oh hey. i'm new & in love

[stylo]

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if it's a game

 don't even stop me now

robert pollard

 

 

 

hey, doomworld. i bet you're wondering how i got h—

 

it was a dark and stormy night. no it wasn't. 

 

upon that fateful morn—too ostentatious, run it back.

 

up the stone steps i climbed—fuck, that's a song lyric. ok.

 

i (incidentally, and finally) got properly stuck into DOOM on its 30th after intermittent mucking about thru the years; let's say fate had a hand here, and i gotta tell you, i've really been suckin it down. 

 

from the day i booted up DOOM '93 in late december (after a splurge on the nintendo eshop xmas sale), it's been a daily thing. i banged through doom, doom 2, and the master levels in short-dose order: consider me absolutely, without a doubt, head over shotgun doom-pilled. 

 

now i find myself down to clown with some wads 'n mods, having been gracefully assisted in general by my new pal @esselfortium. i was indeed even guided by

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her vis-à-vis setting up dsda and such on my crusty, aging laptop. please don't ask her about the millions of questions i asked regarding DOOM; she just might tell you.

 

after lurking this place a bit, scenting a general air of welcoming and good vibes, for the most part, i figured i may as well sign up. here i am. 

 

DOOM really is something special: no mere historical curio, nor an archaic dry run which led to newer and better things; it is The Thing, the alpha and omega and so on, the ur-text. 

 

when i play it, i see not just the entire lineage of first-person shooters arcing and exploding up out of it, but games, period, perhaps all of them: i see the future, and knowing now what an unearthly, impossible, succulent outgrowth has spawned from this thing, i'm glad i can coexist with, and play around in that future, created and set to blow so long ago. 

a real depth-charge kinda thing. 

 

so: hello. DOOM is dope as fuck. 

[JustAthel]

Welcome to Mars, marine! I gotta ask since it's been a long time since I've been new to the game, how's the experience for you? What would you say are your favorite / most hated levels you've played through so far, whether in the base game or in modding?

Edited February 5, 2024 by JustAthel

[esselfortium]

Welcome to DW! It's been fun hearing your takes on the official releases recently, and I'm looking forward to hearing about other wads as you get around to checking them out. There is an infinite universe of Cool Stuff here.

[Klickach]

Welcome to the community! What did you play at this point? What ports did you use?
 

[Wo0p]

Whalec-... I mean haylow!

[Logamuffin]

Welcome! I love this thread, it’s so cute. I hope you find some good mods and enjoy your stay.

 

Also GBV rules!!!! Bee Thousand is the absolute best lo-fi record ever!

[stylo]

On 2/4/2024 at 10:58 PM, JustAthel said:

Welcome to Mars, marine! I gotta ask since it's been a long time since I've been new to the game, how's the experience for you? What would you say are your favorite / most hated levels you've played through so far, whether in the base game or in modding?

🫡 🔫  roger tango whisky foxhole 69-10 red chair comm stat asap yes sir sarge!! 🫡 

 

 The experience has been really good overall. If I'm looking at these as games, some of the great ones, which I am, I'd have to go with DOOM '93, were I to make a list. This is speaking strictly in vanilla terms: pacing, flow etc. 

 

Favourite levels... I haven't played the games more than once, so a lot of the titles (many of which are pretty generic, no?) are a blur. For DOOM, I think I'd rate E1 the highest in terms of flow, consistency. The ending was a surprise, too: wtf I just died out of nowhere? A neat way, in this nearly-nonexistent narrative, to get you onto the Shores of Hell.

 From E2, Containment Centre was memorable in that I accidentally exited into the secret level (and my first secret level). Said secret level was... a level; at least I got a bunch of stuff at the end. The best secret level IIRC was Fear. If it's the one I'm thinking of, it just felt like a good DOOM level and maybe shouldn't have been a secret.

 

Monster Condo also stood out to me, if only for the title. All these levels names (for the most part) are kind of deadly serious, but really DOOM is a campy b-movie, so why not a Monster Condo? Of course, the best b-movies often play it straight, which is a big part of the fun, but I was kinda like yeah, why not acknowledge the goofiness? Where do the monsters live?!

 

(I also quite liked E4. The beginning is tough to be sure, but, at least retrospectively I was kind of amazed at and appreciated how tiny E4M1 really is, how all of that was packed in there. Despite seeming to dig Romero's stuff now that I know who's who and who all made the maps, I didn't like E4M2 as much. The rest of the episode just felt like more good DOOM stuff.)

 

 With DOOM II, I felt it started super strong. Levels 1-8 were a real hot streak, and I remember really liking #8, Tricks and Traps. 

Then things get a bit blurry again. That game really sprawls. I wanna say I liked the Courtyard and the Citadel? I definitely liked The Living End as a proper closer.

 

As for what I didn't like...

DOOM: Slough of Despair. Felt like what it says on the tin.

DOOM II: the fucking Chasm, far and away. Also the Icon of Sin; if/when I replay the game I think I'll skip that one or cheat. 

 

The Master Levels... well, the cover art is sick. The levels ranged from ok to decent to ugh to fuck off.

 Having looked at the mappers, I'd say in order of quality: Tom Mustaine, Dr. Sleep, Tim Wilits, Sverre Kvernmo*, largeish gap, Jim Flynn, very large gap, Christen Klie (OH MY GOD STOP)

 

*Sverre's levels seem like they'd appeal to some... I suppose they're not bad. Express Elevator to Hell, even if I didn't love playing it and just kinda wanted TML to be over at that point, is at least a neat idea. 

 

As for extracurricular wads and mods, that's coming up next. As has been mentioned in here, I have a whole world to play around in and that's very exciting.

 

 This got a bit lengthy, and I seem to have written large swaths of it in an alternatingly stiff and formal fashion; I'm not exactly apologizing, because that's what happens when someone hands me a pen, but: 

 

tldr: doom rules, fuck the chasm and the icon of sin and approximately half the master levels

 

addendum: thus far I've played everything on Hurt Me Plenty

20 hours ago, Klickach said:

Welcome to the community! What did you play at this point? What ports did you use?
 

See above for the first part in painful detail; currently I'm DOOMing on my Switch, which is very cozy. I've got dsdsa doom set up on my shitty laptop, though I really need to fix my PC soon. 

19 hours ago, Wo0p said:

Whalec-... I mean haylow!

 

20 hours ago, esselfortium said:

Welcome to DW! It's been fun hearing your takes on the official releases recently, and I'm looking forward to hearing about other wads as you get around to checking them out. There is an infinite universe of Cool Stuff here.

 

Thank you guys for the warm welcomes! 🥺☺️

 

[stylo]

1 hour ago, Logamuffin said:

Welcome! I love this thread, it’s so cute. I hope you find some good mods and enjoy your stay.

 

Also GBV rules!!!! Bee Thousand is the absolute best lo-fi record ever!

Thank you! And thank you too for the welcome.

 

Hell yeah they do! But (argument instigation mode) is it really, or is it Alien Lanes? 🤔 I can never decide 

 

check out some of their other, less lofi stuff too if you haven't. so many records and spin-offs it's practically akin to this whole 30 year DOOM project if you want it to be 

 

gbv gbv gbv 🐦 🐜 ✈️ 🎸 

[SniffsMcFuggles]

Better late than never......

[SteelPH]

Yo.

[Astar]

Nice to meat meet you here, Stylo!

[IHave10Shells]

A bit late, but welcome to doomworld :)