Five Ways to Kill Doom’s Download Time Before It Kills You

DOOM’s Download Time Is A Whopping 50GB Of Suffering

DOOM dropped yesterday for PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and a lot of folks opted to jump right into the portals of Hell to kick ass. Not all of us were able to, for whatever reasons, but while I’m waiting for this 50GB game to download (and my connectivity is no slouch), here’s just a few things you can do to help kill Doom’s download time, all Doom-related of course. Read on through to find out!

1 – Play Classic Doom (and a Little Brutal Doom)

It’s aged damn fine. High-speed shooting, tons of secrets, and a whole arsenal to make use of to fight back the forces of Hell. That classic E1M1 tune is still one of my favourite tracks in a game, and it may or may not have found its way into my phone’s ringtone at one point in history. If you’re also interested, there’s Brutal Doom. It’s an incredibly gory (and incredibly fun) mod that aims to capture the experience of Doom, and turn it up to 11. You’ll have waves of enemies thrown at you, and dispatch them in true Doom-guy fashion, helping you get prepared for the latest offering from iD software. You could sink days into this alone, but try not to lose track, as Doom’s download time isn’t quite THAT massive.

2 – Read the Old Doom Comic (again)

This was a weird little bit of history for fans of the games. In 1996, Steve Behling, Michael Stewart and Tom Grindberg joined forces to deliver 16 pages of unintentional hilarity. The comic is quite true to the source material, featuring a lone marine battling through hordes of monsters to kill a Cyberdemon. He makes use of Quad Damage, the Super Shotgun, the BFG, and some ridiculous one liners to get to his goal. On paper, it sounds like a recipe for success, but at the time, it was panned almost entirely, and slipped away into the annals of history. It resurfaced later on PlanetQuake, and has since been used for a number of the various game’s achievement names.

To give you an idea, here’s just one bit of the entire 16 page run. You can find the whole comic here, should you want to read it ( and by god, you should, at least once.)

Head on over to Page 2 to find out how else I’ve been killing time on this behemoth of a download.