Play as monsters? Any other oddball game modes?

I haven't played around with source ports much other than to just play the original games. Are there any that let you play as a monster, using their attacks and/or attributes? I just had a picture in my mind of playing as an arch vile.

Also, I think it was Left 4 Dead that let one person play the role of... uh, director I think it was? You can set up different waves of monsters and such for the players to fight. I never actually tried it but it sounded interesting. Anything like this in Doom?

qoncept said:

You can set up different waves of monsters and such for the players to fight. I never actually tried it but it sounded interesting. Anything like this in Doom?

The closest would be Invasion mode, though I can't think of any wads that allow a player to modify the waves.

I've been wanting a "play as demons" mod for DOOM for probably a decade now. We've got the AI marines. Make it happen, people!

I'm resisting the urge to mention a certain 32-level ZDoom TC from 2004, even in jest, because I know Grazza doesn't like people advocating mods which contain illegal content.

Megamur said:

I've been wanting a "play as demons" mod for DOOM for probably a decade now.

You do realize that tons of these already exist, right?

I found the perfect wad for you all.
Internal Conflict is a skulltag was originally designed for multiplayer LMS(and I played it before online, words cannot describe the fun it was). It's perfectly compactible with SP in most areas, and by most I mean if your a mancubus, you probably won't be able to fit through most small doors. There's even a sg map called Hells Demise, where you run to checkpoints, with every sector behind you turning into an exceedingly lethal crusher closing in on you fast. Really damn fun.

To launch Hells demise just click SG and it should give you a choice between doom 2 and internal conflict, choose the latter, pick your char that you will run with. Game will start on an mp map, but a script executes if it doesn't detect LMS mode activation. The script will proceed to give a countdown of 5 and then switch to Hells Demise.

Master of Puppets mod sounds like something up your alley
Monsters vs. Humans in whatver wad you play it on. One team possesses the monsters in a given map while the Human time progresses as usual, but they only have x amount of lives to do so (x varies depending on monster variety in the map)

Pros: Its a decent play as monsters mod
It is quite fun to play among friends
Something truly unique as a wad

Con: Its really only good for multiplayer
You have to use Skulltag
Balance issues
You have to use Skulltag

As far as I know, <blasphemy>AEons Of Death version 6</blasphemy> ;-) (http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=20500) does implement exactly a Left 4 Dead mode (to be activated using the GZDOOM Options configuration menu).

On the other hand, if all you want is to be able to play as monsters, then Satanic may just be what you are looking for (you can exploit magical powers that let you possess the body of any monster of your choice). Find it at http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=15618.
You should also try Satanic Redux for a polished and enhanced version (http://www.doomworld.com/vb/wads-mods/57829-satanic-redux-v10-2-released-1-5-12/).

(EDIT) Uh, and I also forgot this: http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=30851.

Vordakk said:

I'm resisting the urge to mention a certain 32-level ZDoom TC from 2004, even in jest, because I know Grazza doesn't like people advocating mods which contain illegal content.

Well, I thought that mod was fun back then (LOL @ the fist marine enemy going "HEEYYY...")

...But today, I'm not so sure. :\

I once made a wad like what your discribing but you played as bosses instead of regular monsters.

It features 4 playable classes cyberdemon,spidermastermind,archvile and overlord.

They all have their regular attacks plus a few extras and they all use their own energy type. standing still recharges energy.

Pretty much you gotta destroy renegade demons that dont follow satan.

of course this wad never really got off the ground and it only features 1 playable map, but im sure the archvile class can fit were any doom marine can.

heres a link, hope you find it fun. http://www.mediafire.com/?kccqb6dt10xrc6t