Doom But Something's Not Right - Episode 1: Knee-Deep in the Dead (Blind Ultra-Violence 100%)

Game: The Ultimate Doom
PWAD: Doom, The Way We Remember It.wad
Difficulty: Ultra-Violence
Source port: PrBoom+ UMAPINFO (-complevel 3)
Pistol start.
Blind (never played or seen the maps before).
All kills and secrets.
No saves.
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Link to WAD:
www.doomworld.com/forum/topic...
Link to source port:
github.com/coelckers/prboom-p...
Widescreen status bars:
forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php...
Doom II Minor Sprite Fixing Project:
www.doomworld.com/idgames/gra...
00:00 Introduction
00:08 E1M1
02:27 E1M2
06:10 E1M3
10:13 E1M9
14:00 E1M4
18:14 E1M5
22:46 E1M6
32:32 E1M7
42:07 E1M8

[@Yoshi348]

The maps have names! And also author credits, you can see at one point when the map gets pulled up. Unfortunately they don't have replacement graphics lumps so they don't show up on the intermission outside of zPorts which will create them for you (and maybe eternity idk). For reference: E1M1: At Dooms Gate - TotalTS E1M2: Nuclearly Wasted - Death Bear E1M3: Toxin Refinery - msx2plus E1M4: Command Control+Alt+Delete - Wavy + Doomkid E1M9: Hiding the Secrets - DaAndroid614 E1M5: The Suspense is Killing Me! - DMPhobos E1M6: Waster Recycling Center - Vaeros E1M7: Central Processing I Guess - Scypek2 E1M8: Hobos Anomaly - Kloki38

[@engired564]

It's a dehacked patch that's in it, but only zdoom ports seem to recognise it.

[@dd-iy7jw]

equally as scuffed, I love it.

[@gregor1O1]

I don't buy it. No way is this from memory only. C'mon. They remember all the right textures in their place everywhere but completely mess up the dimensions of almost every room. Like, nobody would get E1M1 that wrong in terms of its basic layout. That was obviously deliberate. They designed this to make it look like it was built from memory and made subtle changes all over the place to make everything feel slightly "off". But you can't fool me. ;) Still an interesting concept.

[@dunndunn3850]

@@gregor1O1 There's also mapping skill/experience. Hence probably why E1M1 is the way it is.

[@doomerrasa8475]

@@gregor1O1 Well first of all they do often screw up the textures, second of all once textures are in position aligning them can be done without memory. As for dimensions, room dimensions can be hard to get precisely. I do think the errors are not entirely due to memory (like obviously the cyberdemon is a joke) but I do think there's a lot of ballparking they did.

[@lhfirex]

Wow, I can't believe they left out the E1M2 section where Bill Gates shows up with a shotgun and a trench coat talking about how games are getting really realistic these days.

[@andrew_35]

what

[@expendableround6186]

"These games are getting really realistic."

[@luisarevalo647]

@@expendableround6186BOOM "Don't interrupt me when I'm talking."

[@williamsmith666]

"Maybe I'll join next year's big Doom tournament."

[@VaterOrlaag]

And firing the shotgun without touching the trigger.

[@MarphitimusBlackimus]

These mappers must have really bad memories. There aren't nearly as many Revenants as I know there are.

[@robowisanveithasung6022]

are revenants the only thing you like in doom or what

[@danielja1832]

I'm sure I remember a pain elemental in the lift secret in the first map. You know the one with a linedef trip that takes you up to a box of shells?

[@expio4257]

@@danielja1832 I'm pretty sure that's an actual thing in the psx version, but I haven't played that in over 2 years

[@douglasthompson1724]

I remember getting a boner like every second while playing this back in the day.

[@Mate_Antal_Zoltan]

@@robowisanveithasung6022 yes.

[@dustarma]

"Hey bro can I copy your homework? Yeah but change it a little": The Wad

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

Doom: Bootleg Edition.

[@user-ju2cg1he3i]

🤣

[@SamuelTrademarked]

Doom: Dollar Store Edition

[@evenfallabeksylt9271]

That's how you diagnose somebody with amnesia - by having them voluntarily place Cyberdemons and Cacodemons in their Episode 1 recreations.

[@ahandsomefridge]

More like dementia to me.

[@evenfallabeksylt9271]

@@ahandsomefridge That's a more serious case possibly.

[@expendableround6186]

Or just plain trolling.

[@shaunpaulcroft]

@@ahandsomefridge interestingly, dementia destroys short-term memory acquisition many years before it takes your long-term memories. In 40 years, many of the people on this comment thread won't be able to tell you what they had for breakfast that day, but they'll still remember what a bastard a cyberdemon can be in a small room and suffer PTSD whenever an Archvile wake up sound is played to them.

[@ahandsomefridge]

@@shaunpaulcroft This is true. I'll be 81 in 40 years and that might be the only thing I'll remember by then.

[@Vinny2142]

Kudos to whoever remembered a cyberdemon in map 7, I totally forgot they had one in that level

[@maccaswam]

Hmm, same...

[@SonicMaster519]

Me too, shame they forgot the part where an army of Revenants come charging at you.

[@kingbaby8761]

@@SonicMaster519 only in the PS1 version lol

[@HC-qc5rp]

Definitely one of my favorite parts of Doom

[@diossounet7399]

"Go away, you're not shareware" - best Decino's punchline of 2021.

[@elimgarak3597]

"Kudos to whoever had to recreate this map because it is very difficult, I never remember it well myself, so yes, I extend my most enthusiastic congratulations and a cup of coffee to you, my new hero, because you need some serious ski...WHY DO I HEAR A CYBERDEMON???????"

[@jimjimguy1235]

I’d say this run’s more blurry than blind. You know where everything SHOULD be, you’re just not sure where they actually are.

[@riks081]

Drunk Ultra Violence

[@masonbooh5941]

Doo doo doo doououo Dodododododododo do do Do do do do do douo douo (duh duh duh duh) Da do do do do do duh duh duh do do duh duh

[@evanb8495]

@@masonbooh5941 🤔

[@TheCarPassionChannel]

Lmaooooo I almost spit my drink out when I saw the Cyberdemon wandering around in the acid

[@Strakester]

I bet they conflated this with Map 26 in Doom 2.

[@doomerrasa8475]

ржомба

[@georgeheilman885]

I'm a little surprised the Spider Mastermind didn't make an appearance, everyone else did.

[@doomerrasa8475]

They should have gone all out and replaced the bruiser brothers with revenants, since that's technically allowed

[@bubsy3861]

Strange shit but I also remember that fuck in the acid... Well... Hello from parallel universe I think.

[@MMMmyshawarma]

This is like the house the Simpsons neighbors built for Ned after his house was obliterated by the hurricane.

[@peterhawes9680]

Drinking game: take a shot every time decino says 'cursed'.

[@DoomKid]

You'll be going to a hospital with alcohol poisoning, lol

[@thexdude]

@@DoomKid Lol, your profile pic makes your comment even funnier Also hi

[@tranquility6789]

Death

[@xBEEKAYRANDEEx]

Ouch my liver

[@snicksandstones]

Haha liver feel funny

[@Rockthemike13]

25 years ago, when I was a small child, I was poking around with the doom editing utilities. I didn't understand them, drawing the nodes or whatever always tripped me up. But I remember the first time I ever got any thing to ever work was adding a cyberdemon to that very acid pit. I was so proud of myself, and it seemed like a good place to have him. Seeing him in this map tripped one of the strangest waves of nostalgia I've ever felt.

[@adre2194]

That's actually really cute

[@nicholaskane9477]

Great story :)

[@esmerylan]

"I should have grabbed the chainsaw"- things you never expect to hear decino say.

[@squishybrick]

I'd love to see a doom version of "everywhere at the end of time", where the game is normal, but past the third map or so, you start seeing wierdness, and further in it gets worse, like parts from other maps being cut in to the map you're on, wierd repetitions in geometry and enemy placement, until it just slow eventual jumble of crazyness, but then, after all that, just becomes completely blank, unpopulated patches of square corridors, heading on for what seems like infinity.

[@dustyrust36]

Oh my god that's literally perfect

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

Mom, can we have Doom? We have Doom at home. This PWAD is Doom at home.

[@mjc0961]

So you want Doki Doki Literature Club but it's Doom.

[@brodyspears8290]

@@mjc0961 no everywhere a the end of time is art and doki doki is just a horror game with gimmicks 😐

[@tehberral]

I would legitimately play this tbh.

[@Zenlore6499]

The Doom playthrough that happens in your dreams: you know what’s going on and where you are, but you don’t know this place at all.

[@XenoSpyro]

I have an old childhood vision of a small room in front of a hallway, and the room has that circular white light texture on the ceiling with tan walls. There's probably a room that looks like this on Doom 1 and probably TNT.

[@robertsneddon731]

And you're naked.

[@MXVDJ]

lol, I've had this dream many times!

[@spinningchurro]

My Doom dreams were mostly nightmares consisting of Doom II levels with impossibly high walls and ceilings and when I would pause the game the menu would come up, but the monsters would still attack me.

[@jonscottiegrippin]

Interesting concept. We play something so many times that it has been burned into our brains that we notice when things are off.

[@paulhealey8933]

Slow clap to whoever did E1M7. The Cyberdemon must be a drunk Doom memory.

[@giwake]

they're working on a version of this for doom 2 im terrified yet intrigued

[@Destro65]

oh god what is downtown going to be

[@barbariangamer6209]

looking farward to it

[@robowisanveithasung6022]

@@Destro65 its probably going to be buildings but short

[@rvaughan74]

@@Destro65 nothing but Revenants and Archviles.

[@JKRevanBR]

I wonder if they'd dare to do Plutonia.

[@FanofRvB]

Cyberdemon: "Wait.. this isn't a tower, and I don't see any Skulls floating. I don't remember this place."

[@GeorgeTsiros]

"also it feels kinda itchy"

[@MateDrinker33]

@@GeorgeTsiros "Itchy tasty"? :D

[@Jarcky]

“I’m a filthy purist” Plays with all 8 rotation sprites

[@n3onkn1ght]

Also, uses the E1M1 switch to open the courtyard, which wasn't in OG Doom.

[@decino]

This WAD also recreated episode 4 so I consider it Ultimate Doom.

[@marshmellowguy586]

I dont get it

[@thekingslayer2178]

It’d be really cool if you pulled up the automap at the end of each map, just to give an idea of how different these levels are

[@marekcernoch1355]

There's link to the WAD topic on Doomworld in the description, and there are comparisons there

[@ThePageofCups]

oh my god, the difference with slough of despair makes that map even worse

[@daandroid614]

I made e1m9, and yes it is way too small, I re-looked at the original after finishing it and that's what stood out right away

[@daandroid614]

@Leonidas Poledouris thanks

[@trisar2146]

Other than it seeming a little cramped, E1M9 was probably one of the best recreations in the whole WAD, so definite kudos there.

[@BSzili]

This feels like the Saturn port of Duke Nukem 3D, where they had to recreate the levels in a different engine. Lobotomy had a tool to import Build maps into their Brew editor, but that only gave them the basic layout. There were also engine limitations which meant some areas had to be cut or changed.

[@BSzili]

@BrutalGoober Yes, but oddly enough Quake's levels are more accurate, even though they recreated them from scratch. In Duke3D the scale feels off at a lot ot places.

[@williamsmith666]

The "SlaveDriver" engine.

[@kzadbhat555]

@BrutalGoober Don't you mean every other version of Quake? They had to remove so much geometry from the N64 version, that you could barely recognize the similarity most of the time. But at least the N64 version had colored lighting.

[@BSzili]

@@kzadbhat555 It definitely added to the atmosphere, but in N64 Quake the lighting was completely static. The Saturn version had colored dynamic lights, which is admirable.

[@chain872005]

The Cyberdemon just has to be a troll move. Everyone knows you don't fight any cyberdemons in episode 1

[@silverhand9965]

Yeah this just cannot be a mistake lmao. Someone took "creative liberties"

[@AnInnocuousBlueCube]

I think trying to recreate that level from memory was so frustrating they just gave up and started throwing random shit around. I know I would.

[@skakirask]

I'm wondering if the subsequent episodes will put way more emphasis on "something isn't right" to mess with the player.

[@williamsmith666]

Even in multiplayer?

[@lankymaccrazyhair264]

@@williamsmith666 Doom 1 doesn't have any multiplayer excusive enemies, as seen in Decino's vid on the subject

[@phurry6773]

I like how he gets more upset about there being cacos and lost souls than the cyberdemon

[@azogtheeternallyunskilled9704]

i didn’t even remember that cacos werent in E1 tbh

[@liangseng7474]

@@azogtheeternallyunskilled9704 There aren't. Cacodemons make their first appearance right at the exit of E2M1 Deimos Anomaly

[@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen]

Wait, what?! I could have sworn there were cacodemons in E1 :D And I thought I had played the shareware version so much, I knew every last pixel :D

[@Ply447]

@@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen the only cyberdemons and cacos in the shareware version are on the order info splash screen.

[@darkprinc979]

@@liangseng7474 That's technically their second appearance. Their first appearance is the plasma gun secret, which is right near the beginning of the same map.

[@JennyTheNerdBat]

Here we are presented with some of the last coherent memories before confusion fully rolls in and the grey mists form and fade away. Finest gunfights have been remembered, the episode flow in places is more confused and tangled. As Doomguy progresses some singular memories become more disturbed, isolated, broken and distant. These are the last embers of awareness before we enter the post-Doomslayer stages.

[@magnavox1277]

Everywhere at the End of Doom

[@MondySpartan]

You know what, it’d be very cursed if the soundtrack used here are the AI-continued renditions! This wad alone is already cursed.

[@Leo___________]

Should have someone compose each track from memory

[@Santti1989]

@@Leo___________ Lol, that reminded me of "Human Music" in Rick and Morty. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWLNiJebh7CprM0 If there is a freaking Cyberdemon in e1m7, there's going to be some nice bleep bloop music in Doom. xD

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

It's the common Doomworld community PWAD projects but combined with the shovelware quality of Doom Level CD-ROMs like D!Zone or Demon Gate.

[@Fuchsia_tude]

@@wadmodderschalton5763 pretty sure my dad bought me like every single one of those things

[@zombieplasticclock]

I'm only two minutes in and I already love this concept lmao. I hope they do more of these, with "Plutonia The Way We Remember It" just being rooms full of revenants and arch-viles

[@rvaughan74]

They have to have Chaingunner squads too. Otherwise, it isn't a proper shafting.

[@OblivionWalkerVerified]

Good old plutonia

[@BPKPhoenix]

_Barely walks over a line def_ Chaingunners behind a wall: *"ALLOW US TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES!"*

[@scottl.1568]

This is 100% how I remember that magical summer of 1994... Except I had the BFG-9000 on E1M1

[@supermariofan772003]

I honestly kinda love this. It's like a version of Doom from another dimension, or a console port of the game for a system that never existed.

[@tiger12506]

This concept is genius, I'm 100% sure the mappers had to work really hard to make the maps not right like this. I was triggered by literally every room.

[@Br0leg]

Looks alright to me B)

[@decino]

[@Tanooki88]

"What, a cacodemon in episode 1!?!?" After just shotgunning a cyberdemon :P

[@DMPhobos]

I did the cursed E1M5 (named "The suspense is killing me!" after the music track) I was confident i could do a really accurate recreation from memory since i had studied the map not so long ago to do some 'doom 1 inspired maps', and i think i did okay for the most part, but i completely messed up the secrets. I mixed up the rocket launcher with that of another map (looks more like an an e1m3 secret than the original) and missed plenty of secrets. The reason being that those are secrets i miss when i play casually (i usually don't care much about finding all secrets) so yeaah... but hey, it was fun to make a version of phobos(ha) lab from memory

[@DavidXNewton]

I recognized that you must have been thinking of the E1M3 secret in E1M5! It's really interesting seeing what people remember clearly and which parts they had to fill in. Thank you for misremembering the last room of that level too, it was far more pleasant on the eyes than the real one :)

[@reloadpsi]

I loved that map name.

[@alphachadgaming1154]

Does someone have an explanation for why there's a cyberdemon in Episode 1 tho?

[@DMPhobos]

​@@alphachadgaming1154 The rules of the project mentioned that it was okay to add something cool to the map. Most people tried to do a recreation as close as they could from memory, but some people added some stuff in, in the case of the e1m7, the author of the map said this on the development thread: "I took some creative liberties with monster placement... if you play on ultra violence, you're gonna get ultra violence."

[@alphachadgaming1154]

@@DMPhobos That TOTALLY goes against the spirit of the project, doesn't it? Knowing that, this is actually a letdown to me.

[@davidchez513]

You know what? I would have loved if E1M1 had a Pain Elemental and some Chaingunners. It would have been cursed but actually right, cause they are in the PSX version of E1M1.

[@ravagerslb]

I would totally play a "plutoniaized" version of the OG doom, with doom2 monsters.

[@ArnieMcStranglehold]

PSX Doom feels like a fever dream. Just started it for the first time this year on an emulator, and the pain elemental genuinely terrified me, i think i actually screamed slightly. Something like *NO YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE!!!*

[@annihilator247x]

All I could think after seeing the Cyberdemon was, "Wait, that's illegal!" If you're gonna screw up that badly, just put Archvilles, Chaingunners, Mancubus, Revenants, Hell Knights, and Pain Elementals in the map and call it a day. Also, put an SSG in there just seal the deal.

[@shizukajonouchi2562]

Those rad suits in e1m4 ARE a part of the map, but they're supposed to be on lower difficulties only. I think difficulty 1 has two rad suits at every entrance to that room, difficulty 2 only has them on one, and difficulty 3 has none.

[@rm_steele]

that explains it, i specifically remembered the rad suit but was playing a few days ago and couldn't find it

[@rvaughan74]

I wonder how decino would have reacted if the Bruiser Brothers were CyberDemons instead.

[@Wavy667_]

Oh hey! I was the one who made E1M4! Nice to see ducino doing a playthrough of this. FYI we're also doing a Doom 2 from memory project as well and I have MAP29. It's not out yet though.

[@SlimBarista]

Isn't it Doomkid who made E1M4? ... Also this one was by far the most faithful.

[@Wavy667_]

@@SlimBarista Me and Doomkid did. He made the first few starting rooms but gave up, so I finished it off.

[@SlimBarista]

@@Wavy667_ Oh I see. I've just realized now that Doomkid was talking about someone called "Wavy" who finished the job, so it seems that it's you. It turned out really good, and it doesn't look as "cubist" as the other maps did. Congratulations!

[@SnapJack42]

You mean somebody made e1m4? Honestly looks like they just copy-pasted the map, then altered the final room upon remembering this was supposed to be changed up. Or it was made by a pro speedrunner and mapmaker that knows every bit of frame data and can tell map units at a glance.

[@Wavy667_]

@@SnapJack42 Question: Why would I cheat? Cheating isn't fun and I wouldn't get *anything* out of it and it ruins all of the fun apart of the project. Plus people have different memories which allows me to recall map details with high amounts of precision.

[@Skelly57]

that e1m7 map is properly cursed, cant imagine myself shotgunning a cyber-demon on ultra violence, nice job! :D

[@tacticalburger375]

Yeah what whas he thinking i think he just mixed up the monsters in doom builder.

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

How the heck did the mapper manage to put a Cyber Demon in? And with the random teleporting I have to imagine it was intentional. And why did they accept the map as this? Ah yes the boss of episode 2 and it shows up in E3M9, and of course Episode 4 a few times. Clearly it belongs in E1M7. 😵‍💫

[@tacticalburger375]

@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting there is no anwser

[@Seb-Storm]

@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting yeah that clearly bs... We all know episode 1 ended with barons, there was no cyberboi

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

It's like Wolfenstein 3D mixed with the Doom 0.5 alpha.

[@simian01]

It's like how my brain recreated Doom levels in my dreams back in the 90s when I used to play the game over and over. I'm sweating.

[@wallyhackenslacker]

I used to dream about Doom maps too when I was a kid! I remember I got the idea of how to get one or several of the secrets in E1M7 from a dream.

[@MondySpartan]

Doom runs everywhere, even on our dreams.

[@ghoulbuster1]

I remember dreaming about playing doom maps that don't exist. doom builder brain

[@unchainedwiththecapt]

This is a great example of the malleability of memory. I've been playing these maps since the mid 90's, and I couldn't come close to what this mapper did.

[@ahandsomefridge]

I respect anyone trying to make these levels from memory, but "remembering" a Cyberdemon in map E1M7? Hmm I say.

[@vapormermaid]

I almost think the PSX version of Doom had a Cyberdemon there on UV. Probably not but it feels plausible considering that E1M1 has a pain elemental.

[@trisar2146]

This whole thing kind of made my skin crawl. It was like the uncanny valley but for DOOM levels--that's the only way I can think to put it. Like going home in a dream but you find out someone else moved in and did renovating, redecorating, etc. It's all so... off-putting and surreal.

[@zipzip4680]

When M7 is so difficult to remember you throw in a cyberdemon to distract the player from where things should be

[@ThreeEyedFish]

This wad really is the epitome of "I forgor 💀".

[@FattoCattoGo]

Mom can we get Knee Deep In The Dead? We have Knee Deep In The Dead at home!

[@dinner4875]

After finishing a 100% playthrough of The Ultimate Doom very recently, this mapset is giving me a serious headache, damn

[@rolandkatsuragi]

If I had any map making abilities, I could easily recreate episode one and most of the secrets from memory. The maps from other episodes however, would be very cursed.

[@mr.tadpole1697]

Map Making isn't that hard honestly. Just play the original Doom and try to create interesting traps and improve on it. And if you have a PC that can run Doom you can make Maps.

[@MondySpartan]

@@mr.tadpole1697 It’s indeed easy, but the tricky part comes when you’re doing an episode remake, making sure it looks good enough and not...c u r s e d.

[@DoomKid]

I know E1 like the back of my hand, but recreating it in the editor, without looking at the original maps for reference, is actually difficult as hell. The amount of fine tuning and details you get wrong is easy to underestimate!

[@suziescattersilk1041]

love seeing this be as much of a challenge to decino's memory as it was to the mapper's memories

[@NotSoDrewby]

Just imagine if these were the original levels, I wonder if we would still remember the game just as fondly if this is what we originally had.

[@empirecrumbles615]

unless some butterfly effect stuff happens, yeah. not much important has been changed in the maps, and literally nothing in the movement or weapons or demons.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

@@empirecrumbles615 Except for all the EP2 opposition in E1M7.

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

Doom, but it's a low-budget recreation.

[@n3onkn1ght]

@@wadmodderschalton5763 You mean like _Doom: Annihilation_ ?

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

@@n3onkn1ght no, not really like the 2005 movie or the 2019 Doom Annihilation, but rather those old shovelware PWAD CD-ROMs like D!Zone.

[@KingKool2099]

Decino in e1m3 blackout room: "This is a great recreation." Me: That hallway into that room was NOT CURVED like that. It's amazing the stuff you'll notice, but when they missed stuff like the exit door in e1m1 NOT being the classic exit door, I'm really shocked.

[@ArkVogel]

Then several maps in you'll suddenly notice that Doomguy's face is slightly off, and soon after things start to go super creepy in a Dead.Air kind of way.

[@emmaessex]

hey decino! i hopped onto the project at the last minute and did e1m3 in a few hours as a break from another larger project. i didn't remember what the secret area was supposed to look like at all having not played it for a couple months LOL - glad you had fun with it and the project in general! i think my favorite thing that mostly everybody got wrong is room scaling - it's all either too big or too small. [edit] if you think e1 is cursed wait until you guys see the later maps. there are some real stunners in there lmao - all in good fun though, generally i find the more incorrect they are the better they are. memory is very fickle and very funny. not only do we get to experience the deteriorating mental snapshots of our past, but we get to experience everybody's interpretation of those experiences. i think the scaling stuff has a couple factors playing into it - generally if we have a lot of memories of the maps from childhood i'd imagine we make areas too big, since everything seems so enormous, even in the digital realm, as kids. tighter areas seem to speak to how much stress we associate with parts of a map. it's neat!

[@whirl3690]

Why is there a Cyberdemon in E1M7

[@doommaker4000]

Which is weird cause it's immediately obvious when you enter the room

[@emmaessex]

@@whirl3690 i didn't make e1m7, i can't answer that question! i also didn't run the project, i just submitted one map because the project seemed fun - and it was! some of the creative liberties are... interesting lmao

[@emmaessex]

@@doommaker4000 we weren't allowed to reference the original maps at all and many people hadn't played them in months - some over a year. we also weren't allowed to make them match after the fact or anything like that. it's only obvious if you have recent reference or eidetic memory.

[@landonpeckham7752]

Doom but it’s wide

[@RussianSevereWeatherVideos]

"Go away! You're not Shareware." One of the best DooM quotes I've heard in a while.

[@akemiknowsbest3671]

Honestly, I feel like the dude that made the E1M7 map kinda just went "f*ck it, idk man, throw a cyberdemon in here, I give up." And honestly, I felt that.

[@toretronio9030]

I found myself mumbling "this room's way too small, there should be a barrel here, there should be pinkie here, box of shells instead of medikit, wrong texture, wrong room shape, etc" while watching this. Man, I know this game too well 😁

[@Jobby_James]

Cursed? What are you talking about, this is exactly how I remember DOOM 1993.

[@hitelbevettborsgaminghun2053]

I was expecting a meme-style WAD like DooW or DooD or something. :D But still looking forward to watch these videos in the future.

[@danevileye]

Don't know what a donut is? Check Despacino's "Showcasing Doom's Line Specials" video hahahahaha Also, the energy cell on E1M7 was also an heresy

[@samragsdale2301]

That's pretty much right out of the Doom bible: thou shalt not include energy weapons in E1. It's the kind of thing that would have got you exiled for blasphemy in the old (90s) days.

[@meeperator]

Everything's just so big! It feels like you're mini-DoomGuy

[@ghostorb7659]

The Cacos in E1M7 remind me of how E1M1 UV on the PS1 port of Doom has a Chaingunner and a Pain Elemental in it, which feels like a special kind of evil.

[@apocalypticpioneers2116]

I feel like the less cursed it is, the more the author loved the map, or at least that part of it

[@abroczek5094]

I've already finished the whole wad and all i have to say is that you're in for a ride in confusion packed DooM gamer's fever dream.

[@mrlucas9072]

That's actually awesome. Playing with the new MIDI replacement would've added to the confusion of everything being only slightly off. Edit: this is almost as cursed as DOOD. Awesome.

[@seawarshark6674]

Decino starting to enter the Doom meme community

[@eltiolavara9]

""""STARTING""""

[@n3onkn1ght]

E1M4: On vanilla, the rad suits appeared in HMP and below, I think. E1M6: Cement texture was in Doom 1, but not episode 1. I remember it being in E3M3, maybe E2M2 as well.

[@chaosvolt]

Oh this looks gloriously spicy. EDIT: I have to say, their take on E1M6 is definitely interesting. I get the feeling however made it is a mapmaker who's used to detailing their maps.

[@EmeraldCoasttt]

It's definitely my favorite of episode 1, although it's a liiiiittle cheaty because of that, i guess depending on how you interpret the pitch E1m7 though, yikes

[@chaosvolt]

@@EmeraldCoasttt Oh wow, yeah. E1M7 is just pure condensed "wait, that's illegal"

[@Intestine_Ballin-ism]

Doom as random mappers remember it made me appreciate how tight and nicely lit Doom is. I mean ffs the slime ring in e1m3 is just a joke

[@TheJesterGuy_]

Gotta love decino's reactions to the modified levels, which were hilarious to watch. I guess I won't watch further episodes to avoid spoiling the fun.

[@nateg6320]

Now this brings me back to my childhood, when I’d pretend being sick from school, just to play these maps all day.

[@wallyhackenslacker]

This whole Wad has such an strong "Sewer" and/or "Betray" energy I can't even.

[@MondySpartan]

Doom but it’s a “1994 WAD”

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

@@MondySpartan it's Doom, but if id Software didn't care about polishing the game.

[@BigboiiTone]

Big wad energy 😂

[@amadeoflores_]

sewers is way more cursed than this

[@BigboiiTone]

@@amadeoflores_ you could say it really...stinks! Lol

[@gryzew]

It's as if you had a dream about playing Doom 1 where you don't know you're dreaming and only realized everything was weird after you woke up.

[@alexnegru802]

Oh can't wait to see this

[@Roebloz]

Then see it

[@alexnegru802]

@@Roebloz i did

[@alexnegru802]

@@Roebloz still watching

[@doomgooey6038]

It's hilarious just how many small subtleties your brain picks up on watching this. This entry point is too wide, the angle of this curving corridor isn't sharp enough, etc. Whoever created this idea to start with, is fully cursed

[@UtsukimiJerry]

I've finished Doom 1 about few years ago and this feels just as cursed as I thought. My vague memories of the game just hit me every time something felt off here. Definitely a great effort by the team for pulling this off!

[@naryanr]

This is so funny. Today I was just watching your original run through of the original Doom Episode 1 from a few years back. Then I see almost the same thing again in my sub box XD

[@AlexeiVoronin]

Looks like this was built from the memories of someone who played the game a few times in 1994 and then forgot about it until 2021.

[@violentbeetle2441]

If decino played Doom1, that means he'll play doom 2 eventually too, which means I will finally be able to make him play my map. Too bad it'll be a bad one.

[@davethesquid1864]

Wouldn't be surprised if e1m7 had a supershotgun

[@Balla_Bo]

E1M7 has to be an elaborate prank to troll us Doom nerds and purists

[@masonricho]

This is hilarious! I haven't played doom for very long but even I can see that it's off, and it messes with my mind. Great video mate

[@TheReal_DoomSlayer]

Bro, this isn’t “knee deep in the dead”. This is “far down in the recently deceased”

[@clearspira]

I like the concept of this. It puts a new spin onto the familiar.

[@PrKr1111]

This is such a great idea for a map pack. Love this so much.

[@senyaiv]

9:52 - YES! Exactly what I thought, and I'm completely amazed that our brain remembers things like that, since this is such a tiny detail but still somehow stays in sight for some reason.

[@rob6996]

No one gonna talk about how they totally nailed the midis? ;)

[@Roebloz]

Basicslly Doom but Try not to say Hol' Up

[@lonelystarslibrary9326]

These playthroughs are surprisingly good background noise for working (and good content to watch actively too)

[@cslack813]

Keep up the videos decino. I’ve never even played doom but I’ve watched all of your videos (might sound weird but something about them is oddly relaxing and I fall asleep to them sometimes). Looking forward to that video explaining the auto-aim mechanics.

[@engired564]

I've updated it on doomworld to fix some broken doors. Hopefully there isn't anything else broken! The dehacked patch is also put outside the wad too just so you can actually see the new level names and authors. Excited to see the rest of the episodes!

[@decino]

Happy to hear. I've already recorded episode 2 which indeed had a broken E2M4 exit door, I'll make sure to pin a comment stating that it's been fixed in a newer version.

[@greenguykanoe2912]

Oh boy I have a good feeling about this lmao

[@jrock718]

Man, for being mostly doom related, this content is always so fresh.

[@bluebonnet]

This is one of the coolest WADs I've seen. What a cursed, cursed DooM.

[@ToyBonBoy]

Person who made this obviously has the same favorite map as me, e1m4, because it's so well recreated.

[@eggboy9126]

It was a community project, so it was multiple mappers

[@Wavy667_]

E1M4 creator here! It isn't my favourite map from episode 1 (mine's E1M7) but it's easily my second.

[@mortrixs1936]

What if all the music was replaced with Everywhere at the end of time

[@expendableround6186]

Then it's a genuine horror mod.

[@daviddeltoro1808]

Was hoping you would do more blind playthroughs, it's always fun to experience new content along with you.

[@Bozzyshy]

This WAD is such a damn good idea. I love this.

[@idiotwhoedits3522]

It's like playing doom in your dreams

[@supermariofan772003]

Yes, that perfectly describes this WAD. It really does feel like a dream.