Good Doom/Heretic/Hexen WADs

[grudgebringer]

That guy from Double Fine

 

[Astral Rag]

http://zandronum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5602

Weapons look very OP but it's a neat idea.

 

[Astral Rag]

For now over a decade, Discovery's popular show Mythbusters has helped put an end to longstanding myths relating to popular culture, news stories, and everyday life. For next week's January 31st episode, they're taking their expertise to video games.

In this special episode dedicated to the hobby near and dear to our hearts, we're excited that id Software's own Tim Willits will be helping Adam and Jamie dig into an often-discussed topic of FPS games: Is it really possible for someone to carry all those health packs, guns, and even a chainsaw? Using the DOOM universe and DOOM 3 BFG Edition for reference, Tim helps the team recreate a DOOM level in real life.

 

[octavius]

Mythbusters - an oasis in a desert of Reality-TV featuring inbred, tattoed rednecks.

 

[Astral Rag]

So Discovery is a bit like the History Channel?

 

[Average Manatee]

For now over a decade, Discovery's popular show Mythbusters has helped put an end to longstanding myths relating to popular culture, news stories, and everyday life. For next week's January 31st episode, they're taking their expertise to video games.

In this special episode dedicated to the hobby near and dear to our hearts, we're excited that id Software's own Tim Willits will be helping Adam and Jamie dig into an often-discussed topic of FPS games: Is it really possible for someone to carry all those health packs, guns, and even a chainsaw? Using the DOOM universe and DOOM 3 BFG Edition for reference, Tim helps the team recreate a DOOM level in real life.

So what, they are testing how much shit a person can carry? Doom doesn't even have carryable health packs, wtf.

 

[Gragt]

And people wonder why I never watch TV. I even managed to convince the wife to cancel cable subscription.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Finished No Rest For The Living aka Nerve.wad. Played with Beautiful Doom. It was surprisingly good. Let's just look at the first level, where you can easily find the exit, but you have the optional yellow keycard to obtain and see other parts of base. It was a good move to do that, since the whole mini episode is tight on ammo resources and has a really good encounters. The difficulty level is really high and will keep you focus. Id guys should make a new 32 level megawad. It would be glorious.

 

[Gragt]

It also works very well with Crispy Doom as well since it natively supports it, for the vanilla flavour. Chocolate Doom is out since it requires a limit-removing port. I was surprised by the quality of this one, especially given how much the official Doom port and the Doom 3 BFG Edition felt rushed.

 

[Riskbreaker]

Been playing some Hocus Doom, TC based on old Apogee platformer Hocus Pocus.
http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45804
Current playable demo contains one episode with seven more-or-less complete maps.
Good stuff: this is a total conversion in every possible sense. Author aims to create as-faithful-as-possible 3D Hocus Pocus game, and I daresay he did a pretty good job so far. Doom with another coat of paint this ain't.
Out of seven so far released maps each is pretty well designed, with some quasi non-linearity in that they sometimes allow you to collect magic orbs in whatever order you wish (not always, as some areas will unlock only after an orb is collected).
Also, this shit is so goddamn pretty. Author tried to be faithful to Hocus Pocus aesthetics as well as gameplay, and again I think he did a damn good job so far! Few screens:

Spoiler

Asshole wizards are back:

Blastin' some squat Eskimos:

Chillin' with some familiar faces:

Not so good stuff: you are limited to one "weapon" which, for the duration of each map, can be improved by collecting power-ups. There are also several types of potions you can find, that (either for a limited time or limited amount of shots) offer improvements such is rapid fire, scatter shots etc. These are pretty rare tho, as expected.
Author seems pretty vehement about keeping it this way, so new "weapons" or spell types are not to be expected. That might be faithful to original game, thing is I don't it works in FPS environment. So, despite the quality of maps, prettiness, variety of environments etc... this demo eventually felt pretty monotonous. I was... well, I was bored, and that is such a fucking shame!
This TC needs weapon variety.

 

[octavius]

Amazing what you can do with Doom!

And people wonder why I never watch TV. I even managed to convince the wife to cancel cable subscription.

I havent watched TV since the end of the football World Cup myself, when the cable company dropped Animal Planet (which unlike Discovery and History Channel didn't turn into Redneck TV). Even threw out my old TV some weeks ago. Maybe I'll replace it with an aquarium.

Hopefully I'll find a torrent of that Doom Mythbusters program. Or does Discovery stream?

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Didn't know about TNT and Plutonia. You deserve a brofist.

 

[Baron Dupek]

I though TNT and Plutonia were well knowed, iirc they're even on Steam?
I probably give it a shot after doing addons for Quake cause Master of Doom was meh.

 

[ghostdog]

TNT and Plutonia ? First time I hear of those. Holy moly, this thread is full of surprises !

I wish I could brofist more than once.

 

[grudgebringer]

I couldn't believe someone didn't know about TNT/Plutonia up to this point. They are like official add-ons to Doom 2, FFS. I had recently replayed the whole Plutonia from start to finish and it's really great. Some later levels are especially good.

 

[skacky]

Plutonia is far better than TNT imo. There's also a Plutonia 2 megawad that's definitely worth checking out.

 

[ghostdog]

 

[Lyric Suite]

Surely, after all those years, there must be more classic megawads than those.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Thanks for info about Plutonia2.
And according to mobygames - yes, they're on Steam. It's called Final Doom. It contain both TNT:Evilution and Plutonia Experiments.

 

[Luzur]

Been playing some Hocus Doom, TC based on old Apogee platformer Hocus Pocus.
http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45804
Current playable demo contains one episode with seven more-or-less complete maps.
Good stuff: this is a total conversion in every possible sense. Author aims to create as-faithful-as-possible 3D Hocus Pocus game, and I daresay he did a pretty good job so far. Doom with another coat of paint this ain't.
Out of seven so far released maps each is pretty well designed, with some quasi non-linearity in that they sometimes allow you to collect magic orbs in whatever order you wish (not always, as some areas will unlock only after an orb is collected).
Also, this shit is so goddamn pretty. Author tried to be faithful to Hocus Pocus aesthetics as well as gameplay, and again I think he did a damn good job so far! Few screens:

Spoiler

Asshole wizards are back:

Blastin' some squat Eskimos:

Chillin' with some familiar faces:

Not so good stuff: you are limited to one "weapon" which, for the duration of each map, can be improved by collecting power-ups. There are also several types of potions you can find, that (either for a limited time or limited amount of shots) offer improvements such is rapid fire, scatter shots etc. These are pretty rare tho, as expected.
Author seems pretty vehement about keeping it this way, so new "weapons" or spell types are not to be expected. That might be faithful to original game, thing is I don't it works in FPS environment. So, despite the quality of maps, prettiness, variety of environments etc... this demo eventually felt pretty monotonous. I was... well, I was bored, and that is such a fucking shame!
This TC needs weapon variety.

Hahaha well fuck me! this is a wad i didnt expect to see, whats next, Catacomb Doom?

 

[A horse of course]

There are actually quite a few very obscure 90s FPS gnomes I'd love to see remade for the Doomsday/jDoom engine, such as Bram Stoker's Dracula tie-in.

 

[A horse of course]

Whoa... whoa. I'm actually very surprised that some of you did not know about tnt and plutonium. Well, happy to share some good wads anyways.

A common misconception about codexers is that they form some sort of cognitive elite. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

 

[ghostdog]

I for one was being ironic. I assume ninja was being too, I mean TNT and Plutonia were basically an official add-on to Doom and were sold as "Final Doom".

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Yep, You assume correctly ghostdog. Sarcasm is harder on teh internet.
Naming them in this thread is like stating that water is wet.

 

[octavius]

Surely, after all those years, there must be more classic megawads than those.

Have you tried Memento Mori? I've played most of the notable WADs from 1993-1996, and that one is my favourite so far. Especially the levels made by the Cosali brothers were good; I like large levels where I can kill whole legions of Hell (or make them infight).