Friday, 29 February 2008

Dear Milian:

Last night I just finished making my way to the end of Biovite 5a. I just wanted to thank you. I've been addicted to Doom ever since I discovered it over a decade ago, and, quite honestly, I thought Biovite was great.

You succeeded admirably in making a wad that is not just running around shooting things, but which brings a real sense of adventure to the proceedings. Fine score, fine new graphics, challenging gameplay (that kicked the stuffing out of me on many occasions)... and good new opponents, too. In particular, I know those giant praying mantises are impossible due to the square-cube rule, but they were as scary as hell. Those chaingunners who were armed with BFGs freaked me out as well. I can just imagine what your cyberdemon-on-steroids will turn out to be. Whatever it is, when I first encounter it I'll probably run in the other direction. :-)

We hermitlike, broken-down old guys who are still playing Doom after an entire generation has gotten hooked on Grand Theft Auto or something instead remain truly grateful to those of you who have spent endless hours creating the classic partial/total conversions that we all know by name -- Hell Revealed, Batman, and a couple others whose classic battles still stick out in my mind but for the life of me I can't remember. Thank you again. Please know that those of us out here who've played all the famous wads and who are always hitting the "random file" link on the Doomworld archive in the hopes of finding something else worthwhile are the 21st century new generation of who Gloria Swanson in the classic movie _Sunset Boulevard_ called "all those wonderful people out there in the dark", and we are truly grateful. Thanks again for the excellent work, and please keep it up.

-- Jack M.