You start in the docks, and you see wooden piers on the water yep, those are docks. The cities, castles, temples, and caverns of Heretic always look like what they're supposed to be. How can you even say that the levels in Heretic make little sense? Obviously limitations of the game engine force them to be rather abstract but they are a lot less so than Doom, let alone Doom II. Hexen may not be great, but alongside the game it follows up, it still beats the Doomverate for variety, mythos, and consistency of quality. * No, including Doom 2's monsters is not going to work, unless you include Heretic's sequel in the comparison as well. The iconic Tome of Power can also be encountered in the shareware episode, contrary to the more iconic but considerably less beneficial Cacodemon. If you're really going to insist that Iron Lich = Baron of Hell, you've missed the point of basically everything and there's nothing more anyone can tell you. I'm not sure how the monsters fail to stand out vs 'dude with a gun, another dude with a gun, thing that throws fireballs, slightly larger thing that throws fireballs, very large thing that throws fireballs.' You can't match everything 1:1 to Doom, at the least because you're going to run out of demons before you even get to Inferno.* Heretic gives you two flying monsters (plus a stronger variation of one of them) before you're even halfway through the first episode. As a plus, every weapon has its own ammunition, so nothing becomes completely obsolete. On the converse, your basic enemies are melee-only and everything else uses only projectiles (no hitscanners). The 2 main weaknesses of Heretic's weapons have nothing to do with the weapons: Monsters have higher HP and lower pain chances than DOOM's.

At least Strife tried to not feel like a Doom tc and did the fantasy thing better in my opinion.įrankly this sounds like another case of deciding to hate something beforehand, and going in looking for things to complain about. Literally I could tell what everything was supposed to be from Doom. In the end,Heretic just feels like a not well made Doom tc and I know it feels like that because it's using the same exact engine as Doom. I can say with the sequel also at least it's trying to be it's own thing and not trying to be a medevil Doom like the first one was. The levels make way more sense in Heretic 2 also and the enemies seem to be much better looking in the sequel. Yes it's a 3rd person shooter which is quite a departure from the first game,but that does not automatically make it bad. I find Heretic 2 to be the much better game,but that seems to be the one getting all the hate. The enemies don't really stand out.They look kinda lame honestly. I don't feel very powerful using them like I do with Doom. Like why would you cross water that can hurt you just to get a key that's somewhere on the other side if there is nothing to protect you.The weapons aren't much fun to use. I don't know why everyone seems to like Heretic as much as Doom. I don't know if there has already been a post like this,so I'm sorry if this isn't the first post like this.

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