unerxai Posted February 2, 2016 Although I've been playing Doom since the 90's, I've never taken the time to check out fanmade single player maps/wads. I'm interested in knowing what are the best, most renowned fanmade vanilla wads. 0 Share this post Link to post
T-Rex Posted February 2, 2016 Hello! If you're interesting in checking out some fanmade wads, my starting recommendations are Paul Corfiatis's The Twilight Zone, Memento Mori 1 and 2, Requiem, Icarus: Alien Vanguard, and, if you can handle Plutonia, Hell Revealed. Those are the wads I started out with when I got into playing custom vanilla wads. 0 Share this post Link to post
SFoZ911 Posted February 2, 2016 Try Back to Saturn X. It's got new textures, music, levels and even a decent story. There are two episodes available to download at the moment and a third episode is planned to be released in the future. Definitely recommended and it's very impressive vanilla mapset. 0 Share this post Link to post
HavoX Posted February 2, 2016 Eternal Doom, but if you don't like getting lost, I would strongly suggest against playing it. It's called Eternal Doom for a good reason! :P 0 Share this post Link to post
soner du Posted February 2, 2016 Scythe and Demonfear are nice, intense, compact vanilla megawads. 0 Share this post Link to post
Noiser Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) On 2/2/2016 at 10:02 AM, UNERXAi said: Although I've been playing Doom since the 90's, I've never taken the time to check out fanmade single player maps/wads. I'm interested in knowing what are the best, most renowned fanmade vanilla wads. These are my favorite ones: - Memento Mori II - Perdition's Gate - The Plutonia Experiment - Doom The Way Id Did* - STRAIN - Hell Revealed *DTWID is more recent, but have the same concept Edited May 10, 2019 by Noiser 0 Share this post Link to post
Pencil of Doom Posted February 2, 2016 Scythe series of wads, Epic 2, Memento Mori 1 and 2 and Paul Corfiatis wads and lastly, my favorite wad, Kama Sutra. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lila Feuer Posted February 2, 2016 I remember when I played Eternal Doom proper the first time back in 2009 and was so sick of puzzles after completing it I went straight to Hell Revealed 1 for pure action instead. And action I got alright. I'm completely desensitized to Cyberdemon encounters today. 0 Share this post Link to post
Seeker_of_Truth Posted February 2, 2016 Check out some of the Cacoward winners from over the years. 0 Share this post Link to post
unerxai Posted February 2, 2016 I'll be checking out the ones mentioned more often. Thanks. Noiser said:- Perdition's Gate Wasn't that one a commercial release or something? 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted February 2, 2016 UNERXAi said:Wasn't that one a commercial release or something? Yes, but there was a demo version. Just do some web search. 0 Share this post Link to post
HavoX Posted February 3, 2016 Cyanosis said:I remember when I played Eternal Doom proper the first time back in 2009 and was so sick of puzzles after completing it Yeah, I have this love-hate relationship with Eternal Doom as well. While it's so fun exploring the architecture, I usually want to beat the level as fast as I can so I don't get the SUCKS graphic at the Intermission screen. (I hate being told that I suck, LOL.) If it takes too long for me to figure out a certain level, I just give up and warp to the next one, hoping that it will be easier to beat. (Yes, I know it's cheating, but I don't have the patience for this crap.) That begs the question though... how does Team TNT do it? 0 Share this post Link to post
Lila Feuer Posted February 3, 2016 HavoX said:Yeah, I have this love-hate relationship with Eternal Doom as well. While it's so fun exploring the architecture, I usually want to beat the level as fast as I can so I don't get the SUCKS graphic at the Intermission screen. (I hate being told that I suck, LOL.) If it takes too long for me to figure out a certain level, I just give up and warp to the next one, hoping that it will be easier to beat. (Yes, I know it's cheating, but I don't have the patience for this crap.) That begs the question though... how does Team TNT do it? I got Sucks on most of the levels too, I was using Doomsday 1.8.6 when I played most of it, so I couldn't tally my total time elapsed for this beast of a megawad (I say most because I did have to unfortunately switch to GZDoom when I hit MAP27 or so because it crashed on Doomsday). Also I beat most of Eternal Doom legit, there was a couple really mathematical puzzles involving raising platforms that just did my head in trying to proceed so I shamefully clipped through those trouble spots but it was late in the game. 0 Share this post Link to post
scifista42 Posted February 3, 2016 UNERXAi said:Although I've been playing Doom since the 90's, I've never taken the time to check out fanmade single player maps/wads. I'm interested in knowing what are the best, most renowned fanmade vanilla wads. I wonder if by "vanilla" you mean the same thing as people in this community do, which is "wads potentially playable in the original Doom executable under DOS or a DOS emulator, not requiring any source port and not using and relying on any advanced source-port-specific features". Did you really mean it like this? 0 Share this post Link to post