Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-26005008-20160407215658/@comment-1496755-20160424102231

I'm sure she's pretty glad too :P

I could never really get used to having the music on a CD - seemed like too much of a hassle. Good thing Hexen II had a MIDI option (didn't sound as good as the CD, but at you could play without it). I like to know the music is somewhere within the game files, not out there on a CD. Just one of my peculiarities, I guess... imagine how I feel about WoW, where all the vital game data is not even on my computer.

Recycling? Geez, no, Captain Planet was an action show - there was quite a bit of fighting and destruction. And even scenes with spilled blood (just a little, of course, it's a cartoon after all) - I remember one of the protagonists accidentally cut her leg in one episode, and the blood was quite visible on the screen. There were also episodes that dealt with more adult ("darker") issues, such as drug abuse or AIDS.

That was expected - Alphas are primarily meant for internal use, so they are buggy and not fun to play. But they do have great historical value, which makes them interesting to check out. I have tried out several other game Alphas and Betas before... for example, the Hexen Beta, which includes the first four levels. But it's not very different from the final game - there are just some minor differences in the sprites of some weapons, and I remember one switch was located in a different place. Plus, some in-game messages were a little different. I have also tried a Beta version of the first Commander Keen - the biggest difference there was on the world map, they had tried to add some kind of shadows, and the end result was pretty ugly (good thing they removed them). Also, one level was placed in such a way that it blocked the path and was thus mandatory to complete (it is an optional map in the final version). There was an interesting engine difference too - if you stood next to the edge of a platform, you would automatically slip and fall down. Maybe it was a bug... who knows. The whole game is pretty much there, only the ending sequence is missing.

And, of course - the Quake Beta. A lot more functional than the Doom Alphas. This can actually be fun to play.

Something I haven't tried, but would love to, is the Wolf 3D Beta - some of the levels are supposedly very different (and larger).