What is the point in 1337.wad?

When I downloaded this I was pretty unimpressed with this. A room filled with 100+ bad guys, next to a room filled with invulnerability and BFGs. Reapeat 32 times.
I saw some references on this board to people with '1337 skills'.
????? Some people were actually bothered to play all the way through? Is it just a 'test your system limits' wad or what?
Someone enlighten me.

Ahahahaha!!!

Go Michael Stockham!!

It was a joke wad. Those maps were meant to be awful, but in a demented, bizarre, funny sort of way.

It's a joke. Read the text file and understand.


That said a few of the levels are actually somewhat fun to play, though that is definately not what the authors intended.

It is part of a small genre of intentionally bad wads where wad editors try to make the most hideous design flaws while still maintaining a vestige of playability. Examples include:

The Mockery project (Dead)

The Mock2 project (Alive and kicking)

mad.wad

mockery.wad (tEh 0rIg1nAl!)

yep. it's a joke, quite a funny one too.

Little Faith said:

It's a joke. Read the text file and understand.

Heh, I spent like 2 full days writing that text file :P

If you follow the text, Dashiva goes by Brian Davis, I go by Ernie/Michael Stockham, and Vominus goes by Al Depantsia. Dev is just Dev.

The next in the series will be a complete IWAD, and the following one will use its own PR-boom based engine =)