Technopeasant {l Wrote}:Recently completed Doom the Way id Did and Doom 2 the Way id Did using Crispy Doom. Now I used the commercial IWADs, but if I had used Freedoom Phase One and Two it would all be free (save for the levels themselves).
Though granted that would be kind of missing the point. It was rather like replaying Doom and Doom II all over again for the first time. It did remind me that I prefer Doom 1 to Doom 2 though, but both were enjoyable. I personally think Doom the Way id Did actually captures the spirit better than the original if that makes any sense.
I actually never played original Doom and Doom 2 but I played FreeDoom under PrBoom+ (that's what Debian installs when you install FreeDoom). It was nice to experience it in 100% FOSS way. I would really like to have 100% FOSS version of Quake 1, 2, 3 (ok, OpenArena is kinda 100% FOSS Quake 3) and Doom 3 so people can experience those games without surrendering their freedoms. But, not a lot of ppl care about freedom.
I've played Doom 2016 recently and it changed my perspective on the entire series. Doom 2016 by far is the worst Doom game. Constant "upgrades" and "challenges" telling you how you should play the game and punishing you if you don't do it. Wow, that's insulting. Multiplayer is an absolute joke where 99% of it is grinding for unlocks. Like, there is no fun, only mindless grind and looking at that progress bar. So... in the end I think Doom 3 is the best gameplay-wise. First two Dooms suffer from horribly complex maps and Doom 2016 has horrible gameplay all around. Doom 3 only has horrible audio logs, so it wins.
I don't understand people who praise Doom and call it legendary. Yes, it may have been the first "baby step" in first person shooters but it is only the first baby step and there are much better shooters after it.