Your favourite map(s) in 2009?

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## Your favourite map(s) in 2009?

2009 was a low quantity – high quality year. 11 singleplayer map releases if you don’t count bugfixes (which is a worrying trend).

You have 2 votes, choose wisely. Keep in mind that this poll is about what the “best” release is, not a Top10 or something. The result will be unfair for all but place #1. The poll is open until the end of January.

The order is randomly shuffled list. There probably still is a bug with Firefox when you click on the links, marking the just visited map with a check mark.

Your favourite map(s) in 2009?

- Plumbers Don't Wear Ties (But They Do Carry Shotguns) (41%, 31 Votes)
- Moldy Tower (26%, 20 Votes)
- Fort Driant (24%, 18 Votes)
- Stark Monstrosity (17%, 13 Votes)
- A Roman Wilderness Of Pain (17%, 13 Votes)
- Lower Forecourt (13%, 10 Votes)
- Arcanum Demo (11%, 8 Votes)
- Coagula Mappack #3 (9%, 7 Votes)
- Temple Of Anubis: Judgement Of The Dead (8%, 6 Votes)
- Back To Gloom Keep (3%, 2 Votes)
- Palace Revolution (3%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 76

Oh and some numbers for the past year, they are faulty thanks to stupid download managers and overzealous search engine spiders but: 1.5 Terabytes sent out, 150k visitors and 4000k hits. Divide that by X and it might be more close to reality. The Quake Injector caused about 15000 downloads.

The top downloads (if you want to trust the logs, see above…) are:

> 729 coagula3_pack.zip
> 638 nsoe2.zip
> 628 quoth.zip
> 575 travail.zip
> 487 5rivers.zip
> 471 nehahra.zip
> 409 768_negke.zip
> 403 starkmon.zip
> 376 ne_tower.zip
> 366 arcdemo.zip
> 365 warpspasm.zip
> 362 toa.zip
> 361 apsp2.zip
> 342 ne_lend_doom.zip
> 336 fort_driant.zip
> 332 chapter_necros2.zip
> 316 aopv105.zip
> 314 zer.zip
> 289 kinn_marcher.zip
> 289 dis_sp6.zip

10.01.2010 in quaddicted.com | 23 Comments »

### 23 Responses to “Your favourite map(s) in 2009?”

1. cjljg Says:
   10.01.2010 11:53

   spirti wheres my pol.?

2. Spirit Says:
   10.01.2010 11:55

   u broked it u are out!

3. RickyT23 Says:
   10.01.2010 12:09

   Havent played them all yet :S

4. onetruepurple Says:
   10.01.2010 12:38

   E3M1RQ? :(

5. Spirit Says:
   10.01.2010 13:08

   Is a mod. :(

6. Ankh Says:
   10.01.2010 13:56

   Spirit. Big thanks for your great site. Keep up the good work.

7. gb Says:
   10.01.2010 14:11

   Actually, the arwop maps etc are also part of mods.

8. gb Says:
   10.01.2010 14:12

   also, multiplayer maps are no mapping it seems.

9. Spirit Says:
   10.01.2010 15:02

   Quaddicted is a site that focuses on singleplayer maps. You know that. Now back to the issue:

   Arwop etc are maps that come with partial mods, they do not aim to redo a lot but add some things.
   Remake Quake aims to be a all new, all different mod.

   I know it is a touchy subject. If someone knows a better way to distinguish between “maps” and “mods” please raise your voice.

10. spy Says:
    10.01.2010 15:42

    1st- necros’ ‘moldy tower’
    2nd- negke’s ‘lower forecourt’

    and somewhere near
    than’s – plumbers and ricky’s starkmon

11. gb Says:
    10.01.2010 16:35

    well roman1 for example can’t be played without the mod I guess, just like e3m1rq. I don’t really see the difference.

    Anyway, I don’t care enough to continue the discussion. I don’t think any of us do.

12. negke Says:
    10.01.2010 18:06

    RMQ is only as much (or little) a mod as other maps that come with additonal content. Ok, maybe a little more, but its focus still lies on the maps and that’s what counts.

    I regarded the E1M3RQ map more as a beta version rather than a proper release, so you could argue this is a more appropriate reason for not including it in the poll. Then again, this also applies to the Arcanum Demo…

    spy: <3

13. s_a_j_t Says:
    10.01.2010 21:42

    That aren’t no Firefox bug dog. Look at ye HTML: the tags are what happens that!

14. s_a_j_t Says:
    10.01.2010 21:43

    Hurrgh. That was annoying. Anyway, as I say, the (label for=”…”) tags are the culprit (it’s a feature!).

15. metlslime Says:
    10.01.2010 23:15

    “Tower of Death” links to the Temple of Anubis page…

16. Spirit Says:
    11.01.2010 17:25

    Thanks metl!

    sajt: Sorry. That plugin is of wordpress-quality though so I better not touch it. :(
    It works fine with Opera.

17. quakis Says:
    13.01.2010 19:01

    ‘Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties’ was a map that stood out for me. I played a ton of castle/gothic/ruined type of maps and decided to check a base map out for a change, and this was one of them. It was simply brilliant, I liked the style, pacing and design.

    ‘Moldy Tower’ would come 2nd place.
    ‘Cogula Mappack 3′ in 3rd, kinda mix bag there. I liked Ricky’s map.

18. Steven Says:
    15.01.2010 23:32

    I wished for four votes: Tronyn’s Arcdemo and Arwop (awful acronym of the year), Plumbers, and I’d include Hrimfaxi’s pack too. Not as fashionable as other releases; but it’s just so far out of the box, slick, and thoroughly enjoyable. My pack of the year. Lower Forecourt and Mouldy Tower are even more amazing really, but as mindless fun-ability goes, they don’t quite succeed. Cheers everyone :>

19. Tronyn Says:
    16.01.2010 06:08

    lol RickyT23 you’re about to catch up to me
    last year I voted for NSOE since I thought it dserved it but this year I voted for Stark Monstrosity and Moldy Tower. Even though I think Roman is a better experience than either of those overall, on a .bsp per .bsp basis, those are the two best maps of the year, there’s no question.
    As previous commentators have expressed, it’s difficult to decide, and the releases are not always directly comparable. I will say, however, that I don’t see why Than’s map (bless him) is #1; hats off to the unique attempt but I don’t see how Lower Forecourt isn’t just as unique and just as well-executed.

20. ijed Says:
    17.01.2010 22:00

    I like looking at stats.

21. gb Says:
    18.01.2010 17:26

    Quothbase for the (huge) win.

    Why am I not excited.

22. Your favourite map in 2009! Says:
    03.02.2010 10:15

    [...] Congratulations to than. His map Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties (But They Do Carry Shotguns) was deemed the best release of the past year by the about 70 people who voted. [...]

23. negke Says:
    03.02.2010 11:00

    Well-deserved. Though I guess people mostly voted for Plumbers because of its hentai back story. :D
    Don’t agree on the third place, though. Two and three should be ARWOP and Moldy.
    Anyway, good to see every map got at least some votes. Now onto 2010 aka Go Map everyone!

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