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HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 8:25 pm

Hirogen2 wrote:Why anyway did id soft use such an ending for E1M8?

It was more interesting than yet another switch?

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 11:56 pm

Well, it must not necessarily have been a switch but when stepping onto the 128x128 Demonic Teleporter, the Level End Special could have just been invoked. IMO, if I had had to design E1M8, I would have let Doomguy teleported to ... uh, E1M10 (showing "The Deimos Base" in intermission), a very small map where there is just a Level End Special 'round the corner and then pops up the text ("you're supposed to win, aren't ya aren't ya" or so).
Like, you get the first taste of E2 style, and that is enough for the Shareware

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 11:42 am

No need. Instead of just a dark square room full of baddies, they could easily have built a small portion of E2M1 into E1M8 and used the very same special to damage you and end the game. Of course, that would mean that people who own the full version get the "teaser" AND the full level... Kind of odd.

Zell · Post by **Zell** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 11:53 am

here i thought it was becuase you were getting sucked deeper into hell...ie you die and go to hell? just my thoughts

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 12:00 pm

Zell wrote:here i thought it was becuase you were getting sucked deeper into hell...ie you die and go to hell? just my thoughts

This wouldn't fit into the plot established in the books.

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 12:11 pm

Zell: If you die in that part, you won't be able to go to E2M1. That's odd. But as Doom allows, you might respawn on the same level if you die :]

Maverick · Post by **Maverick** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 12:15 pm

HotWax wrote:
Zell wrote:here i thought it was becuase you were getting sucked deeper into hell...ie you die and go to hell? just my thoughts
This wouldn't fit into the plot established in the books.

Am I the only one who liked those books?

Zell · Post by **Zell** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 12:24 pm

nope i have them all =D

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 2:07 pm

Maverick wrote:
HotWax wrote:
Zell wrote:here i thought it was becuase you were getting sucked deeper into hell...ie you die and go to hell? just my thoughts
This wouldn't fit into the plot established in the books.
Am I the only one who liked those books?

I liked the first two. The last two just tried too hard to put the story in some kind of "believable" context and ended up boring me to tears in the process.

Zell · Post by **Zell** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 2:13 pm

...oh yeah i forgot there were 2 more ^_^ i have 1: knee deep in the dead
and 2: hell on earth...i want to know what happens in the end =/

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 2:20 pm

Zell wrote:...oh yeah i forgot there were 2 more ^_^ i have 1: knee deep in the dead
and 2: hell on earth...i want to know what happens in the end =/

No you don't.

Zell · Post by **Zell** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 2:21 pm

lol on the last book cover isnt a picture of the main guy, fly getting killed? or is that the third one? wait... i dont? is it that bad?

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 2:26 pm

Zell wrote:lol on the last book cover isnt a picture of the main guy, fly getting killed? or is that the third one? wait... i dont? is it that bad?

In a word, Yes.

Maverick · Post by **Maverick** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 5:13 pm

Well it's been a long time since I've read them.. The last two definately aren't as good as the first two. But that's just because the first two are in a setting we're familiar with. Ok it's not JUST because of that... but I wouldn't want to spoil it for anyone

It's enough to say that you may not like them a whole bunch or as much as the first two, there are a couple of things in them that are a big stretch, but in my opinion the books aren't completely horrible, I mean I didn't hate them... if they were, I wouldn't have read them all the way through!

Regards,

Maverick