So I wrote about Doom, and a part of its legacy that I feel a lot of old-school first-person shooters pass over. https://thetrashbang.tumblr.com/post/161999414860/the-lost-legacy-of-dooms-hitscan-enemies https://mastodon.social/media/sM7nxkt8EdtBXHTeOjw
@Trashbang
this is really weird to see this today because a friend of mine told me this about Doom2016 a couple days ago and I thought it was the strangest thing I had ever heard. (i still haven't played it). i had this sort of probably-unfair gut offended feeling of "that's not doom!!!!!"
also, believe it or not, i've seen the spider mastermind used very effectively as well.
@Trashbang i had to contact the author on irc bc i remembered who made it but not where the finished wad ended up. it's TTV!Zone-Season1.wad MAP37
@anotak Haha, yeah, Doom 2016 is really fun but its combat feels like a very different beast to the original games. I need to play through it again, maybe a few times, to work out how it fits together.
You wouldn't happen to remember the name of that wad, would you? I'd be genuinely interested in seeing a good application of the Spider Mastermind