Tricks and Traps is, though an extreme one, a good example of my favorite kind of level design in classic, unmodded Doom: big and sprawling with a lot to do, but a good chunk of it being totally optional. For someone who only started playing OG Doom a couple weeks after Doom Eternal dropped, I seem to have a lot to say about it. I won't go too far into it, but per Doom Eternal: Yes.ДЄnd wow, that casual dismissal of the specter at 13:35 in the video made me laugh.Д¬oincidentally, Decino just posted a video yesterday about how the Revenants' homing missiles are coded, which is an entertaining watch. Regarding demons being in terrible pain, and Blazkowicz being merciful by ending them. And their chaingun sounds like your shotgun, while your chaingun sounds like a pistol, which I find to be unfair. Also, I see what Thorn means about Nemesis, but I can never shake the feeling that chaingunners look more like South African warlords or South American drug cartel goons or something. Every freakin' map in that game seems to be lousy with the bastards (where Plutonia only has 14 fewer Revenants than IMPS).

And it is just a fun little cosmetic thing to be clear it doesn't actually change the SSG's damage output or anything.Д¬haingunners can burn in Hell (.wait-) and are a good argument against playing Final Doom: Evilution. Oh, bonus fun: SmoothDoom, also linked in the Doom WAD Club thread, has an option to make the Super Shotgun gib enemies at point-blank range (normally impossible due to the way the gibbing mechanic works), which makes it even more satisfying to use, like god drat. That said, there are defintely situations where the regular shotgun is preferable, but it tends to happen more in fan-made map packs than the main game from what I've seen. At point blank, one blast from it does as much damage as a rocket. So unless you're trying to deal with enemies at range, there's no reason not to use the SSG. It actually does something like 3x more damage overall than the regular shotgun while only using 2x the ammo spread's wider, but 20 pellets instead of 5. The Super Shotgun is loving awesome and I miss it horribly every time I can't use it (like when playing Doom instead of Doom II for instance). There's also a high-res sound effects pack linked over in the Doom WAD Club thread in Retro Games, which is pretty sweet. MAP01's music is definitely my favorite classic Doom tune, and it sounds even better with the high-res music packs I played through with ( these are awesome by the way, and totally worth downloading kickass sound while staying 100% faithful to the original tunes). There are also some REALLY GREAT levels in the mix.

Still, it's not as if I didn't enjoy blasting my way through it. Half the game feels like Thy Flesh Consumed to me. I feel like Doom II has more un-fun levels scattered throughout than the original game, from my experience with it over the last few weeks. It is more Doom as Jacob said, and that's good but I think the level design suffers somewhat overall. I don't personally watch LPs where they cut out the commentary during cutscenes, but I understand the appeal, and now that I have a computer that can probably render much faster, I'll consider it moreso than before.'Дoom II. The plot has more bearing on things, is better, and has proper cutscenes, so if I do it for any of them, it'll be that one. The story in that game is pretty inconsequential and even the protagonist himself ignores most of it, so viewers aren't missing much if we talk over anythingДoom Eternal: Maybe. Given that the later Dooms are a bit heavier on story, will there be cut and uncut tracks for those, or just single videos?

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