If you’ve hung around these parts long enough, you’ve likely noticed an immensely prolific mapper’s conspicuous absence. Somehow I’ve made it ten years writing about Doom WADs and literally never mentioned him a single time? How could this be?! Well, don’t fret, old friend; even I know that there’s a special place in Hell for a WAD reviewer who ignores our most decorated mapper, Paul “skillsaw” DeBruyne. But I have to admit up front that part of the reason I’ve not yet written about any of skillsaw’s WADs is because I’m not exactly sure what I think of them. I’ve
Tag: 2021 WADs
The Montiverse
You knew this was coming. How could I ever, ever end this column without taking a look at what Nicolás Monti has been up to lately? Some time in 2018 was the point where I started paying a lot less attention to Doom WAD releases. That was coincidentally around the same time Monti was taking a break from Doom. Even still, in the time since my review of Mano Laikas: A road to Gamzatti in 2017, our benevolent mapmaker has graced us with no less than ten new WADs. I’ve caught up on most of those and now I have
Auger;Zenith
I only learned of the Doomer Boards Project series shortly before the release of DBP26: La Cité des Enfants Damnés, The City of Damned Children. DBP26 came out around this time last year, and already we’re on to DBP38. I can’t fathom how they do it, but the virtuosos over on the Doomer Boards crank out one of these things every month — honestly deflating my ego a fair bit over the release schedule of my own UnSeries. A megaWAD made in just a month? Cool, cool; now do twelve of those every year. In any case, the Doomer Boards