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floor waggle + missing lower textures

yeah I bought hexen 2 on steam and there was no music and I thought it was strange

WildWeasel said:

Hexen's CD had the original soundtrack on its CD in much higher quality than the default MIDI music.

Gotcha, that's exactly what I wanted to hear, sweet.

And Deathkings' cd has it's own music too?

I played through Hexen about two months ago, perhaps you remember? It was awesome. I played in Zdoom.

Now I want to play again. I started it up again last night and CD-quality music started playing, and I was surprised! Last time I played it had subtle, quiet midi music...Soon I realized that a Celine Dion cd was in my cd drive, and Zdoom was playing that in hopes that it would please me.

So, wait. If I buy the original Hexen cd, used from someone on amazon.com, can I put it in the drive and hear the original music?

Furthermore, could I do the same with Deathkings?

oh, so basically you're double clicking .wad files to play them?

the easiest way to play a certain wad is to literally drag the wad onto the source port (like, dragging doom2.wad onto "gzdoom.exe") Of course, if all of your doom files aren't in the same folder, you'll have to open two folders at once, pretty annoying. I put all my doom files in one folder these days, it's easiest.

press windows key + r

type there

for example: c:\doom\zdoom.exe -lol -whatsup

or type "cmd" and you'll get the screen above

oh my god, wow, this is the most awful thing...possible.

I have to say, I think suspended in dusk is just about one of the best level sets I've played in a shooter...I'd have loved to have seen him picked up by a company like valve or something...

But at least he left the inspirational marks on the world that he did. People who create such beautiful art for the earth do not deserve such a fate. This terrible world did not deserve Espi, perhaps now he has moved on to one that does.

This is a shot I'm rather fond of from a level I've been working on for 5 years or so now, an exploratory outdoor level called Crater Mountain. It is going to be the starting area of a metroidvania sort of nonlinear wad I've been working on for 6 years or so now, called Doomia, formerly captain mancubus 2.

In the wad, the player explores the mysterious island of Doomia, searching for its haunted abandoned castle. The first level will have two exits, which means that there are two paths through the wad: around the east side of the island, and around the west, forming a circle. Where the two paths finally meet, is some sort of mysterious city level, which must be explored to find the final castle. I've been working at breakneck speed all summer, and hopefully I can have it done before school starts. If not, it will probably not be done until winter break, if that.

haha, I remember doing this years back when I was really into stereograms. I did it the ixnatiful way, paralleling your eyes instead of crossing them. I always thought it painful to do cross-eyed stereograms, and I got a lot of practice paralleling my eyes at magic eyes, or sometimes just hand railings at parks.

on a side note, if anyone has the Tool album "10,000 Days", you can somewhat use the glasses on the case to view these, but you have to get exactly the right distance to get the effect and not get the blur that seems to come with those sometimes (at least on my copy). I dunno if your copy blurs if you get too far, but if it does, make the picture on your screen smaller. I zoomed out with my browser to about 80% and got perfect 3d on the second pair of images in Ixnatiful's first post on page two (assuming 50 post pages).

my gf introduced me to pad thai two years ago, at a restaurant on Coventry in Cleveland. I was okay with it. Months later, another pad thai restaurant called Charm Thai opened very close to my house. We tried it out soon after it opened.

I did not know the meaning of tasty food. I had no idea until I ate that pad thai. It is heaven on Earth, every single time I eat it. I shit myself every time. And before 3, it's only seven dollars, and they give you so much that you can take it home and eat it for dinner. Needless to say, we'll probably get married. Me and Charm Thai.

I also like getting orange chicken from China Max at the mall. Too bad it's unhealthy.

Besides these two slightly interesting favorite foods, my favorite foods are very basic-American. Hamburgers and French Fries, really are my normal thing. I eat hamburgers 2-4 times a week, from places like Five Guys and Wendy's, and maybe a whopper here and there.

I like to play other games with completely different styles, gameplay styles, and even other genres. Or sometimes I think of memorable moments in doom, or any game, or level design I really appreciated recently.

Or, think of some interesting geometric shapes you can turn into a room. Now pick certain parts of the room to be higher up than others, and put monsters up there.

Danarchy said:

- In Doom. I've got over 9000 special moments with this game. I think the biggest was when I first saw my dad playing it, in I think E1M3 and he was in the dark and you could hear imps snorting all around him. It was eerie.

You know, my first memories of doom are of my sister and her friend playing it, and I was watching from behind a couch, really creeped out by e1m3.

I thought the save system (checkpoint system) was one of the things halo really did wonderfully on. Along with the 2-weapons system.

The Ultimate DooMer said:

Last decent game I played was HL2e2...

As someone who loathed Half Life 2, I've got to say, HL2e2 knocked my socks off, the episodic HL2 series is really incredible so far. I think it's a bad idea to change the formula for episode 3, did I hear something about a new engine? Scary.

Also, wait, people are expecting a Blizzard game to be disappointing? I don't understand this, I feel like two years ago we were all praising them as the west's game developing gods, along with valve. What happened?

EDIT: on the subject of HL2e3 again, this reddit thread has some good (purely) speculation on the subject:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/91s9g/so_has_there_been_any_real_news_out_there_about/

from the sound of it, if Gabe wants to shake up the gameplay, and it's confirmed that Portal and HL are in the same universe, and considering the game is taking long and being kept secret...sounds like ep3 will have the Portal gun.

EDIT2: and considering how much publicity HL2 got for putting the gravity gun into gameplay use...

ah I love doomworld. the threads are actually enjoyable to read all the way through.

Krispavera said:

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I just can't like that game no matter how hard I try. I mean, I felt like I could finish the entire main quest in less than 5 hours at level 1. It had that fast travel system that let me go anywhere in a click? At least make me discover the locations first! I hated the oblivion locations, they were so drab and boring to go through, I always just ended up rushing for the end so I could get my sphere thing. Exploring felt pointless because each location looked almost exactly the same, and you could see every city location right from the beginning of the game because of that fast travel system. The only thing I really enjoyed about it was the Dark Brotherhood quest chain. Whatever...

I'd definitely agree with Oblivion. It seems so great when you first start, you know, really exciting picking stats and skills and a starsign...Your first couple dungeons, first hour exploring the world...Then you realize the dungeons are completely worthless to enter, not to mention boring, travelling and exploring is pointless when you can warp anywhere, every single person is not worth talking to, money is useless, the game is buggy as hell, the menus are not worth using without mods, the skills you picked to be major skills are the ones you're going to want to use the least if you want a lot of skills, levelling up is a terrible idea, becoming a vampire is a terrible idea, using nearly any of the skills available is a terrible idea, procrastinating on the main quest is a terrible idea, and if you learn to make your own spells, you can never be killed again.

I've been intrigued by this game for a long time, excited to try it

...

wow it's more horrible than I could have ever imagined

Thanks for the informative post Jamie!

I've heard of NetHack and Dwarf Fortress, although DF seems like a waste of time, I've been meaning to get around to trying NetHack, since it sounds like a more polished Shiren the Wanderer. (Although Shiren was so goddam charming I know I'll miss that. POWDER sounds pretty cool, I'll try that one too as soon as I need a new fix.

Oh wow looking at a screenshot of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, looks effin amazing.

"Wayfarer" is a pretty cool-looking flash roguelike but it's still in very early versions and doesn't have too much content yet, so it's not that cool.

Creaphis said:

I've played it, after first learning about the game here. My only complaint is that there aren't more random level features, to break the monotony of playing the first couple levels and dying a zillion times... (I'm not very good at it.)

I dunno if you know this but the game looks different every 4 levels. Like, level 5 looks more grassy and has very different level elements. And as soon as you get to level 5 a second time, you can start giving all your money to a guy, and if you keep giving the guy money every time you get to level 5, he'll eventually let you start the game at level 5 whenever you want! But maybe you already know this.

Quasar said:

While you're checking out Kiko, be sure to watch his in-progress LP of Doom 3 too :)

He and Necroscope are my fav LP'ers.

Yeah I'm on episode 16 ish of the doom 3 let's play :)

I've wanted to play a randomly-generated platformer for a long time, and this one is absolutely perfect. I played my first roguelike about a year ago, Shiren the Wanderer for DS, and loved it, but was annoyed by a few aspects, and I've played other roguelikes since, but all have had even more issues that were just annoying. I knew I liked the core idea of the genre, but didn't find the right roguelike for me.

Spelunky is awesome. Here, check out episode two of this guy's Let's Play Spelunky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x_V9k9tonM&feature=related

Now download Spelunky
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=4017.0

Unfortunately it doesn't work on my main computer because of issues with my graphics card and Game Maker games, or something like that, but whenever I get the chance I take my mom's laptop and play for 3 hours in the middle of the night. OMG so good. Last night I played all the way from level 1 to the ice stages for the first time and managed to bag $100,000; that last 2k was the closest to the edge of my seat a game has got me in years. PLAY THIS GAME

I read this story about a year ago and loved it, then just so happened upon a small cave with my friends. Eff-ing scary.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the greatest book of all of the time

this is a great album.

Oh yes, I remember this mission. Good job to those involved, and thanks Raven Software for being awesome.

We're on the front page of reddit btw, right now.

I'm going to advertise my own wad, ZPacman Doom 2, because I think you would enjoy it.

Also, Asylum of the Wretched was pretty good, IIRC, if that was it's name.

I liked this movie.

I've actually never gotten to play on cp_well, nor hydro. Dustbowl, gold rush, gravelpit, and 2fort are way too overplayed. My favorite is fastlane. I'm wearing socks.