What is your favorite doom episode?

[BUYXRAYS]

I would be interested to hear peoples opinion on this. What episode from doom do you enjoy the most?

 

Knee-Deep in the Dead,

The Shores of Hell, (my old favorite)

Inferno,

or Thy Flesh Consumed. (My new favorite)

Edited August 16, 2023 by BUYXRAYS

[Maximum Matt]

Thy Baron-Fireball Consumed.

[Yousuf Anik]

All of them I enjoyed, each of them gave me different taste!

Edited July 10, 2023 by Yousuf Anik

[SMG_Man]

Episode 2. My runner-up is Episode 1; although it has fairly tight level designs, the extremely limited bestiary and repetitive aesthetics hold it back just enough for me to prefer Episode 2 as a whole.

[Herr Dethnout]

Knee-Deep in the Dead.

 

I literally know everything about it, and never gets boring.

[Loud Silence]

What is your favorite thread about favorite Doom episode?

[Foodles]

You can do polls on here for this sort of thing.

[Lonespacemarine]

Knee deep in the dead

perfect, down to the last minute details

Shores of hell 

Penguinz scream, yeah baby 

Inferno

I mean it's alright

Thy flesh consumed

I mean it's alright

Sigil

I mean it's alright 

 

[Tiramisu]

I used to like episode 1 the most, but now the maps feel a bit samey to me, with only a few stand-outs (Computer Station and Central Processing are my favorites). Conversely, lately I've come to appreciate episode 3 a lot more, which used to be my least favorite! Of course it has Hell Keep, by far my least favorite DOOM 1 map, but aside from that there's just a lot of bangers there like Pandemonium or House of Pain. I actually like Unholy Cathedral and Limbo too, which is probably the make-it-or-break-it point for most people regarding episode 3.

 

Episode 2 and 4 are mixed bags in my opinion, but 4's highs are very high so it's probably tied with episode 3 for my favorite.

[Somniac]

I know E1 will always be the most iconic, but I've always slightly preferred E2. Containment Area is my favourite map in the entire game, and despite the relative flatness of the maps the episode overall really hits the mark. I also love seeing PWADs that do the E2 theme, big shout out to Nihility: Infinite Teeth for taking the abstraction and spookiness of this style to what feels like its logical extreme, upping the challenge and verticality significantly in the process. 

 

Next favourite is probably E4. There's something about that sky texture that feels cosy, but unsettling. I love how Hell Beneath goes straight for the jugular, with the downbeat music and aggressive combat and almost zero regard for the player's enjoyment. Perfect Hatred ups the ante even further, though personally I've always been the most fond of Sever the Wicked and Against Thee Wickedly....and there's a slew of killer PWADs that do great work with this style. Slith, Draft Excluder, and Crusades come to mind.

[LuzRoja29]

i like inferno because it looks cool

[Jayextee]

Didn't we already have this topic like a hundred times?

Anyway, Inferno AKA the Sandy Episode. Because someone has to.

[Deleted User bye]

All are absolutely amazing! Although I honestly prefer the first one, just so fun and easy to blast through everything.

[Gougaru]

Thy flesh all the way 

[espilka]

Out of the five UD episodes, it'd still have to be E2.

[Redneckerz]

On 7/10/2023 at 2:14 AM, BUYXRAYS said:

I would be interested to hear peoples opinion on this. What episode from doom do you enjoy the most?

 

Knee-Deep in the Dead,

The Shores of Hell, (my favorite)

Inferno,

or Thy Flesh Consumed.

Why are you interested in an answer that has been given many times prior? 

[HumanBean]

Knee deep in the dead for sure

(if we are counting sigil i would put it at close second)

[Eurisko]

Knee Deep In The Dead. 
Holds the most nostalgia for me, takes me back to those PS1 days in the 90’s every time. 

Edited July 11, 2023 by Eurisko

[St. Mildly Annoyed]

For me it's inferno. It has my favorite depiction of hell out of any of the doom games, with its fleshy, gore-filled level design mixed with the bright, crimson red sky giving a distinct feeling that you're in a place worse than a lake of fire. The intermission screen exemplifies this feeling by showing how hell can be divided into regions, with a burning pit just being one of many. The design of hell also makes the gameplay more fun for me, as it gives a sense that you've become a demigod for even surviving the entry into hell, and now you're smoking greater demons left and right. The whole experience feels both epic and impactful, from beginning to end.

Edited July 11, 2023 by St. Mildly Annoyed

[Sesamia]

Episode 2, with Episodes 1 & 4 pretty close behind since I really like Ultimate Doom as a whole.  Episode 3 is just okay.

[Solmyr]

Knee Deep in the Dead, played the shareware episode a thousand times before getting the full experience.

[Geqoph]

Wow, didn't expect Episode 2 to appear in this topic at all. ^{I thought I was special...}

Anyways, definitely Episode 2. For some reason I can actually imagine people working in their everyday jobs in these, let's face it, primitive maps. Also the concept of a dimension slowly taking over another one chunk by chunk seems really cool to me, and really reminds me of the first Half-Life which I love.

Edited July 12, 2023 by Geqoph

[nicolas monti]

Knee deep in the dead

 

Shores of hell as the second one.

I've had a unique experience with E2. I first got the SNES version which lacks Containment Area, Command Center and Spawining Vats.

Some time after that I played the PC version doom1 in my brother's in law home and discovered Containment Area but I didn't have enough time to explore the remaining maps.

So I was craving those three maps like a year until I purchased my full copy, no internet at that time, it was the 90s.

[Firedust]

Episode 2 every day of the week.

[Geniraul]

Despite episode 1 having some really precious maps like E1M3, E1M4, E1M6 and E1M10, and episode 4 IMO having even more of such like E4M2, E4M9, E4M3, E4M4 and E4M8, I would say The Shores of Hell. Containment Area and Deimos Lab are absolute masterpieces and are filled with a unique atmosphere that is healthy to inhale ;) Command Center and Spawning Vats add to the ambiance, too.

[rzh]

The Shores of Hell.

It has the best textures and atmosphere out of all the episodes.

Second place goes to Knee-Deep, I don't like replaying it because of the easy difficulty and the MIDIs sound grating to me now, but I still like the textures.

Inferno is underrated.

[TheSlipgateStudios]

The Shores Of Hell gang

[Maximum Matt]

On 7/12/2023 at 8:01 AM, St. Mildly Annoyed said:

The design of hell also makes the gameplay more fun for me, as it gives a sense that you've become a demigod for even surviving the entry into hell

That's some good-ass headcanon, sir

 

On 7/14/2023 at 1:50 AM, Geniraul said:

E1M10

Aw hell no

[Geniraul]

C: I like to travel through the maze there, as long as I keep everything organized :P

 

 

Edited July 16, 2023 by Geniraul

[Shakariki Heisenberg]

knee deep and sigil