Best id Software games?

[Leno S Kendy]

Even though all of their games are awesome, here's my list of games made by id Software (that i have played) from best to worst:

1. Doom II Hell On Earth - my favourite game of all time, absolute perfection
2. The Ultimate Doom - IT'S F*CKING DOOM
3. DOOM - a worthy successor to the classics
4. Quake - one of the most unique FPS's i have ever played
5. Quake 2 - just straight forward run n' gun goodness
6. Doom 3 - much slower than its predecessors, but dripping with atmosphere
7. RAGE - great gameplay, lackluster ending
8. Quake III - only down here because of no proper singleplayer campaign
9. Wolfenstein 3D - a pioneer of the genre, but shows its age

I would really like to hear your opinion. What are the greatest id Software games?

[Klingenmeister]

No Commander Keen? The Best of the Best of their old days?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/9180/

[drewcrosby]

I see Quake 4 didn't even make the list. lol

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by drewcrosby:

I see Quake 4 didn't even make the list. lol

Well, it was developed by Raven :D

[Leno S Kendy]

Originally posted by Salamand3r:

Originally posted by drewcrosby:

I see Quake 4 didn't even make the list. lol

Well, it was developed by Raven :D

And for some reason, i have never even played it. :/

[Leno S Kendy]

Originally posted by Klingenmeister:

No Commander Keen? The Best of the Best of their old days?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/9180/

Never played Keen, but maybe i should give it a shot!

[Junkers52]

Originally posted by Leno S Kendy:

Even though all of their games are awesome, here's my list of games made by id Software (that i have played) from best to worst:

1. Doom II Hell On Earth - my favourite game of all time, absolute perfection
2. The Ultimate Doom - IT'S F*CKING DOOM
3. DOOM - a worthy successor to the classics
4. Quake - one of the most unique FPS's i have ever played
5. Quake 2 - just straight forward run n' gun goodness
6. Doom 3 - much slower than its predecessors, but dripping with atmosphere
7. RAGE - great gameplay, lackluster ending
8. Quake III - only down here because of no proper singleplayer campaign
9. Wolfenstein 3D - a pioneer of the genre, but shows its age

You failed. Q3 and Wolfenstein 3D behind Doom 3 and RAGE ? LOL !

[Daikatan]

Quake 3 is the true king. UT99 looks fancy, but Q3 is perfection.

Rage is underrated though.

[Repugnant Human]

Old Dooms above Quake? Seriously? 2.5D and shiттy Bobby Prince's midi soundtrack are pathetic in compare to true 3D and work of Reznor/Sonic Mayhem.

[Daikatan]

Originally posted by CRTmatrix:

Old Dooms above Quake? Seriously? 2.5D and shiттy Bobby Prince's midi soundtrack are pathetic in compare to true 3D and work of Reznor/Sonic Mayhem.

3DO version of doom has cool arranges, too bad that port is pathetic

[CoffeeCup]

Honestly I'd put the first Doom far above Doom 2, with New Doom just above Doom 2 as well. Quake would probably be first because it's literally Doom but in 3D, so, yeah.

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by CRTmatrix:

Old Dooms above Quake? Seriously? 2.5D and shiттy Bobby Prince's midi soundtrack are pathetic in compare to true 3D and work of Reznor/Sonic Mayhem.

Why does everyone forget that Rob Zombie set the tone for the Quake II music?

Sonic Mayhem is good people, but he doos contract music for games and movies. Rob Zombie wrote Quad Machine for the Q2 sound track, and Sonic Mayhem was told to basically make a soundtrack that matched it. Sonic Mayhem did a great job, but the creative spark came from elsewhere.

As to the MIDI sound track being pathetic - only becuase it was MIDI. Redone, it's amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WktBkffgEm8

[Daikatan]

MIDI back in day was not what you get by playing .mid in player now. No, in 90s pc sound cards had its own samplebases

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by Daikatan:

MIDI back in day was not what you get by playing .mid in player now. No, in 90s pc sound cards had its own samplebases

Microsoft's GM wavetable sounds better than most cards did at the time.

Unless you were a huge fan of the FM synth sound of SB16 et alium, MIDI files sound better now than they did then most of the time.

[Leno S Kendy]

Originally posted by equi:

Originally posted by Leno S Kendy:

Even though all of their games are awesome, here's my list of games made by id Software (that i have played) from best to worst:

1. Doom II Hell On Earth - my favourite game of all time, absolute perfection
2. The Ultimate Doom - IT'S F*CKING DOOM
3. DOOM - a worthy successor to the classics
4. Quake - one of the most unique FPS's i have ever played
5. Quake 2 - just straight forward run n' gun goodness
6. Doom 3 - much slower than its predecessors, but dripping with atmosphere
7. RAGE - great gameplay, lackluster ending
8. Quake III - only down here because of no proper singleplayer campaign
9. Wolfenstein 3D - a pioneer of the genre, but shows its age

You failed. Q3 and Wolfenstein 3D behind Doom 3 and RAGE ? LOL !

Yuup. It's mainly because i'm not too big of a fan of multiplayer games.

[Leno S Kendy]

Originally posted by Unapologetic Canadian:

Honestly I'd put the first Doom far above Doom 2, with New Doom just above Doom 2 as well. Quake would probably be first because it's literally Doom but in 3D, so, yeah.

To me Doom is better than Quake mostly because it has more variation in its maps and monsters. Also i find the guns more satisfying to use. They're both brilliant though.