Memfis Posted April 21, 2015 What map\wad names do you like the most? I'm always very serious about choosing names for my wads, so I'm rather curious. I think my current favorite is "Wrath of Man" from Revolution. 0 Share this post Link to post
joe-ilya Posted April 21, 2015 http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/?file=levels/doom/a-c/barrel2.zip 0 Share this post Link to post
scifista42 Posted April 21, 2015 I like inventive names, but not nonsensical ones like some people call their speedmaps or jokewads. Puns/portmanteaus are a hit or miss for me, but they're mostly OK. The map names in Going Down are mostly inventive and fitting, I like those a lot. Also, DTWID has a map with an awesome unconventional name "Mental Ward". 0 Share this post Link to post
vdgg Posted April 21, 2015 I hate those with 'hell' in their name, there are too many of them and this is confusing. Some of classical ones I liked: Hip Deep (cleim20), At The Heart of Decay, Lucifer's Laboratory (darken2), Promenade (strain), Rats in the Walls (requiem), High-Tech Grave, Kinetics (MM), Prestidigitation (icarus), Reactor Related Fuel Refinary, Kings of Metal (MM2) Ah, also Whispers of Satan was cool (there's a piano composition by Prokofiev with this name edit: i checked it now and it's known as "suggestion diabolique", I only knew the Polish name, wow, surprise) and the name of WoS' parody ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
darkreaver Posted April 21, 2015 I like abstract names, as opposed to concrete names. No: Nukage Processing, Storage Facility, Jail, Bunker, Mental Ward, etc etc Yes: Stench of Evil, Whispering Shadows, Ancient Hatred, Dawn of Possession, etc etc 0 Share this post Link to post
scifista42 Posted April 21, 2015 Abstract names themselves might be interesting and memorable, but if they don't reflect the maps particularly well enough, I'm not keen on them. I personally prefer maps with fitting names to them, and concrete names are specially interesting for me if they fit the maps. Still, the more ungeneric/unconventional, the better. 0 Share this post Link to post
tourniquet Posted April 21, 2015 short, abstract, weird but should also make sense concerning the map's theme 0 Share this post Link to post
SFoZ911 Posted April 21, 2015 Off the top of my head.. P.E.T. Rescue(Icarus) Skinny Puppy(Requiem) City of the Unavenged(Memento Mori) 0 Share this post Link to post
joe-ilya Posted April 21, 2015 Jaws In Space said:Against Thee Processing Switcheroom? Processing against thee machine. 0 Share this post Link to post
SFoZ911 Posted April 21, 2015 vdgg said:What does 'P.E.T. Rescue' mean? No clue but I remember when I played that map for the first time I thought that part of the story is to save your lost pet and that you'll see a puppy or a bunny sprite somewhere in the level, possibly in the end. Still, cool name for a level IMO. 0 Share this post Link to post
Tarnsman Posted April 21, 2015 Bingo Pool Hall of Blood. Blatant Doom Trip. Also I just now realized that Jaws in Space's avatar is a line of planets + star and not a chaingun firing from 1st person perspective. 0 Share this post Link to post
Jaws In Space Posted April 21, 2015 Tarnsman said: Also I just now realized that Jaws in Space's avatar is a line of planets + star and not a chaingun firing from 1st person perspective. [/B] Yeah it's a combination of 3 different sources, the original cover to the Jaws book, a 2001 A Space Odyssey poster, & a poster for Cruel Jaws https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcST67mABzVVKPSs6XF21TrHAZDIk2nWqruNonWGYArS3tEt9Hdm 0 Share this post Link to post
Fuzzball Posted April 21, 2015 Anything from Mock II. Electric Duck Experience? Yes please! 0 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted April 21, 2015 Totally agreed about High-Tech Grave and Whispers of STARTAN. :) From Icarus I like "Another Fine Mess" the best, a good name for a level with hordes of monsters. 0 Share this post Link to post
Never_Again Posted April 21, 2015 1) "And Hell Followed" (E4M7 of Thy Flesh Consumed) 2) "Whispers of Startan" 3) "No Masturbating in the Library" (MAP15 of ASS 15) 0 Share this post Link to post
Capellan Posted April 21, 2015 vdgg said: Rats in the Walls (requiem) You'll have to thank H P Lovecraft for that one. Even if he was a racist jerkface. Whispers of Startan is pretty brilliant IMO. But then I like the poor maligned star* textures. 0 Share this post Link to post
Havoc Crow Posted April 21, 2015 Huh, how odd. Just a few hours ago I've been thinking "Man, if someone made a thread asking for the coolest pwad names, I know what I'd post!" I come home, and here it is. Synergy? Telepathy? Anyway. Titles! I must admit... I'm something of a weird guy in this regard. A title nerd. I just love titles. Love thinking about what makes them tick and what makes a good title. I think there are a few aspects to consider: 1. The title should be memorable, catchy and intriguing 2. The title should evoke the feeling of the work. If your pwad is named e.g. "Coffee Break" I don't expect an epic story 3. The title should SOUND good. Say it out loud and hear how it flows. Use alliteration, contrasting words, etc. to make it sound great. In Doom, the typical fallback way seems to be choosing a random badass/atmospheric-sounding word (such as: Vanguard, Serenity, Sunder, Void, etc...) Another interesting tidbit: the same title can sound different when applied to different things. "Monday Morning" would sound mundane as a book title, but as a Doom map title it gives an entirely different impression. So! What are my favorites? In no particular order... PWADs Suspended in Dusk - Excellent sound Twice Risen - Intriguing, enigmatic Swim With The Whales - Exotic, memorable, interesting Crestfallen Cyberdreams Eternal Doom - The title promises you something grand and epic, and it sure delivers Jenesis Jactory - Sure is memorable Troopers' Playground Maps Worst Case Scenario Through the Black Another Dead Hero The Colossus Crawls West Corporate Hell City Heat Undead Nation Bitter Harvest Dig - short and punchy UAC in Exile Imptech Rampage - good sound Reaper's Digest - memorable, funny The Mucus Flow Ruby Abyss Mr. X Redemption Denied Last Look at Eden Beyond The Sea - pity the map itself isn't near as good Twilight Descends The Room Taking Shape Summercore Total Exposure Beginner's End Basement Jazz Crimson Tide Trapped on Titan - great sound. Perfectly "balanced" words Mostly Harmful No Brakes Neurosphere Everything Dies - short and punchy Alien Resurrection - taken from a movie, but sounds badass Graverobbers - I just love the word Postal Blowfish Demonic Hordes - you'd think it's a generic phrase, but for some reason I love it as a map title Midnight Tek Frenzy - perfect sound balancing Big Time Escape from Ghost Town Shipping/Respawning Geist Halls - good sound Mineopoly - witty Storm Approach - Dark City - never got this one, did the mapper come up with two names and couldn't choose one? For some reason though the two-name thing sounds well Rusty Rage - great alliteration Shocker in Gloomtown - I know, BTSX's map names were originally song names by Guided By Voices, but I absolutely love this one Serenity Forever - you gotta love the trilogy's mapnames Hangman's Paradise Spook House Sunset Electric Wizard In Defence of Demonsex - From Mock II. What? It's memorable and sounds good. And possibly way more I forgot. My least favorite ones include: Alien Vendetta - it just looks weird. So random. A clash of "alien" (a sci-fi word) and "vendetta" (Italian mob themes?). It doesn't even seem to fit Doom - after all, they're demons, not aliens. It almost looks like someone couldn't think of a good name, so they gave up and just called the WAD "Alien Revenge", then hit the thesaurus to make it sound less lame. The Plutonia Experiment - I just don't like this one... 0 Share this post Link to post
Capellan Posted April 21, 2015 JudgeDeadd said: "Monday Morning" would sound mundane as a book title, but as a Doom map title it gives an entirely different impression. Suddenly I want to see a map named "Monday Mourning". 0 Share this post Link to post
Antroid Posted April 21, 2015 Well my wad-in-progress is currently called shithaha.wad... I think the primary reason I've been working on it so slowly is that I can't come up with a proper name, and I don't want to accidentally complete it before it even has one! Speaking of map names, I don't like excessively abstract ones that have absolutely no connection to the level beyond thematic (hell = something metal/sinister sounding). Although even that is better than using song names for maps... I remember when map names were really interesting to me when playing doom, and it was obviously when I was only a kid. I can recall why they were interesting: they carried information about where I was (or was going to be if I looked at the name as soon as I got to a level), what the place I'm in was supposed to be. For me a name of a map has kind of a symbiotic relationship with the contents of it in creating immersion, since I love maps that have that Doom degree of abstraction to them while still looking strangely reasonable. So when you add a name to such a level, your imagination starts seeing exactly what the name suggests in the abstractness. So, maps that have relatively straightforward (if maybe a bit fancy sounding sometimes) names which describe the location in the map are my favorite. Kind of boring, but the way the IWADs do it is the best for me. Additionally, for hellish levels the references in the names were an extra layer of interesting, like mt. erebus, or dis. 0 Share this post Link to post
Captain Toenail Posted April 21, 2015 Map02: Underballs made me chuckle. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gothic Posted April 21, 2015 Deus Vult, Crucified Dreams, Russian Overkill (do gameplay mods count?), Black Hell, The City of the Damned, Community is Falling (pretty hilarious), No Rest for the Living, the list goes on... As for map names, Demonic Hordes, The Spirit World, Hell Beneath and everything involving biblic quotes or hell related stuff. 0 Share this post Link to post
40oz Posted April 21, 2015 I'm a fan of most MAP01 mapnames in megawads. "Ignition!" In HR2, or "First Blood" in Speed of Doom. Another favorite is "Scary" in The Darkening. For some reason that map name just makes me smile when I read it. I prefer one word mapnames like "Attack" in The Master Levels or "Apparatus" in Biowar. I also prefer two word map names if they are "The something" like "The Gantlet" in Doom 2 or "The Teleporter" from Memento Mori. With few exceptions, I dont like map names that dont give a good sense of location. Map names like "To be or not to be..." in Kama Sutra or "Rusty Rage" in Alien Vendetta are pretty weak to me. I also really dont like non-English map names unless of course the map is by someone who is not a native English speaker. My least favorite map names are puns or plays on words like "Hecknology" in Plutonia 2 or "Natas Ot Etubirt" in Requiem. 0 Share this post Link to post
NuMetalManiak Posted April 22, 2015 *lazily checks Doomwiki, Levels by name, I definitely don't remember playing most of these* my favorites would be: Atlantis Rising (Cchest3) Between Scattered Corpses (MM) Citadel at the Edge of Eternity (Cchest) Damned Bastards (sudtic) Ein Lustiger Ort (WOS) Fire Walk With Me (AV) Godforsaken Hole (Cchest3) Huitzilopochtli (Cchest3) I'm Just a DOOM Addict (ksutra) Locus Perditus (PL2) Militiant Reprisal (Requiem) nataS oT etubirT (Requiem) Odyssey of Noises (Plutonia) Pathway to Elysion (WOS) A Question of Time (MM2) Ratamahatta (MM2) Suicidal Tendencies (AV) Twilight Massacre (SODfinal) Unto The Cruel (Doom) The Verge of Revelation (WOS) Where Hate Runs Red (PL2) Xenturion (ndcp) also anything by TimeOfDeath. favorite wad name? this 0 Share this post Link to post
DeathevokatioN Posted April 22, 2015 Names that aren't boring / too silly. Off the top of my head: Wads Necromantic Thirst Crucified Dreams Memento Mori Demon Fear Realm of Chaos Requiem Eternal Doom Alien Vendetta Maps City of the Unavenged Where Serpents Ever Dwell (shameless self promotion, feel free to find it on idgames so you can rate it '0' and call it overrated etc) Crimson Tide Cryptic Realms Dark Pulse The Beginning of the End Toxic Touch Overwhelming Odds Brutality Unknown Blood Sacrifice Misri Halek Fire Walk With Me Sacrificium Viper Rites of Passage Den of the Skull Dispensary Beta (techbase name that doesn't sound redundant) + the ones that Darkreaver mentioned. 0 Share this post Link to post