Requiem Strategy Guide

[General Rainbow Bacon]

Hey,

 

So I have a fun idea.  I realize this isn't really necessary since we have demo recordings, but it might be fun to do this anyway.  Which megawad(s) would be fun to write a strategy guide for?  I've always loved reading through the old doom guides to see what the authors say about certain difficult areas and how they dealt with them.   

 

So... which ones would you like to see written about if any?   

 

Edit: Version 0.1 of the guidebook to "Requiem" 

contains up through map 20

 

https://www.mediafire.com/file/jcet7d7ihknxopq/Requiem_Guide.rtf/file

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 24, 2021 by General Rainbow Bacon

[Redneckerz]

Since its recent, Akeldama.

Back To Saturn X E1 and E2 aswell since they got recently added to the Classic Unity port :)

[P41R47]

I would say all the top 100 and then the cacowards and runners-up.

Titanic job, indeed, but thats something i would love to see.

As it is a big job and we need to something new to attrackt, i will say Eviternity. Struggle: Antaresian Legacy, could be a good choice, too.

 

I have a ton of old gaming magazines and from time to time, i like to take a look at them, love the walkthroughts and all the cheat and tricks. In fact, one magazine i read a lot is an issue of a complete strategy guide of Final Fantasy VI for PSX. I readed it soo much that i kept every birthday money gift until i saved enough to buy myself a PSX. That was in 1999-2000 i think.

Before that i spent almost all the time playing Contra: Hard Corps/Gunstar Heroes and Ultimate Mortal kombat 3/Yuu Yuu Hakusho: Makyo Touitsusen on sega genesis.

 

Oh, shit! Good times, i played soo much to the PSX that my parents took it away from my bedroom trying to control the hours i played to it. FFVI was my first RPG along Chrono Cross and i get soo inmersed on their stories and gameplay that i forget to eat and sleep. Love them!

[General Rainbow Bacon]

Well.... I guess I'll get started then.  I'm currently doing both a continuous play and pistol start of Requiem.  So maybe I'll do that one, and then Akeldama, and then just go down the list.  Let me know if you're interested in helping edit the map walkthroughs to make them more interesting.

 

Edit: I'll do both continuous play and pistol start walkthroughs for all maps and will include secrets.

[NuMetalManiak]

This sounds like a great idea (then again I'm the idiot who made walkthroughs of Sunder's maps). Are you by chance going to write the walkthroughs on Doomwiki?

[General Rainbow Bacon]

Sure!  I'll write it in a .rtf document first, then I'll post it here for some critique/editing and then put up a final draft on the Doomwiki.

[Lucky_Edie]

I miss reading strategy guides in magazines/gamefaqs.

[Terrcraft]

Maybe if you look into it you could put some on the DMW like how nintendo power had strategy guides.

[Andromeda]

One for Eternal Doom would be swell - I'd do it myself but I'm fairly busy at the moment...

[Doomkid]

I think this is a fantastic idea, two things I’ve always wished for in this community are more megawad walkthroughs and more agreed upon wad difficulty tier lists.. I guess both of those things are uncommon due to the sheer glut of Doom wads released each year. Anyway this is an excellent idea, far as I’m concerned.

[General Rainbow Bacon]

Okay guys.  I'm working on the guide for "Requiem", I've finished map 01 and working on 02 right now.  When I get through map 03 I'll post it up here for you guys to look at.

[General Rainbow Bacon]

First version of the guide for Requiem is in the first post.  Go take a look.  I didn't get any of the images in the file yet.  

[Starduster]

You wrote all of the Sunder walkthroughs @NuMetalManiak? I must say, that's some great work!

[Pixel Fiend]

The beautiful wad Stardate 20X7 deserves a strategy guide. It took me quite a long time to figure out the first level with a video walkthrough. Maybe it will be better to read about the other levels before playing.

[General Rainbow Bacon]

Anyone read my walkthrough yet?  I'd kinda like some feedback.

[Starduster]

I don't think that there is anything wrong with it, besides a few minor things here and there. The only thing that concerns me about the project would be the time and effort it takes to make the guides. Gets a thumbs-up from me :)

[General Rainbow Bacon]

Well, for this one, they are maps I've played many times so this one shouldn't take me too long.  Maybe some of the later maps from pistol start are a bit challenging, but nothing I can't do.  What's there only took me about and hour and a half.

[General Rainbow Bacon]

Updated OP with new version with a walkthrough for map 04

[General Rainbow Bacon]

Map 05 walkthrough up.

[General Rainbow Bacon]

Map 06 walkthrough is up.  Fantastic map, if you haven't played it.   

[Chip]

Kewl idea! I like how you're acting on this idea! great job! 

[TheNoob_Gamer]

So this is like the Doomwiki walkthroughs but with additional touches. I like this, keep going :)

[General Rainbow Bacon]

^Yeah.  Once I get a few more of these done, maybe we could add a special section for my guides.  I'm actually really enjoying writing them.  

[General Rainbow Bacon]

Updated with maps 07 and 08.  Also added some pistol start strategies and the difficulty/gameplay/scenery rubric to earlier entries.

[DOEL]

I would say start from the top of the DW's top 100 megawads. But my personal votes would be for Alien Vendetta, Scythe 2, Community Chest 4, Nova III, and Japanese Community Project

[Xeriphas1994]

On 9/3/2020 at 10:41 PM, TheNoob_Gamer said:

So this is like the Doomwiki walkthroughs but with additional touches.

 

What are the additional touches (including any the OP has planned but not implemented), and what features would be needed on the wiki to include them?

[General Rainbow Bacon]

OP updated with maps 9 and 10

[General Rainbow Bacon]

OP updated again.  Real life took over for a little bit.  But got back to work on this.  

[General Rainbow Bacon]

Through map 14 is up

[General Rainbow Bacon]

After a long hiatus, I'm back working on this.  Up through map 17 is in the OP.