>>3642890
It's fun to dick around with a gameplay mod for a while, like Project MSX, DooD, or GMOTA, but usually I'll just play a few maps with them every so often and go back to enhanced vanilla. I only played through Ultimate and Doom2 in full with non-vanilla gameplay mods once, when I hadn't played them for years and wanted a fresh new experience.
Now I mainly stick to Smooth Doom + Perkristian HQ SFX + BDCME or other music enhancement mods for an "enhanced" vanilla experience, and it feels fucking amazing to play. Just yesterday I was replaying through the first few levels of TNT with all of this, and at one point I just had that moment of being zoned into that super fast, run-n-gun, twitch-reaction gameplay, and it was like a mental orgasm. It felt fucking fantastic and just gave me a moment of "God I fucking love Doom", with SSG gibbing, bullet casings, new skins, smoother animations, and enhanced sounds/music, it feels like I'm playing some totally non-vanilla gameplay mod, but it's purely aesthetics and the gameplay stays almost exactly the same. Would recommend highly.