Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140221183807/@comment-1496755-20140628145632

Death, you're too harsh on Doom II. I sense heretical thoughts stirring within your troubled mind ;)

In most cases, a game's good sides would outweigh the bad ones. I remember Blood 2 v 1.0 had a truckload of bugs (including numerous crashes and freezes), and yet I played the thing because it was pretty fun. And it was one of the few modern games (for the time) that could run on my computer (my video card at that time was a Riva TNT 2). Patches fixed most of the bugs, but a few remain even to this day...

Quake II is very good, indeed. Some people say it has no connection to Q1, but I think otherwise. I even like to believe that there is some mysterious connection between the Strogg and the monsters you fight in the previous game (technology being our world's equivalent of magic).

One of my favorite additions in Q2 is the ambience, especially in the first levels, when there is a massive aerial bombardment going on, and it sounds awesome.

I've probably mentioned that my most favorite spot is the big lava canyon in Ground Zero - I put a screenshot of it in the infobox for the Research Hangar, though it barely captures its full glory. Also, the bombardment ambience can once again be heard while you're in the canyon, which makes it even better!