xcomcmdr wrote on Yesterday, 16:52:

Still playing Pirates Doom II […]
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Still playing Pirates Doom II

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Sometimes I have to stop and be in awe of the level design, music, enemy design, graphics, doom cute, color palette, humor, atmosphere, and gameplay.

Everything gels together in a really great and fun total conversion for Doom II.

All of this is for free and that's insane to me. The months/years of work and play tests those 32 levels surely have taken is mind blowing.

As a life long avid Doom guy.... how did I miss this???

I just downloaded it, a few levels in. I love it! So much fun! 😀

Thanks for putting it on my radar.

I finished yet another playthrough of "Urban Assault: Metropolis Dawn"...

Did the Ghorkovs campaign first; Taerkasten campaign afterwards.

It's a shame this didn't have a bit more time to form and eventually became a actual retail product back then, but Microsoft really treated Urban Asssault as a "throwaway IP".

newtmonkey wrote on Yesterday, 16:23:

Have you played the first one? Both are actually worth playing, even though they look very similar (and imo the second game is an improvement in every way over the first). They both have some really nice worlds to explore, and both are quite short by RPG standards.

No I haven't, and in fact I'm pretty new to this style of cRPG. I've played endless action cRPGs with real time combat but as I get older and slower I'm looking for less twitch and massive open worlds that I get lost in, so am trying my hand at smaller scale games with turn based combat.

I'm currently trying out SKALD: Against the Black Priory and will look at Legends of Amberland II next. If I like it I'll go back and check out the first one, but I wanted to try the more polished second one first to see if it stuck.

StriderTR wrote on Yesterday, 18:52:

As a life long avid Doom guy.... how did I miss this??? […]
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xcomcmdr wrote on Yesterday, 16:52:

Still playing Pirates Doom II […]
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Still playing Pirates Doom II

The attachment Screenshot_Doom_20250712_185039.png is no longer available

Sometimes I have to stop and be in awe of the level design, music, enemy design, graphics, doom cute, color palette, humor, atmosphere, and gameplay.

Everything gels together in a really great and fun total conversion for Doom II.

All of this is for free and that's insane to me. The months/years of work and play tests those 32 levels surely have taken is mind blowing.

As a life long avid Doom guy.... how did I miss this???

I just downloaded it, a few levels in. I love it! So much fun! 😀

Thanks for putting it on my radar.

I just played through the first level because of the posts here and it's great!

If it weren't so late I'd keep going.

Mainly these two games on and off on my xp build

Farcry 1 - tough game, even on easy setting. autosave restarts so many times

Dota 1 6.88 ai - wc3 mod i used to play all the time back in the day but with ai players (?) - also has save game featureso when interrupted can continue

badmojo wrote on Today, 04:14:

No I haven't, and in fact I'm pretty new to this style of cRPG. I've played endless action cRPGs with real time combat but as I get older and slower I'm looking for less twitch and massive open worlds that I get lost in, so am trying my hand at smaller scale games with turn based combat.

I'm currently trying out SKALD: Against the Black Priory and will look at Legends of Amberland II next. If I like it I'll go back and check out the first one, but I wanted to try the more polished second one first to see if it stuck.

For me, there's simply nothing finer than a nice turn-based RPG, so I hope that you'll have fun exploring the sub-genre! I really like SKALD and need to get back into it (roughly 12 hours in). In comparison, the Amberland games are quite a bit more accessible; between the excellent automap and quest journal, you really never feel lost even though the game is very nonlinear.