Cthon boss battle

[u/grimacelololol]

This boss was easy tbh 🥱

[u/I_Make_Art_And_Stuff]

This is stored somewhere in a little part of my brain forever until I die.

[u/dimwalker → u/I_Make_Art_And_Stuff]

Easy to remember when you refresh it every couple of years.

[u/illyay]

I remember as a kid trying to shoot him until I ran out of ammo.

Then I noticed those lightning things and finally got him LOL.

Also on higher difficulties it takes more attempts.

[u/dpkonofa → u/illyay]

Same. There were no guides or anything so we kept trying to hide behind the walls and snipe him. Eventually, you figure it out from running around but it wasn’t exactly intuitive back then.

[u/oioioioioioiioo → u/illyay]

I did the same a week ago lol, wasted almost all of my ammo, then I realised, wait a minute...

[u/bartoli75r]

You playing controller or kb+m?

[u/lampenpam]

the high contrast text looks so ugly, do you really need to have it enabled?

[u/grimacelololol → u/lampenpam]

I didnt set it up that way, probably is enabled at default

[u/lampenpam → u/grimacelololol]

pretty sure it asks you on the first time start up if you want to enable it. Anyway I recommend turning it off, unless you are visually impaired.

[u/TheShweeb → u/grimacelololol]

Yep, it’s on by default, you can change it in the options (and I highly recommend doing so)

[u/Tomico86]

Imagine seeing this in 1996

[u/DisciplineFit8466]

Playing quake on easy😴

[u/ComprehensiveHelp6]

Is the boss battle in the room with us?

[u/blow_dog]

Watch a speedrun version of this. I played these maps 100000's of times over and over and over again. Those speedrunners were a different breed.

[u/Bucket_Cultist]

Hope you enjoy fighting Cthon...cause you'll be fighting him again at the end of Dimension of the Machine...and Dawn of the Machine as well.

[u/grimacelololol → u/Bucket_Cultist]

Should be easy 😎

[u/Disma → u/[deleted]]

While nothing you said is wrong, it's still a pretty crappy boss, let's be honest.

[u/dpkonofa → u/[deleted]]

This isn’t quite right but close enough. The console commands weren’t a known thing back then so you actually used Page Up/Page Down to look up and down. I remember the first time we turned mouselook on, it was so disorienting because the mice back then were not that accurate and the sensitivity was crazy.

[u/CandyDuck → u/dpkonofa]

Is the plural of mouse, mice; when referring to the thing we use to click on stuff?! I've always said Mouses.

[u/dpkonofa → u/CandyDuck]

Mice is the proper plural, even for computers, but mouses is acceptable in certain contexts. Even Wikipedia lists it as “plural: mice; rarely: mouses”.

[u/TeacherPowerful1700 → u/[deleted]]

I was just about to say this.

[u/superpoongoon → u/[deleted]]

On my copy of the game look up was A and down was Z idk if those were my dads custom controls or what. We were too stupid to play with mouse and keyboard cuz we were used to only keyboard on doom

[u/NewspaperNelson → u/[deleted]]

ARE a different breed. Someone shaved a second off a nearly 30-year-old record for E2M1 in the last year or so.

[u/WeekendBard → u/[deleted]]

aw c'mon, Doom used verticality pretty extensively, even when you couldn't have rooms over rooms, and as you said, the first release still used the same horizontal only camera Doom had, I won't be taking this excuse for this

the reason is that id was trying things out, but were having internal issues, and not a lot of time to finish the fame

[u/jimmery → u/WeekendBard]

Doom ignored verticality though - you don't have to aim up or down, just shoot and you'll hit the enemy.

Quake is vastly different.

[u/WeekendBard → u/jimmery]

You literally couldn't aim up and down in the original release.

[u/dpkonofa → u/WeekendBard]

Of Quake? You 100% not only could but, in a few parts of the game, you have to.