Excellent Visual Themes You’ve Never Seen In Doom

[Jacek Bourne]

What is a visual theme to a map you’ve never seen in doom yet would really like to.

[continuum.mid]

Hard to say, I think it's all been done...

 

Maybe a rural village. Log cabins, a lush green mountain landscape, and some very angry inhabitants.

[Rudolph]

8 minutes ago, northivanastan said:

Maybe a rural village. Log cabins, a lush green mountain landscape, and some very angry inhabitants.

Do GZDoom games like Hedon and REKKR count?

Edited October 20, 2021 by Rudolph

[Foodles]

Well I think most of it has been done at this point however some themes that I, personally haven't seen much of/would like more of:

Underwater bases

Nepalese style Himalayan village

Greek/Roman style (I've seen plenty of Egyptian but not so much Roman)

Techbase (just kidding)

[Captain Ventris]

A coral underwater city, ala Longest Journey.

[thiccyosh]

There is one visual I'd like to see more of. That is Marble with vines and bloodfalls with some wood around it. Oddly specific? Yeah, kinda.

[Endless]

Sadly, because of the limitations of the engine, outdoor themes are quite rare to see. I don't think I've played any properly themed ''river'' or ''mountain''. Greco-roman is also quite rare, but there's a few cases like Earth. Realistic modern day towns or villages, kinda like cs_italy. Oh, and japanese themed WADs.

[leodoom85]

12 minutes ago, Endless said:

Greco-roman is also quite rare,

Hexen 2 textures would have some great use for that theme, at least some of them.

[MtPain27]

1 hour ago, northivanastan said:

Maybe a rural village. Log cabins, a lush green mountain landscape, and some very angry inhabitants.

 

20 minutes ago, Endless said:

Sadly, because of the limitations of the engine, outdoor themes are quite rare to see. I don't think I've played any properly themed ''river'' or ''mountain''. Greco-roman is also quite rare, but there's a few cases like Earth. Realistic modern day towns or villages...

 

You guys need to play Lost Civilization by Jaska

[Woolie Wool]

The IKblue theme from custom Quake maps would be cool in Doom.

[Ashurion Neonix]

1 hour ago, northivanastan said:

Hard to say, I think it's all been done...

 

Maybe a rural village. Log cabins, a lush green mountain landscape, and some very angry inhabitants.

So kind of like a more alpine, less swampy hexen?

[Jacek Bourne]

12 minutes ago, MtPain27 said:

 

 

You guys need to play Lost Civilization by Jaska

I’d love to hear what you have to say on this, considering your wide repertoire.

[Sena]

One thing I've never seen a map commit to from beginning to end is flesh, that one intestine texture doesn't see enough love

[baja blast rd.]

21 minutes ago, MtPain27 said:

 You guys need to play Lost Civilization by Jaska

 

This! I really hope the Doomworld Megawad Club gets around to it because more people should play that one. It's amazing. 

[thiccyosh]

2 hours ago, Sena said:

One thing I've never seen a map commit to from beginning to end is flesh

Map21 from Going Down does that.

[Jacek Bourne]

31 minutes ago, rd. said:

 

This! I really hope the Doomworld Megawad Club gets around to it because more people should play that one. It's amazing. 

Off topic, what happened to the dwminiwad club?

[DannyMan]

I would really liked to see a war-torn city in ruins.

[666shooter]

2 hours ago, Captain Ventris said:

A coral underwater city, ala Longest Journey.

It's not quite a whole city, but may I recommend DPB 36: Aquatic Wonder, for your undersea fancies?

[Captain Ventris]

3 minutes ago, 666shooter said:

It's not quite a whole city, but may I recommend DPB 36: Aquatic Wonder, for your undersea fancies?

I’ll have to check that out, thanks!

[Steveb1000]

I have this dream of one day creating a map where the theme is bases/airships floating in the sky of Jupiter, though I'll need to learn how to build a functioning door first... :( 

 

[Rudolph]

17 minutes ago, DannyMan said:

I would really liked to see a war-torn city in ruins.

I seem to remember Brutal Doom's Extermination Day featuring one or two such levels.

[Yumheart]

REDROCK environments, but with lotsa green slime instead of the typical blood- or lavafalls.

[INfront95]

Full biopunk like Scorn or just H.R Gieger style map . The only example which comes to mind is that unfinished map on alien spaceship

[LadyMistDragon]

Savanna-type environments, though probably quite hilly as well to make things interesting.

 

True suburbs. Supermarkets, picket fences, the works.

 

Something with a gas station. Probably a mountainous area, say Jackson Hole or Sun Valley.

[xdude_gamer]

No sort of colonial village or city of sorts. Some place like 1700s-era NYC or Pennsylvania. Would be a cool thing if someone made a Revolutionary War DOOM wad, where the enemies are replaced with redcoats, Hessians, and Tarleton's men.

[xdude_gamer]

1 minute ago, LadyMistDragon said:

Savanna-type environments, though probably quite hilly as well to make things interesting.

 

True suburbs. Supermarkets, picket fences, the works.

 

Something with a gas station. Probably a mountainous area, say Jackson Hole or Sun Valley.

How about these suburbs?

[Yumheart]

13 minutes ago, INfront95 said:

Full biopunk like Scorn or just H.R Gieger style map . The only example which comes to mind is that unfinished map on alien spaceship

Equinox MAP10 might be what you're looking for.

[Nikku4211]

I haven't seen this sort of architecture in Doom.

[Astronomical]

Id love to see more heaven themed wads, Eviternity is the only example I can think of and that was only for an episode.

[Yandere_Doomer]

21 minutes ago, Plank_Guy_89 said:

Id love to see more heaven themed wads, Eviternity is the only example I can think of and that was only for an episode.

yeah, a scenario like. "Heaven is under attack and God calls upon you to liberate Heaven"

or something like that.