/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5865449
Wolf3D isn't bad, but it's really nothing great either, the gameplay is very simple and plain, with little variety, and the levels are much the same for the most part, only they're sometimes varying degrees of convoluted mazes because otherwise there would be no variety.
I think you could get most of your worth out of just the first episode, because the gameplay doesn't substantially change after this point, episode 2 and 3 introduces some new enemies but they don't strictly do anything new. You get to kill Adolf Hitler in episode 3, so there's that.

After the original three episodes, I really don't think Wolf3D has a lot of mileage left, The Nocturnal Missions are really drawn out and boring, I didn't find them enjoyable at all, Spear Of Destiny does a few new things, and is only 20ish maps or so, with some reasonable consistency to them.
The FormGen sequels to Spear Of Destiny are absolutely balls, don't play them.

Overall, Wolf3D isn't bad, but Doom and Rise Of The Triad raised the bar so much that you can't help but look back on it and think "Man, there just isn't a lot to it, is there?"
I'd recommend to only play a map or two a day, because if you try to marathon through the game you'll probably wear yourself out.

>>5594568
I would say Wolfenstein 3D in particular has that;
>cartoony and stylized graphics with lots of color
>all bosses are simply just fucking huge dudes with big guns, regardless of if they're supposed to be like superhuman monsters or not (Schabbs and Hitler are basically the same size as the Ubermutant or Angel Of Death, for instance)
>lots of blood in death animations, particularly in boss death animations, which will sometimes include the Deathcam (TM)
>weird enemies like three-armed murder mutants, and the really not explained 'fake Hitlers' (I've heard some people say they're supposed to be puppets on strings with flamethrowers)
>some of the music is pretty good
>"Get Psyched!"
On just the visuals, it's delightfully stylized, I love how it looks, and it has a wonderful tone.

You also have aspects of gameplay which were very typical of the times, how the game has all this vestigial arcade stuff that's just there, because you simply just had lives and a score counter in action games in 1992.
I love the style, I love shooting Gnatzees for points, finding hidden treasures, eating food items for health, all of that, but looking at the gameplay itself, it lacks so much variety and complexity.
>enemies are like 95% dudes with hitscan guns, some of the bosses use physical projectiles
>weapon variety is knife, pistol, machinegun, and faster machineguns, the guns share their 99rd ammo pool, there are physical projectile weapons in the base game, everything behaves extremely conventionally
>architecture is extremely limited, there are only 90 degree walls of fixed increments and no height variation, you can't have elevated features or stairs or anything
As a result of simplicity like this, there's not a lot you can actually do and still have novel level design or enemy encounters, and I can't help but feel that Wolfenstein 3D in its original form basically runs out of novelty and interesting gameplay, really by the time you're done with the second episode.

Fucking lot of cloudflaring today.

>>5218212
>healthwarning.pk3
What's that?

>>3534710
It has a wonderful arcade charm to it though, with the secret rooms, score counter and treasure hunting.

Besides, shooting gnatzees in wonderful cartoon violence is never bad.

>>2084685
>Her ringtone also happens to be the "Stage Clear" tune from Wolf3D.
Oh fuck, that's genius, I should do that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-u-CpMUzgk

>>1982951
>I'm Psyched

>>1847161
I'm thinking about that Get with those Revenants hiding unsubtly around the corners. But I can't find that screencap.

>>1637572
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