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[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Also... and I never see anyone else mention this... DOOM does not take place on Mars.

DOOM episode 1: Knee-Deep in the Dead takes place on Phobos. Episode 2: The Shores of Hell takes place on Deimos. Episode 3: Inferno takes place in Hell.

Doom 2: Hell on Earth takes place, as you might think, on Earth.

The whole plot of the first game is that humans are experimenting with teleporters between Phobos and Deimos, when Deimos mysteriously vanishes. To investigate, the player character is sent to Phobos, with the mission to make it through the teleporter to Deimos to see where it is. But upon arriving on Phobos, something is horribly wrong...

[–] SpaceCadet 22 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Also… and I never see anyone else mention this… DOOM does not take place on Mars.

But Doom (2016) does.

I feel that many gamers nowadays mean the 2016 reboot, when they talk about Doom, and not the original from 1993. We're getting old ...

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Doom =/= Doom (2016) or Doom 4

If you're talking about Doom, it's the original Doom game (not to be confused with Ultimate Doom)

[–] SpaceCadet 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doom (2016)

If you’re talking about Doom, it’s the original Doom game

Sorry but you're not the arbiter of worldwide speech, so you don't get to decide that. The name of the 2016 game is just Doom. If there's a chance of confusion you can add (2016) for clarity, as I did, but it really has the same title as the original Doom game and there's nothing wrong with just calling it Doom. Which it is.

See:

It's like Scarface and Scarface, or Cape Fear and Cape Fear, or Dune and Dune, or ... you get the point.

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