The Community is falling!! Oh No!!!

Playability notes: Requires ZDoom-based ports. It can be finished: you may have to do some unexpected backtracking.

 

The Community is Falling is an amusing jokemap, fitting neatly into its time period from the perspective of the mapper, and manages to hold interest long enough to be entertaining. There is the occasional cinematic to wait through and the general layout is nothing special to behold, but it serves its purpose adequately. As a jokewad you may not expect particularly engaging encounters, but this one does try to at least give the player something new (if completely unexpected) as the journey continues.

 

Being a single map, there is a believable progression of difficulty over time: harder enemies, stronger weapons. What changes up in this mapset is the use of different enemies altogether, whether it be Doomguys of varying color (all of which have different weapons to worry about) or the "newbs" that are no different than Demons, albeit occasionally given a different speed. While the absolute number of fights is few and contained, rarely are the themes repeated, leaving the only tedium either in learning how to handle a fight or in the non-combat situations.

 

While there is enough variety and amusement in most of the fights, the major drawback is the final fight, consisting of what is essentially a Spider Mastermind with the hitbox of a chaingunner and around three times as much health. There is some modicum of strategy to be found here, such as manipulating their position until spamming rockets or plasma is consistent, but for the most part the enemy simply has too much health, turning this encounter into a listless endeavor.

 

I recommend a run through the map if you don't mind a few little cutscenes (won't take that long anyway) and if you're not interested in the final boss then MDK it to clean up.

Haha! Pretty good! - Noilted

lame 1/5

this was amusing and i got to whoop quake 3 newb-sheep. 5/5. the only problem with jokewads, there's not enough of them..

LMAO!!! May the communitys fall so that the Skull Tag Community live on. -Killmur-

Whoever said this level was lame should be shot in the head. Very comical, especially early on. If you like playing these sorts of levels, you'll like this one.

Some battle very unbalanced.I hate "play game" fucker and final battle.3/5

Funny :), but gameplay lacks, as in majority of jokewads. 3.5/5 - Damned

This wad is so cool.

This WAD is neat. Really, it has fun enemies, the level is well designed and the stupidity of them newbs and trolls just amazes me. The final boss is tough, though. But this little joke WAD was cool to play through ! LEGENDARY

intresting game i wasnt around the doom community in 2004 but this game is still funny i guess

Somewhat amusing but the gameplay is very lacking. 2/5

Funny! Funny! Funny! :). Anybody who rates this as a serious wad should have their balls sqeezed so hard that they burst. 5/5 as a joke WAD!!

Haha! I love the part where the newbies run around in circles spouting dumb remarks. 4/5 for a joke wad. And not bad as a zdoom map either.

AQ bit on the goofy side,but still pretty good.

A very dissapointing wad for Kaiser stamdards. Definantly the weak point of the Kaiser_* series, given that the vast majority of this series is superb. Better luck next time.

Yeah, could've been longer; pretty funny.

A very funny joke wad! 5/5 By the way, what does it mean to "lure raw into the trap?"

Man, this wad kept me entertained for hours, definetly one of the best I've ever played! 5/5

It may be outdated, but still funny as hell.

Five Stars. Hate those n00bs. Owned and scared them for life :thumb: -KeksDose

Cool... but I think it might be longer. Nice one ;D

Very LAME...JK JK... Very Comical. 5/5 --The First 40 Year old Basement virgin lol

I had to cheat because it doesn't work properly with GZDoom, but god damn if i haven't laughed this hard since Mock 2! 5/5 stars

Nice wad! Although I don't get the injokes, I do get good gameplay and this has it. It's as though John Romero and Oscar Wilde collaborated to make a Doom WAD. :o)