Video Game Character of the Month
July 2017
Doomguy
Doom
Doomguy
Doom
Overview:
Ah, Doomguy, the quintessential action hero, fearless in peril, staring down hell itself with a look of mild amusement. No one person has done more for the FPS genre than you have. Simply marvel- Oh, sorry, was that too much exposition? See it's difficult to tell, seeming as you don't speak and, and OK I'll stop now. You have the award OK? Why am I glowing?...
And now for some information on Doomguy:
Also known as The Marine and Doom Slayer
He has had multiple incarnations
He is a silent protagonist
He's meant to represent the player
He doesn't like demons
He could be the descendant of William "B.J." Blazkowicz
He can wield a huge array of weapons
He has been seen as more or less muscular and 'human' depending on the game in the series
Only the Cyberdemon has made him fearful
He's quite angry - all the time
Glory Kills are a favourite pass time of his
He's dabbled in skateboarding
He could be Caucasian
In Doom (2016) he's been reffered to as a Legendary Warrior from The Night Sentinels
In Doom 3 he's characterised as either a marine or a combat engineer (in the expansion pack)
He collects Doomguy figurines
He has only recently gained the ability to look up and down...
...As well as jump and crouch
He doesn't take too kindly to needless exposition
He has light-brown hair in a buzz cut
He can carry a machine gun and a shot gun at the same time
He has blue eyes
He's 6'
He weighs roughly 180 lbs
He has a fondness of colour coded doors
He's been strengthened by the souls of hell
Origin of Doomguy:
Created by Tom Hall in The Doom Bible, he was one of several planned characters, although these didn't come to fruition for the final version of the game. The closest character to the eventual Doomguy was called Buddy Dacote, who was meant to die at the end of the game (Dacote is an acronym for Dies At the Conclusion Of This Episode). Doomguy nearly did in the final level of the firer episode in Doom but he continues his adventure instead. Doomguy was designed by Adrian Carmack and Kevin Cloud, while John Romero (co-designer of Doom) has stated that Doomguy is designed to be a symbolic persona of the player.
Evolution of Doomguy:
Overtime, Doomguy has developed more of a personality of his own, showing a light-hearted side when collecting Doomguy figurines and being generally a hero of humanity. Generally he's portrayed as fearless, although in Doom 3 its shown that the Cyberdemon scares him. Over the years he has also changed in body shape, with both Doom 64 and Doom 3 adopting a less muscular appearance than the original. He's also changed suit, with the original green armour darkening in Episode IV of The Ultimate Doom, changing to black in Doom 64, back to green in Doom 3, swapping into a dark blue suit in Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (different Marine as well) and darkening again in Doom 2016. He's now gained the ability to look up and down, crouch, run and use more weapons as well as commit Glory Kills.
Games:
Doom: released (North America) on December 10th, 1993/(Europe) in 1993 on MS-DOS & Mac OS/released (North America) on November 21st, 1994/(Europe/North America) in 1994 on Sega 32X/released (North America) on November 28th, 1994 on Atari Jaguar/released (North America) on September 1st, 1995/(Europe) on October 26th, 1995 on SNES/released (North America) on November 16th, 1995/(Europe) on December, 1995) on PlayStation/released (North America) in 1996 on 3DO/released (North America) on August 20th, 1996 on Microsoft Windows/released (North America) on March 31st, 1997/(Europe) in 1997 on Sega Saturn/released (Europe) in 1998 on Acorn Archimedes/released (North America) on October 28th, 2001/(Europe) on November 16th, 2001 on Game Boy Advance/released (World Wide) on September 27th, 2006 on Xbox 360/released (World Wide) on August 3rd, 2007 on Steam/released (World Wide) on October 31st, 2009 on iOS/released (World Wide) on October 16th, 2012
Doom II: Hell on Earth:released (North America) on September 30th, 1994/(Europe) on October 10th, 1994 on MS-DOS/released (North America) in 1995 on Macintosh/released (North America) on October 28th, 2002/(Europe) on November 15th, 2002 on Game Boy Advance/released (World Wide) on May 26th, 2010 on Xbox 360/released (World Wide) on October 16th, 2012 on PlayStation 3
The Ultimate Doom: released (World Wide) on April 30, 1995 on MS-DOS
Doom II: The Master Levels: released (World Wide) on December 26, 1995 on MS-DOS
Duke Nukem 3D: released (North America) on January 29th, 1996/(Europe) in 1996 on MS-DOS/released (North America) on January 1st, 1997 on Game.com/released (North America) in 1997 on Mac OS/released (North America/Europe) in 1997 on Sega Saturn/released (North America) on September 30th, 1997/(Europe) in December 1997/(Japan) on January 28th, 1999 on PlayStation/released (North America) on October 31st, 1997/(Europe) on November 14th, 1997/released (Brazil) on October 12th, 1998/(World Wide) on October 16th, 2015 on Mega Drive/Genesis/released (North America/Europe) on September 24th, 2008 on Xbox 360/released (World Wide) on August 11th, 2009 on iOS/released (World Wide) on November 1st, 2011 on Android
Final Doom: released (North America) on June 17th, 1996 on DOS/released (North America) on December 4th, 1996 on Macintosh/released (North America) on October 1st, 1996/(Europe) in 1996/(Japan) on October 2nd, 1997 on PlayStation/released (World Wide) on November 20th, 2012 on PlayStation 3
Quake: released (North America) on June 22nd, 1996/(Europe) in 1996 on MS-DOS/released (North America) in 1997 on Mac OS/released (North America) on October 31st, 1997/(Europe) in October 1997 on Sega Saturn/released (North America) on March 24th, 1998/(Europe) on May 24th, 1998 on Nintendo 64/released (North America/Europe) in 1998 on AmigaOS/released (North America) in 1999 on Linux/released (World Wide) on May 31st, 2007 on Steam
Doom 64: released (North America) on March 31st, 1997/(PAL) on December 2nd, 1997 on Nintendo 64
Quake III Arena: released (North America) on December 2nd, 1999/(Europe) in 1999 on Microsoft Windows/released (North America) in 1999 on Linux/released (North America) in December 1999 on Mac OS X/released (North America) on October 22nd, 2000 /released (Europe) on December 8th, 2000 on Dreamcast/released (World Wide) on August 3rd, 2007 on Steam
Quake III Arena: Team Arena: released (North America) on December 18th, 2000/(Europe) on January 26th, 2001 on Microsoft Windows/released (North America) in 2001 on Mac OS X/released (World Wide) on August 3rd, 2007 on Steam
Quake III Arena: Gold: released (North America) on September 26th, 2001/(Europe) on August 9th, 2002 on Microsoft Windows/released (North America) in October 2001/(Europe) on August 9th, 2002 on Mac OS X
Quake III Arena: Revolution: released (North America) on March 26th, 2001/(Europe) on April 6th, 2001/(Japan) on August 30th, 2001 on PlayStation 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3: released (North America) on October 28th, 2001/(Europe) on November 30th, 2001/(Japan) on November 21st, 2002 on PlayStation 2/released (North America) on October 29th, 2001/(Europe) on November 23rd, 2001 on PlayStation/released (North America) on November 15th, 2001/(Europe) on November 23rd, 2001 on Game Boy Colour/released (North America) on November 18th, 2001/(Europe) on May 3rd, 2002/(Japan) on June 27th, 2003 on GameCube/released (North America) on March 4th, 2002/(Europe) on March 28th, 2002 on Game Boy Advance/released (North America) on March 4th, 2002/(Europe) on March 14th, 2002 on Xbox/released (North America) on March 28th, 2002/(Europe) on May 10th, 2002 on Microsoft Windows/released (North America) on August 20th, 2002 on Nintendo 64/released (North America) on January 1st, 2003 on Mac OS
Doom RPG: released (World Wide) on September 13th, 2005 on Symbian OS
Doom 3: released (North America) on August 3rd, 2004/(Japan) on August 12th, 2004/(Europe) on August 13th, 2004 on Microsoft Windows/released (World Wide) on October 4th, 2004 on Linux/released (North America) on March 14th, 2005/(Europe) on April 8th, 2005 on Mac OS X/released (North America) on April 3rd, 2005/(Europe) on April 8th, 2005 on Xbox/released (World Wide) on August 3rd, 2007 on Steam/released (World Wide) on December 4th, 2007 on Xbox 360/released (World Wide) on November 22nd, 2011 on Microsoft Windows (Source Version)
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil: released (North America) on April 3rd, 2005/(Europe) on April 8th, 2005 on Microsoft Windows/released (World Wide) on May 24th, 2005 on Linux/released (North America) on October 5th, 2005/(Europe) on October 21st, 2005 on Xbox/released (World Wide) on August 4th, 2007 on Steam
Doom Resurrection: released (World Wide) on June 26th, 2009 on iOS
Doom II RPG: released (World Wide) on November 23rd, 2009 on Java ME, BlackBerry OS, Windows Mobile/released (World Wide) on February 8th, 2010 on iOS
Quake III Arena: Arcade: released (World Wide) on December 15th, 2010 on Xbox 360
Rage: released (North America) on October 4th, 2011/(Australia) on October 6th, 2011/(Europe) on October 7th, 2011 on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Doom 3: BFG Edition: released (Australia) on October 15th, 2012/(Europe/North America) on October 16th, 2012/(Japan) on November 22nd, 2012 on Microsoft Windows, Linux, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360/released (World Wide) on July 31st, 2013 on Shield Portable
Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition: released (World Wide) on March 20th, 2013 on Microsoft Windows, OS X/released (World Wide) on September 4th, 2013 on Linux/released (North America) on January 6th, 2015/(Europe) on January 7th, 2015 on PS3, PS Vita
Doom (2016): released (World Wide) on May 13th, 2016 on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour: released (World Wide) on October 11th, 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
Well, that's it on Doomguy but, as always, if I have made a mistake or missed something, please don't hesitate to comment! Also, if you can think of another character that is worthy of winning the Video Game Character of the Month Award, then please comment as well!
Thanks for reading, Satamer.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomguy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)
Various Wikipedias for dates of games
My own knowledge
Ah, Doomguy, the quintessential action hero, fearless in peril, staring down hell itself with a look of mild amusement. No one person has done more for the FPS genre than you have. Simply marvel- Oh, sorry, was that too much exposition? See it's difficult to tell, seeming as you don't speak and, and OK I'll stop now. You have the award OK? Why am I glowing?...
And now for some information on Doomguy:
Also known as The Marine and Doom Slayer
He has had multiple incarnations
He is a silent protagonist
He's meant to represent the player
He doesn't like demons
He could be the descendant of William "B.J." Blazkowicz
He can wield a huge array of weapons
He has been seen as more or less muscular and 'human' depending on the game in the series
Only the Cyberdemon has made him fearful
He's quite angry - all the time
Glory Kills are a favourite pass time of his
He's dabbled in skateboarding
He could be Caucasian
In Doom (2016) he's been reffered to as a Legendary Warrior from The Night Sentinels
In Doom 3 he's characterised as either a marine or a combat engineer (in the expansion pack)
He collects Doomguy figurines
He has only recently gained the ability to look up and down...
...As well as jump and crouch
He doesn't take too kindly to needless exposition
He has light-brown hair in a buzz cut
He can carry a machine gun and a shot gun at the same time
He has blue eyes
He's 6'
He weighs roughly 180 lbs
He has a fondness of colour coded doors
He's been strengthened by the souls of hell
Origin of Doomguy:
Created by Tom Hall in The Doom Bible, he was one of several planned characters, although these didn't come to fruition for the final version of the game. The closest character to the eventual Doomguy was called Buddy Dacote, who was meant to die at the end of the game (Dacote is an acronym for Dies At the Conclusion Of This Episode). Doomguy nearly did in the final level of the firer episode in Doom but he continues his adventure instead. Doomguy was designed by Adrian Carmack and Kevin Cloud, while John Romero (co-designer of Doom) has stated that Doomguy is designed to be a symbolic persona of the player.
Evolution of Doomguy:
Overtime, Doomguy has developed more of a personality of his own, showing a light-hearted side when collecting Doomguy figurines and being generally a hero of humanity. Generally he's portrayed as fearless, although in Doom 3 its shown that the Cyberdemon scares him. Over the years he has also changed in body shape, with both Doom 64 and Doom 3 adopting a less muscular appearance than the original. He's also changed suit, with the original green armour darkening in Episode IV of The Ultimate Doom, changing to black in Doom 64, back to green in Doom 3, swapping into a dark blue suit in Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (different Marine as well) and darkening again in Doom 2016. He's now gained the ability to look up and down, crouch, run and use more weapons as well as commit Glory Kills.
Games:
Doom: released (North America) on December 10th, 1993/(Europe) in 1993 on MS-DOS & Mac OS/released (North America) on November 21st, 1994/(Europe/North America) in 1994 on Sega 32X/released (North America) on November 28th, 1994 on Atari Jaguar/released (North America) on September 1st, 1995/(Europe) on October 26th, 1995 on SNES/released (North America) on November 16th, 1995/(Europe) on December, 1995) on PlayStation/released (North America) in 1996 on 3DO/released (North America) on August 20th, 1996 on Microsoft Windows/released (North America) on March 31st, 1997/(Europe) in 1997 on Sega Saturn/released (Europe) in 1998 on Acorn Archimedes/released (North America) on October 28th, 2001/(Europe) on November 16th, 2001 on Game Boy Advance/released (World Wide) on September 27th, 2006 on Xbox 360/released (World Wide) on August 3rd, 2007 on Steam/released (World Wide) on October 31st, 2009 on iOS/released (World Wide) on October 16th, 2012
Doom II: Hell on Earth:released (North America) on September 30th, 1994/(Europe) on October 10th, 1994 on MS-DOS/released (North America) in 1995 on Macintosh/released (North America) on October 28th, 2002/(Europe) on November 15th, 2002 on Game Boy Advance/released (World Wide) on May 26th, 2010 on Xbox 360/released (World Wide) on October 16th, 2012 on PlayStation 3
The Ultimate Doom: released (World Wide) on April 30, 1995 on MS-DOS
Doom II: The Master Levels: released (World Wide) on December 26, 1995 on MS-DOS
Duke Nukem 3D: released (North America) on January 29th, 1996/(Europe) in 1996 on MS-DOS/released (North America) on January 1st, 1997 on Game.com/released (North America) in 1997 on Mac OS/released (North America/Europe) in 1997 on Sega Saturn/released (North America) on September 30th, 1997/(Europe) in December 1997/(Japan) on January 28th, 1999 on PlayStation/released (North America) on October 31st, 1997/(Europe) on November 14th, 1997/released (Brazil) on October 12th, 1998/(World Wide) on October 16th, 2015 on Mega Drive/Genesis/released (North America/Europe) on September 24th, 2008 on Xbox 360/released (World Wide) on August 11th, 2009 on iOS/released (World Wide) on November 1st, 2011 on Android
Final Doom: released (North America) on June 17th, 1996 on DOS/released (North America) on December 4th, 1996 on Macintosh/released (North America) on October 1st, 1996/(Europe) in 1996/(Japan) on October 2nd, 1997 on PlayStation/released (World Wide) on November 20th, 2012 on PlayStation 3
Quake: released (North America) on June 22nd, 1996/(Europe) in 1996 on MS-DOS/released (North America) in 1997 on Mac OS/released (North America) on October 31st, 1997/(Europe) in October 1997 on Sega Saturn/released (North America) on March 24th, 1998/(Europe) on May 24th, 1998 on Nintendo 64/released (North America/Europe) in 1998 on AmigaOS/released (North America) in 1999 on Linux/released (World Wide) on May 31st, 2007 on Steam
Doom 64: released (North America) on March 31st, 1997/(PAL) on December 2nd, 1997 on Nintendo 64
Quake III Arena: released (North America) on December 2nd, 1999/(Europe) in 1999 on Microsoft Windows/released (North America) in 1999 on Linux/released (North America) in December 1999 on Mac OS X/released (North America) on October 22nd, 2000 /released (Europe) on December 8th, 2000 on Dreamcast/released (World Wide) on August 3rd, 2007 on Steam
Quake III Arena: Team Arena: released (North America) on December 18th, 2000/(Europe) on January 26th, 2001 on Microsoft Windows/released (North America) in 2001 on Mac OS X/released (World Wide) on August 3rd, 2007 on Steam
Quake III Arena: Gold: released (North America) on September 26th, 2001/(Europe) on August 9th, 2002 on Microsoft Windows/released (North America) in October 2001/(Europe) on August 9th, 2002 on Mac OS X
Quake III Arena: Revolution: released (North America) on March 26th, 2001/(Europe) on April 6th, 2001/(Japan) on August 30th, 2001 on PlayStation 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3: released (North America) on October 28th, 2001/(Europe) on November 30th, 2001/(Japan) on November 21st, 2002 on PlayStation 2/released (North America) on October 29th, 2001/(Europe) on November 23rd, 2001 on PlayStation/released (North America) on November 15th, 2001/(Europe) on November 23rd, 2001 on Game Boy Colour/released (North America) on November 18th, 2001/(Europe) on May 3rd, 2002/(Japan) on June 27th, 2003 on GameCube/released (North America) on March 4th, 2002/(Europe) on March 28th, 2002 on Game Boy Advance/released (North America) on March 4th, 2002/(Europe) on March 14th, 2002 on Xbox/released (North America) on March 28th, 2002/(Europe) on May 10th, 2002 on Microsoft Windows/released (North America) on August 20th, 2002 on Nintendo 64/released (North America) on January 1st, 2003 on Mac OS
Doom RPG: released (World Wide) on September 13th, 2005 on Symbian OS
Doom 3: released (North America) on August 3rd, 2004/(Japan) on August 12th, 2004/(Europe) on August 13th, 2004 on Microsoft Windows/released (World Wide) on October 4th, 2004 on Linux/released (North America) on March 14th, 2005/(Europe) on April 8th, 2005 on Mac OS X/released (North America) on April 3rd, 2005/(Europe) on April 8th, 2005 on Xbox/released (World Wide) on August 3rd, 2007 on Steam/released (World Wide) on December 4th, 2007 on Xbox 360/released (World Wide) on November 22nd, 2011 on Microsoft Windows (Source Version)
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil: released (North America) on April 3rd, 2005/(Europe) on April 8th, 2005 on Microsoft Windows/released (World Wide) on May 24th, 2005 on Linux/released (North America) on October 5th, 2005/(Europe) on October 21st, 2005 on Xbox/released (World Wide) on August 4th, 2007 on Steam
Doom Resurrection: released (World Wide) on June 26th, 2009 on iOS
Doom II RPG: released (World Wide) on November 23rd, 2009 on Java ME, BlackBerry OS, Windows Mobile/released (World Wide) on February 8th, 2010 on iOS
Quake III Arena: Arcade: released (World Wide) on December 15th, 2010 on Xbox 360
Rage: released (North America) on October 4th, 2011/(Australia) on October 6th, 2011/(Europe) on October 7th, 2011 on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Doom 3: BFG Edition: released (Australia) on October 15th, 2012/(Europe/North America) on October 16th, 2012/(Japan) on November 22nd, 2012 on Microsoft Windows, Linux, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360/released (World Wide) on July 31st, 2013 on Shield Portable
Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition: released (World Wide) on March 20th, 2013 on Microsoft Windows, OS X/released (World Wide) on September 4th, 2013 on Linux/released (North America) on January 6th, 2015/(Europe) on January 7th, 2015 on PS3, PS Vita
Doom (2016): released (World Wide) on May 13th, 2016 on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour: released (World Wide) on October 11th, 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
Well, that's it on Doomguy but, as always, if I have made a mistake or missed something, please don't hesitate to comment! Also, if you can think of another character that is worthy of winning the Video Game Character of the Month Award, then please comment as well!
Thanks for reading, Satamer.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomguy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)
Various Wikipedias for dates of games
My own knowledge
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