Marty Stratton of id Software tries to throw Mick Gordon and his entire music production career in front of a bus over the Doom Eternal OST issues:www.reddit.com/r/…/doom_eternal_ost_open_letter/
Wolfenstein 3-D definitely gets the credit, but Doom took it SO much further and was the first game that really brought out our gaming-kid excitement through fear and suspense even despite, in retrospect, it really just being a puzzle game with exploding demons (and when you get into the history and documentaries, it’s wild what they actually wanted to do in the engine, but the consumer level performance limits at the time cut into a much more in depth experience).
Anybody that played the Aliens Total Conversion on the original Doom engine (best Aliens themed shooter oriented FPS) knows just how awesome things can turn out.
My wife nearly always plays a tall barbarian woman when we play DnD and did when we first met IRL and played BG1, BG2, and IWD.
Kar is short for her IRL name and what I’ve always called her.
She wore a moustache and vato headband for halloween ~13 years ago and I called her Hot Karl (and before that I think she even used Hot Karl as a band name on Guitar Hero or Rock Band years prior).
She’s even the same short-ish height (well, short when next to me) as the voice actress for Karlach, Samantha Béart, which while random is still an amusing data point. [I swear I just looked that up on the fly for funsies]
OF COURSE Karlach is best girl, because Wife is best girl. ;)
I’m gonna turn down both Halsin’s and the Emperor’s sexual advances, again, then remind hot Karl that she’s the only one for me, and then when we leave camp, I’ll probably immediately get murderized by Sarevok because I’m not gonna join his latest murder cult and he’s not gonna like that.