/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4621284
Duke Nukem 3D is great because it takes ostensibly realistic locales and transforms them into abstract levels.
If you stop and examine a lot of the realistic levels, there's a lot that makes no goddamn sense at all, but it's ok because the game puts in the effort of detailing the world and making realistic spaces here and there.
Derelict is an absolutely tremendous example of this, it's set on a large cargo ship out in the ocean, and it conveys this well, but the insides of it is a sprawling menacing dungeon, it plays excellently as a level.

It's one of the reasons I think it's such a great game. Right next to Doom, it's one of my greatest favorites. I would really love to see more of this kind of level design in Doom wads.