The /newstuff Chronicles #251

fp bitches
cool beans. should be a good week.
edit: dude... divine malice is win.

SP!

Decent lot this week bar the bog standard wad, though missing SID is disappointing.

I recommend playing everything rated above 4.

Here I'll review sid: Best wad ever created. 4 maps with amazing layouts and some great texture and gameplay workage. Not too challenging, not too easy. A must play for all doomers, and the vanillaocity gives you no excuse but to load it up in your favorite port and give the 4 maps a go. Wad of the year material. If you liked this, also try this wad's lost level, ruma.wad.

Epyo said:

Here I'll review sid: Best wad ever created.

Am I really the only one who didn't like it? :?

Ops, did i forgot it?
Ash over me, wasnt by intention :-(
As said, someone should clean the newstuff dir -.-

Graf Zahl said:

Am I really the only one who didn't like it? :?

probably

Graf Zahl said:

Am I really the only one who didn't like it? :?

It's possible not to like SID??

Also, it looks like the Weapons Resource Wad was forgotten as well. :/

DomRem said:

It's possible not to like SID??

Hmm... SID.... its coming out of my C128D, attached to my Yamaha Amplifier, right now with a MMC64 full of them ^.^

DomRem said:
Also, it looks like the Weapons Resource Wad was forgotten as well. :/ [/B]

I did a weapon wad o.O
Or do you mean another one?

Bastet Furry said:

I did a weapon wad o.O
Or do you mean another one?

Yes, I mean wrw.zip.

Europe getting almost the same rating as Italian Doom is weak, really weak. Have you even played Europe for real? That is the most unbalanced map I have seen recently. Health is at an all time low and hitscan enemies are everywhere. Tedious and boring.

Italian Doom gets minus points for using GFX from games i dont like.

I like Europe, its slow because of these Hitscan Monsters but remeber, you can provoke infights ;)

And as always, everybody has a different taste and all reviews are subjective.
I remember a test about a wargame, ASM gave it a 1.2 of 10 and PowerPlay gave it 82%. Go figure.

Italian Doom gets minus points for using GFX from games i dont like.

Wow. Just wow.

Guess I'll have to get used to /newstuff reviews.

SiD probably needs no review... it's easily one of the top 5 levels made this year. Best EVER... probably not, but good none the less.

I'm pretty fine with most of your reviews, but yea, Italian Doom doesn't get justice here.

Not only was a great amount of detail and work put into this particular wad, and good enough scripting to make it interesting for a virtually burnt out Doom player, but it featured a decent amount of levels with an actual story connecting the two. 8.5-9.5 only seems fair to me.

Europe, I played it for a little, but huge maps coupled with the insane number of monsters listed just didn't do it for me, would have preferred a RTC-like approach where the level was divided up (maybe 3-5 separate maps), but it was very well designed and layed out for the 5 minutes i played it so...whatever, personal preference in play there.

Anyway, I like how you put the ratings at the bottom, notice a lot of reviewers don't do that, and I was satisfied with the majority of the wads, so keep up the good work blood.

I really have to play this SiD...

Bastet Furry said:

Italian Doom gets minus points for using GFX from games i dont like.

I like Europe, its slow because of these Hitscan Monsters but remeber, you can provoke infights ;)

And as always, everybody has a different taste and all reviews are subjective.
I remember a test about a wargame, ASM gave it a 1.2 of 10 and PowerPlay gave it 82%. Go figure.

ASM had some very strange ratings on occasion. Their review of DOOM 2 was not exactly glowing, either - they complained that there was pretty much nothing new and interesting that wasn't already in DOOM 1, but failed to realise that the things that *were* new in DOOM 2 did round out DOOM in a way that I think contributed significantly to its popularity and long-term play value (would we still be here on doomworld today if all that had been released was DOOM 1? Maybe, but I doubt it).

On a side note, BTW, "overweighting" is not an English word. What you probably mean is "the good maps are outweighing the bad ones". :)

U R CRZY to give Europe a higher score than Mountain Base. Think about it.

Just forget the ratings, there's a reason they aren't normally used.

No Venom?

http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=13860


This is the second time one of my WADs was left out of /newstuff but still put in the archive.

Any chance of this being reviewed for /newstuff?

Sorry for Wrath. I thought it was good, I guess I should have tossed it.

--SlatheDoomer

Bastet Furry said:

As said, someone should clean the newstuff dir -.-

Yeah, that was a bit of a problem because they were uploaded all through September but just got reviewed, but I figured you would just look at #250 for your list of what not to do.

The thing is, everything in there was first reviewed last week, so if I'd cleaned it out within the "correct" 10 days since upload, it all would have been gone already when the reviews went up.

Now that you've done #251, I'll remove the ones from last week and put the automatic deletion process back in next week. Since next week is all "classic" wads, and I'm re-dating them to a current date, everything will/should start being normal again after that.

Finally.

What the bloody fuck. Does every reviewer ignore my wads? They've been in there for almost three weeks now.

Scientist 2 is outstanding. A must-play wad, and one of the best this year so far. Not too tough on UV, but plenty of interesting and varied battles and challenges. The only thing I don't like is the fact that several of the weapon graphics are off-centre.

no doomuc?

and i love the cybertronic water closet

Bloodshedder said:

Europe - DooMknight
Limit Removing - Solo Play - 1013234 bytes - [
With more detail in all the hallways this could even been a 10

Rating: 7 of 10

You really are CRZY. If you think the answer to every shoot-em-up map ever created is more detail then I'm seriously worried.

Aaah. It is so very good to see the regular newstuff back again. Must cuddle with my new WAD files now. Mmmmhm.

Why are those screenshots always so fucking black. Is the Gamma Correction button so hard to find on your photopaintshopwhateveryouusepro?

PaintShopPro, if you mind, and they are very good on my LCD.
Only drawback, they where created from 1280x1024 shoots and then downgraded to 640x512.
Even if this LCD displays good pictures, the problems he has with small resolutions wants me to trow him outside the window sometimes. (acer AL1713, if someone wants to know what beast to avoid) I regret that buy :-/
Interetinlgy he only makes these problems when using softwarerenders.....

gargoylol said:

and i love the cybertronic water closet

You are strange o.o
But as said by myself, everyone has his own taste ;)

Now he knows till next time.

Some very good stuff this week. Best /newstuff in ages!

Anyone notice the Europe link is broken? :O

Bastet Furry said:

they are very good on my LCD.

There is the problem; LCD/TFT monitors are brighter than CRT monitors. Dont tell me you never noticed that. :)