The Only Thing They Fear Is You

Back in the day, my former boss was asked if he wants to die because of the zombie apocalypse or an alien invasion, and he responded with, "Nope. Hell portal. Definitely Hell portals." and I totally get why. 

Doom is one of the oldest video game franchises out there, and is one of the games that helped define what a first person shooter is and still influences games to this day. Heck, they used to call something even in the same perspective a Doom clone just like open world, 3rd person games were called GTA clones for a while. It basically started all the vitriolic press about how horrible violent video games are and is still (thankfully) doing so. 

Holy freaking awesome sauce on a flaming stick! How did this game not make me a gaming nut?

It came out hot on the heels of the moronic music censorship (thanks Tipper Gore, you bint) frenzy and the equally retarded heavy metal suicide craze, and was unapologetic in it's adoption of that actually fun music for it's soundtrack. You could practically say that it's development was an outright counter-culture answer to the prevailing touchy-feely 90s sentiments. 

Much like the metal music it featured, Doom was also unfairly condemned in it's heavy use of demonic and satanic imagery in the game. Nevermind the fact that it's critics obviously never bothered to ever learn anything about the game, considering you play a very traditional hero whose job it is to save the planet by permanently vanquishing the demons back to hell or eliminating them. The game uses it's antagonists to both scare the player and build an outright disgust for your enemies, as they blatantly didn't want you to be fighting people. You'd think even fundamental Christians would be eating that stuff up.

A great read, even for non-fiction.

Anyways, I could go on about it, as I am obviously a fan of all the Doom games, but I'll just leave that to the those that want to get the book on it. 

Fast forward to now, and Doom is still one of the greatest video game franchises still standing. It's nothing less than great, and is still pissing off the right (ignorant) people for many good reasons. Not the least of which, is the killer soundtrack again. If you want to skip the intro, go to about the one minute mark: