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Alright I just wanna come in here to defend wit.wad
I REALLY liked it.
Don't be dissuaded by it's ugly screenshots and what not. I'm severely impressed with the author's audacity to upload his maps and not be intimidated by the doom community and today's society all together. There's something about his mapping that feels very "real" to me. He's not struggling to get the most downloads or to post screenshots that will entice us to play it, he's just mapping. Nothing about the wad feels very serious, especially as Never_Again quoted in the text file, he is in no way attempting to impress us. The wad itself just shouts "I don't care what you think about my maps, I'm just doing what I wanna do."
The maps are completely functional and some of them are unreasonably short, even got me to throw a few laughs at some of the things (there was a part where I could see a really small red dot all the way at the end of an open plain of grass, when I got there it was a small puddle of blood). The music is corny but enjoyable; I think my Sega Megadrive soundfont added to the music's quirky entertainment value. There doesn't appear to be anything the mapper did to "break" his maps. No inescapable pits, every puzzle is possible to figure out, etc.
I can imagine that even with the most heinous angry reviews that could possibly come as a result of this wad, the author has no interest in coming in here kicking and screaming to defend it. This is the kinda attitude that mappers probably had in 1994. Where people kinda showed up and made whatever just for fun and carried on with their lives instead of striving for perfection and notoriety in the community. I'm also happy that the mapper combined all his maps into a single wad, which is something I think Ruba should do instead of releasing a million uninspired single maps.
It's just a real shame to me that people put too much heart into their mapping instead of just doing what they wanna do and doing what they're good at. I encourage everyone to give What Is This a try just for the fun of it. It took me like 10 minutes to beat all the maps, the lack of detail left a lot for the imagination, and I was never intimidated by its difficulty (even if MAP01 has cyberdemons sniping from really high towers, it was still fun to play in a gimmicky sort of way) I don't know why it says ZDoom Compatible though.
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11-19-10 20:09 
