2020 is Hindsight (here are some upcoming wad 10th anniversaries)

[Grain of Salt]

Upcoming 10th anniversaries of various good wads! A few of these are pretty imminent, so if anyone wants to do a tribute/updated re-release/official sequel/comprehensive playthrough, now would be a good time to start planning that! This selection is somewhere between wads that are objectively significant and just wads that I like.

 

Speed of Doom (28th March 2020)

Phmlspeed (16th August 2020)

Sunder maps 1-10 (summer 2020 sometime, I'm not sure)

Jade Earth (11th October 2020)
Newgothic 1 (13th December 2020)
Sunder maps 11-14 (21st December 2020)
Archvile Jump (23rd December 2020)

Whitemare (20th January 2021)
Vanguard (11th May 2021)
Khorus' Speedy Shit (29th November 2021)
Combat Shock (5th December 2021)

SF2011 (8th February 2022)
Expired License (3rd August 2022)
Combat Shock 2 (2nd November 2022)

Back to Saturn X E1 (first release) (10th December 2022)

Kuchitsu (2nd January 2023)
Stardate20x6 (31st May 2023)
Back to Saturn X E1 (first release) (1st August 2023)
SF2012 (4th August 2023)
Swim With The Whales (2nd December 2023)

 

If I'm wrong about any of the dates, I do not accept responsibility for that.

 

Edited February 28, 2020 by Grain of Salt

[Gothic]

Has it really been that long since their releases? (Actually I though BTSX was older than that)

[Marcaek]

doom the way id did is nearly ten years old

[Linguica]

Don't forget 20th anniversaries!

 

The Darkening E2 (5 August 2000)

10 Sectors (26 November 2000)

literally any WAD released in 2000 I guess

[Grain of Salt]

2 minutes ago, Linguica said:

Don't forget 20th anniversaries!

 

I refuse to comprehend this

 

Edit: some other important 2000 wads: HR2BETA (and as I understand it most of the maps that ended up in the final version existed at this point too, so HR2 is basically a 2000 wad) and Chord3.

Edited February 27, 2020 by Grain of Salt

[pcorf]

Zone 300 on 10 June 2023.

[pcorf]

6 minutes ago, Linguica said:

Don't forget 20th anniversaries!

 

The Darkening E2 (5 August 2000)

10 Sectors (26 November 2000)

literally any WAD released in 2000 I guess

 

Just wait until the 20th anniversary of 2002ado.

[Arbys550]

Woah sunder maps 11-14 were released on my birthday! Fitting because it's my favorite wad.

[galileo31dos01]

Happy almost birthday to SoD!

[FrancisT218]

Of 2010 wads mentioned Jade Earth is my favorite. UAC Ultra was a huge release that year too. Speed of Doom was a pretty instant classic and many considered it THE wad of 2010 probably, but has kind of aged iffy. But I think The Hatch, Spire, Doomed Deja Vu, and Year 23 are some of the best levels I've seen from 2010 that can NOT easily be found by looking in the Cacowards article or snubs. Phml and Newgothic are great for big time slaughter fans though.

[Jimmy]

Jenesis turns 10 this year.

 

At least, we'll have the anniversary of when I started working on it (October 23rd, 2010) this year.

 

The official release will be 10 on November 28th, 2021.

 

God I'm old.

[Doom_Dude]

Holy crap, where does the time go.

 

Chris Hansen's High/Low 4 is 10 as of January.

[NuMetalManiak]

Epic 2 gaddammit

[FrancisT218]

I don't know if Knee-Deep in the UnDead, Phobos Massacre (later remade into Oblivion), and Deimos Deja Vu were 'lighters' for DTWID, but they all could have been, and they all turn ten this year, as does the START of the project itself. FWIW other vanilla style candidates from 2009 still within a year and a half of DTWID's starting: Mapgame (hey  Hocus @rf` Pocus you like to release your Caco winning projects in years ending in '9' don't you?), Needs More Detail, Styx, and Mr. Chris' (later became known as Glaice) E2 sequence: Stoned-Iconic-Abyssus-Centrum-Maledicto. The start of the vanilla renaissance? Maybe...

[Megalyth]

4 hours ago, Linguica said:

10 Sectors

 

Oddly, I was just thinking about this WAD yesterday. There were some maps in there that really stretched the limitations.

 

I was working on one at the time, but never finished it.

[Maggle]

Alien Vendetta turns 20 next year.

 

Just your friendly reminder that you're old.

[stewboy]

4 hours ago, FrancisT18 said:

Speed of Doom was a pretty instant classic and many considered it THE wad of 2010 probably, but has kind of aged iffy.

 

especially that incredibly overrated music track in map31, idk the name

[Tristan]

6 hours ago, Gothic said:

(Actually I though BTSX was older than that)

 

The BTSX release mentioned was the one that added MAP19 (and iirc the epilogue map?) - the original release was December 10th 2012.

[Grain of Salt]

10 hours ago, Eris Falling said:

The BTSX release mentioned was the one that added MAP19 (and iirc the epilogue map?) - the original release was December 10th 2012.

 

Fuck

[Kristian Nebula]

16 hours ago, Linguica said:

Don't forget 20th anniversaries!

 

The Darkening E2 (5 August 2000)

10 Sectors (26 November 2000)

literally any WAD released in 2000 I guess

 

Uh. I still remember working on my 10 Sectors wad like yesterday for some reason :D 

[printz]

17 hours ago, Linguica said:

10 Sectors (26 November 2000)

I'm surprised that WAD is so old; 10 sectors per map sounds exactly like a gimmick which community project initiators would promote even now (sector limits, area limits, monster limits, texture limits etc.).

[DynamiteKaitorn]

Sorry about tooting my own horn but I just noticed "The Mis-Adventures of Dynamite" series I work on is closing in on its 5th year once 2021 rolls around. O_o

[Scorpius]

Plutonia Revisited Community Project turns 10 in 2021, I believe. The first custom WAD I ever played, not the best or easiest one to start with. :/

[Grain of Salt]

1 hour ago, DynamiteKaitorn said:

Sorry about tooting my own horn

 

I think this is a perfectly fine topic for tooting your own horn

 

I included sf2011 in the OP in a fairly horn-tooting way. It's not a significant wad from nearly any perspective, but I have quite fond memories of working on the project (but not my maps themselves; don't play my sf2011 maps lol)

[ukiro]

23 hours ago, Linguica said:

Don't forget 20th anniversaries!

 

The Darkening E2 (5 August 2000)

 

This just doesn't stop feeling insane. Anyway, I should quit my job and make Episode 3 in time for the anniversary.

[Linguica]

5 hours ago, printz said:

I'm surprised that WAD is so old; 10 sectors per map sounds exactly like a gimmick which community project initiators would promote even now (sector limits, area limits, monster limits, texture limits etc.).

 

@Not Jabba pointed out that 10 Sectors turned out to be the first "modern" community project, in the sense that it solicited wide-open contributions from an online community. Previously @kmxexii has mentioned that Exquisite Corpse could be considered the first 1024 project. So in general I am still not convinced I am not a brain in a jar and all of you aren't my imaginary friends.

[Capellan]

Apparently the 20th anniversary of the compiled version of Demonfear is March 17th this year.

 

Play one of the other 20th anniversary wads instead :)

 

[SuperCupcakeTactics]

13 hours ago, ukiro said:

 

This just doesn't stop feeling insane. Anyway, I should quit my job and make Episode 3 in time for the anniversary.

I'd love to make a map for Episode 3!

[pcorf]

On 2/28/2020 at 5:49 AM, Jimmy said:

Jenesis turns 10 this year.

 

At least, we'll have the anniversary of when I started working on it (October 23rd, 2010) this year.

 

The official release will be 10 on November 28th, 2021.

 

God I'm old.

 

Maybe a sequel should be named Exoduss.

[Kristian Nebula]

18 hours ago, ukiro said:

 

This just doesn't stop feeling insane. Anyway, I should quit my job and make Episode 3 in time for the anniversary.

 

If you decide to do it, count me in for it! :D