Comment on Quake 1 holds up really well!
ZOSTED@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoI think you’re on to something. There’s something more “grokkable” about Doom’s 2.5 maps (some more than others, admittedly), both as a player and maker. And I think it shows in the incredible number of Doom maps people have made over the years.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I think the limitations of the Doom engine work both against and in favor of the game, the enforced limitations kind of “distills” the levels to it’s bare minimum, pure creative level design, forcing the developers to work around those “barriers” as I’ve said, you can see this with older map packs like Scythe where the map makers were pushing the limits of what the engine could achieve. This is all somewhat lost nowadays with limit breaking source ports like GZDoom though.
ZOSTED@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’m with you - a really beautiful vanilla map, that pushes the visplanes, is much more impressive than a limit removing equivalent. I’m not saying that the latter maps lack artistry, but vanilla requires that you look at your map from every angle in almost excruciating detail. The result – to me – just feels that much more intentional/authorial.
OK now I’m definitely sounding pretentious :p