What was the first Megawad (custom level pack) you ever played in your life and how you got it?

[Poncho1]

Alien Vendetta. Pretty good start to fanmade WADs, if you ask me.

[ENEMY!!!]

I played quite a lot of custom Doom levels up until 2005 but don't recall taking on any megawads until 2006, when I tried out NeoDOOM on jDoom.  I think there's a strong argument that the jDoom version of NeoDOOM is superior to the (G)ZDoom version because it doesn't go overboard with the custom content.  In any case, I found much of it very enjoyable.  Shortly after that I tried out Requiem and 10 Sectors, among others.

 

I don't recall how or why I got NeoDOOM - I think it might have been on the basis of a positive review at DoomWadStation, but not sure.

Edited March 3, 2020 by ENEMY!!!

[Walter confetti]

Aliens Doom X (not related to the more well know Aliens WAD by Justin Fisher) and Heroes 2.

Edited March 3, 2020 by Walter confetti

[VanaheimRanger]

I didn't get into playing custom Doom wads for a very long time, I played Ultimate Doom several times from 1993 until 2010 when I FINALLY got to play Doom II.  In 2017 I got into Doom again after many years away and found the Doom subreddit.  People there told me to play Final Doom and then start playing community wads.  The one that kept coming up there over and over again was Ancient Aliens.  So, after playing through TNT and Plutonia for the first time, Ancient Aliens became my first custom megawad.  I have played it one more time since then and it will probably always hold a special place in my heart.

[Gokuma]

Probably a Star Wars Doom that was spanned across three floppy disks and I probably stopped playing it when an annoying level was repeated in an episode.

[nrofl]

I know that my first 2 wads i ever played were Zen Dynamics by xaser and Chosen by lil white mouse but first megawad was probably valiant

[Doom_Dude]

The first megawad I played was called Longwad which is 22 levels from 96. I found it on one of those shovelware CD's way back when.

[Boomslang]

you know?
 

i never played one.

[nrofl]

41 minutes ago, Boomslang said:

you know?
 

i never played one.

then what are you doin!

Edited March 4, 2020 by nue

[Solmyr]

I'm not 100% sure but the first fan made megawad i played was Hell Revealed II back in 2004. I don't remember where did i got it from, whether it was from idgames page directly, Doom Wad Station, an old french doom page, or a spanish speaking doom forum.

[Stale Meat]

For me I am 90% sure it had to have been BF_THUD! which I ended up finding on one of those D!Zone disks circa 2005-6.

 

My exposure to custom Doom levels originally came solely through a set of those disks (D!Zone 2,3, and Gold I believe) that I had ended up stumbling upon among my Dads collection of older computer things. So despite having been introduced to Doom around 2003 in the form of the Doom Collectors Edition I had ended up content with playing all the stuff included with that (Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom + some sick preview content for Doom 3) for about a year or so, followed by finding these shovelware disks filled with more levels than I knew what to do with. In hindsight a lot of the maps were garbage save a few goldies like Galaxia, UAC_DEAD and Artifact, but since I never figured out there was a lot more and a lot better levels online until 2007 at the earliest I ended up playing a good bit of garbage without a care. Even if it was an obvious deathmatch level void of monsters or a copy of E1M1 filled with explosive barrels and cyberdemons.

 

BF_THUD! stood out especially though because of all the maps it had. Before finding it the closest I came to a megawad was maybe an episode replacement or two followed by trying to cram as many maps that went in sequential order into Doom95 to 'make' a linear megawad experience.

[ReaperAA]

The first custom megawads I played were DTWiD and D2TWiD around 2014-ish. After these, it was Valiant.

[Devalaous]

My first individual levels were the free Cabal maps from Soundblock (having these as my first makes it no real wonder that hes my favourite Doom mapper), and my first Megawad was Vilecore, which I never finished.

 

[mrthejoshmon]

I played Nazi Auferstehung first.

 

I got it from DoomWadStation after it had a whole page dedicated to bigging it up.

 

I will never forgive them.

[Deadwing]

First one that I remember was Scythe

[Boomslang]

9 hours ago, nue said:

then what are you doin!

playing doom 4 on my switch

[fufu]

My first "megawad" is sigil, i played it after beating thy flesh consumed and before doom 2.

If that doesn't count my first one was tnt, if that also doesn't count my first one would be revolution, which i still haven't finished because i'm too lazy.

[Robo_Cola]

I'm 90% sure it was "Hacx", that Doom II total conversion from years ago.  After that it was either Memento Mori or Alien Vendetta.

[Tartlman]

I don't remember what my very first was, probably scythe 2 or something, but the first megawad to have a special place in my heart was Valiant. I had definitely been playing doom for a couple months before that though.

[TheNoob_Gamer]

Base Ganymede because I only owned Doom 1 at that time.

[AtimZarr1]

My first one was the Hell on Earth map pack that came with Brutal Doom v20. With the announcement of Doom 2016, I was interested in re-visiting the Classic games that I didn't play much of (I grew up with Doom 3). I remember my dad watching videos on Brutal Doom and I wanted to try it out, so after a putting it off for a really long time, I finally got around to playing it and went through its entire campaign.

 

After that, I think the first standalone megawad that I played was Scythe, although I played it with Brutal Doom at the time. Not sure when I played it but I chose Scythe since I saw it recommended and I was just looking for more Doom. Map 26 was something else.

[Rosh Fragger]

I believe the very first mega PWAD that I played was Coopbuild.wad made by Toke. It was probably my first day at ZDaemon back in 2010, and I happened to join a server running Coopbuildlm + Supercoop2d + Skins. Good times they were... got a whole lot of nostalgic vibes just now.

[silentzorah]

Icarus: Alien Vanguard.  Back when I was a keyboard-only plebian.

[WadMaster/1337]

Survive in Hell by JCV cuz this wad had map 33 Minecraf.............Doom. Yes "MineDoom"

[Juza]

The earliest I remember playing is Alien Vendetta. Still in love with it until this day.

[spd7693]

1999 - A friend of my grandma gifted her a Compaq to improve her work with the accounting schedule. (She used to be an accountant all her life.) Since he knew she had a 6-year old grandchild - me - it came with a trunk of games already installed. Final Doom TNT Evilution was amongst them. The movement had meant the game couldn't save, but this was the first Doom game I ever played. That's how I got to love TNT this much. 

 

2002 - We had moved out and had our own computer. In time I started missing Doom, so dad bought Doom and Doom 2 from the nearby game store. I played them then. 

 

2010 - I got into watching Doom speedruns out of nowhere and learned so many new things about the game. 

 

2012 - I no longer had the DOSBOX to play Doom, but I had my own laptop. I downloaded PrBoom+ and GlBoom+ and started playing the old games again. 

 

2014 - I finally got Plutonia after contacting fellow gamers. As a gift again. After finishing it three times I downloaded Memento Mori and it became the first Pwad I played. 

 

2015 - Memento Mori 2 - first run. Doomworld. Scythe - first run. Doomworld. 

 

2016 - Eternal Doom - first and I guess only ever run. Doomworld. 

 

2018 - Started making my own megawad. Map 30 (7 ready) is in progress. 

 

2019 - Inspired by a few comments in Doomworld I downloaded Requiem and Hell Revealed from here. My presumption on the game changed forever. 

 

2020 - Epic - first and I think only ever run. Doomworld. Alien Vendetta - first run. Doomworld. 

 

This is my history of playing Doom in a nutshell. 

Edited April 5, 2020 by spd7693

[SteelPH]

Requiem. I don't remember at all how I came across it back in the day.

[Pirx]

On 3/3/2020 at 10:39 PM, Capellan said:

 

 

Memento Mori was the first Doom 2 megawad I played.  I saw it announced on the Doom Usenet group, and went and got it from ftp.cdrom.com

 

this. downloaded it and went with it on diskettes.

[Eurisko]

SIGIL. I play Doom on consoles so this is really my first megawad when it dropped on PS4 in January.

[Deleted_Account]

I found it on a "Demon Gate 666 New Levels For DOOM & DOOM II". I don't remember the exact name, it was titled something along the lines Apocalypse.wad. It was a 9 level replacement for Knee-Deep In The Dead from the early 90's. The episode opened up with the player starting in a prison cell, then through some techbases, and hell. I remember the secret map being a massive cavern system with deep canyons. Lots of good memories!