DOOM 1 - DARKGATE.WAD
Channel: DOOM WAD World
Date: 2022-12-01

added to the "Hall of Shame". HOLY FUCK this is by far the WORST WAD I have ever played that wasn't meant to be a joke. on E1M6 I completely gave up and started cheating, and I just noclipped to the exits on E1M7 and 8, but I don't think you can blame me. maybe someone with more patience than me can get through the whole thing, but I'm not touching this shit again. it started actually giving me a headache playing this monotonous bullshit. it is absolutely nothing but boring corridor after boring corridor killing way too many enemies with ONLY the shotgun, chaingun, and rocket launcher (if you have ammo for them, and it runs out QUICK with how many cacodemons and barons it throws at you). I had to pause the game and check in a map editor after almost every switch I pressed to see what the fuck it actually did, because it's almost never clear, and there are switches EVERYWHERE. even then it took a long ass time to figure out where to go because the level layouts are so compact and hard to follow. OH and don't forget that half of the time, instead of switches opening doors, you have to find hidden lifts to progress! and the levels just go on and on and on and ON! I genuinely cannot believe that someone made this and released it thinking "yeah, this is fun. people will like this." I hope astaroth goes to hell when they die so they can go through the same thing they made me do.
called "DARKGATE.WAD" in the /idgames FTP.
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/d-f/darkgate
created by Astaroth on August 29th, 1994.
from the .txt file included with the WAD:
"This is a group of wads that replace e1m1 thru e1m8. It doesn't include e1m9 because i never got around to it for this group. There's no story, it's just a group of wads we put together for training purposes,these are the easy ones."

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