Looking for your wad recommendations! (DTWID + No End In Sight etc.)

[hatehatehatehate]

Hi community. This is my first thread here, after lurking for several months. I need your advice on what to try out.

 

I'm drawn to the following keywords:

 - complex n clever layouts (Chris Hansen comes to mind)

 - height variation (enemies above and below)

 - non-linear design (more than one way to go)

 - less than 300 enemies per level (for performance)

 - fortresses with multiple entrances (personal fave)

 - old-school '94 vibe with locales (DTWID, No End In Sight etc)

 

I've done quite a bit of wad-hoarding lately. Mostly Cacoward lists, and random idgames searches...but yea, I just wanted to know what to play RIGHT NOW, and just start my own dialog with this amazing community. Give me one or two to check out? They can have as little as two keywords of interest.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

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Thank u all. I now have some direction. By all means, keep them coming. I'll add all these to my queue and randomly check on.

 

Thank u cannonball! All of these are now in rotation.

 - Fava Beans (already know it and adore)

 - No sleep for the dead (in collection already but never played, tried random map (E1M4) and it's totally in my zone)

 - Ultimate needs more detail (in collection already but never played, tried random map (E3M2) and it's totally in my zone)

 - Classic episode (same author as No Sleep For The Dead, so can assume it's IMZ)

 

Thank u joepallai! These four went into the mix.

 - Anomaly Report (already know it)

 - Terrace View (in collection but never played)

 - Unholy Realms (in collection but never played)

 - Doom Core (in collection but never played)

 

galileo31dos01

 - Mutabor (already tried it a few months back, and got ass handed to me. will re-try.)

 - Altitude (just grabbed and will check out)

Edited September 9, 2022 by SaucepanSF

[cannonball]

Some recommendations, especially given a couple of wads you have mentioned.

Fava Beans - https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/0-9/01fava

No sleep for the dead - https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/m-o/nos4dead

Ultimate needs more detail - https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/megawads/nmdu

Classic episode - https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/a-c/class_ep

 

There are plenty of others that I am sure will be mentioned below this.

Edited September 9, 2022 by cannonball

[joepallai]

You should give Valkiriforce's work a look

[galileo31dos01]

Anything by tourniquet should be up your alley, so maybe you can start with Altitude or Mutabor (or Miasma, though you asked for low monster counts).

[Kyka]

2 hours ago, joepallai said:

You should give Valkiriforce's work a look

 

I read the OP and my first thought was @valkiriforce also. Add Reverie and Eternally Yours to the list of amazing Valkiriforce megawads. (Except for the #$&^ teleport puzzle on map 08 of reverie iirc.)

 

Also Sinedie by Didy might be your thing. One of the great non linear levels ever. (there are two levels in the set, but the first is really quite remarkable.) Won a cacoward a decade ago.

 

Base Ganymede and Lunar Catastrophe are two great ultimate doom megawads also.

Edited September 9, 2022 by Kyka