Are wads better or worse the 2nd time?
Feb 12, 2018 16:55:02 GMT -5
Post by 40oz on Feb 12, 2018 16:55:02 GMT -5
When you play a map the first time, you're playing a familiar game in a new universe you've never explored yet. You're discovering new places, and the way you conduct yourself in combat is completely improvised because you can't know what's ahead. I've read in doomworld threads about playing wads more than once, and it seems to me that some people are chasing that 'experiencing something for the first time' feeling that you get with new wads, and once you have it, it's gone the moment the map is over.
To me it seems like a glass half empty situation, because that "seeing something for the first time" feeling is replaced with a new feeling. You're a different person than you were the first time you played it. You're not as vulnerable, you have better intuition, you're stronger. You're more prepared the next time you play the map, which enables you to complete the map more strategically and efficiently.
What do you think? What's more important; the initial first run seeing a wad for the first time where everything is unexpected, or your second run where you're better equipped for what's happening along the way?
To me it seems like a glass half empty situation, because that "seeing something for the first time" feeling is replaced with a new feeling. You're a different person than you were the first time you played it. You're not as vulnerable, you have better intuition, you're stronger. You're more prepared the next time you play the map, which enables you to complete the map more strategically and efficiently.
What do you think? What's more important; the initial first run seeing a wad for the first time where everything is unexpected, or your second run where you're better equipped for what's happening along the way?
