# Doctor of Doom **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 29, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-of-doom/565701 "2010-12-29T14:48:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-of-doom/565701/1 "2010-12-29T14:48:52Z")
I just got “The Doom Pack” from Steam. Is there any particular order in which I’m supposed to play these games? Does it matter? Comes with the following games: Doom 3 Doom 3: Ressurection of Evil Master levels of Doom 2 Final Doom Ultimate Doom Doom 2 Doom: The Early Years: Pretty Bad ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-of-doom/565701/2 "2010-12-29T20:22:46Z")
Not really, but here’s the order they were released in: The Ultimate Doom Doom II: Hell on Earth Master levels of Doom II Final Doom Doom 3 Doom 3: Ressurection of Evil ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-of-doom/565701/3 "2010-12-29T20:48:33Z")
Doom, Doom 2, then stop. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-of-doom/565701/4 "2010-12-29T21:55:17Z")
Do they play on Win XP? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-of-doom/565701/5 "2011-01-07T04:07:55Z")
I couldn’t find this on a search on the Steam site. Was it a holiday special? I am very interested. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-of-doom/565701/6 "2011-01-07T04:15:05Z")
I got mine on the holiday special, around $10 I think. Not sure if it’ll run on XP but it runs on my laptop with integrated gaphics in Win7. I’d bet if you have any kind of real machine it’ll run fine. And what’s wrong with Doom3? I’ve only played the first level but it seems like it could be good. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-of-doom/565701/7 "2011-01-12T19:18:35Z")
I remember getting the original Doom - all three 3.5" floppies - and playing through until 4 am. 😃 I was younger then… ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-of-doom/565701/8 "2011-01-12T20:00:35Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > And what’s wrong with Doom3? I’ve only played the first level but it seems like it could be good. I thought it was pretty good, except the difficulty settings are skewed towards being too easy. It takes away a lot of the fun of playing when you realize that you can have a demon chewing on your neck while you get up and go make a sandwich, and then shoot it when you get back and not have accumulated too much damage. (And I only play one or two video games a year, so its not like it was my awesome gamer skills that were making me think it was too easy.) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-of-doom/565701/9 "2011-01-12T20:48:35Z")
Dude, it’s _Doom_. You shoot demons in the face, find the blue key and exit the level. We’re not talking _Metal Gear Solid_ amounts of plot here 🙂 And **zoid** , the problem with _Doom 3_ was that not only did it try to shift the Doom action formula into a horror game, which betrayed the idea of the franchise (i.e. having mindless fun shooting demons in the face and finding the blue key) but was really badly done to boot - their entire concept of “horror” was monsters popping out of cupboards or spawning behind you when the lights go out over and over and over again. The first time it makes you jump. By the 50th time in one level, you just toss grenades into the obvious incoming BOOGABOOGA sequence on general principle and are more surprised when there\* isn’t \*a demon there. There’s always a demon there, though.