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Sigh...

I went to visit a part of my family that I don't see very often, and I met with my 6 year old niece after two years without seeing her. When she saw me, she ran to hug me and then told me how much she had missed me. She's friggin adorable.

Anyway, she started playing a 3D Android game, and it was so low quality and with so many nonsensical layouts that she got to the conclusion that it was made by a child. After managing to get a boss stuck and defeating it with no effort, she stated that the child didn't know how to make games.

She spent the next 30 minutes laughing to the nonexistant path-finding of friendly characters.

lol

Holy shit, nevermind, I got my answer.

So, was the 25 likes per day limit removed? I've throwing around quite a lot of likes lately, and I haven't been stopped :P (not that I want to be).

The other day I saw an archway and I thought "Wow, that sure has a lot of polygons!". Thankfully it just affected me for like half a second before I realized that stuff in real life is not, in fact, made out of polygons.

I also saw some decorations in an "S" formation on a floor, and it made me wonder how many linedefs it had. Oh, and during a morning with a lot of fog I thought "The draw distance here sucks!".

Don't ever give me a gun. My brain is so confused that I'd probably end up shooting someone during Halloween.

Does anyone know if it's allowed to jump in Doom Resurrection? I'm stuck, and I'm guessing I have to jump, but the WAD's text file didn't mention anything and I don't want to break the map.

After years of playing Doom, for the first time I'm noticing a few interesting things in the levels.

The brown walls on the outside areas of Doom Episode 1 are actually the walls of probably a crater in Phobos, those white pillars in E2M7 are actually the spawning vats the map name is referring to, and those rooms full of nukage in MAP10 are actually fuel tanks.

This might sound really obvious to some, but I'm from the generation where 3D was already a thing, so Doom's architecture really forces me to use some imagination. It's quite interesting nonetheless.

I just finshed Back to Saturn Ex Episode 1.

When I read that it was a vanilla mapset, I had low expectations since (thanks to my ignorance) I was just expecting something with a '94 style. Damn, I'm glad I was wrong.

I don't recall having so much fun with a vanilla MegaWAD ever before!

And the color palette changes are really cool!

And the textures are great!

And the music is really well done!

And the ending!!! It was really clever!

Did I already mention how much I love this? :)

MAP19 can go to hell though. Half of my deaths were from that map alone.

I realized that I enjoy coding (DECORATE specifically) much more than mapping. While I've already released a couple of things using DECORATE (even if they are mostly simple), I haven't been able to make a single map that I find it's worth uploading.

Maybe I'm more of a programmer than a creative mind.

I love the feeling of realization earned by getting someone who has never played an old-school FPS to play Doom (and actually enjoy it!).

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Unreal is my favorite early-to-mid 90's 3D FPS for the journey it takes you on

I really like you now :P

_{(Don't take that the wrong way)}

My headphones had some problems, so I sent them to some technical service to fix them, and guess what? They fixed the problem and added another: They fucked up the stereo and now it's inverted.

GREAT. Now I'll have to go back there and tell them to fix the damn thing. AGAIN.

I just rage quit out of Diablo.

I tried to play it months ago, but I didn't find it fun enough to stick with it at the time, but I decided to give it a proper attempt now, and God FUCKING DAMMIT I'M PISSED.

Oh, so you chose a melee-type character? Well, good luck against a boss with a giant sword that takes out a big chunk of your health with each blow, and that also gains health when hitting you!

After dying (twice) trying to kill him, I decided to start over with an archer (I think it's called rogue?) thinking it'd be easier.

OH, HOW WRONG I WAS!

After cursing a lot about the god-awful controls (why is left click to attack and move?? I have a keyboard full of keys goddammit!!) I started bumping against the walls until I eventually got surrounded and killed. In the first room of the fucking game...

Sigh

I don't like this love/hate relationship I have with RPGs.

Rant about Alien Vendetta below.

So I beat Alien Vendetta for the first time. I played it months ago but I got tired of it in MAP11 IIRC (I died and forgot to save).

Anyways, I played it from start to finish now, in UV with pistol starts. My favorite map by far is MAP20. I really like the atmosphere it has, and I think everything is very well balanced, unlike MAP22, a map that I really disliked (which is ironic, considering they were made by the same author). It feels like a lot of work went into making the level look pretty and very little in playtesting, since I spent half the map without ammo. Oh yeah, I was drowning in cells, without any energy-based weapon to use them, because the author thought it'd be a good idea to put them in secret areas (Sorry about the rant, but I'm really pissed off about that map).

At the end of the day, I enjoyed most of the WAD, although I wouldn't play it again. Some of the maps were too salughtery for my taste, but I have to admit some of them have a clever design that allows players to win without (too) much of an effort if they actually use common sense and don't rush into the horde like a brain-dead idiot (special mention to MAP26 on this).

I just finished Alien Vendetta MAP32 for the first time. I hate Cyberdemons now.

So I read about SLIGE in Doomworld's Top 10 Infamous WADs and after some messing around I finally found it (a modified copy to be precise).

The problem is that I can't get it to work, because I don't know how. When I double-click on the EXE it opens for a split second before closing. I'm guessing I need to use commands? There's no documentation abvailable AFAIK, so I don't know.

Does anyone have any info on this? I know OBLIGE is probably superior and all that, but I'm curious to see what this thing can achieve.

I had been working on a Doom map for a couple months (although the instances where I actually worked were few and far between) in a computer in my school. One day I decided to put in in a USB drive so I could continue working on it in my home, but instead of copying it to my laptop immediately, I left it there for a while.

Recently I remembered that it was there, and when I started looking for my USB drive, I couldn't find it. It had been stolen (I know who it was and why but it's a topic I'm not interested in talking about). Also, I'm so smart that I didn't keep a copy in the computer I was using in school.

I never had any motivation for mapping, but now, when I finally started creating something and gathered a bunch of ideas, everything goes to hell.

Call it fate or just plain bad luck, but I guess I'm starting from scratch. Sigh... What I had probably sucked, anyways...

My first contact with zombies was Quake. The idea of not being able to kill them since they're already dead was (and it still is) really interesting to me, so when I realised that pretty much everywhere else they are just slow-ass biting braindead idiots that die from a shot in the head, I was SO dissapointed...

Quake zombies are the real zombies to me.

I don't know why developers never seem to care about using portals (like the ones seen in the original Prey). It's pretty awesome stuff, and it's used so little... It could be awesome to create confusing layouts or puzzles. I can imagine a DM map with those as well!

I've been playing Quake and since people kept saying that it looked better without texture filtering, I decided to deactivate it.

Everything looks much more crisp! It's been so long since I played the original game (i.e. without filtering) that I just forgot how good it looked in comparison.

I've been listening to this for a while:

I think I love the soundtrack more than the game itself.

I'm eagerly awaiting the day when I can buy a VR headset and play Quake with it. I have to know what it feels to meet a shambler...

I've been playing Heretic with wand starts in "UV" and with permadeath in mind.

Easy way to get an adrenaline rush, heh.

WARNING: Rant about me being pissed off below.

I hate when games punish you for failing a level. I like challenges and -if the failure is my fault- I have no issue with replaying something over and over until I manage to do it, but if failure means that besides having to replay a section I also have an extra punishment, then it's just stupid.

Case in point: NFS Porsche Unleashed. To enter an event, you have to pay an entry fee. Fair enough. The thing is, if you fuck up during the race, you need to pay AGAIN to retry. Oh, and if you damage your car you also have to pay for the repairs (That doesn't really bother me, but in this case the annoyances start adding).

The reason I'm in my room playing games and not outside, driving a car at 150 mph with the cops on my back, is because in games there usually aren't any consequences if you lose, but this isn't the case. Sure, there's a big difference between going to jail -or dying- and losing virtual cash, but still, it pisses me off.

IT PISSES ME OFF