Doom - 10 Weird Facts

My name is Nikhil Oh Nikhil and these are ten strange

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about Dhoom. If you haven't seen the other strange

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videos on the channel or the game, be sure to check them out too. Let's start with number one. The Columbine High School shooting is among the deadliest in US history and violent video games, especially

doom

, were a major target of public scrutiny after the massacre. In part, the focus was on the writings of one of the shooters, Eric Harris, who made frequent references to Doom in particular. It's worrying and Harris is quoted as saying that Doom is so stuck in my head that my thoughts usually have something to do with the game, apparently he played Doom as a way to release the stress of dealing with bullying on a regular basis and eventually started To see it as a wish fulfillment, the connection is not so tenuous, however, according to a student who played

doom

online with Harris and Dylan Klebold, the shooters Harris developed levels for the game using reverse engineering software that was widely available on line, including a simulation of Columbine High School.

Many, but not all, of these levels could be downloaded from Harris' blog. In his writings, he outlined and described other levels he had planned to make, indicating the level of concern he had for the game. He compared the upcoming shooting that took place at Columbine High. School to the game saying it is going to be fatal in the ensuing uproar the parents of the victims filed a lawsuit against several companies in the gaming industry, including the developer of their Doom software. The lawsuit sought punitive damages of $5 billion, alleging that absent the obsession with the games and materials produced by the companies, the shooters' basic personalities alone would not have led to the massacre being carried out.

Some of these cases, including the case against the developers and producers of Doom, are dismissed on the grounds that media companies are protected by the First Amendment product liability laws created a modified version of Doom called Marine Doom. In accordance with General Officer Symposium mandates for US Marines to use it as a supplement to field training, they stated that it was especially suitable for training purposes. people to kill because of their frantic focus on making every second count, Doom players have to pull the trigger without a second thought to survive and this behavior is ingrained through tens or hundreds of thousands of replays.

Sergeant Dan Snyder, a Marine tasked with exploring video games as a training method, had this to say about the rationale for using doom. It's about repetitive decision making. We're trying to ingrain these things by doing them over and over again with variations. Doom was the only one. qualifying game Speaking before the New York State Legislature in 1999, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, a professor of psychology and military science at West Point Academy, asserted that violent video games serve as firearms training devices at best and as murder simulators at worst, and argues that because a state of psychological contraction occurs when absorbed.

In the fast-paced shooting game, children may unexpectedly develop an efficient killer instinct. He made reference to the fact that Michael Kearney, the fourteen-year-old boy who committed the Paducah school shooting and who had virtually no prior firearms training, was able to fire eight bullets hitting eight students due to his pedigree of video games, four of the shots hit the students in the head, one in the neck and three in the upper chest, according to Grossman, neither in the annals of military law enforcement nor in criminal records any of us can find an equivalent achievement and this from a 14-year-old with no prior experience shooting a gun.

Congressional hearings in 1993 on the possible need for video game regulation focused primarily on the three-game Mortal Kombat night trap in Doom , their depictions of violence were at the time considered the first realistic simulations that could attract impressionable gamers to imitate them. Mortal Kombat developer Midway made concessions in this regard, including releasing a less bloody version of the game, while Sega, which published Night Trap, pulled the game out of production ruin, which had already attracted a huge following. number of followers through leaked alpha versions of the game. and released simultaneously with the Senate hearings, responded by distributing the game for free download as shareware, encouraging people to copy, modify, and distribute as they wish.

Because of this, it quickly became the seventh most distributed game up to that point when distributed this way. Indeed, the industry's nuclear option at the time, Internet censorship was barely a flash in Congress, since so the software decided to distribute freely evaded any proposal on the table to put censorship tasks in the hands of the government. , but in 1994 the ESRB was created and commissioned the private sector to write its games voluntarily for the recommendation of retailers, it is largely due to the clearly anti-establishment efforts of its software that video game distribution is still under the purview of the private sector and not the government and, in a way, they were rewarded for this with massive sales that doomed the third best-selling game in history after its release.

The violence depicted in the Doom series caused Germany's federal agency, the BPJ M, to ban Doom and Doom; In 1994, the B PJM adopted strict policies against Violence in video games has decreased over the years, however, it still took 17 years to lift the ban on Doom. In 2011, the games were finally available to the German public. Many game companies had to release censored versions of their games in Germany and some did. As for censoring important elements, which was the only way games like Grand Theft Auto 5 and Counter-Strike could be released in Germany, surprisingly in February 2016 it was announced that the latest entry in the Doom series would be released completely uncensored in Germany.

Germany Bethesda's Pete Hines made the announcement via Twitter today we announced that Doom will be 100% uncut in Germany, no changes quite surprising given how long previous Doom games were banned there, the e1m for the level in Doom The original contained a swastika symbol that was intended to be a reference to Wolfenstein 3D, another of their software games, however the developers changed the symbol in version 1.4 of the game in order to avoid the potential controversy it would have caused. . This also happened in Commander Keen 5, another of their software games, like John Romero, one of the developers of Doom.

I commented that yes, there is a swastika in one of the levels, one of my levels to be exact, but I removed it shortly after the game was released because people were upset that an evil symbol was a sharp child's play, it was a premonition of what was to come, that is. Wolfenstein 3d I also put a swastika in Dooms II 1 M 4 as a Wolf 3D reference, but I changed it later for exactly the same reason that many of the songs on the original Doom soundtrack sound very similar to songs by popular rock bands. and metal that Composer Bobby Prince has been accused of stealing music.

There are many comparison videos on YouTube that you can watch for yourself that demonstrate the similarities between the music and songs of artists like Soundgarden Alice in Chains and AC/DC. Some songs are almost identical and many others are too strange to be considered coincidence; suspicions were solidified in 2007 when John Romero released unused Doom tracks. The metadata within these tracks contains information about which songs were used as inspiration. Some unused tracks were later released in Doom, such as by American Pie, whose metadata says Alice in Chains dirt dem Bones, this was one of those songs that many Doom 2 players recognized as almost identical to the Alice in Chains song, However, none of these bands took legal action and was first distributed as shareware software.

It had to be creative to get their product to stores, the company chose to package the game that had been distributed in three episodes as a game with the final episode included and offer it to retailers at no cost and ask nothing in return. return if the retailer packaged it and gave it the shelf space, they had the right to keep all the revenue, consequently Doom became ubiquitous in PC gaming. Gabe Newell said that Doom Meta was the most used program in the US even ahead of Windows, it was perhaps the first killer application in the sense that an operating system that couldn't run it was forced to port it to stay relevant .

The cultural phenomenon of Doom was so widespread that it presented an unforeseen burden on the computer. Networks that often couldn't handle both workplaces and college campuses immediately began to fight back. Carnegie Mellon's network administrator posted a message just hours after the game's release asking students to avoid playing Doom in network mode. The notice threatened to disconnect computers found playing. The game Texas A&M began manually removing it one by one at a University of Louisville lab supervisor created a program to detect and remove Doom, showing how widespread Lotus development was and Intel banned Doom on their computers, even in the offices of your software.

They were not immune, they were victims of their own creation after boasting in a press release that gambling was expected to be the number one cause of declining productivity in business worldwide, as described in the book Masters of Doom It Take Extreme. measures to have a Doom developer, John Carmack, remove John Romero, another Doom developer, from his locked office because he continually played Doom. The book claims Carmack smashed his way through the door with a battle ax whose remains littered the room for months. 2011, after three years of work on the fourth Doom game, the developers scrapped the game because they felt it was too similar to Call of Duty and needed to be reworked.

Bethesda's VP of PR stated that we decided it wasn't enough Doom and needed to be scrapped and started over, you can probably close your eyes and imagine a so-called doom or fatal battle game war, it's starting to feel too much like wait, This doesn't feel terrible, it feels like we're playing something else. doom-looking franchise more than a decade after the arrival of doom software's identity was in constant flux, the company was purchased by ZeniMax media in 2009, which brought with it a larger budget and manpower and initially offered Developers more or less free rein to develop as they liked during this time, Carmack was unable to convince ZeniMax to allow him and his team to put all their efforts into developing VR.

Instead, ZeniMax made plans for eid software to develop a new first-person shooter series that would eventually become ZeniMax's rage. The priority was then a fatal reboot, a project that after years and development could barely get off the ground, friction between the increasingly closed parent company and the existing development team led to both becoming disenchanted with the project, which ultimately led to Carmack and an entourage of programmers. abandoning its software and going into virtual reality with Kickstarter startup oculus rift In early 2014, ZeniMax sent formal notice of its claims over parts of the intellectual property used in the development of oculus rift to Facebook, which is the parent company of Oculus then retaliated and claimed that ZeniMax could not identify any stolen code or technology in the open source cracks under the America Invents Act of 2011.

The first company to file for ownership of the patents is the owner of the intellectual property. ZeniMax apparently abandoned the issue. Stating that Facebook owns the patents in the original Oculus Kickstarter video, they stated that the development kit would include the Doom 3 BFG edition, which was the first Oculus-ready game, presumably this was due to Carmack's involvement. The final fact is that pressing the like button might give you something, if you press the like button and it gives you something, let me know what went down as usual. I'll post some of those comments on Twitter. My name is Nikhil Oh Nikhil and I've been making some games lately. on the channel which you can watch here, but I'll leave you with the preview of a previous strange facts video in case you haven't seen it yet.

Dark Souls strange facts, if you want to see it in full, just press the I button. in the corner of the screen manythanks for watching guys and see you next time two brothers Michael and David went to court with a friend Thomas / darksouls the case was broadcast throughout the UK on ITV which is a UK television network. So, this is what happened in a drunken state at the Glastonbury music festival. Thomas promised his friend Michael and his brother David that he could play Dark Souls on the hardest difficulty level in less than a year before the next Glastonbury, and even claimed it would be very easy.

However, when a year had passed and Thomas still hadn't gotten over the game. His friend and his brother took him to court on television and sued him for a whopping $1.