The Thing You Can't Defeat
released on Jul 25, 2022
A mod for The Ultimate Doom
Experimental mod for Ultimate Doom. Doomguy has dementia. The Thing you can’t Defeat lets you replay the first episode of Ultimate Doom as it slowly morphs into a confusing and demented nightmare. This WAD was HEAVILY inspired by the WAD “Doom but somethings not right” and the album “Everywhere at the end of time” by The Caretaker.
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holy shit, lost media of biblically accurate angels with dementia in a liminal and strangely familiar space!?!??! Sign me UP dude!!!!!!!
The gradual warping of doom's levels is genuinely cool and unnerving. If this came out in 2014 it would be called "Cursed Doom" and it's most viewed let's play would be a vinesauce video and all would be right in the world. Instead it's about dementia. Dementia is the 2020's version of dead wives.
it was a neat experience, yet i cant help but feel like the topic of dementia is being slowly bastardized by things like this
It puzzles me the way this wad which takes a big influence from dementia based horror like The Caretaker, and gets seen as a negative thing by people. How a very similar mod with somewhat related themes coming out the year after got a much more glowing reception. It's really creative and infusing genuine horror and tragedy into the doom experience. If you really like myhouse.wad or have any interest in Don Hertzfeld you should play this.
It's an interesting interpretation, showing dementia's awful progression and finality. It really is a nightmare that's hard to conceive.
Kind of painful to play at times with the lights flickering so often. I get this isn't supposed to be "fun", per se, but that doesn't mean it has to be quite so violent on the eyes.
I really liked the ending, I learned a new, very interesting thing about dementia and this utilizes the medium very well to show it. Great stuff.
Less a "game" and more an interactive short film, I'd say. It's hard to rate it, but overall I think I somewhat enjoyed what was offered here.
If you've got GZDoom ready to go, try it out, but if not? Probably not worth the download (unlike My House, which definitely is).
Kind of painful to play at times with the lights flickering so often. I get this isn't supposed to be "fun", per se, but that doesn't mean it has to be quite so violent on the eyes.
I really liked the ending, I learned a new, very interesting thing about dementia and this utilizes the medium very well to show it. Great stuff.
Less a "game" and more an interactive short film, I'd say. It's hard to rate it, but overall I think I somewhat enjoyed what was offered here.
If you've got GZDoom ready to go, try it out, but if not? Probably not worth the download (unlike My House, which definitely is).
That's how it ends??? Bruh!!!!