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esselfortium said:
Plus, he was the original speedmapper :)

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esselfortium said:
Sandy Petersen, on the other hand, is a great level designer who was always full of ideas and trying to push the game in new directions. Romero, Hall, and McGee tended to have a set design formula that they relied on for all of their levels, but Sandy's maps are predominantly defined by experimentation. Some of his experiments were successes and others might be considered failures, but he brought a massive amount of variety to Doom 2, and is responsible for the majority of the levels in everyone's favorite game.

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Khorus said:
I don't like very many of his Doom 1 levels, I think he hit his stride with Doom 2.

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DoomUK said:
Underrated. He gets criticised quite a lot but I can never understand what people don't like about his work.

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His city maps don't even remotely look like cities and often don't make any sense.

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DooM_RO said:


While his maps ARE fun to play, they are often very ugly(Episode 2 and parts of EP3 are the exception).In Doom 2 most maps are brown, brown and...more brown!Even the brown is brown! His city maps don't even remotely look like cities and often don't make any sense. His maps are one of the reasons I dislike Doom 2 - because aside from better gameplay and some new stuff it doesn't feel like a sequel, more like an xpac. At the very least they could have reskinned the weapons.

There are some of his maps that I really enjoy(Tricks and traps) but a map has to look good in order to keep my interest and his maps are anything but aesthetically pleasing. Even the guys at Id thought so.

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esselfortium said:
McGee used a lot of browns

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Hellbent said:
Shortly after I started the Pandemonium Project I had the idea of starting The Petersen Project. I think that would be pretty fun. Basically a offshoot of DTWID but focusing specifically on Petersen's style. One thing I really liked about Petersen's levels (especially in Doom 1) was his frequent use of high ceilings to great effect.

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esselfortium said:

From a list like this, it sounds like you must really hate McGee's and Romero's maps too. Tons of brown and none of them have any resemblance to real places. They're all abstract videogamey structures that don't make sense outside of that context. Sandy's maps were generally the more vivid and colorful of the pack -- McGee used a lot of browns, and Romero used predominantly desaturated color combinations. So I'm confused by this post :P

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esselfortium said:

You mean like Doom II The Way id Did...?

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DooM_RO said:


But this is different! Yes Romero's E1 maps are very abstract and don't look like real places but they still give the IMPRESSION of a place while Petersen's maps don't really feel like anything at all.

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