Most overused words in Doom wad titles?

[Battle_Korbi]

I say two most overused words in titles would be "Hell" and "Space".

 

I know, Doom is mainly composed of these two words, main elements and all. But that doesn't justify it, really. It would be like naming a romantic comedy "Funny Heartwarming" or to name a action movie "Good Guys Kickpunching Bad Guys With Guns And Cars", its just too obvious that it is set in Hell/Space/Hell Space/Space Hell.

 

Whaddya got?

[Voros]

"Doom"

[VGA]

Death, dead, slaughter, knee, blood

[Gez]

Using the idgames database interface search function, searching in titles:

 

Doom: 2497 results (to be fair, a number of results are not for PWADs; how many? I don't know, didn't bother to check)

Death: 912

Hell: 424

Base: 218

Imp: 132

Blood: 130

Day: 124

Castle: 122

Gun: 114

Kill: 105

Demon: 100

City: 84

Night: 81

Lab: 71

Station: 69

Time: 61

Space: 57

Pain: 55

Fortress: 51

Cyber: 49

Keep: 42

Invasion: 39

Nightmare: 39

Alien: 35

Town: 34

Dream: 30

Vile: 29

Assault: 26

Urban: 21

Attack: 16

Corrupt: 16
Shoot: 16

Gothic: 14
Slaughter: 14
Knee: 14

Infest: 13

Caco: 11

Warp: 9

Journey: 8
Manor: 8
Stronghold: 8
Murder: 7

Travel: 6
Village: 6

Infect: 5

 

[Britney_the_King]

Yeah, hell is in there quite a bit, but Gez just rolled out the search for this one. 

[scifista42]

15 minutes ago, Gez said:

[4th most used word] Base: 218

I was in the middle of typing a post in which I said "Base" when this was posted. It's the goto word for titles of techbase maps and therefore also techbase wads with only a single map, and there seems to be a lot of wads that are techbase themed, as well as there seems to be a lot of wads with only a single map.

[ShoDemo]

What do you mean @Battle_Kirby about Space and Hell being overused? 

I named my first wad Space Inferno, which is a very unique title!

*cough cogh*

 

 

[baja blast rd.]

 

8 hours ago, Battle_Kirby said:

It would be like naming a romantic comedy "Funny Heartwarming" or to name a action movie "Good Guys Kickpunching Bad Guys With Guns And Cars", its just too obvious that it is set in Hell/Space/Hell Space/Space Hell.

The Doom equivalent of that would be more like:

 

"Ragequit and Hurl Personal Insults on Idgames"

"Hunt Switches, Ignore Barons"

"20 Minutes of Tedium, Die at Sudden Crusher Trap"

"Oh Look a Custom Prop Forest, RIP Framerate"

"Spawn in a Voodoo Doll Tunnel"

"Vanilla Map: ZDoom in Hexen Format"

 

Those genres of movies have their cliched titles too, ones that aren't on-the-nose descriptions like that.

 

As far as Doom levels go, you can find common words in silly (Elmer's Glue Base) and not-as-silly creative map names (Blood and Rockets). 'Knee Pain', borrowing two words from Gez's list above, is an appealing title, mundane yet ridiculous. 

 

Edited July 29, 2017 by rdwpa

[Gez]

If I make a map, I'll name it Death Hellbase: Imp Blood.

[Trupiak]

I think Gez just ended the thread lol

[40oz]

surprised "tech" or "techbase" wasn't in there.

[Battle_Korbi]

19 minutes ago, ShotgunDemolition said:

What do you mean @Battle_Kirby about Space and Hell being overused? 

I named my first wad Space Inferno, which is a very unique title!

*cough cogh*

It IS unique, look at the list above! No Inferno in sight, therefore = quite original :P

[Battle_Korbi]

2 minutes ago, Trupiak said:

I think Gez just ended the thread lol

We can still critscize unoriginal title names though :P

[dl_simc]

Few more:

 

Level: 329
Pit: 114
Star: 113
Dead: 90
UAC: 78
Zone: 63
Phobos: 54
Deimos: 32

 

[Job]

Probably "of." 

[NeedHealth]

I guess that wordplay is under represented. My Nova III contribution I named Dante Allegory.

[ShoDemo]

4 hours ago, Battle_Kirby said:

No Inferno in sight, therefore = quite original :P

Sure, but it also has <<Space>> in the title!     :(

I guess it is 50% original.

 

Fun fact:

Spoiler

I was basically going to name it something like Infernal Dreams or Infernal Void, but there were two problems:

1) The level was not hellish enough.

2) The names were already taken by some kind of death metal bands and I had a hard time in using the word <<Inferno>>. (IT HAD TO BE USED THOUGH!!!)

 

[Jaws In Space]

A rather specific map name that I've seen pop up a few times is Hanger 18.

[NeedHealth]

11 hours ago, Jaws In Space said:

A rather specific map name that I've seen pop up a few times is Hanger 18.

I'd thought one rope would do, or do my non-englishness betray me? I mean - I imidently understood that map03 gantlet wasn't a misspelling.

Edited July 30, 2017 by NeedHealth

[Memfis]

9 hours ago, 40oz said:

surprised "tech" or "techbase" wasn't in there.

Maybe it ignores non-dictionary words.

[dl_simc]

10 hours ago, 40oz said:

surprised "tech" or "techbase" wasn't in there.

54 times!

 

Try by yourselves:

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames//index.php?search

 

 

[DoctorGenesis]

BRUTAL

[ReX]

15 hours ago, Gez said:

Using the idgames database interface search function, searching in titles:

Dark: 63

Gun: 60

Fear: 25

Wicked: 12

 

Surprisingly, not a single wad name includes the word "goober". [Although, one enterprising individual did name his/her wad "Boogers (All the good names were taken)".]

[Ashley_Pomeroy]

Someone should release a megawad called Space Death Base: Hell Castle of the Blood Imps.

 

The first map will be called Night City of the Kill Demons. And so on.