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I agree with what Prime said in his first post, that th eproblem with many game movies is that the people who make 'em know zero about the game. In my view, you have to love something to want to make a film about it. I'd happily make a Doom movie... because i love Doom. I appreciate what Crendowing said about having to have more charcters than just Doomguy, but I think the single-player mood is a brilliant thing, rather than a limitation. Let's not forget the dead marines that littered E1, imagine how powerful a moment it would be to have Doomguy all alone in, say, Plant, looking at all his dead buddies having just managed to obtain 5 minutes peace. I'm sure we all had periods in the game initially when we just went back to a done part of the level and just looked around... at the buildings, architecture, dead monsters and thought... wow, I'm living this, I have a hand in this. Doom was the first game for me where I could really feel immersed... as a single player, and I think any movie should be a celebration of that.

ZDoom crashes enough for me without tempting fate anymore... so no.

contrary to your advice deadnail I just read some of your journals. The one about the women you grew up with is kinda familiar... :^ ah, shit, it's raining again. I'm 18, it's Sunday afternoon and I should be having fun, I'm sure. But the girl I like is boning a huge motherhmm, my ex is boning a randomer, and I'm here at DW all by myself. Something is wrong for sure :c

isn't there always...? ;)

If you desperately need .deh files to work, you could do worse than download MBF (Marines Best Freind) which is an alternate launcher for Doom 95. Get it at cdrom.com. It's pretty dated, the look is crap, but it works, isn't complicated and will sort your .deh's out for you (as long as you have them in the smae directory as their respective pwads.)

AH ha! Someone else, eh? When I was 11 we went over to Canada to stay with some relatives (July '94). A relation of mine who was already a computer genius showed me Doom, and I was hooked. I didn't see much of Canada because I was always playing the damn game... Anyway, when I got back I had withdrawl symptoms. I had a Sega Gamegear for fuck's sake, all I had was Sonic the bloddy hedgehog. Finally someone I didn't really like bought enough PC to play Doom and I went round to his just for that. Kind of cruel, I spose, but I was desperate. He'd be like, "hi", and I'd just be "Where's the damn computer?" Anyway, '96 comes and I finally have enough money for a PC, and I buy the Book of id before I even get the machine. Ah, sweet Doom. Doom sweet Doom. Doom 2. Final Doom. Wow. And then by chance I innocently go looking for Doom on the net and BANG, it happens. PWADS infinite. I soon figure out how to make it all work, and I'm hooked for life. That's it :)

zro, you haven't lived until you take on a cyberdemon or spiderdemon with just the shotgun. If you edit, make a map with cyberdemon, p1 start, shotgun, 5 boxes of ammo and a backpack. No health, and make it large enough for you to run around him. This is surely an elemental challenge all wannabe doomers must pass? Now for the spiderdemon, do the same but give your room some pillars, or you'll die. Somehow, nothing I've ever experienced in computer gaming comes close to beating old iron hoof with just the shotty... :>

Welcome to the fray. How did deathman end up on probation, somebody?

jeez, how can you not have Final Doom? TNT was my fav, I don't think I could make it without that... But I might have to stand next to an certain impassable linedef, select weapon no.5 and fire repeatedly before saying goodbye to Ultimate Doom and my collection of pwads.

who else but you yourself 64? It's your avatar, it cracks me up, man. I mean, imagine a vile looking like that... :#

I'm sure I replied to this but I can't see it... (losing it). Maybe I started salivating and became delirious (I wish) Anyway, Oreo rules supreme. They're not necessarily the best, but they're Oreos, that's all that matters.

As a newbie, but a seasoned veteran of the game, I'd be interested in hearing what people's favourite bad guy in Doom is. Please don't all say Cyberdemon, he's way too boring surely. Besides, a spider demon can rip him at close range:> For me, nothing beats a Baron of Hell. I remmber back in '94 nearly soling myslef that first time in Phobos Anomaly...

I'd have to agree with IMJack, more's the pity. I'd pay untold amounts of money for a Hissy figurine. But then I'd swap a kidney for one of the Baron of Hell sculptures Adrian Carmack worked on when modelling for Doom (see your copy of The Book of id).

Demon was always a bit of a lacklustre name for those creatures, esp. as you could call everything else demon generically. After I read Ab Hugh and Lineweavers Doom novels I always called 'em pinkies. They make me laugh when they're after a Rev or something and they're not fast enough to eat him, or a Caco which is too high, poor bastards...:)

I don't mind ripped music, as long as it's good and I havn't heard it much before. I think if I hear "Smells like Teen spirit" accompanying another crap 20k map though, I may just scream! :>

I'm sure I can remeber some dehacked patches giving the baddies a bfg.... I'd love to be a Baron of Hell... he's what all the classy monster chicks go for... ;)

thanks, and sorry for not being doomy enough of late. If any moderator is out there, feel free to post hell my random ramblings...

that rabbit was pretty awesome, but if the Monty Python version of King Arthur manged to kill him I think you'd have to give it to C. Howver, I'd have to ask Archvile 64 what Ralphis' mum looks like before making ultimate decidion (sorry Ralphis)

in real life I'd be scared if a trooper was lurking around outside my house... :) I guess I'm no Billy J, Keen, Doom guy, Duke, Shadow warrior, Lara Croft etc. Did I mention Lara Croft? Sorry, I promise to beat myself profusely before bed. Anyway, a mancubus in real life would have me emptying my bowels.. mostly cos my house wouldn't be impregnable to damage unlike my doom pwad of it...! :>

the thing is, Icon of Sin could hide behind a wall with a little hole in a connecting sector so that he could hear you fire and he'd go on spitting demons forever and you'd never get through the hole to find Romero and end the level, esp. if some arsehole chaingunner replaced the end level switch with one of submerge's pizzas... :>

does anyone remember Battle Frenzy/Bloodshot for the Mega Drive? This is, like, nearly ten years old, but I'll never forget 'the breaker' from that game. I prefer it to anything, co sit was a thinking man's weapon. You fired a big, slow travelling pack of missiles, and when you let go of the trigger, the pack expoded into an arc, which meant you could decide on the spray size. I f you exploded it closer ot you, you coul dhit more enemies, but if you let go just before hitting a bad dude, you could let all nine missiles hit him, with excellent effect. I've never had anything better. Duke Nukem had some good ideas, but impractical. I once laid about 5000 trip bombs on one level, after I'd fucked around with the game so I could carry thousands of each weapon ;)

on a random note, did anyone ever have KK-Build.wad and remember the music that came with the older version. That was awesome. Houses14.wad has some cool music, as does DOT.wad. All these are Doom, of course, I'm a purist, like i said. Quake 2 music is good though... hell, I thought the only good thing about ROTT was some of the music

my favorite doom topping would be roast mancubus with a double helping of grilled demon (looks like bacon, so tastes like bacon, right...?) back in the real world (no, not the real world again, mummy!!) any kind of pepperoni, as long as it's thinly sliced, an ddon't you just hate it when all the fucking topping goes straight to the middles, and the outside is all shitty? God, I hate that...

each has it's own strengths, a console is great for gaming in a comfortable non-fuss way, but what happens when you want to start making your own levels, going on the net, downloading pwads and barking at the other lost souls on dworld forums? heh, heh, pcs will alwys own in the end...

food for thought... how about the Arch-Vile bug? Do ghost monsters count? Sorry, Elip. but Mancubuses don't scare me, all I see is a fat slob who couldn't be arsed to tone himself like a Baron so got himself some flame-launching arms. Plus, he's one of those who can be chainlocked, my way of describing montsers who, when being hit by the chaingun, keep feeling pain and can't fight back (Caco, Reve, Pain, arach., Demon). Revenant is shit-scary because he is hard to chainlock unless you're next to him, and by the time you've selected the bloody gun he's punched the shit out of you! Anyway, I originally just asked who people's FAVORITE was, not who owned, but the little things like the revenant dancing, the baron looking pissed off, the demon running round like a headless chicken, that endear certain creatures to folks...