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What's Your Favourite Wad From Every Year You've Been Playing Doom?


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Simple question. 

 

-You get one fav for each year and one runner up.

 

-Generally, go based on the year it was would have received a Cacoward. For example: Eviternity came out 2018 but was too late for that years cacowards so it's a 2019 release.

 

-Spoiler your list so this thread isn't a nightmare to navigate.

 

For me, I first got into playing through Brutal Doom in 2012 but didn't start playing megawads until 2018. Still, I'm going with the 2012 date as it gives me more to work with, so my list would like this:

 

 

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  • 2012
  1. Base Ganymede
  2. Combat Shock 2

 

  • 2013
  1. Swim With the Whales

  2. Back to Saturn X: Episode 1

 

  • 2014
  1. Going Down
  2. Resurgence

 

  • 2015
  1. Sunlust
  2. Valiant

 

  • 2016
  1. Ancient Aliens
  2. Nihility: Infinite Teeth

 

  • 2017
  1. Stardate 20X7
  2. Legacy of Heroes

 

  • 2018
  1. Magnolia
  2. Ashes 2063: Episode 1

 

  • 2019
  1. Eviternity
  2. Paradise

 

  • 2020
  1. Antaresian Reliquary

  2. Running Late 2

 

  • 2021 (Jesus Christ this year was hard)
  1. Heartland

  2. Fractured Worlds

 

  • 2022
  1. Overboard
  2. Nostalgia

 

  • 2023
  1. Head Trauma
  2. Fallen Leaves

 

 


 

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2008: XXXI Cybersky (it was really the only one released that year I played at the time

2020: 180 Minutes Pour Vivre, Runner-Up: Rowdy Rudy 2

2021: Arrival, Runner-Up: Infested

2022: The Magenta Spire, Runner-Up: Elementalism Phase 1

2023: DBK03, Runner-Up: Austrian Avian Association

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Mine is pretty funny because starts near the beginning but didnt get full blown until 2020

1994-- Doom ShareWare

1996-- Heretic ( its still doom Engine)

2007-- Doom 2

THis is where it gets wacky 

 

2020-- Hellbound, Icarus Vanguard

2021-- Mars War, UAC Vinur Prime Research Base

2022-- Extermination Day, FreeDoom Phase 2

2023-- Ashes Afterglow Vaccinated, Doom Tribute Project

 

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This took me a while.

 

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1994    Doomsday of UAC        Wasteland series
1995    Mines of Titan        The Inner Circle
1996    The Secret Path        Icarus
1997    Eternal Doom        Kansam's Trial
1998    Cyberdreams        Alpha 1 Trilogy
1999    Demonfear        Batman Doom
2000    Pleiades        Atomic Tomb
2001    Revolution        Null Space
2002    Caverns of Darkness    2002 A Doom Odyssey
2003    Void            Daedalus
2004    Deus Vult        Phobos Revisited
2005    Suspended in Dusk    Operation: Arctic Wolf
2006    Phobia - The Age    The Singularity Complex
2007    Back to Basics        Genesis of Descent
2008    Eternal Doom IV        Cold as Hell
2010    Curse of D'sparil    Valhalla
2011    Double Impact        The Phobos Directive
2012    Masters of Chaos    Winter's Fury
2013    Kuchitsu        Stomper
2014    Plasmaplant        Mayan Mishap
2015    Elf Gets Pissed        Monument
2016    Tech Gone Bad        Echelon
2017    Saturnine Chapel    The Given
2018    Umbra of Fate        Ashes 2063
2019    Sigil            Wormwood
2020    Quest for the Crytal Skulls    Akeldama
2021    Carnage Galore III    Arrival
2022    Jamal Jones Trilogy    The Thing you can't defeat
2023    Ad Mortem        Octate

 

Some of these choices will probably raise a few eyebrows. It makes me realize the number of wads I played each year is very variable, in some the choice was so easy because I've played so few in the first place. 2020 and 2021 were probably the hardest because there were so many good things in both years, and so many wads that appeal directly to my tastes. I changed the 2020 lineup half a dozen times, and I'm still not happy with it. 2021 first pick was the first one I made for the whole list (technically CG3 is still unfinished, but that was the year of the latest big content update) and then I spent forever making up my mind for the runner-up. I've played almost nothing from this year, I guess this will eventually change.

 

I hesitated about including IWADs then decided for full PWAD selection (Romero ended up on the list twice anyway...). I'm happy how many times Heretic shows up, even Hexen is represented.

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3 hours ago, brick said:

This took me a while.

 

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1994    Doomsday of UAC        Wasteland series
1995    Mines of Titan        The Inner Circle
1996    The Secret Path        Icarus
1997    Eternal Doom        Kansam's Trial
1998    Cyberdreams        Alpha 1 Trilogy
1999    Demonfear        Batman Doom
2000    Pleiades        Atomic Tomb
2001    Revolution        Null Space
2002    Caverns of Darkness    2002 A Doom Odyssey
2003    Void            Daedalus
2004    Deus Vult        Phobos Revisited
2005    Suspended in Dusk    Operation: Arctic Wolf
2006    Phobia - The Age    The Singularity Complex
2007    Back to Basics        Genesis of Descent
2008    Eternal Doom IV        Cold as Hell
2010    Curse of D'sparil    Valhalla
2011    Double Impact        The Phobos Directive
2012    Masters of Chaos    Winter's Fury
2013    Kuchitsu        Stomper
2014    Plasmaplant        Mayan Mishap
2015    Elf Gets Pissed        Monument
2016    Tech Gone Bad        Echelon
2017    Saturnine Chapel    The Given
2018    Umbra of Fate        Ashes 2063
2019    Sigil            Wormwood
2020    Quest for the Crytal Skulls    Akeldama
2021    Carnage Galore III    Arrival
2022    Jamal Jones Trilogy    The Thing you can't defeat
2023    Ad Mortem        Octate

 

Some of these choices will probably raise a few eyebrows.

No eyebrows raised here. I made this post with the hopes there'd be some less popular picks as you get an idea of someone's taste better than just seeing the same popular wads. Also it's awesome you managed to get some Heretic on there. Every time there was an awesome Heretic wad there was one Doom wads just above it for me. If I let myself have two runners up there'd be a lot more Heretic lol.

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Some years I'll point out more just because)

1994 - Doomsday of UAC --- Dante's gate
1995 - Fava beans --- Punisher
1996 - Perdition's Gate --- Plutonia

1997 - Mordeth --- Strain
1998 - GothicDM 2 --- Cyberdreams
1999 - Crusades --- The Darkening
2000 - Demonfear --- Vrack
2001 - Alien Vendetta --- Vrack 2
2002 - UDM1 --- Europa 3
2003 - Scythe - Vrack 3
2004 - Tremor --- The ZDoom Community Map Project Take 1
2005 - Scythe 2 --- Suspended in Dusk
2006 - Crucified Dreams --- Hellcore 2.0
2007 - Aeternum --- Knee Deep In ZDoom
2008 - ZPack --- Plutonia 2 --- UDMX
2009 - Scythe X --- Duel40

2010 - No Rest For The Living --- Threshold of Pain --- Speed of Doom

2011 - Plutonia Revisited Community Project --- Vanguard

2012 - Doom the way id did --- BTSX

2013 - The ZDoom Community Map Project Take 2 --- Hellbound

2014 - The Adventures of Square --- Rush

2015 - Valiant --- Sunlust

2016 - No Sleep For The Dead --- TNT: Resistance

2017 - Moonblood --- Running Late --- Brigandine --- TNT Revilution

2018 - Dimension of the Boomed --- Deathless --- Doom 64 for Doom II --- Eviternity

2019 - Hell-Forged --- Paradise

2020 - Running Late 2 --- Akeldama

2021 - Heartland --- Cydonia --- Skulltiverse --- Hellevator --- TWANGO1

2022 - Machete --- A Doom Odyssey 2022 --- Plutonia Revisited Community Project 2 --- Sign of Torment --- Nostalgia
2023 - Eviternity 2 --- Sigil 2 --- Nostalgia 2 --- PSX Doom: The Forgotten Chapter --- I C H I N I C H I
2024 - Evil Returns --- Escape From Sunveil Starport

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Here's mine:

 

1993:
Doom Shareware

 

1994:
Aliens-TC

 

1995:
Doom 2

 

1996:
Dweller2 and JASPARS3

 

1997:
Dawn of the Dead

 

2020:
SIGIL
Rowdy Rudy II: Powertrip 

 

2021:
Bourgeois Deathmatch

 

2022:
2022 A Doom Odyssey
Disorder

 

2023:
SIGIL 2

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Interesting idea for a topic, especially since I've joined when the community's output went through the roof.

 

2020: Running Late 2 for the first place. I think I'll go with Rowdy Rudy II, I was also thinking about Akeldama, but I've played it a long time ago and don't remember much.

 

2021: PUSS IX: Mapping at Warpspeed is an easy winner, but there was so many great wads released that year I could list 5 runner-ups. I'll go with Auger;Zenith, but Skulltiverse, Heartland and Cydonia were also strong contenders, this was a great year for mapping.

 

2022: PRCP 2 was my favourite from that year, followed closely by The 10x10 Project.

 

2023: To be honest, I haven't played much from that year, as I was more focused on catching up with older releases. Tetanus wins by default, followed by Ichinichi. This is likely a subject to change as I get around to play more recent releases.

 

2024: Can I count Eviternity II when it hasn't had a final release yet? Second place goes to 0x0.

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