/vr/ - Retro Games

>was called "the most influential PWAD of all time"
>the megawad they were giving us would go on to define a generation of map packs
>it would be widely considered one of the best and most influential PWADs of all time
>you will simply not find a better collection of 32 maps, and you probably won't ever again
>I (and many others) would go as far to put AV in the top ten wads of all time
I don't understand. The level design is not that good, most combat encounters are just "lets teleport 50 monsters on players head", it had no original music. Sure some level are really cool, Nemesis is 11/10 masterpiece, but most of them are "okay". Maybe it gets better half way through, at map 17 only.
Was that really that insane for 2001?
I only played original games and expansions and bunch of 90's wads up to this point so it's not like I got used to some "modern standards".