/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5387786
>Once you beat the third fortress, you're halfway through the game
This game is way too short.

Every gamer can agree on one thing. Doom, the original 1993 game, was a masterpiece. There is no contest, no debate to be held, and the only negative opinions would come from some person fixated with graphics and thus refusing retro in general. If you like retro games, you must like Doom. If you like FPS games, you must like Doom. If you love retro FPS games, you must praise Doom as one of the best.

Yet I find myself disliking Doom. I have played PWAD after PWAD in the hope my opinion would change, that something would help me see the light. Apparently I am too messed up for this world, I am given gold and see it as shit. Yet I don't know how to change my perspective. Years of playing Doom, devoting a great deal of my free time to playing a game I hate in the hope that it would eventually grow on me, I find myself still disliking it.

I loathe spending hours upon hours trying to find some unofficial secret that defines the route forward. I hate spending more time trying to find the true secrets, which makes it mandatory to spam every wall due to the lack of clues. I hate that the bestiary feels so lacking in variety, Cacodemons especially since they are slogging bullet sponges. It isn't fun running out of ammo, to punch a Cyberdemon to death, as somewhere between the start and his death you start to question your life choices in the repetitive tedium. Sure, that makes it hard, but it is also monotonous.

I hate damaging floors and the fact that they can expect you to run across them, essentially punishing you for running low on health by making it impossible to repair yourself. I hate the linedef puzzles that indefinitely punish me because I walked in some arbitrary place I shouldn't have walked in. I hate STARTAN. I hate teleporter mazes. I hate the fact that so many levels have broken secrets, fruitless hunts of frustration.

I hate Doom. And I hate myself, as it is impossible to hate this. What is wrong with me? How do I force myself to see the light?

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