Shambler's Castle

[Melan]

...that turns Doom3 into Quake 1, more or less. Blaring heavy metal music, satanic imagery, "Mr. Bucket-Head" the space marine, nailguns, grenade launchers, and even those spider things that hurl seeking missiles at you. Strait outta the dimension of Metal.

 

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Review and download here (90 MB). I recommend checking it for the sheer beauty of it (it really uses the Hell texture family to its full extent, and a lot of work went into it), and for the nostalgia factor for those who liked Quake.

Edited March 3, 2011 by Melan

[nbohr1more]

I friggin' love this one

 

 

You can beef-up the visuals even more by copying the glprogs folder from the Ruiner mod's pak666.pk4 into the mod install folder for this map.

[Chiron]

Brings back strong feelings of FPS nostalgia...and also memories of my face when I first saw

Voodoo accelerated graphics

[solarsplace]

Hi

 

This map really is a beautiful creation. Custom monsters, weapons, sounds and great atmosphere.

 

You should take a look at the work with patch meshes in the .map - the mapper was clearly a master with patch meshes!

 

There is a spiral staircase and a curved tunnel just before you meet one of the boss monsters where the level design is fantastic check out the patch work!

 

Cheers

Edited March 4, 2011 by solarsplace

[Melan]

Possibly relevant : iD may return to the roots of Quake after Doom4. That would be pretty cool.

[nbohr1more]

I agree 1000% !

 

The whole co-opting science fiction film conventions to modernize old Id titles didn't play out so well.

 

I was thinking of the following analogy:

 

1) Kid plays a game of Checkers

2) Milton Bradley sees this and says "We're gonna make a sequel to that game!!!"

3) Kid imagines things like "new moves" , "new board layout", "more roles like Chess (lite)" "spinner"

4) Milton Bradley tries to think of a "story" for the Checker

5) Milton Bradley decides that since Checkers is a kinda metaphor for two armies that the Checker must be a soldier

6) They go on to develop an elaborate war saga in which Checker is low level grunt

7) The resultant game is a mix of the game "Life", "Clue" and "Stratego" and a little DnD

8) Kid goes "WTF!!! Milton effin' Bradley!!!"

 

So adding story to an abstract game type like Pac Man certainly is a poor idea.

 

Now, Quake is a bit more plausibly about "something" other than the activity of blasting stuff but not much more. Laden that property with too much story and you see my example in action. A science fiction setting necessarily requires some tangible explanation for any player predicament but a "fantasy demon infested realm" does not need any convoluted "realistic" back-story. There is no expectation about how plausible something is when the backdrop is a pure fantasy archetype. It works, and you can rock-out to heavy techno or metal and be totally in the spirit of it. It's the right thing^tm to do.