Low Skill Recommendations?

[Breidr]

A friend of mine on discord has always been a big fan of old school shooters.  Doom Engine, Build Engine, you name it.  He even introduced me to Civvie-11.  I've always had an interest in these types of games, they just have a certain thing about them, but due to my disability, fast reflex shooters never meshed well with me.  Despite that, I've been plugging away at GZDoom since I discovered it was free, and was even gifted a copy of Doom II to go with it.  I also have FreeDoom, and Chex 3.

 

I thoroughly enjoyed Chex 3, played on difficulty 2.  I could probably have done it on 3, but that is most likely the limit of what I can handle.  Doom II raked me over the coals. I was feeling pretty hot when I got through Dead Simple, but tricks and traps put me in my place.  Since then I've been playing Ashes on "relaxed."  Could probably up it a bit, but I like the chill vibe for now.

 

I came here to ask what else it out there that might be more suitable at a lower skill audience. So far I've found the Adventures of Square, and that is fun too.  It's a nice middle ground between Chex and Doom proper.  I'm really glad I found these games.  Despite having no extra mechanics other than shoot enemy with gun, they're great.  I find myself just secret hunting, and I really want to push to be proficient at difficulty 3.  Hurt me Plenty is my current plateau for Chex and Doom 1, Doom 2 is a whole different animal, forget master levels.

 

I'm rambling now, but I hope I got the point across.  Thanks for reading and I appreciate any recommendations you leave!

[DoomPlayer00]

 

Mix of wads from easy to somewhat demanding mentioned in these threads.

 

 

My personal recommendations:

• Fava Beans (Doom 1)
• Coffee Break
• Bloodrust
• Escalation Titan
• Zone 300
• Doom 2 The Way We Remember It

[Breidr]

Awesome, thank you!

[Lucius Wooding]

I'd say maybe BTSX E1 on HNTR difficulty. Very high quality and fun stuff but they really dial down many of the levels on lower skill settings. You might possibly still hit a wall at some point but it certainly isn't terribly tough in general except maybe the final map.

[bLUEbYTE]

You may want to try my mod EasyMode: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?p=1127012&hilit=easymode#p1127012

[TheSlipgateStudios]

Deathless for Doom 1, short levels, might need to play on lower difficulties :D

[Kwisior]

Assuming you want to get progressively better, you should beat these while saving at least after killing half of the enemies and play on HMP or UV.

 

The easier ones:

Revolution!

Fava Beans

Demonfear

Lunatic

 

The harder (but still doable) ones:

Final Doom (official expansions)

Vanguard

Requiem

Mordeth

The Darkening E1 and E2

Overboard

Crumpets

 

After that you can get into WADs like Valiant, Back to Saturn X E1 and E2, Speed of Doom, Eviternity or Ancient Aliens.

Also if you want some conversions you can check The Golden Souls and Pirate Doom out.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 29, 2023 by Kwisior

[smeghammer]

Nobody mentioned Armadosia. Old but good. Very big maps too.

 

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/megawads/amdosia

 

Lots of exploration in this.

[Breidr]

Thanks for all the recommendations!  I'll get cracking on these tomorrow.

[LoatharMDPhD]

replace shotgunners and chaingunners with zombies, but also supplement the weapon drops with hard gun pickups at or around the monsters area of combat.

Edited April 30, 2023 by LoatharMDPhD

[Breidr]

Oh man, chaingunners are my bane.  It feels like this is why Doom 1 was easier.

[Shepardus]

Anomaly Report is pretty chill.

[Lucius Wooding]

Forgot to mention this, but if you have a friend that plays Doom and can set up coop, you'd probably be able to beat a lot of stuff. 

[Breidr]

I went and grabbed Doom Explorer and set things up.  I can start a server and join as a player.  Haven't convinced any suckers to play with me yet though. :P

[Catpho]

Bellatrix has you hopping around carefully manicured space gardens and drowsy alien ruins. Lots of weak monsters to slay, and fairly low stress especially on lower difficulties.