ZDoom

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I am Devianteist. I am an amateur artist over on DeviantART, by the same username: I aspire to become an author.
I was introduced to DOOM in 2013 when I purchased a copy of DOOM 3: BFG Edition for the PS3 (I now own an XBox 360 copy as well).
Here, I desire to learn modding so that I can add various SFX to HeXen's world, as well as create a skin and a weapon or two.
Beware, ye who open this Spoiler. Volatile stuff lies in wait. Aka Brutal DOOM.

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My first introduction to the DOOM community was not favorable, in retrospect. Browsing Youtube, I found Markiplier's video on Brutal DOOM, and was blown away by what I thought was an absolutely AMAZING mod. I now know how wrong I was. Between the horrendous "balance," awful "taunts" and "one-liners" (no offense to their voice actor), and the absolutely unnecessary amount of gore, my Brutal DOOM "high" wore off pretty quickly. I hoped that other mods did not possess this level of mindless sadism.

Boy did my hope pay off. My first introduction to these forums was through Smooth DOOM, which I still play regularly (in conjunction with the PSX TC). During my browsing here, I came across the Project Ideas thread and suggested the idea of a METROID-ALIENS crossover (an idea which has since died), and where I met user Carbine Dioxide, who gave me some friendly and helpful advice. I still browsed the Brutal DOOM ModDB page at this time, however I was focused solely on mods that changed the weapons and HUD now, but also kept an eye out for anything that decreased any amount of gore. Eventually, I completely abandoned the page, I am not sure when. Shortly after that, though, I was introduced to Doomworld, and /idgames through there. I lurked about for a while, and still do.
Anyway, I came back here looking for a gameplay enhancement mod for DOOM, as I was not exactly content with Smooth DOOM. That is when I found Samsara, which has become me and my friends' primary mode of play for multiplayer. Through Samsara, I was reintroduced to HeXen, a game which I remember fondly as terrifying me as a child. HeXen has since become my favorite game. After a long time playing, I decided to make a post on Samsara's page, and through that I was introduced to Twinkieman93, who has pointed me to many amazing mods, my favorite being Wrath of Cronos, as well as giving me some pleasant tips and advice.

I love this community, even if I'm simply new to it, and I admire many individuals already for their work: TerminusEst13, WildWeasel, Xaser, and a large number of others whose usernames escape me right now. I hope to become part of this community, and make my mark as "that guy obsessed with adding various SFX to HeXen."

wildweasel wrote:You know what? This is a good idea. I'm going to sticky this for the benefit of any other new users.

Apothem wrote:New... Members? What are these new forum members of which you speak?

mazmon wrote:Some of my main goals in Doom modding are: making badass female characters who look awesome and womanly rather than frail and slutty, making WADs which are inventive and/or a little weird, creating new enemies and weapons, and also just trying to stay positive

Phantom Allies wrote:Well, despite being here for awhile, I don't believe I ever introduced myself. I literally popped out of nowhere and I'm just..well here.

Anywho, the name's Phantom Allies. I've been around for some odd months and have slowly gotten my feet wet. Although in reality, I'm familiar all too much with Brutal Doom and that mod helped me got back into the whole gory, violent FPS gaming scene that seemed to fade due to me playing a lot of military shooters among other games, and not a lot of ludicrous gore and Gibbing was involved in those games (Basically, none at all). I believe I came across this website about last year, but never made an account until this year and jumped into the fray to see what I was capable of. However, when I first jumped in to this site, I was extremely skeptical of what was going on with some mods here, taking into account how people acted around SgtMarkIV and what not. Although as I was more aware of what was going on with him, and his history (Real Gore, the Halloween Release, etc.), it made more sense.

Then there's Russian Overkill, the second mod I played. That mod was just too explosive, and that's what I wanted. I enjoyed the fancy particles, powerups and overall Ruski insanity that was produced in that mod as well.


Anywho, I do browse the Project Forums frequently, but I wonder where the Tutorials and what not are located, so that way I can figure out how a lot of the modding works with doom. One day at time, heh heh.