I feel like a freak for liking this game

[Doommarine_maxi]

I meet some friends who never played classic Doom games but they played Doom 3 and loved it. I played Doom 1 at the year 2000, then Doom 2 at the year 2002 or something like that and Doom 3 at 2006... and Doom 3 is my favorite from these three. I still need to play Doom 2016 but that brutal Doom isn't really my kind of game.

[memes4lyfe]

"any doom is good doom"

~gggmanlives

[BoxY]

for my money the worst mistake that id made with doom 3 and its legacy is simply calling it doom 3. it's just like the "quake 2" (and 3) gaffe but in reverse, with quake 2 completely ignoring quake's setting, story and theme but keeping most of the core gameplay (albeit slower and more boring) and wearing the quake name like a stolen skin, and doom 3 ripping off the concept, environments, weapons and enemies of doom and doom II but throwing out all of those games' carefully honed gameplay and balance philosophy like old bathwater. with a little bit of find-and-replace writing both games could have and should have been original IPs but id was never able to curate either brand and ended up using them as a byword for Big New Id Shooter. if i just replace the name Doom 3 in my mind with Demons in Space or something else suitably generic, it immediately becomes a perfectly decent 7/10 horror shooter. but i can never call it a doom game.