Muscle Witch

Is Doom that much more popular this year than in 2018, though? I have doubts.

I play continuously unless the mappers specifically stated that their map was made for pistol starts, or I have played the mapset in question before and now want an extra challenge.

Controversial opinion: that seems like a jerk thing to do. When I select an easier difficulty setting, I expect the game to get easier and vice versa. Fucking with that just to irritate some guys on the Internet you don’y Like is just petty.

How to load pwads in vanilla Doom. Yeah, I’m a noob. When I initially googled how to run pwads, the first page I found basically told me to use a source port, so I did. I never had a PC until after the era of DOS command prompts, so the normal way of doing it wasn’t intuitive to me.

When you ask for a comfy Doom map, I think of Going Down Map 02. Lots of seating, carpet, a fully-equipped restroom, and even a painting hanging in the boss’s office. An ergonomically-designed workspace.

Controversial opinion: one should not have to read the entirety of a 4-year-Old thread before posting in it. So, sorry if some of these have already been said. •The Icon of Sin is a garbage final boss. Give me a real enemy to fight, don’t just have me shoot at a wall while random minions swarm around. •The archvile is one of the most fun enemies to fight. You need to either duck for cover when he starts up his flame attack, which tests your knowledge of the immediate and architecture; or, interrupt it with a very precisely timed attack of your own. Since he’s going to resurrect the enemies you just killed, you have to beat him fast. That creates a tense, exiting scenario. •Doom should be run at no greater than 800x600 resolution. Past that, you start to lose a certain grunginess that I find essential to the game’s atmosphere.

The above quotes are the best advice in the thread. Here is some more that has not been said, though. For context, I am a 28-year-old American, have no degrees, and have been employed full-time for the majority of the past five years. Take the first job offer you get. (Unless it’s an internship. Those are scams.) Even if it sucks and/or isn’t in the field you want to work in, it’ll keep food in you’re belly while you look for something better. Apply for any position you feel even vaguely qualified for, even if you don’t want it. Don’t be picky. You should be applying for, at minimum, 4 jobs per day. You have nothing to lose by submitting applications. Stay positive. If you don't believe you can get a job, you won’t.

Visual novels. Playing a visual novel is like reading a manga, except there is music playing over it and all the characters (except the protagonist, who does not have a face) are staring directly at the reader the whole time. I have no idea at all what makes them appealing to anyone. I have no idea why I would sit down at my PC for eight hours to read a badly-drawn comic book that somehow is actually a video game.

No poll option for Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson?

Sometime in the mid-2000’s, a poster on another Internet forum I frequented referred to it as the first FPS. I now know that claim to be completely false, but it was enough to prompt me to google the thing. And then....well, I downloaded the shareware version. For the purposes of this thread, that is apparently invalid, so I don’t know what else to tell you. I liked it.

The best time to craft a Doom wad is during a full moon. At this time the Sun, Earth, and Moon are in perfect alignment and the creative energies of the cosmos are easiest to access. Make sure to check your horoscope before you begin; if it does not bode well, wait one month.

I believe the orange skybox is an Ultimate original.

If my health is low, that’s when I most need to be able to move fast, so I can keep dodging the fireballs that will otherwise finish me off. I’m not even sure this feature would be realistic, anyway. If anything, when Doomguy is hurt, he might just move faster due to his pain and fear giving him an adrenaline rush. That is, unless he specifically got shit in a foot or leg. Anyway, health points in Doom are an abstraction. They’re a general measurement of how long you can keep fighting, not a specific counter of how many bullets you can eat. if you do create a mod with this feature, then the monsters should also slow down when at low health. That’s only fair, right? First post! Hello, Doomworld!