: Doom was good for its time for pc gamers, but Mac gamers have Marathon. And
: Doom has never really added anything new, look at doom 1,2,3 they all are
: the same game kill stuff, and random crap like that turns me away from
: doom and even though Marathon is a better game, the A.I on the aliens is
: dumb some times how you can just stand there and punch them to death and
: theres nothing they can do about it. I think Dooms AI on the monsters were
: better then marathons.
I agree that smarter monsters would have added a lot to Marathon's gameplay. I can't really speak to Doom, because the only one I played was Doom II and that was years ago. I always thought Marathon's stupid monsters were to an extent explainable from a plot perspective; the Marine is so fast (stronger, better shot) that he can literally run circles around a group of Troopers without taking a single bullet. Marathon, I think, is the only FPS that has any plausable explanation for a single badass being able to wipe out entire armies.
As far as Pattern Buffers go, they not only add the gameplay element of only being able to save at certain points, but also adds to the plot. The Marine dies a thousand times, but his pattern is saved, etc.
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