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What is the worst WAD you ever played and why?

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I don't know. I haven't played anything so horrid that i would consider it THE worst wad of all time. There was this one that had loads of cybes chasing you until the ceiling crushed them and they got stuck and it was one of the worst ones i had ever played but i don't remember its name.

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The Sky May Be was the worst for me. Not beacuse it was lame or crap like that. Because it was so FUCKING hard. If you never died in that wad (and you didn't have god mode on) I commend you.

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A deathmatch map that a dude have made few years ago...
Memento Mori map12 have really disappointed me.

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The Sky May Be, like Nuts, isn't really meant to be beaten without cheats. It's there to be admired for its sheer genius.

Worst wad? I can't think of anything I've played that's worthy of that title. I mostly try to stick to high quality fare.

I have this demo disk with like 1000 levels from the early years of mapping on it, though. I used to play those for fun, partly because playing crappy levels is its own kind of fun, and partly because surprisingly good gems are found from time to time. But yeah, many were awful, many weren't completable.

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Auferstehung?

While it wasn't the worst WAD ever, it did cause some hilarious drama.

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irl? REU.

I don't think it's the worst thing out there, especially recently. It was a retarded attempt on my part, though, slightly embarrassing for its time. I've played worse.

I heard about Auferstehung, what was the drama about? Is it worth downloading to see or should I skip that altogether?

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Chu said:

I heard about Auferstehung, what was the drama about? Is it worth downloading to see or should I skip that altogether?

It was a set of retextured SLIGE maps in a giant WAD that contained like 20 copies of the entire DOOM2.WAD and a ton of copyrighted MP3s that weren't even actually used. When confronted about it in the release thread, the author claimed that his bad work was because he had Asperger's Syndrome (even though this would completely go against the "lol I'm really smart so I must have Asperger's" trend) and lots of humorous forum dramatics resulted.

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Ah, I see. He faked having Asperger's? That's seriously not funny. Was he just embarrassed over the flak he was getting?

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Death-Destiny said:

O.o Wow, now that's pretty crazy. I'm surprised that thread got to 4 pages before an admin closed it down.

Everyone was having too much fun, it just wouldn't have been right to end it any sooner.

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exp(x) said:

DRE: The level design was horrible and the enemies had way too much health.

I never got it to work properly. One time was all -- after that the textures started to animate all weird and the game was severely broken. I have no idea why.

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There was one wad I downloaded that was based on a school (I forgot it's name), and since I like wads that look like real locations, or are realistic in general, I thought I'd give it a try.
Well, every room looked exactly the same, there were cliche doom 1 tech textures, the rooms were jam packed with monsters and the wad was monotonous overall.

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I'd say pretty ,much all of Doom 2...

Doom 2 just didn't look very good IMO, i liked Plutonia.wad so much better.

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exp(x) said:

DRE: The level design was horrible and the enemies had way too much health.

Seconded. Copyrighted MP3s and horrible writing, dialogue, and typos also helped a great deal.

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It's sad that DarkExodus faked having Asperger's Syndrome just to get attention. It really gives people who actually have it (e.g. me) a bad name, as if we had a good one to begin with. :P

The worst wads I've probably played, though, are ones that falsely advertise things. Nothing upsets me more than going into a wad and finding either not what I was expecting or absolutely nothing changed at all.

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Bashe said:

The worst wads I've probably played, though, are ones that falsely advertise things. Nothing upsets me more than going into a wad and finding either not what I was expecting or absolutely nothing changed at all.


That reminds me of something that happened to me a while ago. When I downloaded Remain1.wad by Eternal, I was shocked at the profoundly low quality of it. The /newstuff Chronicles review of it was quite glowing (this was back when there was /newstuff) and I couldn't understand why my experience was so different. Everything was simple, jagged, ugly; to me, it reeked of 1994. This wad would rank among the worst I've played, particularly because I was expecting something so much better.

(It turned out that instead of giving me remain1.wad, the New York server gave me "remains.wad". When I actually got the right file from a different mirror, my experience was much improved.)

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Megaz said:


The funniest part is... many of his comments were deleted/moved. The thread was probably 3 times funnier than what remains. I never figured out what happened... maybe a ton of posts were helled.

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Chu said:

I never got it to work properly. One time was all -- after that the textures started to animate all weird and the game was severely broken. I have no idea why.



That's because the author was an idiot. He had a problem with ZDoom 2.0.48 and on because some of his stuff conflicted with Strife animation definitions and instead of fixing his WAD (or at least reporting the problem at the ZDoom forum) he just included ZDoom 2.0.47 with it.

Back to topic:

Of all WADs I actually played (or at least tried to play) DRE takes the cake.

I think that abominations like WOW, Auferstehung or Sadhusct are far worse but their level of quality is so low that all I did was take a quick look and then deleted all traces of them from my HD.

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Oh yeah! I was wondering why I had DRE in its own directory on my old hard drive with a separate copy of Doom2 and Zdoom. See I tried copying it to the newest Doom2 folder and running it...haha, that sounds like it would be easy to fix. Also sounds like it's really not worth the trouble [deleted]. I was appalled at the lack of grammar through the scripted scenes at the beginning. That's as far as I ever got.

EBDoom was kinda bad, but not horrible (only because I never got it working properly either and I heard it was kind of bland).

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I think wow.wad has certianly drawn plenty of attention over these years. I think its definetly the worst WAD ever made.

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esselfortium said:

It was a set of retextured SLIGE maps in a giant WAD that contained like 20 copies of the entire DOOM2.WAD and a ton of copyrighted MP3s that weren't even actually used. When confronted about it in the release thread, the author claimed that his bad work was because he had Asperger's Syndrome (even though this would completely go against the "lol I'm really smart so I must have Asperger's" trend) and lots of humorous forum dramatics resulted.


I've got Autisim which is a bit like Asperger's Syndrome. But I don't feel like I've actually got it. I just feel normal. I'm working on a book (autobiography) about my life. So you guys keep an eye out on it. It won't be completed for another few years.

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Is autism/AS really that common? I'm starting to feel left out since I don't have any diagnosed mental conditions. =( Then again, I'm sure that only the very serious cases get considerable public attention, which leads to that misconception.

Anyway, I don't have a least favorite WAD, but my least favorite map is "<|>", Kama Sutra's 30th map. I can't even play that map when other people are around because playing a "pornographic" doom map would lower their opinion of me considerably. I think it's childish that KS's authors put such an immature joke in what was otherwise a high-quality serious project. If they wanted to make a map like that, why not make it stand-alone and add it to the archive of the many other sexually-related jokeWADs?

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Death-Destiny said:

I think it's childish that KS's authors put such an immature joke in what was otherwise a high-quality serious project. If they wanted to make a map like that, why not make it stand-alone and add it to the archive of the many other sexually-related jokeWADs?


It is beyond me that some people at the /idgames would give the project 0/5 starts just because of the genital joke thing at the end, i mean are you all small children or something? Its a good wad. And only a fool would cry and rate the wad low because of some genital joke at the end even though all of the other 29 maps were in fact very good.

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Death-Destiny said:

I'm starting to feel left out since I don't have any diagnosed mental conditions.


You're not missing out on much. I'm diagnosed with depression and ADHD.

Back on topic though, seriously, the maps in Doom2.wad are ugly. No overall color schemes, strange and even stupid architecture, not to mention that the skies didn't look like anything in particular. I did not like Doom II at all. I found Plutonia to be my favorite iWad. At least the maps looked pretty.

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