Escape From Mount Stupid: id Software

I still get nightmares about Doom 3. For the love of god, duct tape a flashlight on that damn gun.

Did I miss something...or did he completely forget Final Doom?

DOOM is what makes me proud to be a gamer. i was a kid when that game came out and still play it till this day. i also think ita 8-bit death metal music was also what made the game do brainwashing, even my father played the game. ID i salute you!!!!!!!!!

I'm in love with Rage. It's nothing NEW or innovative... but it's REALLY STINKIN FUN. There's so much to do and it all works really well. Shooting is so satisfying. Racing and car combat is really addicting. Even the card game is pretty fun (albeit a bit frustrating). It doesn't blow me away the same way Quake 1 and 2 did, but it's still really fun AND... it's gorgeous!

DOOM games are my fav. Rage's graphics are sick!

@Stinger78 Oops your actually right I thought he said Online yeah they are wrong there.

Great artilce. You now have been schooled about ID.

@Stinger78 Actually they said ID created the first "Online" FPS.

What's up with the annoying WUBWUB transitions?

Commander Keen rocked.

If you're gonna present facts, you should probably at least get these basics figured out first: Doom 3 came out in 2004, Quake 4 in 2005 - and id didn't invent the FPS. They did make it popular though.

i thing RAGE will do great and more iD (id not i .....D)

doom1 and 2 are my childhood game. Played it for hours on windows 98 lol

"Pretty average Return to Castle Wolfenstein". This douche is an idiot.

@jmace1 ET is by far the best online multiplayer experience i have ever had, nothing has ever come close ever since... and yes, it was 100% free... even the map packs...

@SDBusDriver1979 And can you believe enemy territory was FREE!?! That still boggles my mind how one of the best multiplayer experiences I've had in my life cost me absolutely nothing.

Now we need a classic doom collection on PSN. Please.

Doom(1-2) & Hexen were my first PC games. It was a huge change from playing the SNES & Megadrive. They were both awesome. I was almost suprised my parents got me them, being extemely violent for its time. It was also my first look at FPS.

@jmace1 I'm with you 100%. Out of all the ID games, RTCW and RTCW:ET I would be running 1.5 miles just to get home from school to open up a pepsi and some bagel bites and play non stop for hours straight. The sense of teamwork where people lined up against walls for other players to use them as stairs to get over that wall to achieve objectives was amazing. Then the mods for ET came and changed all the sound bites into arnold schwarzenegger quotes was priceless. *tear I want to be in high school again ironically when talking about that game.

@jmace1 it was a decent game, but its mp mechanics were lifted fromTFC on a side-note quake2 is also partly responsible for "gooseman's" popularity, the creator of counterstrike mod(eventually bought by valve) got his start with a very popular mod for quake2 called 'action quake'

long live a powerfull videocard

id is what it is thanks to the PC. And what they did whith their latest game? port it to the pc from horrible outdated consoles that hold the game back from reachin it's true potencial.

lol gamespots attempt at "All your history belong to us" on machinima. Tip we dont wanna see your face once a while stay as the narrator always.

sorry, stlouiscardinal, that just isnt true. their first 3d game was hovertank 3d

commander keen was my first game ever!

Id worked hard to complete a product and they deliver

DID THIS NUT JUST SAY RTCW WAS AN AVERAGE GAME!?!?! That games multiplayer was one of the best class based systems of the time and was influential in several ways such as medic revives, lieutenants calling in airstrikes and supplying ammo. It had excellent maps, and a great community. Shame on you!!

Rage is great! I like it. Catacombs 3d was IDs first 3d game.

Doom 1 and Quake 3. Need I say more? :D

everything was good until he said "pretty average Return to Castle Wolfenstein"

Rage is fantastic, great work ID!! The king of FPS returns triumphantly.

i love these bluffers guide to.. videos. they need to release more of them

so many sweet memories.... there is a lot of people who like ID games, there are many, who do not... I guess it is a question of personal preferences, but there is something nobody could deny: most of ID games not only entered into the History, but, for sure, changed it...

Wolfenstein was not first 3d game. Catacombs and maybe blake stone.

20 years of good reputation destroyed within a day.

id= da boss!

Ahh, id Software...I have to thank you for all those bloody and explosive memories from my childhood. :P

feel bad for ID ... they deserve a statue in every city ! -- yeah , nice show too.

wait, so this is just a nine and a half minute, semi-focused rant about Id games by some Irish guy? I approve.

enjoyed that

Doom 2 was the first PC game i ever played, so many fond memories.

Doom 2: hell on earth is id software's best game period. Doom 3 is great too, only different compared to the first two, more horror atmosphere i guess. Rage is not bad, but it's not a dark game, and there is something missing compared to there previous games. And who cares about race/shooting battles in online mp, it's not twisted metal, it's a FPS. So they should have made a competitive multi-player shooter, without cars and just with standard weapons, no perks and customization, just raw. (like in the old days)

He's right. Everyone had a shareware copy of Commander Keen. I loved that game as a kid. I never realized it was from the same guys who made Wolfenstein and Doom (which I never played). Interesting stuff.

Yeeah, Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D!!! Awesome video!

@Dill_Doe i love quake 2! i remember it came bundled with quake 4 and i played through it again before i even touched quake 4 haha. Id are still the true masters of their genre and rage proves this.

I liked every Quake game. Yes, even the one by Raven. Never played Doom series though =[

I can't say enough good things about Id Software, they have consumed so much of my gaming life all the way back to when I was a kid loading Doom on DOS. Quake and Doom are games I always go back to time and time again, I think I have played through Doom 3 and Quake 2 more times then I can count. With Rage I have gotten everything I enjoy about games in one package, great gunplay, vehicular combat and deadly enemies to shoot in the face :)

Forgot about quake live? its free

Doom 2 and Quake 2 are still some of my favourite games

I still play Doom 2 from time to time. All the ID games were great, but Doom 2 is not just a game masterpiece, it's art. New games may look better, but they're nowhere as fun. You beat a campaign once, you forget about it, but one could play Doom 2 a hundred times from start to finish and it never got old nor boring.