A doom bible mod often attempts to replicate the exact design document, created by tom hall during the earliest phases of dooms creation. This can cause problems as there are really quite a few things that tom hall either overlooked when writing the document, or holes in the story that cause it to leak like a sieve and quite frankly a lot of bland repetitiveness .As a person who is attempting to create a coherent, fun and interesting experience with the doom bible as a basis for characters, locations i have learned that it is immensely hard to create things that still look good, play decently, and still match the doom bible and tom halls thought process when designing the look and feel of the earliest versions of doom.
For example take the original design of the starting room in e1m1 from alpha 0.3 of doom
This room seems pretty bland, bright, and does not really fit with a good atmospheric game. A large amount of doom bible wads seek to replicate this feel, which can cause boredom for the creator and player, which often makes the authors of doom bible mods cancel or put on hiatus their mods.
Now take the starting room of doom the tei tenga incident, based off this room.
It looks almost completely different with the added detail, atmospheric lighting and including of different texture choices compared to the alpha design. But at one point the two rooms where identical to each other, in blandness and well lit.
This is what i mean by the curse of the doom bible, is that following it rigorously and the exact way it was wrote will cause an overall boring experience for the player, and not an enjoyable game. For example, episode 4 of the original doom bible, called "base instinct" was essentially a variant upon the theme and setting of the earlier episode "evil unleashed" . In the plans for the tei tenga incident, it was decided to move episode 4s setting from "undecided moon base" to a version of Luna city, from the book "the moon is a harsh mistress" by Robert Heinlein. That varies the environment design and allows for new areas to be created, such as an underground overrun with demons metropolis, which is a lot more interesting that another demon overrun human military base. You can have survivors of the invasion, last pockets of resistance attempting to fight the demons in anyway possible, the demons doing unspeakable atrocity's to mankind, and even sections that use vehicles, like tanks and light armored vehicles. All in a huge non linear metropolis, that feels both massive and claustrophobic. That is what the doom bible can be made into, a huge massive game that has six episodes each with its own feel and style, similar to the original doom. That is my secret to getting this far,not hard headed determination, but variety.
~Demo_the_doomer
Dude holy ****... sold. Make it compatible with Brutal Doom, I WILL play it!
I am afraid to say that would be a large undertaking, requiring the replacement of ammospawns on maps, the gutting of the HUD, and the swapping of enemies out for different ones IE the sawgunners for chaingunners, the SMG guys for zombiemen. I will make a mod compatible version of this in the future for those who wish to play it with mods like demonstele,brutal doom, vanilla, tiberuim doom, and wild weasels NAZIS!. But i still recommend you playing the current version, as it actually has several improvements compared to brutal doom, like advanced code that changes camera behavior to be more like quake and later ID games, as well as things like bullet projectile tracers,flashlights,and even ejected shell casings similar to brutal doom.
Also you might want to try some of the other doom weapon mods that the community has made like Demonstelle, a mod by terminuest, Russian overkill by pillowblaster, NAZIS! by wildweasel, and Woflendoom:the blade of agony, a project inspired by the newer wolfensiten games but keeping in the same spirit as the orignals.
You're correct sir :)! and yes those are some good good Mods indeed :D.
I am seriously liking this! It shall be amazing once released! The only thing so far... The first comment is someone saying "If it gets Brutal Doom support, I am sold!" I am despising Mark more and more for making that mod with the more of these comments.