#doom II

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Master Levels for DOOM II (1995)

#doom ii #doom #master levels #video games #games #gamercore #1995 #90s #90s aesthetic #cybercore #angelcore #angel aesthetic #angelic #art #disc #disc art #tech #techcore #gamer #gamer aesthetic #aes

[vidkun]

#myhouse.wad #myhouse #doom ii #tradional art #vidkun draws #long post #i always loved this entry of the diary from the game. something about it . #the “happiness has to be fought for” line felt like a lot of people were interpreting it as a W but to me it felt bittersweet #this game has lived in my head for a while its months past when it came out. but it sticks with you.

[artsavi]

god. uh. myhouse.wad, huh? I have, frankly, way too many thoughts about this entire mod. Please bear with me as I try to ramble my way through them, I ended up going off under the read more.

I’m going to be honest, this game felt like an extended, emotional fetch quest for me until this point. Don’t get me wrong, I knew that all the items had emotional and memorial impact, but...this one got to me. This moment hit me like a fucking truck.

For those of you who don’t play Dungeon and Dragons, sessions get long. On average they can run anywhere between 4-6 hours, but I myself have played longer, with the longest taking the cake at almost a half day, or roughly 11 hours. A lot can happen in a session, and most of it is just...joking around. The phrase “roll for intercourse” is a reference to an age-old running gag of players trying to seduce an NPC for whatever reason. It’s funny. It happens so often it’s a meme.

But finding it here...it really hit me. This isn’t just a reference to a well-known meme. Tom and Steve sat down and played D&D together, spending multiple hours in a day to play sessions, likely with other players but always with each other. And this phrase? It stuck out, it’s a moment that stuck with Steve for one reason or another, and my only guess is to say it’s because it‘d become an inside joke. And...you can’t help but wonder what it was. If Steve had been DMing, or if he’d been the one trying to seduce the NPC much to Tom’s chagrin, or...what.

And that at the core is the devastating part of myhouse.wad. The more I sit and think about it, the more I think about it, the more I realize this map is chock full of inside jokes, and we as players will never understand them. Because it’s not meant for us. These are things we’ll never have context for because one of the people involved is gone now. And the more I think about it, the more the realization hit that this entire map is not a game and really, truly is a memorial.

Do you remember when we played with Legos together? Do you remember when we played video games? Drinking milkshakes in the basement, sharing a pop? Our inside jokes? Roll for intercourse. Pumpkin Rick. Shrek chasing after you. Do you remember when we got married? I do. The house does. The house loves you. I love you. I miss you.

This map reads like a conversation, someone reaching out to someone else. You can’t help but wonder who is reaching out to who, though.

You know, I was talking to some friends on Discord about this map, and one of them brought up something interesting that I agree with. myhouse.wad draws clear inspiration from House of Leaves, but there’s a distinct difference between them. They both have heavy themes of grief and closure, but where House of Leaves is mysterious because of the layers and layers of unreliable narrators, myhouse.wad is mysterious because of you’re only ever hearing one side of the conversation. House of Leaves makes me feel like I’m intruding on something that no human should ever know. myhouse.wad makes me feel like I’m hearing part of a conversation through a wall.

Either way, there is one thing that both works share: This is not for you. It never was.

You know, I kind of wonder what their D&D campaign was about, if this moment was enough to stick out as an inside joke. I wonder what their sessions were like. I hope they had fun.

#myhouse #myhouse.wad #myhouse.pk3 #house of leaves #hol #doom #doom ii #doom 2 #fanart #artsavi #digital art

[nintendumpster]

#doom #doom II #id software #pc games

[gothimothi]

Possibly the funniest effect that House of Leaves has had on the Internet is that now The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet is a top song when you look up doom music on Spotify

#house of leaves #my house.wad #the most mysterious song on the Internet #doom ii #gp og

[oldschoolfrp]

The horror game of the year for 2023 may be . . a Doom II wad?

#the dream of the 90s is alive #Doom II #Doom #Doom wad #myhouse #Doom mod #myhouse wad #horror #horror gaming #myhouse.wad #Kotaku #computer game

[absolutelybatty]

I never have to upgrade my computer because I play stuff like this.

#batty speaks #I have newer games obviously but I was about to load up phantasmagoria #and realised I look like I've never heard of a game since the millennium #phantasmagoria #ihnmaims #sanitarium #doom II #active worlds #harvester

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

Hell on CD-ROM

“This CD-ROM is so good... You’ll crap your pants!” (PC Gamer #15, Aug. 1995)

#doom #doom ii #pc gaming #MS-DOS #video game ads #retro gaming

[voxbelicosa]

Day 20 - Sin

#inktober #inkart #inkdrawing #sketchbook #sketch #fantasy art #scifiart #grimdark #doom 2016 #doom eternal #doom ii

[lilafeuer]

Promotional advertisement for DOOM II: Hell on Earth (1994)

#doom #doom ii #doom 2 #doom 1993 #doom 1994 #classic doom #id software #pc gaming #first person shooter #boomer shooter #promotional #advertisement #video games #1994

[thathomestar]

played through all of doom 2 for its anniversary

it's been a while since i've actually sat down and played through the game proper so i kind of forgot the non-speedrun route through some of the levels, like the citadel lol

#doom #doom 2 #doom ii #i did do the archvile door skip on monster condo

[devileaterjaek]

#id software #pc gaming #boomer shooters #doom #quake #doom ii #wolfenstein 3d #gaming #horror #icon of sin

[nintendumpster]

#doom #doom II #id software #pc games

[teegaken]

Doom 2

#doom #doom 2 #doom 2 hell on earth #doom game #doom ii #doom fanart #id software #boomer shooter #fps shooter #retro fps #retro games #video game fanart #art #artist #artwork #drawing #doodle #illustration #digital art #fanart #my art #digital aritst #doomguy #mancubus

[valkiriforce]

Anomaly Report, DOOM II

#anomaly report #doom #doom 2 #doom II #doom wads #megawad #pc gaming #valkiriforce

[arcadefan]

Unused artwork for Doom II by Julie Bell.

#julie bell #doom ii