2019 CACOWARD PREDICTIONS?

[st0agie]

Howdy, with the awards in just five days, what are your guys current predictions?

 

It's obvious Sigil will be in it, for sure.

[Please Delete This Account]

"Eviternity" by Dragonfly

[st0agie]

Just now, AD009 ZA001 said:

"Eviternity" by Dragonfly

Well yes, that too of course.

 

 

[Revenant100]

Doom Eternal for the Mordeth Award. Heyooo!

[TheNoob_Gamer]

1 hour ago, AD009 ZA001 said:

"Eviternity" by Dragonfly

Wasn't it released in 2018?

[elend]

A Jimmy megaWAD.

[Gaia74]

Eviternity
Sigil
Paradise
Slaughter Spectrum

Hurt
Alien Bastards
Mapwhich
Doom 4 Vanilla

Bloom

 

at least 3 will be cacowards

 

[rehelekretep]

i feel very out of the loop - i cant think of another wad!

Edited December 6, 2019 by rehelekretep

[ReaperAA]

4 hours ago, TheNoob_Gamer said:

Wasn't it released in 2018?

 

On 10th of December (the same day when 2018 cacowards were announced). So Eviternity qualifies for 2019 cacowards.

 

Anyways, my predictions for cacoward winners:

 

The wads that are almost guaranteed to win:

- Eviternity (Because its just THAT good + it is first wad to showcase OTEX)

- Sigil (Because of Romero)

 

The wads that have a really good chance to win:

- Alienated

- Lost Civilization

- Lunar Catastrophe

 

The wads that have some possibility to win:

- Doom Zero

- Deathless

- Sinergy

- Bloodspeed

- Faithless

- The Wayfarer

- DBP13: Alien Bastards

- The Slaughter Spectrum

 

Other awards possibilities:

- D4V (for best gameplay mod category)

- OTEX (Best artistic work)

Edited December 6, 2019 by ReaperAA

[baja blast rd.]

54 minutes ago, TheNoob_Gamer said:

Wasn't it released in 2018?

 

3 minutes ago, ReaperAA said:

On 10th of December (the same day when 2018 cacowards were announced). So Eviternity qualifies for 2019 cacowards.

 

Additionally there is a cushion to ensure thorough judgment, meaning the eligible period stretches from one mid-November to the next. 

 

 

[SiFi270]

As well as D4V, Slayer's Rampage may have a chance for best gameplay mod. I forget if GMOTA's already won a cacoward, but if not, v1.4's release seems like a good excuse to give it one now.

 

I'm hoping Hell Forged gets the Mordeth Award, since it's what ultimately became of Demon Eclipse.

 

EDIT: Oh. GMOTA won the previous one. How could I forget?

Edited December 6, 2019 by SiFi270

[Pegleg]

2 hours ago, Stoagie said:

It's obvious Sigil will be in it, for sure.

 

19 minutes ago, ReaperAA said:

- Sigil (Because of Romero)
 

 

I wouldn't assume that Sigil will win just because Romero released it. He won an award for Tech Gone Bad and it was the "11th Cacoward" of that year. He didn't win an award for Phobos Mission Control (true, they were released in the same year). I suspect that if he does win an award this year, it will be another "11th Cacoward" so as not to take away a slot from the rest of the community.

 

19 minutes ago, ReaperAA said:

- OTEX (Best artistic work)

 

One of the awards being presented to OTEX (for something) seems extremely likely to me.

[Poncho1]

NoYe, definitely. 

[Graf Zahl]

Eviternity is a safe bet, it was far and away the best and most high profile mod of the last 12 months.

I personally don't care for Sigil at all (in fact I don't think it's even that great) but the Romero factor will probably enough to make it cross the finish line.

Deathless definitely deserves a win - this is the rare breed of retro mod that really managed to reproduce what Doom was all about in 1993.

Faithless is also high on my personal list of favorites, simply the best Heretic-based mod in a long, long time (if not ever), but giving Jimmy two mapping Cacowards seems unlikely. Of these two I am leaning more toward Faithless  because it tries to break out of the box of normal Doom mapping. He definitely should get the Mapper of the Year Cacoward for these two and his past work.

The final one I'd predict is Hurt - I haven't played most of the recent ones yet so cannot give an opinion.

Edited December 6, 2019 by Graf Zahl

[RonnieJamesDiner]

Must be tough being a Cacoward judge. This is the first year I've really been around enough / aware enough / played enough to actually be watching in anticipation of these results. Sitting here thinking, "wow, how on earth will they even decide". Must be like this every year though.

[FrancisT218]

I predict Hell-Forged to at least get a runner up (i.e. has some chance for a Caco) as opposed to just Mordeth. @ReaperAAhas a pretty good list to coincide with my thoughts otherwise.

 

There will be more than in that list though I'm guessing, probably a full ten runner ups. Mass Extinction, Verdant Citadel, Hurt, Remnant, Mapwich, Ozonia definitely some chance for instance (not all the possibilities I could think of - just a half dozen that came to mind first & at that point it's a list of ~20).

Edited December 6, 2019 by FrancisT18

[Doomkid]

Sigil and Eviternity are shoe-ins. I’m really wondering what’s going to win the multiplayer award in particular.. It’s gotta be NeonDM I assume. I first played it like a year ago during testing so I forgot April was when it was finally released! Such a beautiful wad.

 

EDIT: oh yeah, if Noiser’s D4V isn’t a winner these things are busted!!

Edited December 6, 2019 by Doomkid

[antares031]

I really want to see ukiro, winning the Creator of the Year award.

[Phobus]

I'm pretty out of the loop this year, but even without playing it, I like Eviternity's chances as it's been talked about so much since release. SIGIL seems like a fair bet to at least be mentioned, D4V has to get some recognition (beyond our adulation) and OTEX is another landmark for the year. I'd be surprised if one of Big Ol' Billy's DBPs doesn't get a nod in some fashion... Other than that, it's a crowded field. Even not playing much of what I've seen, I've still played a lot of good stuff this year and would struggle to pick a top 10. If the cut-off really was mid-November, then we're already looking promising for next year as well, courtesy of Doomkid and also the DB Krew!

[seed]

Eviternity and Sigil are a given, I'll be shocked if none of them win anything.

 

Apart from that, I've played through plenty of wads this year so I've caught much of the hot stuff I think, and from that I'd expect to see Faithless/Deathless, Alienated, Slaughter Spectrum/Mapwich, Hurt, Verdant Citadel, Lunar Catastrophe, The Wayfarer, and also the OTEX texture pack. @ReaperAA's list is pretty spot on imo.

[pcorf]

Eviternity and 9 others.

[NuMetalManiak]

My main prediction is that it will be a wonderful read. It won't be as awesome as the previous cacowards, since it was a 25th and there was more topics to be had for a special anniversary, but for the 26th anniversary regardless of whatever wins it would still promise us lots of great objective reviews of the winners and runners-up.

[Master O]

Graf Zahl hasn't won anything for GZdoom?  

 

[Gez]

5 hours ago, SiFi270 said:

I'm hoping Hell Forged gets the Mordeth Award, since it's what ultimately became of Demon Eclipse.

Demon Eclipse itself had its root in Hellstorm, an even older project.

 

 

Myself I'm rooting for Verdant Citadel.

[Doom Factory]

My vote is going to eviternity

[Tartlman]

Eviternity is an obvious winner, yeah.

 

The only 2019 wad that i've really played this year is lost civilization, which is pretty great! I think it might win.

 

Not too sure about who's gonna win the espi award. I think that OTEX deserves an award though!

 

I think that D4V might win the machaward, just because creating a mod like that is, well, creative and unusual.

[Andromeda]

At least 10 WADs will be awarded a Cacoward.

[gaspe]

10 hours ago, Graf Zahl said:

Deathless definitely deserves a win - this is the rare breed of retro mod that really managed to reproduce what Doom was all about in 1993. 

I don't mean to say anything about the wad because I only played few maps of it, but I think there so much irony in this post.

[Not Jabba]

10 hours ago, RonnieJamesDiner said:

Must be tough being a Cacoward judge. This is the first year I've really been around enough / aware enough / played enough to actually be watching in anticipation of these results. Sitting here thinking, "wow, how on earth will they even decide". Must be like this every year though.

It is, yeah. I think most people play a lot fewer releases per year than we do, and it's pretty easy to like something and think that it should get an award; but then what happens if you also like 30 other things? It takes a lot of context to appreciate how hard it is to narrow everything down, so I appreciate you saying this.

 

As an exercise, you could count up everything that someone has been really excited about in this whole thread and the whole mentionation thread, and in the release threads for various project, and then subtract 20 from that number (or maybe slightly more than 20, if you're counting some of the specialty awards). That's how many things are getting snubbed.

[Mayomancer]

I was really out of Doom stuff this year, am waiting for the cacowards to catch up