40oz Posted June 26, 2009 You must post in this thread if you died in there at least once before. 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted June 26, 2009 I died there when attempting the glide shortcut. Otherwise, I don't recall doing so. I never played E1 all that much in the early days. 0 Share this post Link to post
eargosedown Posted June 26, 2009 Yeah? Whos forcing me to post here, eh? 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted June 26, 2009 Do the sides count, or only the middle that can be raised? 0 Share this post Link to post
CODOR Posted June 26, 2009 The one near the start, or the circular one? No matter, I'm pretty sure I ended up in both when I first played Doom... 0 Share this post Link to post
newt Posted June 26, 2009 IT WAS AN ACCIDENT I WAS LIKE SEVEN THE SUN WAS IN MY EYES THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT I SWEAR 0 Share this post Link to post
DuckReconMajor Posted June 26, 2009 myk said:I never died there, ever. Not everyone godmodes all the time, myk. I went in there to see if Doom was one of those "there's always a way out" kind of games. I'm guessing you know what I found. 0 Share this post Link to post
Mithral_Demon Posted June 26, 2009 Definitely, first time, wasn't sure what it was back then, had the same thought "I bet I can get out"... 0 Share this post Link to post
Khaoscythe Posted June 26, 2009 ...I plead the fifth of Devil Springs... 0 Share this post Link to post
40oz Posted June 26, 2009 myk said:I never died there, ever. says the guy who posted here. 0 Share this post Link to post
Super Jamie Posted June 26, 2009 I have died in there, only once or twice, and it was like 1994/95. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted June 26, 2009 Raise your hand if you IDCLIP out of pits like that and take the damage as punishment ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
Aliotroph? Posted June 26, 2009 No, that's too cheap. I IDSPISPOPD out of there and take more damage as punishment! 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted June 26, 2009 Which is only to be expected if you forget how the cheat's spelt - oops - maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that. 0 Share this post Link to post
chungy Posted June 26, 2009 IDSPISPOPD is the only way to do it in vanilla Doom 1! Well anyway, I remember dying in the pit once, a long long time ago. 0 Share this post Link to post
Butts Posted June 26, 2009 When I first played the game, I explored very thoroughly. I have died in those pits (and many others) a multitude of times. 0 Share this post Link to post
Kaiser Posted June 26, 2009 Yup.. and on the SNES too, since that was the first platform that I experienced Doom on. 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted June 26, 2009 I didn't save when I did it back in 1.0. I lost the chainsaw. Argh 0 Share this post Link to post
Stupid Bunny Posted June 26, 2009 I actually can't remember ever dying there...I think I always load before I die. But I will assume that I have, at some point along the line... 0 Share this post Link to post
Bashe Posted June 26, 2009 Me and a friend would take turns playing SNES Doom, and whenever he left to do something, I would make him fall into that pit and call it a "picnic." Yeah, what 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted June 26, 2009 I was going to ask which one, but I've died in all of them. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted June 26, 2009 Lüt said:I was going to ask which one, but I've died in all of them. Yup. I'm trying to remember, the big oval one with the switch... it used to have a different (buggy IIRC) mechanism for raising it. What was it again? 0 Share this post Link to post
Bashe Posted June 26, 2009 I think it would just automatically raise as you fell into it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Super Jamie Posted June 26, 2009 In at least one early version of the IWAD there was a switch on the right as you came into the donut area, which would also raise the middle slime. There are videos on YouTube showing all sorts of engine bugs, depending on your savestate and the state of the switch and seemingly random things as you enter the pit. Sometimes it would raise, sometimes it do silly things like lower thousands of units so it felt like you were falling to the center of the earth, sometimes it would even raise to the sky and just keep on scrolling the texture. Edit: Here's the video. Turns switch was on the exit side too. 0 Share this post Link to post
printz Posted June 26, 2009 I think I died, in both pits, while trying to find secrets! I also accidentally fell in that ellusive blue pit in E3M3. Afterwards it became apparent that POISON means, or should mean, 'don't fall there'. 0 Share this post Link to post
Hellbent Posted June 26, 2009 My nostalgia grows every day... why? I fell in the outside oval pit, but it was posthumous to the days of discovery as it were. I was being cocky since I felt I was a master of the game at that point; musta been several years ago, certainly after the golden days. I don't know that I have ever fallen in the beginning one. I feel like I must have tho, and probably early on when first playing Doom, although maybe not... I remember always being super careful not to. We needs to make more classic E1 wads. Do it! Now! Come on! Yeah!! (I suck at the edit otherwise I would >.<) Aliotroph said:No, that's too cheap. I IDSPISPOPD out of there and take more damage as punishment! lol! 0 Share this post Link to post
Jimmy Posted June 26, 2009 I honestly can't remember if I have died in it, but it remains my fondest and most vivid memory in the original Doom to date. It's probably my favorite area in an original Doom map. Ever. A load of times I tried to land on the medikit in the center pit to get the "ouch" face to appear (like the Doom 1 demo demonstrates). :P 0 Share this post Link to post