Let's create a list of the best Old-School 32-level megawads

[scwiba]

17 hours ago, TheV1perK1ller said:

2007: 1 Monster (Various)

We never made it to 32 maps, sadly.

 

Really surprised 2002: ADO and Ultimate NMD haven't been mentioned. (EDIT: Oh, they were.) I'd also include Mano Laikas but that's just me.

Edited December 4, 2018 by Ryath

[TheV1perK1ller]

39 minutes ago, Ryath said:

We never made it to 32 maps, sadly.

 

Really surprised 2002: ADO and Ultimate NMD haven't been mentioned. I'd also include Mano Laikas but that's just me.

I only mentioned 1monster since both BtSX Episodes are present. I'm unsure whether the list is only for the more popular megawads, otherwise I too would include Mano Laikas.

[Deadwing]

Mano Laikas definitely

[DJVCardMaster]

Nothing fresh? From this year? 

[Deadwing]

55 minutes ago, DJVCardMaster said:

Nothing fresh? From this year? 

 

This year has been overloaded with awesome releases, although some of them might not be the best fit for this thread (faithful classic Doom gameplay):

- Deathless (classic Doom megawad with 36 short and awesome maps)

- Struggle (it has a new weapon set, but it's limit removing)

- REKKR (It's a TC, but it's vanilla compatible)

- Doom 404

- Exomoon (only 23 maps, though)

- Mayhem 2018 (Orange and Purple, which summed up has plenty of maps)

 

There are a lot more other releases, such as Avactor and Golden Souls 2, but they are way too much out of this thread criteria, I guess (Avactor with 11 huge maps and GS being for UDMF, for example). And I'm sure there have been some megawads that got released but they didn't get much attention. Anyway, if you still know all of these, 10th December Dragonfly will release Evilternity which promises to be an awesome 32 map boom megawad.

 

[TheV1perK1ller]

I do have a few other WADs in mind, just for future reference:

 

2001: Revolution! (Thomas van der Velden) Vanilla 

2004: Vile Flesh (Gwyn Williams) Boom

2010: Epic 2 (Alexander S.) Vanilla

2012: EvilTech (Nicolas Monti) Vanilla

2012: Survive in Hell (JC Dorne) Boom

2013: Zone 300 (Paul Corfiatis) Vanilla

2014: MAYhem 2048 (Various) Boom

2015: Swift Death (franckFRAG) Boom

2016: MAYhem 1500 (Various) Boom

2017: Illuminatus (NiTROACTiVE) Vanilla

 

Will think of additional entries when I can.

 

[GarrettChan]

50 Monsters by AD (3 maps by Breezeep, 1 map by an_mutt and 1 map by Skillsaw) Vanilla / -complevel 2

 

I think all the maps in this WAD are small maps. Except Map32, all maps have 50 monsters (probably including Lost Souls), and later levels are quite challenging in my opinion. It's a very good choice for people who are going for short maps. If you're looking for a challenge, all the maps should be able to be finished on Fast Monster settings.

[galileo31dos01]

The rest from my Doom folder, including every 32-maps wad whether good or not, for the sake of completion:

 

1995:

H2H: Xmas by various. [Vanilla]

 

1996:

Realm of Chaos by The Macintosh Team. [Vanilla]

 

2011:

Slaughterfest 2011 by various. [Boom]

 

2013:

ConC.E.R.Ned by Cannonball. [Limit-Removing]

 

2015:

Estranged by Foodles. [Boom]

Valiant by Skillsaw. [MBF]

Sunlust by Dannebubbinga and Ribbiks. [Boom]

 

2016:

Ancient Aliens by Skillsaw and guest mappers. [Boom]

 

2017:

Good Morning Phobos by sincity2100. [Boom]

Gridlock 64 by various. [Boom]

Edited December 5, 2018 by galileo31dos01

[Grain of Salt]

A couple of wildcards no one's mentioned yet: cyberdreams, and avj.wad

 

Both dedicated to niche gameplay, but very imaginative and well made.

[Walter confetti]

15 hours ago, galileo31dos01 said:

Gridlock 64 by various

Too bad it wasn't on idgames yet, i'm not even sure if the link still works... 

[Tribal]

2 hours ago, Walter confetti said:

Too bad it wasn't on idgames yet, i'm not even sure if the link still works... 

 

i downloaded just to be sure... the link still works :)

[Doomkid]

Apologies for the bump, but I really think MarsWar from 1998 deserves a mention, it was many peoples first megawad and has actually held up kinda well.

 

http://toastytech.com/doom/marswar.zip - Link to the 1998 version

 

http://toastytech.com/doom/marsw301.zip - Bugfixed version that came years later

[Salt-Man Z]

On 12/2/2018 at 5:24 AM, TheV1perK1ller said:

2016 - Mano Laikas: A Road to Gazmatti (Nicolas Monti)

 

EDIT: I actually probably wouldn't consider M.L. to be a 'great' megawad in comparison to others on this list. My bad.

^ Hard disagree.

 

Also:

2012 - Eviltech: Soul of Megawad (Nicolas Monti)

[FrancisT218]

Lunar Catastrophe, Jiffy Bag, and Deathless (Dec 2018/Jan 2019) - new entities and quite old schoolish!

 

Death Tormention Pack, if compilations (with minor upgrades) are allowed.

 

Also: DooM II - NOVA 2 in 2015. 4-episode UDooM - DTWID Lost Episodes and No End in Sight in 2016. 3-episode DooM I - Needs More Detail (2009), Base Ganymede (2012).

Edited January 10, 2019 by FrancisT18

[Capellan]

On 12/4/2018 at 9:20 PM, Deadwing said:

some of them might not be the best fit for this thread (faithful classic Doom gameplay)

 

The OP lists STRAIN, which features extensive dehacked changes and some pretty dramatically non-standard gameplay, so the bounds of the thread seem pretty rubbery anyway :)