"Stephen Howe" <SPAMstephenDOThoweGUARD@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 100% kills and secrets from scratch on E2M4 is *still* fun. (Actually,
I
>> think E2M3 is more of a challenge.)
>
>I made a mistake on my previous message. I meant E4M4 is the dullest
level
>out of the whole E4 series. E4M3 is very good from scratch and the
initial
>wave of attacks could be tough without the invulnerability. After a while
it
>settles down once you have taken the stairs going down.
>
>But did you make a mistake? Do you really mean E2M4 and E2M3?
God's teeth, *YES*.
I have *never* found an FPS experience as much fun as episode two of
Doom. OK, it starts to lose its edginess once you've scored 100% kills
and secrets (without saving, on UV) on E2M4, admittedly, but... it's
*fun*, dammit, in a way that nothing else really manages.
Doom II is too hard (I want to ram MAP30 up Romero's ass, with MAP20's
trick key not far behind; Tricks And Traps and Dead Simple can follow
shortly thereafter). Quake is the Brownest Game In History (apart from
the bit where you get blue monsters in blue corridors). Quake II is
better than Doom II, but not as good as Doom epsiode 2. Serious Sam
is too staged. Half-Life has too much plot and too many "if you don't
know where the ambushes are, you die a horrible death" moments to be a
good "I know, I'll turn on my computer and slaughter monsters/thugs/
whatever" FPS. Return To Castle Wolfenstein has a ludicrous endgame.
Red Faction becomes unplayably hard when you get to the showdown with
Capek.
....
PLUTONIA.WAD has *that* MAP11 ("Hunted"). HR2FINAL.WAD has an archvile
before MAP06 on *I'm Too Young To Die* (worse, it appears as if by magic
in an area you've already been through!). I'll forgive people archviles
that early on Ultraviolence, but frankly... I think the guy who
implemented the archvile should be tied to the base of Nelson's Column
and publicly bastinadoed at midday, on a Saturday, on national television,
with running commentary by Des Lynam.
(What I really want, of course, is a multiplayer version of _Oni_ :)
m.
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