Yo ho ho and a bottle o' stimpack reskinned as Rum

[dlevere]

By Pope Guilty

Yo ho, matey! Ever get to sorting through Doom mods and think "Wow, that's a lot of techbases and hell castles. I'd really prefer something a bit more Monkey Island-esque"?

If so (and even if not), you'll want to check out Pirate Doom, which dresses up Doom monsters as pirates (down the Imps' fancy hats) and sends the player through 18 levels of pirate-demon action!

Rock Paper Shotgun has a quick writeup, Doomed has a review of an older version, and here's a video of level 2, "Melee Island", to give a good idea of what you're in for.

Pirate Doom requires a copy of the .wad file from Doom 2 (conveniently on sale for $2.50 on Steam at the moment) and the GZDoom source port (a free download from here) which allows it to do a few things vanilla Doom can't.

[bungholio]

Doom still has a fun and lively community around it to this day 20 years later. The ZDoom/GZDoom/Zandronum had the funnest stuff for me to play with with the decorate.txt file. You can create many weapons or enemies or whatever out of it. They also have Hexen's ACS scripting or whatever too. There's a bunch of sprite replacement wad files out there too, and I'm sure a ton more of them since the last time I ever played Doom. I still remember the ones that replaced all of the characters with either Simpsons or South Park characters. Barney replaced the demon and ran up to you and belched in your face. For South Park the weird guy who was screwing chickens replaced the Arachnotron and screwed a chicken to blast a nonstop stream of feathers at you. There is a ton of fun in it.