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Agreed. I was expecting something a little more topical to whats going on, with the current cast of characters.

by ugh123 5y ago

cyberpunk 5y ago
Ach, it's a nice gesture. I'm guessing Romero has a bunch of these on his HDD and figured, hey, maybe it's a nice way to generate some donations. All for it. Bought one :}
- drakythe 5y ago
  Romero released "Sigil" in 2019, which is an unofficial new act for DOOM, and I believe last year he announced he was working on a sequel using the same concept for DOOM 2, so I have very little doubt that this was created in that project and ultimately rejected for inclusion and this is his way of getting some good out of it, which is pretty awesome.
  - cyberpunk 5y ago
    SIGIL is absolutely awesome, especially with the buckethead soundtrack.. :}
    - acomjean 5y ago
      > buckethead soundtrack Wait, what! I know quake had NIN doing the sounds, but if its buckethead from Praxis, I'll have to check that out.
adamrezich 5y ago
I too crave outright propaganda and am disappointed whenever I find out that something is not that
- adamrezich 5y ago
  judging by other replies as well as downvotes for my previous one, there is demand right now for a specific sort of indie game, and if your ideology aligns with it, it could be quite profitable for anyone who wishes to throw something together.
hnbad 5y ago
That would seem excessively distasteful. Real human beings are dying right now on both sides and even if Russia is the obvious aggressor here, it's a tragedy that so many young men have to die for that country's leader's whims.
- cyberpunk 5y ago
  I mean, you're right.. But I can literally shoot civilians in the face in most of the games I have access to right now (Farcry, Cyberpunk).. And lets not forget ID's history (Wolfenstein 3D)... It's maybe distasteful, but it's not really MUCH more distasteful than shooting sprites of pretty much anything else. I mean.. In a lot of these games, those monsters are at home and we're the ones fucking their shit up? ;)
  - brimble 5y ago
    Eh, leave it to the modders. There was no shortage of fan-made levels that featured some public figure widely regarded as an asshole as a killable enemy, back in the day.
    - hnbad 5y ago
      Oh absolutely. There were plenty of Jack Thompson murder simulators on Newgrounds back in the day plus of course various "bomb the Taliban" games around the Afghanistan war. But that's not the kind of output you expect from a seasoned professional under their real name. I mean, there's the WW2 era Disney and Looney Tunes shorts, but those were propaganda productions that were part of a war effort from a nation directly involved in open conflict and most people today look back at them slightly incredulously if not with disdain.
      - cyberpunk 5y ago
        I still miss scrotum the puppy..
  - hnbad 5y ago
    Wolfenstein 3D was not released in 1939 though.
lalopalota 5y ago
This is about helping Ukraine. Why drag other nonsense into it?

Agreed. I was expecting something a little more topical to whats going on, with the current cast of characters.

by ugh123 5y ago

Agreed. I was expecting something a little more topical to whats going on, with the current cast of characters.

Ach, it's a nice gesture. I'm guessing Romero has a bunch of these on his HDD and figured, hey, maybe it's a nice way to generate some donations. All for it. Bought one :}

drakythe 5y ago
Romero released "Sigil" in 2019, which is an unofficial new act for DOOM, and I believe last year he announced he was working on a sequel using the same concept for DOOM 2, so I have very little doubt that this was created in that project and ultimately rejected for inclusion and this is his way of getting some good out of it, which is pretty awesome.
- cyberpunk 5y ago
  SIGIL is absolutely awesome, especially with the buckethead soundtrack.. :}
  - acomjean 5y ago
    > buckethead soundtrack Wait, what! I know quake had NIN doing the sounds, but if its buckethead from Praxis, I'll have to check that out.

adamrezich 5y ago

I too crave outright propaganda and am disappointed whenever I find out that something is not that

adamrezich 5y ago
judging by other replies as well as downvotes for my previous one, there is demand right now for a specific sort of indie game, and if your ideology aligns with it, it could be quite profitable for anyone who wishes to throw something together.

hnbad 5y ago

That would seem excessively distasteful. Real human beings are dying right now on both sides and even if Russia is the obvious aggressor here, it's a tragedy that so many young men have to die for that country's leader's whims.

cyberpunk 5y ago
I mean, you're right.. But I can literally shoot civilians in the face in most of the games I have access to right now (Farcry, Cyberpunk).. And lets not forget ID's history (Wolfenstein 3D)... It's maybe distasteful, but it's not really MUCH more distasteful than shooting sprites of pretty much anything else. I mean.. In a lot of these games, those monsters are at home and we're the ones fucking their shit up? ;)
- brimble 5y ago
  Eh, leave it to the modders. There was no shortage of fan-made levels that featured some public figure widely regarded as an asshole as a killable enemy, back in the day.
  - hnbad 5y ago
    Oh absolutely. There were plenty of Jack Thompson murder simulators on Newgrounds back in the day plus of course various "bomb the Taliban" games around the Afghanistan war. But that's not the kind of output you expect from a seasoned professional under their real name. I mean, there's the WW2 era Disney and Looney Tunes shorts, but those were propaganda productions that were part of a war effort from a nation directly involved in open conflict and most people today look back at them slightly incredulously if not with disdain.
    - cyberpunk 5y ago
      I still miss scrotum the puppy..
- hnbad 5y ago
  Wolfenstein 3D was not released in 1939 though.

lalopalota 5y ago

This is about helping Ukraine. Why drag other nonsense into it?