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Cat Headed Eagle
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the best star wars game right there
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Broken Roads -demo
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Is that an Empire of ANTS?
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It's an empire of JEWS.
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HansDampf
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Time for another long Doom dump.
MyHouse.wad
This has been talked to death. My first impression was like, this looks cool and intriguing but is also boring af to play and best enjoyed in video format. But the more I think and read about it, the more I actually Hate it.
It's a menstruation metaphor.
Imagine your "friend" died, and as a tribute you build his house in Doom, turn it into a trippy walking sim with personal memories, puzzles and metaphors hidden everywhere (cool), but then feel the need to bury it all in silly creepypasta and dumb shit like playing a random discord notification sound 10 minutes into the map. All in memory of your "friend", of course. Then complain when people focus too much on the pasta instead of the "journey of grief".
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Moonlight
A puzzle map.
But the puzzles are mostly about an alien alphabet and don't do anything with the Doom engine. Meh.
Just enter the correct number.
What could it mean?
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The Given
Another puzzle map, this time with actual Doom puzzles involving doors, labyrinths, platforms, and environmental hints.
Fireblue vegetable. This is all pure decoration.
Same as this graveyard.
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Cyberdreams
A wad from 1998 that's about killing Cyberdemons without weapons by activating crushers, telefragging, or sometimes infighting.
I wouldn't call them puzzles. It's a collection of mini challenges that mostly test your dodging skills (and sometimes your patience, because crushing a Cyberdemon takes some time).
Don't ask why there is a Quake symbol on the floor.
Press a sequence of switches while being shot at from all angles and before your suite runs out.
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Not Even Remotely Fair - Episode 2
Once again, this wad is designed for Nightmare difficulty (respawning monsters, faster projectiles, double ammo) with short and replayable maps. Get all secrets and items for an extra challenge.
It's almost a different game. You take damage constantly, but there are lots of health pickups to compensate.
Complete bollocks!
Enemies will shoot non-stop on Nightmare.
Does this look familiar?
Yes. It's that room from Sunlust, except the walls move faster and you are fighting Turbo Pinkies.
That's a way to present a skull key.
That stupid sexy Cyberdemon!
Episode 3 isn't done yet. But this is shaping up to be one of my favorite wads.
Btw, they really go out of their way to force you to play on Nightmare. If you choose lower difficulties, all monsters are removed. At least you can explore the maps and learn the layout.
Experienced Doomers may wonder what happens when you play on Ultra Violence, since monster placement on UV is the same as on Nightmare. Except on UV every map has a nice surprise prepared for you.
How is this done?
Somewhere outside of the playable map is a corridor with an Archvile and a Pinky who are both running towards a teleporter. The Archvile is normally the fastest monster in the game and would win the race, go through the teleporter and trigger the trap that teleports 100 Archviles into the map. But on Nightmare, Pinkies move twice as fast, so the Pinky reaches the teleporter first. Pinkies are also fat which causes him to get stuck and block the teleporter for the Archvile, and the trap is not sprung.
Nightmare or GTFO.
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Sunlust
It's time to finish this once and for all. These last 3 maps take disproportionally more effort than any of the previous maps, mostly due to their length.
Epic secret arena.
Very epic.
The reward for all this is a bonus exit that doesn't kill you. You could take a full BFG and megasphere with you to map 29. But I have to pistol-start.
It would make a huge difference because map 29 (fittingly named "Go Fuck Yourself") begins like this. Green hell is over. Everything is gold now.
There is of course "that room" with the rotating walls.
I have successfully fucked myself.
Map 30 isn't as hard, but it's 45+ minutes long and more like an endurance test with some scary moments at the end.
This fight, however, is the most difficult in the entire game. I call it the BFG fight, because ... it's where you get the BFG. It's the only one for which I couldn't find a reliable strategy, at all. Just improvise and hope for the best. I died many times here. It's only 10 minutes into the map, but still...
This arena makes up the second half of the map. I made sure to know exactly what to do from here on so I wouldn't have to go through the BFG fight again.
Youtubers say MyHouse is the "most terrifying Doom map". I don't know, man... Seeing this after 40 minutes was more terrifying. There are 8 roaming Archies in this group. Most of them get hit by other enemies and will ignore you. But there is always that one bastard that really hates you. And there is no cover.
Archies dead. Time to win.
Only one more obstacle: 8 pairs of Archviles get released in this room. It shouldn't be a problem with the BFG, but you have to be quick. This is only here to test your nerves.
Still a better story than Doom Eternal.
I probably won't be maxing long maps like this again. Too stressful and time consuming.
MyHouse.wad
This has been talked to death. My first impression was like, this looks cool and intriguing but is also boring af to play and best enjoyed in video format. But the more I think and read about it, the more I actually Hate it.
It's a menstruation metaphor.
Imagine your "friend" died, and as a tribute you build his house in Doom, turn it into a trippy walking sim with personal memories, puzzles and metaphors hidden everywhere (cool), but then feel the need to bury it all in silly creepypasta and dumb shit like playing a random discord notification sound 10 minutes into the map. All in memory of your "friend", of course. Then complain when people focus too much on the pasta instead of the "journey of grief".
Moonlight
A puzzle map.
But the puzzles are mostly about an alien alphabet and don't do anything with the Doom engine. Meh.
Just enter the correct number.
What could it mean?
The Given
Another puzzle map, this time with actual Doom puzzles involving doors, labyrinths, platforms, and environmental hints.
Fireblue vegetable. This is all pure decoration.
Same as this graveyard.
Cyberdreams
A wad from 1998 that's about killing Cyberdemons without weapons by activating crushers, telefragging, or sometimes infighting.
I wouldn't call them puzzles. It's a collection of mini challenges that mostly test your dodging skills (and sometimes your patience, because crushing a Cyberdemon takes some time).
Don't ask why there is a Quake symbol on the floor.
Press a sequence of switches while being shot at from all angles and before your suite runs out.
Not Even Remotely Fair - Episode 2
Once again, this wad is designed for Nightmare difficulty (respawning monsters, faster projectiles, double ammo) with short and replayable maps. Get all secrets and items for an extra challenge.
It's almost a different game. You take damage constantly, but there are lots of health pickups to compensate.
Enemies will shoot non-stop on Nightmare.
Does this look familiar?
Yes. It's that room from Sunlust, except the walls move faster and you are fighting Turbo Pinkies.
That's a way to present a skull key.
That stupid sexy Cyberdemon!
Episode 3 isn't done yet. But this is shaping up to be one of my favorite wads.
Btw, they really go out of their way to force you to play on Nightmare. If you choose lower difficulties, all monsters are removed. At least you can explore the maps and learn the layout.
Experienced Doomers may wonder what happens when you play on Ultra Violence, since monster placement on UV is the same as on Nightmare. Except on UV every map has a nice surprise prepared for you.
How is this done?
Somewhere outside of the playable map is a corridor with an Archvile and a Pinky who are both running towards a teleporter. The Archvile is normally the fastest monster in the game and would win the race, go through the teleporter and trigger the trap that teleports 100 Archviles into the map. But on Nightmare, Pinkies move twice as fast, so the Pinky reaches the teleporter first. Pinkies are also fat which causes him to get stuck and block the teleporter for the Archvile, and the trap is not sprung.
Nightmare or GTFO.
Sunlust
It's time to finish this once and for all. These last 3 maps take disproportionally more effort than any of the previous maps, mostly due to their length.
Epic secret arena.
Very epic.
The reward for all this is a bonus exit that doesn't kill you. You could take a full BFG and megasphere with you to map 29. But I have to pistol-start.
It would make a huge difference because map 29 (fittingly named "Go Fuck Yourself") begins like this. Green hell is over. Everything is gold now.
There is of course "that room" with the rotating walls.
I have successfully fucked myself.
Map 30 isn't as hard, but it's 45+ minutes long and more like an endurance test with some scary moments at the end.
This fight, however, is the most difficult in the entire game. I call it the BFG fight, because ... it's where you get the BFG. It's the only one for which I couldn't find a reliable strategy, at all. Just improvise and hope for the best. I died many times here. It's only 10 minutes into the map, but still...
This arena makes up the second half of the map. I made sure to know exactly what to do from here on so I wouldn't have to go through the BFG fight again.
Youtubers say MyHouse is the "most terrifying Doom map". I don't know, man... Seeing this after 40 minutes was more terrifying. There are 8 roaming Archies in this group. Most of them get hit by other enemies and will ignore you. But there is always that one bastard that really hates you. And there is no cover.
Archies dead. Time to win.
Only one more obstacle: 8 pairs of Archviles get released in this room. It shouldn't be a problem with the BFG, but you have to be quick. This is only here to test your nerves.
Still a better story than Doom Eternal.
I probably won't be maxing long maps like this again. Too stressful and time consuming.
v1c70r14
Educated
Dark Vengeance.Looks atmospheric - which game?
Steve Jobs used it to demo Apple hardware before it was released, can't find that video now though, so here's one after it was released. It's a bit of a weird game, it's very slick and there's a ton of enemy variety, plus the soundtrack is Deus Ex and Unreal tier at times. Despite all that the presentation is janky and very minimal and you get very little context for what you encounter and what you do. Some of it might have to do with the game featuring three different playable characters that all have different stories and totally different weapons. After you get used to the controls which didn't anticipate modern standards it's a very fun game that you don't see many people talk about online.
Solasta can be genuinely attractive at times.
Another view of the same temple:
I agree, but most other aspects of the game, visually, are top notch.
If they fixed the UI -- even just the ability to scale it way down -- and corrected the horrible character facial appearance, I'd call it a gorgeous game.
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Pawsecuted
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Ah, Sunlust.Time for another long Doom dump.
MyHouse.wad
This has been talked to death. My first impression was like, this looks cool and intriguing but is also boring af to play and best enjoyed in video format. But the more I think and read about it, the more I actually Hate it.
------
It's a menstruation metaphor.
Imagine your "friend" died, and as a tribute you build his house in Doom, turn it into a trippy walking sim with personal memories, puzzles and metaphors hidden everywhere (cool), but then feel the need to bury it all in silly creepypasta and dumb shit like playing a random discord notification sound 10 minutes into the map. All in memory of your "friend", of course. Then complain when people focus too much on the pasta instead of the "journey of grief".
Moonlight
A puzzle map.
But the puzzles are mostly about an alien alphabet and don't do anything with the Doom engine. Meh.
------
Just enter the correct number.
What could it mean?
The Given
Another puzzle map, this time with actual Doom puzzles involving doors, labyrinths, platforms, and environmental hints.
------
Fireblue vegetable. This is all pure decoration.
Same as this graveyard.
Cyberdreams
A wad from 1998 that's about killing Cyberdemons without weapons by activating crushers, telefragging, or sometimes infighting.
I wouldn't call them puzzles. It's a collection of mini challenges that mostly test your dodging skills (and sometimes your patience, because crushing a Cyberdemon takes some time).
------
Don't ask why there is a Quake symbol on the floor.
Press a sequence of switches while being shot at from all angles and before your suite runs out.
Not Even Remotely Fair - Episode 2
Once again, this wad is designed for Nightmare difficulty (respawning monsters, faster projectiles, double ammo) with short and replayable maps. Get all secrets and items for an extra challenge.
It's almost a different game. You take damage constantly, but there are lots of health pickups to compensate.
Complete bollocks!
------
Enemies will shoot non-stop on Nightmare.
Does this look familiar?
Yes. It's that room from Sunlust, except the walls move faster and you are fighting Turbo Pinkies.
That's a way to present a skull key.
That stupid sexy Cyberdemon!
Episode 3 isn't done yet. But this is shaping up to be one of my favorite wads.
Btw, they really go out of their way to force you to play on Nightmare. If you choose lower difficulties, all monsters are removed. At least you can explore the maps and learn the layout.
Experienced Doomers may wonder what happens when you play on Ultra Violence, since monster placement on UV is the same as on Nightmare. Except on UV every map has a nice surprise prepared for you.
How is this done?
Somewhere outside of the playable map is a corridor with an Archvile and a Pinky who are both running towards a teleporter. The Archvile is normally the fastest monster in the game and would win the race, go through the teleporter and trigger the trap that teleports 100 Archviles into the map. But on Nightmare, Pinkies move twice as fast, so the Pinky reaches the teleporter first. Pinkies are also fat which causes him to get stuck and block the teleporter for the Archvile, and the trap is not sprung.
Nightmare or GTFO.
Sunlust
It's time to finish this once and for all. These last 3 maps take disproportionally more effort than any of the previous maps, mostly due to their length.
Epic secret arena.
Very epic.
The reward for all this is a bonus exit that doesn't kill you. You could take a full BFG and megasphere with you to map 29. But I have to pistol-start.
It would make a huge difference because map 29 (fittingly named "Go Fuck Yourself") begins like this. Green hell is over. Everything is gold now.
There is of course "that room" with the rotating walls.
I have successfully fucked myself.
Map 30 isn't as hard, but it's 45+ minutes long and more like an endurance test with some scary moments at the end.
This fight, however, is the most difficult in the entire game. I call it the BFG fight, because ... it's where you get the BFG. It's the only one for which I couldn't find a reliable strategy, at all. Just improvise and hope for the best. I died many times here. It's only 10 minutes into the map, but still...
This arena makes up the second half of the map. I made sure to know exactly what to do from here on so I wouldn't have to go through the BFG fight again.
Youtubers say MyHouse is the "most terrifying Doom map". I don't know, man... Seeing this after 40 minutes was more terrifying. There are 8 roaming Archies in this group. Most of them get hit by other enemies and will ignore you. But there is always that one bastard that really hates you. And there is no cover.
Archies dead. Time to win.
Only one more obstacle: 8 pairs of Archviles get released in this room. It shouldn't be a problem with the BFG, but you have to be quick. This is only here to test your nerves.
Still a better story than Doom Eternal.
I probably won't be maxing long maps like this again. Too stressful and time consuming.
I intend to play this in the near future, but I can't say I am looking forward to the ballscrushing difficulty.
Still, a lot of fun. Archviles. Archviles everywhere...
Have you played Eviternity?
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funnily enough its still less cliche than the usual Ubislop
NecroLord
Dumbfuck!
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No arguments here.
You even get to ride on top of mammoths. That's pretty fun.
ferratilis
Arcane
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Sjukob
Arcane
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Finished it. Honestly, I can see why these series are unpopular, it's not just about the controls, the games have more issues than that, for example, the balancing is completely fucked in a bad way, they are also very monotonous and thanks to the controls and the balancing, I can't see there being much options for implementing some cool and unique encounters, even if people had full access to the source code and various utilities. But still, pretty cool games nonetheless, I don't regret playing them.
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