Mara

Breaks are insanely important and usually underestimated. I have personal experience of this, not in DOOM but in another game that I've played actively since 2009, osu! When you spend a huge chunk of your playtime to one singular game, you tend to enjoy all sort of things that the game and the community is offering. The different styles of beatmaps I played, all sort of community tournaments I played and so on. Eventually however I also got hit by that burnout and it does happen from time to time. Playing some types of beatmaps feels insanely bothersome and forcing myself to play them to improve myself feels like work. That's why you need to mentally reset, a snap. Play something else a bit for few days. Even right now as I am writing, I am recovering myself with some Risk of Rain 2 (which is insanely good game, highly recommend) and it is doing some wonders. DOOM is not going anywhere.

That is a completely fair point.

I tried it out yesterday and I have to say that developers sure were horny at the time as some placeholders were very questionable. That being said, this is massive news and I'm sure that this will make a lot of people happy knowing that they can finally close the book.

That's fair, just like NES era games. Glad I went for HMP in that case.

Not sure if I am allowed to bump this thread but I decided to give this wad a shot after I saw a video about it as I like the idea of restricted mapping. I was originally going to play this in UV but after dying a lot in MAP06, I realized that it was most likely better for me to play this on HMP because I am a big baby. Some levels felt like a huge luck check like MAP14 with the chainsaw. I did enjoy the ride though.

Does Valheim count? It's been amazing, considering how it's still early access and everything.

Not really an option in the poll, but I find it really annoying when people (obviously outside of Doomworld) argue that DOOM is extremely outdated and aged like a milk. ...what?

To be fair, Karl Jobst's content is purely about speedrunning, which DM really isn't. ...then again, not everything in the video is necessarily speedrunning related either.

Didn't see anyone talk about this here yet so I figured that I should make a thread. What do you think? I personally enjoyed it quite a bit.

Obligatory. Not sure if I should add a warning here or not.

This would be my answer as well. ...but at the same time, also this. I play a lot of weird gameplay mods, just not Brutal Doom.