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Prepare to Meet Thy Doom

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Prepare to Meet Thy Doom

Auteur(s): David Kushner
Narrateur(s): Wil Wheaton
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From Masters of Doom author David Kushner comes Prepare to Meet Thy Doom, a compilation of true gaming stories covering many facets of America's biggest entertainment business: the video game industry. In addition to more than a dozen fascinating tales of game creation, play, business, and controversy, Prepare to Meet Thy Doom follows up on Kushner's previous best seller, Masters of Doom, with a long-awaited update on id Software founders John Romero and John Carmack.

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Despite what the title indicates, there is only one story about DOOM and id Software in this book. This is a compilation of various articles and essays from the author of Masters of DOOM that appeared in serious publications over the years. They vary quite a bit in what they cover but they're all white interesting snippets of different times in the video game industry. Unfortunately, some of them appear to be abridged versions (or maybe they just end abruptly.) This is more for hardcore game industry history buffs than those whom Masters of DOOM appealed to but if you're one of those people like I am, it is a good listen, even if the amount of content you get for your money/credit is a bit thin.

Similar to Masters of DOOM, Wil Wheaton does a great job at narration. A bit funny to me that he did this since around 2014 (a year before this book's production) is when he developed a pretty profound and unwarranted profound hatred of gamers and gaming culture.

This could have been better and I think it's overpriced for what you get but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Interesting but not a full story

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Where as "masters of dooms" focused on narrative around John and John, this novel is nothing but a collection of short stories (pulled from magazine articles).

Many of the articles focus on things that would have been passe even 6 years ago. Where doom is evergreen, something we enjoy even 3 decades on, I don't who is excited for the "scoop" on flappy bird, rock band, or neopets.

Will Wheaton (shut up Wesley) does a serviceable job as narrator, but some of his accents are cringe worthy.

Disappointing nonsequel, focused on forgotten fads

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You might think from the title that this is some sort of sequel to David K's classic book "Masters of Doom". This is a collection of magazine articles on video games that the author wrote before writing Masters. Only a couple of the articles are Doom related and any info in them is already in Masters. The rest of the "book" is a random collection of interviews with unconnected game devs. I wish I could give it 1.5 stars for "Meh". You'll probably have a better time with Console Wars, Ultimate History of Video Games, or practically any other book on video games on the site. #Audible1

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