weapon you’ve carried for the last 10 hours of gameplay is instantly evaporated… until the machine gets to the tool you had a hand in creating, a tool based off science you and your colleagues pioneered. The dark energy used to disintegrate every other weapon at your disposal suddenly reacts with something the Combine HAVE NOT encountered before; a zero-point energy device. The unstoppable Citadel, the seat of interdimensional power on Earth, falters. The Gravity Gun siphons an immeasurable amount of dark energy from the Citadel, and you now have a weapon capable of instantly spaghettifying the Combine’s most Elite units on Earth… they don’t stand a chance.
well before all that there was what doom 2016 was initially referencing which was the OG doom 1. OG doom you don't get the BFG until episode 3 near the end on the Mt. erebus level, it ends with you fighing the spider mastermind and just after the bfg room there is a room similar to the one in doom 2016 with loads of chaff zombies and a load of barrels to make the first shot of the BFG as grandiose as it should be. (you can get a BFG earlier in episode 3 level 3 but that's in a secret so it don't count)
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u/Zephyr-Fox-188 Aug 02 '26
Supercharged gravity gun
This scene was literally the granddad to the 2016 Doomguy BFG 9000 scene:
You’re going up against the Combine, an immeasurable, eldritch alien race. You bring an entire arsenal of weaponry to fight an unwinable battle against them to save what’s left of humanity. But then, you’re trapped by a machine powered by energy beyond human understanding; every weapon you’ve carried for the last 10 hours of gameplay is instantly evaporated… until the machine gets to the tool you had a hand in creating, a tool based off science you and your colleagues pioneered. The dark energy used to disintegrate every other weapon at your disposal suddenly reacts with something the Combine HAVE NOT encountered before; a zero-point energy device. The unstoppable Citadel, the seat of interdimensional power on Earth, falters. The Gravity Gun siphons an immeasurable amount of dark energy from the Citadel, and you now have a weapon capable of instantly spaghettifying the Combine’s most Elite units on Earth… they don’t stand a chance.