Thanks to this soundtrack I played Final Doom SLOOOOOW because I was scared to look around every corner. I know E1M1 is classic and all but this has atmosphere in excess!
It still sounds amazing. Some of the most chilling sounds I've ever heard in any ambience, and I've heard my fair share over the years. Quite a regular listener of Cryo Chamber
I remember this so well. Playing Final doom on PSX for hours was one of the greatest experience of my gaming life. This soundtrack is so good, it let me dive so deeply into the levels and enhanced the mood. I couldnt believe it when I heard the original PC music for the first time. What a different experience it must have been for people playing Doom on PC for their first time. For me, this soundtrack, combined with the fanatastic maps of this version, made it one of the best horror titels in history.
" I couldnt believe it when I heard the original PC music for the first time" I burst out laughing after playing Doom on PC for the first time as I was used to the PlayStation version. It was ultimately the same game but the tone was completely different and it took me a while to get used to the PC soundtrack.
@@leegsy Never got used to it :) I prefer playing this version or Doom 64 any time I like to get back into this universe. I did not like the tone of the PC version at all. It felt more like playing Duke Nukem tonewise than playing the DooM that I was used to. So interesting that un-half-assed console ports can offer an entirely different game just becaue of the soundtrack and differently themed maps. Glad it happened. I think otherwise doom would have never appealed to me and influenced my artistic taste when it comes to games the way it did. Unfortunately, I find nothing of this in the new Doom16 as well. I would so much love to see a shooter that delivers the mood Final Doom did so masterfully back then.
@@harrysanders818 I'm currently playing Doom 64 on an emulator. It's aged very well. When I first played Doom on PC I didn't realise it was episodic and I thought you could survive at the end of E1M8 since that's what happens on PSX.
@@leegsyYeah, it really did. The graphics can be amazing at times with an emulator. The mood of it, the style, simply astonishing. I have rarely seen something similar in the shooter genre that felt so otherworldy and dark. It would be truly amazing if someone would be influenced by it and make a more contemporary shooter in this style. I can recommend games like "Dusk" or "Amid Evil" , haven't played the latter so far, but Dusk is insanely good and delivers some of that oldschool mood, although I hate to call it oldschool, cause in fact, it's timeless. It's just a pity that the majority of games nowdays neglect this genre or niche completely and are rather bloated hollywood realism than creative shooters.
@@leegsy Hey, just wanted to say that DooM 64 is released on Steam for PC. It runs on Vulkan and works flawlessly. Looks great without fiddling with an emulator. Really a joy.
PC doom could be considered an action FPS, while the ps1 counterpart can even be considered, dare I say, a survival horror. Surprisingly because of how a simple change of soundtrack can drastically change the mood and the way you play the game. On PC, you feel pumped to kill anything that stands in your way, while here on ps1, you feel so alone, paranoid, like any corner could kill you. Brilliant switch if the vanilla gets a bit stale.
Well said. This one is an entriely different game just because of the soundtrack. Astonishing. I remember those dark nights when I played it, such an amazing horror mood I've seldom seen again in a game.
Agreed, great workpiece. Not as characterised and varied as the Doom 1+2 soundtrack although depicts a more deeper, eery and painful realm of hell, pertinent to the Final Doom setting, with creepier sounds.
The Soundtrack give you the Impression of you being the only Survivor, alone in the Dark Ambient Hellish place, Fighting a hopeless battle against the Demons from Hell. Both DOOM and Final Doom as well as Doom 64 has what I can say, the Best memorable OST of any Doom game.
The title music always felt like an inspiration to rise up to the challenge. You could do it no matter how bad the future looked! Then the level end screen... Same there! Like you accomplished the impossible. But man... The ambiance was always dead on for creating a mood the midi versions lacked.
Amazing music. IMO I prefer this soundtrack, as it's the one you'd expect to here in hell. The metal of the PC version is good too, but nowhere near as mood setting, scary and downright terrifying as Aubrey Hodges's music. As for other music in the franchise, 'Doom 3' had a kickass theme tune, and 'Doom (4)' has a music on par with Hodges's, despite a different tone. As for the music in the PC versions, grab a source port and a music pack. Or better yet, the PSX total conversion, as it's basically PSX 'Doom' on the PC. "Best of both worlds" indeed.
Aubrey Hodges, you are a MASTER in the game music department, thanks for your great work on the PSX and N64 Doom! And the sounds for the Arch-Ville for that verson of the game are simply fantastic...
My favorite from this soundtrack is definitely *The Foulness Consumes*. The atmosphere that this track gives you makes it one of the greatest representators of Hell ever. Also, it's like a combination of *In The Grip Of Madness* and *Steadfast Extermination* from the PSX Doom soundtrack, both of which that already are great and extremely intimidating tracks by themselves. I love that shit.
Thanks for uploading this... I really loved this version of Doom. The atmospheric music and the levels were awesome. Loved the 'Onslaught' level. So nostalgic.
+Hercu- Liz Wasn't it awesome how even in god mode the boss was still strong enough to change doom guys facial expressions from "I'm invincible" to "I have never felt so much pain in my life before" haha
Played psx total conversion with this music for gzdoom with brutal doom on realistic difficulty(where one bullet or fireball insta kills you) and with this music..... Legit horror experience :D
Every now and then at some point, I often hear this soundtrack in my head. Played Final Doom a lot on PS1, as much as I like Mick Gordon's take on the Doom music for the newer games, this here is really how it should be, atmospheric and leaving you in the moment.
Thank you very much for sharing ! I played many thousands of hours on Final Doom in Ultra Violence of course ;=) and it's in my opinion the best OST of the Doom series ! It will give an amazing mood as I like it in my gaming sessions. Little bottle at the sea : If anyone knows of a creepy and nasty Hard core remix of "Unhallowed", please leave me a message here, cause I think there's a lot of material to be sampled demonically, it goes from 1:05:18 to 1:06:46 !
Unhallowed, A.K.A The Screaming Kettle of Hell. I remember shutting down my PSX during Geryon level, as soon as the screeching noise started, lol. Childhood memories!
i played the original DOOM games on floppy disk (remember it like was yesterday), but the Final Doom was darker and gory then the others in some aspects, it was nostalgic to think that could be that good...
I played all dooms and its mods... since begining to doom 2016, but this FINAL DOOM was/is most atmospheric/dark/hell'ish in series due to his OST! and creepy sounds of demons :) Doom 2016 should learn from this sound environment :D
This and a link cable for the early playstations. Some of the best gaming moments of my life... The music really elevated this to a different level. Good times :-)
I received a copy of this game 99 ish, it had a crack from the inside halfway through the disc, and you could twist it out of shape a bit. Guess what, still works to this day!
This...this is something special....this soundtrack gave doom almost VR effect when I was kid and when I played it it was soooo immersive and the atmosphere it creates, like i said, something special :D
theres an interview someone did with him and he basically tells that that he had to take breaks to clear his mind because the had to put himself in a very specific mindset to create the soundtrack and that it was starting to affect him negatively
@Issiah Fuentes I totally get that. When I was doing nuclear glass panels I listened to certain music to get in a mind set I had to stop. My avatar is one example. I adore the darkness of the PS1 DOOM Sound tracks.
release of Final Doom PlayStation was October 1, 1996. And the release of Duke Nukem Total Meltdown was on September 30, 1997 To 6 months after Final Doom So Aubrey Hodges *[CREATOR OF THE MUSIC OF FINAL DOOM]* made this song before.
Not a fan of the levels in PSX Doom, the Master Levels never appealed to me and seriously fuck the Virgil level. But the music Hodges made for it is up there with the best of his DooM stuff. I remember renting this from the video store to play with my friend when he stayed over. We were in for it being scary having played PSX DooM a lot. But that first level with that music, looking into a dark room with zombies facing their backs to us.. we 'nope!' before 'noping' was a thing lol.
БЛЯТЬ! Какая же настольгия... Когда только купили PS1 и диск с этой игрой. Поначалу я очень боялся в неё играть... Атмосферный амбиент, говорящий- ты один, против армии демонов... Я боялся за каждый свой шаг, и держал свою двустволку всегда на готове, а когда начиналось месиво, входил в кураж, выходя победителем в этой схватке... Но впереди еще много, более сложных битв с демонами, выиграешь ли ты...? Это не дум 3, нет... Это гораздо лучше... Сейчас, в 2020 году, я с удовольствием снова перепройду этот шедевр классики...
@@redlev6777 и @Prob Hunter/@Red Lev 677 i @Prob Hunter/@Red Lev 677 and @Prob Hunter, Честно говоря, Doom III был не так плох, как люди говорили, и мне, например, честно нравится довольно приличная попытка сюжетной линии, плюс новые монстры тоже были довольно крутыми, и то же самое для тех, что были в Doom IV. /2016 и Doom V/Eternal. Тем не менее, я не очень доволен изменениями сюжета, которые были сделаны для последних двух игр, поскольку они как бы подрывают всю эту идею «борьбы с силами ада», которая уже хорошо зарекомендовала себя в более ранних играх серии. Chestno govorya, Doom III byl ne tak plokh, kak lyudi govorili, i mne, naprimer, chestno nravitsya dovol'no prilichnaya popytka syuzhetnoy linii, plyus novyye monstry tozhe byli dovol'no krutymi, i to zhe samoye dlya tekh, chto byli v Doom IV. /2016 i Doom V/Eternal. Tem ne meneye, ya ne ochen' dovolen izmeneniyami syuzheta, kotoryye byli sdelany dlya poslednikh dvukh igr, poskol'ku oni kak by podryvayut vsyu etu ideyu «bor'by s silami ada», kotoraya uzhe khorosho zarekomendovala sebya v boleye rannikh igrakh serii. Doom III honestly was not as bad as people said that it was and I, for one, honestly like the pretty decent attempt at a story line, plus the new monsters were pretty awesome, too, and ditto for the ones that were in Doom IV/2016 and Doom V/Eternal. However, I am not very happy with the story changes that were made for the latter two games, as they kind of undermine that whole "fight against the forces of Hell" thing that the earlier games in the series had already well established.
People come here because they loved the experience the game conveyed because of it's soundtrack. They crave for similar experiences in modern shooter/horror games, which for the most part are not delivered like this anymore. And younger generations are not aware about the possibilites and grim darkness that could be conveyed outside of the regular "Micheal Bay" oriented action game. I guess it's time for coming developers to carry on the spirit of these classics and ressurect this... "genre" with modern graphics and sound. I for myself feel inclined to do so. Hearing this fuels my juice.
When i put my PS1 Final Doom Disc on the Cd-player, i had totally different songs except main theme and credits (7 in total), but i can't find them from the internet... o.O
PS1 DOOM games do not use CD Red Book Audio, but special sample files interpreted by the PS1's sound chip in real time. The Saturn port of DOOM, with identical soundtrack to the PS1 port, does use Red Book Audio, so that you can play all music files by popping it in a PC CD Drive.
PSX Doom/Final Doom's sounds + soundtrack is the only way to go for me, that's how I played Final Doom as a kid, and while I do play WADs on a PC for the gameplay, I still kind of wish I could replicate the UI and the sounds from PS1 as I feel kind of let down after discovering how cheesy the soundtrack is on PC and the gun firing sounds seem kinda like a watered down version (even though yes I know PC was first than PS1)
I was kinda disappointed when I realized this game reuses PSX Doom's tracks. I also noticed some of the tracks don't loop in the game (I think just the Final Doom ones, not PSX Doom). I'm guessing it's because some of the Final Doom ones are longer? Regardless, very curious as to why this is.
better yet, you can download total conversion mod complete with font, levels design, colored lighting, soundtrack and enemy sounds....just search on forums a little bit ;)
I have to disagree. It's not even the same game. This WAD is Final Doom with totally different levels and the music is all ambience, which goes to Quake1 territory. Its tone is not at all what Doom is about. And the OST from Doom 1&2 are iconic anyways I'm not saying that Final Doom is bad and people shouldn't enjoy it. Final Doom is good in its own right and I wish I could play it on Playstation 1. But the game just dropped the ball with Doom music, which should've been Metal tracks redone in MIDI format.
