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Ninety-Six

#4771 Posted 01 November 2024 - 04:13 AM

https://www.doomworl...urvival-horror/

This was absolutely fantastic. A rare win for the doom community. Extremely well done for limit-removing, balanced enemies and supplies, encounters were all fair.. All-around excellent.

A minor critique I have would be that the music kinda takes away from the atmosphere and horror. Should have either been something more suitably creepy, or elsewise have had no music at all.

Sound mixing was absolute garbage, though. Those who choose to play this, prepare for some sounds to be quiet, and others to blow your ears off.

Mark

#4772 Posted 01 November 2024 - 04:55 AM

Phredreeke, on 04 September 2024 - 02:44 AM, said:

I just saw this on Doomworld :lol:

I followed some links but didn't see exactly what was in the mod that triggered the removal. What was it?

Ninety-Six

#4773 Posted 01 November 2024 - 07:40 AM

Mark, on 01 November 2024 - 04:55 AM, said:

I followed some links but didn't see exactly what was in the mod that triggered the removal. What was it?

margaret thatcher

jkas789

#4774 Posted 12 November 2024 - 05:38 PM

Played this mod that was released in October called Escape Pod. Great map. It is a bit of a ball buster but I think it's worth playing it.

This post has been edited by jkas789: 12 November 2024 - 05:38 PM

Mike Norvak

Music Producer

#4775 Posted 13 November 2024 - 09:53 AM

Hey, just want to plug some shameless self promotion here about my new album with remixes from Doom and other 90s Videogames.

Thread on Duke4.net

Phredreeke

#4776 Posted 11 December 2024 - 10:49 AM

This seems to have passed under the radar. https://github.com/JNechaevsky/CRY

It's from the developer of International Doom, and is Jaguar Doom converted to run on that port, with Jaguar pecularities ported to it, including emulation of the CRY colorspace hence the name. Now why would you want to play Jaguar Doom on CRY instead of Calico? Well, for one CRY lets you play in resolutions above the original 160x200. It also supports uncapped framerates and widescreen, and has some optional features I recognise from Doom Retro (green and blue Baron and Cacodemon blood, mirrored corpses) and PSX Doom (colored lighting)

Ninety-Six

#4777 Posted 14 December 2024 - 09:44 AM

I feel like the Cacowards are getting less and less comprehensible. Well, winner entries specifically. HMs/Runners Up and most of the other categories are fine (for now).

Has anyone else noticed this? Cacoward write-ups have been sounding less and less like proper descriptions of the winners, and instead they just kind of wax poetic for five paragraphs that doesn't really explain much. It's one thing to give it a cute little "emotional journey" bit, but when that's 90% of the entire description it starts to become a problem.

NightFright

The Truth is in here

#4778 Posted 15 December 2024 - 03:30 PM

This year it seems as if they wanted to stuff in as many entries as possible. At this point it's hard to distinguish the actual winners from the runner-ups. Both sections are equally extensive and messy.

Maybe it's an attempt to react to the long-standing criticism the Cacowards have little to do with what the community had been voting for throughout the year. The jury basically picks their own winners and sees the votings merely as a recommendation for what should be considered.

You're supposed to make up your own mind about what's worth playing and what isn't. Which is what you probably should've been doing since quite a few years already anyway, since these Cacowards don't really have much meaning or importance. At least not the way they are awarded by now.

Ninety-Six

#4779 Posted 15 December 2024 - 05:11 PM

NightFright, on 15 December 2024 - 03:30 PM, said:

You're supposed to make up your own mind about what's worth playing and what isn't.

See, that's the problem. The write-ups have gotten so esoteric that it's impossible to do that. When they prattle endlessly about emotions, there's no actual description of what to expect or find in the wad. We get monsterless screenshots, personal ramblings that won't always apply, and that's really all we get. We really can't make an informed decision.

Self-research is also not always reliable. idgames descriptions are often extremely brief and they also rarely tell us what to actually expect.