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in 2023 I played two very good WADs which are episode-wise (rather close) remakes, with added detail and difficulty, “Phobos Revisited” and “Deimos: Slight Return” episode I and II respectively.
Both very good and a way to revisit Doom afresh. They are from the same author. Included screenshots are from Deimos: Slight Return.
The level geometry is followed closely but there is still originality, which is a great achievement.
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Another good WAD in this vein of remaking Doom episodes is Doom the Way We Remember It. They are Doom levels remade from memory. All invoke a very uncanny feeling.
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I am currently playing through a WAD called “Nostalgia”. I am halfway through it. So far it is a good challenge, good looking levels.
It is a 2022 Doom 2 WAD.
It is described in Doomwiki:
“combines vanilla-style aesthetics with modern map design philosophies. Most maps are smallish in size, with a focus on easy-to-medium difficulty and fewer than 100 monsters. While level geometry and texturing is intentionally kept simple, the WAD contains many instances of environmental storytelling as well as occasional DoomCute detailing”
However, this betrays what the modern WADs/audience is like. Modern maps are large, with lots of enemies, very difficult. To me, Nostalgia’s levels are long enough, sometimes clocking at 10+ minutes, and hard enough that I gave up on playing in UV and resorted to HMP.
[1] https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/p-r/phobos-v
[2] https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/d-f/deimos-v
[3] https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/megawads/d2twwri
[4] https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/megawads/nostalgia
