Which map has your favorite smaller living spaces or houses that are set in a broader environment?

[baja blast rd.]

To clarify what I mean by "smaller living spaces or houses that are set in a broader environment." 

 

*clears throat*

 

- myhouse.pk3 and myhouse.wad don't count

 

Neither would A Visit to the Creep Doctor, or most oldschool Myhouse maps.

 

Those are all, or close enough to, singular houses that are the entire point of the map (diegetically at least, even if not in the editor). 

 

I don't want to pick on the named maps or anything -- just trying to define the bounds of the thread, and those are some recent very recognizable maps to do it with. This has been on my thread idea list for longer than those three maps have been out.

 

- For positive examples of what does count, think structures like this group from Avactor, which often are so simple they have only one room: 

 

 

Or on the larger end, many of the houses of Lost Civilization, which can be complex but are usually just a small portion of the overall layout: 

 

 

This smaller or simpler type of house tends to have a very different purpose and aligns with a different experience than the "whole map is one house" type, and it's these that I have been thinking about lately. 

 

Out of all the levels you've played that contain them, which level is your absolute favorite at using smaller living spaces like these and why?

Since this is a thread I started, all replies must be 500-word mini-essays minimum. :P (I'm kidding.) 

[Maribo]

The end goal of Map11 of GOODWAD is to climb a mountain so you can return to your cozy shelter at the summit:

Spoiler

 

Complete with accompanying doomcute outhouse.

[OliveTree]

in terms of "what is the best interior space enclosed by the rest of the map", a lot of the examples that come to mind for myself are the ones in the og games. The infamous building w/ an arrow pointing to it in Doom 2 is not the best in that game, though. My money has to go to the bizarre guts house in Suburbs. Here's a clip of BigMacDavis walking through that building: https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx9mgF7VGEj7_bKhYHx8BFC0PO8ORX91Ml?si=iepYN_67-QJ4TdDd

 

 

Idk. This thing has been living rent free in my head for years.

 

If it has to be a living space of some kind, specifically, Doom has very few examples, if only because there arent a lot of spaces in Doom that are actually like, supposed to be something specific. But the same map as mentioned above does have Sandy Petersen's house. So that's cool (and relatively well known by now).

 

 

As for my favorite example of this, it's tricky, but I'd have to take this moment to highlight the entire second act of the DUMP Episode 2 map "throughfare" by mapper eevee (possibly this @Eevee? but im not sure), which is full to the brim with little doom building's interiors and the doomcutes therewithin.

Like this pinky taking a bath lol.

 

The reason it stands out to me so much is that you teleport into one of these buildings without realizing you'd seen it from the outside before until you find the exit. It's a very striking moment.

 

Edited September 10, 2023 by OliveTree

[Xyzzу]

Old, but:

Spoiler

 

 

[Sneezy McGlassFace]

Two came to mind:

The shed in Overboard MAP02 with fuel canister for your boat

Spoiler

 

And Rush MAP04, the red-key cabin.

Spoiler

 

[Zulk RS]

I don't remember the map name but honestly a lot of the city maps from Hell on Earth Starter pack/ Extermination Day can count.

 

[DuckReconMajor]

the small bedroom in Skulltiverse MAP27 overlooking the void 

 

[Plut]

Voodoo Guns by Eternal: both levels are big city maps with lots of beautiful buildings you need to explore.

[Jayextee]

Nobody wanna live in those lush as fuck Auger:Zenith apartments? Because I would. Without demon infestation, of course.

[Andrea Rovenski]

Hellbound map01 has some great environments both, apartments with rooms, as well as architecture around them outside to fill in the realism a bit.  

Spoiler

 

 

[Pechudin]

There is the mansion in Hellbound MAP07: Woods is nice.

[Breezeep]

The majority of TNT2 Devilution's MAP30 has a bunch of real comfy living spaces in what's essentially a colony built inside a massive organic being:

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

[Uncle 80]

Requiem map 13, and many of the Batman Doom levels. There were also some very neat-looking "real" places in Hellcore 2.0, allthough those weren't the best levels to play.

[Somniac]

MAP01 of Ray Mohawk's Manic Monday. 

[Azure_Horror]

7 hours ago, baja blast rd. said:

A Visit to the Creep Doctor [does not count]

But what if instead of the Creep Doctor we visit Dr. Marina Katarina Berger, an Austrian-Hungarian bird from 1898?

This is Map 01 of Austrian Avian Association, a Boom total conversion mapset by @MundyC.

Austrian Avian Association has many cozy living spaces! But the house from map 01 is my favorite.

Edited September 10, 2023 by Azure_Horror

[Naarok0fkor]

I don't have many urban or housing settings in the WADs I played. Brutal Doom is probably the best...

[Sena]

From Monster Hunter Ltd (Part II)

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

[Pechudin]

And also, how could I forget - the house segment from MAP08 (or was it 10?) of A.L.T. - Recall is its name, I think.

[LadyMistDragon]

The opening building of Map 02 from Sacrament (no I'm NOT spelling the name out but its a stretch anyway)

 

Farmhouse in The Farmhouse from Lost Civilization.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 11, 2023 by LadyMistDragon

[galileo31dos01]

Thought of these two right away:

 

 

This is from Bellatrix by franckFRAG, a beautiful wad with tons of doomcute of the cutest quality I've ever seen. Many you find in isolated places that feel calm, like here. Something that sticks out for me is how you're supposed to grab the soulsphere, it's not obvious at all. This area is secretly hidden so go look for it for yourself :)

 

 

I made this. I wanted to make a small building where you can still see the skybox over it, a simple way of faking "realism" in vanilla. It's not cozy at all, in fact a cacodemon will spawn inside at a certain point. The corpses are his collection, and he's proud of it. 

Edited September 11, 2023 by galileo31dos01

[Kwisior]

These log cabins in Speedtraps for the Bee Kingdom are cozy.

 

Also this classic example from Hell Revealed.

[Serathis]

Twisted Neighbourhood from Extermination Day/Brutal Doom Starer Pack (works surprisingly well with Hideous Destructor)