KitKatrina

No, my point wasn't that the protagonist's gender correlates to the audience, just that doomguy was likely made male to appeal to the target demographic, if that makes sense. My point being that even though he was a dude originally, he was also just supposed to be a blank slate for you to project yourself on, making me feel that it was a missed opportunity to make the slayer have an ambiguous gender to allow more people to relate (◡‿◡✿) I partially agree, but i want to point out that i didn't suggest outright making the protagonist a woman, just of ambiguous gender. Most people would probably assume he's a guy anyway just based on the classic games but it would still leave room for the imagination of players in other demographics.

Exactly! I always thought it was so cool how, at least at the start of the game, it was sort of up in the air over whether you had some sort of supernatural abilities, a super advanced suit, just really good combat training and reflexes, etc. it was a really cool mystery that i think should have been kept into Eternal.

This might be a little bit of a controversial post but hear me out. I know, i know, it's doomGUY, and you clearly play as a dude in the original games. But! I'm pretty sure doomguy was supposed to look generic as possible so players could self-insert themselves. I'm sure the reason they made him a dude was because that was the main audience and in the 90's it was generally assumed that games were for boys. DOOM 2016 was my first fps ever and as a young girl i thought the slayer was so cool... they really drip-fed you his story and kept you wondering about just who he was, especially if you didn't really know anything about the 90's games like me. but i was kinda disappointed when you get to the hell portion and it's revealed without a shadow of a doubt that you're playing as a dude (He is here...). i don't know, i just thought it was cooler when it could literally be anyone under that suit. It could be you, it could even be me! i thought they were doing that on purpose too, since he was totally silent, not even pain grunts if i remember correctly, and his suit was so bulky it obscured all of his proportions. Plus, "Slayer" is neutral, unlike "Guy". again, it could literally be anyone under there, but alas... no. And Eternal just takes it to a whole 'nother level. He has pain grunts now, they show you a jpeg of his eyes whenever you get a powerup, you can see his face pretty clearly and he even takes off his helmet sometimes... i haven't played The Ancient Gods yet but I've heard he even has some dialogue in it. And it's... eh... i get where they're coming from with all that, i really do. with all of the classic stuff they brought back (and did an incredible job with), it would make sense to bring back his pain grunts and face and stuff, right? Well, and this is just me, but I would personally far prefer if he was gender-neutral. I know it wouldn't work as well with his new lore in Eternal but it would have been SO easy in 2016, and it should have been carried over like that in my opinion. I would even argue that it would make it feel even more like the original games, to a degree. Since there's no story or characters it's really easy to insert yourself into doomguy even if he's a dude, you just kinda forget about it after a little while. And with GZDoom and stuff like 150skins.wad, you can even actually play as a girl. And you know what? It doesn't change a damn thing. all it is is a new face and grunt, and it's perfect. I also want to bring up the idea of a dedicated female option as a player character, i know Hugo Martin expressed interest in it and several people suggested ideas like being able to play as Crash from quake. Personally i would just prefer a more neutral slayer and keep it at that, but after Eternal having a separate character is probably the only way to make it work. Obviously i wouldn't be complaining either way! I have to admit though, i WOULD be complaining if they went with something like some fan designs for female slayers. If they make a female protagonist and she never wears a helmet or has a boob window or something like that, i would sprint around my house in a fit of rage ripping and tearing all of my doom merch like patchy the pirate in the lost episode of spongebob. I'd activate the berserk powerup IRL and put a hole through the drywall with my head. I'm really interested to hear what other people think, maybe i'm just weird and i care way too much about this stuff (.❛ ᴗ ❛.)

I've always called em Pinkie-demons, but i've seen people call them Pinkies, just "Demons" as per the manual, Bull demons, Pigs... Even Demon sergeants 'cause of the sprite names. σ(￣、￣〃)

i replayed both Doom 1 and 2 just a month or so ago on UV, 'cuz i was reading about the old Doom Honorific Titles and wanted to see if i was a verifiable Doom master. i realized that even though i've played Doom 1 tons of times on UV, i've only ever beat Doom 2 once... and it was on baby mode because i was scared of the demons as a little girl Σ(°△°|||) anywho, i got retribution and beat it on UV, the biggest challenge was the levels themselves. i assumed they were only confusing to my tiny child brain, but even today i still had to consult the walkthroughs. I beat them both and got a bit of an ego boost and decided to see if i could survive Nightmare! it's super duper stressful, but i beat E1M3, so i beat Romero's record at least. i'm stuck on M4 but as a hotline miami fan i kinda like the trial and error... Even though i've always had Final Doom i never really got into it, but i'm playing TNT right now with Final Doomer and it's pretty fun! i plan on playing plutonia next since i hear it's tougher (◡‿◡✿)

hmm, i took care not to replace any textures. here's some of my TEXTURES lump, does it look right?

MAP72 here. my map's textures look fine when i run it by itself in GZdoom, but when i play it in RAMP everything's missing! the website doesn't seem to think there's any errors, so i'm a little lost. any ideas? ┐('～`;)┌

Yesss, boxes give me dopamine. i look forward to playing this (◡‿◡✿)

Ooh, cool!! Are we allowed to use custom textures or audio? I'd love to add some but i wouldn't wanna bloat the file too big or something.

This was it! Thank you! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Hmm, tried both but no dice. still those red diamonds! do you have any other ideas? Heres a screenshot of the sprite in the list, if it helps at all. Thank you so much for the speedy reply by the way!! i didn't expect to get one so fast! ♡( ◡‿◡ )

Hi doomers! (＾▽＾) I made this lovely houseplant decoration, and as you can see it looks perfect in the editor! however, once i test the wad in GZDoom, it appears to be missing. What gives? ＾ Here it is in UDB. ＾ In-game! ＾ And here's the DECORATE script. I'm certain it's an issue with my DECORATE script, since i don't really know how it works. i just kinda fiddled with it until it let me launch the game! Thank you so much!! ( ´ ▽ ` ).｡ｏ♡