/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3318119

>It't not a megawad, nor a levelpack.

Dude, we have spent days arguing in /vr/ about "what constitutes a megawad". UAC Ultra is in there and it doesn't have 32 levels BUT it's fun to play. Also I'm sure 8BDM has a single player mode with levels, even if nobody plays it.

>Its not played and enjoyed a lot by /vr/

Hellbound is in there, and years after its release and the cacoward controversy, it still generates division in this thread. Controversy aside, it is still worthy of being there.

>Finally, its not historically notable.

I respectfully disagree. As someone who doesn't like 8BDM that much, I should recognize it was one of the first (probably THE first) Doom mods to be praised by gaming media sites outside of the community. Sure, nowadays 8BDM has a very poor reputation, but back in the Skulltag days it was THE most played mod out there, everyone on Youtube was doing videos about it. Some say it killed the multiplayer scene a bit but that's another story for another time.

And maybe THAT's the issue, almost everyone knows about 8BDM, it is TOO notable, just like Brutal Doom, its thousands of variants, or Ghouls VS Humans.

You don't see Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax or Megadeth in a "SO YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO SOME METAL" infopic, it's not hate, it's just that everyone knows about them already.