Going for high scores on the XBLA leaderboards
2 years ago
Washington, USA

For overall score, I'm currently sitting at 2nd on the Activision port, and 5th on the Bethesda one. The top 3 times on the Bethesda port are suspicious though, as none of the people are at the top of any individual level. Whoever has the gamertags "KTILLA23" and "Scamazon Prime" though, are really good at the game.

In the Bethesda port, which is the one I usually play on due to more competitive times, I have top scores on E1M8, E2M3, E6M2, and E6M4, and tied for first in E6M5. Also, I asked Alex0023 on one of his YouTube uploads how he got his time for E6M6, but he couldn't remember. That is the one level I can't figure out. I also haven't cared to go for score in most of episodes 3, 4, or 5 but I'll get to those at some point.

One interesting thing I noticed is that a few people have times on E6M1 that are lower than the 2:57 Shinboy got last year, which indicates they know about the door trick (including Alex0023). I figured people here would have utilized it for ECWolf/DOS runs long ago, but at least we know now.

Edited by the author 2 years ago
Nauru

that's very interesting, i would be very curious to see the lbs of the games though, see what times they got

Washington, USA

Yeah, I'm wondering if those scores were hacked in, because in addition to none of the top 3 people having individual level times, their scores are all so high they seem basically impossible to achieve. From what I can tell you have to use Episode 6 on Can I Play Daddy, as it has massive par times. I tried I am Death Incarnate first but it seems that the speed you can complete the levels on CIPD outweighs the points for the extra enemies on IADI, except for maybe level 8.