Pierrot Posted March 9, 2020 My first pwad was Icarus: Alien Vanguard. When I started playing Doom on PC and exploring the fanmade contents, I came across a fansite that presented it as a must have from TeamTNT. And I wasn't disappointed, very good musics and settings, was so refreshing after playing the official levels for ages on consoles. 1 Share this post Link to post
SilverMiner Posted March 13, 2020 (edited) 1monster. It was on the top of the first wad list I seen Then 2002 Doom Odyssey and Plutonia 2 1 Share this post Link to post
Mortrixs19 Posted March 15, 2020 It was a hard wad, I didn't even play Final doom at that point IIRC it was either Hell Revealed 1 or TNT: Revilution 0 Share this post Link to post
scalliano Posted March 17, 2020 Alfred. Yeah, what a way to start, right? Can't remember how I got it - probably off some Angelfire site or something. Tip: don't try to 100% it. 2 Share this post Link to post
Boomslang Posted March 17, 2020 EViternity. really damn good. got it off of moddb a few weeks ago i think. 2 Share this post Link to post
RichardDS90 Posted March 18, 2020 It was either Hell Revealed, Cyberdreams or Doom 64 TC. Except for Doom 64, no idea how I got the other two, or heard of them. 2 Share this post Link to post
Senor500 Posted March 18, 2020 It was Hell Revealed, I believe the first one, not sure when. The slaughtery fights definitely surprised me, I didn't finish it. 1 Share this post Link to post
Mystic 256 Posted March 19, 2020 I think it was Dimensions Of Time, I can't remember exactly if it was that or something else I may need to replay that wad sometime to refresh my memory. 2 Share this post Link to post
pcorf Posted March 19, 2020 Squadron 417, that was a lot of fun (did remove the sounds). Also Memento Mori 2 and Icarus. 3 Share this post Link to post
Reaverbot Posted March 19, 2020 pretty sure it was Requiem, but I don't remember where I got it from 1 Share this post Link to post
hybridial Posted March 19, 2020 For me it was pretty recent, Doom the Way Id Did, which was great. 0 Share this post Link to post
nname Posted March 20, 2020 I'm not sure if Action Doom 2 counts. But it's the first "custom level pack" I remember playing. I wanted to try it, because it reminded me of XIII. 1 Share this post Link to post
snapshot Posted March 20, 2020 I can't remember, but I have a vague memory of playing Chillax on some Skulltag server. 0 Share this post Link to post
Good-Old Posted March 27, 2020 Eviternity. I know it's very recent but I started playing Doom just a year ago, so it should make sense. 0 Share this post Link to post
Simomarchi Posted March 27, 2020 If I remember well it was Hell Revealed. I remember that I was so surprised to see barons and cyberdemons used so frequently that I immediately loved the megawad. Now it is out of my top ten but for a first experience it was fantastic (I played Plutonia after it so it was the first hard wad that I played). 0 Share this post Link to post
TheLoneliness Posted March 27, 2020 Holy Hell or Sunlust, actually not sure which of them were first, but those were my #1 and #2. 0 Share this post Link to post
unerxai Posted March 27, 2020 May sound funny but that wad Trey Azagthoth from Morbid Angel made was the first custom map I ever played way back then. If you went to their old website there was a link to it, that's how I learned about it. 0 Share this post Link to post
DavitW Posted March 27, 2020 First one I remember was Memento Mori, But the first one I played was a single map wad for Doom that took place in a big warehouse, and I think you entered a spaceship at the end? If anybody has any theories on what that wad was i'd be glad to hear them. 0 Share this post Link to post
Spie812 Posted March 28, 2020 Anyone remember waaay back when Prboom was distributed with Freedoom? Am I remembering this right? That'd probably be it. 3 hours ago, DavitW said: First one I remember was Memento Mori, But the first one I played was a single map wad for Doom that took place in a big warehouse, and I think you entered a spaceship at the end? If anybody has any theories on what that wad was i'd be glad to hear them. Galaxia! 1 Share this post Link to post
Quadrant339 Posted March 28, 2020 Cyberdreams from 1998. First played it around 2007. An interesting wad of levels designed around Cyberdemon fights that were puzzle oriented. Memento Mori and it's sequel were the other two first WADs I played, leading to Requiem which has always been my favorite. 1 Share this post Link to post
CyberDreams Posted March 28, 2020 I started off by playing WADs from "The Top 100 WADs Of All Time" list here on DW and i actually started with the 1994 ones and moved up that way. As most people already stated, most of the early PWAD's were just either single maps or episode replacements. So Crossing Acheron is the first actual map i played (from what i remember), and this was in the mid-late 2000's as well. Pretty crazy imo but it's stood up well. Serenity is the first episode replacement that i played. The first Doom II megawad that i played was probably Memento Mori. I started to skip around on the list after playing the 1994 and some 1995 WADs ;) I do have to state though that UACDEAD is probably one of my fav maps of all time, along with Crossing Acheron of course ;) 1 Share this post Link to post
princetontiger Posted August 21, 2021 Alien Vendetta. I started playing fan made mods around 2003, 2004. 0 Share this post Link to post
Jacek Bourne Posted August 21, 2021 Scythe. About a year ago. Introduced by Bigmacdavis' videos on it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Pseudonaut Posted August 21, 2021 Hell Revealed. I heard of it at a time when I hadn't even played Doom 2 yet, and hearing about how super hard it was made me want to try it (but I waited until after I'd played all the IWADs). It turned out that map13's cage trap was too much for me at the time, and I gave up after finishing that map since I'd heard map14 was even harder. 2 Share this post Link to post
Lewonx Posted August 22, 2021 I somehow stumbled onto Tech Planet's Top 10 Doom Wads video. Original is gone, but here is a remake. There I've seen Knee Deep In Zdoom and decided to download it. I don't even remember where I got Zdoom, Iwads, and KDiZD. I've played KDiZD, then Evilution and Plutonia (I didn't even knew that these 2 are official games). After that I played Winter's Fury. As for the first megawad, I downloaded and played Community Chest 3. I don't remember, why I decided to download this one exactly. I think, I've stumbled onto it from Cacoward page, when searching something related to KDiZD. 0 Share this post Link to post
Pirx Posted August 23, 2021 On 3/21/2020 at 9:53 AM, Firedust said: Memento Mori. Didn't age well lmao same here. memento mori. user-made megawads were a novelty back then. and mm2 and requiem. downloaded these from ftp.cdrom.com or its mirrors at uni, brought them home on diskettes. 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomGater Posted August 23, 2021 Seeing all these "modern" answers, I really feel old. Does FAVA BEANS ring any bells? Technically. it is not a MEGA-Wad, but it was the first multi-level pwad I played. Can't remember: Did Compuserve's "Action"- Forum provide DLs? I've probably got it from there or from some BBS... https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/0-9/01fava 5 Share this post Link to post
Cinnamon Posted August 24, 2021 I'm fairly sure I dipped my toes into a few WADs before getting the DOOM bug for real. The first one I remember completing outside of the IWADs (does DOOM 64 count as one?), however, is Pirate DOOM. For some reason that I'm not sure of. I don't really have any relation to the pirate theme at all, but I think it seemed to be so random that I kind of got hooked. After that I stumbled into Alien Vendetta and it was so freaking good. It illustrated for me how much of an improvement the mapping folks have made over the originals that I couldn't, and can't, stop DOOMing. :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Cinnamon Posted August 24, 2021 23 hours ago, DoomGater said: Seeing all these "modern" answers, I really feel old. Does FAVA BEANS ring any bells? Technically. it is not a MEGA-Wad, but it was the first multi-level pwad I played. Can't remember: Did Compuserve's "Action"- Forum provide DLs? I've probably got it from there or from some BBS...https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/0-9/01fava I played Fava Beans a year or two ago because it's mentioned in the "WAD Progression for Skill Improvement" thread, and I decided for myself to do them in order, skipping the ones I've already done. 0 Share this post Link to post