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Yeah, I thought I was late to the party in 2000 when I signed up here (after like a year of lurking) -- unbeknownst to me there's always been a thriving community surrounding DOOM, as if it's one of the best videogames ever or something.

I literally play Sonic the Hedgehog on PSP as I'm getting my heart rate and blood pressure measured at the doctor's surgery to relax me since I suffer what's known as 'white coat syndrome' and my anxiety fucks with the concept of getting a 'resting' HR/BP. So yeah, the original Sonic game is most definitely my comfort-blanket game.

I'm now at City In The Clouds, having restarted on HMP. In the context of its 1997 release, I can totally see why this WAD has legendary status. Sure, some of the combat design has aged (and very many encounters can end up either a bottleneck-funnelling at a room's entrance, or circlestrafing a crowd to chip them down attrition-free) but there's a lot of what were probably new and innovative ideas here. Also, I think it's pretty ugly. Not 'pretty ugly' as in it's damned foul to look at, but pretty-ugly. Its ugliness is made to work in its favour IMO. As such I kinda like its aesthetic.

No, I was excited about the idea of combining those two tunes; I can almost hear the fusion in my head; I immediately started to think about how I'm not much of a musician really. Again, no.

Do they have to be musically-accurate? I don't have perfect pitch in the slightest but wouldn't mind trying Nobody Told Me About Romero. Nah, scratch that. I don't have perfect musical theory either and I don't fancy some muso kid telling me that my use of a B sharp sussy baka bellyflop sergeant minor didn't work with that, um, hi hat. Or something.

I love Heretic and its crossbow, but there's absolutely no weapon in the entire history of FPS that in my opinion eclipses how satisfying and iconic the regular DOOM 1/2 shotgun is. Unfair poll. ;)

Oh. Looks like I'm starting over, then. I do love me some middling 'normal' difficulty, does I.

Well, I started HR and it seems from a cursory glance at the first few maps in UDB that HMP (my usual default, regardless) isn't supported. Playing HNTR, then -- the easy settings are supported. First couple of maps have been fine, but that RoTT music really isn't my cup of tea at all. Seems needlessly-hectic for what I'm playing, I just wish it would shut up sometimes.

I've already had complaints about my Lost Soul usage without doing that. XD

Woah, I didn't mean to put you on the defensive! I didn't take you as having said anything wrong -- I guess I was trying to say that as well as your assertion that "all TNT enjoyers will definitely like the WAD", it on some level will also appeal to people who don't like TNT: Evilution, as is the case with myself. Sorry if my words came across as an attack or similar. Written communication can be a tricky beast sometimes, I only had good intentions with my posting.

Let me put it as bluntly as I can. I am not a TNT enjoyer, and yet I loved TNT Goes Boom! for I think it references and homages the original whilst simultaneously improving on it.

If it helps out, I reviewed this on my Tumblr as has been the case with any WAD that I've beaten over the past year or thereabouts.

I think TNT sucks.

PREACH! <3 Posting in epic thread. You're a legend for doing this.

*goes into UDB's automap mode and cleans out anything from their megaWAD's maps that could possibly hint to the existence of something not on the beaten path* Actually, I've been doing this for the past few days. ;)

You could make a 666-tagged door require multiple switches if said switches activate remote crushers to destroy hidden Keens. That's one way to achieve it in vanilla.

This thread has made me actually want to try HR1. Well, retry I guess; I attempted it many moons ago but probably wasn't in the right mindset -- followed by a HR2 attempt which was pretty much "nah, feels like I'll have to beat the first to be ready for this". Maybe next, after TNT Goes Boom! which I'm playing right now.

I'm busy. Maybe when I'm done with Ultimate DOOM for a bit, I may dabble.

Given that I am for some reason revisiting RAGE 2 of late (don't judge, I'm one of the three and a half people who love both games), I've often said that I'd love to see an idTech 1 version of the game's setting. That is to say, pretty much just a vanilla DOOM engine version of the gunplay/action stages. I'd make it happen myself, but you kinda lose the magic that way.

Midtextures bleed through the floor when the sector/s at both sides of them have equal properties. A quick and easy fix is to raise or lower (usually raise) the lighting on one of the sides by '1' -- it will look identical, but to the engine the sectors are different; ergo it won't merge the visplanes and should draw the midtexture properly clipping at floor height.

Jesus fucking christ that looks good. <3

Basically, I've never enjoyed TNT Evilution as much as I did the first time I ever played it; I think the novelty of it had shielded me somewhat from its 'quirks', me having not played any user content at the time and loving the fact that regular people had made this expansion. Anywho, I really enjoyed the new music for it; none more so than the Deepest Reaches theme. Specifically the OPL version (for some reason setup.exe wouldn't let me have higher quality MIDI on my soundcard at the time, though it could do it) gives me some hefty nostalgia vibes when I hear it.

I wouldn't call people stupid for having opinions, that's just rude. Half-Life itself isn't terrible per se, and I guess as per the topic title 'hate' is too strong a term for how I feel about it. Most definitely overrated to me, though.

Oh wow, I love this idea. Maybe I'll go back to a few maps of my upcoming megaWAD and stick a few secret crushers in... :P

Too many people put Half-Life on a pedestal and this should be stopped in the interests of the greater good.