🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sep 28, 2:06 pm, Smola <supersm...@hr.inet> wrote:
> In article <644aa617-db44-444a-9b77-6cb9c7a8f...@a19g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
> mooseboys...@hotmail.com says...
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> > I've been playing and enjoying them, megawads like Scythe, and
> > Eternal, etc, and other than being wonderfully drawn and somewhat
> > challenging...why are some of the hidden areas so damn difficult to
> > get to?  Like in New World, for instance, the button to open the door
> > to the castle (or whatever) was on a ledge that I couldn't get to.
> > Literally, there was no way to get there.  I had to cheat code my way
> > up there.  Okay, you want some hidden areas that are tricky to get to,
> > posing a challenge for repeat play, fine, but this was like the second
> > map.  It horribly interrupts the flow of the level, making it
> > needlessly annoyingly frustrating.
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> > (Also, there are too many revenants, but that's a personal
> > complaint. :))
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> > I know it sounds like I'm whining, but counter-intuitive hidden
> > switches are just irritating.  I can easily cheat code through, but if
> > I'm doing that, then what's the point?
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> yes, in megawads maps are often too large and sometimes you just cannot see the
> hints left by the author.
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> Are there any good megawads with mid-size maps? With the original game pace in
> mind? I hate it when I begin a map and see that there are 300+ monsters. :(

New World 2 is like that so far--I'm only on the third map, tho, I
think.  And other than the fact I couldn't open the first door of the
first room I Started in, it was fine.