Category: Doom

• FINALLY! SIGIL (Si666il) by John Romero
• previously

Couple months late (delayed by the pre-order goodies), but it seems scenic; I toured E5M1 and E5M2 on easy mode for babies, but now I need to restart at a real difficulty.

Like Romero's E1M4, it's way too dark. Just groping thru black spaces. It wouldn't make the levels worse to have a little better visibility.

I love the shoot-the-eyeball mechanic for switches. The standard Doom switches where you shove your face in a wall and then a bunch of walls open up is still kind of annoying.

I play Doom maybe once a year, and even after 26 years it takes me only a couple seconds to get my groove back, start weaving and shooting like a pro again. Gonna make a few runs at it this weekend, see if I can get thru.

• Sigil announcement
• Sigil page: BRING ME THE PEWTER HEAD OF JOHN ROMERO!
• Romero's E1M8b
• Romero's E1M4b
• GZDoom runtime: Modern graphics and sound support. Kinda shitty launcher to pick your WAD files, you better know how the Doom command-line works.
• GOG Ultimate Doom: You'll need the DOOM.WAD from here. Don't use their DOSBOX runtime, that sucks.
• GOG DOOM II + Final DOOM: Same, DOOM2.WAD

Oh, holy shit yes. If you're cheap, the free download will be fine.

Just replayed E1M4b, and it's a little too intense for this early in my day; also I hate super-dark mazes, it's not fun squinting at the screen. E1M8b was a great open-area shootemup. Dunno how hard Sigil's gonna be but I'm up. Just let me get some coffee first.