Low Memory -- semi-trollmap for vanilla UDoom

Shitposting aside, i get what you're saying. While aaliens did not insulted my intelligence, mainly 'cause i have none, that "arcadey" style wasn't my favorite. I think that this gameplay aspect was the reason why i didn't cared that much for Doom in the first place.. the lack of "realism".

Since i grew up playing Duke3D, SW, Blood - in those games you get some sense of realism, and, despite the obvious absurdity here and there, they are still believable for the most part. Not only because of the locations but also in how the enemies are placed. You feel like going through an alien invasion or raiding an ancient chinese temple or blowing up a moving train just to end up on a carnival.

Doom on the other hand, was way too cartoony for my younger self to believe in being trapped on an hell-invaded spaceport after having played those other games. Back then, i've developed a mildly obsession to get the full version of Doom to add it to my physical collection but i didn't really cared that much for the game itself.

Nowadays if i play Doom eps 1-3, i can get a sense of those places existing without the player, more or less.. but they are still very limited compared to what those build engine games could do to convey that realistic impression. That's why e4m2 ended up being such a turning point for me - up until there, no matter how weird the maps may look, you can kinda make sense of them at some capacity. But once you get to Perfect Hatred, that goes completely out of the window... that map makes no sense at all. And i loved it! Then Doom finally clicked with me.

But going back to the differences between mapping philosophies, even tho i enjoy both the non-sensical arcade arenas and the entering an autonomous machine styles - is the way mappers can mix both of them that makes the Doom experience so unique to me compared to the wae those build-engine games were made. And oddly enough that is why the latest "skillsoy" mapset, Heartland, failed to hold my interest. The visual style and the gameplay feels way too much like a build-engine game - and that broke my Doom immersion, if that makes sense. I'm more than willing to give it a second chance in the future tho, after all it's skillsaw, and i.. i'm just a soybaby that love sucking his soymapping tropes dry.