Happy Halloween and welcome to Dean of Doom, the show where we give grades to classic and contemporary Doom wads. Why? Because ranking things is fun. Just like last year, we’re going to have a gander at several sawed-off Hallowads…that is, if I remembered to clean out that arch-vile nest in my basement.
Link to the wads:
Wormwood: Expanded Universe
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/117856-wormwood-expanded-universe-boom-comp-halloween-maps-by-ribbiks-and-me/?tab=comments#comment-2212025
Morbid Autumn (Doomer Boards Project 29)
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/117873-dbp29-morbid-autumn/?tab=comments#comment-2212430
Wormwood ]|[ : The Horror
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/125529-wormwood-the-horror-boom-comp-halloween-maps-by-ribbiks-and-me/?tab=comments#comment-2408584
Special thanks to @DCG Retrowave for providing the MIDIs! (Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xHzJ94Fji7psz45rF_Bhw)
Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/mtpain27
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What a video. The WADs and the presentation were in top form. Definitely grabbing some of these WADs for future playthroughs.
Excellent. You should play finely crafted fetish film by ribbiks.
I haven't played any of these, but they all look quality. I have Wormwood EU downloaded on my laptop, just never got around to it. I'm surprised I didn't play that DBP since I had started playing them around that time. And I had heard of Comatose, but never realized exactly what it was. It looks super disconcerting. Another high quality episode!
You need to check out some of the other work Lainos has been involved in. Some of the levels rival Comatose, easily. Sacrament and A.L.T are both amazing. I tell anyone who will listen about these WADs. They are both listed under “The Top 25 Missed Cacowards.” They both deserve to be recognized. Hill I’m willing to die on for sure!
Great production and great wad choices, I don't know if I have the guts to beat the Wormwoods, but I'll definitely try Comatose.
Did you play "The Thing You Can't Defeat"? Not the Halloween kind of scary, but still pretty scary in its own way.
Ad Mortem when?
Wonderful vid. Hope to see Unloved in the next Halloween special!
Aww yiss!! Comatose is one of those masterpieces one has to experience at least once in our lives. It's an entirely different and imho more effective approach to the sort of religious horror experience that Doom was ostensible supposed to be on it's earliest days, and it's certainly unforgettable.
To me this one map is firmly set in my top 3 of all time forever, alongside Lost Civ's River Valley and Jade Earth. I cannot even imagine the amount of work that must have gone into it's creation.
In a certain sense, it's the only Doom map I can think of that can induce in me that subtle skin-crawling liminal dread you get in empty Half-Life 2 maps.
Happy Halloween mtpain!
Actually, Chernobyl is in Ukraine, not Russia.
You probably remember it as Russia because it happened during the USSR times, which Ukraine was part of too.
Fun fact, when the USSR fell most of their nukes were located in Ukraine, which made them the second biggest superpower in terms of nuclear weaponry, and they agreed to dismantle them in exchange for being left alone by Russia.
Something something orcs, mordor, Sauron
Have you done Eviternity yet?
Another very spooky Dean of Doom episode! Maybe for next Halloween Mayhem 2019 might be a candidate?
Also, what's the music during the Patreon reading? It sounds like something out of Medievil
Any chance for Unloved for the next Halloween Special? It's completely unfair in some parts, but it's a nice experience, probably the scariest mod I played
Ah, good ol' bag of treats (and some tricks)
A wad I like to play in this spooky time is Stranger Aeons, which as its name implies is Lovecraft inspired. It has 5 episodes (Ultimate Doom style), so you'd have to dedicate a whole video to it, but it'd make a great Halloween episode.
"What is a drunk arachnotron you ask?"
Is immediately flash banged
Gonna have to pull out my white cane after that one.
Really loving how comfortable youve gotten in your narrations and adding more humor into these. Always nice to see more of the guy behind the screen.
Sorry for commenting twice, but the plague doctor graffiti sprites from comatose are from a Russian game name Pathologic, and without typing out paragraphs upon paragraphs of text about the game, I can just say this:
I think its your kind of game.
did you get a bigger budget, or what? those quiet panning shots are so good, dude.
and the other stuff on top… hot damn!
I don't get the Vampire killer pun. Around 21:45
Awesome halloween special mate. Comatose is an amazing map, feels like something straight out of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I've never played a doom level that makes me feel such emptiness and loneliness, as well as paranoia. Maybe one day I'll get round to beating it entirely. Happy Halloween to ya!
I really like that intro!
Amazing video. I'm speechless, you've outdone yourself.
Watching this after the redlettermedia halloween best of the worst
Now that I've taken a chunk out of Comatose, I feel it's worth saying that your summation is entirely appropriate, and I can completely understand how people felt discovering The Mucus Flow in 2004. It is a beautiful piece, one filled to the brim with ominous oppression, and constantly demanding that the player is fully engaged with it. Software lighting, though laggy at points where you have view of the skyline, makes it to where the shadow monsters seem to be fading into existence, forming around you as you progress. Every significant piece of progression, every key, and every heavy duty weapon acquired was a "fuck yes" moment, flexible for infinitely many players with how many routes are possible. The fact that it goes in so hard on its strengths is staggering, and it will stick with me forever.
So yeah, it's a pretty good map.
So happy to have another Halloween special! Loved yours last year, too! Huge Ghoul's Forest fan! Also grateful for the conveniently timed skeleton video decino put out: https://youtu.be/F1JgL_VL_IY
(Haven't finished the episode yet… Gonna play the last map for myself first, but wanted to say) Imagine my surprise to discover that those switches in "Nevermind, there was a backdoor" helped with the fight! I've always struggled through it without it and paid dearly. I'd be mad but the one fight in "Stabbed, with a sword" still killed me way more. I will be back after I play the last map!
Great video as always. I'm surprised you didn't cover AD MORTEM.
Happy Halloween, MtPain!
I’ve been a bit nervous to try out wormwood, but after seeing this, I might give all the entries a shot. Putting it on my bucket list. Not sure about morbid autumn though…the final wad, though….yeah, it’s high on the bucket list now. Brilliant review as always.
Also, time for the 2nd edition of “Pointless facts for DOD”: We can add Stabbed with a sword as the 5th map to get valedictorian status and class president status alongside halls of the damned, vinculum gate, gutter grave, and of course, the mucus flow, with it being the 3rd A+ Valedictorian to get class president alongside the last 2. And for those keeping tallies, we have 2 map 4’s get an A+ and Valedictorian in just this video.
happy spooktober guys
Your halloween episodes are always on point. Thank you.
Comatose seems right up my alley, and it made me wonder if you'd enjoy dead.wire.
Deathwhistle's MIDI is actually song by russian punk rock group Korol' i Shoot (King and Jester) Proklyatiy Stariy Dom (Cursed Old House). I was really surprised hearing it
the ghost city wad's soundtrack seems to make the perfect Sounding of something went wrong and what happened is an unknown cause
Comatose gives me Pathologic vibes with the town setting, colors, and trash cans
booo!
11:48 Same here! Scythe II got me into the genre of gothic rock as a whole. Also, after watching your and Doomkid's playthrough of Plutonia, I saw that you liked MAP 13: The Crypt's track ("Tomb of the Unknown Soldier") in the Plutonia MIDI pack. And I thought you'd like to know that it's in fact a midification of Soundgarden's "Fell on Black Days" which is much beefier than the MIDI 🙂
I'm just here for the Mean Girls reference at 18:17
You NEED to play ad mortem
Comatose looks amazing! Great compilation of WADs video, MtPain. You put so much effort into this and it shows. 😀
Comatose is one of my very favorite Doom maps, but I never noticed that the fist attack in it is swapped to the right hand until you pointed it out. It's even in some of Lainos' other works (which I would very much recommend, especially 5till L1 Complex and Doxylamine Moon).
Hope everyone enjoyed Skeleton Appreciation Month!
I'm glad that Comatose got showcased – its awesome when Doom mappers try something super ambitious like "I'm going to make S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in Doom" and while that's pretty much impossible, they totally captured that late-00s slav shooter mood.
If you're looking for more sawed-off WADs (or mid-sized WADs for a double/triple feature) and you don't mind GZDoom-only stuff, I just released Infested E2, bringing the WAD up to 7 maps.
Next year I'm hoping to see Unloved.
If memory serves correctly, Comatose is part of a series that includes Sacrament, Doxylamine Moon: Overdose and 5till L1 Complex, in Sacrament, you´re the last human on earth after the Rapture and the ones left behind where turned into demons, and every map after it is just you trying to make your way in the now abandoned earth…
Regarding Comatose, my first thought was that it's inspired by Pripyat. Then you mention the Russian origins and the nuclear angst.
Wow, great Halloween episode, Mt Pain, that last wad was as creepy as hell. And may I say that I just love your channel, you've rapidly become one of my essential Doomers shoulder by shoulder with decino, Dwars, coincident, etc.
Doom and halloween is such a good mix, i mean damn, halloween maps are predestined to be fun.
"As you can see, this fight is clinically insane" that delivery is top notch
If you like the Sisters of Mercy, check out the following:
The Daughters of Bristol
Clan of Xymox
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
London After Midnight
Bauhaus
Type o Negative
Ritual Howls
Corpus Delicit
Rosetta Stone
Wish there was a Sawed Off wads joining Wad for real. The best content as always.
Vampire Killer's chill Tower of Dolls remix is just 👌🏻
Maybe a good candidate for another Sawed Off Wads episode be Phocas Island 2 – good atmosphere WAD was interesting adventure gameplay.