/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8808032
Purism. It's the same reason classic car owners recoil at photos like picrel, you're detracting from the original vision and bastardizing it to a point where it no longer represents the original product; which many believe is the best way to experience something (in this case, Doom).

Another thing to take into consideration when looking at older media (specifically video games) is appreciating how they circumvented limitations of the technology they had at the time. You lose a lot of the appreciation of the time the developers put into making their world come alive if you use modern technology that wasn't available at the time. Doom is special because it was a technological marvel for it's time, but by substituting all the little tricks they had to implement with an engine with real time lighting, proper 3D and advanced blood physics you just have another shooter but with Doom elements in it.

This is of course paraphrasing by quite a bit, but you get the idea.Also it's popular. Muh sekrit klub, dont u fukin dare let a nu audience invade muh sacred game.