Most satisfying moments in Doom

[Quill]

Tell me some very satisfying things.

I'll start:

• Lining up enemies for a Super Shotgun bowling strike.
• Finally killing that darn Vile
• Beating Sunlust on UV

[Yousuf Anik]

Killing multiple enemies with BFG under the effect of Invulnerability (one of my moment from Doom 2 map 8) :D

[Geniraul]

• Buying the game
• Installing the game
• Playing the game
• Winning the game

And if I'm being serious, moments like rocketing imps or pinkies if they are far enough, and hearing the arch-vile death sound are very satisfying. Punching a cyber-demon is a really cool act in theory, too, but personally I only have to do it, yet ;)

Edited February 23, 2023 by Geniraul

[Kristian Nebula]

When either an imp or a pinky gibs a zombieman while they are infighting. Nothing more satisfying than DSSLOP! :D

[TheEyeOfStone]

TEOS's DOOM ASMR:

 

- Hunting Barons and Hell Knights with the adrenaline fist, that's a real Popeye way to brawl.

- Backtracking for supplies and health in the peace and quiet of a level I've just turned into a demonic graveyard.

- Leaving a level with maxed out health and armor, with no demons left to kill or secrets to find, the UV MAX experience basically, never gets old.

- Watching Revenants and Heavy Weapon Dudes die by the dozens under a rainstorm of my rockets.

- I've always really digged the Berserk powerup, and the chainsaw from DOOM 3, they make things nice and personal.

- Also some of the machine sounds from DOOM 3's Alpha Labs, mainly Sector 4, make for nice relaxing background ambience.

- The noises those spiders from DOOM 3 make when they pounce upon you is kind of pleasant, makes ya feel like the game wants to play with you too.    

- I've always liked the super saturated feel to DOOM's original Hell textures and some of the Altar designs from the first game.

Edited February 23, 2023 by TheEyeOfStone

[Legatron17]

Perfectly killing a Pinky with two regular shotgun shots.

[Gaia74]

 

[Captain POLAND]

Two-shotting a Cyberdemon with the BFG

Finding a secret

Circle - strafing a large group of enemies without being hit

Making a difficult jump

 

 

[DiR]

• The sound of an SSG going off and a Pinky death sound at the same time
• Gibbing lower-tier enemies with a berserk fist
• Triggering an archvile's painstate right before you were about to get roasted
• Getting chaingunners to infight (bonus points if they stay alive and kill more enemies by stunlocking them)
• Slamming all three keys into a triple-key gate and watching them open one at a time

[El Juancho]

Beating a really hard fight first try without saves or rewinds :)

[Side-O-Fries]

Listening to a group of archviles get crushed.

[wkfo]

Array of barrels taking out large number of monsters

[head_cannon]

• Figuring out how to steal a guardian monster's treasure and get away clean.

• That release of tension when a saveless attempt at a level finally hits the exit and screenwipes to the intermission image.

• Every time the instinct of "Wait a minute, that spot looks different..." is rewarded with an "Aha, I found something!"

[spineapple tea]

Running between platforms on damaging floor without taking damage multiple times in a row.

[Oddy_the_bastard]

gibbing enemies with the beserk power-up

[Individualised]

100%ing a level without even trying to do a 100% run, reaching E1M8 in Doom 1 for the first time as a much younger person, blasting a room full of enemies with rockets (the BFG just doesn't have that same punch to it), any opportunity to use Berserk

[Misty]

Pulling off 2 bfg shots to make cyberdemon cry and explode. 

[Geniraul]

• Managing to win difficult fights/levels after dozens or hundreds of attempts

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• Figuring out how to solve certain puzzles, like on Doom Zero's map 06 or Danlex's Rainbow Rubik

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• Finding new ways and tactics to approach a difficult fight

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• Discovering and exploring level conversions from other games

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• Traveling around adventurous and entertaining maps like E2M2 or Auger;Zenith's map 12

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• Finding similarities between two Doom maps or a Doom level and a level from another game

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Edited February 25, 2023 by Geniraul
The last point added.

[SirPootis]

Managing to complete an engaging fight first try while narrowly dodging multiple projectiles (tends to happen with mancubi most often in my experiences).

 

(shameless clip from own stream below as an example)

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Try this link if the embed is broken (seems to not want to work when i try posting it, maybe it's just on my end. who knows *shrug*

 

 

Edited February 23, 2023 by SirPootis
fixed embed (maybe.) added backup link if it doesn't work

[Astro X]

Cyberdemon freaking rocketing everything.

[Dubbag]

MAP 06 Spidermastermind crush and the barrels and chaingunners in map 22.

[treulosetomate]

Secrets that lead to long telefragging chains.

[RandoBust]

Getting monsters to infight and the crisp reload sound of the super shotgun. 

[kwc]

One-Punching Lost Souls! It's like swatting an annoying fly.

[ElPadrecitoCholo]

The battle of the Spider Master Mind and the Cyberdemon in map 20 is still the most memorable for me (and it gets better when mods are added) heh.

[ASD]

Here's an old post I made on the subject, when I had too much time to kill.

[idbeholdME]

When an Imp gibs a zombieman. A very rare thing, as the Zombieman has to be heavily damaged (1-3 HP left) and the Imp has to max roll for damage (24). The Zombieman basically has to be hurt from infighting, because the player weapons can't really get him to the required range other than rocket splash. Very rare, but always a LOL moment for me.

[arsac]

Getting all that ammo after clearing a room full of hitscanners.

[dististik]

1 hour ago, Z50 said:

Getting all that ammo after clearing a room full of hitscanners.

 

Bonus points if there was a vile or two with them so you get a bunch extra.

[Ozcar]

Killing arachntron with super shotgun