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Pure Hellspawn said:
which megawad is this?

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insanoflex312 said:
"Jesus christ, this wad sucks. Overuse of hitscanners (especially in open areas, where the only recourse is to pray that the RNG favors you) and ridiculous traps that are literally a binary "do you know about it in advance? If so, run out of it and don't take any damage; if not, you die" make it play like a turd, and the overuse of brown makes it look like one, too."

This is actual criticism. Troll comments would be something like this:(on my wad) "Author here, AND ITS TERRY!!!! NO PATCH IS COMING!! I'LL ***RAPE YOU ALL!!!!"

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GooberMan said:
My not-then-named-Cacoward winning map, Space Station Omega, is only at 4 stars despite being called one of the best 100 WADs of all time. Stop the planet, this is an outrage!

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Mr. Chris said:
a tiny "X"

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mouldy said:
The problem with this game is that people have very particular ideas about how it should be played and what constitutes a fun experience. If they are articulate about what they didn't like then you can see whether they are purely subjective opinions and ignore them if necessary. One man's 'unfair' is another man's 'challenging' after all. The only reason to get upset is if you wanted to appeal to everyone and the plain fact is you wont.

As for pure trolling, you can always take comfort from the fact that your wad wasted the time of someone you don't like.

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Fisk said:
In case you were still wondering, marysson, the reason people are downvoting your megawad is because it is legitimately very bad and so far from what I've seen every single negative comment is well justified

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hex11 said:
I think the /idgames web front-end rating number itself is completely useless and should be done away with. The comments have the potential to be much more useful, both to the author and potential players. But the rating number (and thus average score) is meaninginless since everyone rates things with different criteria, weights and expectations. For instance, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find some trollwads with higher score than this or other "serious" PWADs that the authors have put significant and honest work into. So then this begs the question: why even bother making real maps to begin with, when it's much less work to throw some halfass shit together? At least then you won't feel so bad when some trolls just wanna have fun or some angry player decides to vent. Ultimately the only real, valid reason to map is because you find it fulfilling, because you enjoy it. And in that case, the score is irrelevant! Feedback is important, because it can reveal some bugs, weaknesses or problems (that you may or may not wish to address) but there need not be some number attached to them. This rating mentality that you see everywhere these days (in one form or another, like +1, or up/down voting, etc.) is completely retarded! It encourages an externally-motivated mindset, where your self-worth is determined by others - see John Gatto's lesson 5. The quicker you excise this mental ball & chain that is implanted from an early age, then quicker you can find your way to real fulfillment. And that path may well not be identical to everyone else's. It would be a very boring world if everyone enjoyed the same games, same style DOOM maps, etc. Bottom line: you're making a HUGE mistake if you give this nonsensical score any credence, and if you map for others instead of for how you feel inside. This is pure art, not a job where you have to perform according to some business needs. Let's not have any of that bullshit here. This is a hobby, and a place to have fun and relax.

As far as the PWAD is concerned (Castle Doom), I checked it out because the idea sounded cool (I'm a sucker for medieval style maps). Unlike others, I really liked the "big" architecture and sparse level of detail. It reminded me of Michael Krause maps (runbuddy.wad, moon2000.wad, time2die.wad, etc.) but the gameplay isn't nearly as hectic (I only made it to MAP03 so far though). Didn't notice any big problems, other than HOM around the fireplace on MAP02 (using lastest PrBoom+). I got stuck until I figured out what the red marker stones were for (maybe some kind of medievalized "switch" graphic would have worked better).

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Cacowad said:
i understand how you feel marysson, i have on my hard disk a 29 levels megawad made from my experiments with mapping and acs using, then i discovered doomworld and i started to play other autors maps more. well, i have to say that i have learned more in this 2 months of mapping here than the 8 months i spend on it. your maps isn't that bad, i played it up to map 20, your great error was to build it with an hi-res textures pack that look pretty orrible when used in any other engine different from jdoom or doomsday, and you made some newbie mistakes on gameplay, but thats pretty normal imo, i don't think we are all tormentor667 here right? (oh well, gooberman and kristus excluded :P).

on the other side i liked how every maps finished on the start of the next one, it gave me a good sense of progression.

i see you have the same problem as mine: giantic maps. maybe you should give yourself some size limits (like a 1024x1024 or a 3072x3072 maximum map unit), it helped me a lot regarding detailing my maps a bit more and to be more gameplay wise.

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The "king" of the castle is a cyberdemon, and everything is to his scale. Maybe some people didn't get it

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I even disabled the star pictures with AdBlock

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Because there's an even better solution staring you in the face - viewing votes made anonymously; by registered members; or a combined view.

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Harmata said:
One more thing, if some people think that idgames comment crap is something that should be tolerated, then they also should not be surprised by threads like this one, and expect them to pop up from time to time.

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