DOOM/id stuff

Oddly I’d started playing original Doom on the deck again at the start of the week. Saves aren’t compatible but that’s fine with the level select option.

Realised I’ve never played all the way through the PC version, think I might have on the N64 or PS1 releases but can’t remember now.

Curiously, the traditional command line arguments do work on the new port (-iwad, -pwad) etc, BUT they expect backslashes and not forward slashes. Which means it doesn't work with doomrunner/other launchers. Hopefully they can change that.

I tried using different input methods for mouselook, but if you simply type help and look through, it isn't there as an option anyway.

BALLS. FUCKING BIG BALLS OF BASTARDNESS.

Hope so as it would finish it off and I can use this version with the new soundtrack. That'd be nice. I can see other people on steam asking the same

I can say with relative confidence it's unlikely MyHouse will ever work in this port. There's technically 2 wads - even the basic MyHouse.wad that doesn't have any of the "special" stuff, shall we say, actually still makes use of GZDoom-specific tech to handle the seamless teleporting/portals that lets it fake the room-on-top-of-room stuff. Then there's MyHouse.pk3 which is the real thing, which is EXTREMELY GZDoom dependent.

For the same reason, you'll never be able to use Voxel Doom with this port. It's effectively something that was made for another game engine, that also happens to run Doom. It loads because they share the file format, but there's no way this port can do anything with it.

Yeah I can rememebr a bit of fannying to install and run it originally. Was quite surprised to see the mod itself on the mod list but not sure where that list is drawn from. I presumed it was there because it had been tested / adapted but it seems not!

Gotcha. Shame but it's no biggie. I've played it before. Just quite chuffed it seemed to be on there. More than enough content outwith though.

Plus that soundtrack...lovely stuff.

The mappers never went away! Tons of great stuff every year, and over the last few years it's been very active.

Take a look through the cacowards archives if you want to see some of the best:
www.doomworld.com/cacowards/

Yeah that's the guy

Now seems a good time to say that I finished a play of vanilla Doom 2 this week and it has reinforced my opinion that as a standalone game, Doom 2 actually kinda sucks compared to the first. There's just two many maps that are absolute duds once you get past Dead Simple, just full of big boring spaces that have no flow whatsoever. Sandy Petersen was responsible for most of them - the occasional Romero/McGee map tends to be pretty good.

Where it shines is as a modding platform, the extra enemies and super shotgun gave people the opportunity to run with it and make way better stuff. TNT really sucks ass as well, but Plutonia is an absolute slice of ball breaking excellence.

I think I played Doom 2 first (other than a bit of Doom1 shareware on a mate's PC) so after that going back to Doom 1 never grabbed me.

I also really liked the big weird spaces, which felt really epic at the time. I'm not sure any game has ever matched that for me since, even the ones with huge open worlds.

Doom 2 is always a bit hazy in my mind. It's Doom that I always remember. I always remember being disappointed that Doom 2 was on Earth but in no way shape or form that was actually recognisable. Because of the technical limitations of the time, games worked best when they strayed away from more grounded recognisable settings. Mars bases and then Hell were an easier sell than a city.

My personal opinion is that if you had to draw a big fuckin arrow on the ground that's visible from the automap your level was a failure

That's basically all games now though innit. Ahead of its time