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[-] agedcorn@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

A 'digital rendition of Hell'... you even Doom bro?

Wasn't the original Doom a digital representation of Mars and its moons: Phobos and Deimos?

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

...for the original doom, the overarching narrative was that deimos disappeared after teleportation research inadvertently opened a portal to hell: episode 1 (knee-deep in the dead) was set on phobos; episode 2 (on the shores of hell) was set on deimos hovering in the skies of hell; and episode 3 (inferno) was set down on the surface of hell itself, not mars...

...episode 4 (thy flesh consumed) was set back on earth following the invasion of hell, but it was an add-on released a couple years after the original game; counterintuitively, back then the original game was downloadable shareware for episode 1 with episodes 2-3 available via mail-order directly from id, and episode 4 was finally distributed as a retail expansion only after the retail release of doom II (kind of an inter-quel?)...

[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Shareware Doom

Aka why most people thought Doom 1 was so short. Myself included.

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

...in `94, i mailed a handwritten check to id software and received a slim box of 3.5" diskettes a couple weeks later; the world was a different place...

[-] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 4 points 8 hours ago

Yes, but with a dimensional portal to Hell opened on them. Or where do you suppose the demons come from.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago

But you're the demons, John.
And then John was a zombie

[-] foo@feddit.uk 2 points 7 hours ago

Yes, but IIRC they just happened to be the location of the hell portal that humans disturbed, and hell started leaking out. The depiction of Phobos and Deimos as hell-like was after the leakage. The third part of original Doom was back on Earth when the leakage had spread there, and it looked exactly like the hell of the Mars moons.

I wouldn't bet money on that being exact, but that's how I remember it.

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