Doom and Eric

Im playing Doom 3 actually (for the second time) and its clearly one of the most atmospheric Games, I have ever played. Im not that much into Games, but I really like how Doom seems to put more concentration in creating a morbid and sinister atmosphere, than in making the Game complex (the opposite of what most actual games do).

Why do you think was Doom the game, Eric seemed so obsessed with? If he was just looking for a violent and gory one, he could have chosen dozens of other games. What exactly did fascinate him on the futuristic areas and obscure monsters? How much impact had the game on his fantasy of himself as a soldier and warrior?

Hale-Bopp wrote:

Im playing Doom 3 actually (for the second time) and its clearly one of the most atmospheric Games, I have ever played. Im not that much into Games, but I really like how Doom seems to put more concentration in creating a morbid and sinister atmosphere, than in making the Game complex (the opposite of what most actual games do).

Why do you think was Doom the game, Eric seemed so obsessed with? If he was just looking for a violent and gory one, he could have chosen dozens of other games. What exactly did fascinate him on the futuristic areas and obscure monsters. How much impact had the game on his fantasy of himself as a soldier and warrior?

Hi Hale-Bopp ,i have never played Doom. I like shooter games like ,medal of honor ,silent hill and resident evil. I think Eric's shooting fantasies may have developed around Doom. The game allowed him to let off steam and kill. I think the Columbine massacre made Eric's fantasies come to life. Why did Eric choose Doom? I don't know ,it may simply be preference. In his journal he talks about the time he got his first gun. He was ecstatic. Doom was slowly becoming a reality.

Also ,without a gun in his hand Eric was nothing ,weak and pathetic. The firearms gave him power ,strength and respect.

What a spooky coincidence! I also just started to play Doom 3 a few days ago out of curiosity and I'm completely absorbed by this dreadful climate, I almost peed up my pants a couple of times playing it.
But doom 2 is much different from 3 due to older graphics and hardly makes any impression on today's player,imo (anyway it deserves respect naturally), but if it goes about 90' gamers... Prob Eric liked doom because it contained everything he liked - fps, brutality, monsters, sci-fi/horror, military motives etc. I don't know how many games like this one were avalaible then.

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Btw, I found very peculiar video on yt, where some guy not knowing who Eric Harris was examines his doom wads - in the end he says something like 'I bet he's succesful these days in what he does'...just... laughed my head off.

rigormortis wrote:

What a spooky coincidence! I also just started to play Doom 3 a few days ago out of curiosity and I'm completely absorbed by this dreadful climate, I almost peed up my pants a couple of times playing it.
But doom 2 is much different from 3 due to older graphics and hardly makes any impression on today's player,imo (anyway it deserves respect naturally), but if it goes about 90' gamers... Prob Eric liked doom because it contained everything he liked - fps, brutality, monsters, sci-fi/horror, military motives etc. I don't know how many games like this one were avalaible then.

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Btw, I found very peculiar video on yt, where some guy not knowing who Eric Harris was examines his doom wads - in the end he says something like 'I bet he's succesful these days in what he does'...just... laughed my head off.

It is kind of hard for me to imagine, how Doom and Doom 2 must have felt for someone in the 90s, who didnt know, that games can be ways more realistic....he probably saw them in the same way as "realistic" as we do it with our games now (The people in 2030 will probably also laugh about the graphics of Far Cry 2).

The Video...according to the commentaries, he even says at the end, that he tried to contact Eric....

Now, I'm not a gamer but I saw the graphics for Doom and the later versions are nothing like the first game. So, it sounds like the game Eric and Dylan played was not nearly as atmospheric as the latest releases. Just a lot of blood and mayhem, as he would enjoy...in real life.

On another note, an observation. I showed the Rampage Range video to a gamer. The guy has never shot any rifle, knows next to nothing about real guns. However, he was immediately able to name the kind of gun Eric was shooting and how many munitions it held and sort of chuckled when he noticed that. I was surprised. ''How do you know about that gun? You know nothing about guns.'', I said. He said: ''Every gamer knows this type of gun.'' Then, I realized, Eric bought a gun just like the ones he probably used in his favourite video games.

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Btw, I found very peculiar video on yt, where some guy not knowing who Eric Harris was examines his doom wads - in the end he says something like 'I bet he's succesful these days in what he does'...just... laughed my head off.

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The Video...according to the commentaries, he even says at the end, that he tried to contact Eric.... 

I remember seeing that video a few months back, and honestly, I don't believe he doesn't know who Eric Harris was. I think he's trolling to an extent with regard to that. I know I could be wrong about that, but I honestly don't buy it. I think he's being sarcastic, even though his tone throughout stays the same.....I think it's a bit of a sarcastic joke.

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rigormortis wrote:

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Btw, I found very peculiar video on yt, where some guy not knowing who Eric Harris was examines his doom wads - in the end he says something like 'I bet he's succesful these days in what he does'...just... laughed my head off.

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The Video...according to the commentaries, he even says at the end, that he tried to contact Eric.... 

I remember seeing that video a few months back, and honestly, I don't believe he doesn't know who Eric Harris was. I think he's trolling to an extent with regard to that. I know I could be wrong about that, but I honestly don't buy it. I think he's being sarcastic, even though his tone throughout stays the same.....I think it's a bit of a sarcastic joke.

I don't think he wanted to mention Columbine because he just wanted to focus on the game:?:

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tfsa47090 wrote:

rigormortis wrote:

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Btw, I found very peculiar video on yt, where some guy not knowing who Eric Harris was examines his doom wads - in the end he says something like 'I bet he's succesful these days in what he does'...just... laughed my head off.

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The Video...according to the commentaries, he even says at the end, that he tried to contact Eric.... 

I remember seeing that video a few months back, and honestly, I don't believe he doesn't know who Eric Harris was. I think he's trolling to an extent with regard to that. I know I could be wrong about that, but I honestly don't buy it. I think he's being sarcastic, even though his tone throughout stays the same.....I think it's a bit of a sarcastic joke.

I don't think he wanted to mention Columbine because he just wanted to focus on the game:?:

But there is a difference between not mentioning Columbine and saying that he tried to contact Eric Harris, because he liked his levels.

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Now, I'm not a gamer but I saw the graphics for Doom and the later versions are nothing like the first game. So, it sounds like the game Eric and Dylan played was not nearly as atmospheric as the latest releases. Just a lot of blood and mayhem, as he would enjoy...in real life.

But when Eric mentions the game in his school essays he seems to be very focused on the atmosphere. I dont remember, where these essays were in the documents. Mabe someone else can quote from it?

Hale-Bopp wrote:

But when Eric mentions the game in his school essays he seems to be very focused on the atmosphere. I dont remember, where these essays were in the documents. Mabe someone else can quote from it?

Erics' essay on Doom is on pg(26593 - 4)

Hale-Bopp wrote:

Im playing Doom 3 actually (for the second time) and its clearly one of the most atmospheric Games, I have ever played. Im not that much into Games, but I really like how Doom seems to put more concentration in creating a morbid and sinister atmosphere, than in making the Game complex (the opposite of what most actual games do).

Why do you think was Doom the game, Eric seemed so obsessed with? If he was just looking for a violent and gory one, he could have chosen dozens of other games. What exactly did fascinate him on the futuristic areas and obscure monsters? How much impact had the game on his fantasy of himself as a soldier and warrior?

Are you playing Doom on a pc or console?

rik75 wrote:

Hale-Bopp wrote:

Im playing Doom 3 actually (for the second time) and its clearly one of the most atmospheric Games, I have ever played. Im not that much into Games, but I really like how Doom seems to put more concentration in creating a morbid and sinister atmosphere, than in making the Game complex (the opposite of what most actual games do).

Why do you think was Doom the game, Eric seemed so obsessed with? If he was just looking for a violent and gory one, he could have chosen dozens of other games. What exactly did fascinate him on the futuristic areas and obscure monsters? How much impact had the game on his fantasy of himself as a soldier and warrior?

Are you playing Doom on a pc or console?

PC.

Doom has been one of the first games I've played (or more like seeing my father playing, I was 6-7 at the time, and always getting killed) when I got a pc in the late 90s and despite it being already years and years old at the time, I remember thinking it was graphically 'sooo realistic' along with other games of the same generation so I guess that's how it looked to everyone else, and to Eric too.

It was also one of the first fps, and I think the first becoming widely famous and the game that got people to know about first person shooters.
I think that's why he got obsessed with that, it was the first game he got to know about that put his thoughts on a screen in an interactive way.

As I remember it, it was just a bunch of killing, or at least most of it. I might be saying bullshit, I have a short memory or I might just have been playing the wrong games, but in the early 90s the plot of videogames wasn't as intricated, clear and developing through the game at it is now, it was more like a background story to give an idea of who you are/what you are doing and I think the first ones with a 'proper story' came out late 90s. So maybe the 'athmosphere' he was describing was taken from the novels and not from the game itself, or it was just his way of perceiving it

While Doom has no cutscenes, sophisticated npcs or other explicit story, it definitely has an atmosphere - climatic music, dark corridors, bizarre architecture of hell merging with human scenery... it may sound weird, but the novels actually had more mindless rampage and less atmosphere, or so I heard. Also, in doom you're not just a killing machine with regenerating health. You are pretty fragile (at least on the most popular difficulty level) and have to rely on your agility to survive.

And on the top of that, he could mod doom. It sure was (and is - I'm a doom modder myself ) awesome to take part in creation (sort of) of such a great game.

The last pages (not entries) of his journal are fascinating me - there are sketches that doesn't resemble any avaiable maps, lists of some sprite and texture names (his maps always have some new sounds or graphics, but never many) and even something that looks like a completely new object (would he alter the code? Who knows what the mysterious Realdoom.zip contains...).

Doom turns 20:

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Doom turns 20:

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Article by Chris Morris, eh? Niiice.  

InFiNiNcEX5 wrote:

Article by Chris Morris, eh?  Niiice.  

Wow. I didn't even notice that.  

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While Doom has no cutscenes, sophisticated npcs or other explicit story, it definitely has an atmosphere - climatic music, dark corridors, bizarre architecture of hell merging with human scenery... it may sound weird, but the novels actually had more mindless rampage and less atmosphere, or so I heard. Also, in doom you're not just a killing machine with regenerating health. You are pretty fragile (at least on the most popular difficulty level) and have to rely on your agility to survive.

And on the top of that, he could mod doom. It sure was (and is - I'm a doom modder myself ) awesome to take part in creation (sort of) of such a great game.

The last pages (not entries) of his journal are fascinating me - there are sketches that doesn't resemble any avaiable maps, lists of some sprite and texture names (his maps always have some new sounds or graphics, but never many) and even something that looks like a completely new object (would he alter the code? Who knows what the mysterious Realdoom.zip contains...).

I'm sure that it's probably out there somewhere. I guess LE probably has it, or someone. If it was uploaded to the web then someone would have grabbed it in the aftermath of the massacre. Then again if it was out there I think it would have surfaced by now, wishful thinking anyway...

I'm not sure how we missed this, but another thread about this subject was created a few days prior to this one in the Documents, evidence, videos, photos, etc. section.

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People reading this thread might want to look at the other one, and vice versa.

I remember played DOOM 1 and 2 in the early 2000 when I was 5/6 years old and I found it very realistic too and the atmosphere of the game always caught my attention, is the first thing that I remembered when someone mention DOOM.

I found interesting how Eric bought that gun and how any gamer can recognize it. This makes me think that Eric's fantasies about kill, could definitely start with this video game.