This is my first post, and I thought it would be apt to do it here, as myhouse.wad brought me back to Doom 27 years later.
I was just a runt when Doom released, and to say it consumed my childhood would be an understatement. For some 3 years I played Dooms 1 and 2 ad nauseum, and could have probably recreated both games pretty reasonably from memory. By the time Final Doom released though, I was squarely onboard the Quake hype train, and never looked back.
That is, until myhouse.wad exploded on the internet, and I found myself downloading GZDoom. I think everything that could be said about this wad has already been said, so after I finished it I was eager to explore more immersive Doom experiences, and by someone's recommendation in this thread I downloaded Grove (which I liked a lot), and then Eviternity. The latter kicked my ass so hard, I felt compelled to go back and uv-max all IWADs from scratch.
Fast-forward a few months, I have now beaten Doom 1 (and ep 4, which I hadn't played as a kid), Doom 2, TNT, Plutonia and SIGIL, and am now working my way up xvertigox's WAD progression list, currently having a blast with Base Ganymede. I spent the last 6 months playing nothing but Doom, falling in love with it all over again, and with so many WADs to play I don't see myself stopping anytime soon. Just to take a quick break I fired up Borderlands yesterday, and was baffled by how slow and clunky it felt. It's like a veil has been lifted, and I can see how much was lost in the past few decades.
Anyway, I imagine the myhouse hype has died long ago, but I'll always be grateful for it bringing me back to my roots.
